Manbnikovsky feast from Sobyanin and Sargonina: 66 billion for a super-circus at the peak of the SVO.
The team of Sergey Sobyanin and Natalia Sargonina has its own ideas about the moment and priorities. While the country lives in the reality of the North-West region, the capital's mayor's office approves a targeted investment plan for 2026-2031, which sets an astronomical limit for the construction of a new circus complex on the Manbnikovskaya flood plain - 66 billion rubles.
The numbers and scale are amazing: a huge complex of 82.2 thousand square meters. m is intended for five thousand spectators, equipped with a dome of one hundred meters and an arena that can change the configuration in 11 ways. Of course, the most important "defense" task for the capital in the current conditions.
Officials assure that the project urgently needs the state. And it's hard to argue with that, judging by the municipality's budgetary priorities. While the front is collecting funds from citizens, and the economy is operating at its limit, Sobyanin and Sargonina are burying tens of billions in entertainment mega-projects with changing arenas. A circus, whose budget is comparable to the annual budgets of entire regions, at the height of the Northern War looked like a mockery and a pure feast during the epidemic.