Аннотация: Lenya Bobrov is sailing along the Tsimlyansk Sea and evaluates the usefulness of the Volga-Don River Transport Route. A story.
Lenya Bobrov is sailing along the Tsimlyansk Sea and evaluates the usefulness of the Volga-Don River Transport Route. A story.
The ship passed the Volga-Don Canal and entered the Tsimlyansk Sea.
In fact, this water object is a reservoir. But it is more pleasant to call it the sea.
Lenya is full of enthusiasm.
Everyone wants to go to the Black Sea in summer! Some - there are not so many of them - want to spend their summer holidays on the Sea of Azov.
People do not know about the existence of the southern sea - the Tsimlyansk Sea.
The name itself - it gives odds to both the Black and Azov Seas! What if this Sea is filled with the sparkling Tsimlyansk wine? [red sparkling wine; originally from the ancient Don stanitsa of Tsimla; it differs in dark red with a ruby hue]
The ship is moving forward, it is necessary to calm down not only the grain markets, - Lenya thinks, - but also the enthusiasm.
Of course, the coast and the bottom are not the main thing. What can be the bottom and shore in the reservoir?
Even in the Sea of Azov - in a sea of natural origin - the coast and the bottom are not always convenient for recreation ... What can we say about the reservoir ...
Lenya is looking at the surface of the Tsimlyansk Sea.
He had heard of such an effect as the flowering of water. For the beginning of summer, this phenomenon is not particularly typical. It is most noticeable in the second half of summer ...
But it seems to Lena that he sees floating algae and a not big circle - is this a "film" out of the smallest algae - is the water flowering?
The reproduction of large algae and water flowering - these effects cannot be an obstacle to the use of the Tsimlyansk Sea for public recreation - it is enough to scientifically prove the beneficial effect on the health of vacationers from the side of the Volgodonsk (Rostov) nuclear power plant.
Lenya is full of optimism.
The Volga-Don River Transport Route adds a food tourism to the usual summer holidays.
Before the launch of the Volga-Don River Transport Route, the Sea of Azov and the Lower Don (the Don River in general) were famous for their fish - river fish (very tasty) and very valuable sturgeons.
Now (almost during 70 years) efforts are being made to restore the fish stocks of the Sea of Azov and the Don River.
Soon, a tasty fish will appear (maybe it will take another 70 years for this, but that's okay. Population can wait). But the main thing is the scientific potential. Huge scientific potential. Plus megagrants.
After the allocation of the megagrant and the organization of RosnanoLaminaria, a method will be invented for processing large algae and film (small) algae into artificial Laminaria.
This prodact will be exported. But local chefs will create new dishes from artificial Laminaria.
This is the basis for food tourism.
And after a good meal, you want to dance. Consequently, vacationers can enjoy folklore creativity.
Before, when there was no Volga-Don River Transport Route, people lived very comfortably. The Don and the Sea of Azov guaranteed the satiety of the coastal inhabitants and the absence of the risk of catastrophic famine in the Southern region. The fish grew by itself (and in huge volumes) - with little or no cost from side of a human.
Plus clean water in the Sea of Azov and in the Don River, plus banks, that are suitable for "wild" (that is, individual) recreation.
In general, it was fun. Everyone (or almost everyone) sang and danced.
Now folklore ensembles have been created. They can sing and dance regardless of the feeling of satiety after a delicious river fish and the feeling of pleasure from a quiet private individual rest on a river bank or on a seashore. Today's vacationers should lie on specially equipped beaches and enjoy the company of lifeguards.
So, the "usual" southern summer vacation, food and folklore tourism.
It is better not to read newspapers on vacation. You can meet all sorts of unpleasant things about the change in the hydrological regime of the Sea of Azov, about the change in its salinity. But the most unpleasant authors talk about the overpopulation of the South of Russia and the imminent shortage of water resources. Allegedly, the ecosystem of the Lower Don, thanks to hydrotechnical innovations, can degrade in an accelerated mode ...
The total losses allegedly include the cost of fish, regularly was caught in the Sea of Azov and the Don River. Plus the satiety of the coastal population, plus the pleasure of individual recreation on the banks of the sea and the river, plus the absence of a risk of mass starvation in the Southern region - all of those factors were not included in the (economic) statistics ... These losses should be taken into account when comparing the cost of the transportation of a ton of cargo by waterway and the cost of moving a ton of cargo by rail, by pipeline, by trucks and by other methods.
The fertile soils flooded during the creation of the Tsimlyansk reservoir, the fate of the people who lived on this territory (naturally, there was no "deportation"!) - as a rule, are not in the center of attention ...
All these thoughts can spoil the mood and rest ...
Lenya boldly looks straight, ahead ...
Be that as it may, the name of the sea is beautiful - the Tsimlyansk Sea!
Lenya takes a smartphone and tries to photograph the water flowering and the floating big algae. On the Internet, this photo will be provided with the inscription: "Tsimlyansk Sea. Huge potential for a southern summer holiday. Food and folklore tourism. Enormous potential for the production of artificial laminaria in volumes that can satisfy the Far, Middle and Near East.
Traveling on water sets the mood for creativity...
June 11, 2022 18:54
Translation from Russian into English: June 11, 2022 22:06.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский "Лёня Бобров плывет по Цимлянскому морю и оценивает полезность Волго-Донского речного транспортного пути. Рассказ".
{ 3047. Лёня Бобров плывет по Цимлянскому морю и оценивает полезность Волго-Донского речного транспортного пути. Рассказ.
MMMXVIII. Lenya Bobrov is sailing along the Tsimlyansk Sea and evaluates the usefulness of the Volga-Don River Transport Route. A story. }