Easter unannounced visit of Alexander Lukashenko to Orsha all day paralyzed life of 150,000 city residents. On Sunday morning the central streets were closed to traffic, scurrying back and forth only machines GAI and intelligence personnel. At every intersection on duty police officers in uniform and plain clothes that do not produce cars of the courtyards. Pious believers grouped near the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary for a few hours before the arrival of the distinguished guest.
Arriving, especially going into talks with a population of Lukashenko did not, recalled that Belarus – a peaceful country, but if someone wants to check it, "we meet it with dignity." After that, the younger son of Nicholas, they lit candles and took part in a festive liturgy.
Many citizens hoped that Lukashenko, as often happens, to deviate from the route laid advisors and pay attention to the long-term construction, which for several years eyesore Orsha residents. Just a few minutes drive from the temple – a 200-meter long bridge across the Dnieper River, closed due to an emergency condition. Already five years ago bridge literally started falling apart, forcing local authorities to recognize unsafe. However, Lukashenko show how there is a reconstruction, officials decided not to.
The bridge across the Dnieper River was built exactly half a century ago, he connects with sleeping neighborhoods Zadneprovye industrial center. Since that time, it only once closed to fix the roadbed. Since that time, the design became rotten, several flights a railing collapsed into the river. After that one side of the sidewalk for pedestrians closed, and soon stopped and vehicular traffic.
Loss of important transport artery worried primarily employees of local flax, which for the most part live just as Zadneprovsky areas. Changing the enterprise begins at 6 am, there is no direct bus route, and many are faced with the problem of how to have time to work.
Now the road to the other side was longer by 10 miles in one direction, public transport has to pledge an additional 30-40 minutes, and the road from the cut area to the station, a resident complains Irina Flyorova streets, takes about an hour:
"People who get as you can. For example, as I drive to work. We reached the center, then taxi or bus taking me in the opposite direction – to flax, flax to come back to the center and then to the train station. Here's a convoluted route. "
By "Dozhinki" 2008 in Orsha repaired two bridges, but they are shorter and did not require extraordinary investments. A cost estimate overhaul 200-meter bridge took about 400 billion rubles in prices of 2013, which is equivalent to – almost $ 40 million. This is despite the fact that the entire annual budget of the city half. Says resident Zadneprovye Mr. Maxim, first suggested to repair the bridge in stages, leaving one lane for traffic. However, the through-hole and broke the railing forced to act more radically:
"Those two bridges to" Dozhinki "done pretty quickly. I mean bridge over Orshitsa near the plant "The Wrestler", as well as the bridge across the Dnieper in Mogilev Street, where a memorial "Katyusha". But they are relatively small, and this bridge we have the longest. Unfortunately, the minimum information as it travels there. "
Closing emergency bridge, the local government has promised that the object will pass through two years. However, the experience of previous Orsha protracted puts these plans into question. It said "Dozhinki" townspeople promised the main attribute of the holiday village workers – an ice palace. With great difficulty the object passed only five years later, in the last days of the 2013th.
Radio Liberty
