Chebarkul garrison, military unit (Chebarkul). Chg began to take shape in the 1930s and 1940s. In 1932, the Chebarkul united was located on the site of the garrison. uch. art. camp (see Chebarkul military camps). During the years of the Great Patriotic War military formations were formed here to be sent to the front. In 1945, the 417th Sivashskaya Krasnoznam arrived in Chebarkul. ord. Suvorov 2nd step. shooter div., having passed the military path from Kavk during the war years. mountains to the Baltic Sea. Sixteen warrior divas. was awarded the title of Hero Soviet Union. Two of them are late. M. Ya. Dzigunsky and junior sergeant A. I. Kashirin - repeated the feat of A. Matrosov. By order of the Minister of Defense of the USSR, Kashirin is forever enrolled in the lists of the unit; secondary school No. 4 bears his name, located. in the military town. In the 1980s div. commanded a regiment. A. I. Nikolaev, later - General of the Army, dir. Federal Border Service of Russia, dep. State. Duma of the Russian Federation. Marshal of the Soviet Union G. K. Zhukov, who commanded the Urals Military District from 1948–53, made considerable efforts to create good conditions for the field training of the Ground Forces in Chechnya. On the basis of Ch. g., a single district combined-arms account was equipped. shooting center, tank. and art. parts, which allowed in the course of tactical. exercises to work out the issues of interaction between various branches of the armed forces. Extensive account. fields Ch. g. with a variety of relief, the presence of eng. structures provided a complex, rapidly changing environment during the exercises. In 1990 Mozyrskaya Krasnoznam was relocated from Czechoslovakia to Czechoslovakia. ord. Suvorov 2nd step. tank. div. under the command of Gen.-m. V. N. Kuznetsova. Div. repeatedly took 1st place in the Ural Military District in combat training. In 1996 she was recognized as the best in Arms. The forces of the Russian Federation, and the tank. the crew consisting of tank commander sergeant E. G. Kugaevsky, gunner-operator private A. G. Zhuravlev, driver private Yu. S. Mironov became the best crew in the Ground Forces. Officers, ensigns and soldiers of div. took part in establishing constitutional order in Chechen Republic. Mn. of them were awarded hordes. and medical, three were awarded the high title of Hero of the Russian Federation: Guards Major V. A. Korgutov; Private Yu. S. Igitov and Guard Lieutenant Colonel. TO). D. Shadura (both posthumously). In the 1990s based on div. battalions were formed, to-rye were sent to various regions of Russia to assist the bunk. x-woo, harvesting, especially in the Chebarkul region. Dec. 1999 div. was disbanded. In Chechnya, 7 military units remained, which became part of the 34th motorized rifle. div., whose headquarters is located in Yekaterinburg. At the end of 2000 Guards. Vitebsk tank. regiment under the command of Col. N. V. Shabaldeeva became the best in the Ural Military District; in 2001 an anti-aircraft missile regiment under the command of the regiment. S. M. Proskurnina during missile launches at the Ushuluk state. The site was rated "excellent". Ch. g. was repeatedly noted by the command among the best in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Checks, checks in Jan. 2004 Gen. Headquarters of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, headed by Gen. Army A. V. Kvashnin (in April - Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces, in November - the Logistics Inspectorate of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation), confirmed the high level of organization of service and life in Chechnya in 48 comfortable residential buildings officers lives St. 10 thousand people, there are 2 schools for 1800 students, 2 kindergartens for 220 children, a clinic, a garrison House of Officers and several. shops. At the House of Officers pl. For years, there has been a branch of the Children's Art School, where children learn music, drawing; created a children's dance. collective "Smile", club "Eaglet", several. circles and courses. In 2000 art groups. amateur performances of Ch. took 1st place at the district festival “When the soldiers sing” of the Ural Military District; was especially noted. vocal instrument. ans. "Rifey" under the direction of S. Sapozhnikov. For more than 40 years, the unity existed and successfully performed under the garrison. in Armed. Forces of the Russian Federation soldiers' hockey team "Zvezda" (coach A. A. Patuk). The command of the garrison, in cooperation with representatives of local authorities, is doing a lot of work on the military-patriotic. education of the next generation. In March 2004, on the basis of the garrison, training sessions were held at the beginning. utility-operational parts of the Armed Forces. Forces of the Russian Federation, in September - 5-day gathering of commanders of formations, units and their deputies. under the leadership of the commander of the Volga-Ural Military District (GGUVO) gen. Army V. A. Boldyrev. At regimental command and staff exercises, motorized rifle soldiers. Orenb. kaz. regiment (see Chelyabinsk District Cossack army), dislocated in Ch. g., showed their skills in actions in special conditions. In Aug. 2007 at the PUVO training ground near Chebarkul, exercises of the troops of the Shanghai Group "Peace Mission-2007" took place. Beginning garrison: in 1994-96 the general-regiment. A. F. Maslov, in 1996-97 general-m. S. V. Bunin, in 1997-2002 regiment. A. M. Sulin, in 2002-04 regiment. A. A. Sinelnikov, since 2005 regiment. V. Yu. Bizyaev.

In a few January days, two recruit soldiers died in the Chebarkul garrison. There is only one reason: bilateral pneumonia of particular severity. The public sounded the alarm, the parents of military personnel are now scared to death for their children. What is happening in the Chebarkul garrison? Why did the military allow this tragedy? How are the rest of the soldiers feeling? For answers to these questions, the Chelyabinsk Ombudsman Alexei Sevastyanov went to the tank and anti-aircraft missile brigades. Where they lived last days the deceased 19-year-old boys Andrei Glebov and Seryozha Karabatov, the correspondent of Vecherka also went.

Sanatorium without a single soldier's soul

Both military units are located on the territory of one large Chebarkul garrison.

We have nothing to hide, especially now, in the era of technology and the Internet, - says the head of the press service of the Central Military District, Colonel Yaroslav Rosshchupkin, - the soldiers now have smartphones, they write messages in in social networks, we have an electronic reception on our website where you can complain. So what's the point? This garrison is one of the most prosperous in the district. And we ourselves admit that the situation with deaths is not normal, therefore we arrange checks and work together with you.

First of all, the arrivals were invited to assess the living conditions of the soldiers. It turns out that there are no notorious stuffy barracks with a mountain of bunk beds.

The guys live in the so-called quarters, consisting of four-bed rooms. The room is warm (25 degrees, and in the dryer for clothes and shoes - right up to 37) and cozy, the windows have double-glazed windows with cute curtains, good bedside tables and wardrobes. On the bedside tables are onions and garlic, designed to expel any infection. The air in the rooms is fresh, the beds are made perfectly - you can see your reflection on the floor.

By the way, a woman, a civilian civilian, is engaged in wet cleaning, the guys are exempted from these duties (according to the reforms). There is a small gym with a punching bag and all kinds of iron, as well as a tennis table. So, in general, these cubicles resemble a solid Soviet sanatorium. That's just without a single soldier's soul. " Guys in class", the military said with one voice. " Well, let it be”, - flashed through our heads.

Weak fighters or a fatal combination of circumstances?

The next stop on the route is the first-aid post of the anti-aircraft missile military unit. It is even warmer in this room than in the cockpits - according to the rules, it should be so. To date, there are ten children here with acute respiratory infections, but all of them are already at the stage of recovery.

At the slightest suspicion, we send a soldier to a mobile X-ray room, if the temperature exceeds 37 degrees - immediately fluorography, if necessary, hospitalization, - lists the therapist Alexander Yesin. - In case of sudden complications, the ambulance arrives at the unit in a maximum of 15 minutes. Understand: we have no reason to hide the epidemic of pneumonia! We are responsible for every case. This is the same as accusing me of negligence! Now is not the time when soldiers are not allowed to see doctors. All commanders understand that it is better to avoid future problems by taking care of subordinates in advance.

Every day the fighters undergo a medical examination. A doctor comes to them, measures the temperature, examines the skin, is interested in well-being. If necessary, medical assistance is provided immediately. However, if everything works so smoothly and quickly, the question arises: why do guys die?

Apparently, this is a fatal combination of circumstances, - the military doctor changes his voice, - I can say for sure that help was provided to Sergei Karabatov as soon as he turned to the first-aid post. Fluorography - on the same day, ambulance, hospital ... Most likely, already in the regional hospital, a viral infection joined the bacterial infection, which caused a sharp deterioration in the condition. Doctors fought for his life, did everything they could. In addition, one can only guess where he fell ill - on the day of the oath, the guy walked for a long time with his father around the city.

Meanwhile, doctors in uniform blame the weak immunity of recruits and poor physical fitness. This is what makes the infection spread so easily.

The number of conscripts with category “A” for health reasons, that is, the healthiest, inevitably falls by 5% every year, Anatoly Kalmykov, head of the medical service of the Central Military District, operates with figures. - At the same time, in each call, about 30% of the guys are smokers with an experience of 2 years! In addition, a passive lifestyle: almost everyone is obsessed with the Internet, only 10% of recruits are actively involved in sports.

However, despite the disappointing facts about our soldiers, doctors say that there is no epidemic of pneumonia in the garrison, there are too few sick people for this. According to Anatoly Kalmykov, in the seventh tank brigade today 39 people are ill with acute respiratory infections, 10 - with bronchitis, 17 soldiers with pneumonia in the regional hospital. As for the missile and anti-aircraft troops, there are even fewer here: seven people are with acute respiratory infections, four with bronchitis, three fighters are ill with pneumonia.

Trouble-free recruits

The soldier was shown to us after all. Yes, even those with whom Seryozha Karabatov served. About 30 guys, they were brought to the assembly hall straight from class. At the sight of a delegation with so many military leaders, the guys, as if on a string, straight and learned, saluted after the usual “at ease!” fell into chairs. Alexey Sevastyanov made an attempt to talk heart to heart with them, but the fighters were in no hurry to dump their problems. Even when all the commanders left the hall, only the ombudsman still broke the silence. At the same time, the guys did not look completely beaten and intimidated. Then the main question of Seryozha Karabatov, which worries everyone, was raised from the journalists. Among the fighters was his comrade. The guys are practically fellow countrymen, and therefore they communicated even before the oath in the company of young replenishment. Dima also suffered from pneumonia. Only he was more fortunate.

Apparently, a lot depends on the body, - says the recruit. - Seryozha was thin, obviously with a lack of body weight. How did he get into the army? Unclear. By the way, he didn’t have any special symptoms, just a slight cough. And then... I met him at the regional hospital when I myself came down with pneumonia. He was pale, weak, heat held on. I recovered and went back to the unit. Then the commander said that he was getting worse and worse, worried. And then they announced to us. I could not believe, because I was cured, I thought: and he will be cured!

Dima believes that Sergei should not have joined the army at all. But after all, during the passage of the medical examination, they are not particularly eager to examine the guys. According to the recruit, everything is decided after the cherished - "Are there any complaints?". If there are none, the guy goes to serve. And then no one cares what kind of immunity there is and whether there are any undiagnosed diseases.

But the boy protects the military unit as best he can.

I thought it would be worse,” says the recruit. - When we arrived here, I was even surprised. The commander is good, they are fed for slaughter (for example, dishes are offered for lunch to choose from), we watch films on Sundays, and they let us go on layoffs with our parents. Health check every day, if it's minus five outside, we don't go out to the parade ground. The conditions here are very good.

A spoon of tar

However, Aleksey Sevastyanov believes that there are still problems in such a prosperous garrison.

But these problems are of a systemic nature, they cannot be solved in one day on the territory of one military unit, the commissioner concluded. For example, medical units lack the equipment to detect certain viruses, which are constantly changing and require different treatments. However, the prevention of the same pneumonia depends not only on medicine, it is also important that constant attention is paid to careless young people. In addition, there is also a human factor - the prosecutor's office opened criminal cases on the deaths of soldiers. For our part, we plan to continue to exercise strict supervision and respond to all complaints from the military.

Our delegation is leaving the Chebarkul garrison. The soldiers are returning from their studies to warm quarters. Life continues to thrive. But no matter how comfortable the Chebarkul garrison was, no matter how convincingly and accurately the military leaders spoke, complaining about the frail boys, no matter how the doctor felt sorry for the guys in his medical unit, the fact of the death of the guys remains a fact. And the guys will not return. This means that the very “systemic violations” need to be changed and eliminated. After all, our guys should not die in peacetime. Should not.

"Evening Chelyabinsk " Anna Rybakova. This material was published on the BezFormata website on January 11, 2019,
below is the date when the material was published on the site of the original source!

Photo: Press Service of the Central Military District

Chelyabinsk public figures openly declare: in military unit 89547 near Chebarkul, young conscripts are subjected to cruel torture, humiliation and bullying by the command staff. Employees are deprived of money for their work, they are beaten and humiliated. One of the soldiers, unable to withstand the beatings, left the unit, after which his wife and one-year-old daughter were threatened with rape. And the sister was told that if the brother did not return, he would be found dead in a ditch.

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

Nightmare test

In the summer of 2011, he was at the Azov training ground: together with the rest of his colleagues, he participated in the disposal of a projectile, then in preparation for the Center-2011 international exercises. As the soldier's sister managed to find out, this period became a nightmarish test for her brother: contract sergeants and commanders turned the life of young conscripts into a real hell.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rescue Escape

According to the sister, other colleagues of the brother were subjected to exactly the same bullying in the unit. One of them - Vyacheslav Tikhonov - even tried to commit suicide, as a result of which he ended up in a psychiatric clinic in the village of Birgildy. Two more went on the run, but they were returned.

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

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

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

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

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

Injury to the service is not a hindrance

In general, military experts recognized that the crippled soldier was fit for further service. Moreover, he was refused treatment, referring to the fact that all the documents are in the military unit. By the way, the investigators have not been able to get them so far - even after an official request.

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

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

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

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

Slave labor in training

By the way, Ru-Compromat is already talking about the fact that at the international exercises "Center-2011" near the city of Chebarkul, soldiers are kept in terrible conditions. The media reported that hazing and psychological abuse, slave labor and unsanitary conditions flourished in the tent camp of the exercises, where conscript soldiers live.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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More than 5,000 soldiers with families go to the South Urals

What to expect from the expansion of the Chebarkul tank brigade, which will become a division

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu came to the exercises in Chebarkul in 2014 RIA Novosti / Pavel Lisitsyn

By December 1, 2016, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation plans to prepare an order to expand to the scale of the division of the 7th separate guards Orenburg Cossack brigade with deployment in Chebarkul. The military is already preparing for future enlargement, and the city authorities are worried in advance: servicing a huge military unit promises both pluses and minuses for Chebarkul, and so far it is not clear to officials or security forces what will be more.

Today, the 7th Separate Guards Red Banner Orders of Suvorov, Kutuzov and Alexander Nevsky Orenburg Cossack Brigade (aka military unit 89547 or simply the Chebarkul tank brigade) consists of three tank and one motorized rifle battalion, reconnaissance, engineer-sapper, commandant and medical companies , anti-aircraft, anti-aircraft missile, self-propelled howitzer and jet divisions. In total - about 2.6 thousand people, conscripts, contract soldiers and officers. The division of the “new type” is somewhat inferior in terms of staffing to the “old”, Soviet division, but still it is a total of 8-9 thousand people. Such data were announced during a visit to the Chebarkulsky garrison of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Chelyabinsk Region Margarita Pavlova, who visited there on August 17.

The official army media first spoke about the expansion of the Chebarkul formation back in February 2016, when the commander of the Central Military District, Colonel-General Vladimir Zarudnitsky, announced the modernization of the organizational and staffing structure of the Central Military District due to the increased intensity of combat training and new tasks assigned by the federal authorities to the district. As part of this modernization, for example, the Kant air base located in Kyrgyzstan will become the basis of a unified structure that will include all, in principle, Russian units in this state, the 201st military base in Tajikistan will switch to brigade states. Already in 2015, a new mountain motorized rifle brigade was formed in Tyva, and an anti-aircraft missile regiment in Khakassia. The district command plans for 2016 include the formation of two military formations, one of which will be based on Chebarkul tankers.

Military and regional officials do not see any disadvantages in deploying a division in Chebarkul.

“From a purely military point of view, the creation of a brigade on the available areas is a good step,” says one of the site’s sources, a retired colonel of tank troops. - Chebarkul has all the necessary infrastructure, half of the local residents are somehow connected with the military camp, there will not be the hysteria that gripped Chelyabinsk with the start of bomber flights from the Shagol air base in 2010. Finally, it is worth recalling that once the 7th brigade was a tank division - the 15th Red Banner "TD", withdrawn to Chebarkul from Czechoslovakia in 1991."

Oleg Klimov Vice Governor of the Chelyabinsk Region

“Indeed, the Supreme Commander-in-Chief (that is, Russian President Vladimir Putin - ed.) decided to create a tank division in Chebarkul. This is a big plus for the Chelyabinsk region. A huge number of officers with their families will come to Chebarkul, and this alone can significantly improve the economic situation in the city. First, the Ministry of Defense intends to develop infrastructure and invest in housing and communal services. Officers are essentially the middle class, people with very good salaries, their wives are, as a rule, highly qualified specialists with higher education, that is, personnel replenishment for the same areas of education and healthcare. Finally, the modern army outsources a huge amount of household work, which means that the appearance of a large military unit is jobs for civilians, an incentive for the development of small businesses, and finally, compensation paid by the command to officers for renting housing.

Klimov also mentioned that many fought for the right to host a new division. big cities, including Yekaterinburg. But the President of Russia and the Ministry of Defense preferred Chebarkul: three regiments of the future division will be deployed here, the fourth - in Yekaterinburg. The reason is the presence of the best tank range in Europe, which regularly hosts international military exercises.

However, in the process of the upcoming expansion of the brigade in Chebarkul, there are pitfalls.

Margarita PavlovaOmbudsman of the Chelyabinsk Region

“For me, information about the reorganization of the brigade was news, I actually went on August 17 to Chebarkul on a scheduled visit. But it was this expansion that we discussed in great detail with the mayor of the city, Sergei Kovrigin, and the brigade commander, General Kirill Kulakov. The process itself must be under constant control, and appropriate decisions must be made today, first of all, on social infrastructure - new kindergartens, schools, hospitals. I looked around the entire military camp. I can say that today the servicemen live quite well. At least the potatoes in the soup are white and not black, as some of my serving assistants recalled. The brigade itself is already preparing for expansion, for example, bunk beds are being installed in the cockpits for fighters instead of the usual ones. But both me and the city authorities still have concerns. Sergei Kovrigin is due to meet with Governor Boris Dubrovsky in the near future on the issue of preparing the city to receive a huge number of servicemen. For my part, I will also express my thoughts to the head of the region.”

Vice-Governor Oleg Klimov claims that the region will not have to invest in additional infrastructure for Chebarkul tankers, all expenses will be borne by the military department. However, he, despite his cheerful attitude, notes: it is important that all processes - from the restoration of the old, Soviet times, barracks and to the arrival of new equipment - go in parallel, without overtaking each other.

Igor Mikhailov, member of the council of chiefs of the 7th brigade, speaker of the meeting of deputies of the Etkulsky district, agrees with this: “Thank God, the current reforms, unlike the 1990s, when troops were simply thrown into the open field, are planned. Today's soldiers and officers, I'm sure, will not live in tents, except perhaps during exercises. Moreover, experience shows that settlements where the military left, the average solvency of the population fell sharply.

According to Margarita Pavlova, the formation of a division in Chebarkul will not take place all at once, but over a period of at least a year or two.

Whether the military department will have time to provide housing for hundreds of contractors and officers during this time is an open question. It was not possible to contact the press service of the Central Military District for a comment today. Igor Mikhailov is sure that a particularly large-scale construction will not be needed. He recalls that in addition to tankers, the Chebarkul garrison today includes anti-aircraft and anti-aircraft missile brigades. Mikhailov does not have official data and emphasizes that this is only his opinion, but he believes that it would be logical if the anti-aircraft gunners gave way to the “multiplied” tankers and were relocated somewhere else. For example, in Kurgan region, where, as part of the same modernization of the Central Military District, a number of units from the Middle Urals have been transferred in recent months. However, we have to admit: the proposed transfer of anti-aircraft gunners is still a kind of social explosion. After all, after the military, their families will have to leave their jobs and apartments.

Finally, none of the supporters of the formation of the brigade mentions another negative factor - the criminal situation associated with the concentration of the military. The 7th Guards Brigade has always been a rather calm unit, but even it was periodically “shaken” by various emergency situations.

website of the commissioner for human rights in the Chelyabinsk region

So, in June and November 2013, three conscripts died here from transient pneumonia, in January 2015 conscript Mikhail Gudelev shot himself (the criminal case on the fact of his death is still pending in court, the defendant is the former platoon commander of the deceased Vladimir Gorodner). 2016 was marked by two deaths at once: in April, during exercises at the Chebarkulsky training ground, Pavel Ostapovich died under the caterpillars of an infantry fighting vehicle, and in August Nikita Nedelko died in the Yekaterinburg military hospital, according to the official version, he was injured by a back wave from a shot from an anti-tank grenade launcher.

According to a former employee of the military prosecutor's office, and now an activist public organization“Servicemen also have rights” Alexei Kovalev, over the past five years, about a dozen criminal cases have been initiated on the fact of excesses in the Chebarkul brigade. This list also includes injuries received by soldiers with the connivance of officers (in 2011, conscript Yevgeny Mikhailov became disabled after the commander ordered him to spar with a colleague), and self-mutilation due to hazing, and desertion because of the same hazing (in the summer of 2013, a conscript from Nizhny Tagil, Artur Mikhailov, fled from the unit and hid in the Chebarkul church, posing as an orphanage).

Alexey Kovalev activist of the organization "Servicemen have rights too"

“We must not forget about suicide. Over the past five years, around half a dozen suicides can be counted throughout the Chelyabinsk region, mostly by contract soldiers and even officers. Moreover, the checks unequivocally confirm: the cause of suicides is domestic. Debts, disorder, lack of housing. And in last years we tend to increase "criminal" corpses: in 2014 we did without them, in 2015 one Mikhail Gudelev died, in eight months of 2016 we already have two corpses - Ostapovich and Nedelko. My experience says that this happens, firstly, due to relaxation, complacency and, as a result, the lack of attention on the part of commanders to the needs of soldiers, and secondly, due to the fact that officers are not actually afraid of responsibility. The defendant in the criminal case of the crushed BMP Ostapovich is the same green driver, and no one is in a hurry to bring to justice the one who made this wild situation possible at all, who taught the soldiers that it is permissible to click their beak during the exercises! The same situation is now unfolding with Nedelko: a careless grenade launcher, and not the officer who was not convinced of the safety of live firing, will be blamed for his death. And now we will increase all this number of suicides, guys who died by negligence, “runners” and others in proportion to the growth in the number personnel from brigade to division. Not scary?"

Note, according to the investigating authorities, this year there were not two, but three criminal corpses in uniform in Chebarkul - just the body of the player of HC Zvezda Igor Aksenov, who served in Chebarkul and disappeared at the end of April, was not found. Recall that Aksyonov asked for time off from the command to participate in the match, hit the road and disappeared. The military investigation department for the Chebarkul garrison is investigating a criminal case on the fact of the unauthorized abandonment of the unit, and the "civilian", that is, the city SO of the TFR, is investigating the fact of the murder. Pavel Dorofeev, head of the Chebarkul Investigative Department of the Russian Investigative Committee, confirms in an interview with a Znak.com correspondent that although military personnel are outside his diocese, once or twice a year his department investigates criminal cases where the military become victims. The local police have many more such cases.