Syntyl snow fell

Residents of Krasnoyarsk are discussing on social networks artificial snow from synthetic winterizer, which the organizers of the Universiade-2019 were laid on the territory of the village for athletes. The press service of the Universiade Radio Freedom confirmed that artificial snow was laid "with aesthetic goals."

The Universiade 2019 planned for March 2-12, like any such sporting event in Russia, was not without a classic "window dressing". A week ago, to the arrival of foreign athletes, the streets were ennobled here with felled Christmas trees that simply stuck in metal pipes, calling it “short -term improvement”, made a backlight, for which residents of nearby houses were forced to pay, and also closed the fences of unsightly houses located in the way from the airport to the city (more about how Krasnoyarsk was prepared for Krasnoyarsk. The Universiade, read in the report of the Siberia. Real project).

However, even against this background, the layout of artificial snow in the city where the winter has not yet ended, the night temperatures reach -15 degrees, and snowfalls continue, caused the Krasnoyarsk residents an extremely violent reaction.

Subscribers of the PP Krasnoyarsk PP on the social network VKontakte, where photographs of artificial snow from synthetic winterizer were also published, put forward their versions of what happened. Someone treated this decision with understanding: under a beautiful white synthetic winterizer, an unsightly stinking clay mixed with dirty snow is hidden. Others notice that by the evening a white synthetic winterizer will be covered with a layer of dirt-due to the abundance of industrial production with harmful emissions into the atmosphere of Krasnoyarsk, it is one of the most dysfunctional with the environmental from the point of view of Russian cities, in which the authorities have to introduce a “clean sky”.

The village for athletes of the Universiade-2019 is located on the territory of the Siberian Federal University campus. The press service of the educational institution said to reporters that the artificial coating is intended for insulation of the roots of the Christmas trees planted here. Journalists of the NGS24.ru site went to the campus, really found young spruce with synthetic winterizer roots and stated that they did not see any "canvas imitating snow.

On Thursday, after the journalists of the publication, local entrepreneur Vladimir Vladimirov, who had previously told the media, went to the publications to the dormitories of the SFU, as employees of the Krasnoyarsk cultural institutions, they ordered to like the Universiade. According to him, a huge canvas covering dirty frozen snow is still in its place. According to Vladimirov Radio Liberty, at night temperatures preserved in the city up to -10 --15 degrees, the landing of young fir trees makes no sense. "Now is not a season for such landings, the roots will not survive, no matter how neither warm them. In addition, no one is planting neither spruce nor their seeds in the snow, the season for such work will begin after 1-1.5 months."

Radio Liberty managed to get through to the Universiade press center. An employee of the press service confirmed that artificial snow on the territory of the campus was laid out not only for insulation of the roots of trees, but also "with aesthetic purposes." At the same time, she asked not to name her name, without explaining what this request was connected with.

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  Mark Krutov

  Information Service editor of the RS, editor of information programs. He collaborates with "Freedom" since 2003.

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