Their own against strangers

The village near Chelyabinsk is fighting for two months with the wholesale market and its migrant workers. Local residents are supported by nationalists and veterans of "

In the quiet village of Kremenkul, a 10-minute from Chelyabinsk, the wholesale and public market moved on August 26. Residents of the village and owners of the plots in nearby garden partnerships immediately opposed. Local residents are not satisfied with a lot: a section of forest, noise, interruptions of electricity, cut down for the parking of a truck, but the main thing is market workers, mainly migrants. In an attempt to achieve the closure of the trading area, Kremenkuls recorded appeals to the Investigative Committee, Putin, went to the rally, and enlisted the support of the Russian community in the person of the nationalist movement and the local veteran “Svo”, which promises to “put orders” if the police do not do this.

The correspondent of Novo-Europe went to the country village and tried to figure out the history of the conflict.

Masks shows

Kremenkul - a village 10 minutes from Chelyabinsk - is considered one of the most popular in the field of areas for the purchase and construction of suburban real estate. The settlement where about 3,000 people live is surrounded by lakes. Nearby is elite residential buildings, an equestrian-sports complex and a boutique hotel “for business and successful people”.

The wholesale and public market does not fit into the idyll here. The new object appeared at the end of August on the territory of the already existing vegetable warehouse of the Piring and Firewall Economy “Nabot” on the outskirts of the village, capturing another part of the earth: for parking of trucks with vegetables and fruits, a forest was cut down on an area of ​​8 hectares. People are convinced that this was done illegally.

Now the market does not officially work: a warning announcement, visitors who come for purchases, are placed on the gate, a special person unfolds. The market was closed after recent events: in the evening of October 24, employees of the UK, police and the Russian Guard came here. The visit of the security forces, according to the media, was associated with the criminal case of negligence, which was initiated by the administration of the district of the site for organizing the market: the investigation is understanding whether the procedure was legal. Trading boxes and trucks were sealed, the work stood up - the market was closed to the joy of Kremenkults, but not for long. Trade resumed on October 26, and after a couple of days the market partially stopped functioning. According to a resident of Kremenkul, who wished to maintain anonymity, they are being allowed there “through one” and “by call” there. The fact that trade continues, albeit on a smaller scale, other residents report.

The history of the conflict

The Kremenkul market worked for many years in Chelyabinsk - there it was called Kashirinsky. However, in 2022, the site on which the retail space was located was located under the renovation, and in July of this year the market moved to the outskirts of the regional center - to the Park Park Parking microdistrict. The complaints of local residents rained down on the market, and the trading facility moved again - this time to Kremenkul.

The first performance of the inhabitants happened on August 26, when on the territory of the vegetable sales the site began to align the site for the parking lot of trucks. Dozens of people gathered at a local recreation center, organized a collection of signatures and recorded an appeal to the Chairman of the IC, Alexander Bastrykin.

In it, people said that no one warned them about the organization of the market, there is no infrastructure for its work in the village, and in general they open it without legal grounds.

Local resident Tatyana Shilina in social networks says: along with the market, on the night of August 25-26, “guests with families, mattresses, things and pillows” arrived in Kremenkul, and all of them, as a woman expressed, will “touch” in the village. “We already have 30 people in classes, pediatricians can’t cope with the flow of children ... And where will they all live? They already go home, ask. Pilometer traffic jams now-to get home, you need to stand for an hour and a half (because of calling trucks), this is on a suburban highway ... And indeed, what what does it need a grocery market in the village, where everyone has their own garden? And especially sorry for the forest, which was ruthlessly cut down ... ” - the woman wrote under the post in VK.

That same evening, a collective video message was reacted to the UK: Bastrykin instructed his subordinates in the region to conduct a check about reporting on its results. Then, the prosecutor’s office of the Sosnovsky district organized a check of compliance with sanitary and epidemiological legislation, reacting to the media publications about an unauthorized landfill in the forest. The publications spoke of thrown vegetables, fruits and even sheep skins.

In September, about 300 inhabitants gathered for an authorized rally against the opening of the market. The author of the YouTube channel about Chelyabinsk Valentina Volkova, in his report, said that on the day of the event the police blocked the entrances to the place of the action, and not everyone could get to the gathering. Those who hit voiced their complaints: deforestation, road collapse, invasion of rats, interruptions in electricity. The wholesale market has no place near residential buildings and schools, protesters said.

“People arrived in a truck in boxes with oranges, like Cheburashka. They did not know that they were in Chelyabinsk. They gathered in a taxi in Moscow. That is, it will be a stream of illegal immigrants ... what a wah, ”one of the rally participants was indignant.

The rally was attended by Sergey Chigintsev - Deputy Head of the Sosnovsky District, which includes Kremenkul. He noted that the administration itself is not enthusiastic about the emergence of the market, but cannot influence the situation. At the request of the journalist Volkova, to remind the appointment of the land on which the market is open, he answered with accusations of “provocations”. “We have a country in his own, boys are dying, and people like you discredit the current power and try to rock the situation. This is a disgrace, this is immoral behavior, ”he said.

Unobrosal relations

The Kremenkuls went on - and recorded the video shift to Vladimir Putin, where they told about the "sabotage of the authorities" who recognize the illegality of the market and at the same time "urgently trying to change the purpose of the land."

After a few more days, the second appeal in the UK followed. In it, people talked about 180 trucks and 500 migrants who came to the village. In the same appeal, a resident of the village of Ekaterina said that in September, a migrant in a minibus molested her minor daughter. Later, the police specified that he was a 19-year-old young man, a citizen of Tajikistan, and he had nothing to do with the market. The man was detained, the court decided to deport him. But in history, I already managed to make public as related to the market.

Many residents are not worried about the purpose of the land given to the market-they simply do not want to live next to migrants. “Now they have every chance of making our territory as colorful as possible,” says a local resident Natalya. “I don’t think it's safe to live with them at the side.” At the same time, Natalia admits that she had no conflicts with migrants.

Herachat only so, the roads were inquired

Recently, social networks announced a fee of donations to the work of lawyers who would help to achieve the final closure of the market. Pensioner Marina told Novy-Europe that she had already sent money. The woman says that her street is now not recognized: on the opposite side, trade unfolded, and this is very inconvenient.

“Fores drive through the streets,” Marina is indignant. - Previously, on weekends, Kremenkul died out, and now they are heating only like that.

They go from Chelyabinsk, where they do not go from: they stop, ask where the market is. And the roads were still joking. ”

Marina has no complaints about residents of Kremenkul, who moved here from the former republics of the USSR 20 years ago and during this time. And she does not trust the newcomers: she says that owners of garden plots are also worried about those who persistently go for rent for rent. “If people used to go once a month, they checked the house once a month, now they have been traveling every week - they are afraid that people will settled in a vnugal there,” says Marina.

The issue of placing market employees has not yet been resolved. According to the director of the market, Igor Kochkin, 100-200 people work there, the initiative group called the figure of 500 people. Residents reported plans to build a hostel with 250 seats, but representatives of the Nabot KFH officially did not announce this. Now a certain number of merchants is carrying a special bus from Chelyabinsk and back.

According to Marina’s observations, some have already rented housing in Kremenkul, and because of this it became more dangerous. “In the summer, it was especially the feeling that you came to the village, not Kremenkul,” says the pensioner. - At times, it’s even scary to enter the store. And, of course, they buy alcohol. After all, they are many angry. When we were built a garage, they ate lard, and drank vodka. As they themselves told us: “In a foreign land, it is possible.”

"Russian community" restores order

From the very beginning of the conflict, the “ Russian community ” is closely monitored by its development - and actively pours oil into the fire. This is an organization created in 2020. On their website, they promise to revive the "true spirit of the Russian people, Russian tradition, culture and faith." The Sova Research Center calls the organization of ultra -right, uniting supporters of “Svo” and, in general, the policy of the current political regime. ” The community works in different regions - including in Chelyabinsk, and informationly supports fighters with a trading object. Similar markets are “a foreign body toxic for Russian people, which truly poisons life,” says one of the publications of the community. “The migrants captured central squares and playgrounds, behave aggressively, go right there by need, speak an incomprehensible language, buy apartments and form enclaves,” the other publication says.

In early October, a blogger and a participant in combat operations in Ukraine Alexander Volozhanin went to Kremenkul, along with the leader of the Russian community. Before the war, the man was known in Chelyabinsk as the leader of the scandalous movement “Sober yards”: the participants in this movement made raids in the yards, demanding from the townspeople to stop drinking alcohol on the street. With the outbreak of war, Volozhanin entered the Chechen special forces Akhmat, took the call sign of Yakuza, was soon wounded and lost his right eye.

About a meeting with the inhabitants of Kremenkul, where the former fighters of the Wagner PMC were present, Volozhanin told in the video . In the village of the military, he talked with the same Catherine, whose daughter a young man from Tajikistan molested in a minibus.

-I go home in the evening, go two or three people around the village, come across towards. I'm going alone, they examine, very unpleasant. <...> We are afraid for safety, so we turned to the “Russian community”, to the administration, so that we would organize patrols, so that we and our children are not afraid to go home. You see, 500 people can not hold the fence, they still go to stores, meet with our inhabitants. Irina told the case - they can push, ”complains Catherine.

“Well, on their part, illegal actions in your direction ...” Either he asks, or he tells Ekaterina Volozhanin.

She uncertainly agrees: "It turns out, yes."

Foreigners who came to work impose their own rules here, Volozhanin is convinced. He is especially indignant at those who received Russian citizenship, but are in no hurry to die for a new homeland. “Just yesterday in the bathhouse, there was a neighboring bathhouse nearby, and there was a huge number of Tajiks, I talked to them,” the Swowman said in the video. - I say: guys, I just came with my own, why you don’t take part, do not defend your homeland, you just like you get documents in Russia now. They say: we do not need it, we have four or five children and we just can’t.

It turns out that we can for war-we have two or three children. And while we are there in the war, we defend our homeland, they arrange lawlessness here. This is a very serious problem, it must be solved. ”

In the video, Volozhanin turned to the employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and called on them to “put orders” in Kremenkul so that instead of law enforcement officers themselves were done by the military. “If we begin to restore orders here, then it will be cruel,” he promised.

A summons - migrants, vegetables with stew - front

After Volozhanin’s visit, events in the market developed rapidly: on October 4, the police held a raid as part of the operation “Non-Gerbal-2023”. Then 17 employees of the trading point with citizenship of the Russian Federation were handed the subpoenas to the military registration and enlistment office. Against two people drew up protocols for non -fulfillment of military registration duties, they face a fine of up to 30,000 rubles. In addition, the police identified seven violations of migration legislation. Three migrants are facing an expulsion from the country.

In parallel, the market actively helps with products of occupied territories. In early October, it became known that the owner of the “Nabota” sent two trucks with vegetables, cereals and a stew of 20 tons each to the residents of Donbass and Zaporozhye - after which Margarita Pavlova even visited the market. It turned out that the entrepreneurs had previously been engaged in sending humanitarian aid, but this time the party turned out to be a record. With a turn, the “Russian community” was outraged : according to the nationalists, the regional authorities tried to “smash” the market, and the Governor of the Chelyabinsk Region Alexei Texler was allegedly interested in its work and the creation of migrant hell.

“Judge for yourself. Sly materials began to appear in the governor's media, which should show the owners of the illegal market, which poisons the lives of local residents and fills with rotten potatoes the surrounding forests and fields, civilian assistants to the front. Even a whole senator was tuned to help. Perhaps they used it at all, ”the community wrote.

"Russians would trade - no one would say words"

Claims to the work of the market are related to the nationality of merchants, the object itself has nothing to do with it, says a resident of Kremenkul Malik. Even before the organization of trade, Kremenkul was inhabited by visitors, but everything was “amicably and normal,” the girl says.

“The Russians would have traded - no one would say words and not to blame,” Malika believes. - And this, excuse me, is already interethnic conflict and its swelling. There are Russian - shit, and [the same] non -Russian! ”

An employee located near the car wash market named Mehmed, who has been living in Kremenkul for four years, is sure that attacks on the market are beneficial for someone. Mehmed speaks of neighbors in the village of Mehmed calmly and with a smile: “I am with everyone in good relations - with both Russian and non -Russian.”

The employee of the Kremenkul market Hanif (the name changed) lives and has been working in Chelyabinsk for 30 years. Monthly Hanifa pays for a patent for work about 5 thousand rubles. He did not move to the village - it remains in Chelyabinsk. Hanif trade in not perishable goods, but some of his neighbors have products - for example, tomatoes and grapes - “thrown out by boxes”. The scandal does not subside, and the suppliers see this: they are already thinking about working with neighboring Yekaterinburg, and not with Chelyabinsk, the man says.

Hanif who calling for the closure of the market closing the market understands: it has become more noisy and lively. “And where there are many people, there are more conflicts,” the man says. “But all these complaints that we bother them ... To be honest, I try not to even appear in the village once again, I basically work.” Even if something is urgently needed in the store, I’m going to another place. ”

A rally in Kremenkul was organized with the aim of pushing people with his foreheads, said Anton, who spoke out in the comments on one of the market posts. He urged people to be kinder, and in response to accusations from neighbors of a “paid position” he wrote : “Write everything on the topic:“ We do not want to see migrants in Kremenkul. ” And then the market, crime, etc. And what, in Kremenkul before there were no thefts, fights and other incidents? ”