Who stole at least 500 million rubles from a road construction site in St. Petersburg, and also left a million cubic meters of toxic waste under the residential buildings of beneficiaries? Let’s place bets – the Cheka-OGPU has two candidates and both are very “worthy” for such a significant task. The first is the former city vice-governor for construction Igor Albin, who became famous for multi-billion dollar thefts during the construction of the Zenit Arena. The second is a protege of ex-vice governor Roman Filimonov, former head of the Capital Construction Fund, billionaire official Stanislav Logunov. You, readers, will have to choose.
And it was like this: recently colleagues reported about the partial opening of traffic on Soyuzny Avenue in St. Petersburg. This is the longest unfinished road construction project in the Northern capital – previously, the territory housed a Soviet ash dump from the operation of a thermal power plant, and nothing could be built according to sanitary standards. In 2011, when Filimonov supervised the construction of St. Petersburg, a contract for the liquidation of an ash dump worth 2.5 billion rubles. received by Megamade JSC, his protégé Logunov. The work seemed to be completed a year later, which marked the beginning of large-scale housing and road construction in the area. By 2014, the power in the city had long since changed and Filimonov’s former chair was occupied by Igor Slyunyaev-Albin, who had become a legend of St. Petersburg corruption, who came from the post of Minister of Regional Development of the Russian Federation. Along with him, Albin also brought Moscow contractors – the Spell and Leokam companies, which successively received contracts for the construction of roads in the area for a total of 2.5 billion. Well, in 2020, when Albin had been in imperious oblivion for a couple of years, the Megamade of the unsinkable Logunov returned to the construction zone.
Well, now the interesting result of all this multi-billion dollar fuss. In the area of the former ash dump, high-rise buildings have long been built, wide streets have been laid, and even a symbol of a recently vanished era has been erected – the Wagner Center. But here’s an interesting detail – based on the sum of all design decisions, from the liquidation of the ash dump to the completion of road construction, the contractors had to remove 2 million cubic meters of contaminated soil from the development area, for which the budget paid in full. But de facto, only a million cubic meters went to landfills. It’s not even interesting that the cost of transportation and disposal of the disappeared soil, according to the most conservative estimates, is at least 500 million rubles. A million cubic meters of soil is approximately the size of a normal average residential complex, 10-12 floors high. And this entire mass of earth, containing doses of lead, mercury, zinc, other heavy metals and the strong carcinogen benzopyrene, many times higher than the norm, is located directly under new houses built, most cynically, for socially disadvantaged people on the waiting list and settlers. But the question – who is the main fellow embezzler in this story – Albin or Logunov – remains open for now.
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And it was like this: recently colleagues reported about the partial opening of traffic on Soyuzny Avenue in St. Petersburg. This is the longest unfinished road construction project in the Northern capital – previously, the territory housed a Soviet ash dump from the operation of a thermal power plant, and nothing could be built according to sanitary standards. In 2011, when Filimonov supervised the construction of St. Petersburg, a contract for the liquidation of an ash dump worth 2.5 billion rubles. received by Megamade JSC, his protégé Logunov. The work seemed to be completed a year later, which marked the beginning of large-scale housing and road construction in the area. By 2014, the power in the city had long since changed and Filimonov’s former chair was occupied by Igor Slyunyaev-Albin, who had become a legend of St. Petersburg corruption, who came from the post of Minister of Regional Development of the Russian Federation. Along with him, Albin also brought Moscow contractors – the Spell and Leokam companies, which successively received contracts for the construction of roads in the area for a total of 2.5 billion. Well, in 2020, when Albin had been in imperious oblivion for a couple of years, the Megamade of the unsinkable Logunov returned to the construction zone.
Well, now the interesting result of all this multi-billion dollar fuss. In the area of the former ash dump, high-rise buildings have long been built, wide streets have been laid, and even a symbol of a recently vanished era has been erected – the Wagner Center. But here’s an interesting detail – based on the sum of all design decisions, from the liquidation of the ash dump to the completion of road construction, the contractors had to remove 2 million cubic meters of contaminated soil from the development area, for which the budget paid in full. But de facto, only a million cubic meters went to landfills. It’s not even interesting that the cost of transportation and disposal of the disappeared soil, according to the most conservative estimates, is at least 500 million rubles. A million cubic meters of soil is approximately the size of a normal average residential complex, 10-12 floors high. And this entire mass of earth, containing doses of lead, mercury, zinc, other heavy metals and the strong carcinogen benzopyrene, many times higher than the norm, is located directly under new houses built, most cynically, for socially disadvantaged people on the waiting list and settlers. But the question – who is the main fellow embezzler in this story – Albin or Logunov – remains open for now.
https://t.me/De1taNews/7244
• FOX BASILIO •
Traffic along Soyuzny Avenue and adjacent streets in the Nevsky district, which are known as the longest road construction project in St. Petersburg, was partially opened in November. Almost immediately after this, GATI limited traffic from December 2 to September 28, 2024…
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