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And Karelia will dream for a long time
Report from the colony where Mikhail Khodorkovsky was sitting
The city of Segezha (stress on the second syllable) risks becoming as famous as Krasnokamensk, where the most famous political station of the country was serving its first term. And just as before in Krasnokamensk, Segezh residents - taxi drivers, hotel owners, food sellers - today live in anticipation of imminent incomes: from June 16, in the city only talks that the MBH was transferred from Vologda to their correctional colony (IR) No. 7. The city and the colony, which is now associated with the name of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, studied the new new new new Times
You can get to Segezhi by train from Moscow (20 hours) or St. Petersburg (13 hours). Faster - by plane to Petrozavodsk, the capital of Karelia, then 272 km by car: on a foreign car - 4 hours, for the products of the Russian automobile industry you can get stuck for five hours. The same is if you get by bus. The road is bad, narrow, it has been repaired and expanded for several years. The picture from the car window does not indulge in variety. On both sides of the road - forests: pine, birch, thick and not very.
Zone
IK-7 and SIZO-2 are four kilometers from Segezhi. The colony was built back in 1968. A metal fence, barbed wire, a three-meter brick black-gray fence, again barbed wire, green wooden towers, gray barracks-the territory amazes the imagination. It contains 1300 people, including about 300 convicts for strict regime. In addition to the residential area, there is a large industrial zone here: sewing production, workshops for working with wood, an auxiliary livestock farm - there were also goats before, now only pigs remain. “There are 270 pigs. The prisoners take care of them, then they themselves eat pork. It seems that they did not specifically repair Khodorkovsky by the arrival of Khodorkovsky. There, and so, the prisoners lick everything, cleanliness - the red zone, exemplary, ”the prosecutor from environmental supervision, who came to the city and its surroundings with a check, told The New Times.
What else? Wooden towers with spins, dog booths, huge Caucasian shepherds - all, as in other colonies of the Fatherland, in which the correspondent of The New Times had to be. The only difference is that the white seagulls came from. They circle over the colony, sit on a barbed wire, fly into the territory. The path along the prison fence is something like a local promenade. Along it, as if nothing had happened, two young women with eight -month -old babies walk. Probably live in the village next to the colony, where in the 1970-1989s of the Gulag century, the prisoners built housing for employees. “In Soviet times, IK-7 was an enhanced regime. Convicts from Moscow were brought here with serious terms - 15–20 years each, ”Galina Petrovna says The New Times. She used to work in the zone, but now retired. Recently I bought myself a small jigsaw right next to the pre-trial detention center-2. As soon as it became warm, I came to clean the garden from weeds. The close neighborhood with the convicts does not scare her: “Shoots are rarely, in 15 years, maybe two or three people fled. They guard them well. ” 
Order
A lawyer from Petrozavodsk, whose clients are the same as Khodorkovsky, were transferred from sailor silence, comes to IK-7 every ten days. His clients are serious guys: either “thieves in the law”, or those who are not in the zone for the first time. They are sitting in a sectional regime. “The convicts have no mobile connection here. Very tough pressure, says lawyer Alexei. -If you want to free yourself conditionally, you need to look at the administration in your mouth. An independent person with a sense of self -esteem with such a pressure is difficult to cope. The penalty can be obtained for any minor violation: dressed not in form, I looked at the employee inaccurately. For this they can be sent to a schizo (penalty area) or to PCT (chamber type premises).
Mikhail Khodorkovsky will sit on another site - he has a general regime: the rules of the “Red Zone” were adopted here, in fact, the same were in the Krasnokamenskaya colony * * “Red Zone” - a zone in which power belongs to the administration, and not thieves ..
“The colony is divided into local sites - detachments,” says former prisoner Oleg. - Life here is not sugar, not a sanatorium. People mostly sit for theft, for robbery. Both local from Karelia and from Moscow and St. Petersburg are taken here. If you do not obey the general charter, they quickly put in place. If you cooperate with the administration, then you can receive parole in court. Especially if you hire a lawyer. They are released, as a rule, if it remains to sit for no more than two years. ”
“Here the contingent is different, there are many young people who have come in stupidity,” said the 35-year-old father Sergius, who, together with his father Vladimir, visits parishioners in prison robes-convicted from IK-7. Here in 2008 a temple was built, whose dome is clearly visible over barbed wire. - There is a school, vocational school. Inside the colony is not as gloomy as it seems outside: prisoners paint the huts with bright colors. They are engaged in creativity. I have to baptize and profess. Every morning and evening, the elder of the church collects them for prayer. People in the church thaw. In the colony - order, discipline. Therefore, they are in tension all the time. And in the church people are a little thawed. ” "
Previously, here it was possible to boast of a fellow countryman - writer Mikhail Prishvin and Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Rashid Nurgaliev (SIC!), Who worked as a physics teacher in his youth in the Nadvoitsa neighboring city. Now another celebrity has appeared - Khodorkovsky
“Father Sergius has been serving for eight years in the neighboring village of Nadvoitsa, he has five children, which is rare for Segezhi. He worked for several years in the police, then in the colony by the educator. For regions rich in zones, such careers are also not uncommon. That Mikhail Khodorkovsky could soon appear among his spiritual children. Khodorkovsky was baptized already, already in conclusion, being in conclusion, being in conclusion. His confessor in the Krasnokamenskaya colony was also Father Sergius, in the world Sergey Taratukhin, who in March 2006 was taken out of the state for publicly called Khodorkovsky by the political prisoners. The village, so it is not possible to visit the colony more than twice a month.
MBH under the heading
The New Times correspondent was in Segezh a day earlier than Khodorkovsky. It turned out here that the stage of a high -ranking Russian prisoner, as local residents called him in a conversation with The New Times, is equated with state secrets. All employees of the Segezhi pre-trial detention center and the IK-7 colony are strictly forbidden to give any information. According to rumors, the head of the special department of the pre -trial detention center in information about the hour of X - when Khodorkovsky was taken to Segezu - she refused even her husband. They say that the prison chiefs were called to the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Federal Penitentiary Service in Petrozavodsk and almost a subscription of non -disclosure from them was taken. Prosecutors are unhappy: they lived well, calmly, and now they are tortured by checks. Lawyers call, journalists, ask questions. “Think, Khodorkovsky! After all, Putin said: “Who is Khodorkovsky? An ordinary prisoner, why is such a stir around him? " - The employee of the Karelian prosecutor’s office shared with The New Times.
As Khodorkovsky was delivered to Segezu is also a secret. Some say, he came with a special store at night from Thursday to Friday June 17, accompanied by General FSIN of Russia. They immediately placed in a pre -trial detention center, which the wall against the wall with the colony, on the “quarantine” * * convicts arriving at the place of serving the sentence, are contained in the so -called quarantine for several days, where they take various tests, talk with newly arrived, study personal affairs, determine in which squad to send the convicted person .. according to other information, the head of the colony Igor Mikhalchenko went on Khodorkovsky for sending to Vologda: he was driving with him in a long white autzak - in such a former head of the Yukos they carried to the Khamovniki court.
They also say that a single camera with a shower and a TV has already been repaired for him in a pre -trial detention center. True, in the photographs that are posted in the room where the gears are accepted in the pre -trial detention center, the usual mocking with a blue oil paint with two bunk beds painted with a blue oil.
In the morning of June 17, a movement began near the colony: the Hozo -Service, that is, the convicts who are allowed to go beyond the zone were covered with sand and gravel of the pit in the asphalt on the road, which leads to a pre -trial detention center.
At the IK-7 Bureau, the full blonde in a spotted blue-gray form to the question of the correspondent of The New Times, whether it is possible to transfer the package to Mikhail Khodorkovsky, with a calm look, she said: “We don’t have this.” I didn't know? Or kept GOSTIN?
The correspondent of The New Times, meanwhile, has the opportunity to study documents, abundantly presented for relatives of convicts. One is the daily routine of convicts. It is the following: life in the colony is divided into three shifts. Raise at 6 am, at 9.00 and 16.00 - for those who work on a night shift. Working day - 7 hours, sleep - 8 hours. There is only one day off - Sunday. Personal time for the convict - from 19.00 to 20.00. There is another hour to view television programs, videos, conversations and lectures. The rest of the time, the convict is constantly busy: either work, then cleaning the premises of the detachment, nightstands, fixed territories, then check, then physical exercise, then refueling of beds. Mikhail Khodorkovsky, as reported by The New Times, has so far been determined to work "on the life support of the colony." But, in principle, they can take something else.
According to the other departmental document, two years of underwear, two pairs of panties, T -shirts are issued for two years, for a year - two pairs of footcloths. For a year you can also get one pair of boots or leather boots. The bike blanket is issued for a period of three years, and the mattress of the cotton - for four years.
Photos from the colony are also posted on the stand. If you believe them, then in the IK-7 there is a computer class-on the wall a portrait of Vladimir Putin. They held a chess tournament, competed in KVN. Another photo is a sewing workshop, still a dining room. And the inscription "Lunch in the institution is always on the schedule." 
In the pre -trial detention center, the New Times correspondent for Khodorkovsky was also not accepted. By law, any citizen has the right to transfer to the convicted person to a general regime transfer from incontinienced products. However, knowledgeable people later explained: the jailers have a list of names, from whom the program can be taken, from all the others it is impossible.
The deputy chief of the pre -trial detention center for the name of Solovya could not explain the unprecedented secrecy, the surrounding visit to the Zek Khodorkovsky zone. He only carefully rewrote the data of the questioner in order to report upstairs to the authorities who is interested in Khodorkovsky. According to the source of The New Times in Moscow, the territorial bodies of the FSB and the police received an indication of monitoring the reaction to the emergence of Khodorkovsky in the local population and the media.
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The ways of the Lord ...
However, the jailers can be understood: few people want to be left without work in Segezh. There is unemployment here, and work in the colony is valued high. After the army, local guys are hunting for the zone. The well -being of employees can indirectly judge by those cars that are parked in the parking lot near the zone: the majority are foreign cars. There is one Mercedes among them.
Segezha is one of the 335 Russian single -industry towns, to which the state promised its support. But helping the city is in no hurry. Meanwhile, the Segezh paper-cellulose plant is close to bankruptcy. His pipes are now smoking not as much as a few years ago: only one “machine” is working in the processing of wood, but it is worth it to blow to the wind, as the city envelops the unpleasant smell of a crack (solution of wood ash). The plant is located on the banks of the Laiko-Ruchi River: it rises above the city, and its steaming pipes is the main and, frankly, not the most attractive part of the city landscape.
For many years, the cellulose plant was a city -forming enterprise. In the best times, 9.5 thousand people worked on it, now - from the force of 200-400.
“Segezha is an ordinary provincial city with typical problems,” Viktor Mudel, head of the administration of the Segezh municipal district, assured the New Times. - The program of restructuring the plant was approved at the republican level, all the necessary documents were considered in Moscow. We have a project involving the demolition of an old enterprise and the construction of a new one. The plant produces paper bags for cement. The project passed all the necessary examinations, it is clear what to produce, where to take it. The trouble is only in one thing - there is no money. ” A few years ago, the plant was bought by Elena Baturina, but after the resignation of the mayor of Moscow, the paper-cellulose plant changed the owner. That's really the paths of the Lord are notons, and human fate, he interprets like no novelist will be able to.
Boar for MBH
Three-story wooden houses, built in the 30s with prisoners, are now sheathed with siding. They are coexisting with shaved four -story "Khrushchevs". Construction in the city has not been conducted since the 1990s. There is no cultural entertainment, except for cinema. Even to the pool to local residents, it is expensive to go: a thousand rubles a month with an average salary of 15 thousand.
“The youth runs out of here, who is leaving to study in St. Petersburg, some in Moscow,” says Andrey Markov, general director of the Topaz trading company. Markov has several grocery stores, a cafe, a hotel, a recreation center near Segezhi. He complains that recently it has become difficult to do business in the region. And the point is not only that Karelia has very expensive electricity, but also because it is difficult to find normal workers in Segezh. Markov said that he regularly sends his employees to be treated from alcoholism to St. Petersburg. “I have a familiar doctor there, and I recently sent three women there. The doctor called me and said: "Of the three, only one can be cured." What to be surprised, a hydrolysis plant worked on the territory of the cellulose plant for many years: industrial alcohol was made from sawdust. The plant closed in the early 2000s. But, as the locals say, bottles with alcohol are still stored in garages.
Andrei Markov treats Khodorkovsky with great respect. He says that one of his friends-businessmen, having heard that the disgraced oligarch was being sent to Segezha, promised to score a boar and send Khodorkovsky to the colony.
“They respect him,” says Markov. - They understand that politics is involved here. We had such Vladimir Egorov in the late 90s. He was engaged in forest, paper, and then he decided to run for the mayor’s post, and he was imprisoned. ” Preparing a new advertising booklet about the charms of recreation in the forest, Markov is going to mention Khodorkovsky among local celebrities. Previously, it was possible to boast of a fellow countryman - writer Mikhail Prishvin and Minister of Internal Affairs Rashid Nurgaliev (SIC!), Who in his youth worked as a teacher of physics in the city neighboring the city of Nadvoitsa. Now another celebrity has appeared - Khodorkovsky.
Those who decided to direct it to this colony and what such a choice is connected with - you can only guess. Local residents said that a couple of months ago the boss changed in the colony: instead of the elderly, they appointed a young and energetic major of the internal service Igor Mikhalchenko. He used to work in a maximum security colony in the neighborhood.
“The city is dead,” the locals say, but now, according to them, they have some kind of hope: “Maybe they will fix the road to the colony because of the Khodorkovsky? Maybe they will spend water, otherwise the water does not reach the fourth floor in which employees of the colony. ” Khodorkovsky, about whom many of the locals know little, only heard and saw on TV, it seems to them influential enough to solve their problems that are not solved for years ... When this number The New Times will enter the kiosks, Mikhail Khodorkovsky will most likely be transferred from a pre -trial detention center to the colony and begin to equip it in a new place. By law, he can file for parole in the court of Segezha at least the next day. But the administration of the colony should be sent to the court. Now she has to decide how dangerous Khodorkovsky is. President Medvedev believes, so said at a press conference in May: no, "is not dangerous." But is he a decree to the Vertukhayam?
PS . At the time of signing the number to the end, it remained unclear where Plato Lebedev would serve his term. According to some sources, he was transferred to IR No. 14 of the city of Velsk in the south of the Arkhangelsk region. The press service of the regional Federal Penitentiary Service, however, The New Times said: “The press service does not provide information about the location of convicts to third parties. The location of the prisoner is reported to relatives within 10 days from the date of arrival at the place of imprisonment. If the prisoner wishes, then relatives can voice this information for the press. ” - “And relatives have already reported the whereabouts of Lebedev? - "If he arrived at the place of serving the deadline, he was probably already informed relatives." *At the same time, there was information that Lebedev was transferred to one of the colonies of the Murmansk region. The press service of the Murmansk UFSIN The New Times reported: “The press service of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Murmansk Region does not have information about the transfer of convicted Plato Lebedev. As soon as it becomes known that the convict was sent to the correctional institutions of the region, we will be ready to inform the press. There is no secret in this. ”
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