Аннотация: The Norilsk environmental disaster of 2020 and the images of Russian literature. The sketch.
The Norilsk environmental disaster of 2020 and the images of Russian literature. The sketch.
One of the images of Russian literature is the state official Tamantsev from the novel "In August of 1944" by Vladimir Bogomolov.
Here is how this novel describes the results of a search (fulfilled by three people) in a huge forest:
'In such a huge, deaf massif, with the help of only three people, to find on the second day the place where the portative radio station went on the air - it is like a looking for a needle in a haystack. Or to win a hundred thousand on a lottery ticket. Mentally, I applauded myself; with joy I wanted to slap my thighs and to shout: "I am the greatest!" ...
I knew that today by night in Moscow it would become known that in such a forest, large and impassable (this will certainly be noted), we found a place of communication session of the portable radio station, and in the departmental report my surname must also be mentioned. That 's nice, of course. But what are our tasks now?"
It is all the more interesting to read in the material by Irek Murtazin, 'Rosprirodnadzor, or a vision image. Why did Svetlana Radionova fly to the place of emergency in Norilsk on the business jet of "Nornickel"? (16:40 June 07, 2020):
'According to the most conservative estimates, the cost of a Bombardier Challenger 850 flight on the route Moscow-Norilsk-Moscow is about 150 thousand dollars.
... in competence of Rosprirodnadzor is the size of the fine that Nornickel must to pay for environmental damage. And the fork here is huge: from several billion to 107 billion 895 million rubles. '
'... there were other, less expensive options to fly to Norilsk and have time to visit the site of the environmental disaster before the meeting [communication] with the president. But Svetlana Radionova, possibly the full namesake of the head of Rosprirodnadzor, flew a business jet.' [unofficial translation] (https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2020/06/07/85735-to-li-rosprirodnadzor-a-to-li-videnie)
Since the videoconference is mentioned in the material by Irek Murtazin, it's time to recall grandfather Krylov (The fable "A Curious Man"):
"" Have you seen an elephant? That's a thing!
I'm proposing, that you thought you met a mountain?' -
"Is he there?" 'There.' 'Well, brother, to blame:
I didn't even notice the elephant. "
He wasn't successful to see the elephant..
June 9, 2020 04:05
Translation from Russian into English: June 9, 2020 04:57.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский 'Норильская экологическая катастрофа 2020 года и образы русской литературы. Скетч'.