A year ago, 156 people died in the Lame Horse Night Cafe.
On December 5, Perm will celebrate a sad anniversary. On this day in 2009, thousands of Perm residents were in trouble. For many, in the fiery nightmare of the Lame Horse, relatives, friends, and acquaintances died or were injured.
Now most of those who survived the terrible night are undergoing long courses of treatment and rehabilitation. Svetlana Chazova's daughter was injured in Lame Horse. The girl was severely burned - she has no hair, auricles, several fingers on her left hand were completely and partially amputated. Due to burn scars on the skin, the fingers and joints do not bend well. She lay in the St. Petersburg clinic for about four months. All this time Svetlana was next to her. The attitude of the inhabitants of St. Petersburg, local officials and doctors towards the affected Permians was the most benevolent. Relatives who arrived in the city on the Neva were paid for housing and food. Volunteers helped literally in everything.
No matter how we scold our country, our people are still very good and kind, - says Svetlana Chazova. - Our governor Oleg Chirkunov came to visit us. I met with every perm. Very quickly helped to open accounts in St. Petersburg banks so that we could receive benefits without delay. Solved all our problems very quickly.
When the need arose for her daughter's blood transfusion - Svetlana Chazova has the same group as her - the mother offered her biomaterial. But the doctor, as Chazova recalls, refused her for two reasons. Firstly, she does not have a St. Petersburg registration, and secondly, there are enough donors even without her.
Now we are going to go to St. Petersburg again, - says Svetlana Chazova. - They have to make their daughter an operation to restore the ability to work so that her hands move.
They have already completed a rehabilitation course in Sochi, and like other victims, they are now going to Ust-Kachka. Only one thing worries Svetlana. After the doctors restore the ability to work to the daughter, a disabled person of the first group, there will be a need for cosmetic surgeries. It is necessary to reconstruct the fingers on the hand, the auricles. And to restore only one ear, it takes about one and a half million rubles.
True, they did not promise us help in this, - says Svetlana. - But we're not complaining, we'll manage somehow. My baby is alive and that's good.
Boiling polystyrene
Natalia Beze's two daughters went to Lame Horse a year ago. Irina died, and the youngest, Marina, miraculously survived. During the fire, she lay on the floor, under boiling polystyrene dripping from the ceiling. Were severely burned right part body, hands and face. According to Natalia Beze, now she has two problems with her daughter. First, there are drugs. They are very expensive. A 15-gram tube of "Kelo-cat", which helps in the treatment of burns, costs at least one and a half thousand rubles. But it is not for sale either. Now relatives bring medicine from abroad. Sponsors help too. Recently, several tubes of Dermatix were sent from Moscow. Natalia doesn't even know how much this medicine costs. She knows that it is very expensive and in Russia it is not available in pharmacies. The sponsor bought it abroad and, fearing that it might be lost in the mail, sent Dermatix with a friend on a plane.
In addition to burns, other diseases have to be treated. From the ingestion of poisonous gases emitted by the burning lining in the Lame Horse club, people developed stomach ulcers, pneumonia, bronchitis, blood poisoning, and even memory loss. All of these diseases require medication.
Natalya Beze received various benefits, but almost all of them went to pay off bank loans. Shortly before the fire, she and her husband bought apartments for their daughters on credit, and the money had to be used to pay them off.
Everyone helped us a lot,” says Natalia. - For example, when Marina was in a Moscow hospital, she needed a special protein diet. People who were complete strangers to me ordered the necessary meat and fish dishes in restaurants and brought them to the hospital. There were also many unnamed assistants. They prepared the necessary food themselves, bought fruits, cottage cheese, toothbrushes, slippers. The people were very helpful. At the expense of the sponsors, compression underwear was made not only for the daughter, but for all the victims, and according to individual measurements.
Daughter Natalia underwent a course of treatment in the Sochi health resort. And going there again. All trips are paid.
Natalya Beze is very excited about the upcoming plastic surgery. She fears that doctors will restore her daughter's ability to work, and scars on her skin will remain. In addition, the anti-burn medicines that they now use belong to the category of cosmetics. Therefore, you have to buy them at your own expense.
I would like to have an individual approach to each victim in the Lame Horse, - says Natalia Beze. - We need rehabilitation programs for everyone, both medical and psychological. For example, my daughter has already been summoned to court twice. And she doesn't want to go. The memories make it hard for her.
5 million from the sponsor
28-year-old Vladimir was severely burned on that tragic night. Now his whole face and body are "decorated" with patches of transplanted skin. On the hands - special compression gloves. Recovery procedures are still needed.
I work for same place Vladimir said. - I'm fine, nothing to complain about. Officials, doctors and just people are sympathetic to my problems and help in everything.
He was also treated in a Sochi sanatorium, now he is going to go to Nizhny Novgorod to restore the functions of fingers and hands, burned on the fifth of December.
But domestic medicine does not always help the victims. Two girls are still in a coma. Relatives of one of them, 22-year-old Irina Pekarskaya, were able to find sponsors and sent her to Germany for treatment with the money raised. For two months, German specialists treated the girl for bedsores that formed during her stay in a Moscow hospital. Now Irina's condition has improved, she began to respond to people, to eat on her own. But such treatment cost five million rubles. Ahead - many months of rehabilitation.
Horseshoe at the club
The Perm authorities decided to install a memorial sign at the site of the tragedy. One million rubles have been allocated from the city budget for this. The project is already ready. A memorial sign is planned to be installed at the entrance to the former Lame Horse night cafe. It is a quadrangular column of brown granite. In the very premises, which the municipal authorities want to receive from the Russian Ministry of Defense, they plan to organize a center for life safety. There will also be a memory room with the names of all those who died from the fire. However, this project caused a sharp rejection from the relatives of the victims.
My husband died there,” said one of the women. - I want to go there. Maybe I'll come during the day, maybe at night, and who will take me to the room
let?
There are many proposals to perpetuate the memory of the dead. It is proposed, among other things, to install a stele in the park of the Ural Volunteers. Lay a large metal horseshoe on the pavement where flowers could be carried. But the victims have not yet come to a common denominator of power.
Data
♦ The fire at the Lame Horse killed 156 people.
♦ Recognized as victims in a criminal case - 406 people.
♦ Left orphans - 146 children, 9 children lost both parents.
♦ The fire criminal case contains 139 volumes.
♦ Nine defendants are involved in the criminal case, six of them have been arrested.
♦ The victims and their representatives filed claims for moral and material damages in the amount of more than 4 billion rubles.
♦ The amount of voluntary donations amounted to 22079132 rubles 23 kopecks, of which 3457561 rubles 16 kopecks are intended for payments only to children.
♦ Each affected family received 78,561 rubles 48 kopecks.
♦ Each child received 21,609 rubles, orphans - 43,219 rubles.
♦ Relatives of the victims were paid 400,000 rubles from the federal budget and 100,000 rubles from the regional budget.
♦ The victims received 300,000 rubles from the federal budget and 100,000 rubles from the regional budget. Now all the money has already been paid to people.
On a note
On the night of December 4-5, at 0.30, a memorial service will begin near the former premises of the Lame Horse. Duty buses will take people to their homes in remote areas - Motovilikha, Parkovy, Zakamsk.
To all temples Perm Territory a circular was sent out on holding prayers, - said priest Konstantin, a representative of the Perm diocese. - At the Northern Cemetery, a memorial service will begin at 11.00 on the fifth of December. At the request of relatives, memorial prayers will also be read over the graves of the dead. The issue of mourning services at other cemeteries in Perm and the region has also been resolved.
Verdi's Requiem will be performed at the Perm Opera and Ballet Theater on December 4 in memory of the victims of the fire. In the Theater-Theater on December 5 at 18.00 a literary evening of Veniamin Smekhov will take place. Part of the tickets is reserved for relatives of the dead and injured.
While Irina Pekarskaya's husband becomes a father again and buys a new car, his wife dies in a Perm hospital
The history of betrayal is as old as the world. Love and betrayal often go hand in hand. Such is life... Sometimes we surrender to love, sometimes love betrays us...
Sometimes I wonder why there is no test for love?
Irina Pekarskaya. 27 years. After a fire in the Perm club "Lame Horse" in December 2009, where 156 people died, the girl fell into a coma. She is still alive. Just can't move. Not talking. And I really hope that she does not understand what events are unfolding around her.
At the time of the tragedy, Pekarskaya was married. She gave birth to two children.
But Serezha would not have been in her life, Irina would not have gone to the Lame Horse. There would be no night club - I would not be lying now chained to a hospital bed. If there were no beds, we would never know what scales human meanness can reach.
Irina Bannikova and Irina Pekarskaya have been wheelchair-bound for more than five years. From a vegetative state, the girls moved into a small consciousness - they learned to respond to others.
They didn't know each other before the fire. In the "Lame Horse" were different sides bar counter. Bannikova worked as a bartender in a club, Pekarskaya looked into the club for a friends party.
Beautiful young girls by that time stood firmly on their feet. Both had happy families - husbands, children.
After the tragedy, the spouses Bannikova and Pekarskaya rang all the bells: they appeared on television, gave interviews, swore eternal love to their half-dead wives, published settlement accounts. Compassionate people did not skimp, transferred impressive amounts to the accounts of the victims.
Decently perepalo Pekarskaya. After the tragedy, we talked with her husband Sergei. He literally beat his chest: “I will get Irina to stand on her feet. And the best doctors will treat her. I won't let you throw her out." It turns out that he kept only the last promise.
Irina Pekarskaya is still in the regional hospital in Perm. It's been several years now. An immobilized woman alone with her misfortune. Today, no one needs her - neither her husband, nor her mother, nor her brother, nor her friends.
The second victim, Irina Bannikova, is receiving treatment at home. Mom takes care of her. The expiration date of marital devotion in the Bannikova family expired two years after the tragedy.
Sergei Kolpakov, who after the tragedy did not leave the bed of Irina Pekarskaya, is known to all of Perm. Here is what the man told us six months after the tragedy.
- I spent all the accumulated savings for more than 4 months while my wife was in the capital's clinic. I have nothing left. Business collapsed. How to live on? What to treat your spouse? What to feed children? I have nowhere to get money from, - Kolpakov complained. - After the fire, Ira was transferred to Moscow for treatment. But soon the doctor said: “It makes no sense for her to stay with us. Take it or we'll throw it on the street. Treat yourself." Doctors kept the patient as long as they received federal money. And then my wife turned out to be of no use to anyone ... In the hospital, Ira was taken out of a coma, and then abandoned. IN last month no one cared about her. After coming out of a coma, she was diagnosed with a vegetative state for a long time - this is when a person cannot do without life-support devices: artificial ventilation of the lungs, artificial feeding. But Irina did not do the necessary examinations. I understood that I had to look for another hospital. The Human Brain Institute in St. Petersburg agreed to accept Irina for treatment. But there was no talk of free hospitalization. During this time, I practically lost my business - after all, I spend all the time in the hospital, then I return home to the children. The youngest is now 10 months old. The oldest is 2.5 years old. They don't even have anyone to leave. At first, the mother-in-law helped, but recently the woman had a stroke. Now she also needs to be taken care of. While friends are still helping financially, neighbors agree to babysit. When we transported Ira to the St. Petersburg clinic, the doctors were shocked - how the Moscow doctors let the patient go. Bedsores formed on her back and buttocks to the bones, which were carefully wrapped with bandages, and new ones were “molded” onto the old ones. It turns out that there was not the slightest care for his wife, there was even no one to turn her over. Ira was also not fed enough, which led to exhaustion. She doesn't recognize anyone. The wife's condition worsened. It is being restored again. Previously, at least her arms and legs were unbent, but now she froze in the fetal position. Irina's hair had to be shaved bald, her whole head was covered in scabs. In St. Petersburg, she was finally washed for the first time in many months, smeared with creams, cut her hair, and before that her skin was dry, scabbed with dirt.
Irina Pekarskaya before the fire...
…and after
According to Kolpakov, his wife's treatment at the Brain Institute cost him 300,000 rubles a month. Sergey paid extra 3,000 rubles a day to nurses.
- 400 thousand rubles, which the state allocated, I spent on children, flights, a hotel. IN this moment I live at the expense of friends, I get some crumbs from my old business. I sent a request to Germany, where, perhaps, Ira will be raised to her feet. I received an invoice - 120 thousand euros for treatment and 33 thousand euros will cost Irina's transportation to Germany. I myself can not raise this amount ...
Sergei then collected money for Germany. Irina was treated there. And then Pekarskaya was returned back to Perm. That was the end of Kolpakov's suffering.
And another story began, which Tamara Oborina, the mother of Irina Bannikova, who suffered in the fire, told us about.
“Kolpakov missed his wife. She'll never get better again."
- ... I just finished feeding my daughter, she can’t do without help, - Tamara Oborina began the conversation. - My husband has left my Ira for three years. I could not stand it ... Yes, I do not mind. He is a young guy. He needs to continue to live. Create a family...
Tamara doesn't seem to hold a grudge against ex-son-in-law. Or got sick?
- But the fate of my Ira, compared with the life of Pekarskaya, does not seem so sad. Everything is relative. My daughter is in the family, close people are next to her - me, my second daughter, her son. But Pekarskaya was left completely alone, the interlocutor continues. - I remember well how, after the fire, my Ira was transported to St. Petersburg to the Institute of the Brain. Pekarskaya was later transferred there as well. We were there for six months. Lived with Sergei in the same hostel. I saw him often come back drunk in the morning. I think he was not up to his wife even then. And yet the money was properly transferred.
Human pity knew no bounds. For many years, people transferred huge sums to the accounts published by Kolpakov.
- Pekarskaya was treated in Moscow, in St. Petersburg, in Germany. By that time there were permanent sponsors. But where did the money go? When we raised this topic in Perm, they began to call me from all regions of Russia. It turned out that only in Moscow people donated 500 thousand euros for the treatment of Pekarskaya. The Perm provincial Cossacks constantly helped Sergey - every month they transferred 30 thousand rubles to a nurse. However, Kolpakov did not pay the nurses. People were horrified when the truth was revealed. I was contacted by a certain businessman Igor from Moscow - for four years every month he transferred decent amounts for the treatment of a girl. He almost cried: "I so believed the man."
One of Pekarskaya's nurses once complained that Sergei had not paid her salary. Later, another supported her.
- We counted that over the years, Pekarskaya has had 23 nurses. My daughter and I are in the hospital twice a year, where Irina is. I know many nurses. And I constantly heard from them: “Kolpakov does not pay, we will not go anymore,” adds Oborina. “Two months ago, I found a nurse myself, now I go to the hospital, I make sure that Ira is properly cared for.”
But now nothing depends on the new nurse and competent care for Pekarskaya. Time is gone. Every day Irina languishes before our eyes.
- Her legs are twisted, her hands are turned inside out. And the jaw seemed to be gone. All these years she needed careful care. When I went into her room, I found that the closet was full of new orthoses. They weren't even unpacked. And for such patients, orthoses must be constantly put on - on the arms, on the legs, so that the limbs do not stiffen. They did not wear a baker's. Kolpakov showed the TV men Irina's simulator, which was sent to him from Germany. This simulator is in her room. But had Pekarskaya ever approached him? If Ira immediately began to practice on it, then today she would be in order - her arms and legs would move. When Sergei was asked the question: “How could you miss your wife?”, He got out, said that he had been slandered, but everything was fine with Irina. But I saw Pekarskaya with my own eyes. IN last time she even developed bedsores on her head. Nurses in the hospital did not deal with it due to objective reasons. Who will pay them? They didn’t put her on a wheelchair, they didn’t turn her over, they didn’t put her on a simulator, there was no question of a relaxing massage. Soon the commission will meet in the hospital on this issue. They will decide what to do next with Irina. It makes no sense to keep her in the clinic. And no one needs her anymore.
The only thing that Kolpakov achieved was to knock out a 4-bed ward for his wife.
“This is a tragedy for the hospital,” Oborina continues. - Pekarskaya has been in this hospital for 4 years. Occupies a huge chamber - this was Kolpakov's desire. There are not enough places in the department of neurology. Irina does not receive hospital treatment. She just lies there. He screams loudly in pain. There is no one next to her. The clinic staff raised the issue that Irina should be transferred to a boarding school for the disabled or a rehabilitation center. So Kolpakov sent a letter to the president that they want to expel the victim from the hospital. An answer came from the Presidential Administration - to leave Pekarskaya. This is how Kolpakov takes care of his wife. He was not there for two months, according to one of the nurses. Cream and wet wipes we buy ourselves. Outsiders think more of her than he does. When Sergei was offered to transfer Irina to a rehabilitation center, he categorically refused, is it because then the entire pension of Pekarskaya would go to the center? And so Kolpakov receives this money. Although the amount there is ridiculous - 11,700 rubles.
“Husband, brother and mother abandoned Pekarskaya”
According to Tamara Oborina, while Kolpakov collected money for treatment, Pekarskaya's mother and brother followed his young children. They lived in Berezniki, which is 200 km from Perm.
- When a wave of popular anger began, Sergei took the children. Before that, I rarely visited them. Brother Pekarskaya said that he gave out 500 rubles a month for children. Sometimes for six months no money was seen from him. But there was a separate settlement account for the children of Pekarskaya, where decent amounts also dripped.
- Mom, brother visit Irina?
None of them visit. Pekarskaya's mother was struck by a stroke, but she thinks everything, moves around. I asked her to take her daughter home so that Ira could feel maternal warmth, communication, offered to hire a nurse, but the woman flatly refused: “No, I can’t.” She also does not come to the hospital, she refers to the distance. The brother is also not up to the sister. And they stopped communicating with everyone. Maybe Kolpakov forbade them?
The expiration date of marital devotion in the Bannikova family expired two years after the tragedy.
A couple of years ago, Kolpakov developed another hectic activity - he decided to open a rehabilitation center in a burned-out building. He made a loud statement: “First of all, the victims in the Lame Horse will be treated there. And there are already those who want to. The only thing left is to raise money for the repair of the building and equipment.” And again money fell into Kolpakov's piggy bank.
But the center is not open to this day.
- For the construction of the center, Sergei was given a lot of money from the city budget. They sent expensive equipment from Germany. All this has been idle for 4 years, says Oborina. “I would never take my daughter there. I cried for a long time when I found out that they were going to build on the site of the Lame Horse. I went to the governor with a request to cancel the decision of such construction. It seems they listened to me ... Let's see ...
Tamara Oborina with her daughter Irina Bannikova.
Sergei Kolpakov himself lives in Perm. All of Perm knows about his "hard lot".
- The families of those who died-injured in the Lame Horse still communicate with each other. Of course, everyone knows how Kolpakov's life turned out, too, says Oborina. For example, five months ago he had a baby. The mother of the child is a young girl. Not officially listed. He has two adult children from previous marriages. With Pekarskaya, they gave birth to two more. Sergey recently bought a new car, a luxury jeep. When asked where the money for such a car came from, he replied: “I taxed.” Why couldn’t he “attack” Irina?
Recently there was information that Sergey Kolpakov became the general director of three large enterprises - the Chkalovsky-Zakamsk shopping center, Torgovy Ryad LLC and Investment Projects, which belong to Anatoly Zak, the main defendant in the Lame Horse fire case. By a strange coincidence, it was to him that the main person involved in the high-profile case entrusted his assets.
- The fact that Kolpakov is connected with Zak, we learned not so long ago. He hid this fact for a long time,” the interlocutor sighs.
- Zack's property was arrested, something was sold, did the money reach the victims?
— We know that a lot of property has been sold for a long time, for 3-4 million rubles. But we haven't seen any money yet. We were told that 20-30 thousand rubles per family should have been allocated. When they found out that Kolpakov now owns Zak's enterprises, they realized that now we won’t wait for any payments. Before the court verdict, the convict Efremova, the executive director of the burned-out institution, helped us, paid 10-15 thousand rubles a month. When she was imprisoned, the money stopped coming to us.
Tamara Oborina recently introduced her daughter Irina Bannikova to Irina Pekarskaya.
The girls first saw each other in the hospital. Two Irenes. Both are in wheelchairs. Both left by their husbands...
When their eyes met, the girls cried in unison.
P.S. Sergei Kolpakov refused to communicate with the press. The mother and brother of Irina Pekarskaya also did not want to comment on the situation.
When the boys entered the ward to Irinka, she turned her head in their direction and quietly cried, - says the mother of Irina Pekarskaya, who suffered in the Lame Horse. They haven't seen each other for over seven years.
The mother of the victim in the "Lame Horse": "Ira left work and study for her husband, and he left her and the children"
Komsomolskaya Pravda tried to find out why Irina Pekarskaya was left in the hospital all alone and who spent her disability pension ()
The commercial director of the burned-out Lame Horse club was released without paying a penny to the victims
Recall that on the night of the tragedy, December 5, 2009, the businessman arrived at the club with his wife Alexandra. The girl received severe burns, and her husband came out of the burning room unharmed and went on the run, later he was caught in Spain ()
Instead of monetary compensation, the victims of the Lame Horse were offered curtains, carpets and flower pots
I was very outraged by the letter that the other day came from the bailiffs, - says one of the victims of the Lame Horse, who lost her daughter in the fire. - Its essence is that we were offered together with monetary compensation for moral harm to take the personal belongings of the perpetrators - curtains, carpets, paintings, etc. ()
Even more materials
A fire in Perm, in the Lame Horse club, broke out on December 5, 2009. As a result of the tragedy, 156 people died. It was by the number of victims. In the world ranking of similar incidents in nightclubs, this fire was in 9th place.
Description of the nightclub
Nightclub "Lame Horse" was located in Perm. It was one of the most popular places of entertainment in the city. The club was located on the street. Kuibyshev, not far from the building of the Legislative Assembly. On the day when the fire broke out, the night entertainment establishment celebrated its next anniversary.
The Lame Horse had only 50 seats for visitors. But 282 people came to the celebration. The staff of 40 people served the guests. It was planned to hold a colorful show with fireworks.
The start of a fire
The fire in the Lame Horse nightclub started at 23:08 Moscow time (01:08 Perm). The decoration of the walls and ceilings of the Lame Horse consisted of canvases. Sparks from fireworks set off the fire. They hit the low ceiling. And thanks to the flammable material, the rate of fire spread has increased.
In addition to canvas and rods, the ceiling of the Lame Horse was covered with foam. Although according to all fire safety rules, this is prohibited. The use of pyrotechnics in such a facility is the main cause of the fire at the Lame Horse Club. As soon as the fire came into contact with the foam, toxic smoke containing hydrocyanic acid began to be released.
fire spread
The fire at the Lame Horse nightclub spread instantly. From the moment when the first flames licked the ceiling, and before the club was filled with poisonous smoke, only 50 seconds passed. Of course, this is very little to have time to evacuate visitors. But it was during this time period that they could safely leave the building. However, they were not told about it right away. The host of the show announced the fire and asked everyone to leave the building only at the 14th second. Investigators will later restore the chronology of events.
Of course, all the guests immediately hurried to the exit. The tragedy at the Lame Horse Club could have been smaller. But for some reason, all the signs in the room led only to the main entrance, although there was also a black one. Through it, only some employees of the institution were able to get out.
Visitors were directed only to the main entrance. As a result, there was a big crush at the door. Although there were two of them, but for some reason one leaf of each of them was closed. The guards managed to break one of the non-working doors. But that didn't help much. The light soon went out, and people's panic joined the stampede.
Many visitors were severely poisoned by carbon monoxide. Some received serious burns. Visitors who were able to get out on their own received frostbite of varying degrees. Since the frost was -16, and people were without clothes. Many of the victims who were carried out of the Lame Horse were laid directly on the cold asphalt.
How did the secret services operate?
The fire in the Lame Horse nightclub (a photo of the tragedy can be viewed in this article) started at about one in the morning. The fire department was notified of the fire at 01:08 local time. One of the victims informed the security service. He ran to fire station number 110, which was located just a hundred meters from the club.
And at 01:10 am received a call to the ambulance. Vehicles immediately rushed to the scene. At 01:11 firefighters arrived at the Lame Horse. All fires have their degree. The fire at the Lame Horse club was equated to the third category. Twenty fire brigades were sent to the scene of the tragedy. Extinguishing the fire had to be postponed until the complete evacuation of club visitors from the premises.
