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Sleeping bag in a plaid winter shuttle, packed with old blankets. Wash at best once a week. Find your home in "Buda" of boards, covered with linoleum. Bask in the fire, or "black". Earn sorting waste civilization.

- Even here you can live! - Says Anna, who for 12 years lived in a forest near the northern tip. - No one complains ...

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Before my eyes - the mountains of rubbish and flocks of crows. Humming emergency vehicles. But the smell of rot you know what a dump nearby. A few more turns - and the islands scattered in front of us a group of people. Around them - a dog. No bark, no bite.

 - Collect the waste at the landfill just the coolest homeless. It is they - the top of the hierarchy. You can earn on deposit recyclables at $ 50 a day. Those sorts trash in cities - earn less likely, - says Dmitry Rusakov, chief specialist on the preparation and response to emergencies Belarusian Red Cross Society. For five years in the heat and cold, he carries on homeless Minsk dump food and stuff. Today, they get boots, blankets, canned meat and bread. We are with the photographer warned that the residents dump "outsiders" can beat. But we do not believe until they see for yourself.



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Dmitry Rusakov, chief prepare for and respond to emergencies Belarusian Red Cross Society



Anna - the lively local. Just coming to the Dime for "freebie". 12 years old woman living in a landfill. He says that centenarians landfill can be determined from the fire on the black face. Others come to work in a landfill. Anya face is dark. No front teeth. Halitosis is reminiscent of alcohol yesterday. Clothing shiny dirt. Curly hair covers playful cap. She complains about the worn-out boots out of season and eagerly tells how there was.

 - Apartments in Minsk sold through an intermediary. Instead she got a shabby house in Smolevichi. The son was in prison. Then he was gone, I found him here. Freedom of sucked - says Anna.

But here she found not only the house, and freedom, but also love.

 - In the 18 years younger than me, and I '51. If he did not, so maybe it does not remain, - she explains as an integral part in the story of the mat.

Anna lives with his Andrei in "Buda" two kilometers from the landfill. Show "barn" refuses. But they say that even as she lives in the forest people 20.

 - Boards covered with linoleum, put a mattress - and all. Do not you understand? No stoves. Around the fire warming ourselves. Rats sides. When I go to sleep, just take off the cap. Two blankets are, however, torn. Coat covering.



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Dmitry Rusakov said that the homeless sleep in the dump are not the only way, as described Anna. Some take the checkered bags shuttles stuffed blankets - and spend the night there. A couple of hours sleep, and then go to the fire to warm up.

 - What do you eat? - I ask Anna.

 - "Rollton" mashed buy in the store, boil water on the fire. Beef smoked shops bring in a landfill. I do not disdain. They are normal, no smell. Overcooked, pasta Navar ...

 - And where wash?

 - Sometimes we go to the dump checkpoint wash. And there is nowhere to wash. The "fast" chimes as squeeze if someone epilepsy.

According to Anna, the day she "old hanger" for the collection of garbage from the forces earning 30-50 thousand.

"We have no principal. We have anarchy! »

Sitting around a campfire other inhabitants of the landfill. I went closer and saw how a man opens a bottle of crisp jerk "ink". To his right, like a stone, sits Dim Dimych. He has a black face. Behind him - the same as a statue - a large white dog. How old Dim Dimych lives at the dump, and he does not remember. Or she does not want to talk. And just a minute after my arrival among local - disappears. They sit by the fire, those who come here to work. Who after a few years in prison, who are drunk. On the day of sorting garbage to earn 100-300 thousand. But can more.



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Dmitry Rusakov said "marvelous story." Woman collecting metal, surrendered and was 4, 5 thousand dollars. But then she burned - went to the fire, and there fell ...

I'm a little knocks out among people at a fire, but I take kindly. It is said that if I came to the landfill work - not to beat.

 - Would burn? - I ask.

 - No! What are you!

Vitek is sitting on the left and says, I have no sense of smell to find the dump something worthwhile. But yesterday he found a piece of sausage and cheese.

 - Probably spoiled?

 - No, normal. People still are not on New Year oklemalis.

 - The girl, then nobody complains. If you are not at home, there is fed, or do you find yourself - is included in our conversation another guy.

 - Who is your chief?

 - No major. We have anarchy!

But Dmitry Rusakov said that after all the "main" ... The truth is, he never saw him again. But the "host" told themselves homeless. They give him the money earned for storage, so as not to keep to yourself at the dump.

"Who found it, then it! Nobody gives nothing! »

At the landfill, "Trostenets" we come in the afternoon. Many have already dress up and going home. People hide their faces from the camera of the photographer. They explain this by the fact that here almost all "with registration, each family and home, and not all family members know that they work at the dump, and here, because even in the factory earned less." According to local, come here to sort trash can either. But you first need to "put down" - at least bring a bottle.



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I ask, who is homeless. I say Thank Forest and Kohl.

Nikolai five years living on the streets. The mustachioed, two hats, quilted jacket, bandaged female belt. He was 47 years old, but looks at least 60. In his hands he had just received the boots. He says that if brought burzhujku - also would not mind. He lives in a "one-room brick building" on the site of the former military base near the landfill. On the day on garbage earns about $ 5.



Thank Forest got his nickname because he lives in a mud hut in the forest. He says that a disabled person. It moves with a stick. In the evenings, in the dugout reading detectives under candle light. Today, he earned $ 8. 4 of them for a bale of plastic bottles.

 - Dug a hole with a shovel, shut oilcloth - and made the dugout. There and live - he says.

 - So in the freezing cold as possible!

 - I have a 35-degree frost survived!

Thank Forest is removed along a path in the woods. I look at the man in the hood. He stands with a package of sanitary ware among a heap of junk. A man named Sergei, he is also homeless. On the sixth day of the landfill work, before there was a janitor. She spends the night with friends, in the dugout. But today he was lucky: a colleague asks her husband, a janitor key to the basement, and Sergei would spend the night there.



This dump people can earn $ 17-34 a day. Tell magical stories about how someone is kotomochku with $ 6,800 and a bag with more than 2,200 $.

 - Those who have found, then it! Nobody gives nothing! - Tell me, continuing to change.

... On the way back talking with Dmitry Rusakov. Over the past five years "younger dump" he shares his observations. That is, it became more and more people over 25 years before the majority were those over 40.

 - With povyhodili area - and to a landfill - he explains.

It tells the story of the chief doctor of a hospital, which is also drunk and lived at the dump. He was found and returned to "normal life", was given the post of head of the Centre of disinfection and sterilization, and then again the man was gone. It turned out - back to the dump. Even to his "normal life."



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