February 1 in parts Chebarkul garrison visited the commissioner for human rights in the Chelyabinsk region. Aleksey Sevastyanov met with the leadership of the tank and anti-aircraft missile brigades, the medical service of the military district and military prosecutors on a very sad occasion: since the beginning of January, two conscript soldiers who served in Chebarkul have died of pneumonia.

Chelyabinsk.ru already wrote about both unfortunate cases. Private Dmitry Glebov, who served in the 7th Guards Tank Brigade, was sent to the medical unit on December 22, 2012, then transferred to the Chelyabinsk military hospital. When it became clear that there was no improvement, he was sent to Yekaterinburg, but even there the doctors could not help the guy: on January 13 he died.

Sergey Karabatov, who served in the 28th anti-aircraft missile brigade, went to the doctors on the day of the oath in the same December: he went on leave with his father, returned to the unit at 18 o'clock, and four hours later was in the first-aid post - he was diagnosed with a fever .

By the way, as the officers of both units assure, even officially healthy soldiers communicate with doctors at least several times a day, starting from the morning formation. Head of the Medical Service of the Central Military District Anatoly Kalmykov in general, I am sure that for the army the peak of colds - both influenza and pneumonia - has already passed.

“The largest number of cases fell on new year holidays- said Anatoly Kalmykov. - Soldiers sat in the barracks, ran out of warm rooms to the street for various needs - you can’t keep track of everyone. In general, the situation in Chebarkul is quite favorable, despite two deaths. in Yelansky training center, for example, no deaths were noted, but there are much more sick people!

Doctors, as you know, are generally cynical people, and for them, who are responsible for the health of tens of thousands of soldiers, two deaths in one garrison is a nuisance, but nothing unexpected or extraordinary. If you look objectively, then, according to military doctors, the situation with the prevention and treatment of colds has improved markedly lately.

“In our country, at the slightest suspicion, soldiers are sent to a mobile X-ray room,” said doctor-therapist of the first-aid post of anti-aircraft gunners Alexander Esin.- The temperature has exceeded 37 degrees - immediately fluorography, if necessary, hospitalization. Twice a week, my civilian colleagues come to us, to whom anyone can turn. In case of sudden complications, an ambulance arrives at the unit within a maximum of 15 minutes. I spent many years in military medicine, I myself am a lieutenant colonel of the medical service in the reserve. Understand: long gone are the days when soldiers were simply not allowed to see doctors, now all commanders understand that it is better to avoid future problems by taking care of subordinates in advance! As for the deaths... I did not observe Sergei Karabatov himself, but, apparently, already in the hospital, one type of pneumonia was added to him by another, which caused a critical deterioration in his condition. In addition, one can only guess where the guy managed to get infected: he walked around the city with his father all day!

Be that as it may, but the army does not talk about an epidemic on the scale of not even the entire military district, but at least the military garrisons: there are too few sick people for this. For example, according to Anatoly Kalmykov, in the medical unit of the 7th tank brigade, 39 patients with acute respiratory infections, 12 soldiers with tonsillitis, 17 with pneumonia, 10 with bronchitis have been recorded today. In the 28th anti-aircraft missile - seven with acute respiratory infections, four with bronchitis, three with pneumonia. With pneumonia, by the way, no one keeps soldiers in units - they are immediately sent to a military hospital in Chelyabinsk.

And yet, despite the rosy reports, the deaths of young guys took place. Why?

“I do not deny that, alas, there are many still unresolved problems in the army,” he shrugged his hands. Deputy Commander of the Central Military District for work with personnel, Major General Alexei Tsygankov.– It is an axiom that it is easier to prevent a disease than to defeat it. Unfortunately, this is not always possible. There are commanders who do not pay enough attention to their soldiers. There are the soldiers themselves, in fact, very young people, yesterday's children, unable to take care of themselves without parental help and not paying attention to the symptoms of the disease. There are other problems. I can say one thing: there are much fewer of them than 10-15 years ago!”

The Ombudsman and the journalists who came with him were offered to familiarize themselves with the living conditions of conscripts, both healthy and sick. It turns out that there are no classic barracks in Chebarkul for a long time, where up to a company of young people live in one room. Kubricks for four or five beds. The temperature in residential premises is 22-25 degrees, in the dryer for clothes and shoes - up to 37 degrees. In several cubicles, on the bedside tables, plates with chopped onions and garlic are displayed - soldiers are not limited in the consumption of these odorous products. This is not a one-time show: Chairman of the Council of Chiefs of the Tank Brigade Igor Mikhailov confirms that his colleagues are regularly at the location of the units of the Chebarkul garrison, and heat in the rooms is in the order of things. The privates themselves shrug their shoulders: they say, of course, we remember and mourn Sergei Karabatov, but God knows why such a misfortune happened to him!

“He was very thin,” recalled the one who served with him private named Dima.- Tall but skinny. Maybe that's why he caught a cold so terribly? In the very first month I myself ended up in the medical unit with pneumonia, but, thank God, everything worked out.

By the way, already in defiance of human rights activists - the soldiers do not look intimidated and downtrodden. Well, no way. Even when the conscripts, torn off, by the way, from classes, were left in the club's premises alone with journalists and the Ombudsman, all the officers came out from platoon lieutenants to Major General Tsygankov - somehow there were no complaints. Young people in soft shoulder straps (and, by the way, without exception in felt boots) hesitated, giggled, but were in no hurry to dump the problems.

“There are undoubtedly problems, they still told me about them,” he concluded. Alexey Sevastyanov. – But they are systemic in nature, you can’t get rid of them in one day and by the forces of one unit. Conducting a check on the fact of the death of conscripts, the military prosecutor's office revealed a number of violations, made proposals for their elimination. For our part, we will also carry out careful supervision and respond to all complaints, especially since soldiers are not prevented from getting in touch. Prevention of the same pneumonia depends not only on medicine - both food and constant attention for careless young people are important.

As for getting in touch, it really does take place. A lot of conscripts, without leaving the barracks, spread in social media photos from the place of work. Communicate with friends from the citizen on the forums. According to Assistant Commander of the Central Military District Yaroslav Roshchupkin, among the rank and file there are both normal members of the forum and classic network trolls. So it's getting harder and harder to hide something in the army every year.

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Photo: Press Service of the Central Military District

Ulyana Vinokurova, the sister of 24-year-old conscript soldier Maxim Tyumentsev, turned to Chelyabinsk community members. At the end of December 2010, he was called up from Asha, served in the military unit 89547 of the Chebarkul garrison in an engineer company, the Novy Region portal writes.

Nightmare test

“In this military unit, conscript soldiers are like in a concentration camp, where Dagestan soldiers act as overseers and inquisitors. All this becomes possible with the encouragement of the commanding staff and the connivance of the military prosecutor's office of the Chebarkul garrison. They mocked almost all the conscripts at the Azov training ground, except for the Dagestanis, they are in a special, “honorable” position, ”says Maxim Tyumentsev’s sister.

According to her, the rank and file were subjected to cruel bullying and humiliation because of cash payments. The fact is that for the disposal of shells, soldiers are entitled to a monetary allowance in the amount of 35 thousand rubles a month. Money is transferred personally to each on a plastic card. However, as Vinokurova says, while the cards were kept by the commanders, money mysteriously disappeared from them. As it turned out, along with the cards, the company kept full list PIN codes for each card. Therefore, the money was quietly withdrawn without informing their owners.

For example, Maxim Tyumentsev one day received an SMS message on his phone stating that 10,000 rubles had been withdrawn from his account. And when the conscript received the card in his hands and managed to transfer the remaining funds to the account of his wife, his life in the military unit turned into a nightmare. The sergeants began to demand money from him, and when they found out that the bank account was empty, they were furious.

After that, as a punishment, they forced the obstinate conscript to carry a bag filled with gravel on his back for 3 weeks.

“Moreover, he wore it everywhere - to the toilet, the dining room, ate and slept in it, after which he began to have serious problems with his spine. He was beaten so that 8 teeth were knocked out of his brother, he had a severe concussion after being beaten on the head with handcuffs, and his nose was broken. They beat me with big sticks in my kidneys and liver. And it happened like this: they drove him into a tent, forced him to strip naked and beat him with sticks, then poured water over him and beat him again. And after the mass beatings, the soldiers forced each other to wash with washcloths,” Maxim’s sister says with tears in her voice.

In addition to all the injuries, the soldier developed periodontal disease. Now he can hardly eat, given that he does not have 8 teeth, the rest are severely loosened due to gum disease.

Rescue Escape

Maxim Tyumentsev followed suit. He arbitrarily left the military unit: on foot, through the forest, on passing cars, he reached Chelyabinsk. It should be noted that his wife Valentina rented an apartment near the place of service with her one-year-old daughter. After her husband fled, unknown people in military uniform came to her several times. Several times a day they carried out searches in the apartment, and even in her absence.

“One of the Dagestanis said to his brother's wife with an accent: “No money, you will repay your homeland. First we will rape you, then we will get to your daughter,” says Ulyana Vinokurova.

Also, Tyumentsev's sister was called by his company commander and threatened that if Maxim did not return to the unit, he would "be found dead in a ditch." Later, the military used a different method: they called and told the sister that her brother's body had been found.

The woman arrived in Chelyabinsk, met with her brother and persuaded him to come with a confession to the military prosecutor's office of the Chelyabinsk garrison and the military investigation department. Here began a pre-investigation check on all of the above facts. The soldier managed to avoid criminal prosecution for desertion: he turned himself in voluntarily and in fixed time- no later than 10 days.

The soldier underwent a forensic medical examination in Chelyabinsk, civilian doctors recorded all the beatings. Later, he was sent to undergo a military medical examination for fitness for service. However, surprisingly, the doctors of the military polyclinic did not find in him either a concussion, or spinal injuries, or broken teeth, or a broken nose. The only thing the doctors did was send the victim for a psychiatric examination, doubting his adequacy due to the fact that he had escaped.

Injury to the service is not a hindrance

Meanwhile, the conscript reached the city hospital No. 2 of Miass on his own, where he was diagnosed with a duodenal ulcer, atrophic gastroduodenal reflux, chronic cholecystitis, cervical osteochondrosis with a serious curvature of the spine, which is a contraindication for army service. True, the conclusions of civilian doctors are not a decree for the military, that is, they are not the basis for exemption from service.

Maxim Tyumentsev's sister turned to the governor of the Chelyabinsk region, the region's human rights ombudsman, the RF Minister of Defense, the chief military prosecutor's office, and the main military medical department. She demands to take special control over the course of the investigation in this case, bring to justice those responsible for what happened, including the military prosecutor of the Chebarkul garrison for negligence in his duties, and also help send her brother for a military medical examination.

At the time of the pre-investigation check, Maxim Tyumentsev was placed in one of the military units of the Chelyabinsk garrison, while nothing threatens him. However, relatives and social activists sincerely fear that after the investigation materials are transferred to the military investigation department of the Chebarkul garrison, Maxim may again be forced to return to the unit to participate in the investigation. It will be quite difficult to prove the facts of beatings and bullying: colleagues who are frightened to death may refuse to testify against arrogant commanders and brutal contract soldiers. But the latter can easily put pressure, including physical pressure, on a soldier.

According to Valeria Prikhodkina, director of the Conscript School, she will monitor the progress of the inspection and the fate of Maxim Tyumentsev and report it to the media.

Slave labor in training

The mother of one of the conscripts, who visited the tent camp, told journalists about the horrors of the army life of Chebarkul soldiers. What she saw shocked the woman. In front of her eyes, an old-timer of Caucasian origin was beating a young conscript. After the unfortunate man fell to the ground, the "grandfather" kicked him into the tent, where he continued to kick him.

“The worst thing is that all this was seen by officers and other soldiers passing by. Everyone treated this as we civilians treat a passing car: we will bypass the obstacle and move on. The officers saw me walking and looking at it. Of the 9 people I met, not one of them even pretended to stop it. The son said that I should not think of making a fuss, otherwise it would be worse for him than now. According to him, “now they almost don’t beat them, they just pump them.” The soldiers were beaten casually and routinely, no one was embarrassed by my presence, ”said the shocked mother of the soldier.

In addition to physical violence, psychological violence also flourishes in the unit, the woman said. One day, the parents witnessed such a scene: 4 soldiers lined up in a row near one of the tents, for some reason they stood on one leg, and with their hands did something reminiscent of the Brezhnev gesture of greeting. Opposite them sat three "grandfathers" and cackled. "The feeling that this is not an army - it's cattle with machine guns," - the parents can not pick up another definition.

The soldiers are digging large holes with shovels for 14-18 hours a day, building a conditional town, the woman said. Live in field conditions: without hot water. This is despite the fact that the temperature at night drops to zero. A tent designed for 22 people sometimes accommodates up to 36 soldiers. At the same time, young people often do not have enough space on the “beds”, as sleeping places are called here, and they sleep wrapped in a pea coat on the bare ground. According to Olga Rodionova, she managed to hear these terrible details from the conversation of another conscript with her mother.

The bath at the landfill is heated 2 times a week, only 15 minutes are given for washing. True, not everyone succeeds in washing. Before washing, the servicemen are examined by a physician. Given that almost all recruits have purulent calluses on their feet, they are not allowed into the bathhouse so as not to spread the “infection”.

However, the “alarm” about the horrendous conditions in the Russian army is sounded not only “from below”, but “from above”. So, in the spring of this year, the now former reserve major Igor Matveev posted on the Internet a video message to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, in which he spoke about the egregious facts from army life known to him. So, according to him, the soldiers in one of the Vladivostok units were fed dog food, and the premises of the unit were illegally rented to guest workers. The video quickly spread around the Internet and attracted the attention of bloggers and journalists. Under the influence of the excitement, the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation initiated a verification of the facts stated by the major. However, very soon, Igor Matveev himself appeared in the dock on charges of abuse of office and the use of violence against soldiers. On September 9, the Vladivostok Garrison Court found Major Igor Matveev guilty of abuse of power with the use of violence against servicemen and sentenced him to four years in prison with deprivation of his rank.

We also note that the largest strategic exercises in 2011, Center-2011, started at the end of September in Russia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. The active phase of the exercises, as reported by RIA Novosti, ended on September 26.