Mikheil Saakashvili decided to surpass Ostap Bender!

To the beginning allow to give the extensive quote: “If you agree with my project, you will go down from the city on dock on marble ladders! Vasyuki becomes the center of ten provinces! The hundred thousands of people, rich people will aspire to Vasyuki. Firstly, the river transport can't lift such number of passengers. Therefore, the People's Commissariat of Communications will construct a main line Moscow - Vasyuki. It is the first. The second is the hotels and skyscrapers for placement of guests. The third is an agriculture rise in radius on one thousand kilometers: it is necessary to supply the guests - vegetables, fruit, caviar, chocolate sweets. A palace in which there will be a tournament is the fourth. The fifth is the garages construction for guest motor transport. It would be necessary to construct the super-power radio station for transfer of sensational results of tournament to the whole world. It is sixthly. Now it is about the main line of Moscow-Vasyuki. Undoubtedly, that won't possess such capacity to transport all wishing to Vasyuki. And here is the airport “Big Vasyuki” – the regular departure of post planes and dirigible balloons in all parts of the world, including Los Angeles and Melbourne. … The inhabitants of Moscow constrained by a housing crisis will rush to your magnificent city. The capital automatically passes to Vasyuki. The government comes there. Vasyuki is renamed into New Moscow, Moscow - to Old Vasyuki. The residents of Leningrad and Kharkov gnash teeth, but can do nothing. New Moscow becomes the most elegant center of Europe and soon of the whole world”.

Certainly, it is the elite moments from Ostap Ibragimovich Bender's ardent speech said by him before amazed inhabitants of the settlement under the name of Vasyuki. Agree that hardly we would get to know about the existence of Vasyuki, if not Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov, created the novel “The Twelve Chairs”.

And here is one more quote. And not the small too:

“We thought much how it to arrange and decided to found the big city between Anaklia and Kulevi and to call it as Lazika.

In 10 years, Lazika will be the second-large city after Tbilisi according to my assumption, there will be, at least, half a million inhabitants. It becomes the main shopping, economic center in the Western Georgia and the main center on all Black Sea.

Since spring of next year we will begin the large-scale works on construction of new port. There are the deep waters and a fine canyon that is a convenient environment for seaport construction.

We will make the roads and the water supply system everywhere. We’ll drain a boggy place – it only one and its drainage isn't a problem.

Next year we will employ some thousand people on construction of the new city.

Also, on the scale of the whole world we will declare the competition as for the Georgian, so foreign architects.

Big break is necessary for us in order that there would be no need here.

It is that we already started to work over. Remember that we always do that we speak about.

There would be autobahn here from Tbilisi which is of importance not only on a national scale. It connects with autobahn to Istanbul and to Baku. The high-speed railway going to Asia has the same value. Thus, we are in the center of all this”.

And it was already said by not literary character, but most real – the president of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili. Fiction happens difficult to distinguish from reality, but in this case the similarity strikes: there is such impression that Saakashvili, preparing for pronouncing of public speech in Zugdidi, directly studied Vasyuki speech of the great schemer.

And now there are the details. Shortly at the initiative of the president of Georgia the construction of the new city Lazika will begin. It will take place on the bank of the Black Sea between the new resort Anaklia and the village Kulevi (Samegrelo's region - Zemo Svaneti). The authorities of Georgia plan to put in construction not less than 120 million dollars within four years.

The press secretary of the president Manana Manjgaladze concretized: “The main infrastructure works will be carried out in 2012 and 2013 and the part of the city will be constructed by 2015 as plans the country leaders”.

Saakashvili passed an opinion on the money too, the existence of which, as we know, allows to turn air castles into more durable constructions: “To put the city on feet, it is necessary to have about 1-1,5 billions laris (it is about 606-909 million dollars). We will spend about 200 million in four years, the rest we will involve in the form of investments”.

The construction of new port and the new airport is provided in Poti for what “the big group of the Georgian and foreign architects” already works. And the world competition is also ahead (while it is not interplanetary …)!

But who will live here? And everything is thought over: country people, refugees from Abkhazia and also those who left the homeland for any reasons and now should return … Saakashvili declares that in ten years not less than half a million people will already live in Lazika. If to look at statistics, it turns out that the city put by Mikheil Saakashvili should become neither more nor less than the largest city in the western part of the country and even second-large in Georgia as a whole! Besides, the new city should become the main trade and economic and commercial center...

It would seem it is necessary to be glad! There was a wise statesman, who like Peter the Great, was going to cut through a window to Europe. And, seemingly, not simple, but according to the European standards! On the contrary, there were irresponsible fellow citizens who began to abuse a brilliant idea of the well-known tie chewer in every possible way.

Jondi Bagaturia, the representative of oppositional fraction “Unity for Justice” was expressed very figuratively, but at the same time very concretely: «After huge bicycles and eggs we weren't surprised still to the bigger project. The expenditure of billions for new imaginations of the president proceeds. Mikheil Saakashvili and the authorities turned into Munchausen. The president can't deduce the country from a bog with such imaginations. Better he would spend these millions for socially unprotected people. You have an answer to a question where you conduct Georgia, but I can tell that to social collapse”.

We will explain that it would be clear that the monuments to soldiers of the Great Patriotic War are taken down in Georgia and they construct the certain specific objects: so, a sculpture in the form of a huge bicycle was established in Tbilisi and there were just huge bedroom-slippers which lie on eggs in resort Batumi...

And here is the point of view of the vice speaker of parliament Levan Vepkhvadze (Christian-Democrats fraction): “I still had impression that within four years our government played with tin tell-tales and now plays houses. The expenditure of 200 million for construction of the new semi-million city is unjustified when it is necessary to take care practically of all cities”.

Not only delights concerning the new idea of the ultra energetic president appeared in the Georgian mass media too. So, the Rezonansi newspaper published the article in which the opinions of experts are given. Their general conclusion is obvious: not a year or two and even not ten years are necessary for Lazika's construction in that look as it was declared – not less than fifty years are necessary for it!

Artist Temur Goshadze declared Saakashvili's idea as absurdity and set a number of questions. There are the following among them, for example: where is it possible to lodge the half a million people and, generally speaking, from where these people will be undertaken?

These questions are not idle if to consider that fact that 192 500 people live in the present second-large city of Georgia Kutaisi according to data of statistics, and 376 000 people as a whole in Adzharia (8,7 % of the population of the country). And whether people will want to go to the district where there are a lot of bogs and where, according to experts, it would be risky to build the multi-storey buildings without which it is simply impossible to present the modern megalopolis.

Goshadze gave the examples of artificially constructed cities among which he called the capitals of Brazil and Kazakhstan. And then again asked absolutely logical question: “Astana needed nearly half a century to become the city. With the help of what he is going to build the semi-million city? Kazakhstan, which constructed Astana, is the richest country. Brazil is the same richest country and these countries had possibilities for involvement of the sums. And the one who conceived to build Lazika, from where is going to bring and where will place so many people? It is nonsense”.

The architect Giga Batiashvili agrees with him: «If to think, it is impossible. Today any little considerable construction without the project of moving of the country and the plans based on it doesn't begin in the civilized world”.

But who will listen to them – the doubting of the thought of the wise president?! It was told after all to all country by official language: “The same day the President of Georgia, together with the new and being governors of Samegrelo - Zemo Svaneti examined the places from the helicopter where the new city will be constructed. During the conversation with Zaza Gorozia and Guram Misabishvili Mikheil Saakashvili spoke about the value of the city and the projects, the implementation of which is planned in Lazika”.

What is possible to add here? Perhaps, the same Ostap Ibragimovich:

“The signals will depart to Mars, Jupiter and the Neptune from Vasyuki. The communication with Venus will become the same easy, as moving from Rybinsk to Yaroslavl”.

It is necessary to change the geographic names only …

And such ideas especially impress against the present mass excitements in Georgia, that is in New Vasyuki.