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A Happy Year in Svetlyy

Krasnaya Zvezda in Russian


30 Dec 09
by Vladimir Mokhov
As we have already said, this crisis year that is coming to an end was very successful for Tatishchevo
Missile Formation under the command of Colonel Aleksandr Deryavko. Based upon its results, Taman
Missile Division became the best formation in the RVSN [Strategic Missile Troops], which performs alert
duty at fixed basing missile complexes. But 2009 did not pass without a trace for the missile personnel's
housing garrison with the attractive name of Svetlyy...
The One-Company Missile Town
The division is a unique type of city-forming installation for the closed administrative territorial
entity (ZATO). They are inconceivable without each other. But if all of the formation's command
authorities' efforts were primarily directed at the combat component this year, the Svetlyy Administration's
efforts were directed at the social component. The schools, kindergartens, apartment buildings, and
boilers are in its sphere of responsibility. And since the problems of the so-called one-company towns,
which are practically entirely linked to some or other industry, appeared with all of their urgency in Russia
this year, we must say that Svetlyy - is actually that same type of one-company town, only with its own
missile slant. Here even an ordinary food store bears the proud name "Topol"...
The Division Commander and the Head of Administration: the Two Branches of Garrison Authority
In contrast to its civilian "colleagues", the one-company missile town survived this year more or less
serenely. No, the impact of the crisis certainly was felt even here (what and how - a bit farther below).
But no special cataclysms whatsoever took place, if you don't consider the organizational-staff measures
to be such. Everything took its course. Well, and during my temporary duty assignment, I caught the
division commander in the office of Aleksandr Lunev - the head of administration of Svetlyy Closed
Administrative Territorial Entity Municipal District and, it was easy to figure out, a reserve officer.
Together they were discussing some sort of current affairs and were developing the algorithm of the
solution of some sort of problems.
"We cannot separate the issues of a military and social welfare nature", Colonel Deryavko expressed
his opinion on that score. "The interests of combat readiness directly depend on how the servicemen's
everyday lives and relaxation are organized, whether they have heat in their homes, and whether their
children go to kindergarten and school. An officer - is that same man and we understand why he first and
foremost has a headache. So, if there are strong rear services, there will also be high combat readiness!"
The commander is certainly correct. Nevertheless, it is conspicuous in the example of Svetlyy that the
functional division of duties doesn't simply exist but promotes the fact that each would be involved with his
own business. And that we have become accustomed to understand the traditional phrase "the
commander is responsible for everything" in such a way that we need to task him, the commander, for
leaky roofs, for rotting pipes, and that Vasya Pupkin talked back to Mariya Ivanovna at school. The
"division command authorities-ZATO administration" model permits us to set up that management
system, when "each person carries his own weight". The main thing is so that this diarchy would not turn
out to be a bureaucratic squabble and a trite gripe session. Fortunately, there is not even a hint of that in
Svetlyy today.
In Colonel Deryavko's words, no changes whatsoever for the worse, just the opposite, have taken place
since the transfer of practically the entire garrison social infrastructure to the municipality's balance
sheet. The command authorities have obtained the opportunity to focus entirely on combat readiness
issues. And the targeted financial infusions into the Closed Administrative Territorial Entity along the
federal budget line permitted them to plug many of those holes, for which the Ministry of Defense has
chronically not had adequate resources. This year alone, 90 million rubles went to the engineering and
social infrastructure, R18 million was spent on the repair of the housing fund, and more than R40 million -
for the renovation of the boiler and the water intake. The rest was dispersed for major repairs of the
school and kindergarten, and also to replace the heating lines. It is simply that none of these projects
would have been realized without the targeted money, which is arriving for the Closed Administrative
Territorial Entity's needs.
A Garrison-Wide Baby Boom
Olga Sedina, the deputy head of administration for social issues, said that the lion's share of the
Svetlyy Closed Administrative Territorial Entity's budget goes for education and public health, and it
isn't going in vain. Olga Grigoryevna illustrated that using the following examples.
"This year", she said, "our children won the oblast championship and the Russia's cup for futzal [indoor
soccer] and won the competitions for lokobol [children's soccer]. Our 'Nadezhda' Dance Collective took
second place at the Delphic Games, which took place in Saratov, and received the grand prize at the
competition, which took place in Dagomys. We have something to be proud of!
They Are Successfully Resolving the Demographic Problem in Svetlyy
The residents of neighboring villages are goodheartedly envious of how developed the social sphere is
in Svetlyy. There are two full-fledged general education schools here, at which more than 1,000 children
are learning. Three kindergartens, two of which have been renovated, have been made truly state-of-the-
art. One other kindergarten is in the renovation phase, upon the completion of which it will scarcely be
distinguished from the capital's most advanced children's preschool institutions. The children receive
extended education at the children's creativity home, at the music and artistic schools, and at the
children-youth sports school (DYuSh).
Svetlyy's younger generation totals 2,600 people. That is, a large portion of it - is preschool children.
The missile personnel's wives have recently been giving birth at a surprisingly active rate. At the
beginning of December, when I was in Svetlyy, they told me that 124 newborns have appeared this year.
Their number is certainly even greater right now!
The shortage of seats at the kindergartens is actually explained by this circumstance. There are
currently 240 young garrison residents, more correctly their parents, on the waiting list. And if previously
the question was even raised about the closure of one of the kindergartens due to the decline of the birth
rate, now it is time to build a new preschool institution. Indeed, there are few officers' children on the list
since the priority was assigned precisely to them already prior to the issuance of the normative-legal act
on the priority acceptance of servicemen's children at the kindergartens.
"We are doing everything so that the officers would serve in an orderly manner and would be satisfied
with their rear services", Olga Sedina said.
For Svetlyy ZATO, the entire population of which consists of nearly 13,000 people, the augmentation of
nearly 150 newborns is very significant, especially while taking into account that only 102 children were
born here in 2008. They didn't get beyond a total of 60-70 newborns approximately 5-6 years ago. But
there is such a baby boom here! Perhaps the young mothers with the baby carriages, who are strolling
through the garrison, are now Svetlyy's primary sign. But then again, many have begun to give birth to
their second or third children. Olga Grigoryevna explains that by the payment of "maternity capital" and
by the fact that they have made marvelous children's playgrounds in the residential area. And the main
thing is that everyone has a roof over their heads, even if it isn't their own. A new dormitory opened at the
ZATO this year, in which they settled 14 junior officers' families.
So, should we be surprised that the lieutenants' wives have also become the primary "driving force" of
the current baby boom? When people see the real concern of the state and their native commander, they
respond to that with deeds and with the desire to serve. The commander cited these figures: the number
of officers, who have expressed a desire to extend their contracts with the Ministry of Defense, totals 95-
98% in the division. Today there is no talk about the massive outflow of officer cadres, which was
observed in the 1990s. Right now people are staying in the service.
Well and to give birth to children - that is no less important nowadays than to go on alert duty!
It is no accident that the garrison is proud of the fact that the ZATO residents' average age has reached
30-32 years of age. That is, Svetlyy is not aging, but getting younger. They need to create conditions for
a normal life for the young people. And first of all that concerns jobs.
The head of administration reported that the problem of the officers' wives job placement is gradually
being resolved. Of course, the status of the one-company missile town does not promote that, but the
branch of the Saratov Employment Center that has been organized at the ZATO still helps people to find
work both in Svetlyy itself and also in the neighboring rayon center of Tatishchevo and, of course, in
Saratov. Today 53 people are registered at the employment center and they are not losing hope of
finding jobs.
We Need To Help the Talented People
In the words of Svetlyy ZATO Municipal District Head of Administration Aleksandr Lunev, the municipal
authorities' primary task - is to create all of the conditions to provide vital services for servicemen's
families. Several dozen issues, for which the administration is responsible, are featured in the federal law
on local self-rule. And they cannot ignore any of them.
The engineering infrastructure requires especially large investments. The division will celebrate its 50th
anniversary in two years. The residential buildings at the garrison were built, the pipelines were laid, and
the water input was made nearly 50 years ago. These facilities were not touched in the last century. At
the same time, the major repair period arrives already after 25-30 years based upon all of the normative
documents. The targeted resources that are arriving from the federal budget right now are, putting it
mildly, inadequate. They were adequate only to repair the roofs on the apartment buildings and to
replace a portion of the heating lines, water pipes, and sewage pipes.
This year, R20 million arrived for major repairs of the boiler and just as much money arrived - for the
construction of a new water intake. Thanks to that, they are building a new water tower and they are
replacing the water tanks. So, as they say, progress has been made. The main thing is so it would not
stop now.
The shortage of seats at the kindergartens - is not the only problem in Svetlyy. There are also not
enough buildings for institutions of extended education - the art school and the children-youth sports
school. Leasing floor space for them erodes the ZATO budget by R2 million per year, which they could
direct to other purposes.
After the recent tragic events in Perm, MChS [Ministry for Affairs of Civil Defense, Emergency
Situations, and Elimination of Natural Disasters] representatives are more forcibly compelling the ZATO
Administration to deal with the unsatisfactory fire prevention situation of the building, in which the
children's art school and children's drama theater are located. Of course, they have installed an
automatic fire alarm here, they have built an additional staircase to the second story, and they have
fulfilled the firemen's other requirements. But what else can the Administration do if this building was
initially of a prefabricated beamless plate structure? Only send letters to the governor and to other levels
of authority. Because the crisis "has consumed" the R34 million, which is required for the major
renovation of the building and to erect brick walls and install reinforced concrete floors here. They did not
allocate it this year, although there is a renovation project.
And wouldn't it still be better to build a new building for the children's art school? Really, the nearly 700
children, who are studying here, deserve that, as the school itself deserves that, which is 42 years old this
year. But then again, the popular Actor Yevgeniy Mironov studied here at one time. Having visited
Svetlyy recently, he walked across the threshold of the art school with an emotional thrill. It is precisely
here that he received his music education. Yevgeniy reacted in an especially touching manner to his
dancing teacher. So, will an institution, which gives the country such talents, as before really live under
the threat of closure? Not to mention already that 40 people will be left without jobs in this case...
Actually, one could eliminate many of these problems, having transferred the Russian Army House of
Culture building to the municipality. You could accommodate many of these institutions there. But then
again, the Ministry of Defense does not oppose that - as we all know, today the military department is
actively freeing itself of "non-core assets". The House of Culture building has long been in need of repair
but there are not enough resources to do that. The municipality is prepared to take up the resolution of
this task. But the matter has ground to a halt because... there is no technical certificate for the building.
They also need to pay in order for the BTI [Technical Information Bureau] to prepare it. The military
doesn't have money to do that and the civilians have the authority, they are immediately being accused of
the non-targeted use of resources. And no one knows how to negotiate this sticky wicket.
We also need to assist the athletes. Right now Svetlyy ZATO is attempting to end up in the Federal
Program for Soccer Field Infrastructure Development. Still there are more than enough soccer players in
the garrison! The garrison itself is unable to undertake this project, approximately R15 million is required
to do that. But then again, here they would like to obtain that field at the existing stadium. Otherwise,
they will have to make it on the municipal land, which is located between two schools. And there the
dimensions are not adequate and they will have to sacrifice the hockey rink in that case. That is also a
problem...
The School's Pride
Practically all of this year's local school graduates became military school cadets or matriculated in
budget-supported positions at Saratov vuzs [higher educational institutions], thanks to the oblast
center, with which a regular bus route has been set up, a 40-minute trip. There are also those who
matriculated at the higher educational institutions of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Minsk, and Smolensk. But
then again, you are already not surprised by that indicator when you learn that over the course of the last
three years school students from Svetlyy have been passing the YeGE [Standard State Examination
better than everyone else in Saratov Oblast. What is the reason for that? Good teachers, but not only
that.
At the School Museum
...Svetlyy ZATO Municipal District Middle School No. 2 has existed since 1965. And it already has its
own history. Its Director Lyubov Vladimirovna Anikina said that they are rightfully proud of both their
teachers and of their graduates here. Among them are - Aleksandr Sudnitsyn, who graduated from the
school in 1975. He studied well and was a school standard bearer. Then he matriculated at a military
school and graduated with honors. And in 1980, the young lieutenant died in Afghanistan while heroically
accomplishing his combat mission. He was posthumously awarded the Order of the Red Star.
But his name has not been forgotten. On February 13, 2008, Middle School No. 2's History Museum
opened, at which there is a memorial plaque in memory of Aleksandr Sudnitsyn. They delivered this
plaque from Vladimir, where his Mother Nina Aleksandrovna Sudnitsyna is living right now. She brought
materials to the museum from the family archives. They also managed to find something in the school
archives.
They are proud of another of their pupils here, whom we already mentioned - Yevgeniy Mironov. They
track his creative successes and ardently discuss the premieres with his participation. Incidentally,
Yevgeniy himself, on his rare visits to Svetlyy, calls it by its old name - Tatishchevo-5. He only studied
here for eight grades. But his character formation, Lyubov Vladimirovna Anikina said with pride, occurred
on the school stage at the writing clinic. Well and here they rightfully consider the school production of
the same name, in which Zhenya was involved, to be the first rehearsal of the film "Revizor" [Inspector
General], in which Yevgeniy Mironov acted brilliantly.
The Sequester Snuck Up Imperceptibly...
The ZATO's status assumes the gradual resettlement from Svetlyy of individuals, who have lost their
ties with the Army. And thanks to the presentation of state housing certificates and the allocation of
resources for the acquisition of apartments, in general the resettlement is occurring, indeed, not at such
rapid rates as they would like. Like everywhere else, the apartment issue is very urgent in the one-
company missile town.
In 2009, they managed to resettle 118 people. Thanks to that, the official housing fund, which the
division has, has increased. Unfortunately, it has become very thin in recent years. When they
authorized privatization at the garrison, that had to have an impact on the overall housing situation. Of
3,200 apartments, more than 1,500 are already private property. As a result, the official housing found
shrunk like pebble leather.
That process has been halted today. There is already practically no opportunity to change an
apartment's status from official to permanent housing. So, having been released into the reserve, people
begin to prepare to move away from Svetlyy. According to the targeted resettlement program,
approximately R36 million arrives at the ZATO each year for the acquisition of housing. They have
already been working based upon this program for approximately five years. Therefore, the list of
reservists for resettlement is gradually dissipating.
"There is only one shortage in all of this", the head of administration said, "Based upon both the
certificates and the resettlement targeted program, the cost per square meter is very low. Housing is
being acquired based upon the state construction price, but each region has its own price. In Saratov
Oblast - it is R21,500 per square meter, in Volgograd - R31,500, in Moscow Oblast - R43,000. And it
turns out that people primarily want to go the Moscow Suburbs...
These distortions will by no means promote the rapid and painless resolution of the resettlement
problem. That is why the officers say that the optimal variant - is a certain average market price per
square meter based both upon the certificate and the resettlement targeted program. And it is even
better to give reasonable monetary compensation for the leased official housing. If you rent an
apartment, you get money for that and you can use it as you wish. Then the opportunity for a housing
maneuver will be much broader. And really we have already learned that the financing for the targeted
program for resettlement from Svetlyy ZATO will be reduced from R40 million to R15 million in 2010 due
to the notorious crisis. How do they accomplish the task for the 100% provision of official housing to
officers by 2012 under these conditions? Incidentally, they are sequestering appropriations of up to R28
million from the federal budget for Svetlyy in the New Year...
There are 766 officers without apartments in the division itself today. But then again, that does not
mean that they are scraping by in strangers' homes. They have provided 466 people with more or less
comfortable dormitories. The remaining officers reside in official apartments. Incidentally, many of them
have already been released into the reserve but are not counted due to the absence of permanent
housing.
...Plus Supplying Motor Vehicles to the Entire Division
While walking through the garrison, you see that the people's welfare is still growing. A visible
confirmation of that - is that nearly half of the population has acquired motor vehicles. This year alone,
Svetlyy residents acquired approximately 400 automobiles. You will agree that this is an impressive
figure. But then again, the absolute majority of new automobile owners are active duty officers.
Lieutenants, senior lieutenants and captains are not a rarity among them. They don't have to pay for their
child's education at a higher educational institution or resolve some sort of other global everyday
problems. Therefore, many junior officers prefer to spend their bonuses, which have been received
based upon that famous Order No. 400, for their "wheels". (We will talk in more detail about the auto
boom at Svetlyy ZATO already in the New Year).
It is also very important that a chapel functions at the garrison. When we are only talking about the
need to introduce the institution of military clergymen, an orthodox congregation is already active here, at
Svetlyy ZATO, where Archpriest Father Gennadiy conducts the service.
It was interesting to learn that more than 20 municipal programs, which are dedicated to
counterterrorism, welfare, public health, and combating crime, exist in this one-company town. Maybe
that is why there is practically no crime at the garrison, although the matter here is certainly something
else.
It is simply that primarily happy people live in Svetlyy, that is, decent people, who are accustomed to
normal human coexistence. They love their garrison very much. They nourish and cherish it. They say
that you mandatorily need to visit here during the summer when everything around here is in bloom and
fragrant...
But then again, there is something to see here year-round.
Well This Is "Forsazh"!
"Forsazh" Adolescent Center Director Vladimir Bachkin is among that category of people who, if they
undertake something, then they turn it, as they say, into a real masterpiece.
"Forsazh" is a municipal institution of children's extended education, just like the music or art
school. Its specialization - is technical types of sport: Go-carting; motor vehicle touring; aircraft,
rocket and ship modeling; tourism; and, orienteering. More than 100 of the center's children learn not to
drink beer in gateways and are involved with intelligent and fun things to do. Vladimir Vladimirovich said
that the center was also created first of all in order to attract so-called troubled youth here. Today there
are young people here from the so-called social risk groups, who have militia records, but then again,
officers' children. Not all of the fathers, who spend days at a time on alert duty, can reach out to their own
offspring...
"Forsazh" Center Director Vladimir Bachkin
In this regard, the director recalls his pupil Dima G., who was sent to "Forsazh" Center by the
commission on adolescent matters after committing a robbery. He was involved here until he was drafted
into the Army, he did not commit another single violation of the law, and he turned out to be a good go-
cart athlete from a former juvenile criminal. Dima repeatedly participated in oblast competitions. Having
completed his compulsory service as a border guard on Ostrov Russkiy, he stayed on contract service.
And Vladimir Vladimirovich recently learned that Dmitriy is serving in the Penza OMON [Special Purpose
Militia Detachment].
In general, centers like "Forsazh" are simply needed for such army one-company towns like Svetlyy, in
order to engage adolescents and assist their parents in raising them. Really, as a rule, school engages
them only in the morning and later they are frequently left to their own devices. And if you take the
holidays, weekends, and vacations? Here the entire hope is only on these extended education
institutions, which serve precisely in order to get young people involved. So the most intense days here
are Saturdays and Sundays. A separate schedule operates on holidays and vacations, which involves
the young people in planned activities and at various out-of-school activities.
The main thing is that vocational guidance occurs at the center and a love for some or other profession
is established. It is no accident that many "Forsazh" graduates - are current drivers both at the missile
division and also outside it - militia or GAI [State Vehicle Inspection] employees.
The Center is financed from the local budget. And financing is normal, judging by the fact that Vladimir
Vladimirovich did not complain about a shortage of money. The training facilities are gradually being
improved. There are more than 20 sport and training motorcycles here and just as many sports go-carts.
There are some good machine tools, bench tools, and welding equipment, in short, everything, through
the use of which you can make normal men out of these boys.
Furthermore, a military-sports camp operates every summer based upon the "Forsazh" Center. For
three weeks, the seniors grasp the basics of army service on a bare field. To do that, there are tents,
equipment, sporting equipment, and training and pneumatic weapons.
The "Forsazh" representatives do not miss any go-cart competitions of the oblast or city scale and
regularly win prizes at them. The cups, certificates and diplomas, which are displayed for general
viewing, graphically attest to that.
Automobile touring is not being cultivated in Saratov Oblast but the "Forsazh" members have been
participating in the All-Russia "Road-Caravan" Rally for more than 10 years now, which is conducted on
the border of Astrakhan Oblast and Kazakhstan. The adolescents cover a route of a high category of
difficulty - that is 600-800 kilometers on sand dunes - on a par with the experienced automobile tourists.
Technical types of sports - are an expensive luxury. But Vladimir Bachkin is correct, while talking about
the fact that there is a category of adolescents, who will never go to music or art school. And well they
like to poke around in the iron and turn on the afterburner. Or assemble these outlandish contraptions
from discarded automobile and motorcycle parts and components, which should be displayed at an
exhibition.
Today they are displayed in front of the "Forsazh" Center's entrance. They took two whole years to
make an equestrian on a horse. And when they had completed it, Bashkir acquaintances thanked
Vladimir Vladimirovich because what they had cast turned out to be... Salavat Yulayev. They titled a
second design "The Taming of a Steel Wild Animal" - in honor of those students, who can tinker with the
repair of motorcycles for days on end.
All of what we have enumerated is enough in order to tip our hats to Vladimir Vladimirovich. But when
he led me to his favorite brainchild - the school museum of the combat glory of the military driver - I simply
gasped because real motor vehicle rarities were on display here.
"This topic is very close to us", Bachkin said. "We also have a few drivers. Therefore, the young men
and I decided to look for and restore surviving Great Patriotic War-era military vehicles.
They were involved with that for six years and this public museum opened in 2005 in honor of the 60th
Anniversary of the Great Victory. The ZATO Administration built a special hanger for it and helped to
acquire some exhibits and to make the windows. They made all of the rest with their own hands.
I think that even "professional" museums can be envious of the exhibits which are displayed at this
public museum. There is also a famous "Willys" here, which was supplied to us based upon the Lend-
Lease Treaty. They found it in Saratov Oblast with some hunters. When they bought back this miracle of
a vehicle, it was disassembled and wrecked. They had repeatedly modified it in its past life and
lengthened it, and transported hunting dogs in the compartment which they had installed in the rear.
Later the vehicle's owner raced under a gas pipeline and its entire upper surface was carried away. But
they restored the motor vehicle practically to its initial form.
There is a GAZ-76B. This was the first Soviet "jeep", which they called the "Ivan-Willys". Although
Vladimir Vladimirovich doesn't understand how it is different from the "Willys".
"Maybe only the drive diagram", he said. "But that is absolutely ours, Russian. I like it very much..."
There is a GAZ-M1, the "Emochka", which was manufactured from the beginning of the 1930s and
continued during the entire war. This light motor vehicle, incidentally, was not only a staff and a liaison
vehicle but also a journalist vehicle during the Great Patriotic War. They sing about it in the famous
military correspondents' song.
There is a GAZ-AA, the famous one-and-a-half-ton truck. They also collected the parts and assemblies
for it from throughout the oblast. They purchased the frame from a rural resident, who wanted to make a
tractor. They found the engine at the gas compressor station. Division representatives transported the
wheels from Moscow. They made the cab themselves. But then again, practically all of the internal
components are "native" not only for this vehicle but also for the majority of the other exhibits. And it is all
the more surprising that all of the vehicles are operational. Let's have a parade right now!
There is an "M-72" heavy army motorcycle, which was used as a reconnaissance patrol unit. Bachkin
says that these motorcycles proved themselves in the Battle for Moscow. At that time, they mobilized all
of motorcyclists, who had the slightest bit of knowledge, gave them these Society for Assistance to the
Army, Air Force and Navy motorcycles and created motorized subunits from them, which "flew" along the
forest glades, while inflicting damage to the enemy.
There is the SMZ-S-3A motorized wheelchair, which they especially developed for Great Patriotic War
disabled persons through a decree of the party and government. So its presence at the museum is
entirely substantiated. They manufactured the motorized wheelchair at Serpukhov Motorcycle Plant right
up until the beginning of the 1960s. And they found it in the family of a deceased disabled war veteran in
such a state that there was literally not a sharp spot on it. Now they complain that they didn't photograph
it at that time...
Vladimir Vladimirovich knows very well not only the equipment but also the history. And he himself
frequently performs the role of a tour guide. And they bring children from schools and kindergartens here
for tours, think, from the entire rayon. They even arrive from Saratov in vehicles and on electric trains.
They also bring soldiers-new recruits here. Governors, generals, and ballistic missile designers have
already been here. They mandatorily bring all of the honored guests, who come to Svetlyy, here. Still not
every division and not every ZATO can boast of such a museum. And here it is very important that they
meet Bachkin halfway on everything. They don't consider his brainchild to be a "non-core asset" because
it operates for the common good. Although, in the beginning, few people believed that something useful
would come of this undertaking.
The museum doesn't yield any material dividends whatsoever, only moral dividends, for Vladimir
Vladimirovich. But he likes being involved with all of this.
"First of all, it is interesting", he said. "And, second, I would like for all of this to remain at our museum
and at our garrison for time immemorial".
God grant that it would be like that. And the fact is that really many public museums end very sadly in
Russia. As soon as something happens to those people who maintain it, then everything is pilfered and
taken to dachas and private collections. You don't need to go far. There was a unique regional studies
museum here, in the Village of Vyazovka, Tatishchevo Rayon, which one captivating man had
assembled. At one time, he asked that space in the rayon center be allocated for his museum. But they
allocated space at some remote forestry enterprise in that same Vyazovka. And in the "feverish" 1990s,
as soon as the regional studies expert died unexpectedly, they immediately looted the unique collections
of icons, weapons, and ancient books...
But then again, there is a reason why they call it the "Forsazh" Center. They intend to develop their
own museum here and the next exposition will be dedicated already to army motor vehicle transportation
of the 1950s-1960s, including to those vehicles, which participated in the settling of the Virgin Lands. We
can provide the appropriate contacts to all of those people who are prepared to assist in this superb
undertaking. We request only that various sinister characters not bother. There is nothing for them to do
in Svetlyy.

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