And that's it

Alexey Pakhomov did not stay at the front for three days. His family does not know how to live with such grief. The story of the mobilized from Vladivostok

Spring this year in Vladivostok was warm, and through open windows from the neighbors from below, naval officers, it comes that "the land of their own children believes and waits ...". Only Larisa Petrovna, the mother of Alexei Pakhomova, from January 30, can no longer hear it. That day, she found out that her son died.

Lesha loved the song “There behind the fogs” ... Mists in Vladivostok begin just in March. The bends of the peninsula are softened in them, the tops of the hills are hidden, chaotic giants-storage giants and reinforced concrete dominoes of sleeping areas are melting, and the lights of warships in the Golden Rog Bay and container trucks on the raid are disappeared. With a view of the magnificent Russian bridge, now and then the disappearing “there, behind the fogs”, at the far end of the naval cemetery on March 6, ordinary Alexei Pakhomov was buried. He was mobilized in October, in January was brought to the front. And after three incomplete days he died. And that's it.

"There is no data"

They say smoking kills. And in the evening of January 10, it saved four out of 12 cooks, who, together with field kitchens, were placed in the old dining room of the empty village of Yekaterinovka, Kherson region. The guys went to the rural store for cigarettes. The eight remaining Himars covered.

Lesha Pakhomov did not actually smoke.

On August 19, he was supposed to be 30 years old. Mobilized Primorstz on October 8. The cook by profession, he was not at the shooting range (and where to shoot with astigmatism?). He received a referral to the unit, to the support company. In December, three echelons were sent west with field kitchens. Larisa Petrovna shows a video received on January 1 at about 7 in the morning. The last from the son. The guys with a laugh are divided by New Year's chores: “Still, they woke up, who was able, could not resist! Pashka on the cut: we have fruits here, raw, sausage is fresh. A bunch of species, vegetables. There is even a corn! And there they threw the eggs, boil. These are the things, yes! Hello!".

On the festive table: scrolls with ham, stacks, Bonduel. In the background, Eduard Hil is flooded: "... as you go beyond the threshold - everywhere yoke ...".

- That's all. Everything that remains of my boy, ”Larisa Petrovna says bewilderedly.

The village of Ekaterinovka was empty, and the fighters, according to the mother, first wanted to resettle 2-3 people home. But then the cooks, Primorsky guys from Vladivostok and Artem, were located on the territory of the dining room.

“The commander drove twelve Zilov with field kitchens and all the guys there,” says Larisa Petrovna. - The daughter keeps in touch with the volunteers, at first they told us. And then the officer from some unit from the front line-his fighters were not far away, and he visited this place directly. At ten minutes of ninth in the evening, these “Hammers” flew, or what is they calling them correctly?

On the 10th day, Alexei called his wife, said that everything was fine. The next day, I did not get in touch ... And in a day, and then. The son -in -law - also mobilized - reassured: perhaps they are thrown.

After a week of silence, the mother and wife began the search. They called and went to the military enlistment office (“No information”). They called “122” is a hot line for mobilization issues (“there are no data”).

- Well, how is it?! Three trains have gone - and you have no data for three echelons?! On January 30, I already say to my daughter: “Lena, Christmas trees, firing, where else can it be? Soldier mothers? Let's look for some phones on the Internet, call! ” And Larisa Petrovna recalls that she kept in touch with the volunteers who purchased and sent help mobilized ... The girls then, at the beginning of winter, asked Lesha to go to the commander and found out what was required. And the commander from Sergeyevka tells him: give my sister a number that you will run back and forth? So they directly communicated then.

Women contacted the officer. He promised to find out and call back. Mother calmed down a little, her sister left home.

- Time by eight in the evening. I hear-someone is knocking, I open. Lena, Masha and my matchmaker are standing. I say: "Oh, what are you with all the composition?" “Come on,” I say, “I only boiled the kettle.” I went away, waiting for them to undress. And it begins to slowly get to me ...

Tricolor with a black ribbon

Pakhomovs are a simple normal family. Mom, Larisa Petrovna, - in retirement, Masha (the language does not turn to say the “widow”) worked as a senior seller in “Vinlab”, and now the housewife. Nikita's son is a second -grader, a computer lover, a little judoka and a copy of his father.

Larisa Petrovna has recently been often reviewing family photo albums. Here - we went to the circus. Here - we went to the forest for cones. And here is the army. They had an ensign, an avid hunter, a fisherman. He will go to the Amur, and give the catch to the boys. They are already salted, fried. From there and a picture: a smiling private Alexei Pakhomov cuts a huge pink salmon. After the service, I could not look at red fish for a long time.

For some time, Lesha worked in his specialty, then he went to Ratimir (a large Primorsky company, a producer of meat products) with a finished product. And the welter talent demonstrated in the family. And if in the army he was ordinary, then in the kitchen - definitely not ordinary. Especially households were to their taste in the oyster sauce.

- No matter how tastier we tried, no one came out! Masha is also 12 hours at work, and he will calmly weld, prepare. On the last New Year holidays, she had the 31st and 1st shift-so he set such a table, dropped the photo to me. Rolls did - I have never seen such people! He took bread for toasts, rolled it, added something. I came to them the next day for the baby: well, I say, let me try that you have prepared there. And it is necessary: ​​I am almost 60 years old, but I have never eaten like that!

In the 38th Lyceum, where Alexei learned to the cook-bacon, a memorable corner is now dedicated to him. Strakers made his portrait in uniform for the mother, against the background of the Russian flag, with a black ribbon. They were taken to a personal file before sending to the unit. Now this photograph of the house on the shelf with the icons and the Order of Courage.

"This is not about him - to hide"

Mother shows letters from elementary school. For good studies (“We did not hide at the parent meetings in the back desks!”) And for sports. In childhood, Lesha was engaged in swimming, volleyball, heavy athletics.

He did not mow the army. He served evenly, although he did not feel enthusiasm, saying half -joking that the year was lost. A few days after the demobilization he met Masha, and six months later they had already married. This year they would celebrate a tin wedding.

Like many mobilized ones, his acquaintance with the military affair was the army of the army. He served in the Khabarovsk Territory, in the tank forces, in the support company. Then an alternative service came into fashion. Mother invited her son to consider this option. Lesha replied: “Mom, do not invent. The time has come - it means that I’ll go to serve. ”

... The agenda came to work last year, Alex honestly went to the military enlistment office - they asked to register at the place of registration. And he could wait a month, partial mobilization would end.

-We somehow did not discuss a particular special operation. When it all started, I did not think that it would result in this. Already announced [partial] mobilization, suggested: maybe in South Korea? And Maria also persuaded, and friend: “Lyokha, what are you! The kid must be raised ... ”He dismissed. My beloved told me again: "Don't even invent." Maybe something inside and held, some kind of unwillingness. But he did not tell us. This is not about him - to hide.

"If he is alive, he will return"

The mother replies to the immodest question about the cost of fees in the army: only 50 thousand came out. Not everything had to be bought: the husband was also called up from the matchmaker, but they quickly released “thanks” to varicose veins. And he also managed to buy everything - what was left of his relatives was given a lot. But the collections of the son -in -law of 85 thousand took. Now the 43-year-old Igor Kovalenko (attention!)-with tuberculoma, the resection of the lung and with all the certificates-the will of the Leninsky military enlistment office also serves. Now in raw trenches somewhere between the Volnovakha and Ugled. Women are trying to pull it out: they wrote to the prosecutor’s office, they wrote to the president. The answer came that it was taken to work.

- How was Lesha collected for the front? Ooooo, - pulls Larisa Petrovna. - All of their own. He was given a set of form and berets. And what is one set? Especially the autumn already, even if you wash - where to dry? And with the Berets, we have already passed history in the army - these, oak ones. It is rubbed, it is impossible to walk. Therefore, we bought ours. And they bought plasters, and bandages.

In Ratimir, Lesha was on duty for days. They did not shir, but provided the family. And how Nikita went to school, they decided: Maria will no longer work on 12 hours on shifts, she will be engaged in her son.

The “army” salary of her husband came to the card on January 10, 50 thousand. Nothing else. Now March. However, women do not complain about the state: officials congratulated on March 8, presented flowers, brought the cake. Just in case, personal phones.

This week, the family is going to submit documents for payments (they thought that everything would come at once, but it turned out that it was necessary to contact several different places). Then Masha will get a job, grandmother will help with her grandson. For the laid money - God will give, they will be paid without problems - the family will surely buy an apartment. “In order not to wander,” the grandmother sighs. Real estate prices in Vladivostok are comparable to the Moscow ones, so there will be not so many for the future education.

“But it is clear that he will not replace anything ... Why is it needed, it would be better if he remained alive.” And so they would have gathered for an apartment. What do I need now? To return the son. I worry so that the children are not offended in any way. If this happens, if something is supposed to be given to them all in full.

Actually, Larisa Petrovna still hopes that her son is alive. Yes, DNA was handed over, this is a mandatory procedure. Yes, and there was a coffin, and the funeral, and the order here ... But there are mistakes?

- There are parents, I heard who force the zinc coffins to open. I didn’t even have thoughts. Firstly, why? Secondly, if he is alive, he will return.

Of all the friends of Larisa Pakhomova, her son was mobilized only with her.

... There are two "alleys" of the dead in his own in the Marine Cemetery of Vladivostok. The first, large - at the main entrance. The variegated flags dance from the wind around typical wooden crosses. From a cheerful rowan of wreaths and flowers, slush snow seems even dirtier, and pebbles are darker. Two empty graves eagerly opened black mouths. “They have been here for a long time, they are holding it for someone,” explains the woman who came to visit the only son, also mobilized. People come here "to their" and "to strangers", which they did not even know.

Alexei Pakhomov was buried on the new alley near the second entrance to the cemetery. On the left hand from him - a fighter of the PMC "Wagner". On the right - do not even make out the faces and name, the photo burned out. Here on Saturday there were one row of crosses, 20 young men, but graves work without days off.

Vladivostok

Help "New"
What payments are laid for the families of the dead mobilized in Primorye? Data - from the social reference book of the Ministry of Labor and Social Development of the region.

• One -time material assistance in the amount of 5 million rubles;

• Insurance payments: at the moment - 2 968 464.04 rubles, they are indexed. “They are paid to beneficiaries in equal shares,” writes the Ministry of Socialist Revolutionary ( the word “beneficiary” causes quiet horror. - V.F. ). To minor children, payments will go to their personal account.

• One -time allowance - 4,452,696.06 rubles. It is paid to family members of the deceased in equal shares.

• A one -time annual payment to widows (widowers) under the age of 55 (women) and 60 years (men) - 10,000 rubles. If older - 18,000 rubles. Children - 15,000 rubles.

• Monthly payments to children - 5,000 rubles each.

• There are still different social, communal, transport benefits to families and children. Important: regional lump -sum material assistance of 1 million rubles (through social protection) is paid to the families of not dead mobilized, and those who concluded a contract until September 21, 2022.