In Yekaterinburg, an exemplary lawn, equipped by a local businessman, was destroyed. “Why is it clean in Europe, but not here?” In Yekaterinburg, a businessman broke a “European” lawn for his money Swiss lawn technology
Employees of the Yekaterinburg Electric Grid Company destroyed the lawn near the intersection of Gogol and Malyshev streets, equipped by local entrepreneur Yuri Okunev according to European standards. The lawn, for which Okunev paid about 50 thousand rubles, was dug up to replace the damaged cable.
The workers of the Yekaterinburg Electric Grid Company dug up the land for the restoration of communications. The photographs show that the volume of the area on which the work was launched was significant, it is difficult to say in what condition the lawn will be after such an intervention. The power engineers themselves assure that after the excavations everything was restored:
To date, all activities to repair the power line have been completed, temporary improvement of the pedestrian zone has been carried out - the excavated soil has been removed, the trenches have been dug, - the Yekaterinburg Electric Grid Company said. - This landscaping is a temporary winter solution, after the soil thaws, the site will be landscaped in the summer version. Note that all excavations related to repair work on cable power lines are carried out on the basis of warrants issued by the land committee. The timing of the restoration of the affected areas is under the control of the city administration.
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The destroyed lawn Okunev together with the students of the Academy of Architecture according to the Swiss model in September 2017.
In October of the same year, the businessman decided to equip a second lawn near the American consulate on the same Gogol street. Five people responded to the call to help him - two of them were journalists. The second lawn cost Okunev about 30 thousand rubles.
Okunev was at a reception at the administration of Yekaterinburg. There he was praised, but they answered that they did not intend to take his proposal as a basis, because there are GOSTs and SNiPs (GOST - state standard, SNiP - building codes and rules). “Everything is wonderful with us,” “we do everything according to the rules,” Okunev quotes the reaction of the mayor's office.In Moscow, the businessman spoke with Andrey Chibis, the Deputy Minister of Construction of Russia in charge of housing and communal services, about how to change the non-working SNiPs and GOSTs. “It’s cool that this is not a one-time story, but a well-developed project that we agreed to replicate throughout the country,” Chibis wrote on his Facebook after meeting with Okunev.
Two designers helped Okunev design the new lawn. One of them, Ilya Polyanskikh, explained that the Soviet standards were last updated in 2011 and are already outdated.
“Strategically, it's cheaper to do what we did, because it's for the long haul. We focused on European, Swiss SNiPs, which were adopted in 2014, and they are designed for 50 years without repair,” says Polyanskikh.
His colleague Denis Akhmatov said that the city administration does not believe in the success of the project - according to officials, the lawn will not survive the winter. “We were assured by the administration that our site will be subject to very strong destruction, because the snow is shoveled to the side of the road from both the roadway and the sidewalk. In our country, the lawn is a storage of snow in winter,” Akhmatov said.
"Present Time", October 4, 2017
February 20, 13:22 IDGC of Urals claims that Yuri Okunev's lawn at the intersection of Gogol and Malyshev streets was not destroyed, and they promise to send his photographs in the spring. The company's statement was received by the editors of Varlamov.ru.
Specialists of EESK JSC (subsidiary of IDGC of Urals, JSC) carried out work on the restoration cable line power lines on the sidewalk. The excavation was carried out along the residential building. Lawn to zone earthworks did not hit, but be used for access to special equipment and placement of the necessary equipment by a team of specialists from EESK JSC.Yesterday, the repair of the power line was completed, the pedestrian zone was improved - the excavated soil was removed, the trenches were dug. This landscaping is a temporary winter solution; after the soil thaws, the site will be landscaped in the summer version.
We emphasize that this issue is controlled by the management of IDGC of Urals, JSC. Power engineers are in dialogue with the author of the lawn improvement project in this pedestrian zone, entrepreneur Yuri Okunev. With the onset of positive temperatures, the power engineers will be engaged in the restoration of the lawn with the participation of florists, if during the thawing of snow it turns out that the special equipment has nevertheless violated the integrity of the landscape.
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Businessman Yury Okunev, who built a "Swiss" lawn in Yekaterinburg with his own money, was invited to the Federal Ministry of Construction and Housing. The ideal lawn, which cost the entrepreneur only 50 thousand rubles, amazed the officials. Deputy Minister Andrei Chibis called the idea of the Urals "the most inspiring in recent times."
Dairy plant owner Yuri Okunev became famous among Internet users a few weeks ago, after videos of a brand new lawn in Yekaterinburg appeared on the net. The businessman made it at his own expense, having carefully studied the Swiss technology, which allows you to completely rid the city of dirt. The "smart" lawn plot cost Okunev only 50,000 rubles. He is sure that if the millions that city budgets allocate for lawns were used rationally, Russian cities would be much cleaner.
The story about the businessman was filmed by the Current Time website. The video was distributed to dozens of publications and blogs on the Internet, and several hundred thousand users watched the video.
The authorities of Yekaterinburg took Okunev's initiative coolly, but the Federal Ministry of Construction and Housing became interested in his idea of "smart" lawns and clean streets. After the meeting with the Yekaterinburg resident, Deputy Minister Andrey Chibis called the idea of the Urals "the most inspiring in recent times." He wrote on his Facebook page: "It's cool that this is not a one-time story, but a well-developed project that we agreed to replicate throughout the country."
Businessman Yuri Okunev also commented on his meeting with Chibis. “He looks at me like I’m an alien who brought previously unknown technologies to Earth, everything seems simple, but no one in Russia does it. We agreed to make changes to the federal SNIPs based on our lawn and project. Tatarstan on November 1 for the heads of housing and communal services throughout Russia," Okunev wrote on Facebook.
It took Yuri Okunev just over two weeks to bring the 50-square-square lawn up to Swiss standards and cost 50,000 rubles. The entrepreneur claims that he did not save: he used expensive rolled grass, beautiful gravel. He believes that the problem of dirty cities lies not only in the lack of standards, but also in the financial opacity of the improvement sector.
At his lawn, Okunev is ready to put up a sign with a price list: 10,000 for transport services, 60 meters of grass cover at 270 rubles per meter, 16,000 for fence posts, and so on. The same clarity should be in every municipal order. Then the question will not arise why millions are allocated from the budget, and the streets are buried in mud.
Yuri Okunev has already begun to equip the second lawn in Yekaterinburg. He posted a call on social networks asking everyone to join him. About how it was, the site "Current Time" shot another video.
Entrepreneur Yuri Okunev arranged a European-style lawn in the center of Yekaterinburg. It is assumed that the new space will help save the city from dirt. The businessman has already turned to the mayor of Yekaterinburg with a request to help distribute such facilities throughout the city.
Yuri Okunev
The lawn appeared at the crossroads of Gogol - Malyshev. In his Facebook account, Okunev explained that he decided to overcome the dirt in Yekaterinburg. “For a long time this problem haunted me, why is it clean in Europe, but we don’t, especially in the off-season,”wrote he.
In addition to Okunev, the students of the Academy of Architecture worked on the project, reported 66.ru. The businessman told the publication that the lawn was designed according to the SNiP of the 1960s. It states that all curbs must be installed on concrete mortar to avoid gaps. Due to such waterproofing, water will stop flowing from the lawn. Besides, there is no lawn clean land- according to Okunev, it also becomes a source of dirt during snowfall and melting.
All work cost Okunev 50 thousand rubles, informs "Present Tense". This amount includes the design of the facility.
Okunev told TJ , that he sent a letter to the mayor of Yekaterinburg, Yevgeny Roizman, asking him to help with the installation of similar lawns in other places. The businessman said that the official "promised all kinds of assistance, but so far there has been no reaction." When asked if Okunev would continue to develop the territory with his own money, Okunev said that "this is the work of the municipality."
Urbanist Arkady Gershman, in a conversation with 360, said that such lawns have long been known. In his opinion, the problem is not in the creation of such facilities, but in their maintenance due to the shortage of professionals and the lack of modern standards for landscaping.
Even if this lawn is preserved, but a typical maintenance organization undertakes its maintenance, then such a lawn will have a very short life. Because there are not enough modern standards for improvement, there is not enough qualified personnel. And without this, it is impossible to scale such projects.
Arkady Gershman.
Blogger Ilya Varlamov, who specializes in landscaping, also argues that there is nothing revolutionary about Okunev's lawn. “These things have long been written in textbooks. If you open a century-old German book about landscaping, you will see exactly what a person did on this small plot", - he said.
In his blog, Varlamov expressed admiration for Yuri's activities. “Yuri Okunev proved that you can not live in shit. It seems incredible! After all, the best minds of the country fought over the problem of shit under their feet! Economists, officials, planners have been trying for years to come up with a plan to save us from the dirt! Poets, writers, artists tried to find the answer, where are the fools in our country and why are the roads so bad. And no one succeeded. And Yuri did it, ”he wrote.