31.10.2015 - 19:59

Egypt news. Tragedy that claimed 224 lives. There were 200 adults, 17 children and 7 crew members on board. The bodies of those killed in the crash on Saturday evening began to be delivered to the Zenhom morgue in Cairo.

At the crash site Russian airliner a search and rescue operation continues in Egypt.

Recall that a passenger plane en route from resort town Sharm El Sheikh to Saint Petersburg,. The airliner disappeared from radar screens less than half an hour after departure. Before that, the car began to lose altitude abruptly.

According to the latest data, 220 Russians, three Ukrainians, etc. were killed in the crash.

It is already known that most of the passengers on the ill-fated flight were from St. Petersburg. Each line in the list of the victims has its own story. Someone spent a vacation in Egypt, someone - a wedding anniversary, someone celebrated a birthday. By and large, many came to hot country as tourists.

Literally half an hour before the tragedy, this photo appeared on the page of a resident of St. Petersburg.

The beloved husband is holding his beloved daughter in his arms. Their family turned four on October 27. Olga and Yuri, according to friends, were an incredibly happy couple, appreciated and respected each other. Three glorious children were born in love (all three rested with mom and dad in Egypt). They loved to travel, preferred beach activities.

Olga Sheina with her daughter

In July, we rested in Cyprus, for October we have long planned a trip to Egypt.

Tatiana and Alexey Gromov

As Tatyana wrote on her page on the social network, “ flew to warm up". This was their first trip with the whole family. Before the flight from St. Petersburg, a happy mother took this photo.

Darina rests her handles on the glass and carefully examines the plane.

The grandmother of the "main passenger" did not want to let her granddaughter go to Egypt, they say, she is still a baby, let her grow up a little. Darina's parents insisted: “ Mom, nothing's going to happen. Let's help our feet in the sea and come back».

Darina Gromova

The day before, Alexei called home and said that this vacation was the best and most significant, because the first trip “ full complement».

His father was a military pilot. Alexey wanted to follow in the footsteps of his dad, but changed his mind. As a result, he built a career in an IT company.

Tatiana and Alexey Gromov

« They seemed the happiest in the world. Both eyes shone with happiness", - this is how colleagues say

about 62-year-old Alexander Kopylov, deputy head of Pskov, and his wife Elena.

On October 27, the woman celebrated her 53rd birthday. The trips to Egypt became a gift from the husband in honor of his wife's birthday.

Elena's daughter, like dozens of daughters and sons, whose lives were forever taken by the ill-fated flight from the resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg, refuses to believe in what happened.

Among passengers Airbus aircraft A321 turned out to be a participant in the popular TV show "Top Model in Russian" Elena Domashnyaya.

Colleague of Elena Domashnaya in the project "Top Model in Russian". Recording in social networks

After the TV show, Lena did not abandon the modeling business, continued to take part in photo projects, and received a journalist diploma.

Elena Domashnyaya

In two weeks, the beauty would have turned 25 years old. The girl was planning to have a big party.

Elena flew to Egypt on vacation. She was accompanied by her friend and colleague Ksenia Ogorodova.

Ksenia Ogorodova

Ksenia called the fall, spent in a piece of paradise, “ideal”. Palm trees, sea and sun. A few days ago, the girl boasted that for the first time in Egypt she found rain.

One of the Egyptian photographs of Ksenia Ogorodova shows how four young guys throw a girl, probably Ksenia herself, into the pool, and two fall after her. " Rescue of a drowning man. Very funny Polish families that don't let you get burned", - this is how the girl signed this photo.

This shot was the last.

32-year-old Katya Murashova was a participant in the beauty contest among married women - "Mrs. Pskov-2014".

Ekaterina Murashova

As Catherine's friends say, travel was literally the meaning of her life. She worked in the state department of social protection of the Pskov region, and spent her free time on trips with her family to different countries and cities. " Very sociable, open and kind person"- this is how Katya's colleagues describe her.

Nikolay Korolev, organizer of the beauty contest (to the Pskov Information Agency):
She was a loving mother and an optimistic person. Catherine always did everything well. She was a stubborn, hardworking, kind and sympathetic woman. Even without winning the competition, she was not upset, because the very process of growth and self-development was important for her. I remember her as a loving mother - they had a very warm relationship with my daughter. She was an optimistic, cheerful woman who loved life.

Ironically, one of the last entries left by Ekaterina Murashova on a page on a social network, an airplane icon and a song with a sad, and, as it turned out, prophetic title "I know that I will not be back."

On the 27th year, the life of Alina Gaydamak from St. Petersburg was cut short.

Alina Gaidamak

Finland, Estonia, Cyprus, Thailand. The girl visited a dozen countries and dreamed of visiting as many more, definitely not less. A trip to Egypt appeared spontaneously in her plans.

Alina went on a trip to Israel. On the way back, I decided to fly through Egypt.

Elena and Alexander

The anniversary was celebrated in Egypt. The family planned to return home on October 31 in order to finish preparations for another significant date. On November 1, Elena would have turned 35 years old.

Desperate hope "what if a mistake?" relatives and friends of Belarusian Roman Seredinsky live.

The 28-year-old young man was awarded a trip to Egypt for his good work. The fact that the rest would end with such a tragedy, no one could have thought.

Roman Seredinsky

Natalya Melnichenko has known Roma since school. We studied together from the first grade. He remembers how we went on excursions to the memorable places of Belarus, went on hikes and to the river. About 10 years ago, a childhood friend left for St. Petersburg. All this time .

Natalia Melnichenok, classmate of Roman Seredinsky:
Roma was and will always remain a good, cheerful person for us.

The son of the dean of the St. Petersburg School of Economics and Management was vacationing at the resort with his beloved Alexandra.

On her Instagram page, Sasha Illarionova shared her impressions and posted photos of the underwater world. Lyonya and Sasha have recently taken a great interest in diving.

A week ago, Olga Kirillova enthusiastically told her friends that there is nothing better in the world than a vacation at the sea.

Olga Kirillova

She calmly endured the heat and more than once noted how the sun adored her. The girl always came home with a luxurious tan.

In numerous photos, she smiles. Olga loved it when people around were smiling, and then work was a pleasure. She made magnificent bouquets of flowers, customers left on the pages in in social networks enthusiastic comments.

One of the last works of Olga

In Egypt, Olga Kirillova was vacationing with her best friend, 25-year-old Zhenya Sologubova.

They said about them, "do not spill water." Indeed, the friendship between the girls was the most, that neither is, strong. " Good company is the most important thing in any vacation.", - said the girlfriends.

Evgeniya Sologubova

On the last day spent at the resort, Evgenia left a note on her web page with the words “ out of range"And several graphic emoticons. The girl, of course, said that she was out of the zone for the duration of the flight.

21-year-old table tennis coach Yevgeny Yavsin was vacationing in Egypt with his girlfriend Alexandra Chernova.

Evgeny Yavsin and Alexandra Chernova

Evgeny Yavsin

For the wards, friends and relatives, the news that the cheerful and purposeful Zhenya and Sasha are no longer there was a real shock.

As Russian publications inform, referring to the couple's friends, Eugene invited Alexandra to rest in Egypt to propose to her.

« Lovely friendly family"- this is how the Golenkov family from St. Petersburg remembered.

Vladimir and Victoria Golenkovs took their granddaughter Diana with them to the warm sea. In September, the baby turned four years old.

Olesya Kosorukova from Novgorod is sure that time cannot reconcile with pain. Her mother Natalya Rostenko was on board the Airbus A321.

In August, the woman retired and promised her family that she would take a short break and, upon her return, would help with her grandchildren. Natalia has five of them.

Natalia Rostenko during one of the trips

She rested in Sharm el-Sheikh seven times, was delighted with the resort and planned to return here in January to celebrate her birthday.

« I never thought that Egypt would cause so many positive emotions in me. Do I want to live here? No. Will I come back here? Necessarily", - wrote on Thursday evening

A 24-year-old resident of St. Petersburg on her page on the social network.

Victoria Sevryukova shared photos from the trip with her virtual friends. The girl enjoyed life and literally accompanied every picture with the hashtags "happiness is here" and "I don't want to leave."

Friends remember: Vika always traveled with her favorite pink suitcase.

Victoria Sevryukova

This thing seemed to confirm: the hostess never has a bad mood.

Alexey and Oksana Semakovs are another married couple who have been registered on board.

Spouses Semakovs

Both with shoulder straps: he is an inspector of the fire supervision of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, she is an interrogator of the police department. They escaped from cold Belomorsk to warm regions for only seven days. Happy and rested, Oksana and Alexei planned to take up the service the other day with renewed vigor.

They were expected home with a lot of new experiences and gifts. But relatives and friends were not destined to meet any of the passengers of flight 9268 at the Pulkovo airport.

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Crew of Tu-154 85572

1. Major Volkov Roman

The commander of the crashed Tu-154. First class pilot. Grew up in the Leningrad region, the son of a military pilot. At the time of the disaster, he had flown more than three thousand hours. Roman Volkov is survived by a wife and two small children.

2. Captain Alexander Rovensky

The co-pilot of the crashed plane. On December 26, he was supposed to play Santa Claus at a matinee in kindergarten from their daughters.

3. Lieutenant Colonel Petukhov Yuri

Navigator. In 2011, he was awarded for the landing of Tu-154 by the Ministry of Defense, whose control system failed. After the video of that landing appeared on social networks, Internet users nicknamed him “the dancing Tu-154”.

4. Captain Mamonov Andrey

Senior navigator. A native of the Kaliningrad region. 34 years.

5. Senior Lieutenant Valery Hairdressers

Flight engineer. 29 years. Originally from the Krasnoyarsk Territory, he moved to Moscow after graduating from an aviation engineering school in Irkutsk. In Moscow, he is survived by a wife and two young sons.

6. Major Tregubov Andrey

Aviation equipment onboard engineer.

7. Senior Lieutenant Sushkov Viktor

Senior onboard mechanic. This is not the first time I have flown to Syria. A native of the Voronezh region. After the army, he worked in internal organs. About a year ago he switched to aviation. The flight engineer was planning a wedding and children.

8. Senior Lieutenant Alexey Sukhanov

The senior air radio operator is an on-board interpreter. 31 years.

Passengers

Military personnel:

1. Lieutenant General Khalilov Valery

The head of the ensemble is the artistic director of the Academic Song and Dance Ensemble of the Russian Army named after A.V. Alexandrov, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General.

Born into the family of a military conductor. He began to study music at the age of four. Graduated from the Moscow Military Music School (now the Moscow Military Music School) and the Military Conducting Faculty at the Moscow P.I. Tchaikovsky. Upon graduation, he was appointed military conductor of the orchestra of the Pushkin Higher Military Command School of Air Defense Radio Electronics.

After the orchestra conducted by Valery Khalilov took 1st place in the competition of military orchestras of the Leningrad Military District (1980) - he became a teacher in the conducting department of the Military Conducting Faculty at the Moscow State P.I. Tchaikovsky.

In 1984, Valery Khalilov was transferred to the management body of the military orchestra service of the USSR Ministry of Defense, where he served as an officer of the military orchestra service, senior officer and deputy head of the military orchestra service.

From 2002 to 2016, Valery Khalilov - Head of the Military Orchestral Service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation - Chief Military Conductor.

In April 2016, by order of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Valery Khalilov was appointed Head of the Alexandrov Ensemble.

Valery Khalilov is the musical director of such international military music festivals as Spasskaya Tower (Moscow), Amur Waves (Khabarovsk), March of the Century (Tambov) and the International Military Music Festival in Yuzhno -Sakhalinsk.

Valery Khalilov is a member of the Union of Composers of Russia.

2. Colonel Khasanov Amir

Colonel Amir Khasanov served in Transbaikalia, his family lived in Moscow, but he grew up in Bashkiria. The relatives decided to bury the colonel in his small homeland.

3. Colonel Vaganov Alexander

46 years old. Employee of the personnel department of the Eastern Military District.

4. Colonel Ivanov Andrey

5. Lieutenant Colonel Kolosovsky Andrey

Andrey Kolosovsky

55 years. The day before the flight, he received the title of "Honored Military Pilot" from the hands of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and in the fall - the "Combat Commonwealth" medal from the Syrian Ministry of Defense.

6. Major Dolinsky Alexander

43 years. Deputy Head of the Aviation Service of the Aviation Squadron

7. Colonel Negrub Alexander

A native of the city of Volzhsky Volgograd region, Chief of Staff - Deputy Air Squadron Commander. In the suburbs, Alexander has a wife and a small child.

8. Captain Abrosimov Sergey

26 years. Employee of the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Russian Ministry of Defense.

Federal government civil servants:

1. Gubankov Anton

Director of the Department of Culture of the Ministry of Defense.

He came to the Ministry of Defense in 2013, joining the team of Sergei Shoigu. Anton Nikolaevich has a vast experience of work in journalism behind him. He started back in 1985 as a correspondent for the Leningrad University newspaper. In the late 1980s, he worked in Syria for three years, then became a commentator and host of Radio Russia programs on RTR.

In 1993, Gubankov headed the information service of the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company Channel 5, then he was the head of the Vesti-Petersburg program.

In 2008, Gubankov became the chairman of the Committee for Culture of the Government of St. Petersburg.

Arriving at the Ministry of Defense, Anton Nikolaevich began to use non-standard methods of work. In July 2013, he performed a rap about military service, a video of which was recorded with the aim of "increasing the authority of the Russian army and the prestige of military service" and published on YouTube. The author of the text was Gubankov himself, the idea to record the song was born to him at the collegium of the Ministry of Defense, dedicated to the prestige of military service. Gubankov said that every patriotic employee of the department should not only serve honestly, but also bring into the common cause “a good dose of creativity and creativity”, and argued that “the ladies are thrilled by the soldier’s gaze” and that the army needs a soldier with “Batman inside and Rambo outside. "

2. Badrutdinova Oksana

Oksana Badrutdinova

Assistant to Anton Gubankov. She passed away the day after her birthday. On December 24, she turned 34 years old. The last photo on her page - with thanks for the congratulations - was taken the night before, late in the evening at the Chkalovsky airfield, from where the crashed plane originally took off.

International public organization "Fair Aid"

1. Glinka Elizabeth

Executive Director of the Fair Help Foundation, member of the Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights.

Dr. Liza was at the forefront of palliative medicine in Russia and the post-Soviet space, she worked in the First Moscow Hospice, became the founder of the first hospice in Kiev.

In 2010, Elizaveta Glinka carried out on her own behalf the collection of material assistance in favor of victims of forest fires. In 2012, Glinka and her foundation organized a collection of things for flood victims in Krymsk. With the outbreak of the conflict in Donbass, Dr. Liza came there many times, bringing medicines and taking wounded children to Russia for treatment.

Since 2015, Elizaveta Glinka has worked in Syria, was involved in the delivery and distribution of medicines, and the organization of medical assistance to the civilian population.

Mass media

First channel:

1. Runkov Dmitry

Correspondent of the First Channel. Originally from Arkhangelsk. After graduating from the university he worked as a correspondent for Vesti Pomor'ya, after he moved to St. Petersburg, and a year ago he came to Channel One.

2. Denisov Vadim

Operator of the First Channel. I have already been to Syria. During the fighting in Aleppo, he survived, despite the fact that the only road to the city was blocked by militants.

3. Soidov Alexander

Sound engineer of the First Channel.

TV channel NTV:

4. Luzhetsky Mikhail

Correspondent-producer of the NTV channel. Born and raised in Morshansk. Graduated from the Saratov State Law Academy. Due to the specifics of the work, he visited several hot spots, more than once filmed materials on the activities of the Ministry of Defense.

5. Pestov Oleg

Operator of the NTV channel.

6. Tolstov Evgeniy

Sound engineer of the NTV channel.

Zvezda TV channel:

7. Obukhov Pavel

Correspondent of the Zvezda TV channel.

8. Rzhevsky Valery

Assistant operator of the TV channel "Zvezda". 21 years old. Originally from Andreevka near Moscow. He just started his media career as an assistant cameraman for a federal channel.

9. Suranov Alexander

Operator of the Zvezda TV channel.

FBGU "Ensemble named after Alexandrova "

1. Sonnikov Andrey

Deputy head of the ensemble.

2. Guzhova Love

Dresser.

3. Ivashko Alina

Dresser.

4. Brodsky Vladimir

Concertmaster.

5. Bulochnikov Evgeniy

29 years. Originally from Volgograd, he performed in the Voronezh choir named after Massalitinov, and then became a member of the choir named after I. Alexandrova.

6. Golikov Vladislav

Singer from Kazan, tenor. Leading opera soloist of the Natalia Sats Children's Musical Theater, laureate of all-Russian competitions.
Performer of the parts of the Prince in S. Prokofiev's opera "The Love for Three Oranges", Podkolesin in A. Grechaninov's opera "The Marriage", Tamino in "The Magic Flute" by V.А. Mozart, Lensky in Eugene Onegin by P.I. Tchaikovsky, Mark in the opera Edible Tales by M. Bronner, Tsarevich Guidon in The Golden Cockerel and many others. He was married with two children.

7. Osipov Grigory

Was born in Baku. After graduating from the conservatory, he trained in Vienna. For the last seven years he has been a soloist at the Bolshoi Theater, and also worked at the Moscow Philharmonic, performed with the Alexandrov Ensemble. He has toured across Russia, as well as in Great Britain, Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, Spain - literally traveled all over the world.

8. Sanin Victor

Soloist of the ensemble, Honored Artist of Russia. Born and raised in the Tula region. On December 28, he would have turned 56 years old. He has been working in the ensemble since 1995. A graduate of Gnesinka, he worked at the Soyuzconcert, the creative center of Sergei Belikov, the song and dance ensemble of the Moscow Military District.

9. Mayorov Konstantin

Conductor. Chief Choirmaster of the Academic Song and Dance Ensemble of the Russian Army named after A.V. Alexandrova, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation. Singer of the Moscow Church of the Icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow" on Bolshaya Ordynka.

10. Buryachenko Boris

Graduate of the Moscow ConservatoryBoris Buryachenko was not only the choirmaster of the Academic Ensemble named after. A.V. Alexandrov, but also the choirist of the choir of the Vysoko-Petrovskaya monasteryon Petrovka. He did not say that he was flying to Syria, he simply warned his colleagues about a new business trip.

The choir director of the Vysoko-Petrovsky monastery, Aleksey Lyubimov, said that Boris had always been intelligent, modest, fit perfectly into the team, was in his place. He was "a universal singer - he could sing with both a baritone and a second tenor, if necessary." Boris worked in the choir for about two years - mainly on weekends due to the busy schedule in the ensemble. “Last weekend he sang at our monastery courtyard and said that next weekend he would be busy. I did not mention Syria, ”said the choir director.

11. Dmitry Babovnikov

Dmitry Babovnikov -finalist of the all-Russian competition "New Star" and a member of the KALINA folk group from Kostroma. The team has become one of the strongest participants in the project. During a concert at one of the stages of the project on the Zvezda TV channel, Dmitry Babovnikov, as part of a group, successfully performed in front of Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu with the song "Old Maple".The 37-year-old Dmitry Babovnikov has been in the Alexandrov ensemble for the last 15 years.

Dmitry tried to see his 5-year-old daughter as often as possible; they were divorced from his wife. A few hours before departure, he came to congratulate his daughter on the upcoming New Year, dressed up in a suit of the Moroz Business. In social networks, Dmitry posted a photo with the caption:“I congratulated my beloved daughter Happy New Year! She said - he has daddy's voice and daddy's nose! "Friends say that dad has promised to return for the holiday with gifts.

12. Bazdyrev Andrey

32 years. I got married just a month ago. The last photos on the page are from your own wedding. Andrei touchingly holds his wife Maria by the hand and gently looks at his chosen one. The couple not only signed at the registry office, but also got married.

13. Dmitry Belonozhko

14. Dmitry Beschastnov

36 years. A native of Vladikavkaz, a graduate of the College of Arts. Gergiev, more than once performed in the choir at major concerts - his "crown" was the performance of the famous "Darkie" from the film "Only Old Men Go to Battle".

15. Vasin Mikhail

25-year-old Mikhail Vasin - a talented vocalist of the Alexandrov Ensemble - crashed on the crashed Tu-154 plane together with his bride, 22-year-old Ralina Gilmanova, on the eve of the wedding. The guys were going to get married early next year, as Mikhail had already told his mother and older brother in his native Kuban city of Labinsk.

Mikhail Vasin was from Krasnodar Territory, Ralina is from Kazan. Young people met in the ensemble, and on the last New Year Mikhail made an offer to Ralina. The girl agreed.

According to the friends of the deceased, Ralina danced solo parts in the ensemble, was a very talented ballerina, literally "flew around the stage."

Mikhail, according to the head of the Labinsk city department of culture, Ivette Velokhina, had a rare timbre of voice - bass-profundo. Therefore, he began working in the ensemble while still a student at the conservatory.

The trip to Syria was planned, and although Ralina admitted that the trip was "a little scary", she added: "Nothing, we are artists!"

16. Gilmanova Ralina

17. Davidenko Kirill

Originally from the Moscow Region Protvino. Graduated from the Kamerton children's art school, and then from the Gnessin Academy of Music and the Moscow State University of Culture and Arts. He was a chorister of the Church of the Intercession in Krasnoye Selo in Moscow.

18. Deniskin Sergey

Honored Artist of Mordovia. Everyone who knew Sergei says that he was a kind-hearted man. He grew up in an ordinary, poor family. After the 8th grade, he entered a cultural enlightenment school, after which he worked for some time in the district recreation center, and then followed the sisters to the Moscow region.

19. Zhuravlev Pavel

20. Zakirov Radik

Graduated from the children's art school №2 in Izhevsk. According to the recollections of classmates, he was a musical and athletic guy. He loved English and German.

21. Ivanov Maxim

Maxim was the lead singer of the ensemble. Studied at the vocal department of the Ufa College of Arts. Then he moved to the Chuvash Institute of Culture and Arts, and then graduated from GITIS with a degree in musical theater director. Colleagues remember Maxim as a restless but responsible person who loves life and music. He lived in Odintsovo with his wife and daughter and worked on the creation of an opera house in the region.

“We have already assembled a troupe and a symphony orchestra, about 250 artists in total. All that remained was to find a room. There is no opera theater in the Moscow region yet, and Maxim was looking for options in one of the cities of the Moscow region. He wanted Khimki or Odintsovo, ”said a classmate of the deceased Yevgeny Morozov.

Maxim was supposed to become the chief director of the new theater. The artists hope that in memory of the deceased, the Moscow Region authorities will be able to help create an opera house in the region.

22. Ivanov Andrey

A graduate of the Pushkin College of Music. S. S. Prokofiev. Andrey has a small child.

23. Sergey Kotlyar

24. Kochemasov Andrey

Graduated from the Perm College of Music. He studied first at the department of folk instruments in the accordion class, and then took up vocals, since he has a very beautiful tenor and perfect pitch. According to his teachers, after graduation, Andrei first went to Yekaterinburg to stay with his wife. But then the career ladder brought him to Moscow, to the Alexandrov ensemble.

25. Alexey Krivtsov

After graduating from the Perm College of Music, he sang in the Perm opera house, then left for Moscow, sang in the choir of the Bolshoi Theater. And then he moved to the ensemble. Alexandrov, where he had more opportunities to prove himself.

26. Dmitry Litvyakov

Native Bryansk region, a graduate of the Oryol State Institute of Culture. He began working in the renowned ensemble in 2009. I made the last entry on social networks a few hours before the fatal departure. Dmitry is survived by a wife and a baby.

27. Mokrikov Alexey

A native of the Tula region. In 2015 he graduated from the Tula College of Arts. Dargomyzhsky, and later was admitted to the Ensemble.

28 ... Morgunov Alexey

29 years old, a choir singer (tenor), a graduate of the Minusinsk College of Culture and Arts and the Krasnoyarsk Academy of Music and Theater (2016), he sang in the Krasnoyarsk choir "Poem for You".

29 ... Nasibulin Evgeniy (Zhafyar).

Former member of the Lyube group. He worked in the group of producer Igor Matvienko in the early 1990s and moved to the Alexandrov Song and Dance Ensemble.

30 ... Novokshanov Yuri

55-year-old native of Novokuznetsk. He graduated from the music school, then left for Novosibirsk, where he worked at the opera house, after that he performed at the drama theater in Omsk. He often visited his relatives in Novokuznetsk, rested at the dacha in Ashmarino, rode a boat. He played the accordion very well for friends and neighbors - many came running to listen to his playing and singing. I entered the Alexandrov Ensemble relatively recently, in March of this year. I was very proud of this.

31. Polyakov Vladimir

32-year-old soloist of the Alexandrov Song and Dance Ensemble. Born and raised in Magnitogorsk, graduated from the city music school, worked for some time in the Magnitogorsk choir, then entered the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music and moved to Moscow. In the ensemble named after Alexandrov he performed for about five years.

32. Saveliev Andrey

Soloist of the Stepanov Nizhny Novgorod Chamber Musical Theater.

33. Sokolovsky Anatoly

He lived in Lobnya, near Moscow.

34. Tarasenko Artem

From the Krasnoyarsk Territory. Graduated from the Ivanov-Radkevich College of Arts. He successfully auditioned and became a member of the renowned band in 2012, a year after graduation.

35. Alexey Trofimov

Born in Kolomna, 29 years old. Graduated from the Faculty of Philology (Music and Literature Department) of the Kolomna State Pedagogical Institute; Master's degree at the Moscow State Institute of Music. A.G. Schnittke. Laureate of well-known student music competitions of international status - "Musica Classica" and "Open Europe". Four times became the laureate of the Moscow festival of student creativity "Festos" among students of specialized universities. Since September 2015, he worked in the Academic Song and Dance Ensemble of the Russian Army named after I. A.V. Alexandrova.

36. Uzlovsky Arkady

37. Halimon Vladimir

Soloist of the ensemble named after Alexandrov. Vladimir Halimon was only 32 years old. In 2011 he got married, in 2016 they had a daughter in their family, the day before the disaster she turned 10 months old.

38. Shtuko Alexander

30 years. The representative of the famous Tver creative dynasty. Alexander is survived by his mother and sister.

39. Kryuchkov Ivan

33 years. A graduate of the famous Gnessin Academy, in addition to music, Ivan passionately loved photography. He did not part with his camera even during numerous tours. Symbolically, Kryuchkov devoted most of his photographs to the sky, airports and airplanes. The last status on Ivan's social network was a humorous entry: too old to die young.

40. Ermolin Vyacheslav.

62-year-old choreographer, People's Artist of Russia. I was involved in preparations for the All-Russian festival-competition "Serving my Motherland", participated in the Festival of Children and Youth Creativity "Circle of Friends" and for many years was devoted to the ensemble.

41. Bykov Sergei

42. Kolobrodov Kirill

Honored Artist of Russia, one of the leading dancers of the ballet troupe.

43. Oleg Korzanov

Oleg and Ekaterina Korzanovs, who serve in the ballet at the Alexandrov ensemble, have traveled almost the whole world together. Young people in pairs performed Russian folk dances everywhere - from Poland to Morocco, and in every city they received standing ovations. About three years ago, the long-awaited firstborn was born to the Korzanovs.

44 ... Korzanova Ekaterina

45. Lyashenko Kirill

46. Mikhalin Victor

47. Senior Lieutenant Popov Vladislav

48. Razumov Alexander

The graduate of the Krasnoyarsk Choreographic College was included in the ensemble immediately after receiving a diploma in 2006.

49 ... Serov Alexander

A native of Sursky, Alexander Serov graduated from the Ulyanovsk School of Culture in 2012, danced in the Volga ensemble and at the Volzhsky School of Culture. After graduation, he worked at "Gzhel", then moved to the ensemble named after Alexandrov. Alexander was 24 years old, he was late for the flight because of work in the show, but still managed to get on a plane at the Chkalovsky airfield.Alexander Serov still has his wife Varvara, who also goes in for dancing - she works in the Sats theater. Young people got married a year ago.Friends say that Alexander understood that it was dangerous to fly to Syria to congratulate the Russian military on the coming New Year, but he believed that it was his duty.

50 ... Shakhov Ivan

Volgogradets. The son of ballet dancers of the Volgograd ensemble "Cossack Kuren". He performed at the age of 14, as a member of the Cossack Theater and the "Cossack Will" ensemble. The guy showed significant success as a dancer, was very talented. At the end of 2010, after working in the Cossack ensemble for 3.5 years, he went to the army. There he got into the Alexandrov Song and Dance Ensemble. After the army, he began to work and live in Moscow. Was married.

51. Archukova Anastasia

52. Georgiyan Hovhannes

Born in Luhansk. Was a student of the Donetsk State Music Academy named after S.S. Prokofiev, then graduated from the vocal department of the National Academy of Music of Ukraine named after P.I. Tchaikovsky in Kiev, where he studied vocal skills with a wonderful teacher, People's Artist of Ukraine, Professor Konstantin Dmitrievich Ognevy.

In 1998-1999 he worked as a member of the collective of the Moscow Novaya Opera Theater named after Yevgeny Kolobov, and in 1999 he became a soloist at the Moscow Academic Musical Theater named after V.I. K.S. Stanislavsky and Vl. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko. The artist is busy in productions: "La Boheme", "Werther", "Love Potion", "All Women Do This, or the School of Lovers", "Lucia di Lammermoor", "Hoffmann's Tales", "The Demon". The singer also plays in the performances of the State Academic Bolshoi Theater of Russia, for example, the audience remembered him for the brilliant performance of the part of Sobinin in Mikhail Glinka's opera Ivan Susanin and Prince in S. Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges. Hovhannes Georgiyan also collaborated with the Moscow theater "Arbat-Opera".

He was a regular participant in the projects of the Talents of the World Foundation. Diploma-recipient at the David Yasonovich Andguladze International Tenor Competition in Batumi and a laureate of the International Competition for Young Vocalists in Brno, Czech Republic.

53. Ignatieva Nadezhda

Dancer. Originally from the Donetsk region. Graduated from the Oryol Institute of Culture in 2004. Classmates remember her by her maiden name Marchenkov. She brilliantly performed the most difficult folk dances. During her studies she performed in the "Rainbow" ensemble. She was a laureate of many competitions, including international ones. Recently, after maternity leave, she returned to work in the Alexandrova ensemble. Nadezhda has a two-year-old daughter.

54. Klokotova Maria

Artists Maria Klokotova and Dmitry Papkin are a married couple, both were supposed to fly to Syria to take part in a New Year's concert for the Russian Aerospace Forces air group at the Khmeimim base. But my husband flew to Syria 2 hours earlier, because he supervised the loading of luggage, and Maria ended up in a Tu-154 ...

Maria worked in the Alexandrov ensemble for 18 years. The couple raised two children, 11 and 4 years old. On the eve of a trip to Syria, their eldest child fell ill, and Maria wanted to take a sick leave, but still flew.

55 ... Larionov Ivan

56. Pyryeva Lilia

She was a member of the ballet troupe of the Alexandrov ensemble. Ballerina Lilia Pyryeva was only 19 years old. According to her teacher, artistic director of the Voronezh Choreographic School Tatyana Frolova, Lilia could become a star.She received her diploma in June of this year, the girl was the best in graduation, and she had many offers, but she chose the song and dance ensemble. Alexandrova, because it was her dream to work there.

57. Satarova Victoria

Ballet dancer. From the suburbs. She began her career in the Krasnogorsk folk dance ensemble "Russia".

58. Trofimova Daria

She was a member of the ballet troupe of the Alexandrov ensemble. Daria was 25 years old. She planned to return home for the New Year - Daria knew that the performance before Russian soldiers it will take only an hour, they will wish the fighters a Happy New Year and fly back.Daria's sister says that she was so passionate about dancing that she did not delve into the real situation in Syria. She was not interested in politics and for the first time flew to speak in a place where there is a real war. But Daria's husband was against her trip to Syria. They have a little son - 3 years old.

59. Khoroshova Love

60. Tsvirinko Anna

61. Shagun Olga

Katerina Kovtun recalls: “We studied together at the Children's Art School No. 2 at the choreographic department. Olya always really wanted to dance and overcame all difficulties on her way to her dream. For me, she is an example of the fact that a desire to dance, hard work and a goal can move mountains, and here age, lack of data, someone else's opinion, etc. does not matter. She really wanted to dance in An Samble Aleksandrov. I remember, when she got there, she told how hard it was for her not only physically, but also morally - at first, because of her non-Russian appearance, she was not put in the first line, she was not given solo parts. But her stubbornness and will still won. "

62. Gurar Lyudmila

Head of the Exhibition Hall of the Central House of the Russian Army named after M.V. Frunze. In 1990 she graduated from the Faculty of Applied Arts of the Moscow Technological Institute of Light Industry. A.N. Kosygin (now - Moscow State University of Design and Technology named after A.N. Kosygin). Lived and worked in Moscow.

Contemporary painter, member of the Union of Marine Painters and the International Art Fund, academician of the European Academy of Natural Sciences (Hannover, Germany). She was awarded the badge of honor "For Works in Military Culture", the medal "For Strengthening the Combat Commonwealth". Laureate and diploma winner of a number of Russian and international competitions.

This is not the first time I have traveled to Syria. She conducted master classes at checkpoints and among Syrian children. Before the New Year, she went on a business trip to present prizes to the Syrian children who won the poster competition. 9 children's works were marked. Lyudmila was bringing gifts to the children.

63. Suleimanov Boris

Graduated from the Department of Choral Conducting at the Oryol State Institute of Culture in 2016.

64. Joiner Ivan

Vocal teacher, soloist. 39 years old, a native of Kostroma. He graduated from the Shlein Kostroma Art School and the Kostroma Theological School, after which he received the title of a psalmist-singer. He entered the Kostroma School of Music, conductor and choir department, then transferred to the Moscow Schnittke Music College, after which, in 2002, he became a student of the vocal department of the Schnittke Moscow State Institute of Music. In 2003 he was admitted to the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory. Ivan Stolyar is a soloist of the Peresvet male chamber ensemble of the Moscow Patriarchate. He performed at the People's Club of Russian Bass Lovers.

As a result of an aircraft crash, the victim's body is often injured simultaneously or in rapid succession by the following several factors, and the effect of one factor often overlaps with another:
1) dynamic and shock overloads;
2) oncoming air flow;
3) explosive decompression;
4) atmospheric electricity;
5) thermal effect;
6) toxic products of combustion and pyrolysis;
7) blunt objects located inside the aircraft;
8) blast wave;
9) the outer parts of the aircraft;
10) running engines;
11) high-altitude decompression;
12) shaking, vibration.

When an aircraft collides with an obstacle, they can cause overloads, reaching very large values ​​of the order of tens and even hundreds of g units. At the same time, the body is torn off the back of the chair and is held in place by the harness. Depending on the magnitude of the overload, the consequences for the victims can be of a different nature - from functional disorders of breathing and blood circulation associated with the relative movement of the internal organs of the chest and abdomen, and loss of consciousness - to mechanical injuries with seat belts in the form of abrasions, bruises, sometimes skin ruptures and soft tissues, injuries of the spine, and when an aircraft collides at high speed with an obstacle or the ground - in the form of gross damage to all tissues at the level of the harness belts up to the separation of the upper body. In the latter case, as a rule, there is a subsequent significant destruction of the head and trunk as a result of the impact of these body parts on objects located in front.

Radial accelerations and the corresponding overloads occur when trying to get out of a dive in emergency situations. In these cases, there is a significant displacement of soft tissues, internal organs and especially blood in large vessels, accompanied by a sharp violation of breathing, blood circulation, functions of the central nervous system, visual impairment, loss of consciousness, as well as traumatic damage to tissues and vital organs.

With the direction of the overload in the direction of the head-leg, a significant part of the circulating blood (up to 1/4 of the total mass) moves into the vessels of the abdominal cavity and extremities, as a result of which the work of the heart is disrupted, and cerebral anemia develops with loss of consciousness. The outcome in such a situation will depend on the duration of the unconscious state and the flight altitude at which the loss of consciousness occurred. As a result of the displacement and deformation of the internal organs and tissues of the abdominal cavity and a sharp overflow of blood with them, multiple hemorrhages can be observed in the mesentery of the intestine, under the capsule and in the ligaments of internal organs, loose fatty tissue.

Overloads directed from the legs to the head are much more difficult for a person. Already at an acceleration of the order of 4-5 g, a strong rush of blood to the head occurs, accompanied by redness and swelling of the face, nosebleeds, multiple minor hemorrhages in the skin of the face, conjunctiva of the eyes, membranes and the substance of the brain. A sharp increase in intracranial pressure leads to rapid loss of consciousness and death. In this case, fractures of the upper and lower extremities, compression fractures of the spine, fractures of the base and vault of the skull, injuries of soft extremities can be observed.

The counter flow of air at high flight speeds (800-1000 km / h and more) has the properties of a solid, since the force of pressure of the air flow under these conditions exceeds the weight of a person by 50-70 times. Oncoming airflow can rip off household items and clothing. When the oxygen mask is ruptured, a sharp deformation of the soft tissues of the face occurs with extensive hemorrhage and their detachment from the underlying bones, rupture of the corners of the mouth, damage to the eyeballs. A jet of air that has penetrated under high pressure into the upper respiratory tract and esophagus can lead to barotrauma of the lungs and stomach; reflexive respiratory failure and cessation of oxygen supply causes acute oxygen starvation. As a result of the separation of hands from the armrests and legs from the footrests,
scattering of limbs, accompanied by dislocations, stretching of the articular ligaments, muscle tears, hemorrhages.

Explosive decompression is observed in flight at an altitude of over 8-9 thousand meters as a result of an emergency cabin depressurization. As a result of a sharp drop in pressure, a person may experience barotrauma of the lungs and hearing aids, as well as gas embolism. Barotrauma of the hearing aid is accompanied by rupture of the tympanic membrane, damage to the auditory ossicles, hemorrhage in the tissue of the middle and inner ear and the tympanic cavity.

With barotrauma of the lungs, there is liquid blood in the airways, acute distension of the lungs, multiple focal hemorrhages and ruptures of the lung tissue. Along with the large-focal nature of changes in the lung tissue along the branches of the bronchi, small ruptures and hemorrhages are also observed.

Blunt objects located inside the aircraft are the main damaging factor when the aircraft falls and hits the ground. In this case, the deformation and destruction of its structure occurs, as well as the mutual displacement of the people in the plane and the objects around them. The resulting shock overloads, depending on the speed and angle of incidence of the aircraft, can exceed hundreds and even thousands of times the force of impact on the injured, observed in ground transport accidents.

The result of shock overloads of enormous force can be a gross destruction of the body with the separation of individual parts of it (head, limbs, pelvic region) with extensive tears and crushing of the skin and soft tissues, crushing of bones, opening of body cavities and crushing, separation, movement of internal organs or their ejection out.

The blast wave is the most powerful damaging factor resulting from an explosion of fuel in fuel tanks or a terrorist attack. Most often, the first explosion occurs at the moment the plane hits the ground, sometimes in the air after touching the ground. When a jet plane falls to the ground in a dive mode, followed by an explosion, the crater can reach a depth of several meters. A powerful blast wave causes complete destruction of aircraft structures and bodies. At the same time, the remains are found both in the funnel itself and outside it, scattered over an area with a radius of up to 300-500 m.When an explosion in the air after touching the ground, the remains of people who were in the plane are scattered at a distance of up to 3 km in the direction of flight and up to 1.5 km away from the explosion site.

With the complete destruction of the body as a result of an explosion, usually separate small flaps of skin are found without sedimentation of their edges, auricles with a part of the temporal bone, pieces of internal organs, bone fragments with pieces of soft tissue, sometimes hands, feet or parts thereof. In a terrorist attack, extensive damage with detachment of body parts, multiple through and blind shrapnel wounds are received by persons who are in the immediate vicinity of the explosion site, the rest are most often killed as a result of mechanical damage during the subsequent fall of the aircraft and hitting the ground.

As a result of the action of the flame, clothing can ignite, burns to the body, as well as posthumous burning of corpses, reaching extreme degrees with charring of soft tissues and bones, up to their incineration. Sometimes a fire is preceded by an explosion; in these cases, the remains of corpses are already exposed to thermal effects.

The plane crash in Egypt claimed the lives of 224 people. Among them are residents of different regions of the country. Most are from St. Petersburg. There were entire families on board - someone went on a trip with a child, someone just went to Egypt to visit the sea for the first time.

Yuri and Olga Shein with their daughter Nastya

Irina Zavgorodnyaya and Alexander Semyonov

They loved to travel. By the sea in Egypt, they held romantic candlelight dinners. Irina's last message on VKontakte is "Home ... In the cold."

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

Tatiana and Alexey Gromovs and their daughter Darina

Little Darina became a symbol of the terrible tragedy with the Kogalymavia plane on Sinai Peninsula... Before the flight to Egypt, her mother Tatiana left a photo on VKontakte with the entry # main passenger. 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. For so long she dreamed of going to the sea ...

Victoria Sevryukova

It becomes uncomfortable when you read the latest entries on VKontakte by 24-year-old Victoria Sevryukova.

"I didn't think that Egypt would cause so many positive emotions in me! Do I want to live here? No. Will I come back here? Surely"

Elena Tomina

Elena is Tyumenka by registration. But recently she lived with her daughter in St. Petersburg. She worked as an SOS mom - she helped orphans. She died at the age of 46. In St. Petersburg, she left a daughter who did not go with her mother to Egypt because of her studies.

Robert Jensen has built a career in cleaning up after major disasters: identifying remains, caring for the families of the victims and restoring their personal belongings. This is how he became the best specialist for the world's worst job.

The team stumbled through the jungle. The group had little idea of ​​where they were going or what they would find there. A few days ago, search planes flying high above the Andes foothills spotted the wreckage of a crashed helicopter that dotted the steep, rocky slope. It was impossible to get to this chaos from the air, so the team had to dismount.

The group through the thicket was led by Robert Jensen, a tall, strong man in a white helmet with the letters BOB scrawled on the front with a marker. They had to fight the bushes for two days to get to the place. Six days later, Jensen will be the last person to leave. It was with Jensen that the Rio Tinto mining group, which hired the crashed helicopter to transport workers from the Peruvian copper mine to Chiclayo, was the first to contact. It was Jensen who developed the strategy for how to get to the crash site when it became clear that all ten people on board had died and debris was strewn across the winding mountain ranges of tropical Yosemite. Jensen put together a team: two Peruvian police officers, two investigators, several forensic anthropologists, and a group of rangers. national park accustomed to climbing mountains during search and rescue expeditions. They all knew that this expedition would not be a rescue expedition.

Jensen is the person that companies call when the worst happens. The worst refers to all those events that inspire such horror and panic that most people prefer not to think about them, such as plane crashes, terrorist attacks and natural disasters. Jensen has no special gift for collecting bodies, identifying personal belongings, or talking to family members of the victims. What he has is experience. Over the course of his long career, Jensen has earned a reputation for being the best at this extraordinary business for decades. As the owner of Kenyon International Emergency Services, Jensen accepts 6 to 20 applications per year worldwide (9 in 2016, not counting since 2015). Because of his work, he is constantly involved in events that give rise to the saddest headlines. modern history... He handled funeral affairs after the Oklahoma attack, flew straight to the Pentagon after 9/11 and was involved in the search for bodies when Hurricane Katrina passed.

The 2008 helicopter crash in Peru did not make international news, but the mission is memorable for Jensen because of its complexity. Everything was sticky from the heat, the dangers of the jungle lay in wait everywhere. Jensen decided that the team would move in pairs, fearing the cougars and snakes. Before leaving, he conducted a risk assessment and learned that 23 species of poisonous snakes live in this area. He had only three or more antidotes, so he urged his team members to try, before losing consciousness, to have time to take a good look at exactly who bit them, should this happen.

They were there to collect whatever they could - personal belongings, skeletal fragments and any evidence that would help the families of the victims understand how their loved ones ended their days. Before doing all this, they had to get to the place. Jensen works as efficiently as possible: all possible difficulties have already been taken into account and resolved in a cold-blooded military manner. Jensen instructed his team to begin clearing the landing site for the helicopter, and the climbers to pull ropes up the slope so they can climb up and down. They collected each fragment in containers, so that they could then be handed over to the archaeologist, who sifted through them in search of bone fragments. To an inexperienced eye, it might seem that nothing of value could be found: the flight data recorder had already been removed, and it was clear that there were no survivors. Still, Jensen was looking.

In total, he and his team collected 110 skeletal fragments from the mountain, as well as some personal belongings and a recording device from the cockpit. The remains found by Kenyon made it possible to identify almost everyone on board, which when dealing with high-speed accidents - very rare and a sign of skill. Each night, the team buried what they found with a moment of silence. In the morning, all the remains were exhumed, and they were taken away by helicopter, and the team began work again.

After many days clearing the slope, collecting everything they could, Jensen suddenly sees something high up in a tree up the slope - a large piece of human tissue caught in a branch. Getting there was incredibly risky, even with the cables, but Jensen couldn't leave the find. He climbed up, collected what he found and placed in a plastic bag. His job was done. Everything he found will be given to the families of the victims. "So they know for sure that the bodies of their loved ones weren't just left in the jungle," Jensen recalls. "Not a piece."

Context

Tu-154 plane, missing near Sochi, crashed in the Black Sea

RIA Novosti 12/25/2016

Jerzy Bar o Smolensk disaster

Wirtualna Polska 12.04.2016

More than 60 people died in the crash

Reuters 03/20/2016

Why does EgyptAir have so many problems?

Expressen 05/20/2016
Jensen doesn't have any heartbreaking rescue stories in store. What he is looking for has a more abstract value - this is a part of a person, literally or figuratively, that he can return to the family of the deceased with the words: "We tried." He knows from experience that when someone's life is destroyed, even the smallest debris can bring comfort.

Many of the items Jensen and his team found went to Kenyon's office in Bracknell, a town about an hour's drive from London, where there are as many carousels as people. Outside, you can't say that this building was built for a service that deals with the consequences of mass loss of life. The facade of the building is completely ordinary: a rough concrete box, indistinguishable from the other offices surrounding it. A small disco ball gleams through the blinds of one of the office windows. But behind the facade of the office building is a huge hangar-like warehouse, where collected personal belongings are photographed, identified and restored.

In perfect order, metal shelves throughout the warehouse are stocked with the tools needed for the millions of tasks that Kenyon performs in line with his duty. One closet contains all the clothes and the like that Jensen needs to process quickly, each item in a signed zip-top bag. It has everything you need to provide any type of first aid on the spot, and body armor for when Kenyon is called to hot spots. There is a basket of prayer rugs for Muslim families and a box of teddy bears in Kenyon T-shirts for children at Family Help Centers. A refrigerated truck, a mobile morgue, is in the corner, its door ajar. A coffin wrapped in purple cloth is seen against one wall — Jensen explains that it’s a "trainer" for training team members, but it still looks ominous. A student works at his desk, using photoshop to place photos of personal items found on a white background so that families can easily identify them later. Rain is drumming on the roof, but otherwise there is a grave silence.

Kenyon only recently moved into this space, chosen for its proximity to Heathrow Airport, but Kenyon itself - rich story... In 1906, Harold and Herbert Kenyon, sons of the director of an English funeral home, were asked to help identify and bring home the 28 bodies of those killed in a train crash when a train derailed near Salisbury. The Kenyons, as the company's employees still call themselves, got down to business as soon as they heard the terrible news of a major disaster. Then they could not yet identify people by DNA. The victims were identified by fingerprints and dental formula records, if they had any, or by personal belongings, if not. As technology became more sophisticated, disasters with mass loss of life became more and more widespread. Traveling by air became faster and more accessible, and plane crashes claimed more lives. The weapon became more and more powerful. The need for specialists grew and Kenyon became an international company.

Most people today believe that governments are dealing with the aftermath of massive disaster. Often it is: Jensen's extensive experience before joining Kenyon in 1998 came from the Army handling mortuary affairs. But this is not only done by the military, there are plenty of things to do for companies like Kenyon, not only because of their high competence, but also because it is useful to have a team on hand without political affiliation. In 2004, after the tsunami in Thailand, more than 40 countries lost their tourists, and each worked to return the bodies of the victims to their families. After the tsunami, the bodies are not so easy to identify, and ethnicity gives a faint idea of ​​nationality: “I will get up in Phuket and tell all Swedes to get up. And no one will answer, ”says Jensen. “We all have to work together.” Kenyon provided the equipment and worked as an honest broker, not privileging one nationality over another.

Along with terrorism, Jensen's work is often associated with plane crashes. Many passengers believe that in the event of a plane crash, the airline takes on many of the associated responsibilities. More often than not, they don't. Airlines and governments keep companies like Kenyon close at hand because they can't afford to make the mistake of being so responsible. In addition to ethical incentives to do the right thing with the families of the victims, there are huge financial losses at stake in the event of poor quality work. Years of litigation and waves of oppressive negativity and grievances from disgruntled families can be critical. Malaysia Airlines, for example, has struggled to cope with widespread criticism of its responsibility for the MH370 and MH17 tragedies (Malaysia Airlines, Jensen reminded me several times, is not a Kenyon customer). Airlines can outsource everything to Kenyon; their services include organizing call centers, identifying and transporting bodies home, mass graves and restoring personal belongings of the victims.

Some of what is expected of an airline in the event of a disaster was laid down in federal law 20 years ago. Prior to that, carriers got away with a rather disorderly performance of their duties. Families that have succeeded in getting federal tightening on the issue have lost loved ones following the accident with U.S. Flight 427. Air when a plane crashed near Pittsburgh in 1994. According to heartbreaking letters from the families of the victims to the airline, the U.S. The air crash was unsatisfactory to say the least.

“When it turned out that personal belongings were in trash containers,” writes one of the deceased’s relatives, “this was enough to piss off any caring person. Who decides which personal items are important and which go to the trash? After all, we are talking about human lives !! Sometimes a luggage tag is the only thing that a person has! "

Some countries are still lagging behind in resolving such situations. Mary Schiavo, an aviation lawyer and former chief inspector for the Department of Transportation, told me that after one disaster in Venezuela, authorities carried out a casual search for remains and then dug up what was left with an excavator from a nearby farm. “I don’t mean that someone is not kind enough or sensitive enough, because no doubt the people I have worked with all these years have tried to be both kind and empathetic in handling the remains,” added Mary Schiavo. “But sometimes they didn’t have the experience to pay the attention to detail that the National Transportation Safety Board or professional groups like Kenyon would do. More precisely, I mean the Kenyon group. " Kenyon makes the difference between perfect response and decades of litigation.

When a commercial flight crashes, the customer immediately notifies Jensen. Usually the customer is the airline, although in some cases it could be a company like Rio Tinto or even the country where the plane crashed. He collects as much information as possible. First, he tries to figure out who is responsible for what. Kenyon is a privately held company, so if the government decides to take over the administration of the clean-up operations, Jensen makes way for them while remaining on hand for consultation. In a few minutes of the phone call, Jensen learns enough information about the incident to understand what the airline's most pressing needs are. In a matter of hours, Kenyon's staff could swell from 27 full-time employees to 900 contracted independent contractors, depending on the severity of the disaster. Kenyon's team members do not work in the same industry, although many of them have experience in law enforcement. They all have one thing in common: they are very empathic, although they retain the ability to emotionally distance themselves from disaster victims. You don't have to get involved, Jensen reminds them. Jensen prefers not to keep in touch with the families of the victims, considering himself to be a kind of activator of their grief.

Each employee and team member has their own responsibilities, and they carry them out as needed. In the long hallway of the building in Bracknell, there is a graph showing the emergency procedures. It is crowded with countless color-coded circles, each representing work to be done. At the very top is a red ball representing the Senior Incident Coordinator, Jensen.

Around the world, crisis communication team members keep their phones nearby, ready to answer media questions. At this time, the hotel liaison team travels to a hotel located near the crash site. Families of victims from all over the world fly into the disaster zone, so the hotel needs to be large enough to accommodate them all. Once the families and Kenyon staff have reached the location, the selected hotel is mailed or faxed a manual on how to select rooms and prepare them for grieving guests. Over the next few days, the hotel is being transformed into a Family Assistance Center, where family members of the victims will wait, grieve together, and spend as good time between briefings as possible.

While his plan to set up a Family Assistance Center is carried out, Jensen is already on his way to the scene. Once Jensen gets an idea of ​​the state of the bodies, he will start giving directions about the morgue. For this, it is not so much the number of victims that is important as the condition of the bodies. A small plane crash that crashed in Mozambique in 2013, for example, required more effort in organizing the collection and storage of bodies than the disaster with large commercial flights. Although only 33 passengers died, 900 body fragments were found.

Often, Jensen has to act as a liaison between the families staying at the hotel and the specialists at the crash site. All fatalities are different, but Kenyon employees rarely work alone on the scene - even in the case of the Rio Tinto crash in Peru, the government demanded that two Peruvian police officers join the team. Kenyon works alongside local law enforcement, medical examiners, firefighters and the military. Each of them works quickly so that weather conditions do not further damage unprotected remains and personal belongings.

As soon as Jensen finds out more details about the disaster, he arranges a meeting for the families of the victims. These briefings are very difficult. “You can't undo what happened, so all you can do is not make it worse,” Jensen says grimly. "You have a very difficult task." Jensen desperately wants to give families a glimpse of hope, but instead he must tell the ruthless facts. First, he warns families that they are about to hear very specific information. Parents take their children out of the room. “You have to realize that there was a hit at high speed, which means that your loved ones now do not look like us,” he says something like that. "This means that we are likely to find several thousand fragments of human remains." At this moment, suffocation begins. Jensen siphoned all hope out of the room. Now his job is to help people undergo transformation.

When the remains and personal belongings are collected from the crash site, the canyons collect dental and other medical records and hold lengthy conversations with families, trying to figure out any details that might help identify the victims. Each family must choose one person to receive the remains and personal belongings. Some disputes end up in court. Kenyon employees explain what procedures are carried out with personal belongings and ask families the necessary questions: do they want the items found to be cleaned? Do they want to receive them from hand to hand or by mail? Jensen leaves every little detail to the discretion of the family members of the victims. They have little control over the circumstances they find themselves in, and decisions about personal things give them back a sense of some sort of control.

Families may also decide not to participate in the process. For some, personal belongings don't matter. For some, the remains are not important either. But almost everyone wants to take part. Hailey Shanks was just four when her mother, a flight attendant, died in the crash of Alaska 261 in 2000. Her grandmother received her mother's belongings - a button from a mold and a ring from a navel - and it would never have occurred to her not to take them. “I think the thought of throwing away any memory of what happened just couldn't attend,” Shanks says. Granny Shanks keeps them in a small box in her bedroom. Sometimes Shanks takes them for himself, but the trauma associated with them torments her too much. Nevertheless, she is glad that the grandmother keeps them. “I think she is very worried that she could not be there - not in the sense that she would like to be there - but that her daughter was in that situation. I think any memory of her and what happened is very important in itself. Any piece. "

At the crash site, Jensen and his team remove any hazardous substances that could cause further damage to things, but items end up in Bracknell in different states. They are wet from the weather and from the water that extinguished the fire, they smell like aviation fuel and decay. When the container is delivered, team members carefully unpack each box and arrange items on long tables in the middle of the room. Objects are studied and divided into two groups: "correlated" - things with the names of passengers on them or things found next to the body or on it, and "unassigned" - which includes everything, from watches found in a pile of rubble to a suitcase, marked with a name that is not on the passenger list. The related items are returned first, and the unassigned items are photographed and placed in an online catalog that the families of the victims can study in the hope of finding out some of the items.

Before catalogs of photographs were available on the Internet, they were made in paper form, with six or more items on each page. I spend an hour flipping through one of those directories left over from a plane crash a decade ago. Regardless of the purpose of creation, the catalog gives an excellent idea of ​​the style and popular culture those times. There is Jessica Simpson's music CD "Irresistible" and a water-tainted book by Ian Rankin. Some things are badly damaged. A blackened Lego construction set and several pages of glasses without glasses and with terribly twisted arches, like from Dali's paintings. Here are some black boxes with the South Park Chef on the lid. Here is a page with engraved engagement rings - Patricia, Marise, Marietta, Laura, Giovanni - and a small airplane badge. Next to each item there is a column describing its condition, and everywhere there is a mark “damaged”.

As the families of the victims of the disaster identify whatever they can from the catalog, Jensen continues to work on matching the remaining belongings with the deceased. He works tirelessly. He and his team are using every possible piece of evidence, including camera photos and recovered cell phone numbers. Jensen even brings car keys to dealerships to try and get a vehicle identification number. Usually dealers can only report the country in which the car was sold, but even this can be important evidence. For example, Jensen learned that the set of car keys found after the Germanwing crash was from a car sold in Spain, which greatly reduced the number of victims to whom they could belong.

Identifying personal items can be much more difficult than identifying bodies. “When you examine human remains, you do a physical examination,” Jensen explains. “You talk to your family and ask them questions to gather information and identify an individual — this is not personalization. But when you deal with personal things, you can learn everything about a person. For example, what's in his playlist? Of course, your goal is not to find out what they have in the playlist, you just study what is on the computer to try to figure out who it is. " The body is the body, but personal things are life. There is no way to isolate yourself from the deceased when you view his or her wedding photos taken just a few weeks ago.

Jensen has encountered things that, under other circumstances, would have seemed personally outrageous to him. “Just think that all this baggage went through airport control. Imagine all the different societies, religions, and groups that people on the plane represent. All this is told by them personal lives... You take a thing and think: "Oh my God. Who could need this? Why did you need this picture or this book? Why did you support this organization?" ...

Each stage of the return of things is a decision that must be made by the family of the deceased. You cannot simply assume that relatives will want to get cleaned things. Jensen tells the story of a woman who lost her daughter in the Pan Am 103 crash when a plane exploded over Lockerbie in 1988. At first, when the woman received her daughter's belongings, she was upset that they smelled of fuel. He infiltrated the whole house. But after a while, the woman began to value him as the last reminder of her daughter. “You should not deprive anyone of a choice, because you can, for example, meet a mother who will say:“ I washed my son's clothes for 15 years, and I want me to be the person who washes his shirt for the last time, and not you"".

Many of the things Jensen found will never be returned. After two years, or no matter how long it takes to complete the search procedure, the lost items Jensen has collected will be destroyed. But the impressions and experiences he received will remain in memory and will often return to him and help.

Jensen, for example, knows why you shouldn't inflate a lifejacket before leaving a sinking plane: he has been to crash sites where he saw a terrible scene of people floating inside the plane, trapped by their vests, while how the rest survived. He knows that it is useless to spend his whole life afraid of dying in some kind of catastrophe. He thinks of the woman whose body he found in the rubble after the Oklahoma bombing. She wore a high-heeled shoe on one leg and street shoes on the other. He realized that this woman had just come to the office and changed her shoes. If she had been five minutes late for work that day, she would have survived.

Like the others, Jensen wonders how he would feel and lead at the very end. “I know what things belonging to my family members I would like to be returned to me. I know what, I wish Brandon got it, ”he nods towards his spouse, Kenyon CEO Brandon Jones. “The wedding ring, the bracelets (Jones and Jensen wear the braided bracelets they gave each other) are special things. He might want to sell them, ”he jokes.

Jones thinks for a second. “It's strange,” he says. “I'm not afraid to fly. I didn't look at life differently than I did before Kenyon. But I began to evaluate the importance of things in a different way. For example, there are things that I always carry with me, they are always in my bag. Souvenirs that he brought me from the places where he visited, and which are always with me. Things that I may not see every day, but I certainly always see when I fold my passport. And laying out my things on the plane, I think they would mean something to him, that he would keep them if they were returned to him. "

Jensen’s work taught that fear of disasters doesn’t work, but he always counts the doors to the exit before entering the hotel room, and when traveling by plane, neither he nor Jones ever take off their shoes before turning off. sign "fasten your seat belts" (most accidents happen during takeoff and landing, and you don't want to be barefoot on the runway if you have to urgently run out). I wondered if Jensen had any secret on how to stay calm in the age of terrorism, and here it is: allow yourself to worry about everyday worries and don't waste time with horror.

Most families prefer to receive personal items by mail, then wrapped in white wrapping paper if they are large, or put in small boxes. Some families want things to be delivered to them personally. And then it can be very difficult.

Jensen once needed to return the personal belongings of a young man who died in a plane crash. Early in the morning of the day the disaster struck, he called his mother and said that he was boarding a plane. She found out everything later that day when she turned on the TV and saw that the plane fell into the ocean.

But after that, Jensen recalls, she still wasn't sure. Could her son have sailed to the nearest island? Maybe the Coast Guard will check? They checked, of course. A few days after the crash, almost all of the passengers were identified by DNA samples, but none of the pieces of tissue belonged to her son.

When the passengers' personal belongings washed ashore, fishermen and sheriffs delivered them. They found several of her son's belongings, including two water-soaked passports (one with a visa) and a suitcase that apparently belonged to him. The company called his mother and asked if she wanted the items delivered or mailed. She asked for someone to bring them, and Jensen volunteered to do so.

Jensen remembers driving to the woman's house and seeing her son's truck still parked outside the house. His room has not been touched since the moment he set out on his journey. The woman quit her job and lived in suspended animation. “She couldn't handle it,” Jensen recalls. - There was no evidence. There was no body. " Jensen and one of his employees have cleared the table and covered it with a white cloth. They asked the mother to come out and began to unpack her son's things. They covered them up so that the sight of all the things at once did not overwhelm her. They asked her to enter.

They showed the mother two passports. She dropped her head into her hands and swayed back and forth. The next item astonishes Jensen. When they opened the suitcase, they found a set of orange hair curlers, similar to the ones Jensen's mother used in the 70s. The young man had short hair, which was very strange. Jensen guesses that the fisherman found the suitcase half open and put another passenger's belongings in it. “Please don't be offended,” he said, pulling out his curlers.

The woman looked at the curlers. She said they belonged to her son. He took to use her mother's suitcase, in which she kept her curlers. He knew how much they meant to his grandmother, the woman told Jensen. He didn’t put them anywhere, but simply left them in their place. Jensen remembers the way she looked at him after that: "So, Robert, you want to tell me that my son is not coming home."

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