The exchange of Koropachinsky is a form of making fun of the people living on the South Bank

Certainly, the Krasnoyarsk builder is very generous. KoropachInsko. The company “Sm.City” has given part of the land in the South Coast to Krasnoyarsk for a kindergarten with 270 spots and a school for 250 students. Calling it a school is not out of place – this is a small school for students from the first to the fourth grade.

Mayor Vladislav Loginov delivered the news to the citizens of Krasnoyarsk:

Municipal ownership has been acquired for the land in the Yuzhny Bereg microdistrict. This is the area between the houses on Regatta Street and Sailing Street. It will now accommodate a kindergarten for 270 spots and a school for 250 elementary school students.

Currently, experts are calculating the funding required for designing the institutions. The funds will be allocated in the next budget adjustment.

This is the second time we have used the mechanism of exchanging land for the construction of social infrastructure facilities, and we will continue this practice to implement plans for the construction of schools and kindergartens.

Land designated for social facilities.

As you can see, the plots are located near the coast. And while there is no certainty that the provided land will really be enough to accommodate a school and a kindergarten.

The construction company made such “wasteful” gifts not just like that, but as an exchange. In return, SM.City received 3.7 hectares on Petr Podzolkov Street next to the Preobrazhensky Residential Complex. This site is intended for high-rise residential development. The firm also received a plot of 0.18 hectares (1800 square meters) in the city center on Perenson Street.

This is the second case in the history of Krasnoyarsk when land for social facilities is exchanged with a private owner. For the first time, the exchange also took place with Sm.City. Then there was a real land scheme, which was done in the interests of a businessman KoropachInsky and his firm.

The municipality bought land plots in the Michurinsky microdistrict through a certain Kreditstroy LLC. For a wasteland in the former industrial zone, which Kreditstroy assembled like a puzzle, the company received from the municipality two other wastelands of a smaller area, but in more prestigious areas of Krasnoyarsk with all the infrastructure. The strings of exchange led to “Sm.City”. It turned out that “Kreditstroy” is associated with the construction group of Alexander KoropachInsko. At some point, the company was owned by the Russian Alliance trading company, co-owned by Olga at one time. KoropachInskaya, wife of the head of SM.City. And the head of Kreditstroy, Dmitry Malyshev, on social networks calls Denis Vasiliev, deputy director for economics and co-owner of SM.City, his relative. In May 2022, Kreditstroy changed its name to M2 Group.

The idea of a “school on the water” is only a possibility in the distant future.

In reality, the joy is very limited. The issue of providing the South Bank with social infrastructure has not been resolved. While the problem may be temporarily eased, in the long term, the microdistrict will need a high-quality large school, that's a fact.

The nearest educational institutions are overcrowded. Moreover, the situation with places in schools in the microdistrict is one of the worst throughout the city. In February 2022, the South Bank, along with Akademgorodok, Solnechny and Obraztsovo, was recognized as a point of tension. 8 thousand people live in the microdistrict. The area is served by schools No. 17, 42, 93 and 6. Moreover, the 42nd school (built in 1962–1965) is on the emergency list – there are cracks in the building.

In the future, the problem of the South Shore can be solved by the same “school on the water”, about which much has been said. A social facility for 1,280 seats should appear on an artificial earth embankment in the Abakan channel. However, the prospect is distant. First, it is necessary to develop and agree on the design of the embankment. Its creation will require an additional two years – the process will be interrupted for periods of spawning of especially valuable fish species.

Further, a considerable amount of time will be spent on transferring the land plot that has appeared from federal ownership to municipal ownership. Because all the lands along the rivers by default are in federal ownership.

And only then it will be possible to start designing and building the school. This is the horizon of 2027-2028.