Voices and pigtails

On November 9, the entrance of a nine -story residential building exploded in Izhevsk. Seven people died. In the UK, it is believed that the explosion arranged a tenant because of personal hostility to the neighbors. The correspondent of "such cases" went to Izhevsk to look for the culprits, but found victims

“Mom, our house exploded, not at home,” Olga takes the phone from his ear, because the son speaks too loudly and inaudible. It seems to her this ridiculous joke, but her son would never joke like that. Then it seems to her that her son talks about his house (they live in two families in neighboring houses), but he breaks her: “No, mother, your apartment. Yours, where is dad, where is Dasha. " Olga carries the phone even further and says to herself: "House?" “There is no more at home,” comes from the speaker.

A minute of silence

On that day, Olga, as always, went to her son early in the morning to gather her granddaughter at school - Dasha’s parents go to work very early. Most of all, Olga loves to comb Dasha's long wheat hair. The girl grew them from three years old to be like the heroine of the favorite cartoon "Flying Ship". That morning, Dasha asked her to braid two ordinary pigtails instead of a dragon, who was suitable only for a kindergarten. Olga took Dasha to school and went to work. With his studies, the girl was to be taken by Olga's husband, Hera. When the son called, Hera and Dasha were already at home.

After the call, Olga tried to call a taxi, but a colleague, seeing her scared, he herself took Olga to the house. First, Olga saw a mountain of concrete fragments from the car window. The whole entrance developed like a cardboard box, in some places the wreckage of the walls hooked on the beams, the floor remained somewhere. Olga ran out of the car and looked up. From their apartment on the ninth floor there was only a wall with a shelf for shoes. There was a cloud of dust in the air, nothing was visible due to the wreckage. Passers -by filmed what was happening on the phone, people ate healer, searched for relatives. The shouted names were drained into a common noise, drowned by sirens. Olga only thought about finding Hero and Dasha.

Dasha and Olga are flying to relax in Adler Photo: From Personal Archive

There were more and more people, relatives arrived, all together tried to get through to Dasha and Hera. Dasha’s phone was inaccessible: “I just discharged,” Olga thought to herself, continuing to call Hera and listen to long beeps: “I went to the store. He does not hear. " Rescuers announced a minute of silence to hear if there are someone under the wreckage. Cars passing nearby dramatized the motors. People froze and listened. From this silence it was even more distinctly heard how the heart was pounding. Time stretched, and it seemed that it would always be so quiet now. A little later, the rescuer approached Olga - they found the body of a man for about sixty years.

The son is gone

Marina hardly waits for the end of the minute of silence. In the morning, she, like everyone else, went to work. Her son Sasha left a little earlier. They live together, and now he does not pick up the phone. Marina is scary, but she does not allow herself to think about the bad. He runs up to the neighbors and asks if anyone saw her son. She is naked, asked about Sasha, she shakes her head negatively and begins to cry. Rescuers send her to a school neighboring with the house, which almost immediately became a place of temporary placement of the victims from the explosion. Marina runs there to report that her son was gone. Sasha went to this school until the ninth grade, then went here to vote several times. Having barely reached, she almost shouts to the rescuers: "My son is gone!" He calls the full name and age: "Alexander Kopytov, 27 years old." He answers a few more on -duty questions and falls on the bench. Marina constantly goes to rescuers to ask how the searches are going, he says with his neighbors. She has the hope that everything is fine, because they never found Sasha. He just disappeared.

Birthday in one day

Olga is not allowed to the body of the man found, because investigators have not yet worked with him. Olga rejoices to herself - she definitely feels that this is not Herman. She knows that Dasha was alive. She repeats to herself and all the gathered relatives that there are no such coincidences: Hera and Dasha were born on the same day with a difference of 48 years. In one maternity hospital and in one ward. After 10 days, their common birthday, they already planned to go to Bowling together, called the whole family. It is strange to even think that something bad can happen when everything is so well and planned in advance.

Dasha at the graduation in kindergarten photo: From personal archive

Dasha wants to become a blogger, Dasha has the most beautiful handwriting, she is the most obedient child of all whom Olga only saw, she and the hero of the best friends go to Fix Price on Sundays - Olga breaks away from thoughts when she sees her niece, who was running to the rescuers, who was ranging to Dashina, who was ranging to the rescuers. She takes her mother’s hand and tightly squeezes her with two palms. Looks into the eyes and can not say anything.

Nobody was allowed to the body, only the next day, when the whole family went to the morgue, Dasha’s father went to identification. Herman was buried with a closed face. Olga took his hand, but her hand was wrapped in a cellophane bag. Dasha's face was also closed. From the coffin only two long wheat pigtails were visible.

In order not to hear voices

Marina stopped in touch with one of the neighbors the day after the explosion. Many tried to find her when they read in local media that the Kopytov apartment became an epicenter of the explosion. As it became known later, Alexander returned home immediately after his mother left, opened the hose connecting the gas pipe with the stove, closed all the doors and windows, collected things and left the house. During the interrogation, he will say that he did this so that "not to hear the voices of the neighbors who disgraced him." He will also tell you what he did before, and the voices were silent, it was only worth the gas. The last time the voices were for some reason especially persistent, so Alexander left the gas open and left. He thought that “the neighbors who laughed at him and insulted gas. Maybe the gas workers will be called or the gas in the basement will be cut. ” But no one felt the smell.

The tenant of the collapsed house Alexander Kopytov during the consideration of the investigation to the election of a preventive measure in the Oktyabrsky District Court. According to A. Kopytov, on November 9, he deliberately disconnected the gas stove hose from the gas distributor network in his apartment. As a result of the explosion of domestic gas, an entrance collapsed and seven people were killed, including two children, three more teenagers suffered. Photo: Egor Aleev/TASS

At 16:30 there was an explosion. Most of the inhabitants of the entrance by this time have not yet returned from work. In addition to Dasha and Herman, five more people died. Many miraculously survived. The children of the closest neighbors of Kopytov were at home at the time of the explosion. Hearing the noise, they hid under the table, and then, when they got up to see what happened, they did not immediately realize that they were not looking out the street through the window, but through the already non -existent wall.

The residents of the destroyed entrance were provided with temporary housing. Residents of neighboring entrances cannot return to their homes until the examination is completed. Many of them live in the Zadogorodnaya Izhevsk camp "Forest Country". Many are familiar with Marina and are sure that she is hidden because someone may want to take revenge on her. These people talk about Marina as a very friendly and sweet woman who, after her husband’s death, took care of both children. The elder brother of Alexander moved to St. Petersburg and has not communicated with his brother for a long time. He learned about the explosion from Izhevsk acquaintances.

Almost no one can say anything about Alexander. The director of the lyceum, where Kopytov studied, calls him quiet and calm, and the most common characteristic that the neighbors give him: "For the first time they saw him on TV." Until March 9, Kopytov is under arrest.

Do you want us to send the best texts of “such cases” to you by e -mail? Subscribe to our weekly newsletter!