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Ilya Klebanov, who showed remarkable organizational talent and fantastic efficiency during the rescue of submariners from the Kursk (he flew all the way to Sochi for the president’s instructions), is now leading the preparation of the operation to extract the remains of the sailors.

On August 29, at a meeting in St. Petersburg, according to him, a final plan for the “evacuation of the dead” was developed. A day later, the Deputy Prime Minister reported this plan to the President. The operation will begin at the end of September and will be carried out by Russian and Norwegian divers, who will cut holes in each of the boat's compartments. The Deputy Prime Minister even went into detail: several teams will work, each of three divers - two Russians and one Norwegian. The Norwegian will be constantly inside the underwater bell, one of ours will work inside the submarine, and the second will insure it, being on the hull of the submarine.

The head of the press service of the Northern Fleet of the Russian Federation, Captain 1st Rank Vladimir Navrotsky, hastened to add that 12 divers, collected from all four Russian fleets, will go abroad in early September, where for two weeks, together with their Norwegian colleagues, they will practice evacuation techniques on dummies." immobilized bodies."

Everything would be fine, but the Deputy Prime Minister made his statements three days before negotiations with representatives of the Norwegian company were completed. And even after the completion of these negotiations, Ingemar Ketzer, who headed the Stolt Offshor delegation, did not at all claim that a final decision had been made. “During the negotiations,” he told reporters, “we discussed issues related to the implementation of cutouts in the hull of the boat.” Apparently, the start date of the operation has not been determined. “We hope to start it in October,” Stolt Offshor spokesman Julian Thompson said. The Norwegians' caution is apparently explained by the fact that they are seriously engaged in working out the technical aspects of this most complex operation. Well, the most important thing for Mr. Klebanov is to quickly report on the work done.

That there is an operation to raise the bodies of sailors. He already has plans ready to create a Russian rescue service. At the same time, he is not stopped by the fact that the state has neither modern technology nor the money to create it. Judging by press reports, Ilya Iosifovich intends to demand rescue equipment and specialists from Gazprom or LUKOIL. And it doesn’t matter that they don’t carry out deep-sea work, the main thing is that they have a lot of money - let them fork out.