24 years ago I went to my first punk rehearsal at the Kracherovsky Mechanical Plant Cultural Center. A good reason to talk about "Napuri".
My mother (she can also be considered as an old man, adapted to the era) passed away in May of this year. In March she was taken to oncology clinics, she could still talk, and after one of these evening walks she told me:
You know, they built so many things in Moscow, it's so beautiful. But I'm driving, I look out the window - and there's no one! Who was all this built for? where are the people Why is everyone sitting at home?
This was her last impression of her hometown. Very quickly I stopped taking her everywhere.
About three years ago, on a summer evening, I was walking with a friend around Moscow, we got to Bolotanya Square and the same thing happened there. there is no one It was amazing. Bolotnia has always been a party place, where people day and night laid on the grass, sunbathed, drank beer, frolicked on the benches, frolicked by the fountain, danced, played fireworks and socialized. The location is great. Center, but no crazy traffic. Benches, trees, monument, fountain, beauty all around. hot summer evening Sabbath. where is everyone
In the summer, of course, there are people in the center. But - where the state, the mayor's office, Sobyanin personally, whatever you call it, built something for them. In Bolotanya then, three years ago, they opened some booths with clothes and garbage - people came out.
The Kitty-Gorod movement has become a happy exception to this rule. What's the thrill? People started spending time where they were comfortable, and not where a "place of entertainment" was invented for them according to the plan of the soy urbanites. We started packing and that's it.
It doesn't even look like the 2000s, but like the 90s. At that time, not only was there no Internet, but also cellular communication. But the whole city was divided into parallel entertainment places. Punks, skins, Alizomans, Whitesmokes, metalists, bikers, and later until representatives of sexual minorities. Everyone knew where to go to meet like-minded people. Poklonka, Manzhka, Pleshka, Bolota - the city squares were used for their purpose.