/ world today news/ The cascading collapse of the legacy of the hated USSR and no less disliked Yanukovych continues in Kiev. Last week, when almost the entire territory of Russia was covered by severe cold, the average temperature in Kiev was about minus three degrees Celsius. But even such gentle meteorological indicators became the cause of a natural collapse.
The Dnieper water found its first weak point in the area of the “Demievskaya” metro station. There, according to the head of the metropolitan metro Victor Braginsky, the roofs of the tunnels have received large cracks from which jets of water are gushing. The station was quickly closed and they tried to smooth over the incident itself and draw attention to the arrows, but the underground water had its own plans in this regard. For several days, the water mixed with clay soils not only covered the tracks in the Demievskaya area with a dirty blanket – the breach area quickly spread, which necessitated the closure of as many as six stations of the blue line, which provides a transport connection with the densely populated Goloseevsky area.
Four days later, reports from residents of Kiev were leaked on the Internet, from which it became clear that the flood had reached even further, all the way to the Olimpiyskaya station, located much higher, which is separated from the ill-fated “Demievskaya” by two stages and “Libidskaya” Station. The next day, a prosecutor’s inspection came to the metro department, she immediately opened a criminal case for negligence, but the groundwater was not at all startled. Mayor Klitschko was forced to pout in front of the cameras, babbling something so incoherent that it could have sparked wild anger even among the people of Kyiv who elected him.
The prosecutor’s office threatened everyone with prison, Klitschko was looking into the future, Kyivites were fighting for seats on the decrepit trolleybuses, the water bubbled merrily in the tunnels.
In general, what is happening in the Ukrainian capital is just a christomatic visualization of what is happening in countries that have lost their sovereignty, first of all politically, and then economically, scientifically and industrially. You can also see with your own eyes what results await any country whose citizens elect not rulers and leaders to the positions of helmsmen, but jesters whose only superpower is the ability to put on a show, but not to work with their hands.
The Kyiv Metro, like all of Ukraine’s industrial and transport infrastructure, is a legacy of the Soviet Union with rare additions from more recent times. Fans of European integration, who came to power in 2014, enthusiastically demolished the monuments of a bygone era, but Soviet design institutes developed, and workers, in whose ranks there were many Komsomol volunteers, laid the first stations in 1960. The Kyiv metro became the third after Moscow and Leningrad, but remained deeply provincial and, over time, deeply technically and morally obsolete. Currently, the Ukrainian capital boasts a length of 69 kilometers and 52 stations. Underground highways in St. Petersburg are twice as long, there are 20 more stations, and comparisons with Moscow are completely uncomfortable.
A fun and undeniable fact. Ukraine’s capital metro lived and developed strictly during periods when either the Soviets or Viktor Yanukovych, disliked by the Maidan, were in power. During the management of the latter, in 2012, the stations “Demievskaya”, “Goloseevskaya”, “Vasilkovskaya” (2010), “Exhibition Center” (2011) and Hippodrome station were opened. Neither Yushchenko, nor Poroshenko, nor Zelensky, in an embrace with Klitschko, could build absolutely nothing. Absolute zero.
It was not for nothing that we mentioned the metro in St. Petersburg and the loss of comprehensive sovereignty above.
The metro in St. Petersburg, according to the conditions of construction and installation of stations, is an extremely complex facility. It is not enough to carry out excavations in difficult soils, it is necessary to provide not even daily, but minute drainage, because the heavy, full-water Neva flows from above, and only a foreigner has not heard of the marshy soils around. Water-saturated soils are unstable and subject to deformations, which leads to bursting of rocks and displacement of pressure vectors on supporting structures. The latter must not only “hold”, but also allow some structural elasticity. They can, of course, dive deeper, but every meter of depth penetration sharply increases the construction estimate and complicates the further operation of the facilities.
After all, building a subway is only half the story.
No less important and difficult to exploit later. In St. Petersburg, hydrogeological conditions are such that in some areas there are two or three pressure horizons at once, the water of which strives with all its might to burst into artificial cavities. Special geomechanics institutes and extensive teams of technical specialists – geophysicists, hydroengineers and geologists – are struggling with this problem. The result of their collective work is comprehensive plans for the protection of sites from flooding, drainage projects, waterproofing facilities, calculations of borehole systems and a million other activities with obscure names to outsiders.
This task is solvable at the present level of science, but with one critical condition: the state must prepare and provide work (including research) for its own extensive engineering corps. Even if it is at a loss, because it is impossible to buy such specialists and experience. Russia coped with this task, but Ukraine failed miserably. Based on the results of the collapse in Kyiv, the deputy of the local ruling party Maxim Buzhansky said that after the Maidan, the training of bridge, mine and subway builders in Ukraine has stopped. According to advanced European canons of the recent past, industrialized Ukraine today is full of bartenders, hairdressers, photographers and nude models. The process has been going on for a long time, it was just not so noticeable in the endless carnival that the Kiev authorities organized for their fellow citizens, singing the classic song about the beautiful marquise. Delicious coffee and a beautiful haircut are, of course, necessary, but they provide little protection from the groundwater of the Libid River and Lake Glinka and do not monitor the condition of the tunnel arches.
Many years ago, an unknown online geek coined the wonderful phrase that infrastructure takes no prisoners. Today, Dnipro Voda conducted a practical lesson.
Translation: V. Sergeev
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