His death is probably on Lake Teles

The era of change gave birth to passionaries, which you rarely meet today. Bathwallowed a provincial swamp, playfully enjoyed transactions for hundreds of millions of rubles. He was flesh from the flesh of the 90s and continued to live, as if remaining in that time and loading from the released energy of the "largest geopolitical disaster of the 20th century." Mikhail Bednarzhevsky about the fate of Anatoly Banny.

“For the first time I forgive you. And for the second forgive. But for the third time, do not wait for mercy - I’ll cut off for pieces, I will put it in powder! ” - So said to Kashchei the immortal to the positive hero of the Russian fairy tale. This phrase is said as if about Anatoly of the bath, a major businessman, a former deputy prime minister of the Altai Republic, an ex-deputy of the Altai Regional Legislative Assembly, a person who was called the "Gray Cardinal" of two regions at once.

"Really again?" And “at first I thought that this was some kind of old news”-these are the two most common comments under the first messages that the Tolban, as he was often called, crashed by a Robinson-66 helicopter near Lake Taurus.

“Forgave” the bathhouse at least three times - even more than in a fairy tale. They wrote that in the middle of the zero, he showed mountain landscapes to TV presenter Dmitry Dibrov from the helicopter cab. The engine refused, I had to make an emergency landing and get out for civilization for several days. However, Dibrov himself claims that "he does not know any Anatoly of baths." Another time, the then mayor of Barnaul Vladimir Kolganov flew along with the entrepreneur. And again - an accident. And again everyone survived.

The third case - “Altaigate” - became the most resonant. In January 2009, a Mi-171 helicopter crashed near the Altai Mount Black. There were eleven people aboard, seven were killed, including the president’s envoy in the State Duma, Alexander Koskopkin. Bath survived. In the published photographs near the wreckage of the helicopter, carcasses of archars killed from the firearms - Red Book Altai Baranes were visible. The security forces opened a criminal case on the fact of illegal hunting. In December 2011, the court in Mountain Altai closed the case due to the expiration of the statute of limitations.

The latest story got to the feeds of the news agency on Sunday evening, February 12, 2017. The federal media preferred headlines without names - “A helicopter with five people on board disappeared over a mountain lake”, the editions of two altaevs entered the Toliban into verbal structures like “Above the Taurus lake, a helicopter with anatoly on board on board” crashed and “Why did Anatoly of Bannia fly to the cordon Koksha?”

Banny loved to fly. He said that a helicopter flight is incomparable with what people got used to, sitting on the plane, this is "a complete feeling of free flight on a stool."

“Helicopters are maneuverable, which allows you to fly in very extreme places and see nature in its original form. Some landscapes can not be called fabulous. The strongest impression was made by me from a bird’s height of two hundred Capricorn, who simultaneously wandered around the mountains, ”the entrepreneur said more than three years before Altaygate.

Anatoly Bath was more for Altai than just a “famous businessman”. Born two weeks after the death of the first cosmonaut Gagarin, he belonged to a generation that entered adulthood on the wreckage of the Soviet empire. Banny founded his company Sibma in 1991. The name was deciphered as "Siberian masters." According to legend, which Banny himself told the press, they and friends bought samovars, painted them and sold them. The story is quite in the spirit of the 90s, especially if you take into account two things. The first - the businessman was patronized by the mayor of Barnaul Vladimir Bavarin. The second - the word "master" in thieves' jargon means "qualified criminal" or "a person who knows how to fake handwriting."

The sample business flourished, and a few years later the “Siberian masters” bought the Barnaultransmash plant, at which in the 80s the Soviet guy Tolya Banny began his labor career in the foundry workshop. Sibma quickly turned into a financial and industrial group that has assets also in telecommunications, advertising, press, radio, television.

There were so many rumors around him that it would be enough for several bright biographies. They say that once, in the first half of the 90s, he went to America and saw there automatic garage gates that no one in Barnaul had. I bought them and put a pile of metal across all the boundaries.

It is believed that it was thanks to Anatoly Nikolaevich that the temple of John the Baptist appeared in the Nagorno Park, consecrated in January 2017. An indirect confirmation of this version is the following fact: Patriarch Kirill awarded the businessman the Order of Daniil of Moscow. However, publicly baths never gave comments on this matter.

Orthodoxy in Toliban got along with Buddhism. The businessman visited Tibet and talked with the monks. He said that the temples of the East are pacifying and soothing it. The former editor-in-chief of one of the media, controlled by bath, says that one enlightened once said: "Leave-Altai will destroy you." He did not heed - he stayed. And he continued to fly.

The era of change gave birth to passionaries, which you rarely meet today. Bathwood excited the provincial swamp, he played the transactions for hundreds of millions of rubles, he was flesh from the flesh of the 90s and continued to live, as if remaining in that time and charging from the released energy of the "largest geopolitical disaster of the 20th century." Today we can assess the scale of the personality of Anatoly Bannia: too small for Russia and at the same time too large for Altai. You can make a feature film about his fate, but who will become a sponsor of such a film? And who will play the main role?

The scenery of the final scene: the ancient Altai mountains surround the great Lake Altyn-Köl, freezing every three years. A strong wind blows. A small helicopter sticks into the water surface. The on -board lights go out. Black wave hides metal. Below - three hundred meters of silence.

60 years ago, the poet Nikolai Rubtsov composed an impromptu as if for this case:

“Our business is true
Our cards are trump cards
Our death is probably
On Lake Taurus. "

Anatoly Banny survived the 90s, several plane crashes and stood on his feet after losing its former political influence. They say about these: "Born in a shirt." And if you consider Rounds Rubtsov by an unanimous prophecy, then the main word in the quatrains is not a confident and so suitable businessman “business”, not a firm and decisive “death”, but an inconspicuous dialect of “probably”.

Mikhail Bednarzhevsky, especially for Taiga.info