Malikova Nadezhda
Malikova Nadezhda
Education, city
I lived and worked in Moscow, received a pedagogical education in philology at a Moscow university.
City: Pevek
The questionnaire
01
Place of work and position. What is your main activity?
After the institute, I immediately came to work at Rosenergoatom Concern and connected my life with nuclear energy, and my specialty even helped me in this, remember how in the 60s there was a confrontation between physicists and lyricists, and my education and my work is a cushion for building an administrative platform in the nuclear industry, only this is not a confrontation, and support. Now I live and work in the North, in the city of Pevek of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug on a Floating nuclear thermal power plant as the head of the documentation support department.
02
A motto for life, an active position or a favorite quote that reflects you?
You need to always take on a task above your capabilities and not be afraid that you won't be able to! This is my philosophy of life.
03
Tell us about your professional path or personal successes and achievements.
All documents pass through my hands and eyes in the branch and through my department; this is a job that requires painstaking and patience, the ability to sort and select important and urgent, this work is always in the foreground, this is the ability to anticipate the situation and manage it, this is strict control and building a structure. All this was done from scratch and in an open field with a minimum of people, but now you can see the result of the work, you can see how much progress we have made and how all the cogs of administrative management are spinning. What I am proud of and what makes me move forward again and again!
04
What is attractive for you to work in the North?
I am an active metropolitan city resident, all exhibitions, museums, concerts, theaters - I adore this rhythm of the city, Moscow for me is my friends, universities, these are my streets and avenues, my lights over the Moscow River, my quiet alleys and cozy cafes. And living in this rhythm, you get an offer to go 6500 thousand km to the edge of the world to live and work. Live and work. Leave this most beautiful city on earth and go where your experience and your knowledge are needed to organize work there. Scared? no. I didn't doubt for a minute and I immediately agreed. And I will explain why - a long time ago, without knowing about any Pevek, I became interested in the work of Oleg Kuvaev, of course, the novel "Territory", and then his stories and "Triple Polar plot". And then I decided for myself that I really need to visit these places that Oleg Kuvaev describes, because it is there that you can test yourself for strength and prove yourself and understand that you are not living idly and burning your life, but having gone through trials and difficulties, having done an important thing and benefiting others, you will discover something else in yourself. There is such an expression - A test of complexity. That's exactly the test I wanted. And yet - sitting in front of the fireplace in your house, warm and cozy, then-then after many, many years to read the last lines of the novel "Territory" and be gentle to them, but more involved.
Pevek is a city of work, there is no idleness here, in order to survive here, you need to work and work. Very different people live and work here, from hard workers who were thrown here by fate, and drunkards, to people of words and deeds, highly spiritual people, enthusiasts. But the climate is so harsh, and the conditions are so different from the conditions of the mainland, that even though the north is addictive and it has its own romance, everyone will leave. Sooner or later. And this is Pevek's law. A temporary city on the edge of the earth.
05
What pain points of your city or region as a whole could you highlight?
The development of social infrastructure, affordable Internet, airport reconstruction, to make affordable prices for air tickets, the construction of sports complexes, and the cleaning of the city from garbage and junk, the demolition of old and abandoned houses, the city needs to be freed from endless containers, to determine a special place for them, and they are on every corner. It is necessary to breed livestock, so as not to lead from the mainland, to build greenhouses for growing vegetables. When you drive through abandoned villages, you are horrified - at what point was all this necessary and at what point did all this become unnecessary? why did everything function before, but now everything is abandoned?! there are no answers to these questions.
06
Three main reasons to visit the North?
And the Russian North is amazing and beautiful, every time you go to the tundra, to the hills, you are amazed at this beauty and greatness, you understand how infinitely free you are and at the same time you are a grain of sand in these spaces. Be sure to see in the spring how cranes arrive in Chukotka and how they sing their song, to see the most beautiful sunsets on earth, and even when you stand on the edge of the earth and realize that it is here that the day of the whole planet begins, to see how the sun never sets in summer, but stands high above the hills, to hear the smells of blooming tundra, wait for the first ship in the Chaunskaya Bay, and rejoice in a simple apple and orange, if you managed to buy in the store, and also meet with the elements in the form of strong winds - yuzhakov, when you can't take a step, when communication doesn't work, there is no Internet and you return to the absolute things in this world - books and live communication. Probably, for people who came here like me, it's all perceived as a dream, a dream at the beginning of the fog (there is such a novel by the Chukchi writer Yuri Rytheu), and it's not even possible to separate sleep from reality, because it's very difficult to survive in these conditions. And the woman? and a woman can survive under any circumstances, in any climate, in any life experiences, if she has the inner strength and conviction that she will cope without counting on anyone.
And I want to end with a quote from the novel "Territory" by Oleg Kuvaev, because it contains all the meanings for which a person comes and lives and works in the Arctic:
... If there was a force in the world that would return everyone connected with the gold of the Territory, who died on routes, disappeared in "bitch bunks", lost on the mainland, who went to a prosperous standard of "life like everyone else" — they would all repeat these years. Not in the name of money, since they knew what money was while working on the Territory, not even in the name of duty, since real duty sits in the essence of a person, and not in verbal formulations, not for the sake of fame, but for the sake of the unknown, in the name of which the individual life of a person is conceived and passes. Maybe the point is not to show a strong revival at the meeting, not to say that "we should somehow call and..." So that we can just say "do you remember?" and delve into the sweet heaviness of memories, where rivers, hills, sweat, cold, blood, fatigue, dreams are mixed and a holy sense of the right work. So that in a moment of doubt you would be supported by the past years, when you did not get cheap, did not flow thoughtless water through prepared gutters, but knew the rudeness and beauty of the real world, lived as a man and a man should live. If you have learned to look for a person not in a smooth opportunist, but in those who try life on their own unsightly skin, if you have resisted the hypnosis of acquisition and safe cozy truths, if you know with a grin that the world is many—sided and one hundred percent virtue has so far been achieved only in legends, if you believe in the rude fury of your work - you will always hear from a distant time the cry of a hard worker named Kefir: "But we can, guys! By God, we can!"
Today's day is a consequence of yesterday's day, and the reason for the coming day is created today. So why weren't you on that tractor sleigh and didn't the frosty February wind burn your face, reader?
Where have you been, what have you been doing all these years? Are you satisfied with yourself?..
07
What kind of parting words would you give to the younger generation living in the northern territories and facing the choice of a future profession?
You can come to Moscow and get settled, adjust your life and gain a foothold. This is very easy for many people. But it's very difficult to come to the North and arrange and adjust your life here, it's here that you will be required to test your strength, aren't you afraid? won't you run away? won't you fall? And if you overcome all this and leaving for the mainland, you will dream of these hills, these blizzards and snows, and your heart will ache with longing, then....
The North has no pathos, I'm just talking like that, sometimes loftily, sometimes naively, but this is definitely a place of power and Territory with a capital letter, a place blown from all sides by the north wind, with a crane cry, with white snows and fogs.
Everyone can live by their dreams, it's just that everyone's dreams are different. But only "many people are afraid to live their dreams" (O. Kuvaev).