In 2010, the chief nephrologist of St. Petersburg came to the program “Wait for me” due to the disappearance of his wife. After 11 years, the UK accused him of killing and dismembering his wife

The Oktyabrsky District Court of St. Petersburg was detained until April 27 of the Main Nephrologist of the City Health Committee, the head of the nephrology department of the Mariinsky Hospital Alexander Zemchenkov , who is accused of the murder of Irina’s wife in 2010. The accused himself and his lawyer insisted on house arrest, the United press service of the vessels of St. Petersburg reports .

60-year-old Alexander Zemchenkov is accused of killing his wife, mother of three children Irina Zemchenkova, who worked as an obstetrician-gynecologist. According to investigators , Zemchenkov killed his wife on February 23, 2010 “during a quarrel that arose on the basis of personal hostile relations,” after which he dismembered her body and threw it into garbage containers in parts.

Initially, Zemchenkov claimed that his wife disappeared when she went to work in the hospital No. 6 named after Snegirev in St. Petersburg. Her disappearance was reported by many St. Petersburg media, in search of a woman, relatives and volunteers participated who studied the routes that she walked. Alexander Zemchenkov, as “Mash on the Moika” writes , also turned to the television program “Wait for me”.

A month after the disappearance of Irina Zemchenkova, March 24, 2010, the investigation opened a criminal case of murder. The investigation of the case has repeatedly suspended and resumed. In 2014, investigator of the UK Dinara Kamalutdinova said that it was not possible to establish those involved in the disappearance of a woman due to the "inoperative work of police officers at the initial stage of the investigation." Kamalutdinova explained that when the UK connected to the case, "it was no longer possible to get an entry from the video surveillance camera located opposite Irina's entrance, and the searches spent in the apartments and in the dachas did not give anything for such a long time."

The criminal investigation was resumed after in December 2020 to the head of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin was addressed by the 92-year-old father of the missing woman, doctor of veterinary sciences, and professor Gennady Kononov. After that, the investigators analyzed the existing testimony of witnesses, conducted new interrogations and found that Irina Zemchenkova should not go to work on the day of disappearance and did not leave the house at all. On March 30, 2021, Alexander Zemchenkov was detained. As reported in the UK, investigators interrogated the man with the help of a lie detector, after which they charged him with the murder.

“Fontanka” , Life Shot and “Mash on the Moik” wrote that Alexander Zemchenkov went to the crime after his wife found out about her mistress. According to the media, a few months after the murder of Irina Zemchenkova, her husband married again, in a new marriage he had two children.

In the Mariinsk hospital in St. Petersburg, where Zemchenkov heads the nephrology department, they described the doctor as a “unique specialist with“ golden hands ”, who saved many lives,” and also called “a big professional and Dock”. “Everyone knows that he is an incredible professional, guru and a specialist who transmitted knowledge to students and colleagues,” the hospital’s press service said. The decision on the further work of Zemchenkov has not yet been made in the hospital.

Alexander Baklanov