Kizner chemical weapons destruction facility. The last shell from the chemical weapons arsenals was destroyed in Kizner
KIZNER: Features of the region
Kiznersky district is the youngest in the republic, it is only 70 years old. But these years included a lot of events that the region experienced together with Russia and Udmurtia. Kizner residents helped the front, working in the fields and military factories, using Komsomol vouchers to restore cities destroyed by the war, strengthening their collective farms, building schools, and raising children.
Today, the people of Kizner are proud not only of their glorious past, but also of their good present: modern schools, trading enterprises, high-quality residential buildings, our unique hospital, growing timber processing enterprises.
All this is the merit of the Kizner residents - hardworking, talented, loving their region.
It is very important that further development the existing destruction plant will also help the area chemical weapons. Visible evidence of this is the modern Bemyzh district hospital with a residential building for medical staff, the completion of complete gasification of the regional center, the reconstruction of the village water supply system, and the improvement of the streets of the village is underway. Kizner. And, of course, the construction beautiful palace culture for 500 people with a sports hall, at the final stage the construction of a police department, etc.
Completion of the entire program will give Kizner residents mood, optimism, and new strength for successful work.
Geographical location
The Kiznersky district is located in the southwestern part of Udmurtia, bordering the Kirov region, the Republic of Tatarstan, the Vavozhsky, Mozhginsky and Grakhovsky districts of the Udmurt Republic. The area of the entire territory of the district is 226,455 hectares.
The district center is located in the village. Kizner, which is located on the river. Lyuga is 145 km from the capital of the Udmurt Republic. Through the village Kizner passes railway Kazan-Ekaterinburg. The village is connected to Izhevsk by a road through the village. Bemyzh and Mozhgu.
Kizner - land of living springs
Nature of the area
In the vicinity of Kizner there is a deposit of boron-bromine, hydrogen sulfide, and hydrocarbonate mineral waters. A deposit was discovered in the floodplain of the Lyuga River healing mud. Not far from the swamp, the Bizek spring flows.
The water is healing, low-mineralized, “Zaporozhskaya” type. It can be used for inhalation in the treatment of diseases respiratory system. In the village Kizner drilled wells for hydrogen sulfide, iodine-bromine, medicinal and drinking water.
Currently, the State Healthcare Institution "RBVL" is the only government agency republics where unique natural resources are used healing factors- peat mud and mineral waters, similar in composition to the mud and waters of the resorts of Palanga (Latvia), Kemeri (Lithuania).
The hospital has 65 beds. Every year, about 1,800 patients are treated at RBVL, most of them are residents of rural areas of Udmurtia. Mud has medicinal properties and is used to treat peripheral diseases. nervous system, spine, bones, muscles, joints.
Natural conditions
The Kizner district is located in the southern part of the republic on the border of two zones: forest and forest-steppe. The climate is temperate continental.
The relief of the area is slightly undulating with a configuration of hills and small hill-like elevations, and there are plains.
The soils are quite homogeneous.
Hydrography
Hydrographic network the area is relatively well developed.
Most large river is the Vyatka River, which flows along the western border of the region for 20 km and flows into the Kama. The tributaries of the Vyatka River include the Lyuga, Pyzhmanka, Lubyanka, Yamyshka, Umyak, and Kazanka rivers.
Minerals
Minerals: oil, clay, limestone, peat.
Natural monuments of Kiznersky district
IN different times There were 16 natural monuments in the area.
Currently there are 11 natural monuments.
Farm
The leading industry in the region is agriculture. Currently, 9 agricultural enterprises and 3 peasant farms are engaged in the production of agricultural products in the region.
About 14 enterprises are engaged in production in the region. The largest of them is the fur farm, Kizner flax plant, Reshetnikovskaya oil company, bakery, confectionery factory, etc.
In the structure of the education department of the administration of the municipal municipality "Kiznersky district" there are 14 secondary, 6 basic, 5 primary schools, 22 kindergarten, the House of Children's Creativity, an orphanage, a children's and youth sports school, a music school, and since 1993, the first primary institution opened its doors vocational education- Kizner Vocational School No. 30.
Healthy future
Outpatient and polyclinic care for the population of the Kiznersky district is provided by the Central District Hospital clinic, the Bemyzh district hospital, three medical outpatient clinics, and 27 first-aid posts. Each medical outpatient clinic and local hospital are staffed by doctors, and each has an ambulance. In the clinic of the Central District Hospital, 43 specialists provide assistance in 27 specialties.
The history of the creation of a facility for the storage and destruction of chemical weapons in the village. Kizner of the Udmurt Republic
In November 1941, due to a sharp aggravation of military-political events in the world State Committee Defense of the USSR (GKO USSR) adopted Resolution No. 889 on the formation military base at the Kukmor station of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in order to expand and disperse the network of bases and arsenals that supplied the front with ammunition.
Subsequently, the military base was renamed into a military unit. However, due to insufficient natural camouflage of the object, in November 1942 the State Defense Committee of the USSR decided to relocate the military base from the Kukmor station to the Kizner station of the Udmurt Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, to a forest in the northeast of the village.
Beginning in 1943, construction of the necessary production and production facilities began on the site of a small brick factory. social security. Production departments where assembly was carried out rockets, were originally located on the railway line between the current trading base of Kizneragrosnab, right in the cars, and there were machines and the necessary equipment here.
The two-story building of the district executive committee, which was located on the site of the existing district administration building, housed the base headquarters, a soldier's barracks and a medical unit. The work was carried out day and night. Sent to the front every day large number wagons with shells for the legendary Katyushas.
The war ended, and life began to return to normal, but people continued to receive money from the front. artillery shells and mines of both Soviet and foreign production.
The base continued to perform its functions, including the neutralization (disposal) of unnecessary captured weapons.
Since 1950, the construction of a military camp with all the engineering infrastructure began with the simultaneous accumulation of conventional artillery ammunition. Until 1954, only conventional ammunition for cannon artillery.
Then the first batches of shells filled with toxic substances (CA) such as sarin and lewisite began to arrive. Later, they were supplemented with formulations of OM type soman Vx-gases; currently about 5.6 thousand tons are in storage, which is 14.2% of OM from total number toxic substances to be destroyed.
October 24, 2005 by Government Decree Russian Federation The federal target program “Destruction of chemical weapons stockpiles in the Russian Federation” provides for the construction of a facility for the destruction of all types of barrel and rocket artillery ammunition filled with organophosphorus toxic substances, as well as lewisite, in the village. Kizner of the Udmurt Republic.
In June 2005, the administration of the Kiznersky district signed a declaration on the construction of a facility for the destruction of chemical weapons stockpiles and on the selection of a site for the construction of a facility for the destruction of chemical weapons.
In March 2006, a visit of the British-Canadian delegation to the village took place. Kizner. Familiarization with the conditions of the upcoming construction of a chemical waste disposal facility in order to subsequently consider the issue at the level of their governments financial assistance within the framework of the Global Partnership.
In June in the village. Kizner, Udmurt Republic, public hearings were held on the EIA section of the feasibility study for the construction of a chemical storage facility in the Kizner district.
The Kizner chemical weapons storage and destruction facility is designed for the destruction of artillery chemical munitions filled with organophosphate toxic substances. Two million ammunition containing chemical agents - Vx, sarin, and soman - are subject to destruction.
At the beginning of 2008, in the Kiznersky district, preparatory work to the construction of a facility for the destruction of chemical weapons, and already on May 21, the first pile of the main production building was driven.
The foundations of production and administrative buildings are being laid.
Currently in to the fullest Work is underway on the construction of industrial facilities and the infrastructure of this facility.
Construction of houses and infrastructure to accommodate the facility's operating personnel is underway.
Technology for destruction of chemical agents
Safety is the main condition
One of the main requirements for the destruction of chemical weapons (CW) is to ensure the safety of operating personnel, residents of nearby settlements and the environment.
The technology implemented in the design and working documentation received a positive opinion from expert commissions, as well as approval international organization on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), as providing required level protection of working personnel, local population, as well as the natural environment.
The process of destroying chemical munitions begins with their delivery to production building. Ammunition is delivered in sealed transport and technological containers, in a specially equipped road transport, in compliance with all safety measures required by the legislation of the Russian Federation for the transportation of dangerous goods.
At the first stage, ammunition is checked in production facilities and prepared for destruction.
After operations to prepare the ammunition for destruction, it is moved to the disarming unit, in which the ammunition body is drilled out and the toxic substance is removed.
The extracted toxic substance is transferred to a reactor, in which the detoxification process is carried out to obtain reaction masses. The detoxification process is irreversible and it is impossible to get the toxic substance back. The entire process of chemical neutralization of toxic substances is under strict analytical control, which ensures complete neutralization chemical substance.
The resulting reaction masses are subject to further processing, which consists of their thermal decomposition with a multi-stage gaseous emissions purification system.
After removing the toxic substance, the ammunition is washed repeatedly with a degassing solution, thereby achieving complete degassing. On next stage the ammunition is subjected to heat treatment, during which thermal destruction of toxic substance residues in micropores and in paint coating housing, which guarantees the safe conduct of further operations. At the final stage, the ammunition casings are sent for irreversible deformation, where they are rendered unsuitable for further use.
Technological production regulations provide for careful monitoring of the tightness of flange connections of pipelines and equipment, which ensures the safe conduct of the technological process.
If threshold concentrations of a toxic substance in the air of industrial premises are exceeded, emergency ventilation is automatically switched on and measures are taken to eliminate gas contamination. Gas contamination is constantly monitored by automatic gas monitoring devices, and each shift, air samples are taken in various places in the production area, followed by analysis for the presence of a toxic substance.
Before being released into the atmosphere, the air from the working area passes through carbon filters and is then sent to contact devices for complete cleaning.
This technology, developed by the FSUE GosNIIOKhT Institute, allows, without harming the environment and human health, the destruction of ammunition filled with toxic substances.
Environmental control and monitoring
The main requirement for the destruction of chemical weapons is to ensure the safety of the personnel of the chemical weapons destruction facility, the population living in the protective measures zone of the chemical weapons destruction facility, and the protection of the environment. One of the main elements of ensuring safety at a chemical weapons destruction facility is industrial environmental control and environmental monitoring.
To ensure production environmental control and monitoring at the chemical weapons storage facility has been created and is operating:
- environmental monitoring laboratory (designed to carry out environmental monitoring);
According to data obtained as a result of industrial environmental monitoring of the state of the environment in the area where the chemical weapons storage facility is located, in the Kiznersky district ecological situation remains stable, no cases of exceeding environmental quality standards for specific indicators have been recorded.
Medical monitoring
In the system of government measures aimed at implementing the federal target program “Destruction of chemical weapons stockpiles in the Russian Federation”, an important place is occupied by the issues of preserving and strengthening the health of both the facility personnel and the population living and working in the protective measures zones (PAZs) of storage facilities and the destruction of chemical weapons.
The purpose of monitoring the health of residents is dynamic monitoring of the health status of the population living and working in the ZZM, identification of high-risk groups, organization dispensary observation behind them, carrying out the necessary preventive and rehabilitation measures. An analysis of the health status of the population of the Kiznersky district is carried out by the Federal State Institution "Center for Hygiene and Epidemiology in the Udmurt Republic", FMBA of Russia (Volgograd) and specialists from the Federal State Institution "Children's Clinical Hospital No. 38" FMBA of Russia (Moscow).
Our common house- Kizner
The command of the military units of the Kiznersky district is in constant contact with the region. This is not only mutual understanding with district leaders, but also cooperation and mutual assistance in a variety of directions. So. Conscript Days, which are held in the unit, are traditional. On this day, future conscripts are invited here along with their parents and friends. Excursions are held for them, during which they get acquainted with the life of military personnel and the traditions of the unit. Joint sports competitions between conscripts and employees are also held conscript service, then - a concert in a club.
The military oath is solemnly organized in the units, to which relatives called up to serve in our units come from different regions and republics. For them, there is a display of weapons, military equipment, clothing supplies for military personnel, and theatrical performances about the history of chemical weapons. Relatives are introduced to the living conditions in which their sons will serve and are treated to a soldier's lunch.
On May 9, military personnel are the decoration of the rally and parade. The brass band of military units and the rapid reaction platoon perform at events on a regional and republican scale (rural sports games), Presidential Games, Village Day, etc.)
Military personnel help orphanage, the cadet class of school No. 1, and other organizations in preparing events and solving various problems.
KIZNER (Udmurtia) - September 27, RIA Novosti. The last kilogram of chemical weapons was destroyed in Russia at the Kizner facility in Udmurtia. Thus, Russia has fully fulfilled its obligations under the international Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction.
The small village of Kizner, lost in the picturesque forests of Udmurtia, would hardly ever receive world fame. But on Wednesday, the last kilogram of Russia's once 40,000-ton stockpile of chemical warfare agents was solemnly destroyed. The event attracted the attention of, among other things, foreigners - representatives of the countries participating in the Convention. The destruction ceremony was attended by representatives of the European Union, the USA, and Canada.
No chemical weapons
The command to destroy the country's last stockpiles of chemical weapons was given by President Vladimir Putin during a teleconference with Udmurtia.
The destruction process is fully automated; the destruction of the last stockpiles of chemical weapons occurs without human intervention. Therefore, journalists, along with the rest of the ceremony participants, were able to watch the process from beginning to end on a special screen.
A batch of two artillery chemical ammunition was supplied to the so-called demilitarization line - this is a closed production line located under low blood pressure. Next, each shell was drilled, the toxic substance was evacuated from them, which was sent into the reactor and chemically neutralized. The ammunition itself is then washed twice and baked in an oven at temperatures up to 1000 degrees. After this, the shells were checked for the presence of chemical residues, cooled and prepared for removal.
A few minutes - and the head of the Federal Directorate for safe storage and the destruction of chemical weapons, Colonel General Valery Kapashin reported to the President about the successful completion of the process.
Historical event
“Today we have a very important, one might say, historical event, because today the last chemical munition from the Russian chemical weapons arsenals will be eliminated,” Putin said during a teleconference with Udmurtia.
“Without any unnecessary pathos, we can say that this is indeed a historical event, bearing in mind the huge volume of the arsenal that we inherited from Soviet times,” the president added.
According to him, the arsenal of chemical weapons that Russia once had “could, according to experts, destroy several times all life on Earth.”
"Russia strictly fulfills its international obligations, including in the field of disarmament and non-proliferation of weapons mass destruction. We understand well the dangers and risks that can cause a resumption of the arms race and attempts to break strategic parity", Putin said.
The President noted that Moscow is always open “for meaningful dialogue on issues global security, strengthening confidence-building measures."
“We hope that Russia’s efforts to eliminate chemical weapons will serve as an example for other countries,” he added.
The scale of what is happening was also emphasized by a representative of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), who came to Kizner to witness the liquidation of the last stockpile of chemical weapons in Russia.
Expert on the elimination of chemical weapons in Russia: maybe the US can help us now?OPCW confirmed complete destruction chemical weapons in Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin called the completion of the process historical event. Expert Igor Nikulin, speaking on Sputnik radio, noted that not only Russia has such obligations."It's really historical milestone for Russia, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and everything international community"said Hamid Rao, Deputy Director General of the OPCW Technical Secretariat.
According to him, this joint success is another contribution to strengthening the provisions of the Convention and “is a confirmation of its effectiveness in our common path to the destruction of chemical weapons and our working together for a world free of chemical weapons."
“I’m proud that we completed (the destruction), that we did it three years earlier,” Colonel-General Valery Kapashin, head of the Federal Directorate for the Safe Storage and Destruction of Chemical Weapons, told reporters. “Why did we complete it three years earlier? Work experience and improving technology. At the same time, we saved more than 2 billion rubles."
Power needs to be used
Now it is planned to launch the production of gunpowder at the Kizner facility.
“We expect to use the Kizner facility, where the last stock of chemical arsenal was destroyed today, for the production of gunpowder and explosives. At the same time, we are ready to close the gunpowder plant in the center of Kazan, transferring all these competencies to absolutely new site", the head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov reported to the president immediately after the teleconference with Udmurtia.
According to the presidential envoy in Privolzhsky federal district Mikhail Babich, other options for using the facility’s capacity are being considered.
“It will take about three to four more years to eliminate the consequences of the destruction of chemical weapons: to sanitize the territory, to destroy those elements of equipment that were directly involved in the process of destroying chemical weapons. And in parallel, work will be carried out to prepare investment project, concession agreement, if required,” Babich said.
According to him, the popularity of chemical weapons destruction facilities is now growing, and more and more companies are appearing that offer various options for their use.
"For the entire period of work, not one Russian facility not a single one was allowed emergency situation. Both this facility and the other six have the highest safety requirements. This is also a guarantee that these objects can be involved in economic turnover and used in the future in national economy", Babich said.
He noted that if at least something was violated or did not comply sanitary requirements security, the use of the facilities would become impossible.
"People with unique competencies work here. This (destruction of chemical weapons - ed.) is technological complex process. I really hope that those personnel, those people who work here will develop some new ones in the future economic projects", the head of Udmurtia Alexander Brechalov told reporters.
“We are interested in using this unique complex (the Kizner chemical weapons destruction facility - ed.) in the economy of Udmurtia, in the economy of the country. There is interest (among investors - ed.) And we will now carry it out with the help of Mikhail Babich and Denis Manturov to negotiate on the further use of the facilities,” Brechalov added.
In Russia, the last chemical munition shells were destroyed on Wednesday. Vladimir Putin called this event historic. The world's largest arsenal of toxic substances - 40 thousand tons, which Russia got from Soviet Union- completely eliminated. To accomplish this difficult work In Russia, special enterprises were created and safe technologies were developed.
A historic moment - the last shells filled with chemical warfare agents available in Russia are being loaded. In this case, the lethal filling is VX gas. Has a neuroparalytic effect. Ammunition is loaded onto a conveyor line. The command to begin the destruction of the last batch is given personally by the President of Russia via video link, reports.
The process of destroying chemical weapons is almost completely automated. In a sealed reactor, the projectile is drilled and a poisonous substance is pumped out using a vacuum, which is mixed with special reagents. The result is a substance no more dangerous than dishwashing detergent.
Object 1208 in Udmurt Kizner was last place storage and destruction of chemical weapons. There were more than five and a half thousand tons of chemical warfare agents - sarin, soman, lewisite, XV. On Wednesday, it all became history.
In 1993, a convention was signed banning the development, production, stockpiling, use and destruction of chemical weapons. Russia ratified it and pledged to destroy its stockpiles of more than forty thousand tons of toxic substances by 2020. We got it done much faster.
“We hope that Russia’s efforts to eliminate chemical weapons will serve as an example for other countries. As is known, the largest holders and owners of chemical weapons were Russia - and still are the United States, which, unfortunately, does not fulfill its obligations on the deadlines for the destruction of chemical weapons have already been postponed three times, including under the pretext of the lack of sufficient, required quantity budget financial resources“Which, frankly speaking, sounds a little strange,” Putin said.
In the United States of America, destruction technology is based on conventional incineration, which inevitably causes damage environment. In addition, the United States does not have the required number of enterprises. Ammunition and chemical weapons are stored in warehouses. Leaks of toxic substances occur constantly.
During the entire period of operation, no emergency situation occurred at any Russian facility. Not just an emergency situation, but not a single requirement for the safety of the population or environmental safety was violated.
At the Kizner facility, where a twenty-year chemical weapons disposal program begins new stage— the plant is being prepared for new production. The entire reorganization process will take no less three years, but the search for investors and projects that can reboot these unique objects, has already begun. The President of the country was reported about this. Vladimir Putin summed up the results of the chemical munitions elimination program via teleconference.
Oksana Khudyakova, correspondent: “Exactly 20 years ago, Russia ratified the chemical disarmament convention, and this directly affected the village of Kizner; more than 14 percent of all Russian stocks of toxic substances were stored here, which is over 5.5 thousand tons, packed in two million shells.”
Enter the site only with a gas mask. For safety reasons. Even on the last day of disposal. The largest shells loaded with toxic substances were also stored at the Kizner arsenal. All samples are now on display.
Just 20 years ago, Russian chemical weapons reserves were the largest in the world. 40 thousand tons of toxic substances were stored in seven arsenals. Two of them are on the territory of Udmurtia. The Kambarsky facility completed its disposal several years ago. The plant in Kizner was the last.
A few minutes, and Russia will say goodbye to chemical weapons forever. The moment, without exaggeration, is historic, the President notes. The Head of State watched the process of disposal of the last batch of ammunition via teleconference. And then he summed it up great job completed ahead of schedule. This allowed us to save almost two billion rubles.
Vladimir Putin, President of Russia: “I would like to note that our country, despite the fact that it planned to complete this work by 2020, is completing it ahead of schedule in the current year, 2017. This great success, this is the result of a large, complex, responsible work of large teams of scientists, workers, engineers who worked at enterprises specially created to solve this problem.”
Each of the seven facilities are unique production sites that need to find new uses. They are already working on this - there are options for Kambarka - more than 400 thousand tons of industrial waste have accumulated in Russia, centers are needed for their processing. The head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade reports to the President.
Denis Manturov, Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation: “We plan to involve in the creation of interregional centers for neutralization hazardous waste, in particular, “Kambarka” in Udmurtia, “Mountain”, Saratov region. In order to attract business interest, we are considering transferring these objects into concession.”
A new use for the plant in Kizner is also being sought.
Mikhail Babich, plenipotentiary representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Volga Federal District: “One of the options for using the facilities is to move the gunpowder plant here from Kazan. Today this plant is located in the center of Kazan. This is not the only option, but it is the main one that is being considered.”
Alexander Brechalov, Head of Udmurtia: “The project is unique, not only because chemical weapons were destroyed on Russian territory, but it also gave new breath to the Kambarsky and Kiznersky districts, you know that significant funds were allocated and spent on social infrastructure - roads, gas, water. Therefore, it is in our power, and we are interested in this, to use these unique complexes in the economy of Udmurtia, in the economy of the country.”
Does Kizner have a future?
Preface
As a lawyer, residents of the village of Kizner often contact me with questions about benefits and compensation under the program “Destruction of chemical weapons stockpiles in the Russian Federation,” which were previously provided for those living within the village.
From April 2004 to the present, I have been providing assistance in obtaining compensation for claims of workers and military personnel of the military unit. In this regard, voluminous correspondence with Federal and Republican authorities has been accumulated, existing publications on this issue in the media, on Internet sites, etc. have been analyzed. (President of the Russian Federation, Government of the Russian Federation, Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation, President of the Udmurt Republic, Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Smirnova S.K., Labor Committee of the Udmurt Republic, Deputy Head Federal agency for industry V.I. Kholstov, Head of the Federal Office for the Safe Storage and Destruction of Chemical Weapons V.P. Kapashin, Administration of the Municipal District "Kiznersky District", military unit 55498, etc.)
It is difficult to count on any fundamental changes, and I am not calling for any dispute since, apparently, no one cares about Kizner's future.
It’s just that in 7-10 years we will be asked for everything, and again we will make surprised eyes and look for those to blame, but as always, there won’t be any. There will be no heads of administration, public advisers, etc. in place at that time.
They may ask, where have you been before? It’s just that no one officially needs these problems.
After all, everything seems to be good and wonderful. Gas masks have been distributed, lectures have been read, films have been shown, RDKs are being built, the streets of the village are being plowed for the hundredth time, etc.
Nobody is interested in objective coverage of the process.
And if this, my (fifth since 2004) article sees the light, then we will assume that someone is interested in the problems. I ask those who disagree with me to save this article and come back with it in 8 years.
I will be happy if I earn insults for insincerity and delusions about a bright future.
In one of the answers to a question from a newspaper reader, “ New life» Bystrovoy in 2005, director information center All-Russian Green Cross V.P. Kudoyar reports: “The Resolution of the Russian Federation on the types of benefits, the amount of compensation and the procedure for providing them to the population has not yet been adopted. This project was considered at a meeting of the Committee of Public Advisors on the problem of safe storage under the head of the administration and sent to the Government of Udmurtia with its comments and additions. Let's hope that in the near future it will be adopted by the Government of the Russian Federation."
In issue 3 of the Ecological newspaper of the Kizner district of the UR, under the headings “Conversation in Kos and at the board”, it was written “now the district is waiting for a government decree that would finally name all the numbers and deadlines and would allow the construction of social facilities to continue.”
I declare with full responsibility that there have been no such Decrees of the Government of the Russian Federation, are not in the draft and never will be, which I will explain below. I would be very glad to be wrong and would be grateful to anyone who can provide the text of the Resolutions.
By Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of March 21, 1996 N 305, the Federal Target Program “Destruction of Chemical Weapons Stockpiles in the Russian Federation” was approved. It sets out the List of chemical weapons storage sites: Kambarka (15.9% of toxic substances), Kizner (14 .2%), village. Gorny, Saratov region (2.9%), village. Maradykovsky Kirov region(17.4%), Pochep, Bryansk region (18.8%), pos. Leonidovka Penza region(17.2%) Shchuchye, Kurgan region (13.6%).
Section 3 of this Program provided for the construction of facilities for the destruction of chemical weapons, demilitarization and detoxification aviation ammunition in the village Gorny, Kambarka. Shchuchye, village. Maradykovsky, Pochep. Start of operation of the facilities - 2005-2006, completion - 2011.
Transportation was provided to in the prescribed manner chemical ammunition of barrel and rocket artillery to the chemical weapons destruction facility in Shchuchye and their destruction until 2012. The destruction of all stockpiles of chemical weapons was planned until 2012.
Thus, it was not initially planned to allocate funds for the construction of a plant in the Kiznersky district.
The problem that suddenly arose (due to difficulties in connection with transportation, including the reluctance of the regions to allow the Kizner “muck” to pass through their territory) required additional funds.
They were partially achieved due to savings on citizens, including residents of our village, namely:
The State Duma of the Russian Federation of the 2004 model “pleased” us with the following changes to the Law: Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ introduced the following changes to the Federal Law of the Russian Federation of November 7, 2000 N 136-FZ "O social protection citizens engaged in work with chemical weapons."
By the way, this is the same notorious Law “On Monetization”, which at once, at the instigation of the Party in power, eliminated almost all benefits. Remember the indignation of pensioners at that time?
Let's compare the benefits of these changes.
In the old version of Article 17 of the Law (Right of citizens to receive social benefits and compensation) was: “Citizens permanently or predominantly residing in zones of protective measures have the right to receive social benefits and compensation.” IN new edition This article of the law...disappeared?! (“Federal Law of August 22, 2004 N 122-FZ, Article 17 of this Federal Law declared invalid as of January 1, 2005.”
In the old version of Article 4 of the Law (Main directions of work on the storage, transportation and destruction of chemical weapons) there was “accelerating development of social infrastructure in areas of destruction of chemical weapons. In the new edition, the word “advanced” has disappeared.
Thus, our bright hopes were put to rest. As in the song “First of all, first of all, airplanes (i.e., “object”, and girls (i.e., social objects)..."
I believe that the List of objects created in the village. Kizner, within the framework of the Program, initially does not take into account all the interests of the residents of the village. Kizner is still unclear what adjustments are being made.
Who benefits from the construction of this monster-RDK in a village where enterprises are closing and in the future only the costs of its maintenance will make a noticeable hole in the frail budget of the village and district. It is beneficial for Mozhginsky residents who received a profitable paid facility and take their salary, and with it taxes, to the Mozhginsky district.
Yes, a miracle happened and our Kizner turned from an urban settlement into a rural settlement.
However, in rural settlements construction and operation are not provided apartment buildings, of which we have plenty in Kizner. In rural settlements, the construction of multi-apartment buildings is allowed only if there are and allocated personal plots for all apartment owners in the area adjacent to the house.
However, now Kizner is neither a city with all communications nor a village with subsidiary farming for every resident. While we are rejoicing, electricity has become cheaper. Problems will begin in 2-3 years, when the land inventory finally begins. Then half of the staff of the village Administration and the Land Committee will either undergo treatment for nervous stress or sit in the courts on land disputes.
In connection with the further transformation of Kizner into a village, apartment buildings (and with them all communications of the village) are expected to slowly deteriorate and collapse.
The central roads, which will be patched up during the commissioning of the project and before its closure, will again acquire their original appearance.
Currently, a significant number of village residents are working at the site, and they still receive good (by our standards) wages.
In this regard, entrepreneurship and trade are developing somewhat well, new buildings are appearing, and the center of the village is being improved. Currently, only the region's entrepreneurs are ready to accept and serve the large army of visiting workers. They will have a place to relax, drink and eat.
In 5-7 years, village residents working at the site will join the large army of unemployed. By then there will be virtually no production left. This army will be partly replenished by those who work in commerce, since this type of activity will decline due to sharp decline consumer demand.
Problems will begin later, namely: a sharp complication of the crime situation (remember the 80s, the “gas workers”?). In 2008, the life of the village of Kizner will host major changes. Because construction of the plant will begin this year, and an additional 4 thousand people will come to Kizner for the construction of the facility itself and then its subsequent maintenance.
The load on the central district hospital and baths will increase sharply (remember southern part village).
I think that it would be more reasonable to build “smaller” objects in Kizner with the involvement of our workforce, for example: a recreation park in the center, a good gym, a building for the cultural department (where there is a method center, a library, a house of creativity), etc.
Probably, the Kizners would have erected a monument to the head of the administration who would have left behind a normal pond. For a village, a pond is an environment, a place of recreation, safety during floods, etc. I wonder how much money was spent on the latest construction of the pond and who is still ready to bear responsibility for this money buried in the ground. However, as always, everyone beat the drums only when this money began to be buried. Most likely, the RDK will have many parents, and the pond will remain an orphan.
The construction of these optimal and necessary facilities could be beneficial in that it would provide work to Kizner organizations and jobs in the area, while wages would remain in our stores.
Of course, it’s too late to change anything radically, but the Kiznerites must be vigilant in order to completely take their share of the sheep called “chemical disarmament.”
For public advisers under the Administration, it would be a good idea to create public association for the rights of the Kizner residents (naturally, within the framework of the Law).
Kizner himself becomes like a drug addict who, gradually, with the help of soft drugs (promises), will soon become addicted to “chemistry.”
Due to the location of a closed facility on its territory, the area was practically closed, did not develop and is now gradually dying. And if we only rely on the Program, then in 10 years there will remain in Kizner: new RDK, ROVD and a number of administrative institutions and several new CSOs.
Young people are already gradually being forced out of the village and in the future our Kizner is a settlement of pensioners and the unemployed, without any prospects.
Emergency destruction of ammunition was carried out and is carried out constantly.
I believe that a full examination of the people who worked in the military unit in the 70s and 80s should be carried out. Based on this, it was possible to draw conclusions for others about what awaits them in the future.
Is anyone ready to speak confidently about the prospects for the development of the village for the next 10-15 years, or will we leave these problems to other leaders and our children?
Residents of Kizner must understand that waiting for some kind of benefits for everyone is, according to at least, naively.
What are we talking about, if even the workers of the facility (military unit 55498), including those who work daily closed area come into contact with chemical munitions at work, directly risking their health, and have difficulty obtaining legal benefits through numerous lawsuits? According to this judicial practice it was possible to open not only a “lawyer’s corner” in the newspaper, but an entire “square.”
I fully support V. Kuznetsov’s position in the article “What if you invest in industry?” (district newspaper). There would be more such people as public advisers to the District Administration.
A similar situation occurred at a facility in the mountains. Shchuch'ye, Kurgan region.
However, residents there have long since woken up and are really posing problems to the authorities. At least they attract more attention than we do.
In support, I will cite excerpts from the article “The Shchuchansky Cauldron” (Irina Kuznetsova, “Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Kurgan-Shchuchye, “ Russian newspaper"-Ural No. 4255 dated December 22, 2006).
“The latest news about the visit of representatives of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation to the city of Shchuchye spread throughout the Kurgan region. It was not possible to find out who exactly called the auditors to Shchuchye. The regional governor claims that the verification request was not sent to Moscow from his department. Representatives of local authorities also throw up their hands in bewilderment and assume that the initiative broke through from below: they say, there were townspeople who made a mess with the inspection.
The cauldron of emotions was seething on a particularly large scale in the fall this year, when the Presnensky Court of Moscow held hearings on the claim of 96 residents of the Shchuchansky district, accusing them of violating their rights big company: Government of the Russian Federation, a number of federal departments and local authorities. One of the residents' complaints is large-scale construction in their town. Say, responsible for the construction of the facility Federal Administration on the safe storage and destruction of chemical weapons, they promised the Shchuchan people a lot of things, but under the guise of arrangement they caused destruction.
Deal with court decision it took a long time. But, as life has shown, it is much more effective to solve problems of improvement not in the department of Themis: the problems in the regional city were created not by “uncles” from Moscow, but local authorities, which still do not have any well-thought-out unified development program for Shchuchye. Let’s dwell only on the “thorny” issues. The diagnosis of Shchuchy's diseases was immediately made by Governor Oleg Bogomolov: heat, water supply, gas, sewerage and landscaping. The representative of the customer, Deputy Head of the Federal Agency for Industry, Viktor Kholstov, who was present at the meeting, also agreed with the head of the region.
But Kholstov proposed to treat diseases in a new way: to develop a list of priority social infrastructure objects, the volumes and timing of work at the end of this year and throughout next year. The exact amount remaining for social projects is known - 250 million rubles, therefore we need a unified program for customers and authorities at all levels for using them with maximum effect for the population.
The most pressing issue discussed at the meeting was the creation of a sewer system. Shchuchye still lives, flushing all the sewage into cesspools. The project for the new city sewer system did not involve any fundamental changes. It was planned to create more pits for collecting sewage and transport all the ambergris to the Hummocky Swamp. The program includes 35 million rubles for this dirt road. But when the designers created such a project, the supervisory services refused to approve it.
The rationale is simple: nature cannot withstand such mud runoff. Emissions into the swamp increase several times, which threatens the existence of a nearby lake. And to create a protective system it is necessary to invest approximately another 140 million rubles. The city found itself in a dirty trap, from which Governor Bogomolov offered only one way out: “If we fundamentally cannot solve the sewerage issue, we will now cross out this point and will not talk about it. If we act differently, we will bury 40 million and solve nothing. Neither from the point of view of the future, nor from the point of view of the present. We'll put some kind of lotion on it. If, having developed and adopted the general plan for Shchuchy, we see the need to maintain a central sewer and build normal treatment facilities, we can calculate how much it will cost. With numbers and arguments in hand, we can turn to the president to increase the limits on social amenities, but for a specific project. They say that the city has been built, everything necessary for civilized life has been created, but there is no sewerage system, and we are asking for full-scale additional funding for centralized sewerage with treatment facilities. I think then we can convince everyone.”
Even from this excerpt it is clear that it depends only on the residents themselves whether we will find ourselves broke in 10 years or not.
In December 2005 in the city of Shchuchye ( Kurgan region) and in January 2006 in the city of Kambarka (Republic of Udmurtia) the analytical department of the information center ITAR-TASS /TASS-Ural/ carried out sociological research, during which they studied the problems associated with the storage of chemical weapons near the city, as well as the construction of a plant for the processing and disposal of chemical waste.
According to the results of these studies, the majority of residents of both settlements are ready to leave the city if such an opportunity arises. These are mainly young people with relatively high level education. 75% of Shchuchan residents would leave the city at the first opportunity.
What if we conduct a similar survey in Kizner?
Retired lieutenant colonel, lawyer: ____________ Kurenkov N.L.