I decided to tell this sad story after watching Putin's latest interview, where he was compared to Roosevelt. Jarred. Below are published for the first time many of the documents we have collected over many years of fighting against the illegal construction of the Lunnaya Polyana residence. Roosevelt in his America never dreamed of such a thing.
The story began back in the 1980s, when Sochi rescuers built a strange-looking hut on the western slope of Mount Fisht. With the light hand of the rescuers, the area around the hut was called "Moonglade". In the 1990s former lifeguard Grigory Gorlov organized a hotel for tourists in the hut.
This hut until recently stood near the main building.
According to Gorlov, already in 2000, the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation began to show interest in the hotel, in the bowels of which it was decided to build a ski resort for the main lover of skiing in the country. Gorlov's hut was visited by the business manager Vladimir Kozhin and officials from the Federal Security Service of Russia, and by 2001 the Lunnaya Polyana hotel was transferred to the Dagomys sports and recreation complex owned by the Administrative Department.
All that remained was to find a way to get around the law in order to build a resort on the territory of the reserve. Instructed the Ministry natural resources, and such a method was found.
On December 4, 2002, Vitaly Artyukhov, the former deputy minister of road construction, whom Putin put in charge of the Ministry of Natural Resources, signed an order to organize a “research and technology center as part of the Caucasian State Natural Biosphere Reserve” .About the nature of the future scientific work testified to the requirement "to take into account the needs of the units of the Federal Security Service of Russia and the Ministry of Emergency Situations" when preparing a plan for the location of the facility. Nothing is said about the needs of other scientific institutions in the order.
In 2002, the state company Rosneft was appointed as an investor in the ski resort, and Vladimir Kozhin, the manager, personally supervised the issue from the side of the Administration.Scientific Center "Biosphere"
Construction " scientific center"For Vladimir Putin, it literally boiled in 2003, all building materials and workers were brought into the mountains by helicopters. The “Research and Technology Center as part of the Caucasian State Natural Biosphere Reserve”, which appeared in Artyukhov’s order, was renamed by the Administrative Department into the Biosphere Scientific Center (NC). Below, for the first time, its official scheme, obtained by us from the designers, is published.Construction was accompanied by numerous meetings between builders and officials. We have the minutes of the meeting that took place on July 13, 2004 at the Sochi airport with the participation of Rosneft Vice President Nikolai Borisenko.
From the protocol it becomes clear that by the summer of 2004 in the tract "Lunnaya Polyana" the foundation of the object "Biosphere -1" (the residence itself) was completed, and the construction of the so-called. dormitories "Biosphere-2" (premises for FSO employees). The construction was attended by a Russian representative of the Finnish company Honka, which supplied prefabricated wooden structures for the residence, as well as Croatian Emir Kecho, the owner of Kecho Invest Engineering, close to the then president of Rosneft Bogdanchikov, which later disgraced itself in Nefteyugansk
Helicopter accidents
Not far from the village of Solokh-Aul, Rosneft built a base with a helipad, from where helicopters still deliver all the necessary materials for the construction and operation of Lunnaya Polyana. Until 2010, helicopters made several dozen flights a day.The first disaster occurred already on September 4, 2003, when a PANH helicopter crashed into the top of Mount Fisht. 3 crew members and 6 passengers were killed.
In 2004, a worker was killed by a load that fell from the suspension of a helicopter.
On September 26, 2010, an Aero-Kamov helicopter crashed right next to the residence. Two crew members were killed, the third was pulled out by workers.
How land was taken away from the Caucasian Reserve
From the very beginning, the construction of Lunnaya Polyana was illegal, since its project did not pass the state environmental review.At the operational meeting mentioned above on July 13, 2004, for the first time, the Caucasus Reserve was demanded "to the maximum short time» transfer to free use health complex "Dagomys" a land plot of 40 hectares, with its subsequent expansion for the construction of the 2nd stage of the facility. The Department of Affairs no longer wanted to carry out illegal construction of the Biosphere Scientific Center on the lands owned by the Ministry of Natural Resources.
Immediately after the meeting, Rosneft transferred money to the reserve for land management and boundary surveying in the Republic of Adygea. Already in 2005, a miracle happened - it turned out that the tract Lunnaya Polyana with an area of 105.7 hectares is not part of the reserve, but is located on the lands of the Adygea reserve. Moreover, the boundaries of the tract in a strange way coincided with the contours of the land plot necessary for the construction of a ski resort. However, until September 2006, the Caucasian Reserve did not agree on the land deal.Finally, Vladimir Kozhin sent a letter to Minister Trutnev urging him to expedite the transfer of the reserve's lands to a "particularly important facility."
The reasons why the Dinamil Reserve did not sign the land documents were set out in a letter from its director, Sergei Shevelev, to Deputy Minister of Natural Resources, Sergei Sai.
In addition to 105 hectares for the construction of the complex, Rosneft asked the reserve for another 400 hectares for the road to Lunnaya Polyana, and the authorities of Adygea decided to take away almost 10 thousand hectares under the guise of "clarification of borders."
"Budget" roads to Putin's mountain residence
The fact that it is dangerous to deliver the President's body by helicopter became clear after the first accident in 2003 (see above). According to the requirements of the Federal Security Service, a land road is required to the object, and preferably two. The following is a chronology of subsequent events.
End of 2005. Putin decided that he would come to Lunnaya Polyana from the north, from Maykop Airport.
January 17, 2006. A meeting was held in the Ministry of Transport, where it was determined that the financing of the new road Chernigovskaya-NTs "Biosphere" will be carried out at the expense of the federal budget and the budget of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation - Adygea and Krasnodar Territory who will receive appropriate subsidies. The road builders wanted to open through traffic to Lunnaya Polyana on a gravel road by the end of 2006, and then pave the entire route with asphalt.February 2006 Justification of investments in the construction of the road, prepared North Caucasian branch of JSC GIPRODORNII for the money of Rosneft, passed all the approvals, but received a negative conclusion from the Glavgospertiza. However, Adygea and the Krasnodar Territory approved the assignment for the design of the road, in which it was divided into 5 launch complexes.
September 2006 The Ministry of Natural Resources received a letter from Vladimir Kozhin demanding that surveyors be allowed into the reserve to build a road to Lunnaya Polyana.
December 2006 The act of choosing a land plot for the construction of the road, including the lands of the reserve, was approved.
February 2007 Project 1 of the start-up complex passed the construction expertise and was approved by the authorities of Adygea.There was no mention in the tender documentation that the road would first pass through the natural monument “Upper reaches of the Pshekha and Pshekhashkha rivers”, and then in the Caucasian Reserve. Both protected areas are part of the UNESCO World Natural Heritage "Western Caucasus", where it is forbidden to build roads.
June 2007
Without a formal construction permit, work began on the 1st launch complex. At the same time, barbaric "sanitary" cuttings are being carried out around the road within the limits of the natural monument "Upper reaches of the rivers Pshekha and Pshekhashkha". The unique forest is disfigured and resembles a battlefield.
July 30, 2007. A tender has been announced for the construction of the 2nd start-up complex, from the village of Chernigovskoye in the Krasnodar Territory to the border of Adygea.
August 2007. The World Natural Heritage Center sent a letter to the representative of Russia at UNESCO, in which he expressed concern about the situation with the construction of the road and illegal logging on the territory of the Western Caucasus heritage site.August 24, 2007. The Caucasian Reserve refused to agree on the withdrawal of land for the construction of the 1st launch complex.
September 19, 2007. A permit was issued for the construction of the 1st launch complex.October 2007
The technological road has been laid to the border of the Caucasian Reserve, intensive logging continues. The winner of the tender for the construction of the 2nd start-up complex was Krasnodaravtodorservis LLC.
November 19, 2007. Meeting with the prime minister of Adygea, where it was decided to draw a road that allegedly existed since the 1920s in the forest management documentation, and then change the passport of a natural monument in order to ensure the possibility of its "reconstruction". Subsequently, the changes in the passport were declared illegal by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation.
March 2, 2008. Dmitry Medvedev was elected President of the Russian Federation.
April 19, 2008.
On the initiative of Ecological Watch and Greenpeace Russia, the UNESCO World Heritage Center sent a mission to assess the threats to the "Western Caucasus". Experts were shocked by how lumberjacks and road builders mutilated virgin forests in the upper reaches of the Pshekha River and expressed their complaints to the authorities in a very harsh manner.
June 6, 2008. Meeting of members of the public with the Minister of Natural Resources Trutnev in Sochi. A protocol was signed, including a demand to stop work within the Western Caucasus World Heritage Site.
June 26, 2008. Joint inspection of the Ecological Watch and Moscow officials of Rosprirodnadzor. Work on the construction of the road on the territory of Adygea was finally stopped. As a result of the inspection, Georgy Kozmenko, head of the Office of Rosprirodnadzor for Adygea, was dismissed.
July 6, 2008. In Quebec, at the 32nd session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, decision No. 32 COM 7B.25 was adopted. Russian authorities recommended oto initiate further construction of the road to Lunnaya Glade and to ensure that it is not further widened, paved and made available for recreational use."July 2008 Work is underway to "conserve" 1 launch complex. Construction of the 2nd complex continues.
August 2009. The 2nd launch complex in the Krasnodar Territory has been completed. Bridges have been built and 12 km of paved highway has been laid to the border of Adygea, then a broken gravel road continues.September 2011
Putin announced his desire to become President. Competitions have been announced for the design of a new, "southern" version of the road to Lunnaya Polyana With "budget" roads it is easier, their cost can be found in the tender documentation. The cost of building the first start-up complex alone in the prices of the first quarter of 2006 would have amounted to 1.2 billion rubles, of which 495 million were spent on the first stage of construction and "conservation". The cost of the second launch complex, which was fully built, is 900 million rubles.
Adding up all the figures, we can safely say that the cost of building a mountain residence for Putin exceeded 5 billion rubles, of which at least 2 billion were direct investments from the budget. It is impossible to calculate the damage to the unique nature, but according to the official methods of calculation, it will amount to more than 500 million rubles.
Today Putin said: if I undertake something, I try to bring the matter either to its logical conclusion, or, at least, to bring this matter to the maximum effect.Therefore, to the amount of expenses for Lunnaya Polyana, we can safely add another 2-3 billion for the construction of a new road through the Caucasian Reserve.
According to Wikipedia, the President of the Russian Federation has only 4 official residences, the main of which is the Moscow Kremlin.
But it is clear that in fact there are many more of them. Today we will tell you about 16 real palaces that Vladimir Putin controls.
1. Novo-Ogarevo. The residence is located just ten kilometers from the Moscow Ring Road, in the forest between Rublevo-Uspenskoye Highway and the Moskva River. The estate is surrounded by a six-meter wall, and the entrance to outsiders, of course, is closed.
1. Novo-Ogarevo. On the territory there are several residential buildings, a helipad, a swimming pool, greenhouses, a poultry house, a stable and much more.
2. Meiendorf (Barvikha). The name of this residence came from the surname of its former owners - the barons Meyendorff. This historic building is located in the village of Barvikha, Odintsovo district, Moscow region.
2. Meiendorf (Barvikha). In 2003-2004, the estate was completely restored, spending at least 100 million dollars. Now the castle is at the disposal of the Office of the President.
3. Barvikha. Another presidential residence in the Moscow region. It covers an area of 86 hectares. In 2011, repairs were carried out at the "dacha" and the furniture was updated. It cost the state 162 million rubles. By the way, as many as 337 people serve the estate.
4. State guest residence (K-4). Another estate of President Putin is located in the northern capital - St. Petersburg on Kamenny Island in the Neva Delta.
4. State guest residence (K-4). Here is the Meltzer mansion and four more separate buildings, including the Schene mansion, a bathhouse, a service wing and a mansion that once belonged to the banker Soloveichik.
5. Amber. The facility is located in the city of Pionersky, Kaliningrad Region, and consists of a five-star hotel, as well as an administrative building, with a total area of 10,000 square meters. The construction of the residence cost the state 6 billion rubles.
6. Palace in Gelendzhik. This luxurious palace is located in the village of Praskoveevka near Gelendzhik. It was built specifically for the personal use of V. Putin, which caused a scandal at the time.
6. Palace in Gelendzhik. The cost of the building is approximately 1 billion dollars. In addition to the main building, there is a health complex, a heliport, a "tea house", elevators to the beach...
7. Milovka. This ancient estate once belonged to the noble family of the Gorbunov-Chernevs. For a long time it was in disrepair, until in 2008, after restoration, V. Putin began to rest in it. The photo shows the interior of the estate after a major overhaul.
8. Bocharov stream. The summer residence of the Russian president is located in the city of Sochi on the Black Sea coast. On the territory of the villa, as well as in other "dachas", there is a helipad.
8. Bocharov stream. There are also two swimming pools (with sea and fresh water), gym and a jetty for the presidential yacht.
9. Small source. The villa is located in a picturesque forest area on the banks of the Malo-Istoksky pond in the suburbs of Yekaterinburg. The village itself would not have been known if it were not for the presidential dacha located here, the entrance to which is, of course, closed to outsiders. Therefore, the photo shows only the entrance to the estate.
9. Small source. The village itself would not have been known if it were not for the presidential dacha located here, the entrance to which is, of course, closed to outsiders. Therefore, the photo shows only the entrance to the estate.
10. Konstantinovsky Palace. In addition to the fact that this palace is the so-called dacha of the president, it is also an architectural monument of the 18th century.
10. Konstantinovsky Palace. The complex is located in Strelna near St. Petersburg and covers an area of 140 hectares, on which there are more than 40 different buildings.
11. Volga cliff. The complex is located in the village of the same name in the Samara region on the banks of the Kuibyshev reservoir. The residence includes a hotel with 192 rooms, cottages, a cinema hall, swimming pools, a horse yard, a helipad (as without it), a ski resort and much more. 3,000 people are involved in servicing such a huge farm.
12. Angarsk farms. This residence of the Russian president is located on the banks of the Angara River in the Irkutsk region. AT different time Boris Yeltsin spent his leisure time here, and now the current president disposes of this estate. On the territory of the complex there are several cottages, tennis courts, a swimming pool, a sauna, a gym and even a river pier
13. Russia. This is where the President comes to hunt. The fact is that this residence is located on the territory of the Zavidovo hunting estate in the Tver region. There is a whole hotel complex, a hunting lodge, swimming pools, saunas, a boat station...
14. Pines. This is a complex of villas located on the banks of the Yenisei, just a 30-minute drive from Krasnoyarsk.
14. Pines. During the last reconstruction, the main building was covered with marble, which was specially brought from Khakassia. A helipad was also built on the territory of the residence.
15. Moonglade. Putin's unofficial dacha is a real VIP resort. It is located on Mount Fisht in the Republic of Adygea.
15. Moonglade. By the way, this is the Western Caucasus World Natural Heritage Zone and construction is prohibited here, but it was disguised as a scientific center test site. Several chalets, helipads, ski slopes, cable cars - everything for a good holiday is here.
16. Long Beards - Valdai. The estate on the lake Valdai, the area of which is as much as 930 hectares. On the territory of the residence there is a presidential church, a swimming pool, restaurants, a cinema hall, a bowling alley and, of course, a heliport. However, such a huge territory is served by only 100 people.
These are not all the palaces that he manages Russian President, there is also the Altai Compound, the House of Sevastyanov, the House of the Distinguished Guest ... Probably, this list can be continued, but alas, such information is not available to the general public.
Fraer's greed will destroy. And where then all this his property? He is not a worm, which is alive in his fragments.
For three years now, near Sochi, near Mount Fisht on a plateau with the poetic name Lunnaya Polyana, the construction of a VIP track has been going on. According to rumors, this will be a ski slope for President Putin (he used to ride on the slopes of the crowded Krasnaya Polyana in Sochi). Some newspapers have already written about this secret ski track, but none of the journalists have ever seen the construction site with their own eyes: it is very difficult to get there. And so, having heard that it was possible to make an illegal helicopter tour from the foothill village to the "presidential dacha", we rushed there.
Tatyana KIREEVA,
Maxim SAMOKHIN
Near the village of Solokh-aul, the most picturesque places. Sochi residents and holiday-makers often come here for barbecues. In the early morning hour there are already a lot of vacationers. The silence is broken by cargo helicopters scurrying back and forth. The assistant pilot of one of the "turntables" approaches us. “Do you want to fly? he asks. - Flight - 500 rubles.
There were 10 people who wanted to.
After 15 minutes, a pot-bellied iron "dragonfly" appears on the horizon. He makes a landing, and we “load” strictly according to the instructions. Ahead - Mount Fisht: 2867 meters. In the early 90s, two ski slopes were opened in this difficult area. And between them, on the Dzhigursky pass, Sochi resident Grigory Gorlov built a rescue shelter for tourists "Moon Glade" - according to the name of the area on tourist maps. This is where the "Putin's dacha" is now being built. You don't talk much in a helicopter. Shouting over the roar, the talkative assistant pilot still performs the role of a guide. In one day, he says, the helicopter makes at least 10 flights, transporting building materials to Moonglade. The three-story house is almost ready. No one here hides the fact that it is being built for the president.
Construction, they tell us, is carried out by the Finnish company Konka, but the Turks are the main workers.
We fly up to the excursion object. While the crew is dropping building materials on the ground, we are looking through the hatches at the amazing Moonglade. - This one, - our guide points to a cozy three-story chalet, - is the president's dacha. She is from a pine tree. Logs are specially brought from Karelia. There will be 12 large rooms. The windows in the billiard room overlook the Red Rocks. When the clearing is flooded with moonlight, these rocks burn like flames, it seems that this is a scene from some science fiction movie. Just mystical! At this time, according to legend, you can make wishes and even guess on the shadows! But I think Putin will certainly not guess, - the guide concludes. - Except perhaps his wife or daughter. The guide also told us that Vladimir Kozhin, the head of the president's affairs, and the highest officials of the FSO had come here more than once. The GDP itself has not yet arrived. They say it will arrive when everything is ready. Construction is expected to be completed this winter. ... The helicopter makes a farewell turn over the "secret residence". When the president rides here, you certainly won’t fly over him.
Reference
* "Fisht" in translation from the Adyghe "white head". * Mount Fisht has been considered a bow mountain since ancient times. Until the revolution, pilgrims from all over the world went to her. To this day, local residents, admonishing tourists, say that you need to climb its slopes with with a pure heart, patience, unclouded mind. Otherwise, they say, the mountain will not miss.
* Fisht and its environs are part of the Caucasian State Biosphere Reserve. The nature on its slopes is amazingly beautiful: alpine meadows, glaciers, waterfalls (the height of one of them is 158 meters), bizarre rocks, abyss caves up to 535 meters deep. One and a half kilometers to the west of the summit is the high-altitude lake Khuko, which the ancient Circassians considered sacred.
WHERE ELSE HAVE PUTIN RIDED
In addition to Krasnaya Polyana near Sochi, the president ran in the slopes of: * the Baikal Mountains in Eastern Siberia; * In Belokurikha Altai Territory; * At the Abzakovo ski resort near Magnitogorsk; * Based on Chimbulak in Kazakhstan; * In the Austrian Tyrol, together with Chancellor Wolfgang Schessel. rode in a white cap and red and white overalls - the colors of the national flag of Austria.
Trying to justify the corrupt project, Rinat Gizatullin admitted that the road would not be built to Babuk-Aul, but to Mount Fisht. This is where the Lunnaya Polyana resort is located.
The information disseminated by the Environmental Watch in the North Caucasus about two competitions for the right to conclude a state contract for the design of the road to the "weather station of the Caucasian Reserve", which is going to be built between the village of Solokh-Aul and the cordon of the Babuk-Aul reserve, due to the fact that in reality the purpose of this road is not a mythical weather station, but the Lunnaya Polyana resort, built for Vladimir Putin's vacation, aroused great media interest.
October 10, 2011 Radio Liberty released a program on this topic called “Weather station for Putin?” In which an employee of the Caucasian Reserve Tatyana Akatova spoke negatively about this project and said that the staff of the reserve did not know anything about it. This indirectly confirms that they are not planning for the Caucasian Reserve. to build this road, and that it is completely unnecessary for the needs, goals and objectives of this specially protected natural area.
But the highlight of the show was an interview with Rinat Gizatullin, Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology, who, judging by his knowledge, apparently oversees the project of the road to the “weather station” in the ministry. Gizatullin, who was asked uncomfortable questions about why a non-existent weather station was indicated as the purpose of the construction of the road, and what the Sochi National Park had to do with this construction, moreover given road has nothing to do with its territory, as well as goals and objectives, quickly found something to answer. He acknowledged the existence of inconsistencies, but said that they would soon be eliminated - a weather station, they say, would be built soon - already in 2013, and the Loo forestry, on which they are now planning to build a road, will become part of the Sochi National Park in the future. However, his excuses looked unconvincing and invented on the go.
It was interesting to hear from a high-ranking official the thesis that the Sochi National Park will NOW design (and spend 150 million rubles at the same time) and build on the territory that may sometime become under his jurisdiction. Despite the fact that now the national park has no right to design and build anything on this territory, since its land user is a completely different institution.
It was no less interesting to hear his information about the weather station of the reserve, "which will be built in 2013." However, none of the employees of the scientific department knows anything about such plans. But before building such an object, which is important for observing natural processes on the territory of the reserve, the issue of it must be discussed by the scientific council of the reserve. But there are no decisions of the scientific council on this topic, moreover, the issue of the weather station of the reserve on Mount Fisht was not discussed at the scientific council of the reserve. In addition, before construction, it is necessary not only to make a fundamental decision on the need for such construction, but also to carry out the design of such an object.
However, Rinat Gizatulin, who honestly tried to prove the expediency and validity of the construction of the road, nevertheless let slip in his interview. He said that a weather station would appear in the area of Mount Fisht. Thus, he admitted that it was by no means the Babuk-Aul cordon that was the final point for the construction of the road, that they were really going to build it further - to the Fisht-Oshten mountain range through the virgin forests and alpine meadows of the Caucasian Reserve. In fact, he said that they were going to build the road exactly to Moonglade. Since it is located right there - on the slope of Mount Fisht.
These revelations of his about the construction of a weather station in 2013 and about the fact that it will be on Mount Fisht are worth a lot. The fact is that Moonglade already has a weather station used for the resort's own needs. In the conditions of wide publicity of the fact of the absence of any weather station of the “Caucasian Reserve” in the area where they are going to build the road, this existing weather station is completely easy to “build” in 2013. And arrange it in such a way that it is supposedly a weather station of the Caucasian Reserve. After all, Lunnaya Polyana, which is disguised under the euphonious name of the Biosphere Research Center, was once created at the Caucasian Reserve.
The portal "Russian WikiLeaks" published photos and even posted a VIDEO tour of the VIP resort on Mount Fisht in the Republic of Adygea, which, according to unofficial data, is another "Putin's dacha". The ski resort in Lunnaya Polyana began to be built in 2002.
Formally, construction on the slopes of Mount Fisht is prohibited, since this is the zone of the World Natural Heritage Site "Western Caucasus". To get around the bans, the ski residence was built under the guise of a training ground of the Biosphere scientific center, which should monitor the safety of the nature reserve. Vitaly Shushkevich, partner of Russian WikiLeaks, writes about this in his blog.
The fact that such an object exists on Mount Fisht was discussed even before the publications of "RuLeaks". Tourists walking along hiking trails past the so-called "science center" noted that four fundamental buildings were erected on its territory, including a chalet on a mountain slope, three helipads, communication antennas, a hangar, four snowcats for leveling ski slopes, a garage for them , there are five excavators, small and large cable cars are being built. The area around the object is marked into shooting sectors, according to the forum of the community of natural faith "Slavia".
The experts of the joint mission of UNESCO and IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature), who inspected the "Western Caucasus" in April 2008, in their report made the following recommendation to the Russian government: "To ensure that the Biosphere Center, built on Lunnaya Polyana, will be used only for the management, research and monitoring of a World Heritage property or for informing visitors and will not be converted into a recreational property."
However, as bloggers write, in fact, Lunnaya Polyana is part of the Dagomys health complex, which is under the jurisdiction of the Administration of the President of Russia.
As it becomes clear from their business correspondence, only 400 million rubles were allocated from the federal budget in 2007 for the construction of a highway from the village of Chernigovskoye (Apsheronsky district of the Krasnodar Territory) to the training ground of the Biosphere scientific center.
In addition, in the summer of the same year, a clearing several hundred meters long and about 30 wide meters. The construction of a cable car began in this area.
The volume of cut down forest was so great that it was impossible not to notice it. Criminal case No. 5070431 was opened on the fact of the destruction of the protected forest, and the investigation was carried out by the Department of Internal Affairs of the Maikop District of the Republic of Adygea. The damage was estimated at more than 21 million rubles.
Due to construction errors, Moonglade lost its natural source water
Due to mistakes made in the project and in the course of work, spring water has already disappeared from the local source. As a result, in 2006 before Easter, when Putin decided to fly to Lunnaya Polyana to go skiing, water was brought there by helicopters.
The statement of the International Socio-Ecological Union, published back in September last year on the Sochiweb.ru website, notes that at the end of August 2010, participants in the international environmental camp, descending along tourist route No. 30 from Fisht to Dagomys, observed another Ka- 32 sea water to the VIP resort in Moonglade.
"For more than two hours, with an interval of 10-15 minutes, the helicopter lifted water skins into the mountains on an external sling. Meanwhile, thousands of hectares of forests and dozens settlements throughout the European part of Russia blazed in the fire of fires. There was not enough fire aviation, the fire was extinguished with brooms, shovels and knapsack fire extinguishers," the environmentalists said in a statement.
More than a dozen people died at the VIP construction site
During the construction, there were no human casualties. And all the incidents were related to air crashes. So, in 2003, one of the Ka-23s, transporting a team of welders and gas cylinders to Lunnaya Polyana, crashed into a sheer cliff and crashed. All nine people on board were killed.
In the same year, another Ka-32 had problems, and in order to avoid a plane crash, the crew was forced to make an emergency drop of a cargo weighing 3.5 tons from a height of about 40-50 meters from the ground. By a tragic accident, the cargo landed right on the head of one of the workers.
In September last year, another Ka-32 helicopter crashed near Mount Fisht. According to preliminary data, two people (crew commander and flight mechanic) were killed, one was injured. The helicopter crew carried out work to ensure the life of the center built there.
"We demand from the President Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin not violate the Constitution and laws of the Russian Federation, fulfill the international obligations of the Russian Federation to preserve the World Natural Heritage "Western Caucasus" and transfer to the Caucasian Reserve for the creation of an international Center for Environmental Monitoring of the World Natural Heritage Site "Western Caucasus" recreational the Lunnaya Polyana facility, returning illegally seized lands back to the reserve," the ecologists addressed the leaders of the state.
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