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New Moscow: 11th district

Moscow should become not a monocentric, but a polycentric city, Mayor Sobyanin said. "At least 5-6 centers should be self-sufficient," he said in August 2011. According to him, the annexed territories should have a comprehensive arrangement, including offices, housing, social and cultural facilities.

The Moscow authorities can create a separate administrative district from the annexed territories - the eleventh in a row. The total area of ​ ​ the territory annexed to the capital is 144 thousand hectares. According to the mayor, "we have not yet made any decisions on this matter, but I think that at first we will create one district in the annexed territories," Sobyanin said. According to him, documents on the transfer of land and clarification of borders will be prepared within a couple of years.

In the annexed territories, the small population is about 150,000 people. "This will be one of the smallest districts in terms of population, but the largest in terms of territory," the mayor said.

Perhaps one prefecture will be created. But so far, Sobyanin has proposed introducing a bill to the Moscow City Duma that provides for the preservation of its own budgets and authorities in the territories annexed to the capital. "Dozens of municipalities will go to the borders of Moscow. They have their own rights, deputies, their own executive branch, their own budget. My personal opinion is to leave them the rights they have. "

According to the mayor, if cities move to the borders of Moscow, their budgets will not decrease, but will increase, all elected bodies should stay and work, and "the management of the territories will create a certain stability of work," RIA Novosti reports.

In August 2011, the Minister for Territorial Entities of the Moscow Region of the regional government, Vladimir Demeshkan, stressed that an agreement on the transfer of part of the territory of the Moscow To Moscow Region had not yet been signed. "First, we can say that the municipal, formations which will move to Moscow, at some stage will maintain the administrative division that exists today. Podolsky district, Naro-Fominsk will remain the Podolsky district and Naro-Fominsky. Heads were also chosen there, deputies were elected in city councils, and until their powers end, Moscow itself declares that it will not break the already established ties, established forms of interaction with the population, "Demeshkan said.

This will minimize conflict situations around summer cottages, which will be able to develop already as "intra-city territories" and will result in stable power supply, water supply and other amenities. In addition, after the development of project documentation, Sobyanin promised to hold public hearings of the entire project, although, according to him, "they are not provided for by law."

A separate topic is not included in the Moscow future "appendix" of the enclaves. These are Skolkovo, Rubelevo-Arkhangelsk and not a very distinct territory near Zvenigorod in the Uspensky area.

Moving officials to New Moscow

Project for the placement of state institutions on the territory of "new Moscow"

In July 2011, Izvestia published a map of the placement of state institutions on the territory of the "new Moscow." They will not be evicted to a single "city of officials," as expected, but to different areas of the Moscow region The president will move to Zvenigorod, the government to Vnukovo. In fact, we are talking about the construction of several "government villages" in which officials will be accommodated.

The most distant object from the rest, according to the project, is the presidential administration: the residence of the head of state is located in the old place - at the end of the Rublevo-Uspensky highway, almost close to Zvenigorod.

The financial center, as mentioned earlier, will be located in Ruble and Arkhangelsky.

The presidential administration will closely border with the Moscow government, which, in turn, adjoins the territory allocated for the Prosecutor General's Office and the Accounts Chamber. All this "bureaucratic piglet" will be located in the Kommunarka-Ostafyevo area south of Moscow on a territory that was not considered prestigious until recently. Moreover, the infamous Butovo landfill is located here - the place of mass shooting of the repressed, as well as the largest solid waste landfill Salaryevo, closed in 2007 near Moscow^[1].

Illustration: Eduard Katykhin

Skolkovo multiplies

Objects that are "off the grid" include research and production centers - they are planned to be built near Klimovsk - as well as courts, which, according to the plan, should be in the Govorovo area.

The only "old-timer" who will remain firmly in his place is innograd. Skolkovo""

In general, it is "still difficult" to talk about the rationality of such a project, a source close to the Moscow government said. "At best, this is one of the first projects that, for sure, will change and improve," he told Izvestia.

Felling will be

Oleg Mitvol called the project of resettlement of officials unworked. "Why was it necessary to pull away departments tens of kilometers from each other? Do you think about how officials will go to meetings in the presidential administration? On concrete with trucks? Or will another concrete be laid for motorcades, and trucks will go around the city? "Mitvol wonders.

According to him, the departments "put" on free zones, but the case will not do without felling, the construction will certainly affect the forest park zones.

According to Mitvol, it was more rational to "resettle all officials in one place."

Andrei Bokov, president of the Union of Architects of Russia, assures that there is no decision on the placement of state institutions even at the preliminary level. "There is a decision only to transfer to Moscow a number of southwestern territories - a trapezoid between the Kyiv highway and Varshavka - and three enclaves in the west: Rublevo-Arkhangelskoye, Skolkovo and Gorki-9."

The head of the Union of Architects recalls that the ideas to bring the government center to the south-west were expressed by urban planners back in Soviet times. "If you look at the General Plan and recall the contests, the only geometrically intelligible axis is laid to the southwest - this is the Luzhniki-Vorobyovy Gory-University complex. The old projects of the Palace of Soviets and the government complex were located along this axis. " In addition, objective reasons are behind the choice of place - a lot of clean air comes to the capital from the southwest.

Bokov considers the creation of a new city a decisive and very promising step: "At one time, Peter I built Lefortovo as a model of St. Petersburg, and Moscow was a city with two centers."

"The movement of money generates money, leads to the capitalization of new territories, the emergence of jobs. This whole wedge is a huge resource for affordable and comfortable housing, attractive for young families and those who can find work in the government center," says Bokov.

Explanatory Note

Earlier, Izvestia has already reported on the content of the explanatory note "with a proposal to change the borders of Moscow." The document, in particular, indicated the measures for road-bridge construction that will be required when expanding Moscow borders. Among them - the reconstruction of the highway M3 "Ukraine" (Kyiv highway), A-101 Moscow-Maloyaroslavets-Roslavl (Kaluga highway), M-2 "Crimea," Warsaw highway abroad Moscow, Borovsky highway. The new border of Moscow should be as connected as possible with the Central Ring Road (Central Ring Road).

It was also said that the territory of the Moscow region outside the Central Ring Road will become a "historical, cultural and tourist and recreational cluster of federal and international importance" and will connect with the Golden Ring of Russia.

Move Decision Postponement to March 2013

• In July 2012, the relocation commission chaired by Igor Shuvalov proposed to place a government center in Kommunarka near the Moscow Ring Road. Deputies and senators also expressed their readiness to move there, however, on the condition that other authorities move with them. Separately, parliamentarians refused to move.

• In August 2012, it became known that the decision to move officials to the "new Moscow" was postponed for six months. Thus, it will be adopted no earlier than March 2013.

By this time, Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed to determine the areas where the authorities could move, as well as work out the financing of the project. He announced this at a closed meeting on August 14. It was attended by the mayor, Moscow Sergei Sobyanin the governor of the Moscow region Sergei Shoigu, the head of the Federal Property Management Agency, Olga Dergunova the head of the presidential administration Vladimir Kozhin and others^[2]

By March 2012, Vladimir Putin also instructed to assess the buildings where the authorities are now located. After selling these buildings, it is planned to finance the relocation project. Sobyanin believes that 578 billion rubles can be raised for them. Putin believes that buildings can be sold for a maximum of 500 billion rubles. Dergunova's estimate is lower - $9-15 billion (287-478.5 billion rubles).

According to the Izvestia newspaper, Vladimir Putin is an opponent of a large-scale move. The publication reported on the possible freezing of the project to resettle officials.

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Construction costs of New Moscow

Nine teams of contestants during the summer of 2012 should prepare proposals for the development of the Moscow agglomeration, the best of which officials promise to add to the changed general plan of the city. Ideas are put forward in a variety of ways, but experts warn that most of them will most likely not be money. "Consider that it is worth lunch before waiting for guests," Mikhail Blinkin, scientific director of the Research Institute of Transport, quotes Kipling (June 2012).

According to his calculations, for the minimum transport development of the territories annexed to Moscow, funding in the amount of $19 billion will be required, and for the creation of a comfortable infrastructure - about $32 billion. This cost includes the construction of two large highways ($6 million per 1 km), a road network with a density characteristic of the middle part of Moscow ($2 million per 1 km), two rail lines ($5 million per 1 km) and an urban friway to the administrative center ($3.5 billion per 20 km). "There is design and construction capacity to implement these projects, the question is funding," says Mr Blinkin.

According to Natalia Zubarevich, director of the regional program of the Independent Institute for Social Policy, Greater Moscow cannot count on the state or private investors. The federal budget has more pressing tasks. The financing of the APEC summit will end, the Olympics, the World Cup and the G8 will remain, which it was decided to hold in Skolkovo. Plus, you need to prepare for a new wave of crisis.

As for private investment, investors have stopped investing in large cities, where there are too many restrictions for the development of projects. "Moscow in the three years after the crisis received minus 31% of investments, the Moscow region - minus 50%," Ms. Zubarevich notes. In the capital, there are no infrastructure projects implemented within the framework of private-public partnership, and it is not necessary to count on their appearance in the near future, adds Mr. Blinkin. The reason is the lack of mechanisms debugged at the level of legislation and rules of the game understandable to investors.

Thus, the capital's budget remains for development, but even here the amount of possible financing is small. "There is no room for city authorities to maneuver with greater resources as the budget is socially oriented and the population is ageing. Already, 10% of expenses are city supplements to pensions, "says Natalya Zubarevich. She recalls that Moscow lives on income tax and personal income tax. However, due to a change in tax policy, this base will decline. In particular, the transition of commodity companies to pay income tax on the consolidated group will result in the loss of tens of billions of rubles for the city budget. "The Big Moscow project cannot rely on the capital's rent, this is a shaky base for development," Ms.^[3] is sure^[3].

The head of the construction complex, Marat Khusnullin, who was present at the seminar, did not agree with the arguments of the experts. In his opinion, the city has enough funds for the development of transport infrastructure in both existing and annexed territories. In 2012, the transport construction budget is $7 billion, over nine years Moscow will spend about $63 billion on transport infrastructure. "We are ready to invest in transport infrastructure to the detriment of any other direction," emphasizes Mr. Khusnullin.

Information Technology and Communications in New Moscow

It may take at least 5 years to further inform the territories annexed to the capital to the level of modern Moscow. This opinion was expressed by TAdviser on December 26, 2012, the director of DIT Moscow Artem Ermolaev.

"This is because there can be no informatization without telecommunications. Now the quality of the infrastructure is such that we are not even talking about an optical cable - at least what kind of cable it would be, "said Artem Ermolaev. "There are not always power lines."

Artem Ermolaev sees the main task in the near future in equalizing the availability of fixed-line services in New Moscow. "So far, it is difficult to talk about informatization at the existing level," he said. - What is the use of the fact that a person has the opportunity to make an appointment with a doctor remotely if he does not have a computer and home Internet? "

Another problem that hinders the implementation of state programs, Artem Ermolaev noted an equally low level of cellular communications. "There are extremely many problems there, so it would be wrong to say that in the coming years we will do everything there," Artem Ermolaev continued to answer TAdviser questions.

"Our task now is to concentrate on those settlements where the most residents are in order to provide them with the opportunity to receive the full range of services that Muscovites receive. And gradually, with such steps, attach new cities to our common system, "he said. - As soon as the connection appears, then, for example, the connection of the health care system will take no more than a day. "

Investment will be carried out from extrabudgetary sources. "We work with telecom operators, we convince of the prospects of new territories," continued Ermolaev. - The volume of housing construction after the expansion increased several times, so telecom operators will have to go there. This is the same ARPU that is too late to "catch" in old Moscow.

History

2011: Plan for the creation of the administrative district of New Moscow

Moscow should become not a monocentric, but a polycentric city, Mayor Sobyanin said in August 2011. "At least 5-6 centres must be self-sufficient." According to him, in the annexed territories there should be a comprehensive arrangement, including offices, housing, social and cultural facilities.

The Moscow authorities can create a separate administrative district from the annexed territories - the eleventh in a row. The total area of ​ ​ the territory annexed to the capital is 144 thousand hectares. According to the mayor, "we have not yet made any decisions on this matter, but I think that at first we will create one district in the annexed territories," Sobyanin said. According to him, documents on the transfer of land and clarification of borders will be prepared within a couple of years.

In the annexed territories, the small population is about 150,000 people. "This will be one of the smallest districts in terms of population, but the largest in terms of territory," the mayor said.

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