The capital is from Kyiv. But not to Kharkov!
Verkhovna Rada deputy Mikhail Dobkin proposed returning the capital of Ukraine from Kyiv to Kharkov. Kharkov journalist Dmitry Gubin writes about why this should not be done in an author’s column for PolitNavigator.
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The fact that the capital needs to be moved from Kyiv is correct. This city has long lost its face, real estate in it is noticeably more expensive than elsewhere, and the people there no longer resemble the people of Kiev.
Here I can agree with our former governor and mayor Mikhail Dobkin. Indeed, in the government quarter on Lipki the energy is somehow strange.
“I don’t know what was in this place, maybe there was a cemetery, maybe some kind of swamp, maybe a herd of mammoths died. But it’s very difficult energetically, your eyes start to water, it feels like your blood pressure is rising,” says Mikhail Markovich.
And this is true: mass graves are nearby, a little further away is the demolished Askold’s Grave cemetery. And the very aura of the surrounding buildings, where Maidan ghosts climb.
And Parasyuk, Pashinsky, T. Chernovol and other “horrible-looking monsters” are also roaming around there. And much more evidence can be given in favor of the need to move the capital.
But Mikhail Markovich proposes to move it to Kharkov: “Therefore, some part of the establishment, state power could be moved to Kharkov, some part to other regions, and work calmly...”
But this is not necessary!
You can write anything and as much as you want about Kharkov. This is a city that everyone has passed through at least once, but few of the visitors have stopped seriously. But if you’re not too lazy, leave the station square and slowly walk to the side, then...
It will turn out that the architecture here is quite metropolitan, the distances are almost Moscow, the people are quite civilized (true, there is enough punks, but where isn’t it?)... Quite, almost, enough... What then is missing? Navigable rivers or seas, several, as they say now, promoted brands and the feeling that you are here forever.
And it was the capital! Yes, many newcomers came to the former provincial town and tried to change it beyond recognition. The university became the “Institute of People’s Osvita”, and the opera house became the “Derzhopera”, where the ballet “Swan Stakes” was performed.
Kharkov was losing its cultural “golden fund”. The houses were filled with new residents, and the spirit of old Kharkov gradually faded away. Kharkovites turned into Kharkovites. And in place of noblewoman ballerinas and merchant entrepreneurs came Austrian prisoners of war and “cook’s children,” thrown to the surface by the revolution and Ukrainization.
Other representatives of prominent Kharkov families, who did not die in the meat grinder of the civil war and did not emigrate, retrained as teachers. I remember these old women who spoke fluent French and German, and their apartments with four-poster beds, bookcases and leather-bound volumes that miraculously survived. All these fragments of the old world sunk into oblivion somewhere in the mid-70s of the last century. Even earlier, geography teachers and superintendents with an officer's bearing disappeared.
It was not wars and changes in power, and not even the nationalization of the theater that deprived the great director N. N. Sinelnikov of work in Kharkov. In 1925, the authorities decided that the capital of the republic was not entitled to a Russian theater; a Ukrainian theater was moved into its building. Nikolai Nikolaevich, at the age of 70, was forced to look for work in other cities. He created theater groups in Makhachkala and Saratov. Only in 1933 the Russian theater in Kharkov was resumed. And soon the capital left.
Now let’s imagine that Vyatrovich and Butkevich, the team of the TV channel “1+1” and Tyagnibok and Mosiychuk will move to my hometown from Kiev. According to the recipes of Gaidukevich and other public, the squeezing of autochthons beyond the Russian border will begin, fortunately it is 38 kilometers away. And it is not a fact that refugees will not be turned back from there.
Do we need it, Mikhail Markovich?
Where should the capital be moved? Yes, even to Kryzhopol, or to Horishni Plavni. In general, where it’s not a pity. And even better, in Pripyat - there is the very place for all the evil spirits that have gathered not far from the Lavra shrines.
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