Almost three years have passed since the collapse of the barracks in the Omsk village of Svetly, where 24 servicemen were killed and another 20 were injured. All this time there was an investigation, the case almost doubled - up to 500 pages. According to preliminary data, it will take about a year for the defendants to familiarize themselves with all the documents. At the same time, most of them will have to fly to court sessions from Omsk to Moscow.

The Main Military Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia has filed final charges. Ex-chief of the 242nd training center Airborne Forces Oleg Ponomarev will be tried for abuse of office. The investigation believes that before settling personnel in the renovated barracks, the colonel had to personally verify the quality of the work carried out. Somehow, Ponomarev had to act as a construction expert. Representatives of his lawyers categorically disagree with this.

All these works, according to the defense of the officers, should have been monitored not by colonels of the Airborne Forces, who did not understand anything in construction, but by employees of the federal state-owned enterprise “Department of the Customer of Capital Construction of the Ministry of Defense”, the Regional Directorate of the Customer of Capital Construction of the Central Military District, FSUE “Spetsstroyengineering at Spetsstroy”, GUSST No. 9 and SMU No. 916. All of them, as the investigation already believes, for various reasons turned a blind eye to violations during repair work, writes.

Recall that after the tragedy, gross violations were revealed in the building built in 1975. It turned out that the barracks was originally built not according to the rules. The renovation only made things worse. Builders removed a thick layer of plaster that, in fact, held the crumbling walls together. The new plaster was put in much worse quality. In addition, holes were drilled in the walls for cladding with siding - this further weakened the structure. Also, the joints of the reinforcements were incorrectly welded, and so on. All this eventually led to the collapse.

Another person involved - Colonel Vladislav Parkhomenko - is now in jail. He got there when a large-scale bribe case was unexpectedly added to the main charges. According to his acquaintances, Parkhomenko was framed by FSB officers who were tapping the phone. After the incident with the barracks, the colonel lost his job. And when the money needed for lawyers ran out, he asked a builder friend to borrow 200,000. This was considered a bribe and a violation of the signing of proper behavior. Therefore, the colonel was sent to the isolation ward. All his complaints are rejected.

In addition to the officers, the final charges were brought against the builders - the general director of Remeksstroy LLC Alexander Dorofeev and his partner Dmitry Bayazov. The company that won the tender reconstructed the barracks, and Bayazov, who did not have a special education, led this project.

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On July 12, at about 22:40 (local time), the barracks of the third training paratrooper battalion collapsed in the village of Svetly. Dozens of soldiers were buried under the rubble, twelve died. "Omsk Here" publishes a complete chronology of the events of this terrible tragedy.

We express our deepest condolences to the families and friends of the victims. Sorry guys.

At the time of the arrival of the Omsk Here correspondent, the street leading to the military unit was blocked, and the territory was cordoned off. At the checkpoint at that time there were about a hundred people - local residents and relatives of soldiers. People screamed, cried and asked the servicemen to provide at least some information about the victims, since they could not get through to their sons. One woman tried to break through the cordon, but people in military uniform with machine guns in their hands stopped her.

- Maybe that's where your son is standing in a cordon,- a police officer, who came to the aid of the soldiers, pointed somewhere into the darkness. - Try to call your colleagues, perhaps they will give you some information.

But the call failed. Knowledgeable people from the crowd they said that soldiers are allowed to use phones here only on weekends: on Sunday, after lights out, soldiers must hand over all mobile devices. It was not possible to verify this information.

- I stood on the balcony and heard - as if a land mine had exploded: screams, noise, rattle, said an eyewitness who wished to remain anonymous. "Let's go see what happened." On the way, we met a military man who told us that the roof of the barracks had collapsed. We were not allowed there, and we decided to go back. On the way we met about thirty ambulances and fire trucks.

Ambulances and special equipment to remove rubble continued to arrive at the training center almost all night. Relatives were visibly nervous. For the past three hours, they have not been provided with information about the dead and injured, in connection with which the people crowding at the checkpoint began shouting unflattering words at the leadership of the Airborne Forces training center.

- My son works here,- said Venera Morozova, a resident of Perm, crying, who came to take the oath to her son. - Since childhood, he wanted to get into the Airborne Forces. He studied with me at a correctional school, after which they are not allowed to join the army. But he made sure that he was recognized as fit, went to the doctors for months. Entered the sports club, had 32 parachute jumps. And here he got it. Yesterday was the oath. Now I just want to know that he is alive, but they don't give us any information.

Later, a representative of the Ministry of Emergency Situations came out to the relatives and in an informal conversation said that the lists of the injured and the dead would be made public in one and a half to two hours. At this point, it was already known that two recruits had died and nineteen were hospitalized. Doctors needed ammonia and water, because after this information, many women became ill.

Meanwhile, a special commission of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, created by order of Sergei Shoigu, flew from Moscow to Omsk, and a plane with employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations flew from Novosibirsk. Information has appeared that the situation in the village of Svetly is reported to Russian President Vladimir Putin every 30 minutes. In addition, the first persons of the city and the region arrived at the scene of the tragedy.

At about 3:00 a.m., the deputy head of the training center for work with personnel, Lieutenant Colonel Vitaly Medinsky, appeared at the checkpoint and called the gathered people to him.

- At about 22 hours 40 minutes, the barracks of the third paratrooper training battalion collapsed, he said. - In total there were 337 people in the barracks, 38 were under the rubble. At the moment, 21 people have been removed from the rubble, they were evacuated to hospitals. 19 people are still under the rubble. Parents will now be taken by bus to the headquarters of the training center, they will be provided with lists, and in the future psychologists will work with them. The reasons for the collapse are still unknown, but it was definitely not an explosion or a fire.

The serviceman also said that a hotline has been launched, through which relatives can receive information about the dead and injured.

Mothers of recruits from the third battalion could hardly hold back tears, heading towards the headquarters. Relatives of other soldiers began to disperse, sighing with relief.

At about 6:00 a.m., a convoy of high-ranking members of the commission from Moscow drove into the territory of the 242nd training center of the Airborne Forces. They did not stop and give comments to journalists. But the Minister of Construction and Housing and Communal Services of the Omsk Region, Stanislav Grebenshchikov, willingly shared fresh information with the media.

— There were 42 people under the rubble, 24 of whom managed to get,he said.“Two have died. Work continues, all special services are involved, videoconferences with Moscow are constantly going on. Soon, boards of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and the Ministry of Defense will come to Omsk. It is possible that some of the victims will be transported to Moscow.

In the morning, the press service of the Ministry of Defense also provided an official comment. According to their information, not so long ago, the RemExStroy company, registered in Nizhny Novgorod, produced overhaul collapsed barracks. Specialists will have to establish whether there were any violations during the work.

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Today, July 13, at about 10:00 am, lists of soldiers whose lives were cut short last night appeared in the media.

1. Shaikhulin Rustem Radikovich (born 05.10.94)

2. Sudnikovich Vladislav Vladimirovich (01/04/95)

3. Polegenko Alexey Nikolaevich (17.01.97)

4. Yumagulov Ruslan Akramovich (born May 29, 1991)

5. Ignatenko Maxim Sergeevich (born 20.01.96)

6. Filyanin Ilya Pavlovich (b. 24.07.96)

7. Ivanov Mikhail Alekseevich (born 22.10.96)

8. Chemezov Vitaly Alexandrovich (born 10/19/96)

9. Vakhrushev Sergey Vladimirovich.

By 12 o'clock the list of the dead was replenished with several more names

10. Filatov Sergey Alexandrovich, (08/18/1996)

11. Altynbaev Ranis Ruslanovich, (14.06.1994)

12. Dmitry Sergeevich Kenikh, (11/16/1996)

13. Gritskov Alexey Sergeevich, (30.01.1996)

14. Belov Evgeny Alekseevich, (born 03/12/1995)

The editors of Omsk Here and the website express their condolences to the families and friends of the victims.

18 people died in the collapse of the barracks in Omsk

The death toll during the emergency in the barracks of the Airborne Forces in Omsk amounted to 18 people, in total 37 servicemen were removed from the rubble, five are being searched, RIA Novosti was told in the press service of the Russian Defense Ministry.

“As of 08.30, on July 13, 37 servicemen were pulled out from the rubble, 18 of them died, and a search is underway for five servicemen,” said Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov.

According to him, 19 servicemen are in medical institutions.

Konashenkov also noted that in the central military hospitals of Vishnevsky, Burdenko, as well as in the Military Medical Academy, wards were prepared for receiving victims in the training center of the Airborne Forces in the Omsk region.

Putin expresses condolences to the families of those killed in the collapse of the barracks in Omsk

Russian President Vladimir Putin receives reports from the Minister of Defense on the progress of rescue operations at the site of the collapse of part of the barracks of the 242nd airborne training center on the outskirts of Omsk.

Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed condolences to the families and friends of the servicemen who died as a result of the collapse of part of the barracks in Omsk, as well as to the entire Russian army, said Dmitry Peskov, press secretary of the Russian head of state.

The ceilings of the second floor collapsed in the barracks of the 242nd training center of the Airborne Forces on the outskirts of Omsk. According to the latest data, 18 soldiers were killed, 19 were hospitalized, the fate of five more remains unknown.

“The Supreme Commander-in-Chief receives reports from the Minister of Defense on the progress of rescue operations, the Minister was instructed to provide all necessary medical assistance to the victims of the accident, reports from the Ministry of Defense are provided to the President on a regular basis,” Peskov said.

Found all 42 servicemen who remained under the rubble in Omsk

ALL 42 MILITARY SERVICEMEN REMAINED UNDER THE ROLLAGES OF THE BARRACKS IN OMSK FOUND - RF MINISTRY OF DEFENSE

Barracks collapse in Omsk kills 23 people

As of 10:00 am on July 13, all 42 servicemen who remained under the rubble were found. Of these, 23 are dead, according to a statement from the Russian Defense Ministry.

The death toll from the collapse of the Omsk barracks has risen to 23, and all 42 servicemen who remained under the rubble have been found, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday.

Earlier it was reported that 20 soldiers were killed.

“As of 10:00 am on July 13, all 42 servicemen who remained under the rubble were found. Of these, 23 are dead,” the report says.

Omsk authorities will pay for the cost of accommodation of relatives of the dead military

The provision of medical and psychological assistance and escort of arriving relatives of military personnel has been organized, the regional authorities said in a statement. They noted that social institutions are allocated for the placement of relatives.

The head of the Omsk region, Viktor Nazarov, instructed to pay from the reserve fund the costs of accommodating relatives of the military who were killed and wounded in the collapse of the barracks arriving in Omsk.

On Sunday evening, ceilings collapsed in the barracks of the 242nd airborne training center in Omsk, as a result, dozens of people were under the rubble. According to the latest data from the Ministry of Defense, 23 soldiers were killed, the remaining 19 were hospitalized. Earlier, a source in the emergency services of the region told RIA Novosti that a violation of technology during the construction of the building is considered as one of the versions.

“Organized the provision of medical and psychological assistance and escort of arriving relatives of military personnel. Social institutions are allocated for their placement. About 50 people have already arrived in Omsk, who are being settled in the Metallurg dispensary, the regional authorities said in a statement.

The company repairing the collapsed barracks in Omsk was caught on violations

Before the tragedy in Omsk, the Remeksstroy company had already been brought to administrative responsibility for violations of the requirements of project documentation and other violations in the construction industry.

The Remeksstroy company (Nizhny Novgorod), which repaired the barracks of the 242nd airborne training center in Omsk, has repeatedly been brought to administrative responsibility for violations in the construction industry.

So, Arbitration court Tatarstan in February 2015 fined Remeksstroy 50 thousand rubles. The inspectorate of the state construction supervision of the republic filed a lawsuit to bring the company to administrative responsibility.

According to the case file, an inspection in November 2014 during the inspection of the construction of a 9-storey residential building in Kazan revealed a number of violations. In particular, door and window lintels were installed in violation of the requirements of the project documentation, in some places window blocks were installed with deviations from the project, painting and anti-corrosion protection of metal structures were not completed. The company was issued an order to eliminate violations, but upon re-inspection it turned out that it was not fully implemented. As a result, the inspection drew up a protocol on an administrative offense in the field of construction.

Before that, in December 2014, the Arbitration Court Nizhny Novgorod region also considered the application of the regional inspection of state construction supervision on bringing Remeksstroy LLC to administrative responsibility under part 6 of Article 19.5 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (failure to comply with the legal order of the federal executive body authorized to carry out state construction supervision).

As follows from the case file, the company did not eliminate the violations indicated in the inspection order, which was issued following an inspection of the reconstruction of a hostel on the territory of military unit 7408 in the city of Nizhny Novgorod.

At the same time, the court noted that in September 2014 the company was held liable for a similar offense.

“The fact that in the case under consideration this administrative offense was committed again by the company testifies to its disdain for compliance with the requirements of the current legislation. Taking into account the circumstances and the nature of the committed administrative offense ... the court considers it necessary to impose a punishment on the company in the form of an administrative fine in the amount of 76,000 rubles, ”the court materials say.

Matvienko is sure that those responsible for the tragedy in the barracks in Omsk will be punished

Those responsible for the tragedy that occurred today near Omsk will be severely punished in accordance with the law, said Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko. She noted that "it's just a crime."

Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matvienko called the collapse of the ceilings in the barracks in Omsk a crime and expressed confidence that all those responsible for the tragedy would be punished.

On Sunday evening, ceilings collapsed in the barracks of the 242nd airborne training center in Omsk, as a result, dozens of people were under the rubble. According to the latest data from the Ministry of Defense, 23 soldiers were killed and 19 more were hospitalized. Earlier, a source in the emergency services of the region told RIA Novosti that a violation of technology during the construction of the building is considered as one of the versions.

“I am sure that those responsible for the tragedy that occurred today near Omsk will be severely punished in accordance with the law. It's just a crime," Matviyenko, who is based in Simferopol, said on Monday.

The speaker of the Federation Council noted that it is too early to draw conclusions about the causes of the tragedy, the commission of the Ministry of Defense, which "conducts the most thorough investigation of the causes," will put an end to this issue. She added that the tragedy speaks of a weakening of control by those services that are required to assess the condition of the building and its repair. Matvienko expressed her condolences to the relatives of those killed and injured in the state of emergency.

As Igor Konashenkov, spokesman for the RF Ministry of Defense, told reporters on Monday, all 42 servicemen who were under the rubble have now been removed, the most "heavy" of them are being transported by plane to Moscow.

Investigators opened a case under three articles, including "negligence" and "violation of security rules", after the collapse of the barracks of the Airborne Forces in Omsk, said the official representative of the RF IC Vladimir Markin.

The first suspect in the criminal case of the collapse of the barracks in Omsk was detained

On the evening of July 13, as part of a criminal investigation into the collapse of a barracks building on the outskirts of Omsk, law enforcement officers interrogated Ponomarev O.Yu., head of the 242nd airborne training center.

According to the press service of the Investigative Committee of Russia, the man partially admitted his guilt in the tragedy, informing the investigation that he had allowed the servicemen to settle in the barracks.

“At present, Ponomarev has been detained,” the department said. “His involvement in the crime will be verified as part of a criminal investigation. In the near future, it is planned to elect a measure of restraint against Ponomarev.

Active investigative actions and operational measures are ongoing to identify all the persons involved in this tragedy.

It is now known that 24 people died. Among them are three residents of Udmurtia - Sergey Vakhrushev, Eduard Reshetnikov and Valery Lomaev. The day before the tragedy, they, along with colleagues, took the oath.

The bodies of the dead fighters will be delivered to Izhevsk tonight. When the funeral will take place is not yet known.

Another serviceman dies after collapse in Omsk

Another serviceman of the Airborne Forces training center, who was injured in the collapse of the Omsk barracks, has died, bringing the total number of victims to 24, Major General Igor Konashenkov, spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry, said.

A soldier of the Airborne Forces training center, who was injured in the collapse of the barracks in Omsk, has died, Major General Igor Konashenkov, spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry, said on Wednesday.

The death toll from the building collapse has risen to 24.

“Today, a soldier of the Airborne Forces training center died in the Omsk City Clinical Hospital from injuries sustained during the collapse of the barracks,” Konashenkov said.

The tragedy in Omsk occurred on July 12 late in the evening: spans collapsed in a four-story barracks in the Omsk village of Svetly, when 337 servicemen were sleeping in the building. Under the rubble were 42 servicemen, earlier it was reported that 23 of them died, the rest were taken to medical facilities.

July 16 - Omsk region will pay compensation to the families of the dead conscripts

Payments will be sent to the families of those killed and injured as a result of the collapse of the barracks in the Omsk village of Svetly. Under the rubble were 42 servicemen, 23 of them died, the rest were taken to medical facilities.

The authorities of the Omsk region will provide the necessary assistance to the families of conscripts from their region who were injured and died as a result of the collapse of the barracks of the 242nd Airborne Forces training center, Alexei Ryabov, spokesman for the main information policy department of the regional government, told RIA Novosti.

The tragedy occurred on July 12 late in the evening: spans collapsed in a four-story barracks in the Omsk village of Svetly, when 337 servicemen were sleeping in the building. Under the rubble were 42 servicemen, 23 of them died, the rest were taken to medical facilities. A commission of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation is currently working at the scene of the incident.

According to Ryabov, the head of the region, Viktor Nazarov, signed an order to allocate funds from the reserve fund of the regional government for recruits from the Omsk region.

“The families of those who died as a result of the collapse of the barracks will be paid 400 thousand rubles each. Families of the wounded who were admitted to healthcare facilities in serious condition - 300 thousand rubles each. The Ministry of Labor and social development Omsk region," the source said.

In Omsk, the general director of the company that repaired the collapsed barracks was arrested

Like Oleg Ponomarev, Alexander Dorofeev was taken into custody for 2 months
Today in Omsk, at the request of the investigation, the second person involved in the criminal case on the collapse of the barracks in the village of Svetly, the general director of RemExStroy LLC, Alexander Dorofeev, was arrested.

According to the investigation, it was this company that in 2013 carried out repairs in the building of the barracks, which collapsed on July 12 this year.

Recall: yesterday the court arrested the head of the 242nd training center of the Airborne Forces Oleg Ponomarev. During the interrogation before this, the colonel partially admitted his guilt in the tragedy that had occurred, saying that he had allowed the military personnel to settle in the barracks.
“Currently, active investigative actions are ongoing aimed at establishing the degree of involvement of the defendants in the crime, as well as all its circumstances and other persons related to the incident,” said Vladimir Markin, head of the department for interaction with the media of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.

The barracks collapsed without a project

Repairs in the 242nd Airborne Forces Center were carried out without supervision

Yesterday, Alexander Dorofeev, general director of Remeksstroy LLC, was arrested for two months, involved, according to investigators, in the collapse of the barracks of the 242nd training center of the Airborne Forces in Omsk and the death of 24 paratroopers. According to Kommersant, a direct connection between the disaster and the overhaul of the building, carried out by Mr. Dorofeev and his subordinates before the tragedy, has not yet been identified, since it is still unclear what kind of work the builders performed. Remeksstroy, as established by military investigators, was repairing a residential building without any project or supervision at all.

As a source close to the investigation of the tragedy in Omsk explained to Kommersant, it is still difficult to talk about the causes of the collapse, since investigators still cannot even inspect the supporting structures of the four-story barracks building. The foundation and floor of the first floor of the collapsed section are still hidden under rubble, which is being dismantled by rescuers using heavy equipment.

Meanwhile, the version presented in the first days after the tragedy about a possible connection between the collapse and the overhaul carried out in the barracks remains a priority for military investigators. Recall that the contract for the repair of the housing stock of the military camp N35 in the village of Svetly in 2012 was received by the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Spetsstroyengineering at Spetsstroy, which subcontracted Remeksstroy LLC from Nizhny Novgorod through its subsidiary. The private company also got the airborne barracks, which it repaired from April to December 2013. Immediately after the disaster, the Ministry of Defense and Spetsstroy made similar statements that the supporting structures of the building were not affected as part of the overhaul. The little-known subcontractor, according to the military, was entrusted only with finishing work that did not affect the safety of the residential building, as well as relaying engineering networks, replacing the roofing of windows and flooring.

The investigating officers of the Main Military Investigation Department (GVSU) of the TFR tried to verify these allegations, however, according to the interlocutor of Kommersant, it turned out to be quite difficult to do this. The fact is that the overhaul of the barracks, as it turned out, was not documented at all.

The head of "RemExStroy" Dorofeev, according to the investigation, for example, did not draw up a draft of the planned repair activities, although the design work was included in the general estimate for the repair of the town. Given the lack of a project, there was no one and no reason to control the actions of the builder - in any case, the repaired barracks, as the investigation found out, were not visited by representatives of the author's, construction, technical or any other supervision. Nevertheless, after the completion of repairs in December 2013, the military took over the facility, although it was not officially put into operation. The second suspect, who was arrested two days earlier by the head of the 242nd center, Colonel Oleg Ponomarev, simply settled in the renovated barracks by his order of students of paratroopers.

Thus, it is not yet possible to establish an exact connection between the overhaul and the collapse of the building, since it is not known exactly what kind of work was carried out by RemExStroy in the barracks. With this in mind, among the possible suspects, according to the interlocutor of Kommersant, in addition to the repairmen, there are the builders of the building erected back in 1975, and representatives of all those operating it in different time organizations. The last management company in the village of Svetly, as Kommersant already reported, was Slavyanka OJSC, whose leaders are now under investigation on charges of particularly large theft.

The participants in the investigation hope that the complex forensic construction examination of the circumstances of the collapse, already appointed by the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, will help them understand the technical aspect of the disaster. A week later, by the time the two suspects need to be charged, the experts promise to announce their preliminary findings.

As one of the representatives of the technical commission told Kommersant, the barrack building, attractive from the outside due to multi-colored siding, is actually a typical example of precast concrete construction adopted in the 70s of the last century. Repairmen using modern electric and pneumatic tools, according to the expert, could break the stability of such a “box” quite easily. To do this, it was enough for them, for example, to damage the armature of the beam bearing slab on the ground floor or to destroy the place of its support on the wall. According to the expert, the assumption published earlier in Kommersant about washing away the foundation of the barracks with rainwater as a result of a violation of the system of drains from the roof and drainage along the perimeter of the building remains relevant. After the reconstruction, the barracks received, instead of the traditional hipped roof, a more modern version of the roof in the form of a flat surface with sides around the perimeter. This architectural solution involves a rather complex system of waterproofing and drainage, which could be damaged during repairs.

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"Do you really want to stay with me?" If not, it's better to leave now, I won't be offended, I understand. You are a wonderful person and you deserve the best,” Rustam Nabiev, a survivor of the collapse of the barracks in Omsk on July 12, 2015, told his fiancee as soon as he could talk.

“I love you very much, whether you have legs or not. But if you start such a conversation again, I’ll definitely leave, ”answered Indira, who had specially arrived in Moscow from Ufa to be on duty at Rustam’s bedside.

... Rustam planned his life for the next ten years even before graduation: Ufa State Oil Company Technical University, then the army, a year of work and marriage to Indira, when there will already be some funds. The university was completed, a prestigious job was found, Rustam himself asked to join the army so as not to wait for the draft period, and it was in the Airborne Forces that he dreamed of parachuting, and service in the elite troops was welcomed at the new place of work.

However, two weeks after the start of military service, the young man lost both legs and miraculously survived.

The collapse happened instantly, Rustam admits that then, in Omsk, he did not have time to understand anything, even turn his head - and now he is already lying below, under the rubble, in complete darkness. He heard how his comrades asked for help, how some fell silent and it was clear that forever.

At first, Rustam also screamed, called for help, panicked, cried. Then I realized that it was pointless - they would not be pulled out soon, because they were at the very bottom of the collapse, and therefore it was necessary to conserve strength. He spoke about this to his comrades who were moaning nearby.

The collapse of the barracks in Omsk in 2015. Photo: Dmitry Feoktistov / TASS

The wait lasted seven endless hours.

– During this time, I managed to think about everything, remember the brightest moments of my life. And then, when my condition deteriorated sharply, I no longer felt either my arms or legs and realized that I could die at any moment, I decided that before it was too late, I needed to mentally say goodbye to everyone and ask all the people dear to me for forgiveness if I offended someone in this life. It was a very morally, psychologically difficult moment when you seem to be still alive, but you are already saying goodbye to life.

I didn't cry anymore - all the tears were shed. But I was not afraid to die, I knew that my mother would meet me on the other side.

Mom died when Rustam was a year and three months old, he does not remember her at all. Until the age of seven, he called his aunt who raised him mother. When the adults told him everything, he could no longer call his aunt mother, although he loves her very much and is grateful for everything she has done for him.

Rustam was found with the help of cynologists and trained dogs. Then for a long time they did not dare to pull it out, fearing that a concrete slab hanging from above would fall on Rustam and crush him. They took Rustam out of the rubble for a long time, about 40 minutes.

- All the time from the moment of the collapse until I was pulled out and carried to the ambulance, I was conscious and I remember everything well. Then they put me in a coma, and I came to my senses seven days later in Moscow at the Burdenko Hospital. I woke up already without both legs, having undergone many operations, in serious condition, but alive.

Through pain to people

Thoughts that it would be better if he died than to remain like this, without legs at a young age, Rustam did not arise for a moment.

“How could I think that, knowing how many people died and I survived. Complaining about being alive would be a sin! Twenty-four people lie underground, and today, thank God, I live. I have my own family, child, favorite work, I see the light. I was given a second chance, and how can you be dissatisfied with this?!

Rustam was the heaviest among the survivors and did not immediately understand how difficult his condition was. I thought that I would lie down in the hospital for a bit - and go home. "A little" lasted eleven months, there were dozens of operations, a difficult rehabilitation. I had to learn to live without legs.

“Physical moments were not so difficult to overcome,” says Rustam. “The hardest thing is accepting yourself as a new person. I understood that there would be many limitations in my life. The hospital has a very narrow circle of people who saw me, and I got used to them, I was not shy about them. But as soon as I went outside the hospital ... I was afraid of someone else's opinion, someone else's look, I was afraid that they would feel sorry for me, they would poke a finger at me, saying that here, poor cripple, without legs ... Even getting on my feet was much easier than accepting myself. It took about a year.

At first, already at home, Rustam did not want to appear in public in a wheelchair - he walked all the time on prostheses. Physically, it was very difficult, and he still had to break himself, sit in a wheelchair. Rustam realized that he himself limits himself, once again without leaving the house to people.

Now Rustam admits that other people's views, even the most tactless ones, are indifferent to him. The main thing is that his relatives, who know what he really is, think about him.

The more often he meets with the respect of others. Rustam leadsblog on instagram where he talks about his life, successes, achievements. IN in public places- for example, in shopping centers - they constantly approach him for an autograph.

Here you need to be a strong-willed person

From the work, which Rustam planned to go after the army, had to be abandoned. Other organizations to which he sent resumes refused. Then he decided to take up professional sports. Rustam's attending physician came up with this idea while still in the hospital, talking about sledge hockey (from the English sledge hockey - sleigh hockey).

It was hard at the first training and training camps, because very little time had passed after discharge. But Rustam trained hard, and soon he was officially included in the team, he signed a contract. The first victories and the first medals were not long in coming.

Rustam often leaves for training camps and therefore, when he is at home, he tries to devote more time to his family. But you also need to train at home - professional sports require constant tension. At the training camp, classes take place all day - two training sessions on ice, two in the gym.

“We have serious challenges ahead of us. In this sport, you need to be not only physically strong, but also mentally strong. Not everyone can withstand the loads that they give us. I not only earn money with sports, I provide for my family, although this is very important. Sport is an important part of my life, just like my family.

Rustam plays for the Khimki sledge hockey club "Phoenix", representing the Moscow region, and participates in international competitions. In 2017, together with the team, he won the gold of the international tournament in Elbląg, Poland, and in February 2018, he took first place at the European Parasport Games in Malmö, Sweden. At the All-Russian Games, which were held in 2018 for athletes who were not allowed to the Paralympics, his team won silver.

Of course, Rustam drives a car - manual control was ordered from Moscow and put in a new car already on the spot, in Ufa.

Rustam cannot stand the word "disabled" in relation to himself and emphasizes in every possible way that he is not a disabled person, he is a healthy, full of strength man who is responsible for himself and his family.

When asked if an escort helps him to move, say, around the city, Rustam answers with a question:

– Why should I? The services of escorts must be used by actual disabled people - the infirm. I am a complete person and do not need someone to help me in this life just because I have no legs. I will achieve everything myself, I build my own life.

From the very beginning, when I was just adjusting to a new life, I tried to do everything on my own. Yes, they helped me all the time, at which I was very angry and simply demanded, shouted that this should not be done. I understood that in my life there will not always be support. After all, there will still come a moment when I find myself somewhere alone and there will be no help nearby. What to do then? You need to adapt to life, you need to be independent, no matter what. I am very pleased that I made it.

Gift for all holidays ahead

A lot of operations, medicines, including the strongest antibiotics - Rustam was afraid that all this could affect reproductive abilities, especially since the first time with the child did not work. He was about to tell his wife that he would be examined ...

At that moment, his wife approached him with the words:

- I have a present for you. This is for your birthday and for everything, all the holidays ahead. - And held out a box tied with ribbons. In it - booties and a test with two stripes.

“It was incredible,” Rustam recalls. I wanted to cry with happiness and could not believe it. You can't even imagine how happy I was!

Rustam dreamed that the first child was a girl. Even there, under the rubble, saying goodbye to life, he regretted that he could not become a father, Indira would not give birth to his daughter. And so Sofia was born. For the first month, Rustam was even afraid to take the girl in his arms - she is so small and fragile.

Now, of course, he does everything for his daughter that mom does: she can change a diaper, feed, play, put to bed. Especially if Indira leaves somewhere.

The spouses perform all household duties together - Rustam can wash the floors, and the dishes, and clean up.

- Yes, in a city apartment there is nothing to do at all, I feel like in a confined space, like in a prison! Rustam admits. He grew up with an aunt in the village, got used to physical work, to open spaces.

When Rustam was in school, he bred rabbits - he had about seventy-five of them. In the summer I mowed grass for them, and in the winter I could sometimes “borrow” hay from a neighboring farm. Until one day he was caught red-handed. Then he had to stand and blush, listening to the chairman of the collective farm, the director of the school, the head teacher, the head of the regional department, scold him. I got it from my aunt at home.

It was the aunt who instilled in Rustam the desire to be always independent. And industriousness, moreover, love for hard village work.

And in a city apartment - what a job: neither to bring water, nor to plow a garden, nor to chop firewood.

So Rustam's immediate plans are to build his own house. Well-maintained, of course, but in a private house, even if it is modern, there is always something to do.

Still in the plans is the birth of a sister or brother for Sofia in the future.

Goals in the profession - participation in the Beijing Paralympics in 2022.

Among Rustam's hobbies is skydiving.

“Another lesson for all the whiners. Whatever happens to you, you should strive to realize your dreams. I dreamed of jumping with a parachute, that's why I went to the airborne troops. But for the first time he jumped after the army, without both legs.

This is another proof that we create limitations in life for ourselves, but in fact it is possible to live very widely, without boundaries. Therefore, I will try to break all stereotypes about people like me. After all, we can do much more than some people with arms and legs, we are much stronger, and this is far from being proved only by my example.

At 10:40 pm on July 12, 2015, the largest of these tragedies occurred in the village of Svetly. In the barracks of the third training paratrooper battalion, the ceilings are collapsing. After the lights out, 337 people are in the building, and 45 of them are under the rubble. The victims of the collapse were 24 young guys from 18 to 22 years old. On the eve of the young paratroopers took the oath. Many of them were called up from other regions of Russia, and on the night of the tragedy, their relatives, who had not yet managed to leave home, were at the checkpoint, trying to find out at least some information about their sons.

The cause of the collapse was almost immediately called errors during the construction and overhaul of the barracks. In 2013, the RemExStroy company (Nizhny Novgorod) carried out a major overhaul of the building with a fourth floor superstructure. The first suspect - the head of the 242nd training center of the Airborne Forces, Colonel Oleg Ponomarev - was detained already on the night of the tragedy. The charge was also brought against the director of RemExStroy Alexander Dorofeev and his partner Dmitry Bayazov.

Oleg Ponomarev did not relieve himself of responsibility for what happened, although he arrived in Omsk after the repair was completed. In the Omsk garrison military court, where the issue of his two-month arrest was being decided, he said that he regretted only one thing - he could not say goodbye to the dead soldiers and talk with the parents of the dead and injured.

During the investigation, Ponomarev received a lot of support from the community of paratroopers. On July 28, former military men, veterans of the Airborne Forces and relatives of the dead guys went to a rally in support of Ponomarev. They talked about the bias of the investigation and the innocence of the military officer. “Ponomarev is a person who always checked what the soldiers were wearing, shod, whether they ate, whether they slept, called up their parents. The boys call him none other than “dad,” they said.

As a result, on August 1, Oleg Ponomarev under the guarantee of the commander of the Russian Airborne Forces Vladimir Shamanov. Ponomarev left the post of head of the training center and went to his family in Ryazan. In September, the 235th garrison military court (Moscow) admitted that Omsk military investigators summoned Ponomarev for questioning without his lawyer.

At the end of 2016, the Spetsstroy company that built the barracks. In order to avoid tragedies in the training center, neighboring residential buildings were demolished and new ones were built.

The final examination by specialists of the Moscow State construction university. They confirmed that the barracks was originally built with numerous violations, and the overhaul only exacerbated the situation. One of the supporting walls was soaked with moisture (the building stood without a roof all summer), swelled and began to crumble. The experts noted that the persons responsible for "ensuring the mechanical security" of the barracks were Oleg Ponomarev and his deputy for logistics Vladislav Parkhomenko, as well as employees of Spetsstroy. In the near future, Ponomarev and Parkhomenko may be charged with negligence or abuse of power. Alexander Dorofeev and Dmitry Bayazov are accused of "violating the rules for carrying out construction work during the repair of the barracks, which led to the death of people" (part 3 of article 216 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The case also includes several heads of regional divisions of Spetsstroy, who were supposed to supervise the work. Oleg Ponomarev's lawyer Anton Antonov said that the defense intends to appeal against the conduct of the final examination and its conclusions in the Chief Military Prosecutor's Office.

As for the paratroopers who survived under the rubble, they all underwent treatment and rehabilitation in Moscow hospitals. After discharge, some of them continued military service. Rustam Giniyatullin from Chelyabinsk, after demobilization, became an ambulance paramedic, and the events of that terrible night pushed him to this. Rustam Nabiev from Bashkiria received the most severe injuries. Doctors had to amputate both legs. However, the tragedy did not break the young guy. In the two years that have passed since the tragedy, he put on artificial limbs, professionally took up sledge hockey, and married a girl who accompanied him to the army. The couple is now expecting their first child.

Photo: Ilya Petrov, Dmitry Feoktistov

In the Omsk region, a rescue operation has been completed at the site of the collapsed barracks of the Airborne Forces training center. The 23 dead were recruits who had just taken the oath and were asleep at the moment when the walls and part of the roof began to collapse.

About 20 paratroopers were pulled out from under the rubble alive - they have severe injuries, which will be taken care of by the best doctors in the capital's hospitals. Relatives of the soldiers arrive at the scene of the tragedy. President Vladimir Putin expressed condolences to them. He ordered to provide the necessary assistance.

Twelve hours of rescue operation behind. They got their people out of the rubble all night. The building of the barracks is four-storied. There were 337 people inside. The ceilings of one of the entrances were formed in seconds, more than forty people were under bricks and slabs. The building cracked at the seams late in the evening, after lights out. The paratroopers were already asleep.

"The very first thing that happened was that the plaster began to fall off the ceiling from the edge of the barracks. The guys noticed this, gave a command, everyone began to run out of the barracks, and the crash began. Then the guys and I acted quickly - some of the people were taken to the window so that blockages did not fall on them, some guys jumped onto those mattresses that we threw down from the second floor, not high. I saw that some guys were left, I helped them get out into the street," says Row. ovy Maxim Kolmakov.

The search and rescue operation was carried out jointly by the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Emergency Situations. 60 special vehicles were used to clear the rubble.

"All 42 servicemen who remained under the rubble were found. Of these, 23 were killed. 19 servicemen were taken to medical institutions. In addition, three were placed in the sanitary unit of the training center with minor bruises and abrasions," said Major General Igor Konashenkov, spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry.

A row of white and blue buildings are barracks. The collapse occurred in the penultimate building. Now the territory of the military unit has been cordoned off, it is guarded not only by soldiers, but also by the police. None of the civilians are allowed into the territory of the unit.

The parents are coming. Mothers are in tears. The victims were barely drafted into the army. This military unit is a training center where mechanics-drivers are trained. Only the weekend passed the oath. They were fired on this occasion. The recruits returned to the barracks a couple of hours before the collapse.

“Yesterday at eight o’clock in the evening he was brought from his dismissal after taking the oath, and at ten, at eleven o’clock it all happened. Now he is in intensive care,” says Konstantin Avramov, the father of one of the soldiers.

“The hotel administrator woke me up, she found out. I started to get hysterical, they pumped me out. Then my son called from the nurse’s phone, said that he was alive,” says the mother of one of the injured soldiers, Elena Zagumennaya.

Wounded soldiers were transported all night to Omsk hospitals. This is the closest to the military unit. Here are the heaviest.

"One patient was admitted with injuries incompatible with life. He died on our operating table, the remaining six patients are stable, we can say that there is no threat to life at the moment," said Alexander Murakovsky, chief physician of the emergency hospital No. 2 in Omsk.

The events in Omsk are constantly reported to the President. Vladimir Putin ordered to provide all necessary assistance. Sergei Shoigu is in touch with him. The Minister of Defense interrupted his vacation in order to coordinate work from the situational center. Military investigators, experts, doctors flew from the capital to Siberia, they are investigating the cause of the incident. The building of the barracks was built in 1975, in 2013 there was a major overhaul.

"All interested parties (the customer, subcontractor and operator) signed a protocol on the possibility of operating the building. At the same time, the commission identified a number of comments that did not relate to the supporting structures of the building, such as: cracks in putty, installation of skirting boards, and others. It should be noted that claims work with the contractor company RemExStroy LLC continues to this day," said Svetlana Chumikova, head of the press service of Spetsstroy of Russia.