Аннотация: A bad head does not give rest to legs. A South direction. Historical and geographical sketch.
A bad head does not give rest to legs. A South direction. Historical and geographical sketch.
The extraordinary efficiency of efforts in the Southern, Azov-Black Sea, Mediterranean direction is combined - naturally - with plans huge.
A cartographic illustration of a plan (to lay through Iran from the Caspian Sea to the Persian Gulf a some extraordinary shipping channel) was placed on Internet. In a few days, according to the counter, 95 thousand views took place, which, apparently, should convince in a popularity of this idea. (Today the data of a counter exceeded 100,000 views).
Unrest recently broke out in Iran (due to rising gasoline prices), during which, according to the media, about 1,500 people died - and other plans are financially difficult. Iran is unlikely to finance such a project. Guess who will have an honorary role as a financial source, and who will ultimately lose all the money?
But we should not forget about the deterioration of the environmental situation in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. Very little has been said about the ecology of the Sea of Azov - since the public debate came to an important conclusion. About the approaching ecological catastrophe of the Sea of Azov.
Yes, a money is not enough... For example, works to strengthen the coasts (many villages are located on the coast of the Sea of Azov) - these works were previously financed from the federal budget? But why not to transfer this honorary mission to the subjects of federation? - Everyone knows how much money they have...
But it is possible to think not only about the Sea of Azov, but also about the Don River.
If the Sea of Azov is close to an environmental disaster, why should the Don River be a living river?
May be additionally to a covering with a building process and with a constructions of the left coast of Don River opposite to Rostov-on-Don ("The left, left, left coast of Don, beaches, seagulls, a nice places nearby of a little river bay..." [a words of a popular song] - You have a right to recall... Sometimes...) to add the idea of reconstruction of the South-Russial (Volga-Don) waterway.
What kind of reorganization, what expansion, what reconstruction of the South Russial (Volga-Don) waterway if the reserves, resources of the Don River are exhausted?
Or have experts been found to apply the "Trishka's kaftan [coat]" principle - when a piece of matter is cut off from one part of the clothes to put a patch onto an other part of the clothes?
A great desire to invest... The population lives very richly... A fines are invented not enough, to punish for a violations of a traffic regulations. And of the other innovations to free the population from unnecessary money ...
In general, "a bad head does not give rest to legs. - A southern direction..." They display an extraordinary energy and unusual intellectual level...
Nearby a summer and winter resorts are located... And it fills with a cheerfulness...
Everything mixed into a pile - the problem of straits, the ecology of the Black Sea and the Azov Sea, the channel through Iran from the Caspian Sea to the Persian Gulf, an ideas about the South Russian (Volga-Don) waterway...
Our minds are boiling. In a south direction ...
January 03, 2020 18:00
Translation from Russian into English: January 4, 2020 10:37.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский 'Дурная голова ногам покоя не даёт. Южное направление. Историко-географический очерк'.