RIA Novosti/Alexander Kryazhev
In a terrible fire in a shopping center " Winter cherry“In Kemerovo, 48 people died, nine of them were children. Alexander and Olga Lillevali had three daughters burned alive in “Winter Cherry”: two were 11 years old, the youngest was 5.
As Alexander told Meduza, on Sunday he brought his daughters to the cinema on the fourth floor of the shopping center, bought them a ticket to the cartoon “Sherlock Gnomes”, bought them a glass of popcorn for each daughter, took them to the auditorium and went to the first floor to wait. . The session began at 14:40, an hour and a half later one of the daughters called Alexander and said that there was smoke in the hall and that she and her sisters could not get out of the hall because the door was locked. Lillevali rushed to help; at that moment there was already a lot of smoke in the building.
“I was running up the stairs, someone put a wet rag in my hand, I covered my nose with it. When I reached the fourth floor, I broke the window so that the traction would be upward, and then fell. I began to crawl, I realized that I had no strength left, I was so inhaled carbon monoxide that I was about to faint. My daughter constantly called and called me. I just shouted into the phone for her to try to get out of the hall, but I couldn’t do anything - there was already fire ahead.
Alexander ran down the stairs to bring emergency personnel to help. On the street he met the first rescue team - they were going to put out the fire from above.
“I told them that on the fourth floor the children were locked in a smoke-filled room, they needed to be taken out, they were still alive. Emcheesniks agreed, but for three whole minutes, *****, three minutes they put on masks! And only then did we enter the building,” Lillevali continues. “I showed them the stairs, which is the fastest way to run to the cinema, and they first followed me, and then some guy told them that there was a fire on the central staircase - and they, damned, ran after him. I tell them: “Give me this self-rescuing mask, I’ll get them out myself.” And they told me: “It’s not allowed. Everything must be according to schedule.” My girls were left burning because of the damn order.
Alen Zipunov’s daughter, fifth-grader Vika, died. She came to the "Winter Cherry" with the class to have fun on the occasion of the beginning spring break. First they kicked balls in a bowling alley, then they went ice skating, and then they went to the cinema to watch the same cartoon as the Lillevali children, but in a different room. Their session began literally 15 minutes before the fire started. All classmates and the teacher were unable to get out of the hall and burned to death.
Relatives of the victims say that they did not receive any information from the Ministry of Emergency Situations and officials for a long time. They spent the entire night in the gym of the school closest to the fire.
From time to time, ambulance officers and the Ministry of Emergency Situations approach them and offer to go out for some air or eat something. “My son is burning to death there, and you are shoving a sandwich down my throat. Are you out of your mind at all? - asks a woman in a blue dress and pushes away the hand of an employee of the Ministry of Emergency Situations who approached her. “He’s probably already turned into coal, Lord!” the Meduza correspondent describes the situation in the room.
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Residents of Kemerovo began to come and donate blood themselves from 6 pm on Sunday. No announcements. By ten in the morning on Monday, two hours after the center opened, 70 people had already donated blood.
Six years ago I happily married my current husband Artyom. We had a wedding, and a year later I gave birth to a beautiful and healthy daughter. They called me Natasha. My husband and I could not be happier with our miracle.
And when she turned 4, something happened that any mother fears - my daughter was hit by a car... To death. On that fateful day, she was playing on the playground with other kids, and I just turned away for a second, and I heard the squealing of tires.
Then everything was like a fog: the ambulance, the police, passers-by... When I realized what had happened, I fell into hysterics. They gave me a sedative and I passed out. I woke up on my bed. The husband and the doctor were sitting nearby. I didn't remember what happened. I was reminded. I became hysterical again, but it didn’t last long. Then a deep depression began. I didn’t react to anything, as if all the emotions had been scraped out of me, and only the outer shell was left.
So a year passed. On the day this story happened, my husband was at work until 9 pm, and I was sitting at home alone. In order to distract myself, I decided to do some household chores. It was 3 pm. I went to the pantry to get dirty laundry. As soon as I entered there, the door slammed. I threw my laundry and started to break out.
Then the lights went out and a familiar child’s voice was heard: “Mommy, don’t make noise, otherwise it will be bad. Strangers' houses." I turned around and saw Natasha. No, she wasn't bloody or anything like that - she looked like she was alive! In the same dress in which she died. “Quiet,” she repeated. “Natasha, YOU?!” I exclaimed. "Quiet!" - Natasha said sternly.
I burst into tears. My girl! I miss her so much! “Don’t cry, mommy, I WILL COME BACK TO YOU.” She said it and disappeared. I left the basement crying. This time the door gave way. What I saw shocked me: everything was turned upside down and the money was missing! My deceased daughter saved me from robbers. In a panic, I called the police and my husband.
When the police finished interviewing and searching for evidence, Artyom demanded an explanation from me about how I escaped from the thieves. I told him the story of the pantry. He calmed me down and we went to clean up. A new surprise awaited me in the bedroom: on my husband’s and my bed there were Natasha’s things, and on them was a note with the inscription in printed, uneven letters: “DO NOT THROW OUT – IT WILL BE USEFUL!”
I burst into tears and called Artyom. Seeing this, he was surprised and wanted to throw it away, but I threw such a tantrum that he gave up on this idea.
A year later I gave birth to a daughter again. She was an exact copy Natasha even behaved like her. Before leaving the maternity hospital, I had a dream in which Natasha was again. She said: “So I’m back! This time, take care of me." After this dream, I christened my daughter Natasha.
She was even the last one to board the bus. This is the character. Do you really think she would grab her child's hand and run out in front of everyone? – Tatiana’s friend Darsalia cannot hold back her tears.
Many have already written about the 37-year-old English teacher from Kemerovo gymnasium No. 17 as a heroine. She died in the burning center while saving children. And this is true, but not the whole truth. We found out what feat Tatyana Viktorovna actually accomplished.
"Keep an eye on Arisha"
She went to Winter Cherry with her 14-year-old daughter Elya, her friend Natalya Selezen and her daughter, 10-year-old Arina. We bought tickets for Peter Rabbit. The girls sat next to each other on the sixth row, the friends on the seventh. When the fire started, a woman came into the hall: “We’re burning!” But for some reason she said it quietly - to one of her own, in the front row. However, the lights did not turn on, but the cartoon continued to run, funny shots flashed on the screen. Maybe that’s why people couldn’t immediately believe that something terrible was about to begin.
... A minute later the passages were filled with people making their way to the exit. Eli and Arisha and their mothers had 1-2 places. Right next to the wall, in a dead end. To get out, they had to go through the entire row. The girls managed to reach almost the end of it and looked back. Tatyana was still approximately in the middle of the hall. Together with a friend, she let the crowd of children and adults pass forward.
Elya, daughter of Tatyana Darsalia Photo: social network
“I looked around and saw that my mother could see me,” Elya recalls. - I caught her eye and she nodded at me. And she seemed to show with her eyes: “Look after Arisha!” How did we get out? There you had to go around the fake wall in the hall, a real labyrinth. I took Arisha by the straps of her overalls so as not to lose her, and we went. They saw a little boy in the corridor, he was very scared. And I also told him: “What are you doing? Everything will be fine!" Until recently I thought it was just smoke. It was hard to breathe, we bent very close to the floor. And they went out... On the first floor they even waited for mom, but... Then, already on the street, Arisha saw Natalya - in the window. A boy just jumped out of there and hit the visor. Arisha shouted: “Mom, jump, jump!” But she didn't jump. She could have crashed in front of her daughter.
“If she had rushed to save herself, she would have remained alive”
I saw a notification on my phone: “Winter Cherry” is burning,” says Natalya Halabaeva, Tatyana's friend. - I also thought: “Wow, somewhere in Russia there is still “Winter Cherry”, like we have in Kemerovo!” And then I realized that this was our shopping center. A thought flashed through my mind: Tanya could be there. On Sunday morning, she wrote on Viber that her friend Natalya Selezen had come to see her. And today they want to meet: “to make it interesting for the girls, let’s go somewhere and watch a movie.” She didn't say where they went. I sent her an SMS: “Tanya, aren’t you at Winter Cherry?” There was no answer. I dial the number, the dial tone goes off, she doesn’t answer. I dialed Eli’s number, her daughter: “Are you okay?” She says: “Yes, with me, but we are looking for mom.”
- Why doesn’t the phone answer?
- She forgot it at home. That was the only time she didn't pick up the phone. Always in touch...
Then I found out how it all happened. That Tanya let everyone go ahead. Both in the corridor and in the hall. She was found between the second and third floors. So, she went out, but inhaled carbon monoxide. If she had hurried and run, she would have remained alive. But she couldn't do that. My friend Natasha also died. Both of them were not saved...
You know, if Tanya had remained alive, she would never have said that this was a feat. I would say: Girls, don’t say such words about me. I did what I had to do!
"She lived very well"
Tatyana Darsalia started working in the city of Topki, was a teacher foreign language. Her grandfather is from the Volga Germans. A well-known family in the city: father is an engineer, mother is a doctor. Everyone loves them and is shocked by Tatyana’s death.
They have relatives living in Germany, but in response to invitations to move, she answered: “No, I’ll stay in Russia.” In the same way, I would never leave school. Working with children was her calling. Tatyana moved to Kemerovo in 2013. Soon I got a job at gymnasium number 17.
She lived very correctly,” says Natalya. – Once at the “Teacher of the Year” competition, Tanya talked about the famous teacher. Janusz Korczak also refused to leave his students. And how the Teacher was with them until the last minute - entering gas chamber. Although the Nazis offered him to leave the children and save his life. Tanya said: that's the point pedagogical work: “Burning yourself, giving life to others.” Now these words of hers seem prophetic.
Fate decreed that it was she who ended up at that time and in that place. And at the cost of her life she saved the children. They may not even realize that they got out thanks to her. And her daughter Elya is the same. Getting out of the hall, she held 10-year-old Arisha tightly, and they managed to survive.
... Tatyana was one of the first to be identified. Relatives say that she was the same as when she was alive, only covered in soot and soot: “Beautiful, very beautiful.”
Elya is the only daughter of the deceased teacher. She will stay with her grandparents (Tatiana was divorced from her husband).
“I feel my mother is nearby,” admits Elya.
MEANWHILE
Let us remind you that a terrible fire broke out in one of the shopping centers in Kemerovo on March 25. The fire started in a trampoline pit on the playground and quickly spread throughout the building. As a result of the incident, 64 people died, including 41 children.
The burned-out cinema hall in "Winter Cherry" could have been locked by the spectators themselves
The more stories the relatives of those killed in the terrible Kemerovo fire tell, the clearer the picture of what happened on the ill-fated Sunday in the Winter Cherry shopping center becomes. The testimonies of survivors are especially valuable - those who were on the fourth floor engulfed in smoke and managed to get out
My name is Ira. I am 36 years old. I want to tell you an incident that happened to me five years ago. I remember everything as if it happened yesterday.
Six years ago I happily married my current husband Artyom. We had a wedding, and a year later I gave birth to a beautiful and healthy daughter. They called me Natasha. She grew up diligent, did not cry over trifles, only purred, similar to a cat’s purr. My husband and I could not be happier with our miracle. And when she turned 4, something happened that any mother fears - my daughter was hit by a car... To death. On that fateful day, she was playing on the playground with other kids, and I just turned away for a second, and I heard the squealing of tires. Then everything was like a fog: the ambulance, the police, passers-by... When I realized what had happened, I fell into hysterics. They gave me a sedative and I passed out. I woke up on my bed. The husband and the doctor were sitting nearby. I didn't remember what happened. I was reminded. I became hysterical again, but it didn’t last long. Then a deep depression began. I didn’t react to anything, as if all the emotions had been scraped out of me, and only the outer shell was left. I answered all the questions randomly, only the first thing that came to mind. I was greatly infuriated by the condolences that all the relatives said every minute. At the funeral I didn’t cry, I just stood and looked at one point. A month later, the depression passed, but the aftertaste remained. I wondered new goal: get pregnant again. So a year passed. On the day this story happened, my husband was at work until 9 pm, and I was sitting at home alone. In order to distract myself, I decided to do some household chores. It was 3 pm. I went to the pantry to get dirty laundry. As soon as I entered there, the door slammed. I threw my laundry and started to break out. Then the lights went out and a familiar child’s voice was heard: “Mommy, don’t make noise, otherwise it will be bad. Strangers' houses." I turned around and saw Natasha. No, she wasn't bloody or anything like that - she looked like she was alive! In the same dress in which she died. “Quiet,” she repeated. “Natasha, YOU?!” I exclaimed. "Quiet!" – Natasha said sternly. I burst into tears. My girl! I miss her so much! “Don’t cry, mommy, I WILL COME BACK TO YOU.” She said it and disappeared. I left the basement crying. This time the door gave way. What I saw shocked me: everything was turned upside down and the money was missing! My dead daughter saved me from robbers. In a panic, I called the police and my husband. When the police finished interviewing and searching for evidence, Artyom demanded an explanation from me about how I escaped from the thieves. I told him the story of the pantry. He calmed me down and we went to clean up. A new surprise awaited me in the bedroom: on my husband’s and my bed there were Natasha’s things, and on them a note with the inscription in printed, uneven letters: “DO NOT THROW OUT - IT WILL BE USEFUL!” I burst into tears and called Artyom. Seeing this, he was surprised and wanted to throw it away, but I threw such a tantrum that he gave up on this idea. A year later I gave birth to a daughter again. She was an exact copy of Natasha, she even behaved like her. Before leaving the maternity hospital, I had a dream in which Natasha was again. She said: “So I’m back! This time, take care of me." After this dream, I christened my daughter Natasha.
A message about a terrible tragedy in the city of Novozybkov, Bryansk region, appeared on the social network VKontakte on the afternoon of June 26. Local residents said that a young woman was brutally murdered in one of the high-rise buildings and there were more victims. According to them, the nightmare happened in house number 6 on the street named after the 307th Division, and now an operational investigation team is working there. It turned out that the deceased and her family rented an apartment in this house.
“This is such a terrible story that the adults felt bad while telling it, I can’t even imagine what could happen to the children after all this,” wrote one of the residents of Novozybkov.
Soon a video from the scene of the tragedy appeared on social networks. It showed the apartment in which the deceased lived and her neighbors. The latter said that they did not hear anything suspicious at night and learned about what happened from law enforcement officers who arrived at the crime scene...
I immediately called the press service of the Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Bryansk Region. Senior assistant to the head of the investigative department for interaction with the media, Sergei Tsyganok, confirmed that a brutal crime had indeed occurred in Novozybkov, but did not provide details in the interests of the investigation.
But after some time, at 16.34, official information about the incident appeared on the department’s website. It stated that the investigative bodies of the Investigative Committee Russian Federation In the Bryansk region, a criminal case was opened under the article “Murder” and “Attempted murder of two or more persons, including a minor.” A 29-year-old resident of the city of Novozybkov is suspected of committing them.”
“On the night of June 26, 2018, a drunk man entered an apartment located on the second floor, where he stabbed a 31-year-old local resident, her 4-year-old daughter and 51-year-old mother. The first victim died from her wounds, the girl and her grandmother are in serious condition in the hospital, doctors are fighting for their lives. Currently, investigators are clarifying all the circumstances of the incident. The suspect in the crime was detained without delay. The issue of choosing a preventive measure in the form of detention is being decided,” the press release stated.
Meanwhile, terrible details of this bloody drama began to appear on the Internet. Law enforcement agencies did not refute them.
“A drunken scumbag got into the apartment through open balcony and went to the girl’s room. There he began to rape the baby. She screamed, her mother Marina woke up and went into the room. Shocked by what she saw, the woman attacked the pedophile, and he took out a knife and stabbed her in the stomach several times. The child’s grandmother also came running in response to the screams. And she was also stabbed in the heart area. Then this animal ran away,” one of the local residents said on June 27.
According to the guy, the grandmother had enough strength to call the police. Law enforcement officers arrived at the scene of the tragedy a few minutes later and “ ambulance" Marina, unfortunately, was already dead. Her mother and daughter were taken to the hospital. The condition of the 51-year-old woman remains serious.
“I still can’t believe she’s gone! She was so cheerful and cheerful. She loved her children very much; she has three of them. There has never been such a nightmare in Novozybkov. I don’t know how the person who committed this atrocity will continue to live. They say they knew each other. I hope he gets what he deserves..."
On July 2, I again called the senior assistant to the head of the investigative department for interaction with the media, Sergei Tsyganok, who said that the suspect had been taken into custody by court decision. He explained that more detailed information The investigative department cannot yet provide information about what happened, so as not to harm the investigation. IN this moment The criminal investigation is ongoing.
Darina Matveeva, Novozybkov
EDITORIAL: “Desnitsa” expresses condolences to the family of the deceased and wishes her daughter and mother a speedy recovery. We will monitor the progress of the investigation into this crime and will be sure to inform readers about its results.
