Good afternoon. Today Information Center The Moscow Government holds a press conference with the head of the Department of Environmental Management and Protection environment of the city of Moscow Anton Olegovich Kulbachevsky on the topic: “Results of the Department’s work in 2018. Plans for 2019.”
A.O. KULBACHEVSKY
I see familiar faces in the hall. We have been interacting with you for 8 years. Thank you for writing about ecology.
2018 is a very busy year. In 2018, the “Million Trees” campaign continued for the 5th year. Over the entire period, as part of this campaign, more than 100,000 trees, 2,200,000 shrubs were planted, and more than 18,000 Moscow courtyards were additionally landscaped. The campaign started in August 2013. There was a serious social demand from Muscovites for additional landscaping in their yards. This procedure was very bureaucratic. But we have simplified everything and have already landscaped 18,000 yards using a simplified procedure. In 2018 alone, more than 350,000 trees and shrubs were planted as part of the campaign. To replace those lost in 2018 due to abnormal weather conditions, 3,304 trees were planted. This program will continue in 2019. We plan to plant about 330,000 trees and shrubs. A new campaign “Our Tree” will start - when parents of Muscovite families whose children are born in Moscow will be given a place to plant their ancestral family tree. We plan that in the future about 30,000 families will take part in it annually. But we cannot yet say how many families will respond in 2019.
The department developed 15 urban areas with a total area of 169 hectares. These are the activities of the compensatory landscaping program. There, 6,600 trees and 54,000 shrubs were planted, and lawns were laid on an area of 10 hectares.
Do you know that trends in the field atmospheric air we have positive ones from 2010 to 2018. General phrases that 90% are motor vehicles, 10% are industry - this ratio does not change. Pollution levels continued to decline near highways, incl. reduction in the concentration of carbon monoxide by 2.2, nitrogen oxide by 1.9 and sulfur dioxide by 2.3 times. The concentration of nitrogen dioxide decreased by 5% compared to 2017. Compared to 2010, the decrease in carbon monoxide was 2.1 times, nitrogen oxide 2.3 times, sulfur dioxide 1.7 times, suspended particles PM 10 - 1.6 times. All these substances affect the health of our citizens. 30% of health impacts are not medical factors, but the environment. In this sense, we continue to actively cooperate with doctors and Rospotrebnadzor, with which we have many joint successes, including in the field of atmospheric air monitoring.
Overall, vehicle emissions were reduced by 150,000 tons. If in 2010 it was 1 million tons, then at the end of 2018 it was 850,000 tons. All this was achieved thanks to the achievements of transport policy (new interchanges, new modes of transport, new options for passengers, the number of trips by car is decreasing). We continue to work on monitoring motor fuel. Moscow, as you know, was the first in the Russian Federation to switch to selling only Euro 5 motor fuels, which also gave a positive result.
If we talk about 10% of emissions from industrial enterprises, then over 8 years of modernization, which is still ongoing, the Moscow Oil Refinery, Kuryanovsky and Lyuberetsky wastewater treatment plants. Over the past 5 years, we have reduced emissions from stationary sources by 12%. These are, first of all, pipes of enterprises.
Last year, a monitoring system for water bodies was organized on 24 main watercourses and reservoirs, in more than 60 observation sites with the determination of up to 40 indicators. The efficiency of cleaning surface runoff from oil products and suspended solids from the territories of major roads at deep treatment facilities was 90-95%. That is, almost all wastewater from highways in the city center is treated, and quite well. In 2018, the content of ammonia nitrogen in the Moscow River below the Kuryanovsky wastewater treatment plant discharge decreased by 50% compared to 2014. Over the past 10 years, the content of petroleum products in the Moscow River in the central part of the city has decreased by 20%.
In 2018, there was a trend toward improvement in soils. Compared to 2005, when we started making observations, the level of petroleum products decreased by 2 times, and compared to 2017 - by 10%.
92% of Moscow territory falls into the category of low pollution. This is a good indicator. During 2018, 93 facilities were identified where work was carried out in violation of established noise standards. Administrative cases have been initiated for 79 objects and documents for initiating administrative cases are being prepared for 14. Our environmental monitoring service is actively working, mainly on construction sites that are carried out at night and are noisy. We brought 79 such objects to justice last year.
We continue to develop and upgrade our environmental monitoring system. In 2018, a 24-hour operational control service was created on the basis of the State Budgetary Institution, designed for continuous monitoring of the environmental situation in the city, timely identification and prevention of environmental incidents, threats to emergencies of a natural and man-made nature, also associated with extremely high levels of air pollution and operational response to environmental incidents. The creation of this service allowed us to double the number of mobile laboratory raids to study the level of air pollution based on complaints from residents at night. At the end of 2017, in December, we had an emergency - the smell of sauerkraut. These episodes continued in 2018. We understand at the expense of which objects this happened. Right now the problem is still being resolved. We are actively monitoring and notifying concerned residents of the Eastern Administrative District, South-Eastern Administrative District and other areas exposed to unpleasant odors.
In 2018, some environmentalists tried to create some kind of intrigue when, at the wishes of residents and media representatives who write about the state of atmospheric air, we carried out the first stage of modernizing the Mosekomonitoring website and updated the data. Now he has become more friendly and approachable.
In 2018, we actively took part in the preparations for the 2018 World Cup and in its holding. We participated in the certification of facilities and stadiums that hosted the World Cup according to international green standards. Near the Spartak and Luzhniki stadiums, our two automatic air monitoring stations provided relevant data on the area where the 2018 World Cup matches were being held.
Our main task is an educational function. In 2018, we continued to develop and multiply this topic. We took part in large-scale Earth Hour events. So, in 2011, 60 buildings turned off their lighting, in 2016 - 1000 buildings, and last year 1938, including the ensemble of the Moscow Kremlin, Red Square, St. Basil's Cathedral. We carried out the “Separate and Use” campaign - more than 37 tons of waste were collected by the participants of the action in 2018 (more than 20,000 people), and in 2014 - only 2 tons, when there were 5,000 participants. Interest in separate collection is growing - more than 30% of Muscovites, according to our surveys, would like to take part in separate collection campaigns, and as the waste problem is solved, a recycling industry will be created, the requests of which will include separate collection to increase the amount of waste received for processing.
Ecologist Day was held in Skazka Park. In 2019, we are going to celebrate it on June 8 in the recreation area on the Stroginskaya floodplain.
For the first time in 2018, we launched such actions as “Art for the sake of ecology.” This is a large-scale project to inform the population about the practice of separate collection. household waste. From November 12 to 15, Muscovites exchanged paper, glass, plastic and aluminum for tickets to theaters, museums, cinemas, children's centers and concert venues in the capital. The project was supported by dozens of the best cultural institutions cities, famous artists and Russian pop stars. This is a completely new format environmental education, which aroused a wave of keen interest among Muscovites. During the event, more than 10 tons of household waste were collected and more than 4.5 thousand tickets for cultural events were issued.
We have launched a new campaign “Ecomanifesto or 10 ways to love Moscow.” These are videos on the Internet in which famous media personalities took part (I. Bezrukova, G. Kutsenko, A. Mikheeva, D. Malikov, E. Varnava, A. Mikheeva, M. Butyrskaya, Y. Karaulova, S. Casanova, Glucose , Tutta Larsen). I would like to thank everyone for their participation, both the artists and the Muscovites who watched the videos. The artists recorded stories about how, through simple actions, we can preserve our nature and how we can love our city from an environmental point of view.
They offered a “Green Office” campaign, which ran from April to June. 103 companies took part in it. The number of participants is growing every year.
Traditionally, together with the Department of Transport, we took part in the environmental awareness campaign “World Car Free Day”, “Earth Day”, “Bike to Work” and many other actions and forms of activity.
We continue to interact with civil society: volunteers, public organizations, activists. We have already held the fifth eco-residence and the event has become traditional and produces good results for the life of the city. We launched the mechanism of public inspectors. This topic came from the Ministry natural resources and ecology, together with the ONF and other organizations. We have created mechanisms for training these inspectors and have already given certificates to the first inspectors. They actively interact with us.
For the second year we carried out the “Christmas Tree Cycle” campaign. Last year we did it mainly with the help of the Department: there were 18 Christmas tree collection points in the protected areas. We then collected about 7,000 spruce trees and processed them. This year the mayor decided to expand this campaign. This year there were 460 Christmas tree collection points, in almost every district, within walking distance. We collected over 26,000 Christmas trees and processed them. Muscovites actively respond to these actions.
In 2019, the Department announced a competition to develop the concept of scientific, educational, leisure and family centers - “Ecopark of the Future” and “Museum of the Laws of Nature”. In the “Ecopark of the Future” it is planned to create 4 pavilions with thematic names “Atmosphere”, “Water”, “Soil”, “Light”. The exhibition will be dedicated to the development of environmental professions in the future. The exhibition is planned to be accessible to people with disabilities. The exhibits will be adapted by a psychologist for children with special needs.
The “Museum of the Laws of Nature” will be divided into zones “Water”, “Forest”, “Atmosphere” and “Light”, and a laboratory “Soil and Roots”. These are the formats demanded by Muscovites. All our eco-centers, their working hours are scheduled six months in advance. The capacity can be increased indefinitely, because the interest is colossal.
In 2019, we plan to open an exhibition space at VDNKh based on Pavilion No. 29 “Floriculture”. Various new technologies in landscaping will be presented there. This will be an exhibition-garden where you can get acquainted with exotic plants. There will be an “Ant Museum” - an entire ant population settled in a city - a model of a metropolis, and it will be possible to watch in real time how this civilization develops. There will be web cameras, and via the Internet it will be possible to watch what changes are taking place in ant life. We have already done “beekeeping” recently.
“White Book of Moscow” is a project that we want to do in 2019. A unique publication intended for visually impaired children, typed in Braille. She will tell Moscow schoolchildren from specialized schools about specially protected natural areas and the Red Book. Books will be distributed among educational institutions where these children study.
For environmental control, the Department worked in full force, provided with a laboratory, forces and means to implement environmental control and supervision. We carried out 12,000 control events in 2018. They imposed fines in the amount of more than 150 million rubles, collected penalties in the amount of 256 million rubles, and calculated additional damages amounting to about 200 million rubles. Some have been collected, some are still in the courts.
We continue to work on motor fuels. We carried out 21 events, 10 based on requests from residents. 79 samples were taken from 29 gas stations. In 5% of cases, a discrepancy between the fuel quality and the requirements established in Moscow was found. We have an unspoken “black” list. Based on the results of verification activities, in 2018, at the end of 28 gas stations were still on this list. These are the stations where we found violations in previous years, and we notify Muscovites about this.
Activity, including in the environmental sphere, is increasing. In 2018, 41,500 appeals from citizens on environmental issues were considered. This is a very large volume, which we have dealt with and responded to everyone.
We continued the fight against illegal wildlife trafficking. We actively discussed this topic, even wrote the text of the law, conducted a crowdsourcing project in the city on the topic of protecting and protecting animals in the urban environment. Great success that The State Duma At the end of the year, the Russian Federation adopted a corresponding law at the federal level, which included almost all of our proposals. Now we will continue to work with the Moscow City Duma in 2019 to develop by-laws, rules that apply only to cities of federal significance.
In this area, we carried out more than 60 control measures and opened 9 cases. 33 illegally kept wildlife objects were identified, we seized 17 animals, and individuals were fined approximately 500,000 rubles. This year we will have to develop at the Moscow level rules for keeping and a list of animals that can be kept in apartments. Another main task is to prescribe the rules of the game for objects where animals are either exhibited or placed. These are petting zoos that excite, we receive a lot of requests from Muscovites. Based on the principles of humanity, we are trying to resolve all these issues.
Protected natural areas are a serious block of our responsibility - more than 17,000 hectares on the territory of Old Moscow. We did not curtail our plans to create new protected areas and last year we created two new protected areas - a landscape reserve in the valley of the Ramenka River and in January the Brateevskaya Poima faunal reserve was created. In the buffer zones of protected areas, we continue to develop conditions for leisure and sports, realizing that the capacity of these territories is still limited. Now Muscovites have the opportunity to engage in 22 sports in our territories: football, tennis, cross-country skiing, hockey, Athletics, skate park and others. In total, we have more than 180 playgrounds, more than 180 sports fields, sports fields, training grounds, bicycle routes with a length of more than 69 km, 14 ecological trails more than 32 km long. For summer holiday we organized 31 zones, including 6 swimming zones. If we take the winter history, then there are 8 skating rinks, 7 ice slides, 2 slopes, 50 ski trails with a length of about 153 km.
As part of the Moscow Longevity program, which was launched in 2018 for older people, our territories are also very popular. Pensioners engage in Nordic walking and other activities, which we organized together with the departments concerned.
For the second year in a row, we held the Climate Forum of Russian Cities - this is a platform for international and domestic exchange in the field of sustainable development of urban ecosystems. This year the forum was held at VDNKh in the “Worker and Collective Farm Woman” pavilion. 200 experts from 23 countries spoke, including the UK, Korea, France, Sweden, Holland, Japan and Germany. In 2019, we also plan to hold this forum in Zaryadye on September 4-5. We will discuss climate change and the problems of adapting urban infrastructure to it.
In 2018, the International Expert Council on Environmental Issues was created under the mayor. The first meeting took place on March 13, and three times during the Climate Forum. International experts actively participate in this council, express opinions, exchange experiences and give us recommendations.
We continue to issue awards and grants from the Department. Since 2018, we began to hold a competition for the best project in the field of environmental education and awareness to receive grants. Last year, awards were given to all the winners. 97 applications were submitted - we awarded all those who distinguished themselves with cash prizes, memorable statuettes and certificates.
In 2018, we created a Youth Council, having studied the work of similar councils in other departments. The council has already begun to work and is providing us and Muscovites with some assistance. For example, when it was necessary to place dogs and cats from a shelter that was closing, our board members became involved. It was headed by the head of the Moseko movement, Mikhail Antonov. Let's hope that in 2019 the Council will begin to work actively.
I have already announced regarding public inspectors. We have such a mechanism, and everyone who wishes must undergo the training that we organized and pass something like a qualifying exam.
After the May Decrees were announced, our Department actively got involved in work together with other constituent entities of the Russian Federation, with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology, with the Presidential Administration, and all interested executive authorities. We also actively participate in the national project “Ecology”. Moscow was included in 3 projects: a subproject of the “Ecology” project to improve the health of the Volga River, preserve unique water bodies in the city and an integrated system for managing municipal solid waste.
Ready to answer your questions.
V.F. spoke to you. Zhidkin talked about the TiNAO and the transformations there. How do you interact with TiNAO?
A.O. KULBACHEVSKY
Protected natural areas located on the territory of Old Moscow are under the jurisdiction of our Department. There are no such territories in the TiNAO, i.e. there are no protected areas. There are protected areas there - this is practically the entire state forest fund that existed when the Moscow region existed. It is administered by the prefecture. There is a state budgetary institution at the prefecture that maintains it and looks after it like a forest fund. This is basically sanitary fellings, reforestation, afforestation, Fire safety and everything arising from this event. We only control - they coordinate certain actions with us. We provide methodological assistance and advice. We created an inspection department for TiNAO in 2012, when the territory joined. This is the largest department that has both drones and all-terrain vehicles. A lot of work has been done to improve the infrastructure. Mosvodokanal and Mosvodostok have taken over local treatment facilities, which were previously scattered. The quality of runoff has improved markedly since 2012. Naturally, since 2012, an environmental monitoring network has been present in this territory. If I name data, I mean all of Moscow, not just Old Moscow. Naturally, we respond to all complaints from residents. There is a problem with unauthorized dumping of soil. Recently, the prosecutor of the TiNAO was fired in connection with this. The work is being carried out successfully.
If we take urban development, then the PZZ of the TiNAO has already been adopted. There were public hearings and discussions in 2017. All urban planning plans are clear and supported by residents. No event or project goes beyond these rules. Everything else is local things that we inherited. We are working on them all.
S.V. KOZLOV - “Construction Orbit”
But when you talked about planted trees, did you mean TiNAO too?
A.O. KULBACHEVSKY
No, this is only Old Moscow. I report only for the activities of my Department. In fact, plantings in TiNAO are also carried out according to compensatory landscaping programs, as part of the project “Improvement after construction”, as part of the improvement of public spaces. But the main thing is control over protected areas. There, as part of reforestation, of course, not large trees are planted, as we plant as part of “A Million Trees” or “My Street”. There, 2-3-year-old seedlings are sown where, say, there are bark forests. Some areas are cut down, stumps are uprooted, the soil is cultivated and then greenery is planted in it. Everything is the same as in forestry.
A. PEREPECHKO - “Ekograd”
What does 2019 have in store for “dog lovers”?
A.O. KULBACHEVSKY
The topic is under close attention of the Moscow Government. I think that certain spaces will now be rethought so that all “dog lovers” have a dog walking area within walking distance. We continue to work and offer cleaning packages to people in some protected areas. It is clear that educational activities are underway. We point out that it is quite possible for humans and animals to coexist in a metropolis, but one must have certain skills and follow certain rules. We tell residents about this. Now out new law, which defended: prohibited baiting stations, cruel treatment (which was already prohibited by the Criminal Code, but now the elements of offenses are described in more detail). Many humane norms were enshrined in the new Federal Law. It is clear that it is still “fresh”, and that we, environmentalists, will have to apply it in Moscow in 2019 - this will be an experimental application of this law.
E. PETROVA - “Evening Moscow”
When will the “Our Tree” campaign start? Where will the first landings begin?
A.O. KULBACHEVSKY
We will have several places. The program will be formed over decades. Most likely, it will start in the summer, and the first landings will take place in the fall. The locations were selected mainly in protected areas, where in the future we planned activities to plant or replace green spaces. Such places have already been formed. The capacity now is under 100,000 trees. We'll have enough for 5 years, and then we'll think about it.
In 2018, we had a massive number of reports of duck deaths. There are two problems: pollution of water bodies and the fact that the ducklings could not climb up the granite landscaped slopes from the water and died from this. How will these two problems be resolved?
A.O. KULBACHEVSKY
They are already deciding. This issue is under constant monitoring by our Department. More than 30,000 waterfowl winter in the city alone. This is a global task for us. According to the facts that happened in the summer, it was on the eve of the mayoral elections, Rospotrebnadzor, veterinary control, our environmental monitoring service, responding to complaints of mass deaths, made conclusions about the pollution of water bodies chemicals, and sanitary and epidemiological. Those. The temperature rises, algae begins to bloom, and pathogenic microbes appear. For the same reasons, Rospotrebnadzor often closes many swimming spots already in July. There is a problem, namely with the heat and water temperature. But, naturally, the birds are overfed with something they should not eat, and this food is supplied in very large quantities. Based on the results of 2018, I have already given instructions to organize at almost all reservoirs where we have waterfowl, certain explanatory stands on how to feed them and to provide citizens with access to this food so that they can subdue the birds. The food must be of high quality. These are special feeds. We will try this experimentally in 2019. Let's try to organize this in the protected areas under our jurisdiction.
We provide assistance to wintering birds. On October 4, many journalists travel with us to the TiNAO, where we release our foundlings, foundlings, including a lot of birds, and waterfowl, who come to us either wounded, sick, or already exhausted, to foster care centers. We adapt them and release them into the territory of the ornithological reserve in the TiNAO. We are trying to somehow systematize this work. We work with balance holders of reservoirs and give recommendations, including on organizing wintering, so that there are convenient exits from the water. But we all understand that waterfowl winter only where there is an opening. We will be ready for this topic in the summer. Let’s do some kind of scientific and educational essay with your newspaper and continue to analyze this topic. Blame it all on water pollution - animals have a self-preservation instinct, and in dirty water it just won't settle. This means that there are some other reasons that need to be analyzed and eliminated.
E. STEPANOVA - “Moskovsky Komsomolets”
You said that you are planning to launch a White Paper. Are there any plans to review and update the Moscow Red Book before releasing this book?
A.O. KULBACHEVSKY
We have a legal obligation to review the Red Book at a certain historical period. It will be ready for release in 2019. We are doing this work. It's just not one year's work. We have already started it. Naturally, the new edition will be either 2019 or 2020. According to our analyses, there are a number of positive changes: the number of species on the verge of extinction has decreased. There are positive trends in this area.
A. RYZHKOVA - TASS
You mentioned the “Museum of Nature” and “Ecopark of the Future”. But tenders for the concepts were announced in September-October. Maybe the concept you have chosen is already clear? Where is it planned to create and when is it expected to begin construction and creation of the park and museum?
A.O. KULBACHEVSKY
The press release says this. Izmailovo, Main Alley, 11 - this is the “Museum of the Laws of Nature”. Landscape reserve "Teply Stan" - "Ecopark of the future."
A. RYZHKOVA - TASS
A.V. Gordeev recently said that as part of the creation of a separate waste collection system in Russia in 2019, it is planned, first of all, to transfer million-plus cities to the Russian North Ossetia. You said that the comprehensive creation of a waste management infrastructure is one of the parts of the national projects in which Moscow participates. In this regard, what events will be held in Moscow?
If some individual Muscovite would like a container for collecting dry waste to appear in his yard, what would you advise him to do?
A.O. KULBACHEVSKY
In almost every municipality, collection points for secondary material resources have already been identified, within walking distance. This work has already been done. There is a map with addresses on the website of the Housing and Communal Services Department. Everyone can separate waste at home and go, hand it over, and even receive a monetary reward for some types of waste. Another question would be the issue of taxes. It turns out that if you receive a reward for plastic bottle, you seem to be selling it, and this is subject to VAT, income tax, etc. It is necessary that changes be made to the Tax Code at the federal level. Now, it seems to me, they have already been formulated by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment. These tax breaks will be accepted. Points around the city have been identified, there are about 500 of them, this is public places, basically, where the containers for separate collection are located. The Department of Housing and Communal Services deals with this, as well as waste issues in general. We deal with legislation and make recommendations. Control is mainly over federal structures. We don't even exercise control. But methodologically, we are actively studying and discussing this topic with our colleagues. If now even 30% of Muscovites begin to separate waste, we simply will have nowhere to process it. The main thing here is not to deceive people. The recycling industry is starting to emerge, and small businesses are moving in. This is a gradual process and we will gradually connect. In national projects there are weather parameters in percentage terms, how much we should share. We don't fit into a niche. On the contrary, we are taking on increased obligations somewhere, exceeding federal indicators. In any case, we will develop this topic. This will be done by the regional operator, who will be selected in 3 years, and by the contractor companies that are currently working with us - they have an obligation to develop separate waste collection, which they are also doing. There are also various retail chains and facilities where this is done: packaging, cardboard. All this is already being done under our control and the control of the Housing and Communal Services Department - 800,000 tons of separated waste are handed over for processing in Moscow. This is mainly the contribution of manufacturing enterprises and retail chains. This is not to say that the topic is in its infancy. There will be a need in the industry, and we will incorporate these mechanisms to meet this need.
Regarding the container in the yard, this is a question for the management company that services your home, the operator with whom it has entered into an agreement for the entire waste disposal chain. The city has no objection to this at all. We have provided points within walking distance. Next is the question of development. Not the entire territory of the city, and not everyone in the future will take part in this. It's clear. But the 30% we are talking about, I think, is quite realistic.
I. PANARIN - “Ekograd”
Today, a list of instructions for the implementation of the Address of the President of the Russian Federation to the Federal Assembly has been approved, which contains 5 “green” episodes, one of which is related to ecotourism on protected areas. There are a lot of protected areas in Moscow. Are there any plans for eco-tourism?
A.O. KULBACHEVSKY
We are entering working group, created under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment. This is not a new message that the President gives to society, the Government, and executive authorities in the field of ecology that this topic needs to be developed. We have colossal natural heritage in the Russian Federation, more than a million hectares of protected areas. The tourism potential of these territories has not been developed. Residents of the country are interested. The development of this tourism component is a very important thing to do. But there are no economic mechanisms to attract an investor who could do it after developing all the parameters of what is possible and what is not - again, such standards. These standards need to be developed at the federal level for all protected areas. It is gentle technologies, not in all zones, but only where it is possible, like in protected areas we have buffer zones in which we detain people. In Moscow we have recreational zones, buffer zones, there is a core of protected areas, a protected area, where there is only an eco-trail and a quiet rest route, so that there is a synergy between urban and natural life. We will share our experience; we have already been invited to all working groups. We visit every year National parks in different parts of the world to understand how it is organized in other countries.
I. PANARIN - “Ekograd”
What will the Third Climate Conference, which will be held in Zaryadye, be dedicated to?
A.O. KULBACHEVSKY
The theoretical climate agenda, I believe, has already been worked out. We released guidelines, summarizing international experience, and told colleagues from other cities about it, ensuring direct contact with international experts. At the second forum, we communicated with professionals and discussed practices and technologies that can help achieve results. At the third forum, I think, we will discuss how we can apply these technologies in the Russian Federation and look for practical solutions from an economic point of view. Because even the waste reform shows that there are still no clear economic parameters and results. Everything is still in its infancy. We must clearly understand with what funds and financial instruments we will finance certain financial activities. This climate forum will focus specifically on models for the economic deployment of these technologies.
A. KARNAUKHOVA - RIA Novosti
Yesterday, Moskomarkhitektura proposed creating green areas on the site of demolished buildings and old courtyards. An example was Zaryadye Park. How do you rate this proposal?
A.O. KULBACHEVSKY
Zaryadye is not the first case, but this is a global case when, instead of an expensive hotel complex near the Kremlin, a decision was made to create a green area of such high level. There and cultural heritage, and the natural component was worked out very well. Since 2012, from 10 to 15 such decisions of the State Land Planning Commission have been made, when landscaping took place on the site of demolished garages or houses. This trend has been around for a long time and will continue. Another question is that we now have enormous potential for the reorganization of industrial zones. If we take ZIL, several wonderful parks have already been created there. This is where our potential lies. Even in our Environmental Strategy until 2030, we see potential for increasing green areas through the reorganization of industrial zones. If now they are 54.5%, then by 2030 in Old Moscow we want to bring them to 60%. This potential is also buried in these industrial zones.
A. KARNAUKHOVA - RIA Novosti
There was an initiative from social activists to create a separate special shelter for cats in Moscow, because they do not live very well in a shelter with dogs. Is there a rational idea behind this initiative? Do you support her or not?
A.O. KULBACHEVSKY
I support. Good idea. We need to share. I'm ready to discuss this. Let's take it to a commission in the Moscow City Duma. Maybe they will come up with some legislative innovations to separate our abandoned dogs from our abandoned cats.
I would suggest it for foxes, because now there are a lot of them in the city, and raccoons. And beavers settled in the South-Eastern Administrative District.
Thank you. This concludes the press conference.
Today in Kurkino, May 27 at 19.00, at school No. 2005 (Rodionovskaya St., 8) a meeting was held with the prefect of the North-Western Administrative District of Moscow A.A. Pashkov with the population of the district with the participation of the head of the Department of Natural Resources Management and Environmental Protection of the City of Moscow A.O. Kulbachevsky on the issue: “On the state and prospects for the development of specially protected natural areas of the North-Western Administrative District of Moscow.”
Getting from Khoroshevo-MNevniki to Kurkino was problematic. Traffic jams. The “dumb transport hub” on Planernaya, as deputy Mikhail Peskov aptly nicknamed it, occupied almost the entire area near the metro. However, minibuses and buses were still parked at the curb. To find the one we needed, we had to walk a couple of kilometers along some fences. In general, we were convinced that Peskov was right. TPU is of no use, it just takes up space. Along the way, I photographed various masterpieces of landscaping in Northwestern Administrative District
All around is baldness, hairless lawns and green sewer manholes.
That big people visited us that evening, testified to the numerous cars of law enforcement officers and their number.
“So that’s what you are, environmental supervision,” we thought.
Inside we were greeted by a portrait of the mayor of Moscow with the lyrics of the song: “I’ve walked around the world a lot, lived in a dugout, in trenches, in the taiga”... No comments.
When we finally got to the event, we saw our new prefect for the first time - Alexey Pashkov. He tried to be strict but fair. He answered questions quite convincingly. He promised, promised, promised, which was natural, since this was the first time the residents had personally informed him about the problems of the district.
I don’t know who exactly organized the event, I can only say that everything was terrible. The hall was jam-packed, without air conditioning or fans (there were air conditioners, however, no one was going to turn them on). The temperature felt close to tropical. Humidity and heat are apparently how we are used to living in Cuba. Within an hour, Kulbachevsky resembled Senor Tomato in the flesh. People could not stand it and began to leave the gas chamber almost immediately. The hall was full of employees of the Administration, Prefecture and other housing and communal services workers.
P Even our, in fact, full-time activist from Khoroshevo-Mnevniki said that he warmly thanked Anton Olegovich for the bushes near the house and asked for benches.. By the way, he constantly voices these same gratitudes and requests at all events in the Khoroshevo-Mnevniki Administration. Either he lacks garbage dumps, or benches, or sports equipment on the site. He was so overwhelmed with gratitude that he came to the other end of Moscow to beat him with his forehead. I was surprised by the appearance of nationalist deputy Alexander Gruzinov in Kurkino. What he was doing there, I still don’t understand.
But the atmosphere of goodness and veneration could not be fully maintained. Creating an aura of positivity was continually hampered by residents who reported about houses that had no fire alarms, and about malicious barbecue makers who were annoying them with their fires. Well, a certain woman disrupted the unctuous flows with her stories that they wanted to build up the valley of another river. "Who signed the examination?" - the woman asked. “Who signed? I don’t know who signed.” - answered Kulbachevsky, just like the St. Petersburg concierge Ludwig Aristarkhovich.
In general, for a long time he managed to talk the audience over with stories about what wonderful events the Department of Natural Resources was conducting. The head of the DPiOOS quoted various clever legislation and talked about total polynosis. He philosophized about nothing and complained about allergies in his own children. He lamented that, most likely, his mother’s allergies would be inherited by his grandchildren. Anton Olegovich's quiet voice became even quieter when the microphone was cut off. (or was passed on to someone, I don’t remember exactly).
In general, the atmosphere of friendly gatherings was spoiled only by individual performances. Then the beloved million trees, suddenly, here and there, sometimes, don’t want to take root. “We’ll replace it, how good it is that you are so vigilant and watching,” Prefect Pashkov praised the resident.
Anton Kulbachevsky said that the capital’s rivers are becoming cleaner. Alas, I was unable to object to him. It was this year that gasoline stains were discovered in Yauza, almost right next to the water intakes. It was the Samorodinka River that was flooded with feces and strange white foam more than once or twice last year. It was this year that concerned residents of Luzhniki called various hotlines and discussed the oil slick that was floating along the Moscow River. And after this, Kulbachevsky will claim that Moscow rivers have become cleaner? However, in the hall, overwhelmed by the heat and sweet speeches of the presidium, no more questions on this topic arose. But, alas, there were no authoritative ecologists from the capital at this meeting.
Kulbachevsky announced plans for the next cleaning of the capital’s water bodies. I must say that this is a favorite action for turning normal ponds into dead puddles. I have written about this several times. One of the striking examples of what ponds will turn into after they are improved by the “cleaning department” can be called the Yauzsky Forest Park and Arboretum in Khoroshevo-Mnevniki.
A deputy from Strogino (unfortunately, I didn’t remember his last name) complained to Kulbachevsky about his deputies that they were staunchly maintaining a perimeter defense around the head of the DPiOOS. "Now you have personal phone“Call me,” said Anton Olegovich.Another madam simply stood up and thanked Kulbachevsky and Pashkov for everything. With the most unctuous expression on his face, which immediately reveals that the speaker is a regular - a “positive person”.
“Uh-huh, I also have this personal phone, but I can’t reach you on it.” , - Tatyana Logatskaya told me, languishing in line at the microphone. The heat has reached its peak. The hall unanimously fanned itself with brochures, which were generously distributed at the entrance to the assembly hall.
Surprisingly, in Kurkino (North-West Administrative Okrug), brochures about the green zones of the Northern Administrative District and a booklet on Serebryany Bor were posted. I just wanted to ask if they had the wrong address? Where is Kurkino and where is Serebryany Bor?
Photographers were milling about in the hall, trying to take pictures of those standing in line for the microphone. The same incomprehensible picture was stuck on the slide show. What was this for? Either they turned it on at the wrong time, or they forgot to turn it off. The projector warmed the already stale air in the hall.
When our municipal deputy, Tatyana Logatskaya, after standing in a queue for an hour and a half, finally got the floor, she listed many complaints to the head of the DPiEP. Among which are developments Mnevnikovskaya floodplain, now a former protected area, and “adjustment” of the boundaries of Serebryany Bor, and construction on the site of the former Teplichny state farm, etc. The hall began to buzz, the clackers immediately stood up and tried to disrupt Logatskaya’s performance.
Anton Kulbachevsky, confident in his rightness,he said that he himself could shout, that Logatskaya was shouting at him... Characteristically, he did not respond to the deputy’s accusations at all. A very cultured person, this is immediately obvious. But now the Mnevnikovskaya floodplain will be built up. At first, Kulbachevsky’s department did not cope with the maintenance of the floodplain in the proper form, and then completely declared it to be in unsatisfactory condition, as “unworthy and erroneously” included in the protected area. At the same time, hundreds of signatures at public hearings in the exhibition magazines were duplicated. This means that the number of people supporting the development was inflated. No one could prove that public discussions were held. Deputy inquiries received replies that the documents were lost. In general, important documents are too often “lost” in bureaucratic corridors. By the way, VDNKh also unexpectedly lost its environmental status.
Then again there was a performance in a major key:“We are with you, walking in one step... Life is getting better... We are planting together with you...”, from an overabundance of feelings, trying to swallow tears of joy, the lady in black became confused, fell silent and folded her hands in prayer.
After heart-warming speeches, it was my turn at the microphone. You should have seen the smile that played on Anton Olegovich’s face. I said that I came here specifically to ask Mr. Kulbachevsky a question. She reminded those present about the November hydrogen sulfide exhaust that the Moscow refinery in Kapotnya was declared to be to blame. But the court, again, dropped the charges against them. Further, in the fall, Moscow was overtaken by an unprecedented and prolonged smog, the reasons for which can only be guessed at.
I asked Anton Kulbachevsky to comment on today’s media reports that the Investigative Committee has begun an audit of Kulbachevsky’s activities regarding the tax refund of the refinery.
("...V A pre-investigation check is being carried out against the head of the Moscow Department of Natural Resources, Anton Kulbachevsky, in connection with abuse of power and possible corruption. Yod http://yodnews.ru/news/2015/05/27/skandal was informed about this by a source familiar with the situation.According to the source, the head of the department illegally counted tax funds received from the Moscow Oil Refinery as expenses for city improvement. We are talking about almost 1.4 billion rubles initially paid by the Moscow Refinery to the federal, city and municipal budgets as payment for negative impact on the environment (NEOS). The funds received by the Moscow budget and the budget of the Kapotnya municipal district were returned to the plant by the decision of the head of the environmental management department Kulbachevsky....
At this stage, the pre-investigation check of the Investigative Committee regarding Kulbachevsky’s actions began. In addition, the FSB carried out operational activities confirming violations, the source claims... ")
Prefect Pashkov did not let me finish. He declared my question incorrect and said that I never asked the question. Then I asked Anton Olegovich to comment once again on the information about the inspection of the Investigative Committee. To which I received an answer that he did not know about any verification. "Read less Soviet newspapers, more fiction“Anton Kulbachevsky answered me, apparently imagining himself as Professor Preobrazhensky.
The hall, packed with employees of various bureaucratic structures, as if by magic, he shook off his sleepy haze and applauded the joke with all his might Kulbachevsky. After such an answer, there was no point in staying in the hall and continuing to listen to those “walking with one leg.” I hope that the message about inspections of the activities of the Department of Natural Resources will be the first sign, which will be followed by inspections of other decisions that the DPiEP has made over the years, under the leadership of Anton Kulbachevsky.
Head of the Department of Natural Resources Management and Environmental Protection of the City of Moscow
"Biography"
Born in 1967 in Moscow. In 1989 he graduated with honors from the Higher Naval School. M.V. Frunze. In 2013 received the second higher education at the Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President Russian Federation majoring in public and municipal government", specialization "Ecology and environmental management". Class rank: State Councilor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class, actual state councilor of the city of Moscow, 1st class.
"News"
Gas stations with low-quality gasoline will be marked with stickers
Activists of youth social movements will begin to stick warning stickers on gas stations that sell low-quality fuel. “This is a public initiative. It is carried out mainly by, let’s say, students, young people, people who are not indifferent to the ecology of the city,” said Anton Kulbachevsky, head of the Moscow Department of Natural Resources Management and Environmental Protection, in an interview with the M24 TV channel.
link: http://www.autonews.ru/automarket_news/news/1760703/
“Dirty business” of businessman Galchev is sponsored by EdRo
The head of the capital’s environmental department, Anton Kulbachevsky, came out to the residents of Pechatniki, accepted their petition, listened to their complaints and promised to take action. We can only hope that the new city government will be more principled towards violators environmental safety in the capital.
link: http://ru-compromat. livejournal.com/380005.html
Two billion rubles against the bark beetle
How to protect the green shield of the capital from bark beetle and other misfortunes? This question was answered at the “Business Breakfast” in “RG” by the head of the Moscow Department of Natural Resources Management and Environmental Protection Anton Kulbachevsky.
Head of the Moscow Department of Natural Resources Anton Kulbachevsky: “It is planned to raise 180 billion rubles for the improvement of environmental zones.”
The five-year “Recreation Industry” program should attract business not only to cultural and recreation parks, but also to specially protected natural areas (SPNA) of the capital. In order to lure investors, the city is ready to allocate 60 billion rubles. for communications and transport access. The Moscow Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection plans to receive 120 billion rubles. from business to the development of recreation areas in protected areas. The head of the department, Anton Kulbachevsky, told Marker what this money will be used for.
link: http://marker.ru/news/4280
Anton Kulbachevsky: Ecology requires additional revision
This decision was made today at a meeting of the Moscow government. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin explained this by saying that the legal formalities of transferring a forest protection belt with an area of 40 thousand hectares to the capital are still underway, and therefore how much money will be required to maintain and put it in order is not yet clear. It is only clear that this “belt” will cost Moscow a lot, because, according to the head of the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Anton Kulbachevsky, the conifers there are 30-40 percent affected by the bark beetle, and the deciduous forests are half overripe and require serious sanitary cleaning. He noted that there is still no clarity about the state of forests in the territories annexed to Moscow, which is another 60 thousand hectares. They also require examination, and only after that the necessary costs can become clear.
link: http://www.rg.ru/2011/10/11/ekologia-site-anons.html
Moscow will loosen the belt
The program “Environmental Protection” for 2012-2016 caused the most controversy and proposals. And this is understandable, because it talks about the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the earth we walk on. What goals does this document set for itself? What do the townspeople support and what do they oppose? This was discussed at the “Business Breakfast” in “RG” with the head of the department of natural resources management and environmental protection Anton Kulbachevsky.
link: http://www.rg.ru/2011/10/03/ zavtrak.html
Kulbachevsky demolishes the last ski base in Moscow
At a time when the country's leadership is confused about finding ways to develop sports, in the depths of the state itself there are officials for whom something completely different is more important. Tens of thousands of Muscovites playing sports in the Bitsa recreation area have no meaning for them. Dozens of sports festivals held by the Alfa-Bitsa sports club, including charity races to help sick children and in memory of fallen soldiers, the most massive marathon in the Moscow region “Bitsa Marathon” were not needed by Mr. Kulbachevsky, the main “fighter” for nature, head of the Department of Natural Resources and environmental protection.
link: http://www.xcsport.ru/modules/news/article.php?storyid=1340
Kulbachevsky: tiles in Moscow will not interfere with roller skating
MOSCOW, June 8 - RIA Novosti. Replacing asphalt with paving slabs in Moscow will not create inconvenience for roller skating, Anton Kulbachevsky, head of the capital's Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, told reporters on Wednesday.
link: http://news.mail.ru/inregions/moscow/90/6080257/
Anton Kulbachevsky did not call for closing the Moscow Zoo
The head of the Moscow Department of Environmental Management, Anton Kulbachevsky, did not propose to close the Moscow Zoo on Krasnaya Presnya, but only expressed the idea of the possibility of opening a new, more spacious zoo outside the city, the department’s press service said in a statement.
link: http://gliffer.ru/news/anton-kulbachevskiy-ne-prizival- zakrivat-moskovskiy-zoopark/
Anton Kulbachevsky, stop denigrating the name of Alfa-Bitsa Insurance Company.
This is exactly what I want to shout in the face of the head of the Moscow Department of Natural Resources, Anton Olegovich Kulbachevsky, after his last speeches to the press. “Seized”, “littered”, “homeless type” - these are the epithets Mr. Kulbachevsky says about the Alfa-Bitsa sports club, which holds the most massive cross-country skiing competitions in Moscow and prepares the only normal ski slope. And how he has the audacity to say such things about the people thanks to whom the Bitsa recreation area still exists.
link: http://danblackmore. livejournal.com/1383.html
A protest was held in Yasenevo against the construction of a metro line through a forest park
According to the head of the Moscow Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Anton Kulbachevsky, the project of laying a metro through the Bitsevsky Forest Park is still being worked out. “There have not been public hearings yet, and residents who are protesting can attend these hearings and voice their opinions. After the hearings, an environmental assessment at the federal level will be carried out, which will conclude whether this is harmful to the green spaces of the park or not,” the head of the department told RIA Novosti.
link: http://www.mosecofed.ru/ 1301243782.php
The Department of Environmental Protection will take care of the cement elevator in Pechatniki
The head of the Moscow Department of Natural Resources Management and Environmental Protection, Anton Kulbachevsky, will take care of the cement elevator in the Moscow Pechatniki district. He intends to initiate an inspection of hazardous production by Rosprirodnadzor and monitor the environmental situation in the area.
link: http://www.yabloko.ru/regnews/Moscow/2011/05/12_0
Anton Kulbachevsky: It is impossible to protect trees from freezing rain
Capital ecologists do not rule out the possibility of a repeat of last year’s natural scenario in the region, when at the end of December the region hosted “ freezing rain", causing serious damage to Moscow's green fund. However, experts cannot prevent trees from falling as a result of natural disasters, said Anton Kulbachevsky, head of the Moscow Department of Environmental Management.
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Born in 1967 in Moscow. In 1989 he graduated with honors from the Higher Naval School. M.V. Frunze. In 2013, he received a second higher education at the Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation, majoring in state and municipal management, specializing in Ecology and Environmental Management. Class rank: State Councilor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class, actual state councilor of the city of Moscow, 1st class.
Labor activity: 1984-1991 - Service in the Armed Forces of the USSR, 1991-1996. – Work in commercial structures, 1996-2003. – Researcher at the laboratory of chemical sensors and determination of gas-forming impurities at the Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry named after. V.I.Vernadsky, 2003-2005 – Adviser to the Chairman State Committee Russian Federation for Fisheries, 2005-2006. - Economic security specialist at Irkutskgazprom OJSC, 2006-2007. – Chief specialist of the department of state control and supervision of forests and specially protected natural areas Regional Directorate of Rosprirodnadzor for the Central Federal District, 2007-2008. – Head of the Department of State Control and Supervision of Forests and Specially Protected Natural Areas of the Department of Rosprirodnadzor for the Central Federal District, Deputy Head of the Department of Rosprirodnadzor for the Central Federal District, 2008-2010. – Head of the Department of Rosprirodnadzor for the Central Federal District, on November 10, 2010 appointed Head of the Department of Natural Resources Management and Environmental Protection of the City of Moscow.
He was awarded the badge of the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation “Honorary Worker of Nature Conservation”, the badge of the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation “Excellence in Nature Conservation”, the honorary badge of the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation “For Distinction in Service”, a letter of gratitude from the Mayor of Moscow, and a medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree.
Swimming, playing football, singing, reading fiction
Favorite place in Moscow
“I love Moscow in all its diversity. But I especially like to walk through natural parks when I have free time. It’s so nice to listen to birds singing, admire flowers, communication with nature helps to restore strength.”
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Born in 1967 in Moscow. In 1989 he graduated with honors from the Higher Naval School. M.V. Frunze. In 2013, he received a second higher education at the Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation, majoring in state and municipal management, specializing in Ecology and Environmental Management. Class rank: State Councilor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class, actual state councilor of the city of Moscow, 1st class.
Labor activity: 1984-1991 - Service in the Armed Forces of the USSR, 1991-1996. – Work in commercial structures, 1996-2003. – Researcher at the laboratory of chemical sensors and determination of gas-forming impurities at the Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry named after. V.I.Vernadsky, 2003-2005 – Advisor to the Chairman of the State Committee of the Russian Federation on Fisheries, 2005-2006. - Economic security specialist at Irkutskgazprom OJSC, 2006-2007. – Chief specialist of the department of state control and supervision of forests and specially protected natural areas of the Regional Directorate of Rosprirodnadzor for the Central Federal District, 2007-2008. – Head of the Department of State Control and Supervision of Forests and Specially Protected Natural Areas of the Department of Rosprirodnadzor for the Central Federal District, Deputy Head of the Department of Rosprirodnadzor for the Central Federal District, 2008-2010. – Head of the Department of Rosprirodnadzor for the Central Federal District, on November 10, 2010 appointed Head of the Department of Natural Resources Management and Environmental Protection of the City of Moscow.
He was awarded the badge of the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation “Honorary Worker of Nature Conservation”, the badge of the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation “Excellence in Nature Conservation”, the honorary badge of the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation “For Distinction in Service”, a letter of gratitude from the Mayor of Moscow, and a medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree.
Swimming, playing football, singing, reading fiction
Favorite place in Moscow
“I love Moscow in all its diversity. But I especially like to walk through natural parks when I have free time. It’s so nice to listen to birds singing, admire flowers, communication with nature helps to restore strength.”