Journalists of regional edition “Evening Moscow” inform that state unitary enterprise “Moslift” holds a contest to pick the best photo taken in the lift. Organizers have told about peculiarities of this contest on their facebook page. The event is held as a social project and named “Care about living spaces and resistance to vandalism”. The aim of the contest is to enhance a level of people consciousness regarding protection of the environment.

Within a few days the ad attracted masses of people. The youth appeared to be the most interested in this project. The name of project is “A clean lift — a beautiful look”. And it’s not surprising. The main peculiarity of competition entries is to demonstrate purity of lift cabins. The competitors are supposed to take a picture in their lifts and send a snapshot to the profile of organizers.

Winners of the competition will get prizes! The department of housing and communal services of Moscow, Department of Culture and the fund “Social projects” have become initiators of the competition.

“RIA News” reports the death of a man who died in one of the lifts of Russia on the 9th of April. Residents of the condominium from Kulakova Street contacted militsiya office to report about the corpse of a dead man found in the lift pit. According to preliminary information a man used to be provide technical maintenance works of the lifts. That day a mechanic did his usual job. The cause of the death became his inadvertence. He fell into right into the pit and died at the scene. Militsiya officials don’t give the details on the case and their further actions.

“Lift Expert” reminds about accident prevention when using a lift.

Earlier in the previous posts “Lift Expert” wrote about possibility to install and actively use card readers in the lift industry. However, today in the lights of events in Zhitomir we’d like to raise the same issue again. Lift workers seriously consider an idea to install new equipment in their lifts.

In 2000 a big number of elevators were not put into operation because of the debt for the utilities. At the time, card readers became a solution and literally saved lift industry from devastation. Gradually all hoists and lifts were restored and the conflict with citizens of the city was resolved. Nevertheless, representatives of the opposition fraction “Front of changes” demanded to come back to the payment scheme that had been used to pay for technical lift maintenance services before. To put it another way, they demanded to stop using card readers and come back to a basic rate that would be included in the pay rent.

The officials took into account the fact that those people who have got facilities can’t actually use them, hence they developed the project “About taking measures to change lift maintenance in housing of Zhitomir Tower Council”.

Ad hoc commission of deputies and housing representatives was investigating current situation. After long negotiations they’ve come to the conclusion that this choice (whether to use card readers or not) should be made by people who live in this or that condominium in particular.

Gennadiy Zubko, a member of Parliament,  has informed the media that he declared cancellation of cards in his election campaign and he’s happy that a fraction has managed to regulate and realize at least half of the assigned tasks.

However, the question is, what will such disassembly of technical equipment result in regarding the lift industry? By far, it’s not easy to give an answer. Two years down the road, Gennadiy Zubko pointed out that return to the previous payment scheme won’t be beneficial for everybody.

On one hand, the cost of a single card is 25 hryvnia (100 trips). If a resident of the house uses this card in a rational way, he or she can easily travel by lift for a month and a half or so. On the other hand, those families which consist of four or more members will have to pay minimum 100 hryvnia each month, which is 2,5 the price of a basic rate.

Vladimir Deboy, the Mayor of the city, says that a decision should be made by the citizens. There are many advantages and disadvantages of using card readers, thus, he leaves making this choice to people. To read more about this topic, read the next issue of “Lift Expert”!

According to the portal “Lviv Express”, lifts of Lviv are going to be maintained by a

a special utility company. Yuriy Golets, the Head of Tower Council has made an official announcement that one of subdivisions of the enterprise “Lvivsvet” is going to resume work after its restructuring in the nearest future. He will be a responsible person to monitor technical maintenance and all repairing works of hoisting cranes. Local deputies have allocated a budget of 3 billion dollars to invest in works of mechanics and lift industry on the whole. They are going to train the staff, reconstruct the workshop and purchase new equipment.

It’s preliminarily planned to hire more than 50 employees. The enterprise will send young electromechanics to Kiev so that they can take working practices. The Tower Council has allocated 3,000 hryvnias for this educational project.

Yuriy Golets says that a new utility company will replace all private companies. It will start to maintain lifts from the 1st of July, 2013. A crew of mechanics will have rebuilt seven hoists by the 1st of September, 2013. It’s got to be mentioned that more than 1,500 lift of Lviv have already expired their normative term of operation.  

According to the information released by online edition “20 minutes”, on the 27th of March a young man fell a victim to an incident — an elevator rope broke in one of the lifts of Vinnitsa city. This happened in one of hardware stores at approximately 7 p.m. A man of 31 years age wanted to transport the fridge in the service lift but the rope didn’t withstand the load and fell right into the pit. Thanks to on time first aid, he is alive; however currently he has to stay in the intensive care unit.

Journalists of “Lift Expert” magazine report that a man is seriously injured. Doctors have diagnosed traumatic brain injury, abdominal injury and fracture of the pelvis.

In the meantime territorial administration has created a special commission to investigate this case. Read our next issue to find out the details of this investigation.