New housing and communal services service. What to expect from the “garbage” reform? Loknya Pskov region P loknya Pskovskaya
Loknya is a small regional center in the Pskov region, created by the railway. In 1904, a steel main line connected St. Petersburg with Vitebsk (the Dno-Novosokolniki section was built three years earlier), and the Loknya station got its name from the river flowing nearby, a tributary of the Lovat. A railway village of the same name arose at the station, which Soviet years grew significantly due to the development of light industry. Now this is a completely ordinary urban village with a population of three and a half thousand inhabitants, and it is unlikely that a traveler will find anything interesting here. But firstly, as I never tire of repeating, my travel principle assumes that literally any place is interesting, and secondly, Loknya has recently been a special case for me. A year ago (or six months before the trip) I had a very colorful dream in which, finding myself in Lokna under very unusual circumstances (being behind the train and then trying to catch it on my own two feet), I discovered a functioning trolleybus system in the village! And then he began to actively promote this topic to the masses. But this post is not about the trolleybus - I leave the dream and the humor that accompanies it entirely out of brackets here (although there will still be mentions of the trolleybus), and this post is dedicated to the real Lokna, which I visited in early May.
On May 4th at 9-40 in the morning, a yellow PAZik departed from the Velikiye Luki bus station on the Velikiye Luki - Nasva - Loknya route, where I was among the few passengers. If I was already in Luki two years earlier, now I’m going to places where I’ve never been, but great amount I have traveled by train several times since early childhood. The St. Petersburg-Vitebsk Mainline is completely dear to me - all trains from St. Petersburg to Belarus go along it (and I went and go to Minsk), and the places through which the train passed were always interesting to me, and sometimes I just wanted to see them, did not sleep at night. By the way, Velikiye Luki, where I spent the night on my May trip, is already very close to Belarus - only 75 kilometers to the border and 160 kilometers to Vitebsk. But this time I moved in the direction of St. Petersburg. The bus first went through the outskirts of Velikiye Luki, where there are mass graves at every height - a reminder of the bloody Velikiye Luki operation in the winter of 1942-1943, then it went to the Vitebsk railway and drove along it (from the window I saw the small Kiselevich station). Then there was a 10-minute stop in the village of Nasva, and another forty-five minutes of travel to Lokni, where the bus passed through the village of Golenishchevo, where the now restored St. Nicholas Church is located, in which M. I. Kutuzov was married. Finally at 11:45 the bus arrived in Loknya.
2. A small and very modest-looking bus station with a sign, probably from Soviet times:
For clarity, here is the route of my movement around Lokna. Green numbers indicate the numbers of photos in the post (not all, but only selectively), green arrows next to the numbers indicate the direction of the camera.
3. Interior in the colors of the Ukrainian flag. In the distance on the wall you can see a rare wooden map of bus traffic in the Loknyansky district. Also clearly still Soviet. From the Loknyanskaya bus station you can take direct flights to Luki, Pskov, and even St. Petersburg.
4. The bus station, as usual, is located next to the railway station, which is visible in the background.
5. The railway station is quiet and deserted. Most trains long distance passes here at night (including those on which I am used to driving between St. Petersburg and Minsk), and there are almost no suburban ones left. I will have to use one of the few remaining ones on the same day, late in the evening. The photo shows a view to the south, that is, towards Novosokolniki and Vitebsk.
6. And the opposite view, towards Dno and St. Petersburg. The weather was excellent for the beginning of May - sunny and even a little hot, I walked around calmly in a T-shirt and without a jacket.
It must be said that there are not as many long-distance trains here now as there were before. The fact is that the trains to Ukraine, canceled due to well-known events, have reduced traffic. They also canceled a bunch of them at the beginning of this year Belarusian train St. Petersburg - Brest, which, however, now, when I write, has already been returned.
7. A beautiful post-war station, the same as at the Zemtsy station in the Tver region. By the way, in my opinion, this is the case when the corporate colors of Russian Railways did not significantly damage the building. The red stripe is almost invisible, and the light gray color suits the station as a whole. Before repainting, I remember it was either turquoise or red-pink.
8. I have seen this station many times, passing here by train. But every time I saw him at night, when it was dark, the lights were on at the station, and there was light inside the station. It’s even unusual to see this place in the daytime in the light of the sun.
9. Station interior. Here, as in Zemtsy, they did not fence off half the room.
And this is what the pre-revolutionary station built in 1901 looked like. But it did not survive - it burned down during the Great Patriotic War. This region was greatly devastated by the war, which is why the architectural appearance of most settlements is created by post-war standard buildings.
10. There are other station buildings. This is apparently the luggage compartment.
11. Post EC:
12. Another view to the north, where I will be going in a few hours. On the right you can see stacks of wood ready for loading.
13. And this is what the station looks like from Lenin Square - the village station square. “So, did you like the station?” — a woman passing by asked, smiling. “Well, yes, he’s beautiful,” I say, continuing to take photographs. Of course, I didn’t say anything about the trolleybus :)
14. This is what the station area looks like. Sovetskaya street runs along railway.
15. The shabby pink building is, if I’m not mistaken, a public bath that is no longer in use.
16. Lenin Square and trolleybus ring No. 1. The station is located slightly to the right of the frame.
17. On the square, opposite the station, there is a village administration and a monument to Ilyich in a cap in front of it.
18. Last year's stand. Which, by the way, would be more logical to put on the next street - near the cultural center.
19. Quite an interesting two-story brick building with an attic on the roof. Possibly pre-war.
20. The post office building is a former department store. Typical post-war project of the 1950s. for small towns.
21. And in this building, most likely from the 1950s, some kind of imitation of the classicism of the 19th century is already noticeable.
I gradually move away from the station, that is, I go beyond the field of view of the train passenger passing Loknya. Still, this is an interesting feeling - when I have passed through some place many times on a train, the stop of which was only a couple of minutes, and now I have arrived here, I can leave the station, take a walk and see what is there, outside this “field” vision." And my childhood impression plays a role here - such names as Soltsy, Dno, Dedovichi, Loknya and other Novosokolniki - were familiar to me from childhood from the train schedules hanging in the carriages. It seems clear that there is hardly anything unexpected in all these places, but it’s still interesting!
22. View across the northern passage (alley) of Lenin Square back towards the station, which closes the perspective well. Almost the same view is presented in the title frame.
As already mentioned, the village of Loknya arose during the construction of the St. Petersburg-Vitebsk railway at the beginning of the 20th century. Before the revolution, there was Velikoluksky district of the Pskov province. In 1927, Loknyansky district was formed, and in 1941 Loknya received the status of an urban-type settlement. Then the war began... Loknya, like the entire territory of the Pskov region, was under Nazi occupation for almost two and a half years. After the liberation of Velikiye Luki in January 1943, Soviet troops failed to develop a further offensive to the west, and Loknya, like this entire section of the Leningrad-Vitebsk railway, was liberated by troops of the 2nd Baltic Front only at the end of February 1944.
23. Pervomaiskaya street - parallel to Sovetskaya, and, accordingly, to the railway.
24. View in the other direction:
In the post-war years, Loknya began to develop thanks to the timber and food industries. There was also a radio products factory, which closed in the post-Soviet years along with the butter factory. Of the previously operating industries in Lokne, only a bakery and a furniture factory remain. But it must be said that despite the economic depression, outwardly Loknya leaves a very pleasant impression - a poor, but at the same time well-groomed and comfortable urban settlement, without much devastation. It's quite cozy here, especially on such a warm May day.
25. The House of Culture - a modest Stalinist building - closes the perspective of the alley on the other side, exchanging glances with the station building.
26. Column capital. Soviet symbols were skillfully combined with antique architectural elements.
27. But this stand is dedicated to the already mentioned St. Nicholas Church in the village of Golenishchevo, Loknyansky district - the family estate of Kutuzov. Until recently, this church was abandoned, but is now being restored. I saw it from the bus window, but I would like to make a separate trip there.
28. Pervomaiskaya street:
29. I walk along Oktyabrskaya Street, perpendicular to it, continuing to immerse myself in the atmosphere of another regional center of the Pskov region that I visited. In 2014, I got acquainted with the Pskov regional centers on the frosty sunny days of January, but now I do it in the spring.
30. On the right we found some unfinished building, and a little further - a school.
31. Spring of the fifteenth year...
32. So I went out onto the central street of Lokni - Sharikov Street. No, the character of “Heart of a Dog” has nothing to do with it - the street is named after the Hero of the Soviet Union, a native of the Loknyansky district, Alexander Sharikov, who died in 1944 during the battles for Sevastopol.
The street also runs parallel to the railway and on the southern outskirts of Lokni it turns into a highway leading to Velikiye Luki, which is actually where I came from. I turn onto Sharikov Street in south direction to eventually make a circle.
33. Sharikov Street is also full of all sorts of interesting entities. Like, for example, Loknyansky Agricultural College!
34. And the essence of this street, as already mentioned, is that it is the “core” of the village and part of the P-51 highway passing through it. Therefore, anyone coming to Sharikov Street along the perpendicular Socialist Street is greeted by this sign. A crossroads, however! You go left, as they say, and so on...
35. And here is Socialist Street itself. It is noticeable in the frame that there is also relief in Lokna. We'll walk along this street a little later.
37. Then I turned onto Uritsky Street. Now I'm already on the outskirts of Lokni. By the way, pay attention to the interesting local peculiarity private sector - almost all houses stand sideways to the street.
As in the southwest of the Tver region, there are also many summer residents from neighboring regions, judging by the license plates of their cars. Children are playing on the street - some of them are probably visiting relatives on the weekend. They even said "Hello" to me when I walked past them :)
38. I am approaching the southwestern outskirts of Lokni, and this place is especially interesting. Do you see the church behind the trees? And she, by the way, is much older than the village itself. The Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord was built in the 1770s.
Long before the appearance of the St. Petersburg-Vitebsk railway, in an amazing time when the word Loknya meant only a river, the Vlytsa churchyard already stood in this place, first mentioned in 1488 (yes, this number also means a year in history!). Thus, Vlitsy in Lokne is approximately the same as the village of Yotkino within the city of Nelidovo.
39. This is how history decreed. This temple, standing on a hill, remembers those times when there was no Lokni, and train whistles and the sound of their wheels were not heard among the local forests.
40. At this point Loknya ends, and Uritsky Street turns into a highway that goes somewhere further to the west, into the wilderness of the Loknyansky district, to the forests and lakes and hills of the Bezhanitsky Upland... Immediately after leaving Loknya there is the village of Ignatovo.
41. Reverse view. To the right of the road there is a sign for the entrance to Loknya.
42. The Bezhanitskaya Upland is clearly visible already here. Loknya stands on its eastern spurs. And from the graveyard of Vlytsa and the village of Ignatovo it opens good view towards the center of Lokni, beyond which the forests extend further. In the photo, by the way, you can see the optical effect of the rise of air heated by the May sun.
43. To the east of Loknya, towards the border of the Pskov region with the Novgorod region, there are rather remote places with forests and wide swamps and a very small number of settlements.
Then I walked back, again past the church and along the streets of Uritsky and Sharikov. In order to complete the circle in the center of Lokni, I turned from Sharikov onto Socialistheskaya Street.
44. Which goes towards the railway at a noticeable slope.
45. This is what it is like - the outskirts of the Bezhanitskaya Upland (which, by the way, is named after the neighboring regional center, located a little to the north).
46. Typical residential quarters of Loknya:
47. Reverse view. In the background you can see the Magnit store - a constant attribute of our charming Russian outback. At Magnit I bought provisions for the rest of the day.
48. And a company store of the Velikoluksky meat processing plant, specific to our region. You can see it throughout the North-West of Russia (right up to Vorkuta, where I discovered it in August of this year), but here the manufacturer is very close.
49. Quiet Loknyansky courtyard. Here I sat down to have a snack. As already mentioned, it is a pleasant and interesting feeling when you can examine in detail a place where you have passed so many times by train.
50. But this inhabitant of the yard looks as if he is guarding the entrance to the entrance.
51. Loknyansky bakery. By the way, on the left side of the frame you can see a truck transporting his products.
52. And the company store:
Closing the circle, I turned north, onto Pervomaiskaya Street.
53. Another remarkable Stalin. It looks like a former cinema. Now, as we see, it has been converted into a store.
54. Pervomaiskaya street. Everything is clean and tidy.
55. Then I passed by the already shown recreation center and went further, in the direction of the northern outskirts of Lokni.
Second card:
56. Another yard:
57. Sharikov Street again:
58. View north:
59. And this is the name of one of the streets adjacent to Sharikov. The famous war hero Alexander Matrosov accomplished his feat in these very places - near the village of Chernushki, Loknyansky district. And on the way to Loknya from Velikie Luki, I passed a sign to the memorial dedicated to him.
There is also a monument to Matrosov as part of the Great Patriotic War memorial in the center of Velikiye Luki - the monument was erected there, since after the war the Loknyansky district was part of the Velikiye Luki region, which was abolished in 1957.
60. And this is what this street looks like. Again the houses are standing sideways, almost everywhere in these parts.
61. Houses, vegetable gardens, apple trees... And woodpiles!
62. And here is this sign on one of the houses, apparently from Soviet times.
63. Sharikov Street, going further north, turns right and becomes Komsomolskaya, which then crosses the railway and leaves Lokni, turning into a highway leading east - to Kholm, Staraya Russa and Veliky Novgorod. Before the railway crossing, a highway leading to Bezhanitsy and Porkhov leaves Komsomolskaya Street to the north.
64. Among the various trees planted here near one of the houses, a Siberian cedar was unexpectedly discovered!
65. In fact, Sharikov Street, in fact, continues further, but takes on a completely rustic appearance. And by the way, according to, again, my dream, a trolleybus runs here!
66. On this trip, in the east of the Pskov region, I discovered an unusual type of hut roof that I had never seen before. Namely, a four-slope half-hip. Houses with a skylight, where another incomplete one (half-hip) is added to two slopes on the front side, are not uncommon. But somehow I’ve never seen one like this where the light is double-sided...
67. Then I went out onto the Loknya - Bezhanitsy highway. Loknya itself ends here, and the village of Rysino is in the frame. According to my dream, the end of the second trolleybus route is located here, and there is a park nearby :)
The remaining hour and a half before the departure of the Novosokolniki-Dno commuter train (on which I had to travel further north - to Chikhachevo), I decided to walk along the St. Petersburg-Vitebsk railway.
68. And there she is already - perfectly visible from the road!
69. We need to figure out how to get there. It seems that here it is, the railway. But it’s difficult to get to it - there are some thickets around and a ditch flooded with water. But then I found a side street and walked past a couple of village houses. The grandfather sitting near one of them even looked after me questioningly. Eh, if only he knew that my subconscious brought a trolleybus to their village :)
70. Found a crossing! An improvised bridge made of some kind of metal structure was laid across the ditch. Having crossed it, I walked another fifteen meters along the path and came out to the rails.
At first I had the idea to walk eight kilometers along the railway to the former Tigoshchi junction and board the train there, but then I abandoned this idea, including due to the presence of a bridge across the Loknya River on the stretch, which I was not sure was unguarded was completely sure (although the likelihood of this is extremely low, even if the bridge across Oredezh is not guarded). Therefore, I walked a couple of kilometers in the northern direction (where I had to go) and returned back - straight to the Loknya station, exactly to commuter train to the bottom. But I'll tell you more about this later.
Settlement Loknya - administrative center district of the same name, at the same time it is one of the stations of the Oktyabrskaya Railway on the Dno - Novosokolniki line. Located locality at the intersection of two highways running from Novgorod and Pskov to the city of Velikiye Luki.
Story
The formation of the current regional center is associated with the laying of the railway track in the direction Dno - Novosokolniki. But in the past, in the area of the village there was a graveyard of Vlytsa, mentioned in an ancient chronicle from 1488. Now the area where it was previously located is part of the regional center of Lokni. The mention of the settlement was associated with the passage of Moscow officials through its territory, heading to Novgorod or Pskov with important decrees.
At one time, Vlitsy was a famous settlement. Its extensive Sunday market and house of worship were often attended by residents from all over the surrounding area. The settlement also hosted a gathering of warriors for further service. The number of visitors increased after Vlitsy opened new church, where religious holidays, baptisms, commemorations and other ceremonies began to be held on a wide scale.
About three centuries later, the wooden church was demolished due to its disrepair. At the end of the 18th century, the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Church, built of stone, appeared on the vacant site. Now Vlitsy, once prosperous, has become part of Lokni. The village got its name from the hydronym of the river flowing nearby. According to one version, the word “Loknya” translated from Finnish is called “swampy” or “damp place”.
On the eve of the First World War, the current regional center was both a railway center and a trading place. On its territory there were many shops with food and industrial goods. After the advent of Soviet power, the agricultural sector began to actively develop, and collective farms were formed.
During the Great Patriotic War, the village, like the entire region, was occupied by German troops. Many buildings were destroyed then, and collective farms were ruined. In the post-war period, starting in 1945, construction of the village began. Appeared kindergarten, cinema, residential buildings. Later a brick factory, a sawmill and a wool carding shop were opened.
Attractions
1. Stone Church of the Transfiguration, built in the 18th century. It was erected at the expense of the landowner Maxim Karamyshev and donations local residents. The temple is visible from afar as it stands majestically on the highest part of Lokni.
2. The pedestal, preserved from the monument erected to Semyon Kutuzov, the brother of the famous commander.
Don’t let the young, by historical standards, age of the village of Loknya, Pskov Region, deceive you. It stands on ancient land that has seen and absorbed so much over the past millennium. Military and peaceful achievements, surrounded by fascinating nature, left behind a lot memorable places, events and personalities
When a curious person wants to find out information about the Loknyansky district, he usually finds only the most general statistical data. They will talk about the historical childhood of the village, its location and transport links. But she's relatively young Loknya, Pskov region, is old enough for any of its districts to include one of the many historical ones, or simply interesting places. The subject of our today's review was no exception.
History of Lokni
Before appearing on maps in 1901 Loknya, Pskov region the ancient regional center was known - the Trinity-on-Hlavitsa churchyard (now the village of Podberezye). Founded by herself in 947, it can only be called a center with irony, because at that time it was lonely and small in number, at a considerable distance from Pskov. And what kind of areas are there in the 10th century? The main source of income for churchyards was the accommodation of travelers moving goods along the famous route “from the Varangians to the Greeks.” With the extinction of the trade route by the 13th century, a large part of the Loknyansky district was included in the Kholmsky district of the Novgorod land, until the 14th century. Due to its location on the western border of the Russian state, which is remembered on the coat of arms of the region, these lands were the first to stand in the way of foreign invaders. And only by 1667, with the end of the Russian-Polish war, the border moved further to the west, allowing Lokna and the Pskov region to breathe a sigh of relief. And already in the 20th century, during the construction of railways, a settlement grew up near one of the stations, which eventually became a regional center.
Attractions Lokni
At first glance, the area does not inspire hope, it is a small-town pastoral, everything interesting should be concentrated in regional center… Nothing like this! From the train station at Loknya, recognized as an architectural monument, to St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, where Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov was married. Just ten kilometers from the center of the region, in the ruined Brianchaninov estate, there are two buildings, representing a puzzling example of early twentieth-century architecture, using “futuristic” reinforced concrete technology. On the site of the Vlytsa churchyard there is an ancient one, both for Lokni, Pskov region, and in Russia in general, the Transfiguration Church. Built of wood in the 15th century, it was updated to stone in the 1770s to cater for the growing flock. According to legend, it was in it that M.I. was baptized. Kutuzov, and his brother Semyon is buried next to the church porch, as evidenced by a dilapidated granite monument. And as if confirming the glorious tradition of the guards of the Russian land, in the village of Chernushki there is a military memorial on the site of the feat of Alexander Matrosov.
Nature of Lokni
The landscape is characterized by marshy areas with many lakes, occupying mainly the western part of the area. The natural water artery is the Loknya River, originating from Loknovo. And 43% of the land is covered by coniferous-deciduous forests. In them you can find modest-sized populations of forest inhabitants coexisting in a balanced ecosystem, which should be protected in every possible way from the shrinking environment of technological civilization. For example, you should not pick the reserved mushroom - coral blackberry. For the protection of which a covering Loknyu, Pskov region and part of the Novgorod region Polistovsky state reserve. As you might guess, protected species also include two other kingdoms. Fauna numbering 305 species of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish. The flora consists of lichens, mosses and higher plants, a total of 654 species. If you have been interested since childhood, what did those same protected forests look like? talking animals and miracles from Russian fairy tales, then you are just at the right place. Although silent pikes and unsociable golden eagles can undermine children's fantasies, miracles virgin nature there are still some left here.
The Loknyansky district is capable of falling in love with anyone who is not indifferent to the wonderful nature, lakes and forests, ancient churches, ancient estates and parks.
There are more than 50 lakes in the area, home to many species of fish, and mushrooms and berries abound in the forests.
In the village of Chernushki, Loknyansky district, Hero of the Soviet Union Alexander Matrosov performed his famous feat.
In the village of Loknya they are actively developing sports: there is a boxing school headed by V.V. Golik, known not only outside the region, but also at the international level, and the football team also pleases with its successes.
Story:
Loknya is an urban-type settlement in the Pskov region, which arose in 1901 in connection with the construction of the railway. However, the Vlytsa churchyard, which has now become part of the village, is mentioned in the chronicle back in 1488.
At the end of the 18th century in Vlitsy on the site of a demolished building due to disrepair wooden church(XV century) the Spaso-Preobrazhenskaya stone church was built, the building of which has survived to this day within the boundaries of the village of Loknya. The name comes from the Loknya River, which flows nearby. The word “Loknya”, according to the writer Lev Uspensky, means “damp place”, “swampy place” in translation from Finnish.
Now Loknya is a small village where you can relax from the bustle of big cities and enjoy nature.
How to get there:
The village has the same name railroad station, where ambulances stop and passenger trains, both Russian and international purposes. Transit routes also pass through the village. bus routes to Moscow, Velikiye Luki, Pskov and St. Petersburg.
Attractions:
Temples:
- (XVIII century), the brother of Field Marshal M.I. Kutuzov is buried in front of the church porch.
The church dates from the 18th century. The church has four altars: the main chapel is Spaso-Preobrazhensky, the left one is Nikolsky, the right one is Ilyinsky and the warm one in the refectory is in the name of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God.
In front of the church porch, the brother of the commander S.I. Kutuzov, a famous liberal who gave freedom to his peasants long before the abolition of serfdom, was buried.
In the ancient village of Mikhailov Pogost, it attracts very beautiful church, built in 1864 by local landowner Alekseeva over the ashes of her husband.
To build the temple in Starye Lipy, brick production was established, which was then transferred through a chain of people to Mikhailov Pogost to the construction site. Built from brick, granite, marble and sandstone, the temple is an excellent example of neo-Russian style. According to local residents, an underground passage was built from the Brianchaninov Palace to the church.
Monuments:
In the area, in the village of Chernushki, there is a memorial at the site of the heroic death of Alexander Matrosov.
Alexander Matveevich Matrosov(February 5, 1924, Ekaterinoslav - February 27, 1943, Chernushki village, Pskov region) - Hero of the Soviet Union, private infantry. Known for his self-sacrificing feat, when he covered the embrasure of a German bunker with his chest. His feat received wide publicity in the Soviet media and became a stable expression in the Russian language. The ashes of the hero rest in the city of Velikiye Luki on the banks of the Lovat River. A monument was erected at the grave. A bronze statue of Matrosov stands on a granite pedestal.
Estates:
- Manor Starye Lipa, Loknyansky district, village. Mountain
The estate dates back to the end of the 19th century. In the past, this was the estate of Senator Brianchaninov. This is one of the most luxurious estate ensembles with huge house and with a variety of interiors of exotic styles. There are two preserved from the estate observation towers and a fragment of the two-story east wing.
At that time, the style of historicism dominated in Russia and the Bryanchaninovsky Palace had a large number of rooms (according to some sources - 120), decorated in the spirit of that time. There were Russian and Greek styles, Egyptian and Byzantine; there were also mirror and glass bead rooms, an extensive library and exhibition hall, an art gallery and a house church.
Next to the palace there was a large glass greenhouse in which amazing and rare flowers brought from Europe were grown. There was an extensive fruit and berry garden.
Where to stay:
Where to eat:
- Cafe "Podvorye-2"(Loknya village, A. Evstifeenkova St., 467th km) - the cafe offers European, Russian, homemade and mixed cuisine, there is free wi-fi.
- Cooking RAIPO (Loknya village, Sovetskaya st., 11)
- Bar "Ball"
- Cafe "Behemoth"
Sport:
Sports and military-patriotic work is carried out at a high level in Lokna. The Kolos Stadium hosts regional football teams participating in championships or cup games.
The boxing school, headed by V.V. Golik, is known not only outside the region, but also at the international level. It educates ring champions, candidates and masters of sports, winners of many prestigious tournaments. Students of this famous coach are included in the Olympic reserve school and are part of the Russian youth boxing team.
Holidays:
Nature of the region:
The nature of the region is simply magical! There are a lot of beautiful places, lakes, rivers and forests, there is clean air and a lot of greenery. All nature lovers will undoubtedly appreciate this beauty.
How much waste do we produce every day by throwing paper, plastic bags, potato peelings, banana skins and many other things we use in the trash into the trash can? Everyday life? The habit of getting rid of household waste has become automatic. And what their further path is, who is taking them out and where, is of little interest to us. The payment per square meter is satisfactory, since the amount is not prohibitive. But with the onset of 2019, the last issue will become more tangible for residents in terms of financial expenses.
How will the tariff for waste removal change? Who will we pay for housing? utility service and why are there no processing plants in the region? The AiF-Krasnoyarsk correspondent discussed these and other questions with And. O. Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources Krasnoyarsk Territory Vladimir Chasovitin.
Give back the trash
Tatyana Firsova, AiF-Krasnoyarsk: Vladimir Anatolyevich, how will the transition to new conditions take place? It feels like residents are very little aware of what changes are coming from January 1, 2019.
Minister of Ecology of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. Photo: From the personal archive of V. Chasovitin
Vladimir Chasovitin: Preparations for changes in the organization of municipal waste management in the region are underway. Almost everywhere, regional operators have been identified who, from the beginning of 2019, will carry out waste removal and disposal. The program has been developed and approved, but in order for it to take effect, it is necessary to adopt a number of regulatory documents. The main one is the territorial scheme for the management of municipal solid waste (MSW), which must specify the entire mechanism for their collection from the territories. For the scheme to start working 100%, the Krasnoyarsk Territory must have 56 landfills, 120 temporary accumulation and storage sites, 14 waste sorting lines and a number of other facilities. Their total cost is estimated at 26 billion rubles. But since the necessary infrastructure already exists in a number of territories, the amount of required investment is reduced to 14.5 billion rubles.
But there is no time to wait for money to appear and construction of the necessary facilities to begin, and in a number of territories we will begin work now.
- People don’t understand what the purpose of the reform is if we are not yet ready for it?
The main goal of the reform is to organize the initial collection of waste from the population. It is important to explain to people that they must enter into an agreement with the regional operator and hand over their waste to them. There is a serious problem in this part of the implementation of the law: in many settlements of the region, garbage is not collected at all, people take waste to the forest, to unauthorized landfills. Let me give an example of the urban-type settlement of Kuragino, where 14 thousand people live. This is a fairly large settlement, but not all villagers use the waste collection service. There are only a few bins on the street, which confirms that only half of the residents have a garbage collection agreement. The rest burn it in their stoves, throw it into a nearby forest or somewhere else.
The main change that residents of the region should be aware of is that from January 1, 2019, each of us will be required to enter into a waste removal agreement. I often hear from people at meetings: “We burn garbage in stoves, throw food waste into a compost pit, spread humus in the garden, so we don’t produce garbage.” I disagree: any village resident goes to the store, buys food packaged in plastic, and carries it home in plastic bags. So there is no person who does not produce waste.
If now contracts for waste removal are concluded on a voluntary basis, then from January 1, 2019 this will be a mandatory requirement. I will add that the removal of MSW will be transferred from a housing service to a public utility service. Once a system for collecting waste from the population is established, the growth of unauthorized landfills will stop and their elimination will begin. The ultimate goal of the reform is for all waste to arrive at an authorized facility. This means that the garbage must necessarily go to a regional operator, who will sort it or send it to landfill.
Tariff up?
Of course, solving the problems of littering and environmental pollution is a top priority. But you must agree that it is important for people that the tariff for garbage removal does not increase significantly. But there is such a risk. Many experts have already made calculations, albeit approximate ones - and you know, they are not at all encouraging.
Yes, the issue is extremely sensitive, so all calculations by the regional operator must be economically justified. To do this, he is obliged to hold public tenders to identify contractors who will remove waste in the territories within the control zone of the regional operator. The winner of the auction will not be the affiliated company, but the one offering the lower price.
- And yet, does the ministry have an understanding of how much people will pay for garbage removal?
Personally, I will understand when I see the investment and production programs of regional operators. In them they are obliged to specify everything that is required to organize the collection and disposal of waste in a particular area. After the program is approved, the size of the tariff will become clear and what money residents of the region will pay for waste removal. So far, no investment program has been approved. At the same time, last week in the southern group of districts the regional operator announced that the tariff would not be higher than 150 rubles per person. Based on this figure, a family of four will pay 600 rubles per month. I would like to emphasize that I do not predict a significant increase in tariffs for the removal of MSW in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. I propose to wait for the approval of investment programs; the deadline for their submission is November 1. After careful study, we will approve the tariff, the deadline is December 20. Conclude agreements with legal and individuals the regional operator must, by December 31,
Is it possible that we will wake up on January 1st and there will be no one to take out the garbage? New scheme didn’t work, the old one no longer works?
If tariffs are not approved by January 1 (we will do everything possible to prevent this from happening), then garbage collection will be carried out according to the previous scheme. I assure you, there will be no garbage collapse in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, and the population will not suffer. And there’s one more thing I want to focus on. Starting next year, the calculation for the removal of solid waste will change: now the population pays per square meter, regardless of how many people live in the apartment; starting from the new year, payment will be made for each person registered in the living space.
- What was the reason for revising the scheme for calculating fees for garbage removal?
The legislator changed the payment scheme in order to eradicate the imbalance between the area of living space and the people registered in it. It is no secret that two people can live in a large apartment, and seventeen in a small one. The former pay more, despite the fact that they produce less waste. Now the payment will be more fair, because it is not square meters that produce garbage, but the people who live on them. By the way, in the Krasnoyarsk Territory the average savings standard is 17.5 kg per month per person.
Paid - take it away
You said that garbage collection has become a housing and communal services service. Does this mean that the population will have another mandatory payment, the same as rent?
Absolutely right. We will all be required to enter into an agreement with a regional operator and pay for garbage removal, whether we want it or not. This will motivate people not to throw waste into unauthorized landfills and not to pollute the environment.
After all, if a person has entered into an agreement with a regional operator, he has no need to take garbage into the forest. Therefore, the growth of unauthorized landfills in the region will stop, although I am far from thinking that this will happen from January 1 next year. I’ll give the residents a year to get used to the new order and understand its necessity. Another advantage of the reform is that the waste will be dismantled and recycled.
- Are there any enterprises in the Krasnoyarsk Territory that engage in recycling?
So far there are only two factories: in Divnogorsk they recycle PET bottles, in Krasnoyarsk they recycle paper. Such capacities have yet to be created; they did not exist, because for profitable production operation a volume of at least 100 thousand tons of selected material per year is needed. Considering that all the garbage will go to authorized facilities, we will accumulate this amount.
Vladimir Chasovitin. Born in 1969 in the village. Podtesovo, Yenisei district. Graduated from Sverdlovsk law school. He worked as a prosecutor of Krasnoyarsk, head of the control department of the governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. Now he holds the post. O. Minister of Ecology and Rational Natural Resources Management of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. Married. Father of four children.