Pugachev: "After the murder and buchi it got better"

About who is blamed and what has changed in the town, which was almost a week in July 2013 in all news reports

The paratrooper with a portrait of the murdered marzhanov during the "people's gathering" in Pugachev. July 9, 2013

Pugachev -an administrative center of 1070 km southeast of Moscow and 246 km from Saratov. Message with the regional center: Flight buses, travel time 6-7 hours.
The population: 41.4 thousand (in total in the Pugachevsky district - 60.3 thousand).
Average salaries: 15 thousand rubles. According to the Saratovstat, the average monthly wage in the Saratov region in May 2013 amounted to 20,493 rubles.
Unemployment: 1%, or 351 people.
National composition: Russians - 86% of the Tatars - 6.6% Ukrainians, Kazakhs, Armenians: 1–1.2% Gypsies - 0.68% Azerbaijanis - 0.5% Chuvash - 0.2% Chechens - 0.17%

After the angry crowd in July this year doused the head of the administration of the Pugachevsky district Stanislav Sidorov in July, the cleaning lady of his administration transferred the city to a state of emergency. She with a mop in her hands declares to the visitors: “You never know what you have planned, maybe you are a terrorist, show the documents and what you have in your bag there.” And he does not let into the building.

Sidorov himself, in the past, one of the heads of the Russian Post branch of the Saratov region, appeared in Pugachev in November 2012, 9 months before the events that attracted the attention of the whole country: the murder of a local young man with a visiting Chechen and who followed the six -day protest. Then the Pugachevites spontaneously took the administration into the ring, blocked the Volgograd - Samara highway and demanded that the Chechens “came up” with the “came up”. “Someone imposed a demand to evict Chechens. There are not enough Chechens in the city, but this is such a people ... ”says the father of the murdered, the marvelous Shamil Marzhanov-a fair-haired and bright-eyed 44-year-old man, a vegetarian who believes in numerology, and once earlier-in Islam, then in Christianity and Buddhism. He says about himself: "I am Russian." In July of this year, his son, a 20-year-old demobilized paratrooper Ruslan Marzhanov, was killed by 17-year-old Chechen Ali Nazirov, who came to Pugachev to relatives for the summer. Subsequently, the accusation of the murder of Marzhanov was also brought by the cousins ​​of Ali - Hamzatu and Hizir Nazirov, Ruslan Khaidaev. The investigation of the murder (the suspect is charged, the investigation continues) in the city is not monitored. They only remember that the Chechen killed Russian.

July 2013

“How is everyone then (July 7, when, on the day of the funeral of the murdered city, the city entered a spontaneous rally. - The New Times) did it work? The guy was buried, cars with posters "Nobody but us" appeared in the city. Flags, beeps, leaflets with calls to go out and demand. The chief of the police and I also came to the square, they were noisy. Most were intoxicated, ”recalls the head of the Sidorov district administration. According to another version, the Chechens themselves provoked the riots on the day of the funeral. “On the path of the funeral procession was a halal cafe, they arrived there in cars and are rushing,” recalls Dmitry Kuznetsov’s family, Dmitry Kuznetsov. In the crowd of protesters in the following days there were many non -named ones that they did in Pugachev, now the “organs are versed,” says Sidorov. The right from all over the country came to support the protest to the city: from the State Duma deputy from the LDPR Anton Ishchenko to the St. Petersburg nationalist Nikolai Bondarik. The main requirement: to evict Chechens. “You understand, this is impossible. They are Russian citizens, many have their own farms here, ”Sidorov laments.

The detention of the residents of Pugachev, who tried to block the Saratov -Samara highway. July 9, 2013

Pugachevsky multiculturalism

Pugachev is extremely diverse ethnically. Here, Russians and Tatars have been living nearby for several centuries (the Marzhanov family is a classic example of this centuries-old mixing), and somewhere since the mid-1980s and nearby villages, Armenians, Azerbaijani, Sezid Kurds, Chechens and Gypsies began to settle. The latter has its own area, the people call it a "frog." “The gypsies are more Chechens here, but they are their own,” says Alexander Golubev, chairman of the Pugachevsky branch of the Communist Party. “Before the murder of Marzhanov there was a case: Tatar in one of the villages scored a Russian guy to death. No one came out. Although there is just a powerful Tatar group, ”says Sidorov.

Chechentsev in the city with a 41,000 population, according to the administration, is 60 people. Most have been living in Pugachev for more than 20 years. The Nazirov family (relatives of the accused of murder) settled in the neighboring village of Rakhmanovka 22 years ago - came here on distribution after the institute and remained so. The police held a raid during protests and detained 13 people who were in the area without registration. The representative of the local Chechen diaspora, 40-year-old Andarbek Isaev himself asked to leave the Pugachevsky district of five Chechens who arrived for the summer. The 27-year-old DJ in Pugachev, Emil Grigoryan, says that in Pugachev there was a company “a man of ten Chechens, normal guys, now they are not visible, the police“ shugs ”them from all cafes.”

“They say that in the north-western area of ​​Pugachev, the seedlings of these Chechens, I held there more than a dozen meetings with residents, not a single statement that someone was oppressing someone. And there was a negative addressed to Kabakov, ”said Sidorov.

What they achieved

The city administration, in order to reassure people, closed the cafe (it worked both at night and among the locals passed like a night club), next to which Marzhanov was killed. According to Sidorov, the tenant of the cafe Denis Maletin traded vodka without a license, which was revealed - a surprise, a surprise! - Only after the murder. “Denis probably said that we closed him illegally,” says Sidorov. Miletin believes: “I have already tried to open a cafe, but the police outfit arrives and closes. The head of Sidorov invited me to open anything, but not a night club. ” The authorities also “optimized” the operation of the cafe, announces Sidorov. “Optimization” by a girl in a local cafe, sipping beer from a straw, describes this: “The police come to midnight when everyone is just gathering, closes everything. And so everywhere, so we continue on the street. ” They also plan to follow the drinking on the street. “We set the video surveillance, I can’t say where, well, where the young people are bent. In some places there are already cameras, the image from them is displayed on the police remote, ”says Sidorov. Locals are not suspected of this. Another consequence of the riots was the official registration in the Ministry of Justice of the Voluntary People's Divine. 24 volunteers are accompanied by police officers on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 20.00 to 23.00. The squad was headed by the Cossack chieftain Tenkaev, on the day of the murder of Marzhanov, he followed the order in the Golden Barrel and Pressy the Conflict, expeling the violators of calm to the street. After the murder of his son, Shamil Marzhanov, and several more people left the Cossacks and tried to create their own volunteer squad. It did not work out. Tenkaev issued documents in time, explains Yuri Kulikov, head of the emergency department of the Pugachevsky district. According to him, the registration of the squad was imposed on top: "We were recommended to register the squad from the region."

The collection of signatures for the eviction from Pugachev of people of Chechen nationality. July 9, 2013

And what will happen

Xenophobic sentiments subsided by September. At a meeting of residents with the President’s envoy in the Volga Federal District, Mikhail Babich, the requirements were already announced as follows: to dismiss the head of the district administration of Sidorov, to build factories, providing the population with jobs, and light the streets at night. Babich listened and left, and his press service announced the same day about the dismissal of the head of the Pugachevsky Ministry of Internal Affairs Igor Lopatkin and his deputies. Babich no longer came to Pugachev.

“Of course, it all happened due to socio-economic troubles. We, according to the election commission, over the past few years for 17 thousand, have become fewer voters. Where did they all go? We left, ”says Vladimir Turabov, deputy of the city assembly Pugacheva. Indeed, many in Pugachev, especially young people, think where to get out of here. For example, Barten Victor Shchebetov, 21 years old, dreams of going to Saratov and entering the theater school. “In Pugachev, people work either by sellers, or in the zones (next to the city are two ik. - The New Times), or in the police,” says Shchebettov. 21-year-old Marina Sukhacheva plans to leave for Moscow and study for a cook, in Pugacheva, according to her, she can count at best for a salary of 5-7 thousand rubles.

There are five large factories built during the time of developed socialism, but now closed. Until 2010, the flour-forming factory was the city-forming factory, now a brick block with faded signs is guarded by a half-dripping grandfather Matvey. Locals say that the factory was brought to bankruptcy by his former head Vladimir Kapkaev. Kapkaev himself moved to Saratov, presides in the regional Duma. The head of the district administration Sidorov says that in the new economic conditions it is impractical to restore such a large enterprise as the flour -soil plant. And the local complaints about the absence of work are responsible: “We have 607 vacancies at the labor exchange. Here Pal Sanych Artemov, the Rubezh agricultural company, for four months is looking for a Gazelle driver for a salary of 30 thousand rubles. We do not have enough therapists, teachers for a salary of 18 thousand. Ask about this for the population that cannot find a job, ”Sidorov is indignant.

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“Someone imposed a demand to evict Chechens. There are generally few Chechens in the city, but this is such a people ... "

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According to official statistics, the city of Pugachev is no worse than the neighboring ones. The city has 25 thousand working -age population 60%), average earnings - 15 thousand rubles. The level of unemployment in 2013 was 1%, 351 people, last year there were 630. “So, after all, Magnit and the Magic base were discovered,” Olga Mikhailovna Putin from the economic department of the city administration told The New Times. Sidorov agrees that 351 people are only those who got to the labor exchange, the majority does not do this. So there is no real idea of ​​the level of unemployment. According to the 2010 census, 15% of the Pugachevites have higher education. The cost of one square meter of housing in Pugachev is from 18.75 to 25 thousand rubles, about the same in the neighboring cities of Marx and Engels. Such a price order implies that by selling housing in Pugachev, you can move to the outskirts of Saratov, where the average price is 24.7 thousand.

Shamil Marzhanov is not going to leave: “It sounds terribly, but people say that after the murder of your son and Buchi, raised by the people, it became better in the city. In some places, roads are being repaired, light appeared on the streets, ”he says. The lamps in the lanter were screwed up so far only on a few central streets. But on the public procurement website, the district administration recently posted the largest application for more than 2 million rubles over the past few years: for the performance of street lighting reconstruction. But the head of the administration Sidorov says that he thought about light bulbs, and not because there was some kind of protest: “And what should change after the protest, I can’t understand? This is an non -constructive approach, we act according to opportunities. ”

Photos: Roman Pyatakov/RIA Novosti, Dmitry Vinogradov/RIA Novosti, RIA Novosti