A military town surrounded by a fence. Not far from the checkpoint a young woman stands and nervously fiddling with her scarf. To her a car pulls up. Woman sighs relieved, he sits down in it. car gives on gases. They remain behind the car on the road subtle drops of blood. Morning of December 31, 1993. City Khabarovsk.

Main Directorate of Internal Affairs cases in the Khabarovsk Territory. Into the building a woman of about 60 staggers in and unexpectedly falls near the window duty officer Police officers bring her into feeling. Of course, she came in so depressed depressed state. It was the impression is that, well, she doesn’t look even for his age, the one he had her.

Panfilov Vladimir Vladimirovich, ex-head of department of the Main Directorate criminal investigation department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. B worked as a senior in the nineties criminal investigation officer in city of Khabarovsk. Her blood pressure dropped, she completely turned pale and we were forced to interrupt our dialogues.

We invited a doctor who visited us. Here. Well, the doctor brought her back to her senses. Zoya Nikolaevna Popova arrived several times days ago from Krasnodar to celebrate New Year’s Eve with my daughter’s family. But instead A terrible blow awaited her at the joyful meeting. She found out that her Olga was gone without a trace disappeared, and most importantly, no one looking for.

To understand the situation, the boss The headquarters sends an operative team. The decision was made to begin, as they say, check from the very beginning. Missing Sentsova Olga Lvovna, 35 years old, city of birth Krasnodar. Lives in Khabarovsk Territory in a military town. Married, no children.

Works as a teacher in elementary school. [music] But where could Olga have disappeared to? After all, she knew that her mother was coming to visit her. Is it possible that her disappearance is connected with your husband’s work? He is a military man, he occupies high position and is the bearer valuable secret information.

Or with a woman had an accident. So far the detectives have only questions and nothing one answer. From the materials of the criminal case with statement about the disappearance of Sentsova Ol later three days ago Sentsov’s husband Vadim contacted Gennadievich. According to him, it was compiled search orientation.

He provided photograph of the wife. Vladimir Panfilov finds out in what investigation and what steps have already been taken by the local by the police. The operatives called hospitals and morgues. unidentified corpses during this period after she was not found. No, how they say in the area responsibility of the railway police, that means in the area where she lived.

[music] When investigating a missing person case, calling hospital morgues are a mandatory step. Perhaps the person is in unconscious or dead. Moreover, they call them several times with periodicity in one day, because there is chance that the person was discovered and They didn’t get there right away. [music] In addition, the police were involved in transport and sent out orientations throughout the Khabarovsk region.

Photos of a wanted person are placed on the stand. Nikiforov Gennady Eduardovich in the nineties worked in the Moscow department Internal Affairs at the railway transport. Let the stand be called: “The police are looking for them.” At that time they wanted by the police, but it says below explanation that this is the person wanted for committing something crime, but this man left home and never returned.

On the same day, December 31, opera Commissioner Panfilov goes to apartment where the Sentsovs live, and where the mother of the missing Zoya stopped Nikolaevna. There the head of the family tells again Panfil about what the detective had already read in in fact. Around 8:00 a.m. on December 22, officer approached the house, returned with long exercises and saw his wife.

He I recognized her by her silhouette and clothes. Young the woman was wearing blue jeans and gray down jacket. She was in a hurry, almost running to the checkpoint. A military town is a special world. Territory separated from the remaining part countries separated fence. checkpoint posts. Limanov Anton Aleksandrovich, military man historian, publicist, author of books and articles about the Russian armed forces during the period perestroika.

The disappearance of any resident of a military camp – this is an emergency. The USSR ceased to exist in 1991. At that time, Soviet troops numbered about 4 million people. In May 1992, the number of personal the composition of the army was already estimated at less than 3 million military personnel. Life in military units began to change.

Funding has dropped sharply. In some garrisons, officers spent months did not receive any monetary allowance. Military personnel quit en masse. Them no less, people in military camps, despite all the difficulties, we continued live together. So, according to Vadim Sentsov, he saw wife on the day of her disappearance.

She was in a hurry on the train, on a session at the institute. Sentsov did not call her and decided that will meet in the evening. He went to the regional center, there are no traces of him found it. And then the thought came to him: that perhaps she stayed overnight to my friend. According to Sentsov, it became it is known that the day after the disappearance of his wife, he called several her friends. Nobody saw Olga.

Numbers The man found the phones in his notebook wife’s book. Panfelov asks to show give him the woman’s personal belongings. is being studied documents, including the notebooks of the missing man person. Well, including the subject such research are photo albums. Panfilov notes: “In the photographs there is a couple look happy. Both are well dressed.

Olga is wearing gold and amber jewelry and pearls Apparently, her husband spoils her, sucker looks around. A room in the apartment too decorated with taste and attention the operative is attracted by the unusual detail. Wallpaper on one wall in the living room brighter than the others. Panfilov understands that the carpet had been hanging there for a long time, which is no longer there.

Sentsov confirms that he and his wife are going make repairs, began to get rid of trash. But where do the officers get the complex stuff? time, money for jewelry for his wife, so more for apartment renovations. Well, in the nineties there was no It is customary to throw away useful old things, which could be used again.

And carpets were such an item that characterized any family, that is, its prosperity. Menchukov Dmitry Alekseevich, sociologist-political scientist, author of a publication about perestroika. [music] and throw out the carpet. In the nineties this was unthinkable. In Soviet times and in the early nineties there was a carpet in almost every house, so the same as Czechoslovak walls and crystal.

Carpets were hung on the walls, covered with them floors. If they were more popular in the USSR henbane with fairy tales or with deer against the backdrop of a forest or mountains, then in in the nineties they were supplanted by the Persians, Uzbek and Armenian woolen products with traditional fancy ornaments.

Natural wool carpet in 1993 in stores it cost more than 150,000 rubles, While the average salary was about 60,000. While studying the case, Panfilov read the protocols interrogating neighbors, and yet he decides to question them personally. In general, some negative no characteristics were obtained. According to Sentsov’s neighbors, they lived like everyone else, neither better nor worse.

Then what could happen? Why in broad daylight? Olga disappeared on New Year’s Day? Could a woman have a big quarrel with husband? Or maybe she fell in love with another man and left? The possibility that she became an accidental victim of criminals, Investigators are not ruling it out either. The era of the nineties is, of course, a completely unpredictable time.

U many people so, figuratively speaking, blew the roof off. Husbands abandoned families children, wives, teachers quit their jobs, went to sell things at the market. B in general, something like this was happening indescribable. [music] On the morning of January 1, the detectives set off to railway station, where Olga I went to Khabarovsk.

From the materials of the criminal case, the cashier, who worked on the day of Sentsova’s disappearance OL, recognizes the missing person in the photograph and confirms that she often went to Khabarovsk. However, Lisentsova OL bought ticket for the required date, say finds it difficult. The next day, the operatives sit in morning train.

They need to find those who saw Olga. In the nineties there were crimes on the railway a frequent occurrence, and happen along the way with a young woman could do anything. There were train thieves, there were so-called Well, the scammers of Shlyar cataly. which, well, sometimes they trusted this person, tried to start some kind of card game game, and the person, well, has no money.

Ah, You don’t have money, then give it all, what do you have, and what do you need there? didn’t talk, he could have been thrown out somewhere on the move from this train. And this could be. After 2 days, luck smiles on the detectives. One of the passengers, an elderly woman, remembers that she saw Sentsov at that time the most fatal morning.

According to her, Olga had a strong argument with a certain man, and he dragged her out of the train. Because that woman was with two children, she will not intervene in this dispute I could have helped in some way. Was it really Olga? But who was next to her? Operatives and transport police begin to search in area of Sadovaya station.

It was her stated the witness. Combing the area is an inspection perimeter in the area of the missing person. The combing is carried out along the specified route regardless of the terrain, be it ravines or forest thicket. Group members share territory into squares and check every centimeter. If on the way there are abandoned wells buildings look there too.

But always there is hope that a living person. Here’s how would not say, no matter how they were Well, there’s some indirect evidence there, well, there is hope. On the second day of searching, 4 km from Sadovaya station in the forest belt is found the corpse of a woman dressed in jeans and a jacket, about the same as the missing Olga.

The absence of the front part is strong the damage made identification difficult. [music] Was Olga really killed? But who could it be? do and why? Begins investigative procedure to establish identity based on an unidentified body. B nineties for this purpose all methods were used except analysis DNA. During the examination of the corpse, the corpse must be was subjected to document scanning, after why, huh, a docthilloscopy was obtained the card was checked by operational reference accounting.

If the person was registered, then accordingly, we installed it personality. Belov Oleg Aleksandrovich, associate professor of the department criminology of Moscow state legal University, Candidate of Legal Sciences. In addition, the law obliged and obliges Now it’s mandatory to do chest crunches educational photographs for so that in the future, in the future, photographs show the corpse for identification.

The investigation is clarifying that the body found not far from Sadovaya station, belongs to thirty-year-old Oksana Kolyazina, a resident of Khabarovsk. A report of her missing has already been received by police. From the materials of the criminal case It has been established that the unidentified body is not belongs to Olga Lvovna Sentsova.

By according to VG Sentsov, the jacket on the missing gray color, on the discovered body light brown. Also, the special signs do not match. U Ol Sentsova did not have her ears pierced. [music] Case investigation into the murder of a woman from electric trains are transferred to the territorial department of internal affairs, and operatives they start calling Olga’s friends.

The country returns to normal after the holidays ordinary life. [music] New Year was celebrated in the nineties gathering in a large group relatives or friends at someone’s place apartment. The table was put together. The women decided in advance who would do what. buys and who cooks what. On the table Olivier salad and herring were a must under a fur coat, jellied meat, bright red sausage salts and sprats baked into a crust bush legs, alcohol piano, multi-colored liqueurs with apricot, cherry and kiwi flavors.

Russian champagne. From soft drinks to the table put Zuko’s juices diluted with water and Invite. In the nineties we had three days off official. The first, second and seventh numbers. Under these numbers people tried to either take vacation, either from goals, or accumulating weekend. We tried to go to relatives, who had what where? We tried visit necessarily.

Investigators talking to girlfriends Olga, who were away. On the first look they don’t say anything special, But something worries Panfilov. The woman told us that in those clothes, in which it is described in the orientation, it I only took out trash cans. But what could have happened? What made Olga this time to go to the exam in Khabarovsk in simple jeans? I worked with people who are in closed they communicated in military camps.

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