"They wanted to build a children's playground here." Ryazan residents will no longer be able to relax at the Borkovsky quarry—the shore has been fenced off.
1st Borkovsky quarry This lake in the city center has been a public swimming spot since the 1980s. Now, part of the shore is fenced off, and the construction of apartment buildings and a church has been announced on the other bank.
Tens of meters of coastline, including a shared dirt road, were suddenly fenced off. Locals claim the trees the owner is cutting down were planted by their fathers, and they also maintained the beaches themselves. Now, according to them, plots of land for "cottages with private access to the water" are selling for 55 million rubles.
“Everything has been bought out, not even a playground can be built, complained local resident. — "We wanted to create a children's playground here. And here's the children's beach—shallow and safe."
In Ryazan, a city rich in water, there are fewer and fewer places to relax and swim: the banks of rivers and ponds are being built up, and the reservoirs themselves are polluted by industrial enterprises.
Residents wrote to all authorities, but received only formal replies. They turned to a regional Duma deputy. To Alexander Starikov and escorted him along the still-accessible paths to the children's beach. He promised to fight to ensure the quarry remains accessible to all, not a privilege reserved for the elite.
On the other side of the quarry are two entrepreneurs intend to build A church, two-story social service buildings for temporary accommodation of displaced persons, and other facilities. Near the 1st Borkovsky quarry, on the site of a sleeper impregnation plant. under construction The Okskaya Strelka residential complex. It's still unknown whether the water will be safe for swimming after the developer excavated the creosote-soaked soil.
Residents of the regions are increasingly losing access to water bodies: Uvalny pond in Altai Krai suddenly turned in private ownership, in Ingushetia people lost four ponds, residents Yekaterinburg are struggling for the right of access to the Verkhne-Isetsky pond.
Photo: screenshots from a video in the "Informal Malkov" group
