"Oil to the river flowed"

The ignited "black gold" covered the village near Saratov. Report from the place of disaster

In a rural store, the door does not have time to close. Correspondents with cameras are running up. Rescuers in green pea jackets go behind Doshirak. Next - workers in the blue. A strict man in a fur cap - a representative of the municipal administration, is looking at, making notes in Grossbukh. "Yesterday there would be so many people!" - leaning on the counter, the black -eyed saleswoman, painted in a blonde, is indignant. “On all channels they show us, but there is no truth. At 16.45, oil leaked here, to the store - thick, like bitumen. The whole swamp got, then it shimmered the track. The smell is terrible! We called, we yelled to make the dumps so that the movement was blocked. The district police officer flew, the village council. Everyone saw what was flowing, and no one needed anything. How caught fire-there is already ah-wah! All the authorities gathered, even the governor arrived. ”

According to Transneft, the release of Black Gold occurred on January 18 at about 15.30. According to residents, at 17.15-17.30, spilled oil flared up from a spark from a car passing along the highway. There is no its fire engine in the Red Army. According to the seller, firefighters from the military town were the first to arrive (a few kilometers from here is a part guarding the warehouse of nuclear ammunition). “Another about 20 minutes a fire truck from Berezovka was bothering. It is strange how it did not fall apart on the way! There was no foam in it, but you can’t put out oil with water. ”

We ask the customer who came for pasta and news how to get to the place where oil began to pour. Bypassing the store, the pensioner points to the hills behind the village: "It is how much it flowed to get here!"

Krasnoarmeyskoye is located in a lowland on the banks of the Volga. Oil pipeline - on a hill half a kilometer from the village. First of all, “black gold” flowed into the poorest part of the village, where there are two -story buildings with toilets on the street. The road (if you can call the ruts in the frozen ground) covered with fresh yellow sand. Oilje stains appear from under it. Powerful imported excavators rake contaminated soil with a roar: they are taken away and promised to dispose of Transneft.

Between the planed sheds, where the equipment will not pass, the working companies manually remove the blank from oil. The liquidators of the accident have broken blue jackets with corporate logos, orange helmets and gloves, brand new shovels with white cuttings. Against the backdrop of rustic shacks, beautiful cars and brigades in uniform seem to be characters of a fantastic film about the landing of aliens.

According to official figures, about 900 cubic meters of oil flowed out. A black trace stretches all over the huge ravine behind the village. A smiling policeman does not let us in directly to the place of the impulse. According to Transneft, the main oil pipeline has a diameter of 820 millimeters.

"They never thought it was so dangerous"

Pouring over the highway, oil went down to the lower part of the village and moved along Volzhskaya Street, in the middle. “Every spring we have flood water here, now oil has flowed,” the locals are shrug.

Elena Vasilievna lives in the house near the highway. “Oil flowed to the river. The neighbor calls me, they say, bring galoshes, I can’t leave the house. She sent a granddaughter, and there is already wide, not to cross. At five o’clock in the evening we sat at the table. Fifteen minutes later it was blazed with a torch. We stood and looked, but what will you do? Of course, we always knew that the oil pipeline was nearby. But they never thought that it was so dangerous, is they explaining us? There were no exercises for my memory. ”

Concrete poles of the electric line on the Volzhskaya are covered with a layer of soot. Through the charred fences, frozen beds are visible. In the front garden there is a completely black Christmas tree. Metal profiles for facing remained on the facades of the houses, the siding from the heat curled into the tubes, and the insulation panels were blown away, window glasses burst. Residents thank the weather: the Epiphany evening was very frosty and calm. If burning oil flowed down the street in the summer, the village would have become a bunch of ash in a minute.

Two houses were completely burned. Officially, one person is spelled out in them.

On the corner there is a burned kamaz. Rustem does not take his eyes off his car. He bought a 1994 truck last year for 300 thousand rubles. “I went to it to Chelyabinsk, to Yekaterinburg. I drive everything: both products and goods, this is a van. It was ... ” - with every word Rustem speaks quieter. It can be seen how tired he is. “I came home at 17.20. Already oil flowed around the village. He told his wife: Gather the children. Then it caught fire. The fire passed the whole street in 10-15 seconds. " Rustem jumped into a burning KamAZ parked under the windows. “He started and drove off as much as he could. So saved the house. Then the tank exploded. " The owner shows the car tortured belly.

Fortunately, the house survived. There are 8 children in the family. “We have the smallest Leila, she has no month. Senior Maxim, he is twelve, ” - nine -year -old Iraid lists his brothers and sisters.

The deceased Kamaz fed everyone. Officials did not offer any help to a large family.

Side view

The headquarters, where the victims should be addressed, sits in the library. The library occupies part of the House of Culture. If you go on the side, you can see how red brick laying of the walls squinted. The covered gallery leading to the second floor is falling apart. In the backyard is a green need. It is risky to use it - the structure sways strongly.

While the municipal authorities are in reception, the librarian volunteer at the heating station. “Don't write my last name. I am two years old, I want to calmly finalize, ”the interlocutor asks. She does not say absolutely nothing unreliable, but the authorities are this: who knows that he will not like it.

The heating point is arranged in the office of applied creativity. The stand “Her Majesty Embroidery” hangs on the wall. On the ceiling - cracks, raw divorces and incomprehensible origin of a hole the size of a finger. Rushy emphasics enter the room one by one. From the pea jacket pulls with cold. The newcomers who arrived can not immediately stretch their fingers out of the box a bag of tea. On the table are the mountains of sausage donated by the regional deputy, the owner of the corresponding plant. “In the evening they brought a bunch of everything,” says the interlocutor, strict a sandwich sandwich. - The bread was not enough for a little, really. Well, we brought from home. "

Corporate style

“Colleagues, let's postpone the tea party. The general director is here, we will make an approach, ”the transneft press service suggests charming specialists. We go out in the cold, because it would be strange to remove the successful liquidation of the accident in a cracked recreation center? “The most important thing is that none of the people was injured. And everything that concerns the property, we are com-pen-sir-th-e-ahm, ”the press service explains quietly by syllables, becoming even more charming.

The general director is helped to throw the hood of a black down jacket with the company's emblem. He is trying to object, but the press service gently insists: "We have a corporate style!" A diary with a logo is also in the frame.

The General Director of Transneft - Pologa JSC Andrei Syumak was brilliantly prepared for communication with the press. Looking into the eyes, in a calm tone answers all questions. The commission will find out the reason for the incident. There were no “third -party influences” on the pipeline (that is, the tips were not found). The technical condition of the pipe will be determined after the study. The oil pipeline was built in 1974, technical diagnostics are carried out regularly. “The last time in 2016,” the press service suggests.

“Such situations are very rare. The first time in the Saratov region, ”says Andrei Syumak. The village is not included in the security zone of the pipeline. “We do not conduct exercises with residents, we conduct joint exercises with the Ministry of Emergencies, and, as practice has shown, we coped perfectly,” the leader smiles slightly. - The oil pipeline was emergency stopped due to the drop in pressure. The oil output was minimized. Repair brigades worked promptly. "

A survey of residents has already been conducted. Defective statements have been drawn up, acts will approve the citizens at the gathering, the administration is envious of them. Compensation will be in the near future. The company never provided assistance in the social sphere of the Red Army. “Because we do not have a single employee from this village,” the press service explains. But the region as a whole has been established “close cooperation”: the company allocated 100 million rubles for the repair of the Saratov Youth Theater, which burned 5 years ago.