Everyday life at the border and customs post “Nizhny Zaramag”

Nizhny Zaramag

(Ossetian:
Dællag Zæræmæg
) is a village in the Alagirsky district of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania (Russian Federation). Belongs to the Zaramagsky rural settlement. Federal Tax Service code 1514[1]. The village has a rural administration (Zaramagskaya rural administration).

Resort

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Near the village there is a balneological resort area. Located on the slopes of the Rocky Range, at an altitude of 1700 m, among coniferous forests. K: Wikipedia: Articles without sources (type: not specified)[ source not specified 2657 days

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The climate is temperate continental. Winter is moderately mild; average January temperature −6 °C; The snow cover is insignificant, but quite stable. Summer is moderately cool and sunny (in August - 13 °C). Autumn is long, with cloudiness prevailing in the second half. Precipitation approx. 650 mm per year. The number of hours of sunshine is 2048 per year. K: Wikipedia: Articles without sources (type: not specified)[ source not specified 2657 days

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The main natural healing factor is the mineral water of the Zaramag spring, located near the village of Nizhny Zaramag. The water is classified as sodium boron carbonate-chloride with a mineralization of about 6 g/l and a carbon dioxide content of 1.2 g/l. The flow rate of the source is about 4 thousand l/day. As a medicinal food, it is bottled and used for diseases of the digestive system, urinary system and metabolic disorders. K: Wikipedia: Articles without sources (type: not specified)[ source not specified 2657 days

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Near the village of Nizhny Zaramag on the banks of the Adaikomdon River there is a tourist center "Zaramag" (450 places; open in June-September). K: Wikipedia: Articles without sources (type: not specified)[ source not specified 2657 days

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Customs broker services

• Personal customs clearance specialist;
• We prepare and execute the necessary documentation - declarations, applications, various permitting forms, documents, reporting;
• Recommendations on HS codes for goods;
• Preliminary calculation of customs value and amount of advance customs payments;
• Drawing up DT projects and related documents;
• Document flow with customs;
• Submission of information at the request of the Customs post of MAPPA Nizhny Zaramag;
• Representation of the Customer's interests in the customs authorities of the Russian Federation;
• Organization, if necessary, of preliminary customs inspection of goods and vehicles before submitting the DT;
• Drawing up a declaration of intent under the seal of the customs representative;
• Consulting in the field of foreign economic activity (FEA);

Excerpt characterizing Lower Zaramag

- I think. “Everything is the same for them. They don't know anything! Where should I go?” thought Nikolai and went back to the hall where the clavichord stood. Sonya sat at the clavichord and played the prelude of the barcarolle that Denisov especially loved. Natasha was going to sing. Denisov looked at her with delighted eyes. Nikolai began to walk back and forth around the room. “And now you want to make her sing? – what can she sing? And there’s nothing fun here,” thought Nikolai. Sonya struck the first chord of the prelude. “My God, I am lost, I am a dishonest person. A bullet in the forehead, the only thing left to do is not sing, he thought. Leave? but where? anyway, let them sing!” Nikolai gloomily, continuing to walk around the room, glanced at Denisov and the girls, avoiding their gaze. “Nikolenka, what’s wrong with you?” – asked Sonya’s gaze fixed on him. She immediately saw that something had happened to him. Nikolai turned away from her. Natasha, with her sensitivity, also instantly noticed her brother’s condition. She noticed him, but she herself was so happy at that moment, she was so far from grief, sadness, reproaches, that she (as often happens with young people) deliberately deceived herself. No, I’m having too much fun now to spoil my fun by sympathizing with someone else’s grief, she felt, and said to herself: “No, I’m definitely mistaken, he should be as cheerful as I am.” Well, Sonya,” she said and went out to the very middle of the hall, where, in her opinion, the resonance was best. Raising her head, lowering her lifelessly hanging hands, as dancers do, Natasha, energetically shifting from heel to tiptoe, walked through the middle of the room and stopped. "Here I am!" as if she was speaking in response to the enthusiastic gaze of Denisov, who was watching her. “And why is she happy! - Nikolai thought, looking at his sister. And how isn’t she bored and ashamed!” Natasha hit the first note, her throat expanded, her chest straightened, her eyes took on a serious expression. She was not thinking about anyone or anything at that moment, and sounds flowed from her folded mouth into a smile, those sounds that anyone can make at the same intervals and at the same intervals, but which a thousand times leave you cold, in the thousand and first times they make you shudder and cry. This winter Natasha began to sing seriously for the first time, especially because Denisov admired her singing. She no longer sang like a child, there was no longer in her singing that comic, childish diligence that was in her before; but she still did not sing well, as all the expert judges who listened to her said. “Not processed, but a wonderful voice, it needs to be processed,” everyone said. But they usually said this long after her voice had fallen silent. At the same time, when this raw voice sounded with irregular aspirations and with efforts of transitions, even the expert judges did not say anything, and only enjoyed this raw voice and only wanted to hear it again. In her voice there was that virginal pristineness, that ignorance of her own strengths and that still unprocessed velvet, which were so combined with the shortcomings of the art of singing that it seemed impossible to change anything in this voice without spoiling it. “What is this? - Nikolai thought, hearing her voice and opening his eyes wide. -What happened to her? How does she sing these days? - he thought. And suddenly the whole world focused for him, waiting for the next note, the next phrase, and everything in the world became divided into three tempos: “Oh mio crudele affetto... [Oh my cruel love...] One, two, three... one, two... three... one... Oh mio crudele affetto... One, two, three... one. Eh, our life is stupid! - Nikolai thought. All this, and misfortune, and money, and Dolokhov, and anger, and honor - all this is nonsense... but here it is real... Hey, Natasha, well, my dear! Well, mother!... how will she take this si? I took it! God bless!" - and he, without noticing that he was singing, in order to strengthen this si, took the second to the third of a high note. "My God! how good! Did I really take it? how happy!” he thought. ABOUT! how this third trembled, and how something better that was in Rostov’s soul was touched. And this was something independent of everything in the world, and above everything in the world. What kind of losses are there, and the Dolokhovs, and honestly!... It’s all nonsense! You can kill, steal and still be happy...

Everyone has probably heard about the Nizhny Zaramag checkpoint in South Ossetia. Many of our neighbors on the other side of the ridge are also familiar with this section of the border, who periodically visit the Republic of South Ossetia on business or because they want to see relatives.

Since the friendly relations of the Republic of South Ossetia and the Russian Federation are no longer in doubt, society periodically requests the elimination of a section of the border that is not always convenient for the two partner states. Thousands of residents of territories peacefully neighboring side by side, being one people where relatives, friends and business partners are mixed, are forced to endure a lot of inconvenience and lose a catastrophically large amount of time due to customs bureaucracy.

This problem will not seem so significant to those who cross the border 1-2 times a year or even less often. But among us there are people who are forced to go through customs several times a week, a month, and some citizens face difficulties crossing the official border almost every day.

How much longer do ordinary people have to suffer?

Many cars traveling from the Republic of South Ossetia to North Ossetia stand idle at the border for 1-2 hours and sometimes even longer. If during this time it is not possible to complete all the necessary papers, you have to repeat the import procedure.

Some vehicles are x-rayed. On the one hand, in the fight against smuggling of drugs, weapons, alcohol and illegal medications, it is almost impossible to do without x-rays. But on the other hand, why should the same representatives of small and medium-sized businesses who are trying to feed their families and establish trade in absolutely legal goods between two friendly regions suffer from the current situation? Moreover, we know the harm that X-rayed products can cause to the human body.

Why Nizhny Zaramag is still working

We must pay tribute, the section of the border between the Russian Federation and the Republic of South Ossetia is not as easy as it might seem at first glance. One of the reasons why the leadership of our republic has not yet raised this issue is the advantages of customs in its modern form.

In fact, there are not so many advantages, but their importance is difficult to overestimate: 1. There is no need to pay half the cost for customs clearance of your car.

2. All goods that we import into the territory of the Republic of South Ossetia are exempt from paying 20% ​​value added tax (VAT).

3. Control of persons entering the Republic of South Ossetia.

What if the future of Nizhny Zaramag is in the form in which the checkpoint operates now? And what can be changed or reformed to improve the current situation without losing existing customs advantages?

Effective abolition of the customs border without consequences for both states is possible only after the formation of a common economic space, within which there will be uniform tariffs for standard services on both sides, the same duties and the taxation system of the Russian Federation and the Republic of South Ossetia brought to common standards.

Unfortunately, today it is primarily the residents of the Republic of South Ossetia who suffer from the ineffective operation of the Nizhny Zaramag border. Therefore, in the absence of an initiative to reform this area of ​​customs and border control on the part of our authorities, the matter is unlikely to move forward. It is also not worth expecting the Russian Federation to show initiative in this matter in the near future. Thus, the prospect for motorists and ordinary citizens of the republic to forget about queues and bureaucratic delays in Nizhny Zaramag looks very illusory. And the situation most likely will not change, at least in the next few years.

Fatima Gagloeva

Ossetian information portal “Nykhas”
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Everyday life at the border and customs post “Nizhny Zaramag”

Last instructions before leaving for the border. The head of the SOBR, Captain Marat Sakiev, once again outlines to his colleagues the main task today - to restore order at border and customs posts and facilitate the movement of people across the border. This is how every morning begins for the employees of the special rapid response squad of the North Ossetian customs.

By nine in the morning, the special squad groups move to their posts. Checkpoint "Nizhny Zaramag". The past is the most difficult section. Drivers remember miles-long queues and traffic jams in which they were forced to stand idle for several days. Now any aggravation of the situation at the border is unacceptable. This is one of the priority areas of the republic’s leadership. Customs officers took the decision of the Security Council of North Ossetia as the main guideline in their work. Before going on duty, there was another divorce. Sobrists receive a clear instruction - to act professionally and, if the situation requires it, firmly and decisively.

SOBR units are deployed at all borders of the border and customs post. Every employee knows that the skip-the-line system applies to regular buses, passengers in need of medical care, as well as pregnant women and infants. But the most important thing, customs officers believe, is to remember that Nizhny Zaramag, like Upper Lars, represents the economic interests of Russia on its southern borders. And it is those who serve here who are responsible for carrying out important government tasks. Protecting the interests of the country and the republic is the main line along which the North Ossetian customs builds its work.

Over the past month, SOBR officers of the North Ossetian customs carried out several special operations on the territory of the Nizhny Zaramag border and customs post. As a result, two groups that were involved in racketeering of drivers and participants in foreign economic activity were neutralized.

The Trans-Caucasian Highway is not only a federal highway, but also an interstate highway. Everyone who travels along the Transcam must be sure that the country in which he finds himself will ensure his safety and provide the conditions necessary for convenient border crossing - as it happens in all developed countries. Neither the intensity of the flow nor the congestion of the route should become an obstacle to the creation of such conditions. After all, from the very beginning of the operation of this highway, it withstood enormous loads. A huge flow of humanitarian supplies was sent along the Transkam to help victims of the earthquake in Armenia. The route remains the “road of life” today. Thousands of people on the other side of the Main Caucasian ridge, as, for example, in this village of Kornis, lost in the mountains, could hardly provide a comfortable existence for themselves and their children if it were not for the road connecting the north and south of the Caucasus. Thanks to Transkam, the socio-economic development of South Ossetia is supported.

The absence of queues at checkpoints is the result of the clear and efficient work of all services responsible for order at the border, and above all border guards. According to people who often travel along the Trans-Caucasus Highway, queues are created artificially. But it is at the state border that people form their first impressions of the country they are arriving in.