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Sad news keeps coming from Omsk, where a building collapsed Airborne Forces barracks No. 242: The death toll has increased many times over. On the morning of July 13, 23 soldiers were rescued from the rubble. They all died. [] shook all of Russia. The large-scale emergency caused dissonance in military society - the matter is rich in pitfalls. Latest news from the scene: we publish a list of dead and injured, the causes of the emergency and important data, as well as photos and videos from the scene of the tragedy.
The collapse of the barracks in Omsk occurred on the evening of July 12. 4 floors in the left wing of the building collapsed. At the time of the crash, 337 people were sleeping in the building. 17 airborne troops managed to escape, almost all of them were seriously injured. As of the night of July 13, at least 37 people remained under the rubble. On this moment It was established that 42 people were injured or killed under the walls of the barracks.
Collapse of the Airborne Forces barracks in Omsk, last news:
The death toll increased to 23 people. Let us remind you that previously only 2 deaths were known. According to the latest data, the number of people killed in the barracks collapse increased during the rescue operation carried out by the Ministry of Emergency Situations and military personnel training center. On the night of July 13 [[In Omsk, the number of victims in the collapse of the barracks reached 18 people|18 deaths became known]], rescued from the rubble. In the morning, rescuers freed the remaining fighters; they were all dead.
Final data on the dead and injured: 23 victims, 19 people injured. Of these, 10 people were taken to the hospital with severe injuries.
A barracks collapsed near Omsk, latest news: list of dead and injured:
List of dead:
Altynbaev R., – 21 years old
Belov E., – 20 years old
Vakhrushev S., no data
German E. – 19 years old
Gritskov A., - 19 years old
Igoshev M., – 19 years old
Ivanov M., – 19 years old
Ignatenko M., – 19 years old
Kenich D., – 19 years old
Kortusov O., – 19 years old
Lomaev V. – 18 years old
Mamliev F., – 19 years old
Nafikov V., – 19 years old
Polegenko A., – 18 years old
Reshetnikov A., – 19 years old
Sudnikovich V., – 20 years old
Chemezov V., – 19 years old
Shaikhulin R., - 21 years old
Shingareev A., – 18 years old
Shokaev A., – 18 years old
Filatov S., – 19 years old
Filyanin I., – 19 years old
Yumagulov R., - 24 years old
List of victims:
Avkach S., 20 years old, various injuries and bruises
Avramov Yu., 23 years old, various injuries
Akylbekov A., 20 years old, a combination of various injuries
Andreev A., 20 years old, polytrauma
Andrianov A, 19 years old, abrasions and bruises
Valmukhametov R., 18 years old, various injuries
Vydrin V., 18 years old, various injuries
Dedusenko V., 20 years old, was in the operating room with a ruptured bladder
Zhulanov A., 18 years old, bruises and abrasions
Klysh M., 20 years old, traumatic brain injury
Kuandykov I., 23 years old, traumatic brain injury, neurosurgical intervention
Lebedev V., 18 years old, compression lower limbs, serious condition
Petrov V., 20 years old, traumatic brain injury, in intensive care
Sukhorukov M., 20 years old, fracture
Tugbaev D., 18 years old, neurosurgical department
Kharimov R., 19 years old, heel fracture
Shabanov R., 23 years old, a combination of various injuries
Shaikhulin R., 21 years old, polytrauma
Shalaev D., 23 years old, various injuries
Most of them are in Central District Hospital No. 1 and No. 2 in Omsk, 10 of them were transported by a special helicopter from the Ministry of Emergency Situations to Moscow for urgent operations.
Airborne Forces barracks No. 242 collapsed in Omsk, latest news: causes of the tragedy, assistance to the wounded and their families:
After the collapse of the barracks building in Svetly, the Ministry of Defense launched a call center to receive the latest data on the emergency, including the fate of each soldier. Hotline phone number: 8-3812-92-67-66.
The Ministry of Defense reports that 13 injured soldiers will receive the necessary qualified treatment in the military hospitals named after Burdenko and Vishnevsky in Moscow.
Relatives and friends of the victims gathered at the scene of the emergency. The Ministry of Defense and the Government covered the costs of housing the relatives of the victims and the wounded. In the future, the Ministry of Defense intends to understand the causes of the tragedy and provide the grief-stricken relatives of the soldiers with everything they need.
The preliminary causes of the collapse may be hidden in negligence in construction. As previously reported, the construction crew carrying out the repair work consisted of incompetent workers.
The company that supplied work force for the construction of the barracks - the Nizhny Novgorod company "RemExStroy", which has a very dubious reputation in terms of fulfilling labor obligations.
Investigative Committee employees Nizhny Novgorod region conducted searches in this company and seized necessary documents for check. It is worth noting that Chief Accountant RemExStroy hastily left the office as soon as the investigators had time to leave with the documents. Currently the office construction company closed, the management left it in advance, nothing is known about the location of the director.
As it turned out later, in 2013, the barracks building underwent a major overhaul without redevelopment of the load-bearing structures. As explained by the architect Boris Uborevich-Bororvsky. According to him, the reconstruction of the barracks was carried out, but the relative dilapidation and wear and tear of the building was not taken into account. The architect believes that the overhaul could not have caused the collapse, despite the reputation of the performing company.
An Airborne Forces barracks collapsed in Omsk - this became the reason for initiating a criminal case under the article “negligence”. Such “negligence” led to the death of 23 people.
It is known that those responsible for the tragedy at the Airborne Forces training center near Omsk face 10 years in prison. The Main Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation informs that everyone involved in “sloppiness” will be punished and “removed from positions” - we're talking about about high-ranking employees.
Collapse of the Airborne Forces barracks in Omsk on July 12, latest news: assistance to the wounded and their families, compensation to the families of the dead:
The main leadership of Omsk, represented by the mayor, calls on concerned citizens not to pass by: wounded soldiers need blood to save their lives. The mayor's office, employees of the Ministry of Defense and fellow military personnel, by their example, help collect blood for transfusions. Requires blood of various types. For this purpose, medical centers always operate blood collection points. To directly donate blood for wounded soldiers, you need to check the blood collection locations by calling the hotline 8-3812-92-67-66.
The families of the airborne conscripts who died in the collapse of the barracks will receive more than 2 million rubles, since all military personnel are insured by the SOGAZ insurance group. The families of those who were injured will receive more than 200 thousand rubles at a time.
It is likely that in the story of the collapse of the airborne conscript barracks in Omsk there are still many pitfalls and more than one criminal case will be initiated, but this time against the perpetrators.
Collapse of Airborne Forces barracks No. 242 in Omsk, Svetly village: photos from the scene of the tragedy on July 13, 2015:
Video from the site of the barracks collapse near Omsk, from 07/13/2015:
Video, eyewitness testimony:
What the barracks looked like before the crash, archive video:
The Ministry of Defense, military personnel, the Government and all of Russia expresses sincere condolences to the families and friends of those who died or were injured under the rubble when the barracks building collapsed.
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On July 12, at about 22:40 (local time), the barracks of the third training parachute battalion collapsed in the village of Svetloye. 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 deep condolences to the families and friends of the victims. Sorry guys.
When the Omsk Here correspondent arrived, the street leading to the military unit was blocked and the area was cordoned off. There were about a hundred people at the checkpoint at that time - local residents and relatives of soldiers. People screamed, cried and asked the military personnel to provide at least some information about the victims, since they could not reach their sons. One woman tried to break through the cordon, but people in military uniform with machine guns in their hands stopped her.
- Maybe your son is standing there in a cordon,- a police officer who came to the soldiers’ aid pointed somewhere into the darkness. — Try calling your colleagues, maybe they will give you some information.
But we couldn’t get through. Knowledgeable people from the crowd they said that soldiers here are allowed to use phones only on weekends: on Sunday after lights out, everyone mobile devices soldiers are obliged to surrender. It was not possible to verify this information.
— I stood on the balcony and heard as if a landmine had exploded: screams, noise, grinding,- 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 for clearing debris continued to arrive at the training center almost throughout the night. The relatives were noticeably nervous. They were not provided with information about the dead and injured for the third hour, and therefore people crowding around the checkpoint began shouting unflattering words at the leadership of the Airborne Forces training center.
- My son serves here,— Venera Morozova, a resident of Perm, said, crying, who came to her son’s oath. — Since childhood, he wanted to get into the Airborne Forces. He studied with me at correctional school, after which they are not allowed to join the army. But he ensured that he was recognized as fit; he went to doctors for months. Entered sport Club, had 32 parachute jumps. And now he has achieved his goal. Yesterday there was an 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 to the relatives and, in an informal conversation, said that the lists of victims and dead would be made public in an hour and a half to two hours. At this point, it was already known that two recruits were killed and nineteen were hospitalized. The doctors needed ammonia and water, because after this information many women felt 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 emerged that the situation in the village of Svetloye is reported to Russian President Vladimir Putin every 30 minutes. In addition, top officials of the city and region arrived at the scene of the tragedy.
At about 3:00, the deputy head of the training center for working with personnel, Lieutenant Colonel Vitaly Medinsky, appeared at the checkpoint and called the gathered people to him.
— At about 22:40, the barracks of the third training parachute battalion collapsed,- he said. “There were a total of 337 people in the barracks, 38 were under the rubble. At the moment, 21 people have been pulled out from under the rubble and have been evacuated to hospitals. 19 people are still under the rubble. Parents will now be taken by bus to the training center headquarters, they will be provided with lists, and in the future psychologists will work with them. The causes of the collapse are still unknown, but it was definitely not an explosion or fire.
The serviceman also said that she started working hotline, through which relatives can obtain information about the dead and injured.
The mothers of recruits from the third battalion could barely hold back their tears as they headed towards headquarters. Relatives of other soldiers began to disperse, breathing a sigh of relief.
At about 6:00 a column of high-ranking commission members from Moscow entered the territory of the 242nd Airborne Forces training center. They did not stop and give journalists comments. But the Minister of Construction and Housing and Communal Services of the Omsk Region, Stanislav Grebenshchikov, willingly shared the latest information with media representatives.
— There were 42 people under the rubble, 24 of whom were rescued.- he said.- Two died. The work continues, all special services are involved, video conferences with Moscow are constantly taking place. Soon the planes of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and the Ministry of Defense will arrive in Omsk. Perhaps some of the victims will be transported to Moscow.
In the morning, the press service of the Ministry of Defense provided an official comment. According to the information they have, not long ago the RemExStroy company, registered in Nizhny Novgorod, carried out a major overhaul of the collapsed barracks. Specialists will have to determine whether there were any violations during the work.
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Today, July 13, around 10:00, lists of soldiers whose lives were cut short last night appeared in the media.
1. Shaikhulin Rustem Radikovich (born 10/05/94)
2. Sudnikovich Vladislav Vladimirovich (born 01/04/95)
3. Polegenko Alexey Nikolaevich (born January 17, 1997)
4. Yumagulov Ruslan Akramovich (born May 29, 1991)
5. Ignatenko Maxim Sergeevich (born January 20, 1996)
6. Filyanin Ilya Pavlovich (born July 24, 1996)
7. Ivanov Mikhail Alekseevich (born October 22, 1996)
8. Chemezov Vitaly Alexandrovich (born 10/19/96)
9. Vakhrushev Sergey Vladimirovich.
By 12 o'clock the list of dead was replenished with several more names.
10. Filatov Sergey Alexandrovich, (born August 18, 1996)
11. Altynbaev Ranis Ruslanovich, (born June 14, 1994)
12. Kenikh Dmitry Sergeevich, (born November 16, 1996)
13. Gritskov Alexey Sergeevich, (born January 30, 1996)
14. Belov Evgeniy Alekseevich, (born March 12, 1995)
The editors of “Omsk Here” and the website express condolences to the families and friends of the victims.
18 people died when a barracks collapsed in Omsk
The number of people killed in the emergency at the Airborne Forces barracks in Omsk was 18 people, a total of 37 servicemen were pulled out from under the rubble, and a search is underway for five, the press service of the Russian Ministry of Defense told RIA Novosti.
“As of 08.30, July 13, 37 servicemen were pulled out from under the rubble, 18 of them died, a search is underway for five servicemen,” said official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense Igor Konashenkov.
According to him, 19 military personnel are in medical institutions.
Konashenkov also noted that in the central military hospitals of Vishnevsky, Burdenko, as well as in Military Medical Academy wards have been prepared for receiving victims at the training center Airborne Forces of Omsk areas.
Putin condoles with the relatives of those killed in the barracks collapse in Omsk
Russian President Vladimir Putin receives reports from the Minister of Defense on the progress of rescue work at the site of the collapse of part of the barracks of the 242nd Airborne Forces training center on the outskirts of Omsk.
Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed condolences to the families and friends of the military personnel who died as a result of the collapse of part of the barracks in Omsk, as well as the entire Russian army, the head’s press secretary said Russian state Dmitry Peskov.
The ceilings of the second floor collapsed in the barracks of the 242nd Airborne Forces training center on the outskirts of Omsk. According to the latest data, 18 military personnel were killed, 19 were hospitalized, the fate of another five remains unknown.
“The Supreme Commander-in-Chief receives reports from the Minister of Defense on the progress of rescue operations, the Minister is instructed to provide all the necessary medical care victims of the accident, reports from the Ministry of Defense are provided to the president on a regular basis,” Peskov said.
All 42 servicemen who remained under the rubble in Omsk were found
ALL 42 MILITARY SERVICEMEN WHO REMAINED UNDER THE RUBLES OF THE BARACKS IN OMSK WERE FOUND - RF MINISTRY OF DEFENSE
23 people died when a barracks collapsed in Omsk
As of 10:00 am on July 13, all 42 servicemen who remained under the rubble were found. Of these, 23 were killed, the Russian Ministry of Defense said in a statement.
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 Ministry of Defense reported on Monday.
Earlier it was reported that 20 military personnel were killed.
“As of 10:00 am on July 13, all 42 servicemen who remained under the rubble were found. Of these, 23 were killed,” the message says.
Omsk authorities will pay the costs of housing the relatives of fallen soldiers
Organized the provision of medical and psychological assistance and accompanying arriving relatives of military personnel, the regional authorities said in a statement. They noted that for the placement of relatives they are allocated social institutions.
The head of the Omsk region, Viktor Nazarov, instructed to pay from the reserve fund the costs of accommodating relatives of military personnel who were killed and wounded in the collapse of the barracks arriving in Omsk.
On Sunday evening, the ceilings collapsed in the barracks of the 242nd Airborne Forces training center in Omsk, resulting in dozens of people being trapped under the rubble. According to the latest data from the Ministry of Defense, 23 military personnel were killed, the remaining 19 were hospitalized. Previously, a source in the region's emergency services told RIA Novosti that a violation of technology during the construction of the building is being considered as one of the versions.
“The provision of medical and psychological assistance and support for arriving relatives of military personnel has been organized. Social institutions are allocated for their placement. About 50 people have already arrived in Omsk and are being accommodated in the Metallurg dispensary,” the regional authorities said in a statement.
The company that repaired the collapsed barracks in Omsk was caught for violations
Before the tragedy in Omsk, the Remeksstroy company had already been brought to administrative responsibility for violations of requirements project documentation and other violations in the construction sector.
The Remeksstroy company (Nizhny Novgorod), which repaired the barracks of the 242nd Airborne Forces training center in Omsk, has already been repeatedly brought to administrative responsibility for violations in the construction sector.
So, Arbitration court Tatarstan in February 2015 fined Remeksstroy 50 thousand rubles. The inspectorate of the state construction supervision of the republic filed a claim to bring the company to administrative liability.
According to the case materials, an inspection in November 2014, during an inspection of the construction of a 9-story residential building in Kazan, revealed a number of violations. In particular, door and window lintels were installed in violation of the requirements of the design documentation, in some places window units were installed with deviations from the design, painting and anti-corrosion protection of metal structures were not completed. The company was issued an order to eliminate violations, but upon repeated inspection it turned out that it was not carried out in accordance with in full. As a result, the inspection drew up a protocol on an administrative violation in the field of construction.
Prior to this, in December 2014, the Arbitration Court of the Nizhny Novgorod Region also considered the application of the regional inspection of state construction supervision to bring Remeksstroy LLC to administrative liability under Part 6 of Article 19.5 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (failure to comply on time with a legal order of those authorized to carry out state construction supervision federal body executive power).
As follows from the case materials, the company did not eliminate the violations specified in the inspection order, which was issued following an inspection of the reconstruction of a dormitory on the territory of military unit 7408 of the city Nizhny Novgorod.
At the same time, it was noted in court that the company was held accountable for a similar offense in September 2014.
“The fact that in the case under consideration this administrative offense was committed by the company again indicates its disdainful attitude towards compliance with the requirements of the current legislation. Taking into account the circumstances and nature of the offense administrative offense... the court considers it necessary to impose a punishment on society in the form administrative fine in the amount of 76,000 rubles,” noted in the court materials.
Matvienko is confident 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 Matvienko. She noted that “this is simply a crime.”
Speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko called the collapse of ceilings in a barracks in Omsk a crime and expressed confidence that all those responsible for the tragedy will be punished.
On Sunday evening, the ceilings collapsed in the barracks of the 242nd Airborne Forces training center in Omsk, resulting in dozens of people being trapped under the rubble. According to the latest data from the Ministry of Defense, 23 military personnel were killed and another 19 were hospitalized. Previously, a source in the region's emergency services told RIA Novosti that a violation of technology during the construction of the building is being considered as one of the versions.
“I am confident that those responsible for the tragedy that occurred today near Omsk will be severely punished in accordance with the law. This is simply a crime,” Matvienko, who is in Simferopol, said on Monday.
The Federation Council speaker noted that it is too early to draw conclusions about the causes of the tragedy; the commission of the Ministry of Defense, which is “conducting the most thorough investigation of the causes,” will put an end to this issue. She added that the tragedy indicates a weakening of control on the part of those services that are required to assess the condition of the building and its repair. Matvienko expressed condolences to the relatives of those killed and injured in the emergency.
As official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense Igor Konashenkov told reporters on Monday, all 42 servicemen who were under the rubble have now been recovered, the “heaviest” of them are being transported by plane to Moscow.
Investigators opened a case on three counts, including “negligence” and “violation of safety rules,” after the collapse of the Airborne Forces barracks in Omsk, said official representative of the Russian Investigative Committee Vladimir Markin.
The first suspect in the criminal case regarding the collapse of a barracks in Omsk was detained
On the evening of July 13, as part of the investigation into the criminal case of the collapse of a barracks building on the outskirts of Omsk, law enforcement officers interrogated O.Yu. Ponomarev, head of the 242nd Airborne Forces training center.
According to the press service of the Investigative Committee of Russia, the man partially admitted guilt in the tragedy, telling the investigation that he allowed the military personnel to move into the barracks.
“Ponomarev is currently detained,” the department reported. “His involvement in the crime will be verified as part of the criminal investigation. In the near future, it is planned to take a preventive measure against Ponomarev.
Active investigative actions and operational measures aimed at identifying all 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 and their colleagues took the oath.
The bodies of the dead soldiers will be delivered to Izhevsk this evening. It is not yet known when the funeral will take place.
Another soldier injured in the collapse in Omsk has died
Another soldier of the Airborne Forces training center, who was injured in the collapse of the Omsk barracks, has died, thus total number The number of victims reached 24, said the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov.
A soldier of the Airborne Forces training center who was injured in the collapse of a barracks in Omsk has died, the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov, said on Wednesday.
The death toll from the building collapse has risen to 24.
“Today, in the Omsk City Clinical Hospital, a serviceman of the Airborne Forces training center died from injuries received during the collapse of a barracks,” Konashenkov said.
The tragedy in Omsk occurred late in the evening on July 12: the spans of a four-story barracks in the Omsk village of Svetly collapsed while 337 servicemen were sleeping in the building. 42 military personnel were trapped under the rubble; it was previously reported that 23 of them died, the rest were taken to medical institutions.
July 16 — Omsk region will pay compensation to the families of deceased 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. 42 military personnel were trapped under the rubble, 23 of them died, the rest were taken to medical institutions.
The authorities of the Omsk region will provide the necessary assistance to the families of conscripts from their region who were injured and killed as a result of the collapse of the barracks of the 242nd Airborne Forces Training Center, official representative of the main department of information policy of the regional government, Alexey Ryabov, told RIA Novosti.
The tragedy occurred late in the evening on July 12: the spans of a four-story barracks in the Omsk village of Svetly collapsed while 337 servicemen were sleeping in the building. 42 military personnel were trapped under the rubble, 23 of them died, the rest were taken to medical institutions. A commission of the Russian Ministry of Defense 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 regional government’s reserve fund for conscripts from the Omsk region.
“The families of those killed as a result of the collapse of the barracks will be paid 400 thousand rubles. To the families of the wounded admitted to health care facilities in in serious condition, - 300 thousand rubles each. The organization of work to provide financial assistance to families (one of the close relatives) is entrusted to the Ministry of Labor and social development Omsk region,” said the agency’s interlocutor.
In Omsk, the general director of the company that repaired the collapsed barracks was arrested
Like Oleg Ponomarev, Alexander Dorofeev was detained for 2 months
Today in Omsk, at the request of the investigation, the second person involved in the criminal case about the collapse of the barracks in the village of Svetly was arrested - the general director of RemExStroy LLC, Alexander Dorofeev.
According to the investigation, it was this company that in 2013 carried out repair work on the barracks building, which collapsed on July 12 of this year.
Let us remind you: yesterday the court arrested the head of the 242nd Airborne Forces Training Center Oleg Ponomarev. During the interrogation before this, the colonel partially admitted his guilt in the tragedy, saying that he allowed the military personnel to move into the barracks.
“At present, active investigative actions are ongoing aimed at establishing the degree of involvement of the persons involved in the case in the crime committed, as well as all its circumstances and other persons related to the incident,” said the head of the department for interaction with the media Investigative Committee Russian Federation Vladimir Markin.
The barracks collapsed without a project
Repairs at the 242nd Airborne Forces Center were carried out without supervision
Yesterday, the general director of Remeksstroy LLC, Alexander Dorofeev, was arrested for two months, who, according to investigators, was involved in the collapse of the barracks of the 242nd Airborne Forces training center 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. Remexstroy, as military investigators established, was renovating a residential building without any design or supervision at all.
As a source close to the investigation into 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 load-bearing structures of the four-story barracks building. The foundation and floor of the first floor of the collapsed section are still hidden under the rubble, which rescuers are dismantling using heavy equipment.
Meanwhile, the version presented in the first days after the tragedy about a possible connection between the collapse and the major repairs carried out in the barracks remains a priority for military investigators. Let us recall that the contract for the renovation of the housing stock of military camp No. 35 in the village of Svetly in 2012 was awarded to the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Spetsstroyengineering at Spetsstroy, which subcontracted through its subsidiary Remeksstroy LLC from Nizhny Novgorod. The private company also received 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 load-bearing structures of the building were not affected as part of the overhaul. According to the military, a little-known subcontractor was entrusted with only finishing work that did not affect the safety of a residential building, as well as re-laying utility networks, replacement of window roofing and flooring.
Employees of the Main Military Investigation Department (GVSU) of the ICR conducting the investigation tried to verify these allegations, however, doing this, according to Kommersant’s interlocutor, turned out to be quite difficult. 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 project for planned repair activities, although design work were included in the general estimate for the renovation of the town. Given the absence of a project, there was no one and no need to control the actions of the builder - in any case, the barracks being repaired, as the investigation found out, were not visited by representatives of design, construction, technical or any other supervision. However, after renovations were completed in December 2013, the military took over the facility, although it was not officially put into operation. The second suspect, arrested two days earlier by the head of the 242nd center, Colonel Oleg Ponomarev, simply moved into the renovated barracks by his order.
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. Taking this into account, among the possible suspects, according to Kommersant’s interlocutor, in addition to the repairmen, there remain the builders of the building, erected back in 1975, and representatives of all those who operate it in different time organizations. Last management company in the village of Svetly, as Kommersant has already reported, there was Slavyanka OJSC, whose leaders are now under investigation on charges of especially large-scale theft.
The participants in the investigation hope that a comprehensive forensic construction examination of the circumstances of the collapse, already appointed by the Main Inspectorate of the Investigative Committee of the ICR, will help them understand the technical aspect of the disaster. In a week, by the time the two suspects need to be charged, experts promise to announce their preliminary findings.
As one of the representatives of the technical commission told Kommersant, the barracks building, attractive from the outside due to its multi-colored siding, is in fact a typical example of prefabricated reinforced concrete construction adopted in the 70s of the last century. Repairmen using modern electric and pneumatic tools, according to the expert, could easily destroy the stability of such a “box.” To do this, it was enough for them, for example, to damage the reinforcement of the beam supporting the floor slab on the first floor or destroy the place where it rests on the wall. According to the expert, the assumption previously published in Kommersant about the erosion of the foundation of the barracks by rainwater as a result of a violation of the drainage system from the roof and drains along the perimeter of the building remains relevant. After reconstruction, the barracks received, instead of the traditional hipped roof, a more modern version of the roof in the form flat surface with edges around the perimeter. This architectural solution involves a rather complex waterproofing and drainage system, which could be damaged during repairs.
0In the Omsk region, a rescue operation has been completed at the site of a collapsed barracks of the Airborne Forces training center. The 23 dead were recruits who had just taken the oath and were sleeping when the walls and part of the roof began to collapse.
About 20 paratroopers were pulled out from under the rubble alive - they have serious injuries that will be taken care of best doctors capital hospitals. Relatives of the soldiers arrive at the scene of the tragedy. President Vladimir Putin expressed his condolences to them. He also ordered to provide the necessary assistance.
Twelve hours of the rescue operation are behind us. They pulled their own people out from under the rubble all night. The barracks building is four-story. There were 337 people inside. The ceilings of one of the entrances collapsed in seconds, trapping more than forty people under the bricks and slabs. The building began to crack at the seams late in the evening, after lights out. The paratroopers were already asleep.
“The very first thing that happened was that plaster began to fall from the ceiling at the edge of the barracks. The guys paid attention to this, gave a command, everyone began to run out of the barracks, and the collapse began. Then the guys and I acted quickly - some of the people were taken to the window so that the rubble did not fall on them, some guys jumped onto the 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 Private 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 part of the training center with minor bruises and abrasions,” said the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov.
The 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. No civilians are allowed into the unit's territory.
Parents come to the unit. Mothers are in tears. The victims were barely drafted into the army. This military unit is a training center; driver mechanics are trained here. The oath took place only over the weekend. 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 home from dismissal after taking the oath, and at ten, at the eleventh hour, all this 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 became hysterical, they pumped me out. Then my son called from the nurse’s phone and said that he was alive,” says the mother of one of the injured soldiers, Elena Zagumennaya.
The wounded soldiers were transported to Omsk hospitals all night. This one is closest to the military unit. Here are the hardest ones.
“One patient was admitted with injuries incompatible with life. He died on the operating table, the other six patients are stable, we can say that there is no threat to life at the moment,” said Alexander Murakovsky, chief physician 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 situation center coordinate the work. Military investigators, experts, and doctors have flown from the capital to Siberia to find out the cause of what happened. The barracks building was built in 1975, and was completely renovated in 2013.
"All interested parties (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 not related to the load-bearing structures of the building, such as: cracks in the putty, installation of skirting boards and others. Note that the claim work with the contractor company RemExStroy LLC continues to this day,” said Svetlana Chumikova, head of the press service of Spetsstroy of Russia.
VIDEO: Airborne Forces barracks collapsed in Omsk
In Omsk, the barracks of the 242nd Airborne Forces training center collapsed. Two people died. Nineteen victims were rescued from the rubble. The same number remain under the rubble.
The building of a military training center collapsed in Omsk. In a barracks in the village of Svetly, the roof and part of the walls collapsed. Two people died under the rubble.
The barracks of the 242nd Airborne Training Center collapsed. As a result, two people died. Nineteen victims were pulled out from under the rubble of a collapsed barracks in the 242 Airborne Forces training center near Omsk in the village of Svetly, Omsk Region Health Minister Andrei Storozhenko told TASS.
At the same time, the Russian Ministry of Defense claims that 18 military personnel were rescued. “At the time of the tragedy, there were 337 military personnel in the barracks. 38 people were trapped under the rubble. Currently, 18 military personnel have been rescued. Two were killed,” the department said.
The Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed to TASS a report about the collapse of the roof of the Airborne Forces training center in Omsk. “Indeed, at 20:40 local time, the roof of the Airborne Forces training center in Omsk collapsed,” said a high-ranking source in the military department.
Emergency services, emergency services and doctors rushed to the scene of the incident. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, interrupting his vacation, arrived in national center defense management, from where it reports every 30 minutes on the progress of rescue operations to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Also, a commission of the Ministry of Defense headed by acting has already flown to Omsk. Commander of the Airborne Forces, Lieutenant General Nikolai Ignatov.
The Ministry of Defense will send 5 medical and nursing teams and special medical equipment to the scene of the incident in the Omsk region, the department’s press service reported. It is also reported that “a medical team is flying to the scene of the incident in the Omsk region special purpose Central Military District".
As LifeNews reports, conscript soldiers lived in the barracks, and the hospital of this military unit was located on the ground floor.
Judging by the recording footage, not only rescuers, but also colleagues of the soldiers buried under the slabs are taking part in clearing the rubble.
Regarding the versions of what happened, household gas could not have caused the partial collapse of the barracks in Omsk. This was reported by an Interfax source in the technical supervision services of the Omsk region. “There can be no talk of a domestic gas explosion; the building was not gasified,” he said.
Let us remind you. The 242nd Airborne Forces Training Center is located in the village of Svetly in the southern part of Omsk. Junior commanders and specialists of the Airborne Forces are trained here. Before the collapse of the USSR, the training center was located in Lithuania.
The paratroopers who survived the collapse of the barracks of the 242nd Airborne Training Center in Omsk told the site what happened to them during the tragedy, how they dealt with it and what they are doing now.
Almost on the “summer equator”, July 12, a tragedy occurred in Russia - the barracks of the 242nd Airborne Forces training center in Omsk collapsed. The disaster claimed the lives of 24 Russian paratroopers, who had taken the oath literally half a day before. Another two dozen soldiers were injured varying degrees gravity.
A criminal case was opened into the incident, the suspects in which are the head of the center, Colonel Oleg Ponomarev and Alexander Dorofeev, CEO LLC Remeksstroy, which renovated the building in 2013. According to the publication Delovoy Kvartal, the company is currently close to becoming bankrupt. The court will consider the relevant case on November 30.
The news agency website spoke with about ten military personnel injured in the collapse of the barracks. As it turned out, many of the victims recovered and continue to serve in regular military units, but not all managed to remain in the Airborne Forces. In addition, the paratroopers agreed that the commander of the training center, Colonel Ponomarev, was not to blame for what happened.
Mikhail Klysh
When it all started, I had just washed myself and lay down on the bed. My neighbor was already dozing, other people in the barracks were still communicating, handing in documents after dismissal. And I remembered that we needed to get some stitching and got out of bed. At that moment a very loud crash began, as if hail was falling. I look at the floor and see that it is collapsing and everything is flying down, including ourselves. After two or three seconds I open my eyes and realize that I was completely overwhelmed: my legs were pinched and after some time they began to swell.There were screams everywhere, people trying to find their own. One fighter kept shouting: “My legs were cut off, my hands are pinned.” He screamed for about 15 minutes, and then fell silent...I didn't panic, nothing like that happened. And then a colleague started talking to me, it became easier. We heard that the equipment was working, then it was jammed more than once in order to find the living by their screams, but it was useless - no one heard us.
By this time I could no longer feel my legs, it was very difficult to breathe and I began to lose consciousness. At this time, my friend had already been pulled out, before that I asked him to tell about me, that I was also here and I needed help, but they forgot about me. And the plates were already moving, pinching the legs even more tightly. I physically couldn’t scream anymore because I didn’t have the strength to take in air.
But then they finally found me. The rescuer asks me: “Are these your legs?” I say no, not mine, mine are ahead. As it turned out later, there was a corpse lying between the slabs above me. They dug me out and took me to the hospital, and I said that I needed to go, I needed to help the boys.
At the hospital, I gave the doctor my phone number so that he could call my mother and reassure her. The next day I was already in the hospital in Moscow. There the surgeon gave me some papers to sign and said that I had developed blood poisoning and needed amputation of my legs. I said that I would not sign, they tried to persuade me to do this for a long time, but I refused all the time and in the end they started doing blood purification instead of amputation. During the second procedure, sensitivity had already begun to return, and after the third, the doctors said that I was recovering quickly.Over time, I began to learn to walk and then run. In the end, I managed to stay in the army. At first they didn’t want to send me into the airborne forces, but I tried and passed the medical commission in the Airborne Forces. It seems like they promised to give me a vacation, but they never did. But the main thing is that I’m alive and standing on my feet, only at night I can’t sleep well, it’s starting to feel like I’m falling again.
I have no complaints against anyone, I am a simple person. And so, this floor was such that if you jumped on it, it was as if he began to walk. But neither we nor others paid attention to this.
Vladimir Petrov
I was sleeping at the time of the collapse. My mother and sister came to the oath and we walked all day, so I was tired and fell asleep immediately after lights out. When it all started, I didn't even understand what was happening. I was flying and thinking: what the horrible dream like this and when will I wake up. And when I fell, I already realized that all this was really happening to me and the building had collapsed. I fell on my chest and was covered with two slabs. I don’t know, maybe there were more slabs higher, but I only felt two. Left side The body was completely pressed against me, another slab was supposed to fall right on me, but it was held by the bed, which saved me. If it weren't for her, I would have been crushed to death.
I realized that there was no need to panic, they wouldn’t get us out quickly, and there was little air. There was only five centimeters of free space on both sides of my head, through which dust was flying. A friend was lying in front of me, with whom I began to communicate and we calmed each other down. Another colleague was behind. He's for me right leg I pulled and it hurt. And the rest didn’t hurt, although, as it turned out later, I had a ruptured spleen, an open craniocerebral injury, an open fracture of the left leg, an open fracture of the talus and a transverse fracture of the body of the sternum.
I kept asking my co-worker to stop jerking my leg. And he repeated: “Get me out of here, please.” And I could only answer: “Friend, I myself am under the rubble, be patient, they will definitely pull us out, no need to worry.”
As a result, he held me like that all the time, I had already gotten used to this pain. And then he suddenly let go of my leg. Later I realized that he had died.And then I thought that my time had come, I began to say goodbye to everyone, I remembered the best moments in my life and it was no longer clear: I was still alive or had already died. I cannot describe what I felt then. I lay there and thought that I wasn’t even 20 years old yet, why should I die so early? He began to fight for life, to show signs of himself. There was no point in screaming, but then one of the slabs was removed and a small opening appeared. I managed to pull my fingertips into it and start shaking them.
After some time, I heard shouts: “Here alive, here alive!” At that moment, someone grabbed me by the fingers and said: “Brother, hold on, we will pull you out.” Something happened to me after that that, again, cannot be described in words. After these words, I began to feel and appreciate life differently. They pulled me out for about 40-50 minutes, and when I found myself on the surface, I told them that a comrade was lying in front of me, he was also alive, and the other one, who was behind, had died.
All this time I did not open my eyes. I opened them only the next day, already in Moscow. At the hospital they told me that I had a lot of blood loss and internal bleeding. And I kept trying to prove to them that they don’t need to do anything to me, I’m healthy. As a result, I was placed in an artificial coma and transported to Moscow. My mother was already at home in Sterlitamak when my friend called her and told her that I was on the list of victims in extremely serious condition.
Now I am in the military hospital named after Burdenko. I’ll stay here until the New Year, and maybe even a little longer. Doctors say the injuries are severe. My mother and the parents of other victims were first placed in a barracks at the Airborne Forces headquarters, where they lived for a month and a half, and then soldiers arrived there and they were moved to a dormitory from the Ministry of Defense.
I don't blame the training center commander. He has nothing to do with it at all. When they told me that Colonel Ponomarev had been detained, I was completely shocked. I know that when the overhaul was carried out, it was not in the unit at all. And then I read in the news that there wasn’t even Ponomarev’s signature on the documents about moving into the barracks.
The barracks itself looked very good both outside and inside. Nobody could have thought that this would happen. Almost just before the disaster, it was as if we had a sign from above: during the evening roll call we were standing on the parade ground and three of us lost consciousness. And within an hour and a half the barracks collapsed.
I would be glad to continue my service; since childhood I dreamed of joining the Airborne Forces. The dream came true and I became a paratrooper, but I was not destined to serve even a month. Now my injuries are too severe, I fear for my health. It turns out that I won’t even be able to walk in ankle boots, and I’ll have to put orthopedic insoles into regular shoes for the rest of my life.
We, all those who were injured in the crash, are in contact, communicate and support each other. Even the most seriously affected people are optimistic. I myself will remain in the hospital for a long time, I need to work on my leg and restore it left hand, because it practically doesn’t work for me. There’s also something wrong with my stomach, some kind of hellish pain.
I would like to express my gratitude to my friends and all other caring people who helped both morally and financially by participating in raising funds for travel and accommodation for my mother. I also want to say thank you to the Airborne Forces for welcoming and placing her in Moscow.
Rustam Giniyatullin
At the time of the crash, I was standing near my bed, just about to lie down, when I heard a dull knock, then another and then a loud crash, after which the floor tilted and went down, and behind it a wall with windows stretched out. I managed to turn around and jump from the falling slab, caught myself on the broken edge of the fourth floor, began to climb, and then the ceiling slab pinched me to the waist so that I stayed in the air without falling down. It turns out that I was hanging between the third and fourth floors. I’m still surprised how my basin didn’t get crushed; I should have been crushed there in the first place.
Only two cockpits collapsed; both flights of stairs remained intact and soldiers were evacuated along them. I called them for help, but none of my colleagues stopped, everyone ran away. Then several guys and the corporal stopped and began to pull me out, but they didn’t succeed. They tried to push this ceiling slab and after several attempts they were finally able to do it and free me. Due to a leg injury, I could no longer move and was dragged by a corporal from the 8th company.
We were lined up in front of the barracks and roll call began. From my platoon there were only nine people out of 27. It became scary.Everyone was spinning around, panicking, they counted us again, firefighters and an UAZ of the medical company arrived. Already at the hospital, the nurse gave me a call home.
Regarding the collapse of the barracks, in my opinion, the commission that recognized the barracks as suitable is to blame. And they want to leave Colonel Ponomarev as the last, although he is not guilty of anything. Now I am continuing my service. I dreamed of getting into the landing force, I got into the landing force and I will be a paratrooper no matter what.
Ruslan Shabanov
I slept on the third floor and fell on the second. This is what one of the soldiers who participated in clearing the rubble told me. I woke up at the moment of the crash. I remember that the bed went down, and then emptiness. I woke up when they were dragging me in the yard on a sheet to the hospital. I was severely stunned by the blow and couldn’t see anything around me. Then I repeatedly heard words of support from those who dragged me, they said: “Hold on, bro.” They told me that the barracks had collapsed. At the hospital they injected me with painkillers and an ambulance took me to the city hospital.
I was constantly tormented by the question of my left eye, as I thought that I had lost it. As it turned out later, it was a hematoma. Every 15 minutes I asked the doctors how my comrades were doing. I was scared for them and thoughts about their fate were very depressing. The emergency doctor gave me his phone number to call my father, I didn’t scare my parents, I told them that I only had scratches.
Only the professionalism of experienced surgeons saved me. The help I received was worthy, thanks also to the military and the government. I was discharged from the army. Of course, I wanted to continue to serve, I tried to persuade the doctors, but they make the decision, not me.
I have no grudge, especially against the commanders. There is only resentment for the dead guys; I still can’t get out of my head the anger at this damned barracks. Of course, if there is direct evidence of the guilt of certain persons who knew about the emergency situation of the building, but kept silent and hid this fact, then let them be held accountable for the dead guys. And from the company that dealt with major repairs barracks, I don't need anything. I am alive and well and why did I give up these lawsuits?
Alexey Bogatishchev
