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Daria Dubrovskikh

Special Correspondent

This year my child is going to first grade. We chose the school not at the place of registration, and therefore, until recently, I was sitting on pins and needles. I've heard of other parents queuing up at 5am or paying certain amounts of money to get enrolled.

Usually the rules for admission to the first grade in all schools are the same. From February 1 to September 5, the admission of children living in the assigned territory continues. From July 1, you can apply for enrollment outside the child's place of residence. However, the school may refuse admission due to lack of available places.

According to the city Committee for Education, about 16,000 children will be first-graders in Chelyabinsk this year (in the past, there were slightly fewer). To date, about ten thousand children have already been enrolled in the first classes.

Parents who have chosen a school that is not registered, as a rule, are still waiting. Only some school directors, in order to relieve the hype, begin to accept applications, regardless of the place of registration, already in May, notifying about this on the websites of educational institutions in advance.

“We continue to accept registration, but due to the fact that the main flow of applications has already ended, on May 10 we began accepting children who are not assigned to our territory,” says the director of one of the Chelyabinsk schools. - The most important thing in this case is to inform parents in time. A week later, we posted an announcement on the school website, and parents began to take places in a live queue. This year, as in the past, we are enrolling the first four classes - one hundred children. 53 registered, 47 unfixed.

According to the director, on the very first day of accepting applications, May 10, parents began to queue up early in the morning, and according to the security guard, the first parent of the future first-grader was seen at five o'clock in the morning.

As for my story, I insured, if you can call it that, the admission of my child to the chosen school. At the beginning of the school year, in October, I enrolled my son there for the courses of a future first-grader. I must say that the school management immediately warned me and dozens of those who wished that preschool classes did not provide any benefits for admission. However, I felt more relaxed that way. Once a week on Saturdays, my child studied logic, writing, mathematics, literacy and English. And also - which, in my opinion, is important - I got used to the walls of the school, I simply found out where the toilet was. In the case of enrollment, on September 1, he will see the familiar faces of teachers and classmates.

When, on February 1, all mothers I knew began to apply electronically for enrollment in the first grade through the public services portal, I began to feel out of work. I thought: what kind of injustice, why should I be nervous, wait until the middle of summer? Submitting an application meant automatically getting into the school that I have questions about the quality of education.

But I was lucky - I didn't have to wait until summer. At the beginning of May, at the last lesson of preschool children, almost all parents received the long-awaited passwords and appearances. All that was left was to arrive at the appointed day and time. So, without nerves and queues, the entire procedure for submitting documents and enrollment took me 15 minutes. Which is what I wish for everyone.

Well, if someone still fails to get into the institution they like, the first-grader will still be expected at the school at the place of residence. The city education committee assures that the children who should go to school this year will not be left without a place at the desk.

Ksenia Shumina

Deputy Chief Editor

At the age of 15, I cried for a long time - because I found out that it takes five years to study at the university. Five years, Carl! Then I did not know yet that I would be fabulously lucky and I would spend this time not in vain. Unlike many, many.

Five years - in adolescence, this period seemed unrealistically long in order to get some kind of higher education, but quite enough to earn money, fall in love and drive off to other cities. How could the scenario of later life be different when you are a teenager and believe in yourself? And then - such a bummer: five years of writing, cramming and passing exams. With the prospect of leaving the university with some kind of crust and smile of a cheerful idiot who has no idea who he wants to become.

As a result, I was fabulously lucky, everything turned out more than successfully - I really liked studying at the philological faculty, student life in general turned out to be wonderful, and as a bonus I also received a higher education, which I use every day. A diploma that has the most direct bearing on how I make money.

I never worried about whether my diploma would be red or blue. I didn’t worry so much that when in the last year a proposal came from the dean’s office to retake the only three and get the crusts of an excellent student, I replied: “Thank you, I have a lot of work.”

I really had a lot of work, and from the fourth year, in which I switched to the correspondence department. I switched, rightly judging that endless pedagogies and teaching methods are unlikely to be useful to me, and the remaining course in modern Russian can be easily completed remotely - fortunately, the peda has always had an excellent department. Subsequently, this decision did not affect my professional life in any way, the continuous experience of which begins from the fourth year.

A scattering of my classmates with diplomas from the philological faculty of the Pedagogical University work in areas that do not require in-depth knowledge of the Russian language, let alone literature. Some of them managed to make a career, some did not, but the point is not that, but that these five years were not for the profession, but for the crust.

I had an excellent quality of education. Moreover, I was lucky to grab it for free. Not all of my classmates were so lucky. At the beginning of the 2000s, incomprehensible universities, having received state accreditation, handed out poorly structured knowledge and vague diplomas right and left. For money, of course. Not bad. Since then, there has been a certain cleaning of the market, but still there are still enough universities that teach everything and nothing.

The situation in the region is close to catastrophic. More than 260 fires on an area of ​​more than 3,000 hectares have already had to be extinguished, according to the regional Forest Department. And on holidays, this figure can still jump, as "patriotic Chelyabinsk residents" will go to the forests. Prohibitions are unimportant to us, and if something happens, then someone else will be to blame again.

The coming "Victory Day" did not smell like gunpowder, but it carries a mile away. So “versts, charred, in the dust” are more relevant today than ever, with only one difference - we harm ourselves. "Victory Day" over common sense.

I wanted to say thank you that we are approaching the upcoming celebration at least without human casualties. But at the time of writing, news came: in the Etkul district, a local teenager decided to burn garbage. Because of the wind, the fire instantly spread to the buildings - the house flared up in a matter of minutes. Neighbors ran to the fire, but the women and the two-year-old child could not be saved...

I am starting a compilation of materials on the sensational (and continuously noisy for the last year) Tominsky GOK - a mining and processing plant, the construction of which causes so many scandals.

Note #1:

Briefly, this is the schedule.
1) The ecology in the city is nowhere worse, the number of children's pathologies is extremely high (due to industrial pollution), so new sources of pollution are perceived extremely nervously.
2) TOGOK is going to be built near the Shershnevsky Reservoir (the only source of water for Che)
3) In addition to copper, there is also gold, which will be extracted with cyanides
4) It is extremely probable that the heavy metal contamination of aquifers and Shersh reservoirs
5) There are no illusions about the observance of RCC environmental standards (an example is Karabash in their ownership).
6) The conflict exposed a distinct split between the Vikings (RMK + governor) and the locals, who have businesses here that will close and real estate, which will fall in price.
7) Ordinary people are also very excited, because their only asset is real estate, which will dramatically fall in price (see Karabash - 3-room apartment 300 sput).
8) In the context of the ongoing systemic crisis, agriculture is a real help for many, and when TOGOK starts, self-sufficiency is impossible (well, if you are not a fan of chemistry).

An example of a correct letter, still comparative statistics in support of the conclusions of paragraph 1. But this is not the first time I hear about proximity to the reservoir.

Note #2:

Read the stop GOK VK group. The arguments are reasonable, the object of the 1st class of danger is 12 km from the borders of the city, about 20-30 km to the center.

Well, to imagine what it is. GOK is not just a small harmless factory, it is such happiness:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNWHru2NRDk

On the other hand, the movement flirts with various parties, because any support is needed. The rallies were held with the support of the communists, and the apple and PARNAS also shone. The movement is purely from the bottom, so they could not offer any money, xs who wrote to you in a personal against the GOK for loot to write.

The confrontation is not only in the form of rallies. RMK periodically loses quite important courts in GOK, for example:

Rubric scandals-intrigues-investigations:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThSGxwSf6Ec(rented a room in a hotel in order to arrange a meeting of the group, they came, people were turned away already for paid, a scandal)
- How people were not allowed to attend hearings on the construction of a road for the Mining and Processing Plant: https://vk.com/wall-56308476_94398

Well, the crown for finishing off. One GOK in the region at RCC is already unprofitable, it does not pay taxes. Those. even the thesis about the economy and jobs (of which there will be 500-1000 at most) does not work:

Excellent letter. A lot of specifics on the links provided, for example:

10 km from the line of Chelyabinsk, near the village. Tominsky so-called. "Russian Copper Company", without taking into account the opinion of Chelyabinsk residents, decided to build a mining and processing plant. There is a great danger of air, soil and water pollution. Copper will be released from the rocks with the help of sulfuric acid - and these are acid tailings, evaporation, and runoff, which can also enter the Shershnevskoye reservoir - the main source of water.

So I understand that no one plans to resettle either Pervomaisky or Korkino with tens of thousands of inhabitants, as well as other settlements. Accordingly, they will have to live next to this:


Examples of problems with existing tailings: http://cher-chel.livejournal.com/3876.html

Based on the data on the official website of the RCC for Tominsky GOK, the production process includes hydrometallurgy. In turn, hydrometallurgy includes the leaching method.

Leaching. This is a hydrometallurgical method for processing some copper ores. By leaching with sulfuric acid, a solution of copper sulfate is obtained from the ground oxide ore. SULPHURIC ACID. It is she who will be used to extract copper.

Mining capacity up to 28 million tons of ore per year. This means that about 1.5-2 million tons of enriched concentrate will be irrigated with sulfuric acid. Sulfuric acid itself will require up to a million tons, if not more. The reaction will produce millions of tons of sulphides, which will go to open-air storage. Solutions of these sulphides, being in the tailing dump, will gradually penetrate into the groundwater and seep through the dam, spreading further. After 10-20 years, there will remain a huge acid vat of poison for many decades. If there is a breakthrough of the tailings, then all this, with a high degree of probability, will fall into the Hornets (reservoir).

An example of an "acid vat" in Karabakh: http://cher-chel.livejournal.com/136750.html

Note #3

Sergey, I explain the situation. Officially, Tomgok has nothing to do with Chelyabinsk at all. Since it is supposed to be in the Sosnovsky district. Those. formally, the opinion of Chelyabinsk residents can be put big and fat (which is done). Please note that public hearings were held in Dolgoderevenskoye. Well, you can look on the map, where is Tomino, where is Dolgoderevenskoye, and where is Chelyabinsk, and, most importantly, where is the Shershnevskoye reservoir, from which water is taken. You will see a lot of very interesting things. And in this regard, I personally did not even laugh at the opinion of SUSU scientists, but wept bitterly.
As for the town - yes, wages will rise. Only all of them will be immediately taken to the nearest pharmacies and hospitals.

Sergey, this must be seen, otherwise it is useless to explain something. When my wife talked about monitoring water bodies, water samples from Karabash were analyzed separately and last. Under a separate hood. And then, for a long time, laboratory glassware and selective electrodes on the devices were peeled off.
Literally last year, I personally listened to a work about an attempt to recultivate the Karabash dumps and plant greenery in the city, in connection with the nightmarish pollution of the atmosphere and soil with copper compounds. So - nothing happened, the trees simply do not take root, the seedlings die in the first year.

Note #4

Who would explain to me why the Tominsky GOK is so terrible, at a time when the Kichiginsky GOK, which has been quietly working for several years, which is not so far from Chelyabinsk and which is also near the city, does not bother anyone?

I looked - but it seems like their main production is quartz sand and he works at a quartz sand deposit. That is, there are no these lakes of acid, etc.

Note #5

Note #8

The fed ones will hysteria.
Several questions:
1. There is nothing to breathe. We will all suffocate.
Answer: bullshit. Goku practically does not give emissions. Emissions - dust that will settle within a radius of several hundred meters. The wind rose for the city is favorable.
They often give pictures of Karabash as an example of what the mining threatens, forgetting to indicate that in Karabash emissions are produced by a meth plant. And the fact that during the ownership of this steel plant, the ecology of Karabash has improved.
2. Tailings will give groundwater pollution.
It's more interesting here. You have to look at the geology. Somewhere I met the info that the slope of the aquiclude goes in the opposite direction of the hornets. But I didn't see it myself. In any case, water pollution will be determined by the culture of exploitation.
In any case, there are much more interesting points of application of force to protect the environment:
1. There is nothing to breathe in Chelyabinsk because of cars. No one is trying to reduce their number in the city. At least ban Kamaz / Ikarus.
2. Cars are followed by emissions from the Mechel and other industrial enterprises - the gas filtration system is disabled. All sulfur flies into the air. The activists are silent.
3. It is planned to build two metallurgical workshops within the city. The activists are silent.
4. Already twice, poisonous effluents (cyanides) from the Plast mining mine fell into the Yuzhnouralsk reservoir, with consequences for the entire city of Yuzhnouralsk in the form of a ban on drinking water, and exceeding the MAC of cyanides by dozens of times in tap water. The activists are silent.
5. The effluents of a pig farm are drained into the South Urals reservoir without treatment. Poisoning of water and prohibition of its use in the city once again. The activists are silent.
6. In the middle of the city is a gigantic ever-burning, illegally exploited landfill. The activists are silent.
Here from the entire incomplete list of real pests of the environment, the hysteria is only at the expense of the not-yet-existing goka.
The owner of the mosque and that same pig farm is one person. So, by the way.

Note #9

I will answer as a resident of Chelyabinsk.

The main risks during the construction of the GOK are as follows:

1. A dam with a height of one hundred meters, which will have to keep the sludge in the tailings. This is a really huge object by any standards. By the time it is filled, there will be enough sludge to create a death zone in the entire Sosnovsky district during a breakthrough. If the calculations that all the sludge, when breaking through towards Chelyabinsk, will drain into a quarry located between the Shershnevskoye reservoir are not justified, then the Shershnevskoye reservoir will be destroyed, the entire Chelyabinsk agglomeration will have to be evacuated, because there are no other sources of water for the city. Breaks in tailings dams are not uncommon, especially given that 60 years must elapse between the start of filling and the end of the mining operation. What will happen there and how it will be with the safety of the repository in, for example, 30 years - is unknown, the consequences of the accident in this case will be irreversible.

2. Risks that the aquifers under the tailings dump are mixed with those that feed the local lakes - mainly Shershns, plus the Miass River. The RMC claims that these layers do not intersect anywhere and provides expert data that somehow proves this, but firstly, how can this be thoroughly asserted, and secondly, no one can verify the conclusions of this expertise. If these data are incorrect, then as the tailing dump is filled, the Shershnevsky reservoir will be poisoned, which again will lead to the evacuation of the population of the Chelyabinsk agglomeration in the future.

3. Even if the statements of the RCC that when the dam breaks in the direction of Chelyabinsk, all the sludge will drain into the quarry, then what about breakthroughs in other directions? The spill area of ​​toxic sludge will in any case be measured in thousands of square kilometers - that's right, taking into account the volume of sludge at the final stage of filling the tailings. In all directions from the Tominsky settlement there are densely located settlements in relation to each other. Breaking a dam with such a huge amount of sludge will lead to the death of thousands of people and the complete poisoning of all farmland in the center of the Chelyabinsk region. It is clear that there will be leaks in Miass, and the evacuation of Chelyabinsk, even in this case. Or we will have to supply the agglomeration with a population of 1.5 million people with imported water, including for domestic needs.

4. For the operation of a mine of this magnitude, a huge amount of water is required. According to the project, it will be taken from Lake Sineglazovo. There are ecologists' statements, confirmed by calculations and statistics, that in dry or simply insufficiently wet years, water withdrawal from the lake will exceed the restoration of its natural level. I have seen statements that the lake will be drained in about twenty years. I can’t check whether this is true or not, but to be honest, no one can guarantee that over the 60 years of the GOK’s planned work, the lake will always be the same, it won’t start to dry up for natural reasons, etc. Its drainage will cause a large-scale ecological catastrophe in the area several tens of kilometers from Chelyabinsk, since this is a large body of water that feeds many small settlements.

5. In Chelyabinsk, the situation with the purity of the air is terrible. When it is calm, an impenetrable toxic fog hangs over the city, an increased danger is declared, if it is calm for three or four days, then it is already recommended not to take children to the kindergarten. When there is wind, it is not there, but, for example, we never see the normal color of the sky above our heads.

The Tominsky GOK will also influence this because of the huge volume of blasting that will be carried out in it when overburden rocks are destroyed and when the quarry is deepened. This dust will be added to what we already breathe.

6. Even if everything goes smoothly, and the only consequences of the Mining and Processing Plant will be destroyed agriculture in the Sosnovsky District, “spoiled” drinking water in wells in the vicinity of the Mining and Processing Plant, as they say in the RMK, and additional air pollution for 20-30 years, while blasting will be carried out , then in the end, two pits will remain at the site of the stopped GOK, one as deep as the Ostankino television tower, the other 350 meters deep, and very close to them a hundred-meter embankment, inside which there will be 8 cubic kilometers of toxic sludge from mud and sulfuric acid. This is about one and a half of the Ivankovsky reservoir, so that Muscovites understand. In visual visibility from the city water intake.

What to do with all this then? Within a radius of 3 (THREE) kilometers from this horror, 50,000 people now live! And then the population density is the same or higher!

How can she neutralize the sludge afterwards? Where is the guarantee that this giant dam will not break through in a hundred years, for example? How to grow a city around which such?

Next are the pits. Near this mining and processing plant, 30 kilometers away, we already have a hole half a kilometer deep - the Korkinsky mine. So, people around it had to be evacuated from several quarters, because these quarters are slowly slipping into the quarry. Mining there has almost stopped, work has stopped, the quarry has been almost completely worked out, and one of the key questions for the region is what to do with it now?

And there is no answer to this question. Dumps from it stretch for tens of kilometers, even the ski slope worked on them for some time. There will be the same waste heaps here, but in an already densely populated area.

Everything will be worse with Tominsky GOK, because a dam will slide into it, and there will be two pits there.

I summarize. The risks of a man-made disaster, even if they are small in themselves, will be unacceptable in this case, because any disaster will turn Chelyabinsk into a dead city. It is easy to imagine the impact this will have on Russia as a whole.

I want to remind you that the Chelyabinsk region is not only an industry - it is also a very powerful agriculture, which in the truest sense of the word feeds millions of people.

Millions. The region's GDP exceeded the GDP of such countries as Kyrgyzstan, Zimbabwe, Mongolia before the collapse of the ruble and was approximately equal to Monaco, but only at the expense of the real sector, and not at the expense of casinos and resorts.

The question is, why risk it all? For the sake of RMK being able to develop these poor ores (and they are poor there)? So that its owners become a couple of percent richer? For the sake of 10,000 tons of cathode copper over 60 years (1,000 tons per year on average if scattered over the years) and ore concentrate? Isn't that overkill?

I want to remind you that such a small accident at Mayak almost 70 years ago gave rise to consequences that have not yet been overcome - it is still impossible to live in the radioactive trace zone, and throwing a person into the Techa River still means a way to kill him.

Why do we need an even worse facility near the city in terms of danger, even if it is not radioactive? Near it in the literal sense - a dam a hundred meters high from the Shershnevsky reservoir will be visible to the naked eye.

The RCC usually cites another project of its size, comparable in scale, the Mikheevsky GOK, as an example of safety. But he is corny too young to draw any conclusions on his example, and the tailing dump there is not even 10% full, and there is where to evacuate the population from the surrounding area. With Tominsky GOK, the situation in terms of the evacuation of the population will be completely different.

Here is the break of the tailings dam in Karabash - yes, this is an example, but in principle it is impossible to compare that dam with the Tominsky dam, and there were not so many people there, it was evacuated without any problems. I note that the terrain in the breakthrough zone will be unsuitable for economic activity for several centuries.

I believe that the risks associated with this facility are not worth the benefits that it can bring. After all, this is not some Atommash, it's just a quarry. And the desire of some already rich citizens to enrich themselves a little more is not worth the risk of turning one of its key regions out of the Russian Federation.

Well, the last and main argument - we live here, we are people, more important than ore concentrate, if I understand something in life.

On the other hand, Sergey, you are unlikely to change anything - the mining and processing complex is already actively building, even before the completion of all these hearings and examinations. RCC has very strong support at the federal level, too strong to stop this project. RMK has already received all licenses, and is already working in the Sosnovsky district.

Here, on the spot, the RCC allegedly works openly, provides any documents, examinations, etc. on demand, actively promotes itself in the city as a sponsor and benefactor, but in fact there are no answers to the problems I voiced in their documents.

If you are interested in the scale of the disaster, you can see them here -

The day before, Chelyabinsk hosted the final of the competition "The Strongest Schoolboy of Severka", organized by the Chelyabinsk Federation "Uralstrong - Strongmen of Russia" and the "Russian Copper Company" (RMK). However, as follows from the posts on social networks by supporters of the “environmental organization” Stop GOK, the public managed to spoil the children's event. Recall that manipulations with the use of the children's agenda "environmentalists" allow themselves not the first time.

08.04.2016-19:28

Dubrovsky took away the phobias of the population from the non-systemic opposition

The ecological agenda of the Chelyabinsk region, which resonates historically, began to “heat up” on the eve of the “big elections”. "Public organizations and individual politicians," according to experts, "use the phobias of the population for their own purposes and continue to escalate the situation." Moreover, as Chelyabinsk political technologists note, “the agenda initiated by the public is becoming less and less constructive and more and more absurd and radical, as in the case of StopGOK. And in the near future, the "environmental pressure" is likely to spread to many enterprises in the region, including Mechel, ChEMK, RMK and companies less significant for the economy. However, the experts interviewed by the publication believe that in the end, the “fueled environmental hysteria” will break up against the systematic policy pursued by the government of the Chelyabinsk region on this problematic issue. However, the “public activists” do not give up and “organize supporters of velvet revolutions” through social networks, in fact demanding endless “pickets and protests” from the population.

17.12.2015-11:22

The leaders of the "Stop GOK" movement did not share the money of the activists

Moskovets and Magazov were accused of having sole control over finances

During the final conference of the Stop GOK environmental movement, one of the ideologists of the group Yuri Cherkasov accused other leaders of the movement of arbitrarily spending funds allegedly collected by activists.

20.11.2015-23:52

Gazprombank invested Uralmashzavod products in Tominsky GOK

Discussions have intensified around the construction of the Tominsky Mining and Processing Plant (GOK) in the South Urals. The main subject of opposition today is the real profitability of the project. Ecologists translate their arguments into the plane of low copper content in ore, and work with such an object, according to social activists, "by definition is not capable of making a profit." Although today the Russian Copper Company (RMC), the initiator of the project in the Sosnovsky district of the Chelyabinsk region, nevertheless decided to disclose the financial component of the mining and processing plant on the example and in comparison with the Mikheevsky GOK already operating in the region, and, moreover, offered to study the experience of foreign companies . Maxim Shchibrik, Vice President for Finance and Economics of the RMK Group, spoke in an interview with Pravda UrFO about the profitability of Tominsky GOK, about attracting a Western investor to the project, and about how the Russian Copper Company will settle accounts with creditors even before the start of production. .

22.07.2015-12:57

Altushkin avoided public hearings on Tominsky GOK

CJSC "Russian Copper Company" of Igor Altushkin held public hearings at which the report on the assessment of the EIA of "Tominskoye GOK" was discussed. Public activists pointed to many inaccuracies, overlays and inconsistencies in the submitted documentation. In particular, they talked about the environmental component of the project, for which it is planned to cut down 1.5 thousand hectares of forest around Chelyabinsk. Accusations were heard from the stage more than once in the purposeful delivery of people interested in the construction of a mining and processing plant, and claims against the owner of the RMK Igor Altushkin, who ignored the public event. Representatives of the copper company also used statements of interest of a number of public figures in refusing to implement the project as arguments.

11.03.2015-20:02

A new wave of protests in the Chelyabinsk region is expected due to the continued development of project documentation for the construction of the Tominsky GOK by the Russian Copper Company, 30 kilometers from the regional center. Public activists are outraged that RMK submitted a project for the construction of a mining and transport part of an industrial enterprise for state expertise to the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation without holding public hearings to assess the impact of the facility on the environment. Chelyabinsk residents assume that the federal authorities were given the documents of the old EIA, made for a project with a lower planned production volume of porphyry copper ore. In addition, it is possible that there was already a similar “confusion” with documents when receiving a positive conclusion from Glavgosexpertiza in 2014. Then, according to the information of the department, the RCC provided the officials with the minutes of public hearings on the project, held back in 2012. This happened despite the fact that the council of deputies of the Tominsky settlement of the Sosnovsky district recognized the document as illegitimate.

27.01.2015-20:21

RMK postponed the environmental disaster in Chelyabinsk for six months

The Russian Copper Company of Igor Altushkin will increase the negative environmental impact from the construction of the Tominsky GOK near Chelyabinsk. According to the proposed amendments to the project, the enterprise will significantly increase production volumes and, as a result, the impact on the environment. Because of this, the RMK is forced to abandon the already held public hearings and postpone the deadlines by more than six months. In particular, the size of sludge fields will increase by almost 50 hectares. Scientists say that the enterprise can pose a threat to underground and aboveground water sources, up to the ingress of sulfuric acid residues into them. Meanwhile, experts point out that when assessing the impact on the environment, the fact that the Shershnevskoye reservoir, the only source of fresh water for the capital of the Southern Urals and satellite cities, is located near the Tominsky field.

18.08.2014-10:45

Bobrakov legalized the construction of "Tominsky GOK" before the residents

In response to a letter from the public

Minister of Industry of the Chelyabinsk Region Alexey Bobrakov responded to a letter from opponents of the construction of the Tominsky Mining and Processing Plant, who demanded that the project be made more open and that residents of nearby villages be given the right to choose the development path for the facilities. Bobrakov assured that the project has all the necessary documentation that has passed all the approvals.

17.07.2014-21:48

The RMK project put the Chelyabinsk government in conflict with the Kremlin

The government of the South Urals was predicted a possible conflict with the administration of the President of the Russian Federation. The reason may be the official refusal of the Minister of Industry and Natural Resources of the region, Alexei Bobrakov, to register representatives of the regional environmental public movement "For Nature" as part of the working group on the construction project of the "Tominsk Mining and Processing Plant" of CJSC "Russian Copper Company". The activists themselves consider the politician's decision partly legitimate, but unfair. They specifically point out that "the working group includes representatives of the RMK, but not their opponents." The Ministry of Industry of the Chelyabinsk Region retorts this by saying that the group still includes representatives of the people - a member of the Public Chamber of the region Sergey Gordeev and the chairman of the Legislative Assembly Committee on Ecology and Nature Management Alexander Fedorov. In addition, RCC regularly arranges tours of its enterprises for other pro-government public figures. Some analysts are confident that distancing themselves from various kinds of protest activists will make it possible to secure the Mining and Processing Plant construction project from political speculation. However, this decision could lead to an increase in social tension and, as a result, punitive sanctions from the Kremlin.

13.04.2018-16:23

Honestly, I'm tired of the invasion of bots. I have something to compare with - this was not even during the events in Ukraine and the murder of Nemtsov.

Lena, - the usernames cry out: - Finally, speak out about the construction of the Tominsky GOK, because it is a crime.

Well, perhaps in order to stop this farce, I will have to make my position clear.


As a person who has worked in metallurgy for several years, I, of course, see the situation around the new mining and processing plant in the Chelyabinsk region as completely transparent.

New technologies in our field practically negate the harm to the environment. Tominsky GOK is no exception. The plant is being built under control, a lot of money is being invested, including in the environmental component, and no harm is expected for the Chelyabinsk region.

On the contrary, the future Tominsky GOK will benefit the region. Firstly, it will set the safety standard for local metallurgy enterprises, and secondly, it will create new jobs.

It's no secret that the Chelyabinsk region stinks in a way that no other region stinks. With ecology there is a real ass, because the enterprises were built at a time when no one thought about ecology. The country needed cast iron to overtake England, and no one cared what people breathed.

As soon as an enterprise appears that meets modern environmental standards, stink factories will have to focus on it. This is the biggest point of building modern GOKs. This happens everywhere and always, including not only Russia, but also other developed countries.

So what is the Stop-GOK movement fighting against by sending screaming bots to social networks?

For ecology, the standards of which will be raised by the new GOK to a height unattainable for the enterprises of the region? No. For improving the lives of people who create jobs in a modern enterprise? Again no.

It is difficult to answer the question of what the stopGOK members are striving for, because their activities are contrary to common sense.

The complete frostbite of the StopGOK activists is clearly visible in the recent TV debates, the video of which was posted by Vyacheslav Afanasiev, the host of South Ural TV:

In addition to screams about some kind of “stealing of raw materials from the bowels” and the mythical collapse of nature, the activists have no arguments.

How can you have a dialogue with a coming out bot, you know? Stop GOKs are the same. When they were pressed against the wall with arguments, a uniform hysteria began.

Whitelist activist Taras Esakov burst into a post of obscene content, in which he compared all experts with pathogenic intimate microorganisms. Movement activist Natalya Leyvi went further and spoke about the press secretary of the company building the mining and processing plant, who professionally and competently smeared the arguments of all the screamers:

“Divorced forty year old single mother.. I can imagine how hard it is for you to survive to make ends meet.. hopelessness! So crow .. until you are leaked)))) "

You can see for yourself what level. But that's not all, because it is obvious that such comments are left either by the mentally ill or for money. More precisely, mental patients for money.

And indeed, at the StopGOK rally, which took place on September 27, the participants were stupidly paid money:

All this is in the order of things, because clairvoyants and recidivist hooligans, members of the Yabloko party and NGOs, recognized as "foreign agents" have already appeared in Stop GOK.

And here are the inspired faces of the leaders of the protesters. Meet, from left to right: Yuri Cherkasov, Taras Esakov, Vasily Moskovets.

Obviously, the Stop GOK movement is not fighting for the truth, because it is not on their side. Who benefits from the construction of a high-tech plant in the Chelyabinsk region? I can only guess, but the fact that there is a customer is obvious.

Attacking archaeologists, making complaints to the prosecutor's office, so that the construction was muzzled with checks, the Stop GOK puppeteers go to their goal. They don't give a damn that both the region and the country need Tominsky GOK, they have their own interests, which are much higher than the state ones.

This is how we live, in a protest, damn it, society. The handwriting of the Stop-GOK activists is one-on-one similar to the screeching of the bots, which, in general, is not surprising.

So who benefits from our country not having a new and technological plant?