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Employees of the Moscow metro: management hides information about accidents. Two years ago, during the crash of the train, 24 people were killed

Exactly two years ago, an accident occurred in the Moscow metro, which was later called the largest technogenic disaster in the history of the metro. As a result of the collapse of the train that had come off the rails on the stage between the Park Victory and Slavic Boulevard stations, 24 people were killed, 150 were hospitalized. Two years after the accident, the metro employees argue that information about most incidents in the metro are hidden by the leadership. And the reduction of employees, the developed equipment resource and the lack of spare parts can lead to new serious accidents and human victims.

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The official reason for the accident, which happened two years ago, was called the "incorrectly recorded arrow mechanism", three metro officers - Vasily Bashkatov, Yuri Gordov and Alexei Trofimov - were found guilty and received lines from five and a half to six years of colony. The director of the production of Special Technicomstroy LLC Ivan Kruglov was also convicted.

An accident in the Moscow metro

The head of the subway Ivan Besedin escaped with dismissal. The accident on July 15, 2014 occurred at 8.39 in the morning. After the train crash, the site from Victory Park to Kuntsevskaya was numb and closed for movement until the consequences of the disaster, passengers began to evacuate from these stations. For the transportation of passengers on the Kyiv - "Youth" section, the authorities launched additional buses. The damage from the crash amounted to 331 million 740 thousand rubles.

According to the investigation, the accident occurred due to the fact that when inserting the arrow transfer on the current line of the Moscow metro, the accused neglected the safety requirements, and the arrow mechanism was recorded by the usual 3-mm wire that broke. As a result, the train got off the rails.

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case on the fact of an accident under Article 263.1 of clause 3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Failure to fulfill the requirements for ensuring transport security at transport infrastructure and vehicles that entailed the death of two or more persons,"). On July 16, two suspects were detained - the senior road master of the Way Service Valery Bashkatov and his assistant Yuri Gordov, who were related to the work on laying the turnout. Later, the charge under the same article was brought by the director for the production of Special Technication LLC Anatoly Kruglov and the deputy head of the major repairs of the Moscow Metro Path Service to Alexei Trofimov.

On November 8, 2015, the court sentenced everyone to be guilty and imposed a sentence of Gordov in the form of 6 years in a colony, Bashkatov, Trofimov and Kruglov - 5.5 years and having collected 15 million rubles from the accused in favor of the victims.

On July 22, the head of the subway Ivan Besedin was dismissed from his position, Dmitry Pegov was appointed to this position, who, since February 2010, held the post of general director of the directorate of high -speed communication - a branch of Russian Railways.

Immediately after the accident, ordinary subway employees began to talk about the real state of affairs in the metro: according to the representative of the trade union, the Warsaw Electrodopo driver Vasily Shelyakov , the cause of the accident could be the economy: the number of metro employees is constantly reduced, there are not enough spare parts, and the repair of the compositions is carried out non -quality. Immediately after communicating with the press, the authorities began to threaten Shelyakov, and on June 27 this year he was still dismissed. On the circumstances of the dismissal and what is happening in the Moscow metro, Vasily Shelyakov told Radio Liberty:

- Your colleagues have recently stated that most accidents in the subway are hushed up by management. Do you agree with this?

Vasily Shelyakov

- At first I was brought to disciplinary sanctions: three reprimands were announced. People who are not in the trade union, for such misconduct, are usually finished by deprivation of a bonus from 2 to 5 percent. I was immediately reprimanded. They stopped doing training sessions with me, they did not at all. They just abandoned, and if anything happens, it will not work - it means that we will catch it for it. And as if they began to simply involve the disciplinns. I associate my dismissal with the fact that I very often allowed myself to say in the media, on the radio, on television about the problems of the subway. I was fired on June 27, almost a month ago. Now I sued the restoration. I consider the dismissal illegal, since the employer was notified of all my movements - I needed to collect extracts, I was in medical institutions, and the employer did not even request explanatory from me where I was and why I did not go to work. They simply terminated the contract with me and sent a notification.

- Yes, I agree that most cases are silent in the subway, is simply hidden and not advertised.

- And what are these accidents, what is their scale? And why are they taking place?

The materials are aging, and this leads to breaks and short circuits.

- In May, we had a fire to the Electrode of Vladykino, about this the leadership of the subway simply said nothing. In the subway now there are very big problems with spare parts for rolling stock, employees are not provided with spare parts. But the metro is an object of increased danger, there is a large passenger flow, and you understand what this can lead to if it is when working on the line, at the rush hour.

- Not so long ago there were two accidents in a row on one day on the purple branch of the metro, and also no one really understood what happened. Do you have any information?

- There was a short circuit and a fire of cables. This, most likely, is just negligence, overshadowed. I have repeatedly stated that it is necessary to monitor the situation constantly! Materials are aging, and this leads to breaks and short circuits.

- Two years ago, a major accident occurred in the Moscow metro, in which many people died. Has the metro management of the subway did not draw any conclusions after this accident?

They want to save on everything. People are forced to buy tools for their money

- As for that accident, maybe the leadership of some conclusions made-the arrows have to install the arrows ahead of time. But according to the fires that we started with the "new bird cherry", then continued at the Cherkizovskaya station, then Krasnogvardeiskaya, now Vykhino, - - Well, the metro leadership made no conclusions.

- Why do not have enough materials? Less money began to be allocated for this?

They think that the metro and Russian Railways are the same structures

- They just want to save on everything. And people are even forced to buy tools for their money. In our subway, reorganization began, a directorate appeared, which combined all services in itself. And there were very large abbreviations, and they began on a scale of April 1. They reduce specialists who have worked for a long time. I have no exact numbers of the dismissed, but you communicate with people from the escalator service, the paths and you understand that the personnel are very missing. The load on a person lies very serious, a person gets tired, and each employee is responsible for the life of passengers and for the safety of movement.

- What exactly do you associate such a deterioration in the metro situation in the past few years?

- The current leadership of the subway - These are people from Russian Railways, and they think that the metro and Russian Railways - These are the same structures. No, Russian Railways is completely different. The metro is a specific object, there are very small intervals, a closed space and a large passenger flow. Apparently, the leadership does not understand the essence of the work of the subway. And when the trade union writes to them, they answer: and everything is fine with us, everything is done, you just write nonsense.

-Are you ready for some active actions, for strikes, for rallies?

- We are currently going on promotions, we started them after the incident in the new bird cherry. On April 2, we had a rally, then we wrote to the management of the appeal, empty unsubscribes were received on our appeals. At this stage, we have single pickets. On July 4, we were at a meeting with the deputy at the Moscow Metro Office, at 37 Gilyarovsky. But there was nothing to take action, and you see what is happening ... The leadership is not doing what is needed now. All activists who are in our trade union are brought under disciplinary sanctions, they are threatened by dismissal. We are directly declared this leadership, and in the depot, and in all services.

The fact that the leadership of the Moscow metro hides information about the majority of accidents taking place in the subway, for the first time before the anniversary of the disaster in the Moscow metro, said the chairman of the independent trade union of metro workers Nikolai GOSTEV .

In a commentary for Radio, Freedom of Gostev said that to conceal information about breakdowns, the head of the subway Dmitry Pegov forbade his subordinates to communicate with the press. The leader of the trade union noted that "the analysis of the work of the subway has ceased to be brought even to its employees."

According to him, the metro workers have already addressed the deputies of the State Duma, as well as to the Moscow City Hall, the Prosecutor General and the Ministry of Transport. However, in response, according to GOSTEV, parties and departments are sent to employees of the subway only “unsubscribing”.

- Most of the breakdowns and accidents in the subway, in your opinion, are hidden from the townspeople. Who is responsible for this concealment?

We have a total lack of spare parts and tools in all units

- The leadership of the Moscow metro. We have made changes to the internal labor regulations in all structural units - on the ban on contacts with the media. This was done by the head of the Moscow Metro Dmitry Pegov. This is the chief auditor of the Kozlov Metro, which the analysis of the work of the Moscow metro has ceased to be brought even to workers.

-Why do accidents occur and how dangerous are they?

Instead of 12 km of rails, two were replaced

- The equipment resource has been developed. There are no timely supply of spare parts, replacement of materials. In addition to personnel hunger, we have a total shortage of spare parts and tools in all units. And all this is done for the sake of the task to reduce operating expenses by 30 percent. This will kill the Moscow metro, we will not only burn, we will begin to crash again, and our escalators will begin to fall or spin with people - there will be new victims.

- How outdoor equipment is in the subway?

Hunting is unleashed for me and other members of the trade union, they are trying to fire us

-According to the lines of the first stage, this is about 70 percent, along the second stage-this is the 60s of commissioning-about 50 percent. Along the third stage, the 80s, about 40 percent. And so on. Services are very different numbers. Say, in the communication service is even more or less, there is a wear of 10-15 percent. And in the service of the path reaches 80 percent. We have a lag behind the replacement of the rails, instead of 12 kilometers, two were replaced. According to replacement of the sleepers: the need is 6000, 800 were replaced. A terrifying situation.

- It turns out that the conclusions from the latest accidents are not made?

- Until the leaders are personal responsibility, nothing will change. After July 15, 2014, as a trade union, we could not get information and today we are sure that the metro did not pay a penny to people injured in that accident. Money was allocated from the city budget.

-This conversation threatens you with something, because you violate the ban on communication with the media?

- threatening. The hunting is unleashed on me and other members of the trade union, they are trying to dismiss us, they are trying to come up with any reason for this. But we believe that the dissemination of information about the threats of human life is the basic value, we stand on this. Since June 16, we have been going on single pickets, holding meetings with deputies, rallies. The campaign began since December 2015, when we began to try to agree with the leadership of a change in the situation, tried to get a reception from first persons. We appealed to the deputies of the Communist Party, “Fair Russia”, to the City Hall of Moscow, the Prosecutor General, and the Ministry of Transport, we apply to the Moscow Metro Prosecutor's Office every month, to the Moscow Metro Prosecutor's Office, to the State Labor Inspectorate for Moscow. They respond differently, but basically these are notes, there is no result. The situation only worsens and burns.