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The plane crash in Egypt killed 224 people. Among them are residents of different regions of the country. Most are from St. Petersburg. There were whole families on board - some went on a trip with a child, others were simply going to Egypt to visit the sea for the first time.

Yuri and Olga Shein with their daughter Nastya

Irina Zavgorodnyaya and Alexander Semenov

They loved to travel. Romantic dinners by candlelight were held by the sea in Egypt. Irina’s last message on VKontakte is “Home... In the cold.”

Irina still has a daughter, Natasha, in St. Petersburg. Now the girl is supported by users of social networks. The child cannot believe that his parents are dead.

Tatyana and Alexey Gromov and their daughter Darina

Little Darina became a symbol of the terrible tragedy with the Kogalymavia plane on the Sinai Peninsula. Her mother Tatyana, before flying to Egypt, left a photo on VKontakte with the entry #mainpassenger. The girl turned 10 months old on October 26. This is the smallest passenger on flight 9268.

Alexander Kopylov and Elena Melnikova

The touching story of the deputy head of Pskov, Alexander Kopylov, and his beloved Elena Melnikova has already spread around the Internet. A trip to Sharm El-Sheikh was Alexander’s cherished gift for Elena. She had dreamed of going to the sea for so long...

Victoria Sevryukova

You feel uneasy when you read the latest posts on VKontakte by 24-year-old Victoria Sevryukova.

“I didn’t think that Egypt would give me so many positive emotions! Do I want to live here? No. Will I return here? Definitely”

Elena Tomina

Elena's registration is Tyumen. But recently she lived with her daughter in St. Petersburg. She worked as an SOS mother - helping orphans. Died at the age of 46. She left behind a daughter in St. Petersburg, who did not go with her mother to Egypt because of her studies.

In October 2015, a Kogalymavia plane took off from Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg. A bomb planted on board exploded over the Sinai Peninsula, killing 224 people: seven crew members and 217 passengers, 25 of whom were children.

"Paper" I spoke with the families of the victims and found out how they live two years after the tragedy, why relatives of the victims are suing for compensation, and how in St. Petersburg they perpetuate the memory of the largest disaster in Russian aviation.

In 2015, Larisa and Anatoly Pulyanov were going on vacation to Abkhazia. Initially, their son Roman suggested going to Egypt. Larisa categorically refused: she did not want to fly on a plane and spend a lot on travel - at that time the room at the dacha was being redecorated for the wedding of Roman and his bride Tatyana Mokievskaya.

Roman and Tatyana, despite her mother’s protests, flew to Egypt on vacation. On October 31, they, along with 222 others on board flight A321, were killed in an explosion.

All these two years we have been thinking about the death of our son: you wake up with it and fall asleep, think about it throughout the day. We don't go crazy - we'll cry, sometimes. But I understand that this feeling is to the end and it will never let go,” says Anatoly Pulyanov.

Previously, every day for us began with a call from Roman and his question: “Parents, how are you there?”, and ended: “Parents, how was your day?” recalls Larisa. “My best friend died. Such relationships are rare between father and son, but this is exactly what we had,” shares Anatoly.

Roman and Tatiana

One day, Anatoly wandered into an unfinished firehouse, where it was dark, with fittings and sharp pieces of metal sticking out everywhere. However, the man was not injured. “We think Roman saved it. We try so hard to think so as not to die. After all, there are already relatives of the victims who died within two years,” explains Larisa. “Things constantly happen to us that confirm that there is a small connection, and a lot of them have accumulated over two years. I know that death is not the end. I feel it."

Even though the couple misses their son dearly, they are not alone. Roman's good friends constantly communicate with them - one friend, Maria, calls almost every day. The Pulyanovs also attend meetings of members of the Flight 9268 charitable foundation, which includes the families of the deceased passengers. When spouses communicate with them, they feel understood.

How does the fund created after the tragedy work?

The prototype of the fund was a closed group for relatives, which was created by St. Petersburg resident Alexander Voitenko in the first days after the tragedy. His 37-year-old sister Irina and 14-year-old niece Alisa died in the plane crash. Alexander and his sister lived in different cities, but constantly communicated.

For the first two months the bodies were not given to us. It was necessary to bring everyone together so that we could have a single information space, it’s easier that way. And ultimately, we decided that we needed to create our own fund: once a legal entity is registered, it is easier to communicate with the city administration or the Investigative Committee and provide financial and legal assistance.

Photo: group of the charitable foundation “Flight 9268” on VKontakte

The headmistress of the St. Petersburg school, Irina Zakharova, became the chairman of the foundation’s board; Her 28-year-old daughter, an employee of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, Elvira Voskresenskaya, was flying in the plane that exploded. The first meeting of relatives, where it was decided to create a fund, took place in the assembly hall of the school headed by Zakharova.

All the remains were released to relatives only in May. Seven people, according to Voitenko, remained unidentified.

Now the fund group has almost 40 thousand subscribers from Ufa, Belgorod, Voronezh, Kaliningrad and other cities. Voitenko calls them a big family, where people always help each other. Among them are ordinary Russians who believe that this tragedy has affected them personally. Alexander himself believes that the disaster over Sinai affected everyone in one way or another.

A few days ago, the relatives of the victims were presented with a collection of poems, “Stepping into Eternity,” some of which were written by group member Arina Korol. Voitenko recalls that she began offering help to relatives from the first days and still writes poetry almost every day dedicated to the dead. And another participant, Irina Solya, helps the foundation organize events: concerts and holidays for children. So, recently the fund’s members planted trees together, and after that they organized a tea party. In the disaster over Sinai, Arina and Irina did not lose loved ones, but they still perceive the tragedy as personal.

The main goal of the foundation is to preserve the memory of all those who died. On October 28, at the Serafimovskoye Cemetery, a monument “Folded Wings” was unveiled over the grave with the unidentified remains of victims of the disaster; it was created with money from the authorities of St. Petersburg. On the anniversary, October 31, the Garden of Memory memorial was opened on Rumbolovskaya Mountain.

How the city supports the families of the victims and what it does to preserve memory

When everything first happened, the psychologists of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, high-level professionals, helped us a lot: they brought people out of the state of shock. Then psychologists from district social protection services picked up the baton: social psychologists were assigned to all those in need. After a year and a half, we realized that connections with specialists had weakened, and time does not heal, we still need social support,” says co-founder of the foundation, HSE professor Valery Gordin.

According to him, after the program was announced, under which the foundation was ready to pay for anonymous consultations with psychologists, several dozen people applied for them. Psychologists, according to Gordin, say that relatives of the victims experience phantom pain.

Valery’s son, 28-year-old Leonid, died in a plane crash along with his fiancee Alexandra Illarionova. Lenya loved animals very much and was, as his father recalls, a spontaneous animal activist. Once, when Gordin was about to get a cat, he persuaded him not to buy a pet, but to adopt it from a shelter. And when Leonid himself lost his cat Kysya, he looked for the pet together with volunteers.

Then the father treated Leonid’s beliefs with irony and did not follow the advice. After the death of the young man, he decided to organize the Lenkin Cat Foundation, which helps animals.

Lenkin Cat Foundation at the Night of Museums

Gordin still runs Lenka's Cat, and his attitude towards animal protection has changed. The man says he takes a pragmatic approach to the matter and details how the fund has changed. He plans to open a second center for the rental of veterinary equipment, so that it is more convenient for veterinary clinics and those wishing to help, and a school for animal volunteers who will help homeless cats.

Valery believes that after the tragedy the city authorities behaved with dignity and always responded to the requests of relatives. Now the deputies, together with Vice-Governor Albin, are helping to build a temple in the Baltic Pearl area. They plan to set up an educational center at the temple, where they will also provide social assistance.

“Not only to the relatives of the victims, but also to the residents of the area. In my opinion, this is very important and symbolic,” notes Gordin.

A year ago, local residents opposed the construction of the temple, claiming that it had nothing to do with the “Baltic Pearl,” and the issue of construction was decided without consulting them.

Gordin says that opponents “to some extent” remained:

Some people like the idea of ​​preserving memory, others think it should be pushed further into a drawer. We met and explained our position. I really hope that the temple will be built in the near future,” Gordin explained.

St. Petersburg residents feared that the construction of the temple would delay the creation of schools and clinics. According to KP, the dissatisfied addressed Vladimir Putin in a letter.

What kind of support do relatives of the crew receive in Moscow and what is known about payments to them?

What they do in St. Petersburg to perpetuate it is all the great merit of the foundation. This is of great importance to us. If they also build us a spiritual and educational center, this will be another place where we can come and bow to the memory of our family and friends,” says the father of 25-year-old flight attendant Alexei Filimonov, Muscovite Andrei Filimonov.

Andrey says that over the past two years he has been regularly calling and texting relatives of the crew. Almost all of them live in Moscow and the Moscow region, trying to meet more often and support each other. Sometimes they come to fund meetings in St. Petersburg.

25-year-old Alexey, according to his father, got on board at the last moment: he was not supposed to work on this flight: on the way to the airport, his car broke down on the Moscow Ring Road, as a result, the young man missed his flight and ended up in reserve. He was called 12 hours before departure to replace another flight attendant.

The crew's relatives have their own separate VKontakte group, and they have been supported by subscribers all these two years. The families of the victims now know some of them personally and meet regularly. Andrey is given icons and poems about his son, and souvenirs are sent from St. Petersburg.

Andrey and Alexey Filimonov

Previously, disasters in our country were mainly due to the fault of the crew. But in this case, our loved ones found themselves in the same situation as the passengers. It was terrorism. There was no chance of salvation. The main thing is that we are not forgotten.

According to Filimonov, Kogalymavia never paid compensation to any of the relatives of the deceased crew members. About this in the charity fund group

Ten-month-old Darina Gromova was the youngest of 29 children who died in the plane crash. The bodies of her parents were also discovered.

The Gromov family - Alexey, Tatyana and their ten-month-old daughter Darina - are on the list to identify those killed in the October 31 plane crash in Sinai.

Literally a few hours before the Ministry of Emergency Situations sent a special flight to St. Petersburg on November 1, it became known that the body of the youngest passenger and her parents had been found. 10-month-old Darina Gromova, who became a victim of a plane crash in Egypt, was the smallest child on board the plane.

Darina Gromova was named the first “main passenger” by her mother Tatyana when she posted a photo of the girl at the airport on Instagram. It was the first time the little girl saw planes so close, and watched in amazement as the huge machines moved across the airfield. Darina had to make the first big trip in her life - from St. Petersburg to Egypt.

Darina’s grandmother admitted in a conversation with LifeNews that she was very worried about how the baby would survive the flight, and offered the young couple - Alexey and Tatyana - to leave their 10-month-old granddaughter with her for the duration of the trip, but they refused . Also the woman toldAzala that her husband and Darina’s grandfather was a military pilot and retired with the rank of colonel. Her son Alexey he also wanted to become a pilot, but she didn’t allow him. As a result, he went to work for an IT company.

Airbus 321, flight 9268 Sharm el-Sheikh - St. Petersburg, crashed on October 31. Shortly after taking off from the Egyptian airport, the crew of the airliner stopped communicating. It was reported that the plane dropped sharply by 1.5 kilometers, after which it disappeared from radar screens. Before the pilot lost contact

A motley crowd of tourists, a vibrant underwater world that attracts divers from all over the world - all this attracts travelers. Russians were eager to go there as if they were going to a second dacha: at least for a week to rest from work and bask in the sun. Whole families flew until the plane crash in Egypt on October 31, 2015 forced the entire country to shudder.

Tragic incident

A tourist group from the Brisco company was returning on a charter flight from Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg. Despite the early morning (departure at 5.50 local time), the passengers were in excellent spirits. They posted pictures of their successful vacation on social networks. It was Saturday, and on Monday many had to plunge into work; some had work, others had to study.

The Airbus A321-231 EI-ETJ airliner, which arrived from Samara, took 217 passengers on board. They and seven crew members had to be in the Northern capital by 12 noon, where many had relatives and friends waiting at the airport. Having reached a given altitude of 9400 meters in 23 minutes, at a speed of 520 km/h the aircraft suddenly disappeared from the radar. At 6.15 (7.15 Moscow) the plane crashed in the Sinai Peninsula near El-Arish airport - the hottest spot in Egypt, where government troops were confronted by Al-Qaeda Islamists.

Versions of the tragedy

Those meeting flight 9268 at Pulkovo Airport anxiously watched the board, which displayed the information: “Arrival delayed.” And by evening the whole country knew that the wreckage of the aircraft that had disappeared from radar had been discovered by the Egyptian authorities. Scattered over a length of 13 kilometers, with the tail section torn off, they were shown on television, which gave rise to many versions of experts about the possible causes of the disaster. Three were considered the most reliable:

• Technical problems associated either with engine failure or metal fatigue. In the tail section, traces of skin repairs were found after the aircraft touched the asphalt with its tail while landing at Cairo airport in 2001. The resulting microcrack could cause the destruction of the aircraft as it climbed.
• The plane crash in Egypt was caused by the crew's mistakes.
• Terrorist act.

The IAC commission, headed by Egyptian representative Ayman al-Mukkadam, began working at the site of the tragedy. It included representatives of Russia, France, Germany, the USA and Ireland. After studying the evidence and decoding, the first two versions were found unfounded.

Aircraft

The A321 crash over the Sinai Peninsula was the largest in the history of Egypt and modern Russia. The airbus belonged to the Kogalymavia company, which underwent a thorough inspection. It was found that after the 2001 emergency, the aircraft was repaired in France at the manufacturer's plant, after which all the necessary tests were carried out. Over 18 years of operation, the airliner flew less than 50% of its service life (57,428 hours) and was in good condition. This is evidenced by weekly technical checks, the last of which was carried out on October 26, 2015. The flight recorders did not detect any system malfunction. Until the 23rd minute, the flight proceeded quite normally.

Crew

Forty-eight-year-old crew commander Valery Nemov is a graduate of SVAAULSH (Stavropol Military School). He is one of the few who, in the difficult 90s, retrained to fly on Airbuses since 2008, having 12 thousand flight hours, which testifies to his enormous experience. The second pilot also came from military aviation, being a veteran of the Chechen campaign. After retiring, Sergei Trukhachev retrained on the A321, having undergone training in the Czech Republic. I flew them for more than 2 years. The total flight time was 6 thousand hours. Both pilots were in good standing with their airline. Nemov was even called back from vacation prematurely to be sent on the infamous flight 9268.

Official version

Two weeks after the tragedy, the version of the terrorist attack was officially voiced by the head of the FSB during a meeting with the President of the Russian Federation. To support his words, he provided the following evidence:

1. American satellites recorded a thermal flash over Sinai during the disaster, which indicates an explosion occurred on board the plane.
2. The fuselage fragment has a hole with a diameter of about one meter. Its edges are curved outward. This indicates that the source of the explosion was inside.
3. When deciphering the recorder recording the negotiations, before the recording is interrupted, extraneous noise is heard, the nature of which can be attributed to a blast wave.
4. The plane crash in Egypt caused great public outcry. After a while, they not only admitted responsibility for the terrorist attack, but also posted a photo of an improvised explosive device (IED) on the pages of Dabig magazine.
5. Some of the victims had injuries indicating death from the consequences of the explosion (burns, tissue ruptures).
6. Traces of explosives - TNT molecules - were found in fragments of shrapnel, luggage and on the bodies of the victims.

The power of the explosion was estimated at 1 kilogram. The estimated location of the IED is the tail of the aircraft. For the blast wave moved forward, but the fracture of the fuselage prevented its further advancement.

Plane crash in Egypt: who is to blame?

After the Russian version appeared, it became known that 17 employees were detained at the Egyptian airport. The main question was one: “How did the IED get on board the airliner?” The FSB began studying the biographies of 34 passengers (11 men and 23 women) who had TNT molecules on their bodies. But official Egypt soon stated that there was no evidence for a clear statement about a terrorist attack on board the plane. None of the employees were actually arrested. Russian authorities have announced a $50 million reward for any information about the terrorists.

Only in February 2016 did the Egyptian President officially acknowledge the terrorist attack. It was discovered that the bomb was made from plasticite, which is used to create military projectiles. It is powered by a clock mechanism. The plane crash in Egypt on October 31, 2015 showed that the airport security system does not meet international standards. The IED could have come on board the food supply company, through employees with access to the runway, or through carry-on luggage during baggage checks. The latest data is such that it was in the cabin in the immediate vicinity of place 31A. All these facts led to a ban on the sale of holiday tours in Egypt.

Flight passengers

EI-ETJ - the last digits of the Airbus number. According to them, the aviators called the board “Juliet” among themselves, affectionately “Dzhulka”. On that tragic morning, she broke up three aviation marriages and killed a young steward who replaced a colleague who had quit due to a bad dream. It also took the lives of 217 passengers, 25 of whom were children. Those killed in a plane crash in Egypt are entire families, dozens of destroyed love stories, babies who will never grow up. Ten-month-old Darina Gromova was on this flight with her parents. Her mother posted her photo on a social network before the flight. A girl stands at the airport facing the runway, and below is the signature: “Main Passenger.” This picture became a symbol of the tragic flight from which no one was able to return.

Almost all passengers are Russians, 4 people are citizens of Ukraine, 1 is from Belarus. The majority are residents of St. Petersburg, although there are also representatives of other regions: Pskov, Novgorod, Ulyanovsk. Those killed in the plane crash in Egypt are people of various professions. Even while relatives were busy identifying the bodies, caring people were forming a collective portrait of the passengers, collecting information about them bit by bit. A wonderful gallery was created, where there were many good words about everyone.

Almost a year later

On July 31, Moscow and St. Petersburg held a rally in memory of those killed over the Sinai. Nine months passed: many relatives received compensation, identified and buried their loved ones, but the pain did not subside. On August 5, 2016, a message was received that forty-five militants led by Abu Dua al-Ansari, through whose fault the plane crash occurred in Egypt, were killed during a military operation near El-Arish. I really want to believe that something like this will never happen again!

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Classmates

The tragic An-148 flight brought together very different people, but due to an absurd accident, their lives were cut short on Sunday, February 11. Journalists collected the stories of 19 passengers of the crashed airliner, about whom it was possible to find information by this time.

The second pilot of the crashed An-148, 44-year-old Sergei Gambaryan, lived in Moscow. He studied flying at the St. Petersburg State University of Civil Aviation and the Moscow State Technical University of Civil Aviation. He had 812 flight hours on An-148 aircraft.

Flight attendant Victoria Koval was only 22 years old. As a friend says, she loved her job: “When she started flying, she said that it was scary, and then she said that she was not afraid and she liked it. We used to joke with her that the most important thing is to take off and land.”

Another flight attendant, Anastasia Slavinskaya, was unable to find her husband and little son at home. A couple of minutes before takeoff, the 29-year-old girl went to her page on social networks.

The tragedy claimed the life of 22-year-old Daria Tolmasova from Novosibirsk, who was the girlfriend of the defender of the Vladivostok hockey team “Admiral” Sergei Ilyin. Hockey agent Shumi Babaev wrote about this on his Instagram.

Among those killed in the plane crash was 79-year-old Boris Karmaleev, who was a teacher at the St. Petersburg State University of Civil Aviation. According to the official website of the St. Petersburg university, Karmaleev was an Honored Pilot of the Russian Federation, as well as a candidate of technical sciences.

51-year-old Tatyana Sinitsyna was flying to Orsk via Moscow from Turkey, where her daughter lives. There the woman saw her little granddaughter for the last time.

The list of those killed in the crash of the An-148 airliner includes Ilya Stavsky. He turned 33 years old on the day of the crash. He was going home to celebrate his birthday. Ilya studied in Chelyabinsk at the Faculty of Energy of South Ural State University, then worked in Yekaterinburg at UMMC. Ilya called himself “an energy specialist in every sense,” as he had recently been studying esotericism.

On the plane was the head of the city department of the Federal Treasury Department for the Orenburg Region, the wife of the ex-deputy head of Orsk Vasily Kozupitsa, Antonina Kozupitsa. The woman would have turned 56 in April.

The head of the Orsk Central market, 68-year-old Viktor Anokhin, was flying in the crashed airliner with his 67-year-old wife Zoya.

The tragedy claimed the lives of the 60-year-old chief power engineer of the Orsknefteorgsintez company, Vladimir Normantovich, as well as his 36-year-old son Alexander, who also worked at the Orsk oil refinery.

Yulia Dmitrenko was heading from Moscow to her friend in Orsk. The family of the 29-year-old girl hoped until the last moment that she was alive.

We all hope. There's a fair amount of snow there. Maybe someone is alive,” Yulia’s grandmother Lydia Dmitrenko told reporters and burst into tears hopelessly.

The youngest passenger was only 5 years old. Baby Nadya was with her mother, 32-year-old Oksana Krasova.

49-year-old Oleg Kurepov died in a tragedy in the Moscow region. In 1992, the man graduated from the Faculty of Architecture and Construction. Recently he lived in Moscow.

44-year-old Yuri Yamaev was a coach in Moscow at a large commercial bank - he conducted training for staff. As colleagues noted, he was flying to Orsk on a business trip.

Among the dead is also a native of the Bashkir city of Mezhgorye, 26-year-old Kristina Alekseenko.

Our Mezhgoryevo girl, our classmate, a wonderful, cheerful and sympathetic person... The kingdom of heaven to you... School No. 2 and we all remember you... It is impossible to describe the pain that parents and relatives are currently experiencing... We mourn and share this great, terrible grief together with them,” Christina’s relatives noted in the “Overheard Mezhgorye” public page.

29-year-old Alexey Nikitchenko is remembered in Ulyanovsk, where he was born and raised, in Yaroslavl, where his mother lives, and in Moscow, where an enterprising and purposeful young man built his career - he was the general director of the O2Consulting company. Alexey was heading to Orsk on business; he had a business trip planned. By a fateful coincidence, about 10 years ago, Alexei’s father died in a helicopter crash.

The Saratov Airlines plane, which was heading from Moscow to Orsk, crashed at 14:21 Moscow time on February 11 near the village of Stepanovskoye near Moscow. 65 passengers were killed, as well as 6 crew members. In connection with this incident, a criminal case was opened for violation of traffic safety rules and the operation of air transport, which resulted in the death of two or more persons through negligence.

We express our condolences to the family and friends of the victims.