Kizner weapon. Russia has completely destroyed its stockpiles of chemical weapons: TV Center report
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 people - 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 residential building for medical staff, completion of complete gasification of the district center, reconstruction of the village water supply system, improvement of the streets of the village is underway. Kizner. And, of course, the construction of a beautiful Palace of Culture for 500 people with a gym, 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 position
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 water, 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. Dirt has medicinal properties, 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
At 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 agricultural production 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 The Defense of the USSR (GKO USSR) adopted Resolution No. 889 on the formation of a 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 were supplying 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 existing trading base of Kizneragrosnab, right in the carriages; machines and the necessary equipment were also located 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 a large number of wagons with shells for the legendary Katyushas.
The war ended, and life began to return to normal, but artillery shells and mines, both Soviet and foreign made, continued to arrive from the front.
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 artillery ammunition ordinary equipment. 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, equipped 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 for 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 and residents of nearby settlements and the natural environment.
The technology implemented in the design and working documentation received a positive opinion from expert commissions, as well as approval from the international Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), as ensuring 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 industrial 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 safe conduct further operations. At the final stage, the ammunition shells 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 home - Kizner
Command military units Kiznersky district maintains 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, the rapid reaction platoon perform at events on the regional and republican scale (rural sport 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.
In Kizner, Udmurtia, the last drop of chemical warfare agents stored on the territory of our country was destroyed. The complete and safe destruction of chemical weapons by Russia has been officially recorded international organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which issued the relevant certificates.
The liquidation took place at a special industrial facility 1208 safe storage and the destruction of the Kizner chemical weapon. The 96th Arsenal was located here, which was first part of the storage bases of the Main Missile and Artillery Directorate, then the NBC Defense Forces, and from December 1, 2000, the Federal Directorate for the Safe Storage and Destruction of Chemical Weapons.
At the facility, 5.7 thousand tons of toxic substances were stored and subject to destruction - about 14.2% of all chemical weapons stocks in Russia. Of these, 98% were chemical warfare agents with a nerve-paralytic effect, and 2% were vesicants.
The last ammunition - artillery shell, equipped with the chemical warfare agent VX, began the path to its complete disposal in a special well-protected technical room. The whole process could be watched on a large television screen. It was fully automated and took place in the following sequence.
Through the open receiving gate of the deloading unit, the projectile was fed to the position of the opening unit. Next, a hole was drilled into the ammunition body using a special drill. After drilling, the ammunition was moved to a position where a tilting evacuation device was installed on the hole. At this position, the toxic substance was evacuated, for which the ammunition was rotated around its axis with the hole down. The chemical agent from the ammunition was transferred through a pipeline into one of the detoxification reactors. The evacuation operation was carried out due to the vacuum created in these reactors. Upon completion of the drainage of the toxic substance, the ammunition body was returned to initial position, in which it was filled with a degassing reagent.
Immediately after filling the ammunition with the reagent, the housing was again turned with the hole down and, after a short pause, returned to its original position. A similar operation was performed twice, and then, after the next rotation of the housing with the hole down, the contents of the ammunition from the disarming unit were evacuated into the detoxification reactor.
After completing the above operations, the chemical munition is considered unloaded.
Next, the resulting reaction mass is sent through the pipeline for thermal neutralization. The emptied ammunition body goes to the degassing position, followed by thermal neutralization in a heat treatment unit. Subsequently, irreversible deformation of the thermally neutralized body is carried out, after which it will be used as a raw material for metal processing enterprises.
Despite all its apparent simplicity, this process has become Russian know-how - a real breakthrough in the creation of technologies for the safe destruction of chemical weapons. In the United States, they came to a similar method of disinfecting their chemical ammunition much later. And the Americans, according to their own words, will be able to completely eliminate their chemical weapons only by 2023.
A distinctive feature of the domestic technologies used in Russia for the destruction of chemical warfare agents is their two-stage nature. At the first stage, the agent was exposed to a special reagent; if it was a toxic substance of the V-X type, as in this case, then the reagent was added directly to the ammunition. Sarin and soman were mixed with the reagent in a special reactor. After undergoing the neutralization reaction (1-2 months), the reaction masses were removed and subjected to the second stage of detoxification - exposure high temperatures(up to 1200 C). Received in end result dry salts have III - IV hazard classes (like mineral fertilizers or household chemical products). They are stored in hydrophobic containers in specially created and guarded landfills. It was precisely this technology that allowed our country to completely destroy chemical weapons without any serious emergencies before it was done in the United States.
Since the late 1940s, the village of Kizner has housed one of the largest arsenals of chemical weapons. To ensure safety, the shells were stored without fuses and explosive charges in a separate technical area with total area about 600 hectares in above-ground storage facilities, which were equipped technical means security and fire alarms.
In 2007, the Main State Expertise of Russia decided to build an industrial facility for the destruction of chemical munitions in the immediate vicinity of the arsenal and four kilometers from the northeastern outskirts of the regional center - the village of Kizner. It is noteworthy that the industrial facility for the safe destruction of chemical munitions in Kizner was built without foreign aid, at the expense of the state budget. Although, within the framework of international obligations, assistance from various states was provided at a number of other facilities.
On December 19, 2013, the first launch complex of the Kizner chemical weapons storage and destruction facility was put into operation. During testing of the equipment in real environments in December 2013, 1,470 rocket artillery ammunition filled with sarin (4.46 tons of the toxic substance) were destroyed. On April 1, 2014, the facility in the village of Kizner reached its design capacity and began operating as usual around the clock.
On March 25, 2017, the last drop of soman was destroyed at the Kizner facility. On June 13, 2017, sarin destruction was completely completed. The destruction of the most dangerous chemical warfare agents such as VX began on June 19, 2017 and ended on September 27, 2017.
Tens of thousands of people, many scientific, production and construction organizations worked on the destruction of chemical weapons in Russia. However, even with uninterrupted financial support - and there were serious failures - it is unlikely that everything would have worked out for us if it were not for the leader Federal Administration for the safe storage and destruction of chemical weapons, Colonel General Valery Petrovich Kapashin. Everyone who was involved in the process unanimously says that only his amazing leadership talent ensured the coordinated and rhythmic work of the most complex technological chain of chemical weapons destruction. For the entire fifteen years, while the construction of facilities and the industrial destruction of chemical weapons was going on, he practically did not sleep and worked seven days a week. He and the team subordinate to him did the impossible. The Americans, in any case, were unable to do this. Therefore, it would not be an exaggeration to say that Colonel General V.P. Kapashin a real hero Russia.
At Kapashin’s insistence, and this is very important, during the creation and subsequent operation of Russian facilities for the destruction of chemical weapons, security became the main requirement. It was spent up to seventy percent of the allocated funds. As a result, Russian chemical weapons disposal facilities turned out to be one of the safest enterprises, with virtually no pollution. environment- and not only in our country, but throughout the world.
By the beginning of the destruction of chemical weapons on the territory of our country, 40,000 tons of various chemical warfare agents were stored in seven arsenals - from ancient mustard gas to the most modern and poisonous V-X.
The process of destroying chemical weapons stockpiles in our country was divided into four stages.
In April 2003, at the end of the first stage of the federal target program “Destruction of chemical weapons stockpiles in the Russian Federation,” 400 tons of toxic substances were destroyed.
In April 2007, 8,000 tons of chemical agents were destroyed - more than 20% of the reserves, as provided for by the obligations under stage II.
In November 2009 it was implemented Stage III- 18,000 tons of chemical agents were destroyed, or more than 45% of the reserves.
It was planned to complete the fourth stage and completely destroy chemical weapons in our country at the end next year. However, on September 27, 2017 - a year ahead of schedule - IV was successfully completed The final stage Convention obligations, all chemical weapons stockpiles of the Russian Federation were destroyed - 40,000 tons of chemical agents.
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 security. 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 up the results of the great work 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 big 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 have accumulated in Russia industrial waste, we need centers 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, “Gorny”, Saratov region. In order to attract business interest, we are considering transferring these facilities 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.”
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 to 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 deloading line - this is a closed production line under reduced 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 later, and the head of the Federal Directorate for the Safe Storage and 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 all life on Earth several times over.”
"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.
“The Kizner facility, where the last stock of chemical arsenal was destroyed today, we expect to use 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 more companies, which offer various options for their use.
“For the entire period of work, not a single 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 difficult 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 this unique complex(the Kizner chemical weapons destruction facility - ed.) to be used in the economy of Udmurtia, in the economy of the country. There is interest (among investors - ed.). And now we will, with the help of Mikhail Babich and Denis Manturov, negotiate on the further use of the facilities,” Brechalov added.
MOSCOW, September 28. /TASS/. Pharmaceutical and chemical production, the production of gunpowder and propellant charges - such projects are proposed to be implemented by investors at seven special factories where chemical weapons accumulated in Russia were destroyed and the last of which got rid of chemical ammunition the day before.
The last ammunition was destroyed on September 27 at a special facility in the village of Kizner in Udmurtia; the command for destruction was given by Russian President Vladimir Putin via teleconference, who called it a historical event.
“The Russian Federation has accumulated the largest volume - 40 thousand tons of chemical weapons out of 70, and today we completed this work. Symbolically, today’s event coincided with the year the convention on the destruction of chemical weapons and the establishment of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons came into force.” , - this is how the head of the State Commission for chemical disarmament, Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Volga Federal District (VFD) Mikhail Babich.
Destroyed ahead of schedule and without accidents
According to Babich, international obligations ordered Russia to destroy chemical munitions located on its territory by 2020.
"Through the efforts of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia, the Ministry of Defense of Russia, the FSB of Russia, personnel Federal Administration for the Safe Storage and Destruction of Chemical Weapons this task has been completed for three years ahead of schedule, installed international agreements. Of the more than 70 thousand tons of chemical weapons available in the world, 40 thousand tons were in Russia and 28 thousand tons in the United States. However, despite the significantly larger volume of chemical weapons, we completed the work 6 years earlier than our plans American colleagues", Babich said.
According to the press service of the embassy in the Volga Federal District, the federal target program“Destruction of stockpiles of chemical weapons in the Russian Federation” was adopted in 1996, a year later the State Duma approved a convention on the destruction of chemical weapons, and in 2002 the first Russian object on the elimination of chemical weapons - "Gorny" in Saratov region. In 2006-2013 six more special facilities for the destruction of chemical munitions appeared: “Kambarka” and “Kizner” in Udmurtia, “Maradykovsky” in Kirov region, "Leonidovka" in Penza region, "Pike" in Kurgan region and "Pochep" in the Bryansk region.
“All these years, we and the international community have been looking for a solution, and at the time of the creation of these weapons, the technologies did not exist. It is important to note that Russian scientists and Russian engineers created these technologies, created this equipment and trained competent specialists who correspond to to the highest levels in accordance with all safety requirements, both for us and for the environment, they did not allow a single emergency situation and today completed the process of destroying chemical weapons,” Babich said.
He noted that during the entire period of work, no requirements for public safety were violated at any facility; there were no violations in technologies that could lead to serious consequences. “All facilities have the highest safety requirements, and this suggests that all these facilities can be easily involved in economic turnover and used in the future,” he added.
Life around special objects
In the six regions where special facilities for the destruction of chemical weapons were located, other facilities appeared during the implementation of the program - social infrastructure was built within the framework of the same program. According to Babich, 11.5 billion rubles were allocated for this construction, in accordance with the instructions of the Russian President.
“This made it possible to build more than 400 residential buildings, about 20 schools and kindergartens, put into operation 14 hospitals, three sports complex, to lay 160 km of roads, 640 km of gas pipelines, 240 km of water supply networks,” Babich noted.
According to the head of Udmurtia, Alexander Brechalov, the two regions of the republic, where chemical weapons destruction facilities are located, compare favorably with neighboring territories in terms of the development of social infrastructure.
“Of course, this project is unique and will go down in history not only because chemical weapons were destroyed on Russian territory, but, in fact, it gave a new breath to the Kambarsky and Kiznersky districts. You know that significant funds were spent on social infrastructure, roads, gas, water, and the Kiznersky district and Kambarsky district in this sense compare favorably with some territories of Udmurtia. Therefore, it is within our power, we are interested in this, of course, to use this unique complex in the economy of Udmurtia, in the economy of the country.<...>We will now conduct negotiations with the help of Mikhail Babich and Denis Manturov (head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation - TASS note) on the further use of the facilities,” Brechalov said.
Investment proposals
Further use of the facilities is in the hands of investors, from whom proposals are already being received to implement projects based on all seven chemical disarmament facilities. For example, the issue of moving the Kazan Powder Plant to Udmurt village Kizner. As Babich noted, if anything had been violated at these facilities, it would have been impossible to use them.
“One of the options is to move the gunpowder plant from Kazan here (to Kizner - TASS note). Now this plant is located in the center of Kazan, this is not the only option, but the main one<...>This requires additional calculations, additional work is required, and if we manage to do this, then this will be one of the options,” he said.
In any case, it will take time to put objects in order before implementing investment projects. Despite this, Babich says, the popularity of the objects is growing, and companies are offering their business projects. “This includes pharmaceuticals, chemical production, and many other options,” he noted.
“As for the timing of the involvement of objects in the economic flow, each object has its own deadlines. Since this object [Kizner] is the last, it will take about 3-4 more years to eliminate the consequences, to sanitize the territory, to destroy those elements of equipment who participated in the process of destruction of chemical weapons. And from now on, we will simultaneously work to conclude a concession agreement, which will be required in order to hand over this facility to investors on the same day,” Babich said.
Destroyed danger in numbers
As previously reported, the total volume of destroyed chemical weapons stockpiles on the territory of the Russian Federation amounted to 39 thousand 967 tons of toxic substances. In total, 4 million 352 thousand 33 chemical ammunition, 107 large-capacity tanks and 927 containers with toxic substances sarin, soman, vi-x, mustard gas and lewisite. Thus, after the destruction of the last ammunition, Russia fully fulfilled the obligations established Geneva Convention on the prohibition of the development, production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons and on their destruction dated September 3, 1992.
It was also previously reported that in 2018 it is planned to carry out work “on bituminizing the reaction masses and processing industrial waste generated from the destruction of lewisite,” and starting in 2019, work will be carried out to eliminate the consequences of the destruction of chemical weapons. The volume of budget funding for the program is 288.9 billion rubles. Additional source The program was financed by international technical assistance in the amount of 32.37 billion rubles.
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