The land near the Airship shopping center changed its status from "business" to "park".

Hello! I would like to ask if you know what they are going to build in the park at Botanika? Recently we walked there in the evening and noticed that a huge area was fenced off and gravel was poured on it. Will they build houses or build a shopping center here too? We, the inhabitants of Botanica, do not want this at all. Square - the only place where you can walk. So, in addition to the Airship, they also built the Botanica Mall.

Natalya Vladimirovna, Yekaterinburg

To answer your question, we contacted the construction department and land relations administration of the Chkalovsky district of Yekaterinburg. There we were informed that new construction was really planned in the square at Botanika - a shopping center would be built: the second stage of the Airship shopping center. According to the authorities, project documentation it is not yet ready in full and while preparatory work is being carried out on the territory: the parking lot is being cleaned, fences are being erected. It is not yet known when the construction of the facility will begin.

Meanwhile, in the shopping center "Airship" denied the information that the second stage will be built in the park shopping center. “Another shopping center will be built here. The Olips company (it owns the Airship) does not plan to build a second stage on this land,” said Ekaterina Ivanova, head of the company's commercial department.

Airships - huge structures filled with gas - appeared at the beginning of the 20th century. For several decades, everyone perceived them with enthusiasm and considered practical and effective solution for transport in comfort a large number people or the transport of military goods. But in the 1930s, a tragedy occurred that radically changed attitudes towards airships. Today, after almost a century, airships are returning to the arena again, but in a new guise.

The death of the Hindenburg on May 6, 1937 marked the end of the airship era. The sight of a giant German zeppelin going down in flames near Lakehurst, New Jersey scared people. The airship burned down in a matter of seconds, killing 35 of the 97 passengers, and photos and newsreels of the terrible event shocked people around the world.

Not surprisingly, the popularity of flying in massive structures filled with gas dropped to zero and the industry never recovered. But the dream of traveling in lighter-than-air vehicles has not died until now. Therefore, government agencies and private companies continue to experiment with huge airships to this day.

1 Aeroscraft ML866

Aeroscraft Corporation engineers have taken on the daunting task of building an airship with an interior space of 465 square meters.

Billed as a "flying yacht", the Aeroscraft ML866 is currently under construction and will be completed in 2020. CEO and Chief Engineer company Igor Pasternak said that the dimensions of the airship will be 169 meters long and 29 meters wide. For comparison, the dimensions of the "Hindenburg" were 245 meters long and 41 meters wide, and the internal usable area was about 557 square meters.

Aeroscraft ML866 cylinders will be filled with helium, not the flammable hydrogen that caused the fire on the Hindenburg.

In operation, the new airship will be able to reach a cruising altitude of 3,658 meters and be able to fly up to 5,000 kilometers. The declared carrying capacity is 66 tons.

2 Airlander 10

Currently the world's largest aircraft on helium is the Airlander 10 - designed and manufactured by the British company Hybrid Air Vehicles, an apparatus that combines the technologies of helicopters and aircraft. It reaches a length of 92 meters (for comparison, the largest passenger aircraft Airbus A380 is only 71 meters long).

The airship has a cruising altitude of 6,100 meters and can fly for up to two weeks without any people on board and about five days with a crew. The Airlander 10 can take off and land on "almost any surface". The declared carrying capacity is 9,980 kilograms.

Airlander 10 took off for its maiden flight on August 17, 2016, flying 10 kilometers in 19 minutes in Bedfordshire, UK. At the same time, he reached a height of 152 m.

3.Fireball finder

After a "minibus-sized fireball" from outer space hit the California coast on April 22, 2012, a team of scientists boarded the Zeppelin Eureka to cruise the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains and search for meteorite fragments on the ground.

On May 3 of the same year, researchers from NASA and the Institute for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) climbed to a height of 300 m in an airship, the length of which was 75 m (slightly larger than a Boeing 747). During the 5-hour flight, they looked for craters that could mark the places where pieces of the meteorite crashed into the ground.

4 Walrus

As part of the Walrus program in the Office of Perspective research projects The US Department of Defense (DARPA) is developing a hybrid airship that will be heavier than air, and lifting force it will generate through a combination of aerodynamics, thrust vectoring and volatile gas generation.

DARPA officials said these modern airships are designed to overcome the design challenges faced by airships in earlier eras with the help of advanced technology.

5. The Falcon Project

Can the airship definitively solve the mystery of the supposed existence of the elusive humanoid known as "Bigfoot" or "Big Foot". Project Falcon operators think it's possible.

To that end, Project Falcon announced in 2012 that they would begin searching for the bipedal beast by deploying a remote-controlled helium-filled aircraft to watch from the sky over the forests where the creature was allegedly seen. A custom built 14m Aurora Mk II will hunt Bigfoot by scanning the landscape with antennas and cameras with high resolution, which shoot in different ranges and spectra.

6. Fish-like airship

Unlike zeppelins, airships do not have an internal support to support their "skin", and they retain their shape solely due to the pressure of the gas that inflates them from the inside. This flexibility has prompted researchers to begin developing a type of propulsion system that uses artificial muscles to propel an airship through the air, much like a fish swims through water. The so-called muscles are elastic polymer films (EAP) that expand and contract when they encounter electricity.

7 Zeppelin NT

In 2008, design company Airship Ventures in California purchased a $12 million 12-passenger zeppelin, the Zeppelin NT, built by Germany's Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik GmbH for sightseeing use.

Zeppelins returned to German skies in 1997 with the launch of the first Zeppelin NT prototype, the first Zeppelin to appear in California since the 1930s (then US Navy Macon and USS Akron plied the skies).

Airships Zeppelin NT 75 m long are much shorter than the massive Hindenburg (245 m). Also, unlike the Hindenburg, modern zeppelins are filled with helium, which is somewhat less volatile than hydrogen, but also much less flammable.

However, modern designers do not stop at the development of airships alone. One of the latest developments has become when it is really necessary.

At the City Planning Council of Yekaterinburg, whose meeting today was held at the Museum of Architecture and Design, designers from St. Petersburg presented their vision of how the park should look between Botanika Mall and the Airship shopping center. However, the council members were not enthusiastic about this presentation.

There were many complaints, but the main stumbling block was the functional content of the future park. Some arguers said that mothers with strollers should walk here, others - that the inhabitants of Botanica need a sports core, others assured that there should be a place for holding cultural events. And the design company took and placed all these functions in the park. In every corner there is a small patch: where is a workout, where are children's complexes, where are alleys with benches. The park, overloaded with countless functions, began to look cumbersome and ridiculous.

One gets the impression that this is not a city park, but a giant courtyard space, where you really have to provide for playgrounds for kids, and benches, and sports equipment, and much more. But the park must have some main mission. I don't see her here.

Timur Abdullaev, chief architect of Yekaterinburg:

The language existing now on this site cannot be called a park. At the moment, it is just a wasteland, along the paths across which people pass. And this wasteland extends from the back of one mall to the back of another. The value of the park that will appear here can only be a clear set of additional functions. Whether it will be a system of paths for walking with strollers, or a sports core, or a large Christmas tree - this remains to be decided.

Recall that the customer for the construction of the park is the St. Petersburg network of hypermarkets "O'Key", which bought the lease rights to two adjacent plots near the "Airship" shopping center. On the larger site, the company is obliged to equip the park discussed today. A grocery hypermarket will now appear on the second site, once intended for the construction of the second stage of the Airship.

However, not all residents of Botanica share the joy of building another store. The opinion of many of them was expressed by the architect Grigory Mazaev, who also lives here. He said that the trade facility here would be superfluous, but if it still has to be built, then let it at least be architecturally linked to the existing Airship.

As before, the improvement of the park will begin in the spring. The developer plans to invest about 40 million rubles in the project. Documents at the disposal of the editors of the site indicate that the developer was obliged to deal with the park in the first place, and only then build a retail facility. After the commissioning of the entire complex, the park will be transferred to the balance of the municipality.

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In the meantime, the situation on the trade market was changing - the markets began to leave, they began to be replaced by shopping centers in their modern sense. The first stage of the South-Western shopping center "Kit" was already under construction. In accordance with the new needs in trade, the head of Yekaterinburg demanded to change the format of the market under construction, to turn it into a full-fledged shopping center.

The decision of the master plan also changed with changes in the technology of the center. In parallel with the construction of the shopping center "Airship", the construction of the previously non-existent Schwartz Street was carried out. In the general plan, it was necessary to take into account a strong relief difference in relation to Fuchik Street, take into account the loading of the shopping center, place a parking lot, a separate boiler room, and so on.