Territory development method of Gleb Tyurin. Or how to revive a Russian village

Several years ago, a person's speeches came across on the Internet and he voiced interesting ideas. His name is Gleb Tyurin. He is engaged in, one might say, a thankless and hopeless task - the development of the local economy and life in the Russian outback. What for? More on this later. In the meantime, information about the motivation of this person in this matter.

Gleb says about himself that at the very beginning of his career he worked as a teacher (in the 90s), was a bank employee, and a translator at an elite school abroad. But in the end he returned to Russia. After looking at how small towns in Sweden and the United States live and seeing how the Russian village is being bent, I set a goal to revive at least something. Background.

First example. In Sweden, Gleb got into the so-called “Circle of the Future”. This is a club of residents in one of the towns, consisting mainly of miners who knew that in 5 years their mine would be closed and they need to decide what to do now. To the question: "Shouldn't the administration and authorities of the district be puzzled by this?" - received the following answer: "The authorities will decide how it is beneficial to them, and we must decide how beneficial it is to all of us." Therefore, not indifferent residents gathered and thought about what to do. We considered questions with work, since not everyone wants to move out of their homes.

Self-government is often organized there and the authorities help them (it relieves itself of some of the responsibilities, it's also beneficial). There are already 6,000 villages in Sweden that have similar self-government and which solve their problems themselves with the support of the authorities.

Example two. In the United States, I noticed the fact that local authorities of small towns in every possible way prevent the appearance of large super and hypermarkets (chains, as we say) on their territory. These are money vacuum cleaners from the pockets of residents. After all, think, federal networks only make money on the territory (providing jobs for a couple of dozen residents), and all profits are taken to another region. And in the case of large chains in Russia - abroad (it's no secret from which countries grocery and construction hypermarkets came to us). In general, there is an outflow of capital from the town.

Think of American films. There, in small towns on one street there is always: a bakery, a cafe, a pharmacy, a hairdresser, a car repair shop, etc. Local economy. Everyone buys something from each other and money circulates mainly within the town. A grocery hypermarket will surely ruin small competitors (which is what happens in Russia - in some cities there are almost no small stores).

Federal networks are an absolute evil for any region. I wrote about this here: Construction hypermarkets - financial vacuum cleaner in the regions. I explain my opinion

The United States has long known about this problem, there are programs to create a local economy. But they also try to maintain a balance. The market economy after all. Gleb reports that the system of territorial development in the United States was adopted from us from the zemstvo system in the early 20th century. And Prince Kropotkin was called in to supervise this issue.

What do we have? Here, Gleb's idea was to create an association of the inhabitants of a village with economic and social interaction. Make and buy as much as possible local products and goods. Sell ​​the surplus to external regions. Overgrow with services and social facilities (with the support of the authorities). Those. not to be a competitor to each other, but to complement a single local economic organism. But it was necessary where to begin to convey this idea.

In the early 2000s, Gleb lived in Arkhangelsk and, having received the consent of the authorities, decided to experiment. At that time, the right bank of the river. Northern Dvina was a devastation (and now nothing has changed in a revolutionary way there): practically abandoned villages, no roads and not even a bridge across the river.

After meeting with local residents in one of the remote villages, I heard what was expected. But with a few of those present, they developed the idea of ​​honey production. Allocated 70 thousand rub. And five years later, using batch beekeeping technology, 200 local beekeepers produced honey worth 15 million. RUB / year A bit of a barbaric method (not to leave honey to bees for the winter and buy new swarms (bee packs) in the spring), but in the climate of the Arkhangelsk region, only this worked.

In another village, the united residents managed to restore the church for modest funds. For local residents, it turned out to be more important than the organization of production, but the main thing is to start and feel the unity, which together is strength and effectiveness. There are no global examples, since to unite people and encourage them to think and do - in our time it is very difficult.

Gleb in his work is based on the legislation on territorial public self-government (TOS). Under the USSR, there were also self-government bodies: from courtyards to townships. In total - more than 650 thousand associations of residents.

In Russia, the law on TPS has existed since 1995. But nobody needs it. Indeed, according to the Constitution, power belongs to the people. And the people expect that they will come for him and do everything. Like, we pay taxes. The Soviet Union is over, and under capitalism, profit or budget utilization is important. It is economically inexpedient to organize something in remote villages. Expensive and unpromising. If you want to live there, organize yourself as you need. I think this is exactly the kind of tacit answer you can get.

Almost 1000 TPSGs have been created in the Arkhangelsk region to date. And in Russia 30 thousand. TOS. But where will this experience be told on TV? In this region, with program investments of US $ 1.5 million rub. - turnover of local residents amounted to 40 million. rub. (year not specified).

2020 added my fingerprint. It became clear that so many office workers are not needed. Remote work, digitalization, automation will soon deprive even accountants of their jobs. Gleb is sure that most of the city's residents, and especially small entrepreneurs, are not needed by the city either. Under the conditions of quarantine restrictions, the suspension of various institutions, hundreds of thousands of people across the country remain without work.

Many came to the city for comfort and prosperity. If wealth is a relative matter. That comfort can be in the countryside. Even if not right away.

My opinion. It takes a good idea to start some kind of activity in the countryside. From information from my small homeland, where I grew up. One in the village is engaged in timber, provides services for felling and removal of timber to other entrepreneurs (together with his son). Gradually overgrown, albeit used, but technology. Working hours: from 6 am to 9 pm. Difficult, but monetary.

Another sews custom-made shoes. Warm boots can be sewn from felt boots no worse than store boots. The third is a carpenter with self-assembled machines. The fourth is a disabled person, but is engaged in the collection of scrap. Those who have working capital open shops and bakeries. I remember another vivid example: about twenty years ago, a former forestry worker became a millionaire in the village peeling a pine cone for seeds. Seeds are needed for those who are engaged in forestry (such a regulation by law). The price 10 years ago was 20 thousand. RUB / kg

There are dozens of such ideas, which do not even always require investments. They need to be formalized and offered to local residents, relying on their resources. The legal field of activity - now it is possible to be self-employed in 15 minutes via the Internet (if you do not have employees).

But uniting people must go through meetings. It is there that the directions are developed where to move. This is what happens in our SNT in the village. We have, one might say, a unique project. We, as an association of people, jointly bought the land, delimited it and began to build and build infrastructure: roads, power lines. And we did it. Meetings were held almost every month, where our future was decided.

What Gleb is doing is familiar to me from a real example. Even if we did not organize business, but only decided and are solving the issue of organizing life in the village, this is an important side of the process.

Yes, I would like the authorities or large socially oriented businesses to be involved in the development of rural areas. For example, the way it is done in Belarus. Collective farms build cottage settlements for their employees and maintain infrastructure. And it's beautiful there, almost like in Europe.

Now Gleb is the head of the expert commission on the local economy under the State Duma of the Russian Federation. And he continues to be the head of the Territories Revival club. In light of the change in the liberal course of the country's government to strengthening statehood, and possibly to social capitalism, its ideas should be evaluated there and implemented in the regions.

Who wants to get to know Gleb's ideas better, you can watch this video:

Link to his group in VK: https://vk.com/razvitie_territorij

Gleb wrote two books: "Voluntary Simplicity" and the book "How to Raise the Outback".

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