I just yesterday returned from a trip route Chelyabinsk – Naberezhnye Chelny – Kazan – Nizhny Novgorod – Cheboksary -Elabuga. Almost 3000 km on the car. Smoke began just behind Naberezhnye Chelny. At first it was very difficult to breathe, but the next day we got accustomed to this smoke and almost did not notice it. On the way back the smoke has got to Ufa. Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan were also in the smoke, the sun was not visible. Day temperature was up to 42 degrees, night temperature were dropping to 30. In Nizhny Novgorod, there was no rain from June 25, in Cheboksary, the church arranged the procession to ask for rain. Fields are of yellow colour, wheat is nearly all burnt out (not from the fire, but from the sun), the harvest will not be.
The problem is not so much in a shortage of vehicles, but in the absence of roads. Federal Highway M7 is in the smoke. What about rural roads, the villages were burnt out until fire-fighters arrival. In Nizhny Novgorod we were told of how one village was burnt for 20 minutes, 350 houses, the fire spread through the lake width of 200 m. No wind, stuffy, and when a fire starts, strong air flows occur because of the temperature difference, such a fiery cyclone, and it is very difficult to extinguish the fire. A fiery wind “blows” from the epicentre of the fire, burning embers scatter in all directions.
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Newspaper “News of laser technologies” № 35, February 2010
Myths and Reality
1. “No money.”
As for the gross regional income per capita and many other economic indicators Chelyabinsk takes the lead over Ufa, Cheboksary, Khanty-Mansiysk and many other Russian cities in which the problem of waste collection and waste disposal is solved more successfully than in Chelyabinsk.
2. “Our people are not accustomed to sort trash”.
Of course, not accustomed. Nobody teaches them: there is no social advertising, and mass media remains shamefully silent about this subject, and the system of penalties for unsorted garbage collection is not provided.
In Magnitogorsk, for example, has begun an experiment on separate waste collection.
3. “Our people will never keep order and divide garbage onto different containers! They even can not open the cover of a container that is why containers without lids are set!”
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| Chelaybinsk containers |
Photos by Marina Volkova and Anatoly Baskakov Continue reading ‘Why containers in Chelyabinsk are so terrible?’
In early July, garbage cars, filled with household waste of town Argayash ( Chelyabinsk region, Russia) lined up on Lenin Square in front of the administration of Argayash municipal district. In this way, workers of the public utilities have publicly demonstrated to the district administration that there is no place to take out a waste and recalled that the organization of a special area for domestic waste is the responsibility of the district authorities.
Since 70´s of the last century quarry has been used in Argayash , but now that quarry is in the place where the construction of new homes takes place. Continue reading ‘Protest in Argayash, july 2009′
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