- He's so tired of me, this is a bridge, ***. He prevents me from doing his business, ***. He, ***, will collapse, because it cannot be built like that!

- As I understand it, you are the only one who excites this bridge.

- As I understand it, yes, ***.

I. Kisel shores

The bridge along Zarechnaya Street in Sheregesh was overhaul in the last week of August. Neat railing, concrete strengthening of the coast, brand new asphalt - all this through the river Big Unzas. In the summer, it dries to a modest stream and spills only in floods.

The administration of the village reported: almost 3.5 million rubles. spent on a good deed. The bridge will delight the villagers - motorists and pedestrians, for many years.

Ivan Sotnikov walks along the bridge every day. The apartment is on one shore, the cottage on the other.

Photo: Ivan Sotnikov

Everything is fine, but the entrance to the bridge has no side fences. Asphalt islands hang with springboards above a cliff with a height of more than 4 m, as if invite them to look into a small abyss.

Zarechny street goes to the bridge with a steep slope, and if you can’t cope with management, especially in winter or in the rain, the consequences may turn out to be disastrous.

Ivan drew attention to this unprofit. He imagined children on bicycles, skatees and sledges, motorists and motorcyclists, cows and even donkeys that are bred nearby. All of them in the imagination of a man one after another fell from a cliff to the rocky bottom of the Big Unzas.

“After the 150th scoop fell from the“ springboard ”, I decided to fence laziness,” Sotnikov writes on August 28 in his notebook.

He fixes all events in a text file and, in addition, begins to shoot videos. Fallasting into the "Self -Coaters" river - so far only an artistic image.

On the same day, a converted activist sends a message through the form of the administration website. He talks in detail about a dangerous cliff.

“I attached two photos. The third photo did not fit, since the site capabilities do not allow you to upload three photos at once. ”

Ivan painted to break the railing of the fence - how he sees it.

Collage: Ivan Sotnikov

August 29. There was a day, there is no reaction to the appeal. Previously, Ivan did not try to knock on bureaucratic doors and accounts and did not know the deadlines of justice. A month ago, someone set fire to him a balcony, Ivan went to the police, for some reason he was forced to sign the “explanation”, put four signatures, and expelled, explaining that “ignorance of laws did not exempt from responsibility.”

Therefore, the police do not fit: "They will score to death and drop off this bridge." Ivan calls in 112 and explains in detail about the bridge, fence, children, cows and donkeys.

"The operator promised that she would transfer to the architecture - on Monday."

On Monday, nothing happens either. Ivan begins to call the administration. Calls once, another, third. The administration, contrary to the expectations, did not get a lot, the dying "self -settings" did not impress impassive officials, they assured Ivan that the appeal was accepted, and promised to answer within a month. Ivan mentally calculated children, cows, cyclists and donkeys who broke this month, spoke to women from the administration of the polyothy and went to a construction store.

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II. "Send five motorcycles"

Now Sotnikov has a new job, for which they do not pay, but on the contrary-someone constantly interferes. Ivan put on the semblance of anti -tank hedgehogs and pulled the signal ribbons. So it was possible to at least warn the careless passers -by, create an obstacle to the cliff.

Hedgehogs found themselves in a stream, the ribbons disappeared without a trace. Ivan stubbornly pulled the new ones. And he continued to call: in the village and district administrations, in the service 112.

- There the road surface breaks sharply and there is no signs, nothing.

- Sheregesh, what street?

- This is a bridge. River Big UNZAS.

- Surname, name, patronymic?

- Sotnikov Ivan Stepanovich.

- Your information will be transferred to the service.

“This is such a thing for three days in a row,” Ivan is indignant. He goes astray, trying not to insert his convincing ellipsis. “Tell me to quickly, until no one crashed there.”

A restless man writes all the calls and puts it in YouTube. There are two subscribers on its channel.

“Four hours passed, I looked into binoculars, nothing has changed,” the author reports. He dials hot lines, listens to the voices of the answering machines that are replacing rhythmic music, curses and cannot understand why no one wants to do business.

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Children on scooters ride along the slope.

- I'm calling about the bridge.

“I need your address,” answers the secretary of the head of the village, “we will send you an official answer to your home address.”

- Do you know what is the problem? The problem is there, a cliff. - When Ivan is worried, it is difficult for him to speak.

- We are aware, you have made a statement to us. We must provide you with an answer within 30 business days.

- Why are you doing nothing?

- call back in 10 minutes.

After 10 minutes, they again require the address for an official answer, Ivan is angry and swearing, they throw the phone at the other end, they no longer want to talk to him.

The first of September, children go to school on the bridge. Another woman answers calls, impudent and rude.

“Put two policemen there,” Ivan asks.

- Call tomorrow.

“Already a week has passed since the portal opened on the bridge. Bloody traces suddenly appeared on concrete. In the evenings, terrible cries were heard there. The place was overgrown with legends. Parents did not let the children go out into the street. When the number of cows and children fell into the channel reached a critical point, almost everyone boiled.

- For example! “Here was the main slogan of the spontaneous rally that arose in one of the courtyards by the bridge.”

In fact, drunken tourists prepared a barbecue. Ivan includes in his text file of new heroes, in parallel with the documentary story, a fantastic story, horror.

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In the evening he calls the duty unit:

- The emergency situation happened. I went out to smoke, here in the dark people some people passed me, said that the bridge was mined.

The operator falls silent 10 seconds, then calmly asks questions. What did the men say?

- They said that there is some kind of terrorist attack. It is dangerous to walk there. It is so dangerous to walk there, they built it, built, you saw that there ...

The operator asks to introduce himself. He asks the date of birth.

“No,” Ivan answers. He remembered the visit to the police and threats.

“Tell your data, we will figure it out,” the girl insists.

- How will you figure it out? I already called the mayor, to whom I just did not call! Have you seen what you made there? Someone will crash there, into this river. Put two policemen there so that no one crashes, one to the right of the bridge, the other on the left. I informed you, you are now notified.

This time the reaction was an ambulance: in the morning an operative came from a criminal investigation department, again took explanations. However, the absence of a fence on the bridge was little worried. We forgave for the first time.

“Putting monuments around the bridge is also a bad idea. Only the influx of people will create, ”is recorded in a notebook.

Ivan is looking for options for making railings on the Internet, calling friends, finding out who can help, does not find a response. The head of the village of Vadim Schweigert also has his own business - he resolves the issues of redistribution of business in the resort area.

On September 13, the bridge collapsed.

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III. Cows and other donkeys

In Bolshaya UNZAS, for the season the former stream, dozens of concrete blocks and torn shreds of asphalt flew away.

Not the entire bridge collapsed - it is still quite functional, but the very fortifications of the coast and the non -coniferous asphalt islands on the sides. It was from there that imaginary scooters, cows and donkeys fell. The signal ribbons broke again.

The partial collapse of the bridge has not changed anything in the behavior of officials. The equipment did not come to the place, police posts on the left and on the right are not exhibited. Ivan continued to write statements and call, went to the prosecutor’s office, laid out new videos every day on his channel. I became the third subscriber.

We met at the bridge. He is 38 years old. Worried and stuttering. These are sometimes called "city crazy" - mainly for "the most necessary." On the phone, Ivan abandoned the idea of ​​inviting us home, and we did not ask.

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The guardian of the bridge pulled the tape, jumped by the cliff and tried not to swear-a charming director-reporter asked him questions. Nearby were driven by two samocoters of about ten years old. Seeing the camera, they tiredly fled up the mountain and rolled from there again, not listening to our warnings from there. Then, with lifted mouths, they looked from below at the drone, asked Alina to drag on an electronic cigarette. Offended, which did not allow.

The tipsy grandfather passed by, assured that "the bridge is cool, the road is excellent."

“So he falls apart,” Alina objects.

- Land! I myself fell from him twice.

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Other passers -by were not concerned. The bridge is like a bridge. He crumbled a little - did not collapse. 3.5 million? We do not know, we have not seen them.

“I went to the polls, but how,” Grandfather confirms, “for the LDPR!”

The next day, Ivan posted a video called "Journalists still reached our bridge."

We wrote several requests. The number of cows and children who have fallen in the channel, also merged there; The reports of attentive policemen who noticed us at the bridge did their job: after a few days the workers arrived.

Video screenshot Ivan Sotnikov

Ivan met with a bum with Glory and decided to help him: sheltered in his cottage, forced him to wash himself and put himself in order, and helped to get a passport. Together they went to the bridge. They found a playground nearby, on which it is dangerous to play babies. An important topic for the video blog. Ivan already has four subscribers.

Somewhere in this story there should be morality. She seemed to be busy. I asked to call back tomorrow, rude to the phone, did not respond to appeals and demanded the return address in order to send an official answer within a month.

Original: The magazine "Obachr"

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