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Fire in 'Winter Cherry': what has changed in the year after the tragedy in Kemerovo

March 25, 2018 at the Winter Cherry shopping and entertainment center in Kemerovo fire occurredin which 60 people died, including 40 children. This tragedy gave a start to mass inspections of shopping centers throughout Russia and discussions about the need to revise oversight systems. What we know later a year after a terrible fire?

Photo: mchs.gov.ru

The investigation into the fire in the “Winter Cherry” is at the final stage - and soon the materials will be transferred to the court, the governor of the Kemerovo region Sergei Tsivilev said on Friday, March 22, writes Air force.

An examination of electrical equipment appointed by the Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR) showed that the cause of the fire was a short circuit in the LED lamp located above the children's “dry” pool on the top floor of the shopping center - it could have been filled with melt water from the roof.

The automatic fire warning system from one of the cinema halls on the fourth floor of the building did not work in the shopping center. couldn't get 37 people.

After the fire at Winter Cherry, the Ministry of Emergency Situations began unscheduled inspections of shopping and entertainment centers and other facilities with large numbers of people throughout Russia. At the end of July, the department reported that during inspections more than 280 thousand violations of fire safety rules were identified.

Who was arrested

To date, 15 people are involved in the case of the fire in Winter Cherry.

  • Yulia Bogdanova, General Director of OJSC Kemerovo Confectionery Plant (the company that owns the shopping center);
  • Georgy Sobolev, former technical director of the plant;
  • Nadezhda Suddenok, General Director of Zimnyaya Vishnya LLC (management company of the shopping center);
  • Igor Polozinenko, head of the System Integrator company (the company responsible for servicing the fire alarm system);
  • Alexander Nikitin, electrician;
  • Sergey Antyushin, employee of a private security company;
  • Andrei Bursin, head of the first squad of the fire fighting service of the Kemerovo region, first arrived at the fire site;
  • Sergey Genin, head of the guard of the fire and rescue unit №2;
  • Alexander Mamontov, former head of the Emergencies Ministry in the Kemerovo region;
  • Grigory Terentyev, Head of the Supervision and Prevention Department of the Regional Emergencies Ministry;
  • Tanzilia Komkova, ex-chief of the State Construction Supervision of the Kemerovo Region;
  • Edward Komkov, son of Komkovaya;
  • Nikita Cherednichenko, Komkov’s business partner, general director of ISK Resource;
  • Svetlana Shengerei, deputy head of the inspection of the Kuzbass building supervision;
  • Vyacheslav Vishnevsky, ex-general director of the Kemerovo Confectionery Plant.

They (depending on the role of each) are charged with violating fire safety requirements, rendering services that do not meet safety requirements, giving and receiving bribes, negligence, waste, abuse of authority and fraud.

On Monday, March 25, the Investigative Committee reported that businessman Vishnevsky, who was put on the international wanted list and arrested in absentia by the court, was detained in Poland. “The issue of his extradition is being considered,” said department representative Svetlana Petrenko.

According to investigators, Vishnevsky gave Komkov and Cherednichenko a bribe to 7 million rubles in the reconstruction of the building of the former confectionery plant for the future shopping center.

Photo: 42.mchs.gov.ru

The TFR also reported that the investigation into Bogdanova, Sobolev, Suddenok, Polozinenko, Nikitin, Antyushin and Genin was completed, and the materials of the criminal case were sent to the General Prosecutor's Office.

A year after the fire at the Emergency Situations Ministry, they continue to insist on the innocence of the firefighters Bursin and Genin who worked on the spot.

“This year, an analysis of the situation was made regarding the actions of our employees during the fire in Winter Cherry. In the circumstances in which they found themselves, the firefighters acted in accordance with them,” said Sergei Sivenkov, deputy director of the department of fire and rescue forces and special forces of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, on March 21.

In August, it was reported that Bursin tried to commit suicide in the detention facility.

Relatives of the victims

More than 450 people have been recognized as victims in the case of the fire in Winter Cherry, 83 of them are relatives of those killed in the fire, the Investigative Committee reported on Monday.

One of the main characters of the Kemerovo tragedy was 32-year-old Igor Vostrikov, who lost his wife, three children and a sister in the fire.

He was part of the initiative group of relatives of the victims, was one of the organizers of the rally in Kemerovo, and then created a group on VKontakte in which he accepted complaints about the work of government agencies.

In the summer of 2018, he won the United Russia primaries for the Kemerovo regional parliament, but lost the elections themselves in September, and at the end of the year began to appear messages that he left for the USA.

Vostrikov himself explained that in this way he was trying to survive the tragedy, and said that he planned to return to Russia.

25 March, on the anniversary of the fire, he appeared at a mourning event in Kemerovo.

 

New governor

Resignations at a high level after the fire did not happen.

Although the media sounded assumptions that because of the events in Kemerovo, the new government did not take the head of the Emergencies Ministry Vladimir Puchkov.

A week after the fire Aman Tuleyev announced his resignation, who served as governor of the Kemerovo region for more than 20 years. However, ten days after that, he was elected chairman of the regional parliament.

Tuleev held this position until September 2018, and then was appointed rector of the Kuzbass Regional Institute for the Development of Vocational Education.

Sergei Tsivilev, who began working as vice-governor of the region shortly before the fire, became the acting head of the Kemerovo region. Outside of Kuzbass, he gained fame during spontaneous rallies when he accused Igor Vostrikov of wanting to “get publicity on the mountain,” and then knelt in front of Kemerovo residents.

In September, 2018, Tsivilev won the gubernatorial election.

What happened to the shopping center

The Winter Cherry complex included seven buildings with a total area of ​​23 thousand square meters. After the fire, the authorities decided to demolish not only the main building of the shopping center, which was declared unsafe, but also all other buildings.

As Tsivilev explained, “these buildings will always be associated among the residents of Kuzbass with the tragedy that occurred.”

In May 2018, demolition of the auxiliary buildings of Winter Cherry began, and by the end of summer, dismantling of the main building was completed.

In place of the former shopping and entertainment complex, it was decided to break the square. According to the plan of the authorities, there will be a wall with a waterfall, a stone rotunda and an alley of 60 pine trees.

The authorities promise to complete the improvement of the park by September 1, 2019. For now, the site of “Winter Cherry” is a vacant lot surrounded by a fence.

The stories of the dead, injured and people who tried to save children in Kemerovo do not leave anyone indifferent. Faces and destinies - who died in the fire at Winter Cherry.

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