Fraternal life

In December, it will be a year, as the court sentenced Oleg Navalny to 3.5 years in prison. For the first eight months of serving a sentence in a colony of general regime No. 5, the opposition brother received seventeen penalties and found himself in a schizo several times. The special correspondent of RBC Svetlana Reuters talked with former prisoners of the Five about local morals and customs

Victor Timokhin, worker

Victor Timokhin Photo: From Personal Archive

Now I am a worker at the factory - we produce fasteners, large bolts. And I sat for robbery and got into the zone for four years. From prison to the Five, I was transferred to me in November 2005. I had a SIM card with me: I hid it, but they found it during a search. In general, I had a bad thing. But I run ahead.

In general, as a car zone drove into the zone, so we were kicked out into the cold with batons, they put them on a “stretch” - like, twine, so they do acrobats. That is, you get into the spacer, and the employee approaches you and hits you in the back of you so that you sag lower. Then you run with things through the indoor corridor, and employees stand on both sides and they beat you. One can hit five times, the other one. Depending on how quickly you run. Further search. Cigarettes break, throw food. Such a trouble, you will not do anything. Things are taken to the warehouse, so when I was released, I received exactly half of what I passed at the exit. Where the rest of my things went, I don't even know.

When they found a “SIM card” on my search, they immediately put on the “stretch” again. They moved away with a club, shouting: “Where is the phone? Probably he’s in your ass? ” Instead of the ass, they said a completely different word, you understand. That is, now we will get your phone from your ass, such an idea. Employees come in in dirty shoes, specially get the floor, and then your nose in a bucket and a rag: "Bitch, mine!" Twisted this quote to share me to panties, twisted me, carried a walking man in the courtyard. They put it in the morning, kept it likely until the evening. Then they turn inside: “What, shook off? Did you find the phone? " - And again, they were cooled with a club.

When they realized that I had no phone, they beat again and took it into quarantine. There they ordered the floors to wash: employees come in in dirty shoes, specially getting the floor, and then your nose in a bucket and a rag: “Bitch, mine!”. You refuse - beaten. Forced to write a statement on the entry into the security section of discipline and order; I didn’t write - they are cooked with batons. They beat hard, they carry the prisoners in the toilets and beat the toilet. Or they threaten the "lowered" to bring, so that they rape.

Grevtsev beat me, Gennady Alexandrovich, he is now, like, the head of the colony. He had two favorite expressions - “fag” and “scum”. They beat me according to the standard procedure: “stretching”, facing the wall, beat from behind. If you are sharply leaning behind you, then you do not even have time to group. And Grevtsev also beat me on the head and ears, I remember that once I left his office, so my blood flowed from one ear. And a week after that, I was packed in a schizo for 15 days, because I did not fasten the upper button.

The administration has the attitude to the convicts: why do a person? It’s easier to break it morally and drive him into such a framework so that he was afraid to raise his head.

There were also “lowered”, they are “offended”. They were beaten, raped. Everyone understood that it was a cop chamber, but judge for yourself, who would put the “offended” at his table? Accordingly, they lived separately, with all the ensuing.

Human rights activists did not go to our colony. I remember, we tried to run away one reaches, so all the prisoners were taken to the street, put in construction and kept on the street for two days - neither sleep nor rest. After that, many wanted to send a complaint about the will, but as soon as the administration found out about this, the complainant in the next two hours fell into a schizo for fifteen days. And from a person who is in a schizo is not taken complaints.

They were obliged to go out for production. For six months I had an elevated temperature, 38.5. The doctor said: "You probably have this by nature, go to work."

If you are a poor fellow, no land, no flag, there’s nothing to dream about your parole. We worked for this quote for 12 hours. When an urgent order, even more. Not bombs, nothing. If anyone went to a smoke break, “stretching” for several hours.

I left the colony at the end of the deadline, I could not afford it: I wanted too much money in the administration. The fact is that if you submit it to your hands, you should translate you to lightweight conditions. If you want such conditions, then you need to help the administration - that is, the repair of buildings at your own expense to make boards to fit, paints, glasses. If you are a poor fellow, no land, no flag, you have nothing to dream of a parish. And my mother worked on the farm: what, to repel milk? No one needs it. Parents hardly collected a smoking for gearboards.

Here's what I remembered: I came to the colony in November, and they gave me a date with my parents only in three months, in February. This is all because I was quite blue for a long time-all in bruises from batons, from head to toe. And, also the mop then beat me a lot.

Ivan Sergeev, electrician

I was serving the term of IK-5 from February to September of this year. The article is banal - 228, part 2, drug storage for the purpose of sales. He kept spies - infrequently smoked, but sometimes I wanted to. They took me on the night of the 28th to September 29 last year, right in my hometown, Orel. The employees detained, then formal examinations passed, and seized the substance. All this time I was free, only in February I got into the colony, right on Valentine's Day, February 14. Previously, newcomers were accepted right at the entrance by employees in masks with batons. You won’t step a step, - screams from all sides: “Running! Article! Terms! ”, Mat, screams, drove through the system and beat with batons. There were times when a person did not have time to jump from a car Zakak, as he was thrown into a detachment on rubber batons in a detachment. Well, they did it so that there were no thieves' traditions or something else. That is, they suppressed the people. There were also cases with a rag: upon arrival in quarantine, as you get a robe, a dirty rag lay at the entrance. Employees forced each prisoner to raise her, and those who refused, beat hard. For dissent.

Beat on the head, on the neck; If the prisoner took more bread in the dining room than it should be, then the colony employees beat him, and pulled the bread out of their hands. They also covered in a schizo and naked naked alone for several weeks. There was a case in the production: the deputy chief of the colony, Zotov, made a remark to the convict, he snapped, and Zotov doused his boiling water from the teapot, directly in the face. The prisoner received serious burns, Zotov was removed.

If the prisoner took more bread in the dining room than it should, then the colony officers beat him, and pulled out the bread from their hands Twisting this quote to each other a terrible story retold: they put one convict for several hours, and in the crotch was beaten with a club and legs. As a result, that prisoner lost the testicle, I had to do the operation in the hospital; Well, then they quickly released that convict, if only the administration had no problems - they specially agreed with him and the statement that there were no complaints, they were forced to write.

If anyone was drunk, also in a schizo, they kept naked for a day, even without panties. The guards called such a thing a “detector”. The zone is arranged in such a way that everything is under the control of the leadership: accordingly, the slightest fact of disobedience is impossible. They hit it right away.

Maxim, entrepreneur

My friend and I had a ticket business. Initially, we were engaged in the outlet of tickets, later they became official distributors for some concert organizers. At some point, our competition became too significant, and after a couple of warnings that we need to leave this sphere of activity, the following story happened: one day we received an order for a rather large amount, and payment in cash, which is very rare. I did not want to send the courier for large money, so my partner and I decided to go ourselves. The meeting was in the very center of the city, at the intersection of Tverskaya Street with Tversky Boulevard, right near Izvestia. We drove up, called the contact person, we specified the color and number of the car, and literally after half a minute all four doors of our car open, and unknown people pull us out - they hit with their hands, a pistol with a stamper shocker, and the handle. When asked where we are being taken, we once again flanching on the head. When we were brought to the Tver ATS, I was even delighted, because I decided that they were being taken to the forest to kill, and at least once to engage in tickets, if only not to dig a grave.

At first, the investigator charged us with a frantic set of articles - robbery, unlawful access to computer data, distribution of malware, forgery of documents and fraud. Later there were two articles - robbery and fraud.

While the investigation was going on, I spent a year in jail. The court awarded me 3.5 years, and I was sent to IK-5 in Orel.

Only we drove into the gate of IK-5 on a car carrier, the action began: screams, screams, you run through a series of people with clubs Twisting this quote while I was on the shipment, we were insanely adequately and polite with us, up to the point that the employees brought us the boiler. Honestly, I even stolen, well, I think, if so, then everything will be fine in the colony. But no. As soon as we drove into the IK-5 gate on the car carrier, the action immediately began: screams, screams, you run through a series of people in masks with batons, it flies to you from all sides, you barely have time to bend your head. On each stage they put in a “stretch” - frost, fingers to the wall are froze. In the detachment, the following procedure: everyone is forced to wipe the floor with a mop under the “shkka”. For those who belong to the criminal subculture, this action is unacceptable, and they are hard to hit the genitals with a baton or fill the toilet with water, wave their heads. Sucking - they jump over again.

The blow of the baton between the legs makes us radically rethink all my life, honestly I will tell you; No more sophisticated torture is needed, and after this many guys remained disabled-someone has a kidneys, someone has a liver.

I am 99% sure that the colony officers hit people from a sense of their own impunity. Of course, they have other arguments, such as suppressing criminal sentiments in the bud, but, I think, they themselves cannot explain the reason-this is something at the level of animal instincts.

The head of the colony at that time was Yuri Afanasyev, but formally his duties were performed by Gennady Grevtsev. I was identified in the accounting department: for the most part, I sat at the computer and made accounting reports, it turned out well for me. Six months later, I was called by the deputy chief of the colony for the educational department, Igor Borisovich Novikov, and offered to go to work for him, to do document management. He promised me: "You will live like Christ for the bosom, you will leave for parole for the first time." And for what reason, I ask, such tempting conditions? He answers me: “You see, the colonies need help - building materials, for example, office equipment. Once a month, buy paints in a colony, boards, computer. " In general, we agreed with him. And indeed, while Borisych was in power, everything was fine with me. Then I suspected one simple thing: money for office equipment that I bought at my own expense, the colony allocated for public procurement. That is, roughly speaking, with a colony there was some kind of shop, the conditional LLC "Chamomile"; Budget money for the purchase of office equipment was thrown to her current account. I bought computers myself, and budget money was the leadership of the colony and “sawed”. Simple scheme: the check arrives, office equipment on the spot, the money went to business.

The blow of the baton between the legs makes us radically rethink all your life I understood this quote that I could practically not be affected by the lawlessness in IK-5, being her “prisoner”, so I was quietly waiting for parole to bring this to the attention of the press. But a few weeks before my first court, on parole, Borisych quit. According to the official version, he retired, but it seems to me that he played into corruption and even sold a dating for money.

Technique and furniture purchased by Maxim for the office in the educational department. This premises were also repaired at its expense. Photo: From your personal archive, read also On August 21, conditional justice will consider the petition of Evgenia Vasilyeva on parole. Olga Romanova remembered how things are with the petitions of UDO among other Russian convicts

After his departure witho, I flew, despite the fact that I had three encourages and no complaints. There was one penalty - because he went to bed later for seven minutes. However, this penalty was extinguished.

For two months I trampled on the germs in the pigsty and in the dining room; Two months later, he went to the deputy chief of the colony and say: “Do you know how much was bought here for my money? Do you know that all this is illegal? " He kicked me out with obscenities and threats of violence. Later, my lawyer called directly to the FSIN Office in the Oryol region, on the same day the Grevtsev called me and said that I can "go to the club, do what I want, at least read books there, at least play chess, at least just to sleep in the hut, if I did not raise this topic."

The names of some heroes are changed at their request.