The Internet is trying to calculate the protesters on Sakharov. "New Gazeta" counted 102 thousand

One of the main intrigues after the rally on Sakharov Avenue was the presence of the total number of participants: as in the case of swamp area, the estimates of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and organizers diverged five times: the Ministry of Internal Affairs called 29 thousand gathered, the organizers - 120 thousand.

The attitude of users to estimates from the Ministry of Internal Affairs illustrates a widely dispersed collage called "COUVD Calculator" . Two rallies were removed on it from similar angles - the action of the “ours” movement against corruption and the rally “for honest elections”. Despite the fact that in the first photo there are many times less, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported 50 thousand “Nashists” who came to scold the bribe takers.

The most common way was the publication of assessments with reference to people who stood with metal detectors, through which they missed everyone to participate in the rally. Observers called numbers in the region of 80 thousand people. The publication "Moscow News" reported that they asked the police - and they counted 60 thousand, and then abandoned.

The New Gazeta put her people from metal detectors. According to the publication voiced on the blog , the event was attended by more than 102 thousand people. Not all frames were counted and only from 13 to 16 hours. At the same time, people who left the avenue were not taken into account. True, those who stood behind the line of metal detectors were also not taken into account. “They calculated how much on average people during the observation passed through one central frame, how many - through one side, they counted the average arithmetic, multiplied by the number of frames ... and received our result - 102 thousand 486 people,” the new one describes his methodology. “The figure voiced by the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is 29 thousand people - this is“ Surkovskaya propaganda ”, and nothing more. It is impossible to say one hundred thousand people:“ You were not there! ”The new newspaper believes.

Another calculation method was proposed by the Politrash-RU user. Taking the highest quality photo from the rally taken at 14:20, he counted the participants "Allless". “7 thousand people came out at the coverage of almost half the territory of the event. Given all kinds of amendments related to the density in later hours and the like, the avenue will not work more than 30 thousand people at a particular point in time, and most likely this figure at the peak is about 20-25 thousand”.

Another beautiful way of counting was proposed by RIA Novosti in its infographics . With a maximum density of a crowd of 35 people per 10 square meters. m on Sakharov Avenue, 96 thousand people fit, with an average density - 36 thousand.