Putin, guard!

In early August, Vladimir Putin came to Kirov and handed the acting Governor of the Kirov region Igor Vasiliev folder with complaints of local residents. They complained mainly about difficulties in obtaining medical care, providing housing for the waiting list and kindergartens, poor ecology and lack of gas. Residents of the village of Karaul of the Bogorodsky district of the region could not reach Putin: to the district center, and even more so in their village, he did not stop, and you still won’t get through to the "straight lines", they say. There is literally nothing in their village. In addition to the love of the people for Putin.

In the Bogorodsky district of the Kirov region, about four thousand inhabitants, six agricultural enterprises, one farmer, one dairy plant and one local history museum, where the mammoth tusk and a collection of spaces are traditionally demonstrated.

The Bogorodskoye district center cannot boast of giant skyscrapers, wide avenues and a multimillion -dollar population, but there is something that Moscow and St. Petersburg are not enough, and the rest of Russia is freedom of speech. And there is no fact that in the rest of Russia excess is corruption.

We have such a budget that you can’t even steal it!

- We have such a budget that you can’t even steal it! -honestly, the editor-in-chief of the most popular Bogorodsky Internet publication Bogorodskoe43.ru Peter Balabanov is recognized.

By profession, Petr Borisovich Kinomechanics, several years ago retired, and instead of breeding chickens on a personal plot or going into a binge according to the eternal Russian tradition, decided to open his own site. By the nature of the Balabans, a person is democratic, so just Petya allowed to turn to himself.

Petr Balabanov, editor of the Bogorodsky Internet publication Bogorodskoe43.ru

- Why do you need a site?

- Because I am a journalist not by profession, but by vocation. The journalist’s diploma could not be obtained, so life has developed, so what? Well, I can’t, I like to do news! What is the news in the village? And the cow was hot, wasn't the news?! And the lack of firewood has rural inhabitants, while around the forest, is it not a problem? And the local elections? Sometimes I don’t sleep until one in the morning, I am waiting for the voting results. Once the election commission refused to provide me with preliminary elections to local authorities. And I declare them: "So I will write on the site that you are hiding the truth from the people!" They gave me everything immediately!

- Do you really have censorship on the site?

He rolled paper to the prosecutor's office: "Peter Balabanov destabilizes the situation not only in the Bogorodsky district, but throughout the Kirov region. I ask you to take measures!"

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- Nobody controls me! Although they are trying from time to time! After the report on healthcare, the chief physician of the district hospital rolled paper to the prosecutor’s office on me: "Peter Balabanov destabilizes the situation not only in the Bogorodsky district, but throughout the Kirov region. I ask you to take measures!" When there were rallies in Bolotnaya, an FSB officer came to me: “Peter Borisovich, in Moscow, an opposition rallies, the situation is unpredictable. Look that some opposition does not leak down on your site! Please show vigilance!” Well, I explained to him that we have no opposition, and there are almost no people left, one and three tenths of people per square kilometer ...

- Recently, Putin came to Kirov, were you accredited to the meeting?

- No, why? We do not need either Putin or Navalny, we have our own life here!

- Who helps you in working on the site?

- I have a wife - a corrector, and the entire area is freelance correspondents. What happened a little, they call me! Olan, guard, Spasskoye, fogs and other villages, I go around on a bicycle, I don’t have a car, I am a poor person, I only have a site. But the people are donating to the site willingly, it comes time to pay for the domain name - I immediately throw a cry: "People, you need 600 rubles!" And in the evening they send money. And recently, even from the border they sent $ 50, our former fellow countrymen from America supported. So I bought a new camera, now I am making a video of the video recovery! Now up to 1000 visitors per day on the site happens!

For some time now, the inhabitants of the Bogorodsky district during the elections, when at least something from the benefits of civilization can be required by the authorities, they no longer ask them to build a road or open a first-aid post. “You will open us the Internet!” The Bogorodites pray to God and those in power. “We want to read the site of Balabanov!”

Unfortunately, only the district center can boast of a high -speed Internet in the Bogorodsky district. In other settlements, communication through the network of a mobile operator, and in order to catch this network, you need to climb a slide or climb a tree.

- Yes, if the Internet was good in all villages and villages of the Bogorodsky district, I would have even more news! - Petya Balabanov says dreamily.

Behind the news we go to the village with the remarkable name of the guard. To the village only 30 kilometers from the district center, but these kilometers can become completely insurmountable in the rain season, so much so that tractors are drowning on the road. In sunny weather on Wednesdays, the bus travels to the guard at 5.45 in the morning and returns to the district center after lunch. On all other days of the week, you can get to the guard on your two, in a passing car (if you are lucky) or on a bicycle, like the tireless Petya Balabanov.

Guard

Village of Karaul, Bogorodsky district, Kirov region

"Guard - 270 years" - such an announcement meets a visiting guest on a rural square. The guard is one of the oldest villages in the Vyatka province. It was founded in the kingdom of Elizabeth Petrovna, then this village was borderline between Khlynovsky and Kazan counties and here on the state military road was a guard. But in the XXI century, the name of the village acquired a completely different meaning.

Village of Karaul, Bogorodsky district, Kirov region

During the reign of Vladimir Putin, life in Karaul, as in the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov: "Whatever you grab, there is nothing." The collective farm named after Kirov broke up, the school was defeated, the kindergarten was closed, only the wind sings in the DC instead of songs, and in the temple named after the Virgin of Kazan, only a boorish echo flies under a dilapidated dome. And there is no devilish mysticism in this, but only the state policy of optimization. The village and rural residents have become unprofitable to the Russian state, expenses are reduced along with the population.

According to statistics, back in 2010, 198 residents were listed on the guard, and in 2017, in fact, about 60 people were left. Most are the old people, the youth went where they look. The last victim of optimization was the secondary school of the guard.

Former secondary school of the guard

“The school was closed two years ago after a thorough repair,” Tatyana Sitnikova, former director of the Karaul School, says excitedly. - The head of the regional department of education came to us Anatoly Churin and promised that if we make the building of the building at our own expense, then our school would not be closed. I also remember told us: "What is your school in green color, as if in prison?" Teachers raised money, the school graduates turned for help, made excellent repair at their own expense, blocked the roof with new slate, the walls were painted in turquoise and pink. But the leadership was not needed by our school ...

Former Director of the High School of the village of Karaul Tatyana Sitnikova

An elderly teacher sighs heavily and continues the story, trying not to burst into tears in front of a stranger with a television camera.

- A little time has passed, suddenly unknown people come to our school and begin to smash everything, take out property, unscrew the batteries. So they defeated the whole building!

- These were the bandits?

- No, these were people from the leadership, but who gave such an order - to defeat the school in the guard, this is still a big question mark for us! We filed a statement to the prosecutor’s office, wrote personally to the governor Nikita Belykh, but all the complaints were lowered to our administration! The investigation did not give any results! After that I was sick for a long time ...

- And where are the children of the guard now?

- Large families, learning that they are closing the school, just left. Those who stayed go to study 10 kilometers to the neighboring village of Ukhtam. Moreover, two students go two kilometers from the village of Pavlovtsev in order to catch the car. Every day they get up at dawn, and return home at 16.30. When to do homework for children? And many teachers did not have time to finalize until old age, now they are sitting at home, this is what their pension will be?

- And what about the guard with medical help?

- Yes, in the entire Bogorodsky district, medicine can be delivered "two"! In the guard, Ukhtyma and other villages only paramedic points. Everyone goes to Bogorodskoye, and there the therapist accepts until 12.00. We are sitting in line, we are waiting for the reception, we are nervous, we have a bus at 12.00, and the other only in a week! Of the experts, there is only a surgeon, if you cut something, it is he who is, but there are no other specialists! There is no gynecologist, they closed the hospital! The women in childbirth are being taken to the neighboring village of a uni ... you yourself go, look what a paramedic point is with us!

The paramedic point in the guard is located on the central square next to the village administration. This is an old wooden building, where the elderly paramedic Lyubov Zolotareva is taking patients. Lyubov Mikhailovna resolutely refuses interviews and photography.

- I will have trouble, sorry!

I do not dare to insist, I know that for some time all contacts with the press for Kirov medical workers are possible only in agreement with the regional health department. And for "unauthorized contact" they can also be fired from work. Information about the amount of beds, preferential drugs, outpatient treatment and respiratory diseases are guarded strictly than military secrets.

- Well, give me a drink? I ask the paramedic.

While drinking water, I hear such a conversation.

- Ambulance? Take a call! The village of Karaul, a heart attack, suspicion of a heart attack. We are waiting!

- When will he come?

-Well, about an hour later, today the weather is good, they will reach!

- Did it happen that they did not reach?

- Everything happened here!

Lyubov Mikhailovna sighs heavily and continues to receive. An elderly woman is forced to work, despite the retirement age, since none of the young specialists will voluntarily go to the guard.

Village of Karaul, Bogorodsky district, Kirov region

For Putin with arms and legs

Former collective farm veterinarian Albina Purina now works as a seller of a rural prodmag. She does not like work, but there is no other.

- And what is the work in the guard?! The men work on the shift, in the north, come home for two months and leave again. We don’t see them, is this a family? She asks.

Former collective farm veterinarian Albina Porina

- Well, there is no hope?

- And who should we hope for? Who to shout the guard?

At the prodmag, men crowded, discuss their life and Russian states, many slightly tipsy, despite the fact that the clock is eight in the morning. We came to dug and buy products.

“We now have no economy, we buy everything in the store,” the man confidentially reports in a battered jacket, who called Nikolai Ivanovich. - Such a life is now that only hold on! Almost no one has no cattle, it has become unprofitable to keep it! It is necessary to feed the cow, and not only hay, compound feed, but where to get it? The collective farm broke up ...

Former collective farmer Nikolai Ivanovich

I have been on a collective farm all my life! We had a good collective farm with us! And now what we have reached, we buy milk in the store, they are being taken from Kirov! There, the technique in the fields stands, rust ... the former collective farm, and now a draw. Yes, and we ourselves will be draws. Nobody unnecessary.

- And who do you need, Nikolai Ivanovich? Who do you vote for?

- I am for Putin with arms and legs! The international situation is very complicated, ”the former collective farmer explains. - The world is on the gran of war, conflict with North Korea! And Putin protects Russia!

- Do you know Alexei Navalny?

- I heard about him, I did not see, really! Is he in prison now?

- No, they have already released!

- And so early? - the man is surprised.

Village of Karaul, Bogorodsky district, Kirov region

The rural intellectual enters into the conversation, whose name is Pushkin - Alexander Sergeyevich.

“I am very worried about the president of the United States,” said Alexander Sergeyevich. - It's hard to live Trump! They don’t let Donald work freely, they put them from the US Congress ... Poor Trump, Pamp, Pamp!

“Yes, it’s true,” the Karaul peasants who stuck at the rural prodmag agree with him. - The international situation is very complicated. If only there was no war ... Of course, the state is not up to us! We will tolerate more ...

- And when will the state pay attention to you?

- Yes, we think, never again! - the men respond sadly. - Here we will die, the guard of the forest will overgrow. Wild animals will host here!

The neighboring village of Mitraki, a few kilometers from the guard, has already been left by people. This Vyatka village is somewhat reminiscent of Belarusian cities and sat down after an accident at the nuclear power plant. The houses are empty, on the windows of the curtains, the beds are covered, on the tables, the dishes, it seems, the inhabitants came out for a moment and are about to return. But no one returns. There are several hundred such villages in the Vyatka province, in Russia there is much more, and there is no one to shout there: "Guard!"