"Am I lost to the state in cards?!"

370,000 rubles must pay a trucker to drive 1 km on the Yamal Bridge built by the company of Rotenbergs

The bridge across the Pur River connects Urengoy, Tazovsky and Krasnoselkupsky districts with large land. They built it for two years, finished, putting it into service 9 months earlier than the intended one, without investing - the authorities of the Yamal were especially proud of the ruble of state -owned money.

After the bridge was solemnly discovered, it became clear that in fact, the truckers would pay for the bridge built by private investors, and colossal amounts. The numbers in the table of calculation of the fare on the bridge reach 370 thousand rubles for a one -way trip. The length of the bridge, not counting the entrances to it, is 1 (one!) A kilometer.

A paid bridge across the Pur River was opened on October 16. The project was called socially significant: 20 thousand people live on the eastern bank of the river, whom during the ice station and ice drift always cut off from the world. I will allow myself, however, to assume that the matter is not only in the population of the Arctic villages, but also that at least 50 hydrocarbons are located on the coast of the Tazovsky lip. No wonder, according to the district government, Transneft and Gazprombank participated in the project.

The government of the Yamalo -Nenets Autonomous Okrug reported that the Purovsky bridge is the only one in Russia, built without the use of budget funds. The investor will beat off his investments nearly 10 billion, collecting a fee from “commercial transport”, in other words, from the trucks, while local, according to federal law, will use the bridge for free. And the fee is not introduced forever, but only for the term of the concession agreement, that is, until 2033.

On the opening day of the journalists - with the supply of regional authorities - reported that the prices for travel on the bridge are quite humane, significantly lower than those that acted at a pontoon crossing: “A truck weighing up to 12 tons pays for a pontoon crossing of 12 thousand rubles, and about 3 thousand rubles will pay on the capital bridge,” TASS reported.

However, two weeks later, at the entrance to the bridge, there was a cork from the trucks: drivers refused to go, protesting against predatory tariffs.

It turned out that the prices rose so that the carriers thought about full care from the market.

If on pontoons in the spring, an empty truck was transported for 10 thousand, loaded - over 25, now, regardless of the availability of cargo, lay out 55 and above. Previously, payment was calculated by actual weight, which greatly reduced the final cost of the flight. It turned out that if in the way “there” a loaded heavy truck and laid out a round sum, then the empty path back turned out to be 3-4 times cheaper. Plus, companies that regularly used the crossing had preferential service agreements. In addition, there was a free winter road.

Now the tariffing is tough: regardless of the real weight of the truck, it is necessary to pay for its passage based on the carrying capacity. The final price of the flight immediately increased at least twice. According to the Governor of the Yamalo -Nenets Autonomous Okrug Dmitry Artyukhov, the cars are not weighed to exclude corruption.

The governor also insists that the prices on the bridge are twice as lower than those that were at the crossing. “We took a price list at the current crossing and divided it in half,” the head of the region said. So or not, any student can check, comparing the tariffs in the public domain.

However, the government and outrage of the truckers managed not to notice, explaining the action not with protests, but by some paper formalities that slowed down the movement: “In the first days after the opening, the cluster of cars was recorded, which was connected with the need to process the owners of heavy trucks to pay for the travel along the bridge,” Yamal transported the Yamal transport department.

“For five or six days there was a huge number of machines with an oil industry. People refused to go. The owner of the owner had an agreement with the owners of the pontoon crossing, benefits. Arrived - and the crossing is closed. About 100 cars accumulated on our side.

Imagine how much the amount, even if they take 55 thousand in one direction from them! The company incurred losses, and the drivers lost their salary ” -

Says an eyewitness, an employee of the gas station located at the bridge.

“We used a ferry in the summer, in the winter we drove a free winter winter house, worked like that for 10 years, and now an uncle has come and wants us to pay him, I think this is unfair,” explains the entrepreneur Konstantin Khmelevsky. “The winter road, they already said, will not be done, and the crossing closed immediately after the opening of the bridge, almost the governor himself closed it.”

According to eyewitnesses, the closure of the crossing was really noisy: with the involvement of the Russian Guard, the traffic police, and the exposure of concrete blocks at the entrance. The distance from it to the bridge is fifty meters, and the difference in the cost is too expressive.

By the way, a similar story - and also with the participation of security forces - has already happened here. The "New" wrote how in 2017 one of the two competing crossings was closed by force. The company Yamburgtransservice, who won in the intraspecific struggle, eventually remained with nothing.

Blood passage is a guarantee of a stable cash flow.

The fact that the paid bridge has become the only road to that shore, oddly enough, completely legal. A year ago, amendments were adopted to the law “On roads and on road activities in the Russian Federation”, which allowed to build paid roads and bridges in the Far North without a free alternative. The explanatory note to the bill states that it is entered “in accordance with the appeal of the Governor of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug on the implementation of the project for the construction of a bridge crossing across the PUR River”.

So, the amendments can be called lobbying - by that time the government of the Yamalo -Nenets Autonomous Okrug has already signed a concession agreement with the "regional infrastructure company."

The Contractor company was registered in Novy Urengoy in 2016, the list of employees-1 person, the founders-Mostostroy-11 JSC, which was advertised with PJSC Mostotrest Arkady Rotenberg, the granddaughter of VTB Bank called VTB Infrastructure Holding and LLC Mostdorstroy.

Mostostroy-11 is controlled by Rotenbergs and receives subcontracts in their large projects-from the Crimean bridge to the Sochi Olympic objects.

The director of the enterprise-Nikolai Russu-became a deputy of the Tyumen regional Duma on the lists of "United Russia" last year, while the first vice speaker of the Legislative Assembly is the father of the Yamal Governor Andrei Artyukhov. The Purovsky bridge was the first large contract of the company on Yamal, on the approach of the second, even more significant - the bridge over the Ob, which will connect Salekhard and Labytnangi.

Officials are not publicly discontented by the people. But two weeks after the opening of the bridge, they said that temporary discounts were introduced for the fare - from 30% to 50%. True, they will last only three months.

Entrepreneur Khmelevsky believes that bureaucracy works in the interests of specific businessmen: “The governor for people should stand, and not for one businessman. If he needs to pay a loan to build a bridge, why is this duty transferred to part of the district’s population, to specific people, to me? Did I lose to the state in cards? Or are I paying few taxes? Let the district budget pay for the bridge, ”says Konstantin. He has already complained about President Putin. True, the letter was redirected to the same way the businessman complains about - to the Yamal governor, and he threw the paper to his deputy. There is no answer yet.

Meanwhile, Konstantin does not insist on the revision of tariffs, but at the full abolition of the fare, considering it contradicting common sense and the spirit of the law. Its company is located on both banks of Pura. To drive away the car to his own Rembox, he must give 100 thousand rubles.

“People had a lot of options: a winter road, crossing, ferries, agreed with barges. People adapted, and now all the options were blocked and said - pay. After all, this will not only affect us, it will affect all the inhabitants of the district. Because all this will be in the price of goods, ”Khmelevsky is indignant.

So far, even non -alternative travel and a high tariff are not brought to concessionaires of the desired income: according to official figures, no more than two thousand cars pass on the bridge, counting cars, “free”. The estimated power of the structure is three times greater.