In the new Zaryadye park, the glass dome and window of the media center were smashed. The people are different. Why you should not believe that Zaryadye was spoiled by visitors What measures are being taken
This was stated by Galina Gordyushina, Director for the Design of Civil Projects of JSC Mosinzhproekt, according to the website of the Moscow City Hall.
“The nature of the damage to one of the triangles of the glass crust indicates that there was some kind of physical impact. The light window on the roof of the Media Center pavilion also cracked. And not because of the fact that they walked or jumped on it - the material can withstand up to 300 kilograms. This clearly happened from a blow with some object, ”said Gordyushina.
The damaged elements are planned to be restored "as soon as possible", but this will not be easy, since the glasses are different and designed using a special technology, Gordyushina noted.
Park director Pavel Trekhleb urged citizens to respect the work of "a huge team of people."
“People worked day and night to make such a gift. And of course, all of us - developers, builders, employees of Zaryadye - are very disappointed to see such a negligent attitude towards both the park facilities and its botanical collection. I would like to appeal to all visitors with a request to be more attentive, to take care of the park, created especially for you,” Trekhleb said.
Recall that Zaryadye Park opened on September 9 to mark the 870th anniversary of Moscow on the site of the Rossiya Hotel, which was demolished in 2006. The area of the park is 130 thousand square meters. meters. It became the first large park created in the capital over the past 50 years, Ekho Moskvy specifies. The construction of the facility cost 14 billion rubles. More about the new park - in
“Until we understand what needs to be protected, not plundered, until we teach to save from childhood, we will not change anything,” State Duma deputy Olga Timofeeva told the VZGLYAD newspaper, commenting on the antics of vandals in the new Zaryadye park near the Kremlin. In a matter of days, 10 thousand plants, including those from the Red Book, were destroyed. The park had to change the mode of operation. What is causing the behavior of the vandals and what countermeasures should be taken?
The Zaryadye Nature and Landscape Park near the Kremlin on September 9, the Day of the celebration of the 870th anniversary of Moscow. The opening was attended by President Vladimir Putin and Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin.
On the eve of the Moscow authorities called the final cost of the construction of facilities "Zaryadye" - 14 billion rubles. Of these, 4 billion went to the improvement of the territory.
10,000 planted plants destroyed in two days
Earlier it became known that in the park, which opened on Monday, several objects and green spaces were vandalized. In just two days, hooligans destroyed about 10,000 plants, Komsomolskaya Pravda reported.
In addition, one of the triangles of the so-called glass bark was damaged, and a light window on the roof of the Media Center pavilion cracked as a result of a “strike with some object”.
The damage caused will require complex and expensive restoration work, which is due to begin on Sunday, September 18.
Upon completion of the restoration work, “small fences will appear that will not allow visitors to enter the planting center,” Igor Safiullin, head of the Zaryadye park’s landscaping and environmental work department, told the VZGLYAD newspaper.
It should be noted that all the actions of the vandals, in theory, should have been recorded - the park is equipped with 364 external and 49 internal video surveillance cameras.
Plants from the Red Book could be mistaken for ordinary weeds
“Unfortunately, a large number of visitors perceive parks as a kind of planting of traditional garden plants, such as roses, peonies, phloxes. But in our park, plants have a natural, natural character,” said Igor Safiullin.
Recall that one of the goals of Zaryadye Park is to create an idea of the natural landscapes of Russia, including plants of various climatic zones. The plants planted in the park “are probably perceived by some visitors as the most common - if not weeds, then as plants that can be found everywhere in the meadow,” Safiullin explained.
“Therefore, these people probably do not attach any importance to such plants and walk right on them,” the interlocutor suggested.
Earlier, Safiullin explained that among the plants pulled out of the ground was marsh marigold, listed in the Red Book of Moscow. Other "Red Book" cultures also suffered - the European bathing suit and the bluehead.
From Zaryadye with loot
But rare plants were not only trampled. “I saw how the plants were pulled out of the soil and lay next to the place where they used to grow,” says Igor Safiullin.
The directorate of Zaryadye reported that some visitors to the park were seen digging up newly planted plants that can be easily pulled out of the ground. They hide in bags and leave, representatives of the park management complained.
“We can create wonderful parks, botanical gardens... But when people just behave like vandals and don’t understand that this is done for them and their children, this raises questions,” the chairman of the State Duma Committee on Ecology and Environmental Protection told VZGLYAD newspaper. Wednesday, co-chairman of the Central Headquarters of the ONF Olga Timofeeva.
She noted that she was deeply indignant at how seedlings collected from all over Russia were taken out of the newly opened park in the city center, which had not even taken root yet.
Psychologists in response to this question suggest that the problem is infantilism, immaturity of thinking.
Such massive vandalism can hardly be explained by the fact that all these people were drunk, Vera Koltsova, deputy director of the Institute of Psychology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, noted in a comment to the Moslent portal. “The destruction of beauty, that is, the absence of any aesthetic needs in a person, is, from the point of view of psychology, a serious deviation from the norm,” the psychologist believes.
“For me, as a person who loves nature, of course, any damaged plant is a personal pain,” says Igor Safiullin.
How to stop vandals
It is clear that the protection of the park should be strengthened, said State Duma deputy Olga Timofeeva. “But this is not a question for the authorities. First of all, this is a question for all of us,” the deputy noted. “You don’t put a policeman on every tree, every sapling.”
Timofeeva recalled that the park is not a specially protected natural area, the park is just a local recreation area. In her opinion, a fine of one hundred, one thousand or ten thousand rubles will not stop people who take out seedlings. They do not think and do not know that such penalties exist, the deputy added.
The question should be raised in education, the interlocutor emphasized. “We can write any laws, introduce any tightening of fines. But we need to get back to changing brains. Until we understand what needs to be protected, not plundered, until we teach to protect from childhood, we will not change anything, ”summed up Timofeeva.
In your opinion
Zaryadye Park survived the attack of vandals - they damaged the glass bark and window of the media center, and trampled the lawn almost a day after the park opened to everyone. Ivan Yakunin figured out how this could happen.
There is a tale among motorists: as soon as a new car leaves the salon, it immediately loses 30% of its value. The same thing happened with Zaryadye Park. As soon as he opened himself to everyone, he suffered losses: the glass dome and the window of the media center were “wounded”, green spaces were also damaged - according to some estimates, the same 30%.
Such incidents are the result of an increase in aggression in society, Vladimir Rimsky, a leading researcher at the Indem Foundation, is convinced. He stressed that, most likely, the violator is the modern Herostratus.
“One of the factors is the difficulty of realizing in life some of their own interests, priorities, in general, the manifestation of independence, self-activity for the vast majority of people. And if people do not have the opportunity, then, unfortunately, they will do it the way they can,” says Rimsky.
The situation is complicated by the fact that the video cameras did not record the vandals. Anton Tsvetkov, Chairman of the Public Security Council of the Russian Officers organization, believes that the park needs to reconsider the work of the security service: “We install a huge number of cameras that no one really watches. Video recordings are used only after something has happened. All over the world, the practice is different - when cameras are set up, professional dispatchers sit and, in the presence of certain offenses, coordinate the work of the security service. Now it is necessary to conduct an additional security audit of the facility, install an additional number of video surveillance cameras, if it is not enough, and assess how the security posts and police units are placed, and adjust.”
And this is not the only incident in Zaryadye. Yesterday, footage appeared on the Web of two BMW X5s standing on the observation deck - black and white. However, no additional protection measures will be taken, Rosgvardia spokesman Valery Gribakin told Kommersant FM: “In our opinion, for all calculations related to security elements, the forces and means involved are quite sufficient. To date, there are 45 posts in the park. Of these, 44 are service around the clock, and one post is 12-hour. There is no cause for concern. In fact, the protection is reliable. Now the question is being studied carefully what happened. And I think that according to the results of the audit, appropriate conclusions will be drawn.”
Users of social networks reacted violently to the incident in Zaryadye. One user suggested that the vandals had a message: "Your park is too good for us."
Zaryadye Park was built for two and a half years on the site of the demolished Rossiya Hotel. In total, 14 billion rubles were spent - three times more than planned.
September 11, 20:07 The Moscow Mayor's Office reported that on the first day of the Zaryadye Park's operation (it was opened to everyone only today), vandals damaged the glass dome and window of the media center. Who exactly and under what conditions did it, is not specified. Galina Gordyushina, a representative of the Mosinzhproekt company controlled by the mayor's office, said that repairs are planned to be carried out as soon as possible.
Every day in the park count the losses:
- Someone threw a stone into the roof - the "glass bark" above the Philharmonic. One of the transparent triangles, from which the "bark" is assembled, is all covered with cracks.
- Floor lamps were broken in front of the entrance to the "Reserved Embassy" pavilion.
- And on the roof of the Media Center pavilion, a light window also cracked because of a thrown stone.
But most of all went to the plants.
“During the three days of work, the load on the park exceeded the design calculations several times,” Igor Safiullin, head of the department for landscape gardening and environmental work at the Zaryadye park, told KP. “Unfortunately, visitors have trampled plants and lawns, especially in the northern landscape. Almost 30 percent of the green cover has been destroyed there. But you can rest on the grass not everywhere, but only in special places"<...>
“Imagine, they dig up plants, hide them in their bags and leave,” Igor Safiullin almost cries. “All the greenery has not yet taken root, it has only recently been planted, so they quickly pull it out of the ground with their hands. This is sedge and marigold listed in the Red Book of Moscow marsh. Both our specialists and the security are doing their best to stop the vandals. But the flow of visitors is so large that it is impossible to keep track of everyone, even with the help of video cameras. We have a crazy rush, a lot of people. And the plants are destroyed in seconds. In the near future time to start restoring the lawns and the northern landscape"<...>
According to the Zaryadye park, about 10,000 new plants will have to be purchased for replacement. In order to somehow save the park, signs "Do not walk on the lawns" have already been placed on the green lawns. In addition, the public address constantly asks visitors not to destroy the park.
Cashin O.
The most disgusting scandal of the week is not Matilda, but Zaryadye.
What happened. There was an odious large-scale construction that they were in a hurry to complete by the City Day, they worked around the clock, they managed it, then they celebrated, and then they announced that the object was damaged, because, you see, the citizens turned out to be not very conscious and in the very first days of the park’s existence, everything in it was broken trampled and stolen. The park administration talks about 10,000 destroyed plants, commentators loyal to the administration tell the press about the vandalism of visitors in detail (“We approached people and asked why they dig up newly planted flowers, and the reaction is very strange: visitors answered: we are taxpayers, we paid for everything , so we have the right"), the entrance to the park is limited, everyone is upset, because the townspeople were not ready to coexist with the newly found masterpiece of park art.
In a good way, this is not an episode from the practice of urban park management or urban studies, this is a completely model situation of relations between the authorities and society, when the authorities, even the smallest ones, are just park managers (but hired by the city government and representing its interests) speak out from enlightened and progressive positions, opposing themselves to the dark and barbaric population.
This perception of relations with society is widespread in the authorities, but speaking about it out loud is considered indecent, because this is objectively very dangerous and slippery logic - despite all Russian authoritarianism, treating the population as wild natives is still considered indecent. Formally, the Russian government serves the people, they are elected and represented by them, and the “enlightened government and the wild people” scheme is appropriate either in the conditions of an absolute monarchy or in conditions of colonization. It is logical that it was the grassroots officials who accused society of savagery - higher-ranking bosses still have basic instincts that do not allow them to be rude to society in the face and openly, although these instincts sometimes fail in the highest nomenklatura (Medvedev with "no money ”, Shuvalov with “this is ridiculous, but people buy small apartments”, etc.).
The statements of the leaders of Zaryadye about 10,000 plants allegedly trampled down and stolen are an act of social rudeness. Park officials, whose real function is to serve citizens and create conditions for citizens for cultural leisure, acted in the spirit that citizens interfere with them: this is how cleaners grumbled at employees and visitors in Soviet institutions - “And they go, and they go!” - and a mop under your feet. For some reason, everyone ignores the most obvious thing: if people become superfluous in a park built for people, then this is a bad park, wrong, and those who built and organized it bear responsibility for its wrongness. They didn’t foresee something and didn’t take something into account, it’s them who should be fired, reprimanded and deprived of bonuses.
It is also worth considering that the long-established reputation of the Russian bureaucracy, and, perhaps, first of all, the Moscow bureaucracy, as well as the directly social group "Moscow gardeners" is such that if these people suddenly declare that something expensive has been damaged, damaged or lost, then the first the reaction of a healthy person to their words can only be doubt. These people are constantly mastering something, spending, writing off and mastering again. If they want society to believe them, they must prove for themselves that this trampled moss existed, that those plants that are said to be dug up and stolen were really planted, and that the broken glass of the unique dome was really not broken during the hasty installation. and really cost exactly as much as was indicated in the estimate. The Moscow landscaper has planted so many things scandalously and controversially that he has no moral right to criticize the townsfolk - he himself must constantly blush and justify himself, and in his every deed, every gesture, every word he must be guided by the fact that he will be very lucky if society believes him .
And this is where questions begin for the public, which - at least in the face of the press and other public commentators - has found zero criticism of the unsubstantiated words of Moscow gardeners. The press calmly broadcasts the words of park officials, experts talk about the complexities of the social contract (“When a city turns into a showcase, stones will soon be thrown at it”), social networks good-naturedly or not very good-naturedly chuckle at the ingenuity of park guests, who now, apparently, will decorate their dachas with stolen botanical rarities. As often happens in the space of Russian social thought, the people here are others, and there are too many people in society who are not ready to consider themselves a people to such an extent that they are more likely to take the side of the gardeners, who in any case do not deserve it. And this is also a model situation - unfortunately, too often in our country it is the enlightened part of society that at a critical moment takes the side of the authorities, for some reason believing that the abstract “people” is more wild and aggressive compared to this government; here the experience of the scandal with Matilda is just useful, when it is the liberal creative intelligentsia that suddenly breaks into the most furiously aggressive rhetoric of the level of “open fire without warning” and “I don’t understand why Poklonskaya cannot be brought to court for statements.”
During several days of the scandal, the press service of Zaryadye already managed to get confused in the testimony - from "we did not expect that certain parts of the visitors would behave incorrectly in relation to the most important part of the park - its landscape" to "the park staff did not see that visitors pulled out and carried plants or flowers from the park with them.” It is really very difficult to blame visitors for the damage to the park - after all, Moscow in this sense is an advanced city, its park and leisure culture is historically developed, and in recent years it has simply flourished, and neither Gorky Park, nor the Aptekarsky Garden, nor VDNKh, nor Sokolniki and Muzeon, which have been experiencing massive influxes of various visitors for several seasons, for some reason do not complain that someone tramples or steals something. A well-organized public space is valuable because it does not allow the inner vandal of the layman to open up, and if we assume that someone really spoiled something in Zaryadye, this is in any case the failure of its administrators, and not the fault of the visitors. The new trendy park was conceived as a symbol of the progress and humanity of a renewed Moscow, but when there is neither progress nor humanity, it is logical that the park, immediately after opening, turns into a monument to officials who treat people like savages and barbarians.
