Irkutsk Mayor Dmitry Berdnikov allowed gardeners to temporarily hold a seasonal seedling fair opposite the Kedr store. The decision was explained by the need to sell flowers now, while no suitable equipped place with the right temperature exists yet. The trade will be official, gardeners must sign an agreement with the administration and pay rent. Authorities also inspected the agricultural market on Volzhskaya Street and decided to work on its improvement with the owners.
Irkutsk Mayor Dmitry Berdnikov has allowed gardeners to hold a seasonal fair. The sale of seedlings is located opposite the Kedr store.As Dmitry Berdnikov said, this is a temporary solution. After all, people need to sell flowers now, and there is no equipped place with a suitable temperature regime. Gardeners explain that the location is familiar to them, and it is always in the shade during the day. The mayor gave Irkutsk residents the green light to organize a small flower fair. Gardeners must sign an agreement with the administration and pay rent.
— People have always traded flowers grown in their own gardens and on their gardening plots here, in this very place. For now, they need to be allowed to do so; let people trade, they do not particularly bother anyone here, but in general, of course, it is necessary to restore order at the trading spot located here and organize normal civilized trade, — says the mayor of Irkutsk .
Dmitry Berdnikov and the head of the Department of Entrepreneurship and Consumer Market Development, Alexey Evladov, inspected the territory of the nearest agricultural market located on Volzhskaya Street. Since it belongs to the Irkutsk Oblpotrebsoyuz, it was decided to work out the issue of improving it together with the market owners, the press service of the Irkutsk city administration reports.