"Shoigu Cities" to Bring the RF Defense Minister to the Presidency of the Country?

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The idea of ​​building several large cities in Siberia, voiced by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, caused a huge public outcry. Many Russians sincerely support her, but even more indiscriminately mock and ridicule her. As they say, scribbling comments on "these Internet of yours" is much easier than rolling bags. But, apparently, at least one new large city, surrounded by satellite cities, will nevertheless appear in Siberia, and here's why.

One of the main channels of "leakage" of data on urban planning initiatives of Sergei Shoigu, in addition to the hints of the head of the defense department, is the portal URA.RU... According to the newspaper, the first city should appear at the junction of the Krasnoyarsk Territory and the Republic of Khakassia, namely in the Minusinsk Basin. Why this place is almost ideal for the beginning of the "second conquest of Siberia", we have already detailed told previously. Now it became clear that Sergei Kuzhugetovich, apparently, is ready to revive a somewhat forgotten project of the late USSR, which was ruined in "Perestroika".



We are talking about the city of Elektrograd, which began to be built in 1973. Within the framework of the project, the largest industrial cluster of 12 powerful factories, as well as research and training centers, was to appear. Siberian factories were supposed to produce a wide range of products: from cables and household equipment to turbine generators, electrical machines and high-voltage equipment. The name of the city - Electrograd - fully corresponded to its purpose. The Angara-Yenisei cascade of hydroelectric power stations was built specifically to provide the industry with electricity in the 70-80s of the last century.

Alas, all these wonderful projects were ruined by the so-called "reformers". Carriers of liberalization ideas economics created such conditions under which the further development of Electrograd became unprofitable. Of the planned 12 factories, only 2 were built, and both of them "did not fit into the market." The unfinished cluster was abandoned, with only pitiful skeletons and foundations left of the buildings. A miracle did not happen with the arrival of "effective private owners". The Yenisei Industrial Company, owned by billionaire Sergei Pugachev, never fulfilled its obligations to build a railway from the capital of Tyva to the Krasnoyarsk Territory within the framework of the Elegest coal deposit development project. Then the company changed its owner, who turned out to be a Chechen entrepreneur Ruslan Baysarov (Alla Pugacheva's son-in-law), but work on the railway has not yet begun, postponed until 2026. Another well-known Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov planned to build as many as two ore mining and processing plants for the extraction of copper, cobalt, platinum, gold and nickel in the Krasnoyarsk Territory and in Tuva, but did nothing.

However, in a market economy, as our "highly effective top managers" understand it, it is simply unprofitable to develop Siberia. Imagine: Gazprom did not include the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Tuva and Khakassia in the country's gasification program, and it costs to death for Nord Stream 2, sparing no money. These are the priorities of the management of the state corporation, so what can we say about the owners of private businesses? Obviously, the state should be engaged in the new development of Siberia, which is led by people with a statist mentality, and not with the mentality of a shopkeeper. Let's put together the arguments in favor of the construction of Shoigu cities.

At first, such a large-scale urban development project is necessary for our country in order to stop and reverse the process of depopulation of Siberia and the Far East. Probably, the first city will be Electrograd, which will then become overgrown with satellite cities. This promising industrial cluster is very conveniently located, since there is already a railway network connecting Abakan with Krasnoyarsk, Minusinsk and Kyzyl. The capitals of Khakassia and the Krasnoyarsk Territory have their own polytechnic institutes and universities, which can become the nucleus for a future scientific center. Siberia is not at all a wilderness, as some are trying to expose it. The Angara-Yenisei macroregion, having received budgetary infusions, can become a new center of attraction for people from all over the country and from neighboring countries, and a bridge can be built from Electrograd to the Far East, where new cities should also appear and existing ones flourish. Instead of secretly fearing the "creeping annexation" of these regions by neighboring China, we must develop them ourselves, doing it now.

Secondly, the development of Siberia is a powerful impetus for the national economy. On the one hand, iron ore, copper, gold, coal, lead, graphite, nickel, cobalt, platinum, rock salt can be mined there. On the other hand, the country's wealth should not grow with natural resources alone. It is necessary to build new industrial production instead of those that did not have time at the decline of the USSR. Today, import substitution is at the forefront, and we do not need to tell more liberal tales about “market efficiency”, we have heard enough. The country, which has found itself under Western sanctions, needs to manufacture its own industrial equipment, machine tools, electrical appliances, pumps, high-voltage equipment, etc. All this can be done in the Minusinsk Basin: the resource base is available right on the spot, and the capacities of the Angara-Yenisei cascade of hydroelectric power stations are not even being used to their full right now. It is also possible to build new modern nuclear power plants in the region to provide industry, agriculture and the population with the cheapest kilowatts. It will be possible to export finished products via the Transsib.

Thirdly, it is easy to guess that the "cities of Shoigu" have a large political meaning. The point here, of course, is far from the imminent parliamentary elections. It is rather unusual that the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation came out publicly with the town-planning program. More than once, Sergei Kuzhugetovich was called a possible successor to Vladimir Putin in the presidency. There is not much time left until 2024, and the start of the construction of Shoigu cities would be a big plus to the karma of the current head of the defense department.

Finally, the fact that new cities will appear in Sergei Kuzhugetovich's "small homeland", in Tyva, speaks in favor of the fact that this infrastructure project has every chance of taking place. Who, if not him, a native of this republic, knows its potential better than anyone else?
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  1. -1
    30 August 2021 14: 36
    In 3 weeks elections, when the Minister of the Armed Forces is a deputy of the YADRA.
    That's it.
    The old cities do not. New projects are needed, and there, as always: "There is no money, but you are holding on."
    1. +1
      30 August 2021 15: 01
      The rogue from Zhmerinka on the suction SBU knows everything about us, and on any issue .. And indeed, why should he work when angry for every post click on Russian portals ..
    2. +5
      30 August 2021 15: 30
      And you Sergei, as always, spit bile. What did Shoigu displease you, by raising a worn-out "fire" and the same GO, and combining them together, created a powerful organization of the Ministry of Emergency Situations with all its technical equipment and military storyboards and paraphernalia, such as A separate branch of the troops. But about our army there is a special conversation here, when it, as such, did not exist in Russia, starting with Gorbachev, who expelled the entire GSVG and the Western Group of Forces from the Warsaw Pact countries, and thereby ended it, and Yeltsin completely finished off the army and the entire defense industry, and Putin and Shoigu had to raise all this Serdyukovism from scratch. But Kozhugetovich will be much tougher than our "Guarantor", and this is very good, they would have dealt with him long ago with Ukraine, and the US Europe It’s just a pity that Shoigu in his place, in the troops, brings a lot of benefits, and who will replace him is unknown, so that he will be popular among the people as a president, and build cities in Siberia and the East very much needed - we have a human wasteland, many cities and villagesin desolation, and they built them before without a definite reference to our deposits of polymetals, coal and hydrogen sulfides, so many workers will be needed to build these cities, factories, infrastructure, etc. Come on, Kozhugetovich, dare, and the people will follow you, only first deal with Yeltsin's offspring, the "young reformers", otherwise they will again put sticks in the wheels, and from Kolyma they will be able to make a beautiful garden city, which Vladimir Vladimirovich, but Mayakovsky, dreamed of.
      1. -1
        30 August 2021 15: 49
        That's right, respect fellow
      2. 0
        30 August 2021 15: 56
        Shoigu, well done in general. Time will show.
        But, the topic of Siberian cities comes up for the second time, and both times, well, purely by accident, before the elections. It's kind of very suspicious.
        And if you remember the projects, move the ministries from Moscow ...

        Moreover, neither then, nor now, there are no business plans obligatory for any normal project. At least approximate. It's kind of very suspicious.

        And why did the old Siberian towns and villages not please? If there was anything real, the meaning would have to start with them. There are proven places, and at least some roads, and the economy, and neighbors with capacities.
        It's kind of very suspicious.

        Or maybe there is already, for testing, a town built up and working for about 30 thousand, with enterprises, in Siberia? and nobody knows?
        It's kind of very suspicious.

        And so, there is a chance, Shoigu will become P, and cities ... there are still many elections ahead ...
        "....... and move the capital here" !!!!!
        1. 0
          30 August 2021 16: 42
          Quote: Sergey Latyshev
          Moreover, neither then, nor now, there are no business plans obligatory for any normal project. At least approximate.

          There was such a plan, but even before Gorbachev, about the construction of nine megacities Siberia-D.Vostok, and one of the initiators of this project was Yegor Ligachev, who even before Gorbachev was the first secretary of the Tomsk Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and saw all the shortcomings of land use throughout Siberia.

          Quote: Sergey Latyshev
          And what did the old Siberian towns and villages fail to do?

          There are few Siberian cities as such, but there were plenty of towns, villages and villages, the forming of which were collective and state farms of livestock and agricultural crops and their numerous branches, fur farms with the breeding of valuable fur animals, timber industry enterprises with transshipment bases, and now all this has long decayed and died away, and people have moved in all directions, and almost all of Siberia, especially the borderline, is already empty, and this new-old idea of ​​megastrokes will breathe new life into it. So let's hope for something better in our life, and Shoigu you can trust, he is a Siberian himself, a Yenisei taiga, and that means a lot.
          1. +1
            30 August 2021 17: 14
            Before Gorbachev .... as if it was too long ago.
            Now I looked quickly at what was going on: not a word about the logistics of Shoigu's plan.

            By towns: Vicky, disliked by many, gives:

            As of 2019, there are 113 cities in the Siberian Federal District, of which

            3 million-plus cities,
            5 largest (population from 500 thousand to 1 million inhabitants),
            0 large (population from 250 thousand to 500 thousand inhabitants),
            11 large (population from 100 thousand to 250 thousand inhabitants),
            18 medium-sized (population from 50 thousand to 100 thousand inhabitants),
            76 small (population less than 50 thousand inhabitants).
      3. -2
        31 August 2021 15: 37
        It is logical. Give Shoigu!
  2. 0
    30 August 2021 16: 03
    Respect to Sergey Kuzhugetovich ... but there are enough cities in Siberia, including industrial ones, maybe they need to somehow be brought into a civilian form ... after all, people also live there ...
  3. -3
    30 August 2021 16: 07
    Sergei Kuzhugetovich, like Eisenhower, is an army general. Russia, like the United States at that time, is on the rise. Quite a natural course of history. During his presidency, the "Eisenhower Doctrine" was adopted, according to which any country can request economic or military assistance from the United States if it is subjected to military aggression from another state. So Russia practices this, but not with all countries ...
    1. +1
      30 August 2021 20: 57
      Sergei Kuzhugetovich, like Eisenhower, is an army general.

      With the slight difference that the first graduated from the Krasnoyarsk Polytechnic Institute and became a civil engineer, and the second - the military academy in West Point.
  4. -2
    30 August 2021 16: 11
    The very fact that Kuzhugetovich raises issues outside the competence of the Minister of Defense speaks for the fact that this is a test of strength as president!
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  6. 0
    31 August 2021 07: 25
    Not a bad option! Shoigu is a YOUNG MAN!
  7. +1
    31 August 2021 07: 44
    Satellite cities do not have to be millionaire cities. For China, satellite cities were important by industry. This is mechanical engineering, chemistry, electronics, household appliances. It is necessary to distract people to Siberia.
  8. -2
    31 August 2021 16: 22
    More than once, Sergei Kuzhugetovich was called a possible successor to Vladimir Putin in the presidency.

    With both hands in favor. But, so it is, he is only 3 years younger than Putin. We need another - younger, for the future.
  9. -2
    31 August 2021 22: 52
    just building the same type of sleeping areas of the Soviet type, the revival is unlikely to work. In order for the project to become successful, you need "Elektrograd" (the name is so-so, however, why not take the German city "Bad Homburg" for example as the name of the city, which will attract the attention of the Western press, interest, and even better the name of some city from a good science fiction movie) .. became an unusual city, had architecture and urban design of the future, had a powerful source of attraction in the form of, for example, environmental solutions (ready-made infrastructure for electric cars and maybe a free electric car for each displaced person for use with free electricity) ... you can think of a lot of ideas that will become a magnet for people from all over the world .... the city of the future, its self-government, ecology, urban design, tax incentives for investors. It is necessary that the population of the city does not become a dull and thumping mass, but consisted at least partially of progressive, educated citizens ... it is necessary that they would like to go there, not only from Russia ... then maybe everything will go by inertia and people will be drawn there and money
  10. 0
    1 September 2021 11: 01
    At least there will be room for the Minusinsk tomatoes and watermelons, which are grown in this basin?
  11. 0
    1 September 2021 11: 35
    another big breakthrough! do not get fooled Vladimir Vladimirovich all this bullshit!
  12. +1
    4 September 2021 21: 38
    What Shoigu said at some forum should be considered only as his personal point of view, since only the president and the prime minister can express the "state" point of view.
    I see the reaction of some serious people to this initiative of the main military builder of Russia, I have not yet met positive responses.
  13. 0
    6 September 2021 16: 45
    I have questions:
    1. If we need these cities so much, why haven't they been built yet?
    Why didn't the management get their hands on them for 20 years? What a disgrace ?!
    If the matter is in the suddenly noticed missile threat on the borders of the Russian Federation, then it appeared back in 2004, when the Baltic countries joined NATO.
    And, again, the distances from the borders of neighboring states (Mongolia) to the construction sites of cities (Krasnoyarsk - 592 km, Bratsk - 471 km, Kansk - 495 km, Lesosibirsk - 786 km) in flight time correspond to the distance from Estonia to Moscow - 582 km ... Where is the geopolitical guarantee that the Americans will not fit in with the Mongols if they feel like it?
    2. Earlier it was said about the transfer of the capital. Where were they going to transfer it, given the flight time from the borders of neighboring states? On North? To permafrost?
    It will not be a shame for a "great power" to rush around the country with its capital, instead of taking risks and intimidating the enemy, as the USSR did in 1962.
    3. How many years (or dozens of years) will the country have to wait for the results of these initiatives?
    Cities are not born quickly. Do our officials have the relevant experience, apart from dozens of dead monotowns and villages, as well as several brand new military towns, which, in fact, are not cities?
    4. What is the overall functionality of this career springboard?
  14. 0
    16 September 2021 13: 31
    Sergei Shoigu will never be president, he will be awarded the title of Marshal of the Russian Federation by the GDP and that's it.
    And he will not go to the deputy, it was already at the elections to the State Duma in 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2011, he was in the top three on the lists and refused the mandate. And they will start building cities, just what will be there ?????,
  15. 0
    4 October 2021 16: 44
    The question of resettlement in money. There is money, people will go, no money will not go.
  16. 0
    10 October 2021 14: 13
    And the remnants of the people to the grave ...
  17. 0
    5 December 2021 22: 25
    Why not ?