Twelve days – exactly how much it took to solve the problem air inaccessibility Mamsko-Chuysky district. Three years – exactly as long as the governor of the Irkutsk region Igor Kobzev. And finally, exactly zero – so many references to the problem of the forced autonomy of the northern “airports” sounded from the lips of the governor before the state of emergency in Mama.
Intricate math? Undoubtedly. And also, of course, inhuman. Like, perhaps, every policy of the current authorities to the hard-to-reach north of the Irkutsk region, which is remembered only when cancer on the mountain whistles something out of the ordinary and dangerous to the lives of local residents is happening. And the rating of the governor, of course.
Mom dear! In every sense of the word
There would be no happiness, as they say, but misfortune helped. December 1, 2022 the village of Mama remained virtually cut off from the outside world: air traffic, the only way to reach the hard-to-reach territory, was stopped. Reason: an error in the takeoff and landing documentation of the local airport Mamsky Airport LLC (OGRN 1053802018676).
Consequences: a slight panic of local and not so residents, a week and a half of social and infrastructural alienation and a logical ending. Everything fell into place: the local airport, which is in a pre-bankrupt state, began to function again. What is urine, which, by the way, ends long ago.
The fact that the problem of transport inaccessibility of a number of districts of the Irkutsk region requires not just a compromise, but a peremptory and categorical solution Babr already wrote before. And every day the problem gets worse. For the forgotten norths in “fast forward”.
Economically inexpedient – abandoned lands of the Irkutsk north
The gold-bearing Bodaibo region, the oil “tycoons” of Katanga and Ust-Kut, rich in forests and pleasant neighborhood with the Kirensk gas pipeline: the north of the Irkutsk region has long and unconditionally lived off large mining facilities located on their territory. But not power.
However, the fact that large economic corporations have settled down densely on the territory of the districts is not always a pleasant bonus. Following the prosperous extraction of this or that resource, hundreds of shift workers come to the area. As a result, prices for rented housing skyrocket, prices in stores, already not pleasing, inevitably also grow. But any resource, be it wood, gold, oil or gas, sooner or later “wear out”. Production decreases – enterprises leave. How once they left Mom.
Yes, and most corporations do not invest in the life of the buffer zone. Often they do not provide a sufficient volume of tax preferences, which are redistributed “magically” not to please the same “resource” north. And the locals are left with a nose.
The outflow of the population of the Irkutsk North is growing exponentially. Exactly the same as the desire of local residents to stay there is falling. Love power, homeland and those who chose to forget about their existence. And he remembers once a year, at a press conference.
Being a “northerner” is now unsafe at least. Uncomfortable and hopeless. And it becomes more dangerous to ignore this problem every year. But it seems that once again the authorities are choosing this path.