A special way

The oil workers filling the VSU pipeline blocked Lensk: they defeated the road, and people cannot get to the airport, fly to the "mainland". Now so - every summer

When diamonds were found in Yakutia, the village of Mukhtuya was near the Kimberlite tube “Mir”, at 230 km, the Yamskaya station on the postal highway. They went to dance from her-in the last century, in the second half of the 50s. Mukhtya became a transshipment base, a working village, in 1963-the city of Lensky. "Gate of the Diamond Territory."

Over the past decades, the road connecting Lensk and peaceful and runs through two leading industrial regions of Yakutia could not be rolled up in asphalt - to damage diamond crumbs. However, today it is this.

-The 130th kilometer of the Lensk-Mirny road. I’m going to a peaceful food with food for the second day on the Volvo ( Faure. - A. T. ), I can’t get away, I tore off everything: Loops, receivers. The road workers do not react, they are not going to do anything. Cars are standing, driving, breaking off elements and details. Deep track, knee -deep, do not part, clay, slurry. From the 120th to the 130th kilometer there is no road at all! - A gloomy puzzled driver shows a kilometer pillar, on it - 130, this is from Lensk, on the other hand - 618, this is from a successful one. -And further until the 138th kilometer, they say, no. I’m standing, but I have to carry products: Lensk - peaceful - aichal - successful.

Leaving the car, the dejected trucker walks along the “ugly, pockmarked strip of land, this black scope”, as Chekhov called Siberian roads in the century before last, and shoots the video .

The usual thing here is: you need to go and see what awaits you ahead. Study the situation. Prepare.

His “Volvo” - sneaking, “whisper” - a tanker goes around, and the watering, which became a pedestrian, must leave the rut, clean up the side of the road, in the slurry.

- Here are the oil trucks, six to six, slowly crawl, scraper, pull each other. I, too, yesterday both tractors and cars twitched. While the first barge with products from Ust-Kut ( Irkutsk region, above the Lena, the nearest railway station and port.-A. T. ) came; How the guys will go further, I don't know.

Such is the regional highway of Yakutia "Mukhtuya". The current and former, who moved to the “mainland” (to Krasnoyarsk, Abakan), Lenans send this video to each other: not to say that before the road was beautiful, but in recent years it has become completely unbearable, it is associated with the advent of oil workers, with their columns of 20-30 cars, with their heavy special equipment.

They send this video with their comments and to the "New". They send, especially not hoping for anything - the conviction that it is unlikely that anyone else, besides them, can occupy, is indicative. Well, yes, the “demon of statehood” (D. Andreev) is not here, busy with completely different. And if when it hits here, then the infrastructure for the supply of hydrocarbons is important to the eastern neighbor and the tanker fleet, and not the interests of the local small population. The petition “obligate to asphalt the road from Lensk to Mirny”, published by the local resident Nikolai Slangchenko almost two weeks ago, signed only a little more than 5 thousand people (21 thousand lives in Lensk).

- The only road from Lensk to a peaceful length of only 240 km is in terrible condition. You have to go all day, and sometimes it is impossible to drive at all.

With the advent of oil and gas companies, the situation worsened greatly. We demand to oblige subsoil users to pave this road and maintain its operation.

Slangchenko emphasizes that you can fly out of the shatting Airport of Lensk, so the connection with the “mainland”, with Russia, among Lemans, almost exclusively through the Mirny Airport. This is true. In general, this road is the only "to normal medicine, affordable foods, places of rest and study."

Lensk, in addition to the “Gate of the Diamond Territory,” had another accurate name - “City of Damers”. Familiar Lenchanin-a driver-a-waist in a large corporation, values ​​work and asks not to be called a name.

“The third year is no changes,” he states. - A year ago, the head of Yakutia promised to take control. He said what they would do. People cannot get to the airport in the summer. And Lemans often fly around the country from there.

They caught up with heavy trucks from all over Russia and carried from peaceful oil to fill the pipeline. Hundreds of cars. They break the road terribly. And no one will let them stop. The pipe must be filled. They promised to allow travel on high trucks to only ten tons. But they go forty or more. And the law is not written to them. How they came - so neither roads nor forest. Already what pipe is thrown near Lensk? ( Here is VSO and the “power of Siberia.” - A. T. ) And nothing is done in the area. There are many in peaceful oil, there Rosneft has entered and works in the Tas-Yuryaka area. Surgutneftegaz has its own road to the Lensky district from the Irkutsk region. We, local residents, are not allowed on it. Well, in any case, we drove his son by car in Novosibirsk to study, making a huge hook through Yakutsk.

• Julia Kutimskaya commented on the video (it was posted by the Torbo-Forman Radio TG channel): “Many refuse vacations due to the Lensk-peaceful road. Students do not come to their parents for the holidays. And there is no question of returning after studying to their native land. Often I hear one of the arguments of departure to permanent residence to other regions of families - the inability to relatively freely get out of Lensk to vacation or on business. Such are the hostages of the inaction of officials. The whole city. A peaceful of Lensk during the navigation period receives goods, food. Everywhere terms, tenders. The government is inactive. The managers of Lensk and peaceful are silent. The people reconciled. It’s easier for people to leave once and for all than to explain obvious things to the authorities. ”

• Natalia, in the same place: “Even if it dries, it’s impossible to go, the“ washing board ”, and not the road, the dust is such that the traveling transport is not visible ahead. The airport in Lensk practically does not work. Not a single regional company flies, there are no subsidized tickets. And so the long -awaited vacation begins! We come to the peaceful half -dead, in dust and dirt, and children are with us! What to say! No one cares about people! "

Here they say about the branch from this highway to Tas-Yuryak. There is even worse. "Oil workers, gas workers were giving up everything." This is indeed so, confirm the "new" locals.

There are enough promises. A year ago, after a meeting with the first deputy chairman of the Yakutia Government Dmitry Sadovnikov, Lenchanov promised “the speedy restoration of the regions of the regional road“ Mukhtuya ”, which will help industrial enterprises”, “subsoil users will help with additional force and equipment”.

This year, even before the appearance of a petition, the head of Yakutia, Aisen Nikolaev, confirmed on the air on the Lensk -Mirny highway “today a large number of large, heavy equipment belonging to oil companies are moving. There are a number of issues related to the work on the development of deposits. ”

He also said:

- Last year, after we were faced with poor -quality work of the contractors for two years, on my order, contracts were terminated, and now Muad Alrosa ( Mirnino management of the Alrosa diamond company. - A. T. ), the structure that was always engaged in this was taken to serve the road. But now we do not just have to contain the road, we must thoroughly repair it, because in a large length it practically became unusable. This year, repairs will be completed for 25 kilometers, in the next two years we must repair 70 kilometers of the road.

The Lemans, however, told the “new” that the contractor was still the same. And his technique does not change.

- Do not understand how they give people who do not even have technology. This contractor has an old caterpillar tractor and an excavator who dig clay from the side of the road to the road. And should be poured with a good breed.

As for all the excellent promises made to us, it may seem that not only oil is more important than people, but that these people live as biblical characters - 700–900 years.

Maybe for now at least to connect Lensk with peaceful aircraft?