With his status “enemy of the people” he was even lucky that he was brought to us

The report of the Medusa specialist Maxim Solopov from the city of Kolchugino. There, in a pre -trial detention center, they keep Alexei Navalny

Oppositionist Alexei Navalny sits in a pre-trial detention center of Kolchugino, Vladimir Region. He is now on the so -called quarantine, along with prisoners who first got into the insulator. Medusa Special Corps Maxim Solopov went to Kolchugino and talked with the builder of the pre -trial detention center, a former employee of the insulator, relatives of prisoners, residents and public activists of the city, the main new buildings in which are a pre -trial detention center and police department.

“What new building was built. Sit - I don't want to "

Two FSIN employees in blue camouflage and with DVRs on their chest politely, but persistently forbid journalists to remove the SIZO-3 near the Kolchuginsky-referring to the laws that establish such restrictions near places of imprisonment.

It is not entirely clear why the shooting near the pre -trial detention center causes fears in the FSIN: the brand new insulator case compares favorably with the dilapidated industrial zone around. In 2017, the press service of the Vladimir Directorate of the FSIN itself invited journalists to open a pre-trial detention center with "European standards of detention in custody."

“Four floors of the new building occupy more than 100 cameras designed for the maintenance of two or three people, and the fifth floor is occupied by walking courtyards. There are showers on each floor. All cameras have an isolated bathroom, a TV, ”the pre -trial detention center says on the site of the local department of the FSIN.

If you wish, it is still possible to photograph the insulator-bypassing the regime territory along the fence with the towers and barbed wire and rising to the upper floor of the hostel, towering opposite the pre-trial detention center. The red brick building with a white embossed inscription "1915" on the facade in which the hostel is located is an example of the factory architecture of the early twentieth century and the only residential building nearby.

Inside the hostel, old and massive cast -iron steps have been preserved, but it itself looks deserted and even abandoned. The doors to the living rooms are taught by unpaid accounts for the services of housing and communal services. On a linen rope along the wall there are children's clothing. The entrance does not lock on the castle, you can freely go to the balcony, from which the entire territory of the pre -trial detention center is clearly visible.

The prisoners are contained in two main buildings connected by the aboveground crossing. In the old-300 seats, in the new-245. In Soviet times, a treatment and labor dispensary (LTP) was located in this territory-a place for forced treatment for alcohol and drug addiction. Then in such institutions they contained expelled from the capital “for the 101st kilometer” of tramps and other “asocial elements”. In the 1990s, the former LTP was turned into a pre-trial detention center with a colony adjacent to it for prisoners for crimes of small gravity. A year ago, a colony was reorganized into a new type of institution - a correctional center for convicts for forced labor.

Rare visitors to the pre -trial detention center who came here to transfer products or things to the prisoners, journalists are not very friendly. Two modestly dressed women who have come out of the premises for receiving programs are trying to avoid communicating with the Medusa correspondent: “We do not need correspondents. Here, one arrogant has already photographed us without permission. I don’t know if I deleted [a picture] or not. ”

And then they themselves move on to a conversation about Alexei Navalny. “He is a villain. He insulted the veteran, disgrace our country. Why so much noise around him? " - argues one of the women. “There are those who steal, there are those who protest, but there are those who work hard,” adds her more silent and sad companion. They do not want to talk about themselves and their loved ones in jail, but they clarify that they were accepted without problems. “What new building was built. Sit - I don't want to! " - throws the interlocutor of Medusa, running away to a taxi that has arrived.

“Such a resonance around us: Navalny in Kolchugino! On the contrary, it seems to me that with his status “enemy of the people” he was even lucky that he was brought to us. Here he is like Christ for the bosom, ”the former employee of the SIZO-3, living in Kolchugino, convinces the Medusa correspondent.

The former employee of the insulator calls the conditions of detention in the SIZO-3 “exemplary”-“even in the old building”. According to him, in this pre-trial detention center there are cameras for prisoners-women and for minors from all over the Vladimir region. “Believe me, I do not protect this system! In it, people go to their heads. Therefore, I do not work there anymore, - the interlocutor of "Medusa" makes excuses. - I will not be cunning, we saw rats there, this has a place to be like everywhere. But when, in the comments on the post about Navalny, a girl from our city writes that there was a terrible Baland ... as if she was sitting there! When we transported Balande for lunch, she smelled and looked pretty tasty. What was usually there: bicus-cabbage with meat, stew, some soups. We have not tried, but it smelled delicious. ”

On the website of the Vladimir Directorate of the FSIN, you can read that literally before the arrival of Navalny, the administration of the SIZO-3 even arranged a “culinary battle” among the prisoners of the detachment of the Ukrainian service. The participant who prepared the pancake cake won; The second place was given to the author of the pea soup with garlic croutons.

Two pieces of the pipe - "Visual" and "Education"

“It happens, you look, of course, sometimes some documentary, news, like everything is bad in other areas, in other institutions: they are trying, killing ...” says former FSIN employee. - We never had anything like that. There were no scandals in my memory, neither drugs nor corruption. ”

The latest statement refutes the official website of the local administration of the Investigative Committee. In 2016, on the basis of the evidence collected by the investigation, the court sentenced the head of the Department of Educational Work of the SIZO-3 to four years and six months conditionally. He was found guilty of regular beatings of 11 minor prisoners aged 15 to 17 years.

“An employee of the Federal Penitentiary Service prepared two segments of a polypropylene pipe 69 centimeters long with the inscriptions of the“ Raising ”and“ Raised ”and“ Wooden Chiyanka], which he used when applying minors, ”the SK press release .

According to investigators, the accused made claims against the wards even for insignificant reasons-because of an unexpected bed or a mug remaining on the table. For such violations, a 30-year-old officer beaten adolescents in an office, and once forced a minor to eat a sheet of paper with a complaint about the conditions of detention.

The investigation may also arise to the builders of the new SIZO-3 building. According to the Accounts Chamber, the building was supposed to accommodate 400 prisoners and cost a budget of 175 million rubles, but by the time the object was rented out on it, 258 million were spent on it, and only 245 were places inside.

The general contractor of the construction-the FSINOSK Enterprise "SMU-13"-is now in the bankruptcy procedure. Its deputy director is accused of fraud in the construction of a pre -trial detention center in Chuvashia from 2015 to 2017. In the same years, the Kolchuginsky pre -trial detention center was built. Until 2018, SMU-13 was headed by the head of the Ulyanovsk Federation of Jiu-Jitsu Maxim Filatov. After Filatov, they were taken in turn by two former heads of the Ulyanovsk colonies and a local businessman. The bankruptcy manager of the enterprise Yuri Zaitsev refused to comment on Medusa: “I do not belong to the supporters of your ward, so I can’t help in the development of your business. When your business will bankrupt - contact ... "

Maxim Filatov, in an interview with Medusa, said that the bankruptcy of the enterprise was in no way connected with the construction of the pre -trial detention center: “There were many different objects, contracts, including old debts. About the SIZO-3 I can say that this is probably the most modern insulator in the Vladimir region. There are standards for the maintenance of prisoners are much higher than in other institutions. ” Filatov doubts the correctness of the conclusions of the Accounts Chamber, but clarifies that construction began before his leadership. “Not ready to give an assessment whether the cost has changed. About my deputy [who is accused of fraud] I can say that such a person worked for me. The investigation is still going on, and I do not agree with the accusations against him, ”says the former head of the construction enterprise.

None of the Medusa interlocutors remembered famous prisoners in Kolchugino. “Unless the concert director of Sofia Rotaru,” says a former employee of the pre -trial detention center. -There were some officials to whom the human rights activists went to all the time, and all the usual: killings, drugs, robberies. They are sitting from all over the region. Every day stages are in courts. To Vladimir, for example, only an hour to go. ” Former Director of Sofia Rotaru Olga Konyakhina, accused of embezzlement of concerts from concerts, really served his sentence in the Vladimir region and even freed himself on parole after participating in the Musical Festival of the local department of the FSIN Kalina Krasnaya. Konyakhina refused to discuss her stay in the SIZO-3 with Medusa.

The general idea of ​​the main contingent of the SIZO-3 gives statistics of the Kolchuginsky city court. In 2019, 138 people were convicted here (in 2018-112). 50 people were convicted on heavy and especially grave articles of the Criminal Code, for accused by which they most often choose a preventive measure in the form of arrest, another 61 for crimes of moderate gravity. Of these, 38 people are sentenced to real imprisonment. 103 convicts “at the time of the crime did not have certain classes and income,” 60 were previously convicted, 55 “at the time of the crime were intoxicated”.

Among the accusations: two murders, nine cases of grievous and moderate harm to health, 40 thefts, two rape, 22 robbery, three robberies, five crimes related to drugs.

From the press releases of the Kolchuginsky court for 2020, you can find out a brief plot of some criminal cases. One Kolchuginets shot a friend from a revolver to the head during a quarrel. Another broke the nickname ribs with a stool. The woman grew hemp in the apartment. The homeless person who had been freed from the colony in 2019 robbed to buy food.

Navalny is contained in Kolchugino in the conditions of the so -called quarantine - together with the first time arrived in the pre -trial detention center from other institutions or immediately after the election of a preventive measure. Quarantine can last up to 15 days. According to the law “On the detention of suspects and accused of committing crimes”, politicians can only be placed in a cell with the first prisoners to deprive liberty under articles on economic crimes.

Earlier, the media, citing various sources, argued that from the pre-trial detention center-3 Navalny could be delivered to correctional colony No. 2 in the city of Kokrov, Vladimir Region. But through the Kolchuginsky insulator, prisoners are transported to other regions. “Stages constantly go with transit from Moscow - to Nizhny Novgorod, to the Kirov region. Usually, before sending there from us [from the pre-trial detention center-3] they are first taken to the first pre-trial detention center to Vladimir, ”the former employee of the pre-trial detention center said.

"Only security forces are being built in our country"

Work in SIZO-3 in Kolchugino is considered quite well paid: the officer receives from 40 thousand rubles plus allowances and bonuses. There are few places of work with the same salary in the city.

The buildings of the pre -trial detention center and the trial in Kolchugino look the most new and modern against the background of the rest of the city. “A good pre -trial detention center was built, excellent. There were even conversations that they are trying to corrupt officials from Moscow, ”says Sergey Svetlov, the first secretary of the Communist Party of the Communist Party of the Communist Party. “Only the security forces are being built in our country.”

A new police building cites Svetlov as an example: “You can get lost there as the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. For many years they could not complete the children's hospital, then the Ministry of Internal Affairs was redeemed. Previously, at least they were visible in the city, now they are sitting there. ” A complex of buildings of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Kolchuginsky district, surrounded by forest, really looks impressive for a city with a population of about 40 thousand people. Black gates with a double -headed eagle and a slope with a tile on the roof cause associations with a medieval lock.

The fire department, the prosecutor’s office, the investigative department and even the administration building are located in the buildings of the old buildings and look more modest than the court and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. There is no FSB department in the city, the nearest - in Alexandrov.

And the building for primary schools of the school - not far from the pre -trial detention center and industrial zones - is completely located in the old wooden log house, reminiscent of a fabulous tower. The new school, opened in 2020, was built with fire safety violations, due to which they opened a criminal case.

Even the local cultural house was built before the revolution - the efforts of the Moscow merchant and industrialist Alexander Kolchugin. In the 19th century, he founded a metallurgical plant here, around which an industrial village grew, named after his surname. Next to the recreation center is one of the oldest monuments in Russia to Lenin, discovered almost on the first anniversary of the death of the founder of the Soviet state. At the same time, Kolchugino in a strange way retained in his name the memory of the founder-capitalist throughout the entire period of the Soviet regime. They did not even change it in the 1960s, when the authorities decided to assign the village of the city to the village.

Now the remnants of the Kolchuginsky production belong to the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company-in 2017, metallurgical production on Kolchugzvetmet was stopped, metal dishes are made in its workshops. Half of the adult economically active population of the city is going to work in Moscow. There is no convenient railway message with the capital, and from the very early morning, Kolchugins fill buses and minibuses at the bus station.

Supporters of Navalny in Kolchugino are not easy to find. Among the subscribers of the corresponding groups in social networks, only a few people indicated Kolchugino with their city. Some of them, judging by the content on personal pages, are more like a politician’s ardent opponents. The 32-year-old Yana Turkova willing to talk about Navalny willingly. She works as a marketer in a Moscow company, but lives in Kolchugino and actively supports politics in local groups. "This is true. People do not want to hear anything and do not believe anyone, ”she admits.

Turkova says that she became interested in politics not so much because of the investigations of the Navalny team, but because of the state’s more and more intervention in personal life. “First, the law of Dima Yakovlev , then all this aggression regarding the LGBT people,” recalls Turkova. - It so happened that I was in practice in Germany and saw there how people can freely express their feelings, and then my good friend here in Russia admitted to me that he was gay. Of course, it hurts me to listen to what things he has to face in our society. ”

The local communist Svetlov is carefully about Navalny: “I do not want to support him or condemn him. He is simply not our man, that's all. Ours are Sergey Udaltsov, Maxim Shevchenko. " But then he still adds that Navalny’s films “positively” affect the population, talking about the scale of corruption upstairs. The opposition lost the latest elections to the local council because of the parties-spokes like the CPSU , otherwise the Communists would definitely get to the local council, Svetlov believes.

In the elections to the Legislative Assembly of the Vladimir Region in September 2018, the United Russia scored 29.57% of the vote on party lists and received seven seats, the Communists scored 23.66% and took five deputy seats. At the same time, in the United Russia fraction, at the expense of single -mandate - both united Russians and self -nominated - there were 23 people, and the Communist Party fraction has only six people.

The leader of the Kolchuginsky “Yabloko” Alexei Firsov, after successful elections to the Council of Deputies in 2011, even headed the municipality, but because of the pressure of officials, loyal “Party of power”, he did not work long in this post. Now Firsov is heading the college and distant from participating in the elections.

“Among my acquaintances there are also those who sympathize with Navalny, but most people are not in negative,” says Firsov. - I support the position of Grigory Alekseevich Yavlinsky: yes, everything that happens with Navalny in Tomsk should be investigated, yes, he should be able to be elected in the elections. But his methods are not close to me. Navalny from Yabloko was excluded for nationalist rhetoric. We have a multinational country, and it is very dangerous to flirt with this. ”

In 2018, a protest vote in the elections of the Governor of the Vladimir Region, who actively supported Navalny, led to the power of the representative of the LDPR Vladimir Sipyagin. Now the head of the region condemns the shares in support of the arrested politician - and praises the police who detained the participants in the protests.

В том же 2018 году во Владимире через пару месяцев после обысков был расформирован штаб Алексея Навального. 9 марта 2021-го команда оппозиционного политика решила вновь его открыть — как и еще в нескольких городах России. Новые штабы и сотрудники нужны соратникам Навального, чтобы готовиться к избирательной кампании в Государственную думу.

Автор: Максим Солопов , Кольчугино

Editor: Valery Igumenov