Do Yekaterinburg suitable for the role of the third Russian capital – REGNUM

Ekaterinburg, February 12, 2016, 13:19 – REGNUM in Yekaterinburg differently estimate the adjournment in the Russian capital city. Earlier, a member of the of the Federation Council of Buryatia Arnold Tulokhonov has offered to move the capital from Moscow. As possible options, he called Yekaterinburg and Novosibirsk.

As the correspondent IA REGNUM , in Yekaterinburg, the question of whether the city is worthy to become the capital, even if the third-largest, is discussed with the 1990s. Especially actively exaggerated it in 1998, when the capital of the Middle Urals celebrated its 275th anniversary. In the same year the city had to take the heads of Russia, Germany and France. On the eve of the meeting the local authorities brought order to the streets of the city, but all these efforts were in vain – at the last moment the meeting was postponed. In the anniversary year, some experts have argued that now Yekaterinburg can claim to be the third capital of Russia. This is facilitated by a favorable location – in the middle of the main highways. Their opponents, in turn, claimed that the city was clearly not up to the level of the capital, and was offered as an alternative to Novosibirsk and Nizhny Novgorod.

It has been almost 20 years. In 2000, the capital city still become – here is the residence of the President of Russia envoy in the Urals Federal District. In addition, over the past less than 20 years in the architectural plan of the city has changed considerably for the better. There metropolitan level hotels and restaurants. The city is actively built. In short, all the capital infrastructure is already in place.

Still, the title of the capital, even the third, Ekaterinburg is not drawn. One reason for this – the dirt on the streets. On this issue, say residents of the city for more than a decade. The authorities know about it. Even conducted scientific research about what is taken from the mud. Attempts to solve the problem was, but so far without success. Just recently, the head of the Central Department for Ilya Vlasov Yekaterinburg Rospotrebnadzor Sverdlovsk Region has sent an order to the authorities of the city with the requirement to restore order in the streets. Air pollution leads to an annual 300 cases of premature death from diseases of the circulatory system and respiratory system, sanitary doctors believe. In addition, physicians have noted that due to the level of ice injury increased three to four times.

The dirt is visible on the streets, including in the city center, even in the dry summer weather. After Moscow, which often travel many citizens, the contrast more than significant. So ahead of the municipal authorities still a lot of work to Yekaterinburg received the right to claim the role of a third country capital.

Read earlier in this story: Senator Buryatia offered to move the capital to the center of Russia

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