Although the head of state in the city over Sozh never waited, but waited for a week quite actively, said the Belarusian partisan.
So active that there is even a desire to sum up some results. Moreover, many evidences and facts of this zeal of local services appeared at the very last moment and before that the media did not cover it.
Rumors that the opening of new buildings of the children's hospital on Zharkovsky should be visited by the president himself in Gomel appeared at the end of last week. However, they transmitted, as they say, word of mouth. The first tangible evidence of the forthcoming visit was received by the public on Tuesday, July 24.
Recall, then, "Strong news", based on information from readers living in the central streets of the city, reported that people began to receive written warnings about how to behave on the day of arrival of a high guest, I mean, on July 27, Friday. Strictly attuned to not opening windows, and generally not approaching them.
The city's traffic police also added fuel to the fire, which, through the site of the City Executive Committee, warned citizens about the upcoming problems.
In particular, they were called upon to "have patience" and to endure future restrictions on traffic along Sovetskaya Street. However, when exactly it is necessary to suffer, in what day and from what time on what, nobody warned. People themselves have drawn the necessary conclusions: they will announce restrictions when they introduce and introduce, and when they arrive.
On the same day, an extremely entertaining story was shown by the television channel Belsat. It featured extremely entertaining video footage of how Gomel communal workers diligently pumped water from. puddle. Workers change the streets in the streets, women in garters pick out grass from the roads. "Our president is traveling. We are trying! ", - one of the employees is not particularly hiding talking to the camera. Passers-by give out comments of varying degrees of political correctness.
By that time, a real "movement" was actually observed in the city. Rumors were circulating that the president's program included a visit to the children's hospital, as well as the Gomselmash plant. Not so much about the state SMI desperately trumpeted that there, on the instructions of Alexander Lukashenko, have already created a supercombine. It is possible that the customer wanted to look at the product - we do not know it anymore.
The situation somewhat worsened on Wednesday. On this day after lunch it became known that the arrival of the first person in the city above Sozh is canceled. Strictly speaking, neither before, nor after this moment, nor now, there have been no official reports of presidential plans. People lived by rumors, and the media operated on insides. However, on Wednesday the degree of tension among street workers slept quite noticeably. It seemed that you can now lay the tiles and not run, but at the usual pace.
Thunder struck on Thursday, July 26th. As early as the first half of the day, some media reported that Lukashenko's arrival is still expected. A little later, through their channels, this information was also confirmed by "Strong news". However, in order to guess about another change in the plans of the supreme commander-in-chief, there was no need to be seven brains in the forehead. Hardly relaxed Gomel officials and employees of various departments were forced, as they say, to join the fight in earnest.
The local newspaper Gomelskiye Vedomosti, not mentioning why and what it does, told (and showed) what a beautiful paving slab laid out on the Soviet and the same street and the Lenin Square was decorated with fresh thuja in massive flowerpots.
By the way, already laid or available in many places tile of burgundy color utilities on this day cheerfully painted. in a more burgundy color.
There was a lot of information that Gomel flooded security services of all calibers. So, in the afternoon over the center was observed a flying helicopter.
And the residents of Yakubovka, where the helicopter pad is located nearby, informed "Strong news" that they were taking hunting rifles with a promise to return, "the day after tomorrow, when everything is over".
By the way, on Thursday nobody doubted that everything was serious and Alexander Lukashenko in Gomel would still come. Strictly speaking, even his motorcade has already arrived in the city. So, the correspondent of Radio Liberty captured near the children's hospital on Zharkovsky presidential "Maybach" without numbers, several black cars with tinted windows and cars of the State traffic police with the arms of the country on the doors. More impressive evidence of the future visit was difficult and.
Metered to wake up on Friday and wait: what will happen? Beginning at seven o'clock in the morning, our readers repeatedly reported about the huge number of militia and "people in civilian clothes" in the central streets. Recall that the whole week around the city there were rumors that after the hospital the president will go to Gomselmash - and so, came the testimony and from there: before the shift began at the checkpoint, a huge queue of people who could not get to workplaces. Apparently, there was a security service.
In a word, the tension grew.
However, immediately after nine in the morning, suddenly. gave way.
The queue for "Gomselmash". The fountain on Lenin Square disappeared.
The militiamen left somewhere, and on the whole, it was somehow empty in the streets - ordinary people in civilian clothes also became much smaller. Groups of men with cars began to take pictures hanging on the eve of Zharkovsky suspended flower beds.
And everyone understood: he will not come. And then they knew it for sure. Windows can not be closed, guns will be given a little earlier, and puddles, if formed, dry themselves. Life goes on. In a markedly renewed city, writes gomel. the.