Remote regions where this activity occurs. Far East: minerals, geographical location, climate
Plant growing, landscaping, reconstruction and new forms of work. Krasnoselkup is rapidly transforming, despite the remoteness, the head of the region was convinced during a working trip. There are, of course, problems. In particular, unjustifiably protracted construction projects, noted Dmitry Artyukhov. He discussed solutions at a meeting with residents. Galina Chechikova - with details.
Remote and fairly updated Krasnoselkup meets the head of the region. The airport, runway and helipads are being reconstructed.
Innovation is everywhere here. Even those who have been fishing for centuries now grow carrots, onions, and potatoes. The Pripolyarnaya agricultural company began to master crop production. And last year she reaped a good harvest from the northern fields. Potatoes alone - more than 60 tons. The head of the company proudly demonstrates locally produced products with a quality mark and without preservatives. Exclusively natural milk, meat and even culinary products.
Today, residents of the village itself, Tarko-Sale, and Novy Urengoy can enjoy the products of KrasnoSelkup farmers. True, so far only in season. There are plans to gasify greenhouses. And then local vegetables will be on the table all year round. Although today local manufacturers are one step ahead.
Takiulla Sharipov - general director of the agricultural company: “And the first day we cut it down, they don’t cut cabbage on the ground yet, we are already cutting it here. We selected those varieties according to the growing season.”
The head of the region got acquainted with the project for improving the Mangazeya recreation park. The original “Comfortable Environment” facility includes spacious walking areas, sports grounds and historical architectural forms. He also assessed the condition of the protracted construction projects. In Krasnoselkup this is a sports complex and a kindergarten for 240 places. And already at a meeting with residents he said that he was waiting for long-term construction.
Dmitry Artyukhov - Acting Governor of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug: “We have provided the necessary funding. Now it is important, as always, we are in the construction season, the delivery of materials - to synchronize all this so that the contractor can come out. We have everything for this, we have the resources, it’s important to do it.”
The Cooperation program, resettlement to the south of the Tyumen region, roads and high-speed Internet in the village of Ratta. Residents of the region literally bombarded the head of the region with questions. Such activity is only encouraging, Dmitry Artyukhov emphasized. And I already discussed the main points in detail with the head of the municipality, Yuri Fischer, promising in the end - movement without stops.
Dmitry Artyukhov, Acting Governor of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug: “We can’t do everything at once, you understand that yourself, but we will definitely move purposefully, so Yamal and the Krasnoselkupsky district have a wonderful, excellent future.”
2017 I traveled around Adygea and Krasnodar region. The remote one is located in the mountain valley of the Pshekha River, sandwiched in a stone bowl. Surrounded by mountains: sacred Circassian Mountain, Sugar Loaf Mountain, Chamur-Tapa, Chatal-Tapa, and others. This is a unique place for that reason alone.
There are shady mountain forests around, stretching for tens of kilometers along the high mountain plateau of Lago Naki. Mount Parus, a natural monument, rises nearby. I arrived in the village on September 24th. The rain had just stopped, I went out to the threshold of the store where I was waiting, and looked around. The fogs began to creep away, and an unforgettable picture of the apocalypse opened up.
Ruins of houses, broken roads, rotting fences. And what a building - well, really, like Beslan. Which terrorists, one wonders, worked so skillfully here? But it is useless to ask the locals this question. Well, it’s bad, yes - we survive... Who is to blame - but God knows... Everyone lives like this... There is a crisis in the world... Gays have flooded Europe. America is pressing with its sanctions. It's all the Banjamin's fault (that is, the dollars and the Federal Reserve). Or the Chinese - you'll understand.
Silence. Everything seems dead... Yes, I have only seen such desolation in the Chelyabinsk region. Well, I still remember Iturup’s paintings from the late 20th century. Post-war Abkhazia in 1998. To get here, to Otdalenny, you need to take a train from the Absheron narrow-gauge railway. Or over the potholes of a recently laid road.
The most common sightings in the village are pigs. But even those were cut down before the Olympics, even wild boars. They were deliberately poisoned - why? Yes, on the quiet, the local Tsarek decided to breed his own pigs, so he “advanced the topic” and created a shortage. Every dog in the village knows this. Every pig remembers.
Until recently, Remote, also known as Spalorez, remained isolated; the narrow-gauge railway was the only “Road to Life”. But even today, when the first quarter of the 21st century is already behind us, the situation, as it turns out, has not changed. The train stopped running to Apsheronsk completely; the enterprising administration turned the station in Novye Polyany into an elite cottage for rent.
Active reduction of a unique mountain forest, a store, social services, a vegetable garden, some tourism - that’s all the employment of the population of the foggy Albion “Remote”, numbering 450 inhabitants.
Great economic model for the 21st century, right? And not something random or unimaginable. And the model is typical for Russia: sell something faster than others, make money on your own comrades, survive. This is such progress.
Here you can start to speculate. Like, open your eyes! Crimea is ours! But, once in the Distant, having climbed into the skin of a sheep, all these achievements somehow recede into the background against the backdrop of devastation. Real life, the ordeals of people tell a completely different story.
From the box they talk about the economic power of the country. Whose country, Vladimir Vladimirovich? What power? Why are your planes patrolling Syria, fighting for security there, and not here?
Did you wish these people “Happy New Year 2018?” I don't think they even noticed it. It seems that you simply forgot to pick them up in the second millennium. Where is it, your notorious power of United Russia? In this mud hut from the early 20th century with a plastic window?
And you, Vladimir Volfovich? For some reason, your LDPR activists are not visible here either. Do you also solve global problems? I dare to remind you that they begin with solving problems in long-forgotten regions. As you said: “What are the cows going crazy about? British democracy!” Really? And I think, just from hunger, dear! Together with people. Or are these photos, you say, also photoshopped? Democrats' machinations?
It's a shame, isn't it? And you, Dmitry Anatolyevich! Are you improving legislation? Improve the lives of these unfortunate people! They don't even have toilets at the stations! You and Putin would like to come here sometime for the New Year. We should have looked around and waited for the derailed train. We would congratulate each other.
On September 25, we devoted time to inspecting the narrow-gauge railway. The motorcar train, renamed by popular rumor as the Matrix, runs 2 times a day, launched in 1927. The train brakes at the request of the passenger at any section, picks up everyone. Cost 56 rubles 27 km in 2.5 hours.
The railway line, despite the abandonment of the villages, has retained the flavor of the previous era. Not only in the Distant store there is a table for visitors, but also in Rezhet, Water Lily. The ruins of greenhouses along the railway have been preserved, where once upon a time anyone lost could wait out the bad weather by the stove. But not today.
In Soviet times, all stations had stations where latecomers, I think, could wait out the night and warm up with a glass of tea. Today, a traveler who lags behind the train is doomed to survive only in the forest.
In villages and towns, like everywhere else in the country under the USSR, there were bathhouses, clubs, schools, etc. Where are they, one wonders, today? Why haven't they been restored to this day? ISIS again? Or NATO? The railway covers several villages. We walked around and looked into many. The distant one turned out to be the most colorful in terms of carelessness.
The village of Rezhet is completely extinct, there is only one street, only traces of most of the houses remain. Once well-trodden paths, the streets have turned into green carpets.
Near the village of Kuvshinka, the train derailed. Well, says driver Evgeniy, this is a typical situation. Not every time, of course, but often it works. The sleepers are rotten. Who changed the rails? When? That's okay... So that the train doesn't accidentally roll in the opposite direction, or doesn't skid at all, we add sand. Passengers are helping.
The driver Evgeniy is the first guy in the village. He is not only a driver, but also an usher, Western Union, loader, mechanic, and mechanic. And then it turned out there was also a traveler. Without thinking for long, Evgeniy jumped out of the cabin and climbed under the train as it was. It’s the snickering Americans who wear special clothing. We don't need that. “Otherwise we won’t arrive by morning.”
Then other men from Kuvshinka arrived, pulled out sledgehammers, and began leveling the rails. Stones from the river were placed under the rotten sleepers, which fell apart when touched. Indeed, sleepers and rails are laid from the times of the USSR!
A specially adapted beam, cut at sharp angles, began to be pushed under the wheels. It’s a simple idea to drag a multi-ton car onto a beam in order to put it back on the rails. But very labor-intensive.
Meanwhile, men from a neighboring village, having long known about such situations, started a homemade trolley, assembled from old trolleys and motorcycles, and “overtook” the train.
The first time, it was not possible to put the car back on the rails using only pieces of wood. Then the men began to move the car out with the help of beveled channels, turned their attention, pulled the diesel engine, and it stopped. About two hours after stopping, we set off again.
The men smile heroically: it worked! Why not! And then: oh, sometimes we’ll survive! Everyone is happy. And I look at them like they are crazy. The risk of remaining crippled, shoving scraps of timber under the carriage with your feet... So far from real life... And they think this is normal... That this is normal work. For the sake of families, children... Unhappy ones.
What do they see in life? What if they repair their own roads? Are the footrests welded? Are they putting together rails from pieces? What are they hoping for? This is where there is freedom for a meeting of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation! Finally, academics and public figures, solve the problem of train derailment on crooked rails! And honored cultural figures have a problem with running away to a long distance in winter. Seemingly simple things. Obvious ones. Why has 17 years passed and still no new sleepers?
Once upon a time, all global problems are solved. Some kind of nightmare. Conversations about politics and international relations fade against the background of crooked crowbars, rotten sleepers, and composite rails. We are still solving global problems - for what? To make these people even more miserable? Maybe then it’s worth not annexing, but giving these and other territories to at least someone smarter? Baikal - China. Kuril Islands - Japan. Yes, at least for someone, so that this genocide will finally stop. It’s better to live like the Ainu, in the minority, but at least you won’t die out.
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Yes, Vladimir Vladimirovich, in winter here with a crowbar, you can’t dive into a heated hole. Dear politicians, the whole Kremlin, the whole Duma, would take a walk on foot along this railway, and would appeal directly, as they say, to the people. We would think about it in our spare time, admiring the views where in normal countries bicycle paths have long been laid. We would tell people about the prospects. For some reason, Peskov’s children don’t buy houses here. And they don’t even play under a homemade lighting pole. Banquets at the Kuvshinka station are also not celebrated.
Or do you think people are gobbling everything up? Well, yes, he’ll just burp. He understands everything, on an instinctive level, by the collective unconscious. Otherwise, the glorious name of Putin would not have bowed to Puti, Putyonok, Mr. Pu, Voldemar, etc.
Hey, don't film us! Enough!
Yes, good! Don't be a shame! You'll also post it on YouTube...
Men understand that this is all abnormal. And unfair, shameful.
I would also like to ask you, dear Putins and Medvedevs. What did the Reserve Fund of the Russian Federation spend on? For these rail inserts? Geyropa is to blame, the States... for what? Is it that people don't have a way to get to work? That the only store is a train that derails? Are you even out of your mind to pursue such a policy? And what are you growing there in the Kremlin to talk such nonsense at your speeches? And the Jews, by the way, have nothing to do with it either. They also defended their homeland.
The worst thing is that there is no end to this. That these photos can be posted endlessly. In batches from year to year. Not only from case to case, but also consistently, moving around Russia from place to place. Photos of abandoned churches, dispossessed villages, upturned virgin lands, cities razed to the ground by bombing. And now - extinct villages, destroyed biological resources. It’s not even a pattern, but some kind of obscurantism. God, why, why are you giving Russia such gifts? First as criminals, and now also as idiots. And it’s not clear who is worse. There was direct genocide, now it is indirect.
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Finding your calling in life is what makes a person truly happy. Justin Ren devoted himself to boxing and for a long time seriously believed that this was the only thing he wanted to do. By the age of 18, he reached the professional level, and by 23, he won 13 fights, but at the same time he began to experience depression, tried to use drugs and even attempted suicide. He was able to get out of this depressing state only when he promised himself to do something significant and be useful to people.
Justin had the idea of helping suffering people in Africa. He went to the Congo, where there is a settlement of the short Pygmy people. These people do not have their own territory, and they, in fact, have been enslaved for many years by the more developed Mokpala tribe, working for food (as a reward, two tiny bananas are given per pygmy family). The heightened sense of hunger did not allow the pygmies to resist their oppressors, and Justin realized how ready he was to help them. He formulated his goal as follows: “I fought against the people, but really I wanted to fight for the people.”
The boxer understood that it was impossible to free the pygmies by force, because this would only increase hostility in the future. Then he came up with a way to make both tribes happy. Justin was convinced at that moment: you cannot love one side and hate the other; to achieve results, you need to help both one and the other.”
The way to help both sides was obvious: to provide water supplies to the tribal areas. Justin founded a charity organization whose name translates as “Fight for the Forgotten.” With the money raised, he managed to hire workers who laid water pipes and built a water pump in a place remote from civilization. From now on, the Mokpala did not need slaves to bring them water every day, so they managed to free the pygmies without violence.
Justin's project is already 8 years old, during which time he has made many trips to the pygmies. The ex-boxer’s savings were enough to purchase a small plot of land for the tribe and establish a water supply. Previously, most of the pygmy children died from dehydration, but now the tribe has a chance to survive.
Distances in a straight line from Moscow to a number of large cities in Russia and the Near Abroad, I implemented a long-standing idea and calculated for each region of Russia the regional center (or city of regional subordination), the most geographically distant from the administrative center of the region. Distances everywhere, again, in a straight line, and not along roads, since with calculations based on roads, the selection will not be entirely objective: somewhere along the shortest route there is a road of poor quality (and because of this it will take longer to travel along it), and in some places (a number of regions of the Far and not quite North) there are no roads at all. In general, the picture turned out like this:
Yakutia: Chersky (1620 km from Yakutsk)
Krasnoyarsk Territory: Dudinka (1530 km)
Khabarovsk Territory: Okhotsk (1320 km)
Kamchatka Territory: Kamenskoye (1140 km from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky)
Sakhalin region: Severo-Kurilsk (1070 km from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk); in the conventionally mainland part (regardless of the fact that this is also an island) - Okha (740 km)
Irkutsk region: Erbogachen (1030 km)
Arkhangelsk region: Belushya Guba (919 km); in the mainland - Ilyinsko-Podomskoye (536 km); if you count with the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Iskateley (667 km)
Komi: Vorkuta (905 km from Syktyvkar)
Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug: Krasnoselkup (720 km from Salekhard)
Buryatia: Taximo (690 km from Ulan-Ude)
Tomsk region: Strezhevoy (638 km)
Chukotka Autonomous Okrug: Pevek (636 km from Anadyr)
Trans-Baikal Territory: Chara (623 km from Chita)
Amur region: Tynda (573 km from Blagoveshchensk)
Magadan region: Evensk (528 km)
Karelia: Loukhi (485 km from Petrozavodsk)
Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug: Raduzhny (465 km from Khanty-Mansiysk)
Primorsky Krai: Terney (432 km from Vladivostok)
Sverdlovsk region: Ivdel (430 km from Ekaterinburg)
Novosibirsk region: Kyshtovka (430 km)
Orenburg region: Svetly (415 km)
Vologda region: Veliky Ustyug (398 km)
Kostroma region: Bogovarovo (381 km)
Altai Territory: Burla (362 km from Barnaul)
Bashkortostan: Akyar (352 km from Ufa)
Tyumen region: Sladkovo (349 km); if you count the districts, Tazovsky (1330 km)
Omsk region: Ust-Ishim (335 km)
Rostov region: Zavetnoye (320 km)
Tuva: Mugur-Aksy (315 km from Kyzyl)
Chelyabinsk region: Bredy (314 km)
Kemerovo region: Tashtagol (311 km)
Tatarstan: Bavly (303 km from Kazan)
Saratov region: Perelub (301 km)
Volgograd region: Uryupinsk (295 km)
Altai: Kosh-Agach (289 km from Gorno-Altaisk)
Perm region: Gayny (278 km)
Kirov region: Vyatskie Polyany (276 km)
Pskov region: Usvyati (273 km)
Tver region: Toropets (266 km)
Novgorod region: Pestovo (264 km)
Murmansk region: Umba (260 km)
Kalmykia: Lagan (258 km from Elista)
Astrakhan region: Akhtubinsk (257 km)
Nizhny Novgorod region: Tonshaevo (244 km)
Stavropol Territory: Neftekumsk (241 km)
Leningrad region: Podporozhye (240 km from St. Petersburg)
Dagestan: Yuzhno-Sukhokumsk (238 km from Makhachkala)
Voronezh region: Kantemirovka (223 km)
Smolensk region: Gagarin (206 km)
Bryansk region: Zlynka (202 km)
Ulyanovsk region: Pavlovka (198 km)
Kurgan region: Kataysk (196 km)
Crimea: Kerch (190 km from Simferopol)
Jewish Autonomous Region: Amurzet (182 km from Birobidzhan)
Belgorod region: Rovenki (181 km)
Ryazan region: Kadom (177 km)
Krasnodar region: Kushchevskaya (176 km)
Khakassia: Kopyovo (176 km from Abakan)
Mordovia: Tengushevo (171 km from Saransk)
Udmurtia: Yar (170 km from Izhevsk)
Samara region: Klyavlino (170 km)
Penza region: Zemetchino (164 km)
Kaluga region: Betlitsa (161 km)
Moscow region: Serebryanye Prudy (160 km from the center of Moscow)
Chuvashia: Alatyr (149 km from Cheboksary)
Yaroslavl region: Breytovo (142 km)
Oryol region: Long (140 km)
Kaliningrad region: Nesterov (135 km)
Kursk region: Kastornoye (134 km)
Ivanovo region: Yuryevets and Puchezh (133 km, equal)
Lipetsk region: Volovo (132 km)
Tula region: Efremov (123 km)
Vladimir region: Murom (120 km)
Tambov region: Muchkapsky (119 km)
Mari El: Yurino (106 km from Yoshkar-Ola)
Adygea: Takhtamukay (95 km from Maykop)
North Ossetia: Mozdok (78 km from Vladikavkaz)
Karachay-Cherkessia: Pregradnaya (74 km from Cherkessk)
Chechnya: Khimoy (74 km from Grozny)
Kabardino-Balkaria: Tyrnyauz (59 km from Nalchik)
Ingushetia: Dzheirakh (40 km from Magas)
Nenets Autonomous Okrug: Iskateley (borders Naryan-Mar)
The statistics are influenced by two factors in combination: the area of the region combined with the distance of its administrative center from the geographical one: the larger both of them are, the closer the region is to the top of this list (for example, the Tomsk and Kostroma regions and Karelia noticeably jumped up due to location of capitals on the edge). The leaders, quite predictably, are Yakutia and the Krasnoyarsk Territory - hardly anyone could overtake them, even if Yakutsk and Krasnoyarsk were located in the very center of their regions. And in general, which is quite logical, on average, in the first places are the regions of the Far North and Far East, then Siberia, followed by the Urals and the Russian North, then the Volga region, then the Black Earth Region and Central Russia, and the list is completed by the republics of the North Caucasus - the smallest areas of the country's regions (multinational Dagestan has risen significantly above them). It’s strange, but in last place is quite the region of the Far North, but this is already the cost of administrative division - Iskateley, in fact, is just a suburb of Naryan-Mar.
Among the regions of the European part of the country, the Arkhangelsk region is in first place: if you count not only the mainland, and if you do not take into account the Arctic archipelagos, then the Komi Republic comes out ahead of it in the European part; Of the regions located beyond the Urals, Khakassia is in last place.
Of the most remote regional centers, 32 are cities, 20 are urban-type settlements, and 30 are rural settlements (villages/towns/stanitsa).
More interesting observations:
Pskov, Tver and Novgorod regions follow each other
The same indicator is in the Novosibirsk and Sverdlovsk regions (the centers of which are, respectively, the third and fourth cities of the country)
P.S. - to be honest, I myself learned about some of these regional centers for the first time.
