Rodo_Af, le 10 août 2021 - 13:25 , dit :
Georgian "Sakgirposhakht" project, author Giorgi Pantsulaya.
One and only cable car in Lettland.
Fifty years ago, on January 3, 1969, an aerial cableway tram line was opened in Sigulda over the ancient Gauja valley, which was the first and only aerial cableway in the Baltic republics. As LA reported in yesterday's issue, a group of enthusiasts, including Aivars Janelsitis from Sigulda and Voldemārs Melķis, chief engineer of the Riga District Repair and Construction Board, had an idea for an aerial cableway in 1957, following similar lines in Georgia.
Aivars Janelsitis did not expect the round anniversary of his pet, because he passed away last May. However, the family of A. Janelsītis wanted to tell the readers of "LA" more about the achievements of the author and implementer of the Sigulda aerial cableway idea, the honorary citizen of Sigulda and Honorary Citizen of Čiatura (Georgia) and the history of the Sigulda cable car.
because before that there were no pioneers here, "said A. Janelsiņš. The road to the opening of the aerial cableway was long, complicated enough and full of adventures, but Aivars Janelsitis had enough courage, youth enthusiasm and enterprise to talk and substantiate his idea to Latvian leaders and travel to Chiatura, Moscow and Volgograd to achieve his plan. .
The bureaucracy and the objections of some leading persons were not able to obstruct the cherished idea and on December 30, 1968, by the order of the Riga District Executive Committee no. 305 deed was made, where 39-year-old Aivars Janelsitis, then head of the Riga District Apartments-Communal Department, handed over and Augusts Strunda, the head of the Riga District Utilities Combine, accepts the newly built passenger cableway Sigulda – Krimulda.
The opening ceremony took place on January 3, 1969. Residents, guests, relatives and friends of Sigulda could go on the first 1025-meter-long, 40-42-meter-long Gauja high and 3.5-minute ride. Before that, starting from the summer of 1968, safety measures were taken to check the load of the car, the braking performance, the operation of the rolling stock in extreme conditions (caused by electricity, natural disasters).
Love and long walks
"Without Chiatura and the experienced cableway construction engineer Georgy Panculay, it would have been difficult for me to build this track, because at that time in the Soviet Union, such a thing was developed only in Georgia.
I had cherished the place for the cable car right here, and G. Panculis also liked it, because I told him a story about my girl, who worked at the Krimulda Children's Sanatorium as a nurse, "Aivars Janelsitis once said. Well, this story is already shrouded in legend - how
young man, accompanying his beloved girl from Sigulda to Krimulda, imagined why it could not be done in the air like a bird and much faster.
Aivars Janelsitis was born in Cesis on November 22, 1929. Growing up in an intelligent family, Father Roberts was the editor-in-chief of Cēsu Vēstu and his mother Elfrīda was an accountant. At the age of eleven, the boy, along with several members of the Cēsis intelligentsia and their families, was deported to Siberia on June 14, 1941.
Together with his mother, little sister and grandmother at the Cēsis station, Aivars saw his father for the last time, but for a lifetime he remembered his father's words: "Your homeland is Latvia, and do everything in your power for Latvia." Five years later, in 1946, when Aivars returned to Latvia alone, he had to start an independent adult life.
Later, fate brought Aivars Janelsitis to Sigulda. As he himself said: "To Sigulda - a natural wonder, a paradise garden created by God, where the Latvian holy river Gauja lives." He worked as the director of the Sigulda Culture House, later as the head of the Utilities Department of the Riga District Executive Committee. Aivars looked at a girl who worked as a nurse and lived in Krimulda, but attended a amateur dance group, leisure evenings and concerts in Sigulda.
The polite and gallant young man always accompanied the girl to Krimulda after the events, crossing the Gauja bridge and, of course, both slopes twice, because there was already a way back ahead. Love, meeting and long walks on the route Sigulda – Krimulda – Sigulda were the ones that gave 27-year-old Aivars the impetus for a crazy idea: "Why can't I fly over the Gauja like a bird?"
The idea is viewed from Georgia
Coincidentally, Aivars Janelsītis received the 1956 issue of the magazine Ogoņok, on the cover of which was photographed a cable car in Georgia. "When I saw it, it seemed that a current was flowing through me, as if I had been hit.
Then I promised with my stubborn and persistent character - in Sigulda it will be like that too! "
Aivars remembered. That's how it all started. First, a letter to the Georgian city of Chiatura, where there was an immediate readiness to help. In 1957, during the celebration of Sigulda's 750th anniversary, the Georgian delegation announced that it was donating a technical project of the cableway and all non-standard equipment to Sigulda, as this object was special in that it would be the first kilometer-long air tram for Latvians without intermediate supports. The government of the LSSR made a decision, and the Cēsis Design Bureau began to design the structures of the Sigulda and Krimulda station of the cableway.
It took 12 years in government corridors to get stuck in bureaucratic mountains of paper before the aerial cableway was opened on January 3, 1969. During these years, Aivars had already married his love - nurse Genoveva - and was expecting offspring - daughters Maija and Ilze.
Patriot of Sigulda
According to Aivars Janelsītis' family, he loved Latvia and Sigulda. Receiving the title of Honorary Regional Officer of Sigulda for a lifetime contribution to the development of Sigulda County, Aivars Janelsitis said: "There is no greater happiness - to find a place to dedicate your life and work to. The beauty of Sigulda is indescribable, so I thank everyone for its cultivation and development - we do it from generation to generation! I serve Sigulda! "
In honor of Aivars Janelsitis, who will turn 90 this year on November 22, and celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Sigulda cable car, it is planned to create a sculpture by the Sigulda cable car, which will be created by the sculptor Valts Barkāns. Everyone will be able to participate in the creation of this sculpture with a donation.
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