How can I survive this howl of sirens in Odessa when my native Voronezh has been bombed for a long time?

I studied in high school, when “Abba” and “Boney M” were just coming into fashion, and it was not that “Besnikov” was known “Blinds”, but “a guy with oddities” if it came to musical addictions. It is clear that then the repertoire of these Swedes and Germans then knew 99% of young people by heart - even if you were listed in their fans.

I could have a couple of verses - and in the "night flight to Venus", and in the "chocolate girl", and in "Babylon rivers". But for sure by heart I knew not at all the repertoire of these two groups, but - Leonid Utesova.

Parents in those years found old vinyl records with his songs, and then his album of three discs appeared at home, on which, in my opinion, about 60 of his hits were recorded. Classmates learned about my strange interest by accident: in some of the numerous notebooks-Antcts who went through the rows during the most boring lessons, and starting with the traditional question: “Do you want to be friends with the mistress of the questionnaire?” - There was a question about musical preferences.

I honestly wrote that I love this singer, and immediately became a target for jokes at our discos. The presenters were poisonously aware of me: “Leonid, would you want to dance to the songs of your namesake? ...”

"Bear-Deessee" was one of the most beloved. And so much so that I even entrusted this secret to my friend Yurts, who studied at another school for a class younger than me. And sometimes we listened together to these records from the album: “Wide estuary, green chestnuts. Smalls Shalland on a blue raid ... "

I still love Utesova. Because he does not sing, but talks to me, slowly talks about “the beauty of Odessa under enemy fire”, that “there is a city that I see in a dream”, about how “only the morning widespread over Moscow ...” and about a lot of a much friend.

Conversations

We now communicate with Yurka rarely, 2-3 times a year, drink a bottle of cognac and remember. Recently I met him on the street, chatted about what was happening in a neighboring state, mentioned the “unziple quiet word” of the one who started all this. And then the conversation accidentally slipped into our “Mishka Odessa”.

“You know, now I have a relationship with my sister, like a string,” he admitted. “I’m calling, and she tells me that I don’t understand anything what is happening with them - in Odessa.” “You are a Russian, and I live in the state with which my homeland is fighting. Have you ever fallen asleep under the howl? And we get used to it. Your bombs fall on me! " For the hundredth time I explained that in the presidential election I had never voted for a man who untied the war. And she immediately turns into the weather ... Maybe the SBU listens there their conversations with Russia?

His sister Galya has been living in Odessa for more than forty years, somewhere in the area of ​​Arcadia. She comes from Voronezh, her ex -husband is also from here. He, a graduate of the Soviet military school, is some relative, wearing large stars on the uniform, at the turn of perestroika put to serve on a bread place-in the Odessa military district.

There, in Odessa, they settled, received an apartment, then divorced, and the ex -husband returned to Voronezh, where he had recently died, and Galya still lives in Odessa. About ten years ago, a commission came to her in a children's institution where she works as a muscle, and asked if she knew some national Ukrainian songs, can they play them? She easily played pieces of ten, and all questions about her “profile” were disappeared by themselves. I haven’t learned the literary Ukrainian, but it can easily explain itself on a “surzhik”, although she does not have to do this: there is no need, as she spoke in Russian all her life, and he says ...

Her son, who is about forty, too. He seems to communicate normally with his Voronezh uncle, although he rounds any telephone conversation with Voronezh traditional: "You understand everything ..."

“What should I do now?” Yurka is perplexed. -To discuss on the phone about all this is somehow stupid. And personally chat ... But when now, in principle, it will be possible?

Help to the neighbor

Yurka is a state employee, a 15 man works in a small team. "There are two against the war in the team-my boss and I am. The rest are some kind of sluggish, pensioners, are afraid: you will blink an extra word, and you will stay with one naked pension of 14-6 thousand, and then some kind of work, but production ..."

From the house of the yurtz sister to Voronezh Street in Odessa - quite far. By the way, my friend was very surprised at the recent news that the mayor of Odessa Gennady Trukhanov proposed renaming a number of city streets, which are somehow associated with the cities of Russia - Novomoskovskaya, Borodino, Kursk, the same Voronezh ...

And then he darkened: "They have the right, although it is somehow stupid ..."

In Voronezh, by the way, there is Odessa street, more than 2 km long. By coincidence, it passes very near the military facility, the rumble of aviation engines from which Voronezh residents hear 12 hours a day. The Voronezh party members, by the way, have already proposed renaming it, and at the same time the Ukraine Hotel in the very center of Voronezh. Under the threat of disappearance in the same context was Darnitsky bread and Ukrainian bagels.

In the context of what is happening in Ukraine, by the way, one can also mention the “public burden”, trusted by the governors of the border regions - Kursk, Belgorod and Voronezh, who were instructed to take patronage over the adjacent areas of the LPR and the DPR.

Three districts fell out to our region, which was recently announced by the media holding of the regional government: “Voronezh region will help restore the economy in the Markovsky, Melovsky and Novopsk regions of the Lugansk People's Republic. This was announced by the Governor of the Voronezh Region Alexander Gusev on Tuesday, June 7, after signing cooperation agreements with acting heads of district administrations. The head of the region also met with LPR President Leonid Pasechnik. ”

The media reported that Voronezh specialists will have to repair social facilities destroyed during the fighting - schools, kindergartens, clinics, as well as roads, power lines, boiler houses, pipelines. New equipment, linen, hygiene, and medicines will bring to the nursing and district hospitals, and medicines in pharmacies. Schools of three areas will be provided with textbooks in Russian, as well as methodological manuals for teachers. In educational institutions, catering units will be repaired or re -built, one of the main tasks is to provide primary classes with hot meals. Toys, baby food, furniture will put in kindergartens. To restore the sphere of the housing and communal services, the Voronezh region will send three units of communal equipment to each district - garbage trucks, emergency and assigned cars ...

By the way, for example, in the same Markovsky district of the Luhansk region, adjacent to the Kantemirovsky district of the Voronezh region, there were practically no hostilities, and the entire current devastation of the North of the LPR is obviously due to the fact that Viktor Yanukovych, who traditionally gained 70-75% of the vote in this “red belt”, does not hit the finger on the finger of the finger, so that over the years of his presidency to do something for these places. And then to the region, like a bear on an apiary, "Russian World ..." broke out

Ticks

I’m all thinking: is it possible to at least somehow project our own region to somehow raise the economy of the Luhansk region? But there is even a front-line strip, something sometimes flew and exploded, but with us ...

For example, the state of the "storm" of the millionth Voronezh: it does not work in principle for us, and even the recent half -hour rain turns into a flood for the inhabitants of the private sector. At the same time, we restore the meadow. However, it is not surprising: the process of passing federal trenches in the LPR through the Voronezh region is listed in our category “business” ...

My good friend, who worked in a large chain store of building materials, was surprised that after February 24, the volumes of its sales doubled. Ira explained this so that people with a fright began to invest in building materials (and until February 24, without that, who were dear to every quarter). But the week has passed - and how it cut off! People ended with money.

Because of this, Ira had to look for another job-in an organization associated with microcredits. As a “lure”, after a successful interview, the future chief explained:

- Since the beginning of the whole “this”, the volume of our work has increased by 300% of people have less money, and the prices are jumping! By the fall, the dollar will rise to 110-120 rubles, we will heal!

My other friend Stepan, who has a small business (several grocery shops) in Voronezh and Belgorod, literally glowed after February 24.

“The warriors swept from the shelves,” he said in the first month of the war. - Chocolate, beer, cigarettes! They, with money, apparently gave them a form, and they all in the prodmags lower ...

But in the last three to four weeks, the profit began to fall, the soldier in Belgorod has become less. They are fighting for a month at the “front line”, then they are taken for two weeks to rest somewhere deep into the region, so they will burn out the business ...

But in Voronezh, located almost 300 miles from the border, not everything is calm. Moreover, the “parents” of this nervousness are the authorities themselves.

For example, for some reason, the festival of folk art “Voronezh-song land”, scheduled for conducting exactly on the day of Russia on June 12 in the village of Kostenki 40 km from Voronezh on the slopes descending to the Don, was literally transferred to the cramped Voronezh CPCO in a day.

- Huge money was already poured into the grass of the slopes from ticks, and for no explanation we simply told us - everyone is in Voronezh! You can think anything! Opposite the bark through the Don is the city of Novovoronezh with its nuclear power plant. Here, I suppose they imposed a ban on security and the ban - one of the organizers of the holiday on the terms of anonymity ... shared his considerations ...

And with Yurka, in our last meetings, we listened to -Leonid Utesov, and the “Mishka -Odessa” scrolled as many as three times!

And even they themselves unstrugously tried to tighten her second verse “Experienced estuaries, drooping chestnuts - the beauty of Odessa under enemy fire ...”.