"Celebrate life"

In St. Petersburg, against the backdrop of a record amount of mortality from coronavirus, almost everyone is allowed citizens. Report with a walk

St. Petersburg is in fourth place in the country in the country's gross Covid-19: on the day of my walk, June 17, 228 new cases of coronaviral infection were identified in St. Petersburg. And on June 16, a second record for the dead was recorded - 54 people (since the beginning of the pandemic was more only on June 6 - 55 dead).

By June 18, 21,506 infected were identified in the city since the beginning of the epidemic, of which 11,324 people have already recovered, 756 died. On the same day, the governor of St. Petersburg, Alexander Beglov, said at a meeting of entrepreneurs that the city entered the plateau for incidence of coronavirus, and gave a green light to remove the restrictions “step by step”. Later, however, he admitted that the city “has exhausted the possibilities of re -profiling hospitals for the reception of patients with coronavirus”, but did not cancel the restrictions. And to visit hairdressers, libraries, baths, but “in compliance with safety measures”, the townspeople were allowed on June 15.

June 17 on the streets of St. Petersburg +27.

I sit in the 10th trolleybus on Nevsky Prospekt, which will take straight to Sevkabel of Port on Vaska. A conductor in a mask and gloves, a company of two guys and two girls sit on the shadow side. They go to Sevkabel Port, which opened his shops and cafes on June 16, walk panama and black sandals Dr. Martens. The Bertholtz Center cultural center is also returning to life near the Sadovaya metro station and the Len Polygrase Technopark on the Karpovka River embankment. The hipster place "New Holland" cannot yet open - their territory belongs to the park zones.

At a two -story Zara store on Nevsky, a line of dozens of people stretched. Since June 8, non -food stores, which are located outside shopping centers, are allowed in St. Petersburg. With a reservation: one person with 4 square meters.

Nobody heard about the distance.

The palace trolley is slowly - the movement paralyzes the rehearsal of the parade. The guy in a panama looks at the soldier through the phone screen - shoots for storiz.

“I don't understand who will be photographed with them in such heat?” - the girl in a doll in human height is surprised opposite the guy - a zebra from the cartoon “Madagascar”, who picked up with her arms to the passers -by at Palace.

We leave on Veselnaya Street.

In Sevkabel Porto in a wide shadow of the Angar - the former factory corps - people scattered at tables, on benches. The previous life is reminiscent of music from half -open (strictly award) cafes, the sounds of the wheels of a skateboard on a wooden floor.

“It’s so easier to breathe,” a bartender about a disposable mask that moved under his nose.

In a pre -quarantine time, people crowded on the embankment to take a photo against the background of the ZSD ( western high -speed diameter - approx. ), The gloomy development of the gunboat, shipyard or bay - to whom they would be lucky. Today, they celebrate life here with flocks: they eat pizza, click each other as a keepsake, lying under the scorching sun (today is calm, which is rare for the bay), go barefoot on the grass. Follow some distance. I counted more than 70 people.

A dude in the image of Ozzi Osborne - black pants, a T -shirt, black long hair and round glasses - plays friends on a UKULEL. A tube apartment from friends gathered around him.

A girl named Victoria sits on a bench in the openings of the factory corps and looks at the bay, picking up one leg for herself.

- I work in the building nearby, so after work it is the very thing - to go out and look at the water, unload my head. There are not as many people today as on ordinary days. Especially they [ approx. - "Sevkabel Port" ] only opened. During the isolation, the gates were closed, only working here in the office passed here and measured the temperature at the entrance.

I interrupt the photo shoot of two girlfriends.

“Well, good weather,” the girl answers guiltily (festive makeup: red lipstick, black arrows), “at home is boring.” Now everything is not so closed, more freely: BSK is activated, shops are open, you can walk without masks in open spaces. Earlier, when it was worse, I put on gloves. Moreover, now there are events that can be attended in person. For example, I will have an exam at the end of June in honey, and it is full -time.

Like, why can I go to the exam, but I can't take a walk?

“We observe all sorts of precautions: masks and gloves in public transport,” a girl with a silver curly helps her friend.

A bunch of people on the Marse Field. Citizens play volleyball, sunbathe in open swimsuits (in the best traditions of the Peter and Paul Fortress), collectively engage in fitness, dance under the song of a bearded street musician.

- Does anyone want to ride?! - The blonde calls in the Jochean boots to walk on horseback or ponies. They are not in demand, horses are idle in the thick shade of lilac bushes.

“I just have girls in Shavasan, if only quietly,” the yoga instructor agrees to chat with me. In the middle of the rumble, her three wards spread out in the pose of the dead man.

“It is impossible to endure this already,” the instructor whispers, “I already want to engage in yoga, practice.” Girls already want to do not online, but offline and breathe fresh air. We have been doing this for the third week.

- Are you not afraid?

- Why be afraid? - calmly looks at me. - This is all in my head.

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