The family of the ex-head of the FSO received property worth billions of rubles..

Got it for Ovsyanoe

And who said that Russian pensioners live poorly! Some are very good. Take, for example, Lyudmila Murova. She’s in her eighties, and she not only continues to head the board of trustees of the Russian Curling Federation, but also suddenly became one of the richest women in the country, having bought several large companies at once. In recent years, the woman has lived on a modest state pension and has saved up. And the fact that her husband Evgeny Murov, until last year, headed the Federal Security Service, which generously distributes government contracts, is probably a coincidence.

In October, Forbes wrote that Lyudmila Murova became a co-owner of one of the largest medical companies in the country - the Unified Medical Center, which last year alone brought 1.3 billion rubles in net profit, practically crushing the market in St. Petersburg for issuing government certificates for the Ministry of Internal Affairs and FMS. Previously, this company belonged to the arrested St. Petersburg businessman Dmitry Mikhalchenko, whose structures under Evgeny Murov actively collaborated with the FSO.

But this is not Mikhalchenko’s only asset that went to Murova. There are others too. What about assets? Even the dacha of the shadow oligarch in the village of Ovsyanoye, as Sobesednik found out, also came under the control of a former security official. Now both this estate with a jacuzzi on the shore of Lake Nakhimovskoye and the nearby infrastructure (including a huge health complex) are registered in the name of Mikhalchenko’s ex-company Storent. One half of the company is owned by Lyudmila Murova, the other is owned by her husband’s former KGB colleague Nikolai Negodov.

Port for "Vladimir"

The same Murova today also owns a share in LLC Property Management Plant Izmeron. “Today Izmeron,” says the plant’s website, “is one of the technological leaders in Russia in the market of downhole equipment for the oil and gas industry.” Even Gazprom Design rents real estate here.

But the most delicious asset that passed from the arrested businessman to the pensioner is the Phoenix company, which is completing the construction of the Bronka cargo port in St. Petersburg. The authorized capital of Phoenix is ​​about 11 billion rubles; at the beginning of this year, the balance sheet was 10 billion more. Half of this property belongs to the same Murova. True, all the company’s shares and part of the real estate are still pledged to Sberbank (under the loan that Mikhalchenko, while still free, took out for the construction of Bronka), so now the sea harbor is only operating at half capacity. But among the cargo ships there are already regular customers. For example, twice a month the container ship Vladimir, sailing under the proud Cypriot flag, docks in Bronka.

Formally, Dmitry Mikhalchenko was arrested for smuggling alcohol, but he himself connects his criminal case precisely with the struggle for control over this port. Today, Lyudmila Murova’s companies, including Bronka Group, are headed by her 22-year-old grandson Nikita. Five years ago, this young man was unable to pass the entrance competition for the Faculty of Law at St. Petersburg State University, having entered there only through the security forces quota, and suddenly - such a rise. The “Interlocutor” asked the novice top manager: “Is changing the owner of the port a victory over the raiders or a defeat from them?” But I never received an answer. It is possible that we will still win. Murova's surname as a co-owner of not only the business, but also the estate of the arrested businessman is an excellent guarantee of protection from unnecessary attacks from outside.

Quiet "Forum"

But an attempt to take a comment directly at the port of Bronka turned into an unexpected revelation.

Interesting things. If Phoenix formally moved to the Murovs, then HC Forum officially still remains with Mikhalchenko’s people. Or are they hiding something from us and all the rest of his property (and the entire Izmeron, and the whole block on Krasny Tekstilshchik Street in St. Petersburg, and the local restaurant chain) are also under the Murovs’ thumb? I call the phone number that Novikov dictated, and I actually end up in the “Forum”.

No, our structures are not connected in any way,” said Elmira Mamedova, a representative of the holding.

Why then was I redirected to you?

Because I am a good person and can answer your questions.

After reading a dozen questions that included information already known to readers of Sobesednik, Mamedova answered:

It seems that you know more than me.

She asked for time for a more detailed comment so that the readers of Sobesednik would find out whether the ex-head of the FSO managed to move to Ovsyanoye, who now owns the entire Forum holding company, as well as under what conditions and for what money Lyudmila Murova got the St. Petersburg business Mikhalchenko.

A person can jump from a height very close to space. This was proven by the Austrian Felix Baumgartner. His free fall began almost 40 kilometers from the Earth. For some time he flew, outrunning the sound.

Having stepped into the abyss, the Austrian Felix Baumgartner seemed to have passed into another dimension. Within 20 seconds he was falling at the speed of a jet plane, and after 48 Felix, for the first time in the history of mankind, without any mechanical means, overcame the speed of sound.

Immediately afterwards, cameras showed Baumgartner beginning to spin erratically. This is exactly what they were most afraid of before the jump - in a rarefied atmosphere there is no way to lean on the air flow and align your body. Overloads from rotation can reach monstrous levels - in the past, several daredevils died jumping in the stratosphere.

“There is practically no atmosphere there. The density of the atmosphere there is approximately 100, and maybe even more times less than the density at the Earth’s surface. Falling from such a height, a person will gain a speed of 330 meters per second in 35-40 seconds,” - explains Ernst Kalyazin, professor of the Department of Space Systems and Rocket Engineering at the Moscow Aviation Institute.

More than a minute has passed since the start of the jump, and there is no connection with Baumgartner. He is in a deadly environment, from which he is separated by a thin wall of a special spacesuit. At the beginning of the jump, he must protect the skydiver from the stratospheric cold, then from the heat that is released due to the friction of the spacesuit with the air. But the most important thing is that until now no one knew what a person would feel when breaking the sound barrier.

Relatives and colleagues could only hope for the vast experience of the world's most famous skydiver, which translated from English means “diving into the sky.” 43-year-old Felix Baumgartner has been achieving this record for many years. He has made many dangerous parachute jumps, including from the most famous skyscrapers and monuments.

But the descent from the upper layers of the stratosphere is something special; it is also called a jump from near space. And after 1 minute 30 seconds from the start of the fall, Baumgartner got in touch.

This is how he himself describes his feelings in the first seconds of this crazy fall: “I suddenly began to spin faster and faster. And I tried to stop it: I stretched out one arm - it didn’t work. Then the other arm. But any movement there is delayed, because on such speed, in this suit it is impossible to predict what will happen next."

Baumgartner had the braking parachute release button, and he says he hesitated for several seconds: to slow down or go for the record. Pilot Joe Kittenger had a similar choice only 52 years ago. He was the first to dive from a height of more than 31 kilometers. Then he chose to open the brake parachute. And now, at 84, he acts as a technical consultant to Baumgartner and helps Felix break his own record.

This start was postponed many times. The wind made it impossible to deploy the gigantic 55-story-high stratospheric balloon dome. And when, finally, the device rose to 39 kilometers, the whole world froze in anticipation.

“I stood on the edge and thought: how cool it would be if everyone who is watching me now saw what I see. Sometimes you need to get so high to realize how small you are,” skydiver Felix shared his impressions Baumgartner.

In the USSR in 1962, two years after Joe Kittenger, there were also attempts to storm the stratosphere. Parachutist Evgeny Andreev successfully jumped from 25 kilometers, and his partner Pyotr Dolgov followed and died due to a microcrack in his spacesuit. But the women's world record for jumping from the stratosphere has been held since 1977 by Muscovite Elvira Fomicheva - almost 15 kilometers of free fall.

“The jump is very difficult. After 12 thousand it’s hard. Firstly, this is due to airless space. The body begins to burst and the total load is very large,” says world record holder Elvira Fomicheva.

Is there any practical meaning in such records? Felix Baumgartner is now ready to look for the answer to this question only on Earth. He promised his beloved that this jump would be his last, and who knows whether his record will last another 50 years.

The guest of Izvestia that time was Major Evgeny Andreev. Have you already forgotten this name? In vain...

On November 1, 1962, test paratroopers Major Evgeniy Andreev and Colonel Pyotr Dolgov made a jump from the stratosphere - from the Volga stratospheric balloon, which rose to a height of 25,458 meters. Andreev's jump was a long one, and for more than 24 kilometers he simply fell - 270 seconds according to timing, at a speed of more than 900 km per hour. At an altitude of 950 meters, Andreev opened his parachute.

“Izvestia”: “Our heroes have a good tradition: when returning from a mission, having completed a difficult task, they stop by the newspaper’s editorial office in order to tell people on its pages about the joy of the feat.”

The conversation about the “joys of achievement,” apparently, did not go very well. Dolgov died then. And the material published in Izvestia was not so much about the jump - Andreev talked much more about his comrade.

“Peter Ivanovich is a pioneer. He jumped 1,409 times, set a dozen world and all-Union records. He tested our first ejection installations. Each time it was unknown how the next jump could end. (...) This is the type of person: if they say, we must , walked, and once he walked, he tried to give all of himself to the cause.”

But Andreev himself is a person of “that kind”! Detail: since 1954, he walked (and jumped) in an orthopedic boot - one leg was shorter than the other, a memory of a severe injury when jumping. They wanted to take the leg away altogether, but Andreev resisted - he couldn’t imagine himself without test work. And he managed to return to duty. In general, a lot about him becomes clear when you look at the portrait in Izvestia: a good face, like the guys from the first, Gagarin, cosmonaut corps had. And what he said more about Dolgov is also natural: everyone remembers Andreev’s rare modesty. Academician Landau remarked about him: real heroes always keep a low profile, only cowards have a heroic look.

"He was a wonderful man!" - Honored test parachutist of the USSR Grigory Serebrennikov recalls Andreev.

Then, in 1962, it was not just a record being set. At the same time, Dolgov tested a high-altitude space suit, a prototype of new space suits, and a new parachute system (his own invention). Andreev - a system for emergency escape from the gondola (it imitated a space capsule), while the possibility of free fall in rarefied layers of the atmosphere in serial equipment was determined. That’s why Andreev went first and took a long jump. Dolgov was supposed to follow with the immediate opening of the parachute. Died due to depressurization of the suit. Hole in the helmet. Why did it arise? An absurd accident. I remember conversations about this in our parachute circles: in the stratospheric balloon gondola everything was done intelligently, but in one place - either a design flaw or an accident - a pin-bolt was sticking out. Dolgov hit his helmet with his helmet - either when the gondola was thrown up after Andreev’s jump, or when he got up (the gondola was cramped, shorter than a man). A tiny hole - however, there was no longer a chance to survive: at a 25-kilometer altitude, the pressure was more than 40 times lower than on Earth; its instantaneous drop during depressurization leads to the fact that the blood essentially boils and foams. Andreev said that he managed to notice how Dolgov’s parachute opened above, but perhaps Dolgov himself was already dead. The FAI (Fédération Aeronautique Internationale) does not count the result if the person who established it dies - the experiment is considered a failure. That’s why only Andreev’s record was counted. He hasn't been beaten yet.

Evgeny Andreev and Pyotr Dolgov (posthumously) were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Evgeniy Nikolaevich Andreev continued to jump and retired as a colonel. Died in 2000.

October 14, 2012 Austrian extreme skydiver Felix Baumgartner about 39 kilometers, having developed a speed of 1357.6 kilometers per hour in free fall. October 25, 2014 Google executive Alan Eustace surpassed Baumgartner's result, jumping from a height of 41,420 m and reaching a speed of 1,321 km per hour.

It is worth noting, however, that experts highlight Eustace’s achievement in a special category - when jumping, he used a stabilizing parachute, which significantly facilitates the person’s position during the jump and eliminates the deadly “twist”, in which the body goes into uncontrolled rotation.

So Felix Baumgartner's achievement is more "pure". But the Austrian extreme sportsman, who updated many records during his jump, did not surpass the achievement of the Soviet parachutist Evgeniy Andreev in terms of free fall duration. Baumgartner was in free fall for 4 minutes 20 seconds, and Andreev for 4 minutes 30 seconds.

Parachute instead of front

Unlike Baumgartner and Eustace, parachute jumping for Evgeny Andreev was not a sport, not an extreme hobby, but a real profession.

When the war began, 14-year-old Zhenya was studying at a vocational school, after which he stood at a factory machine and sharpened blanks for shells.

At the height of the war, he was drafted into the army, sent to study in a reserve regiment. Evgeniy dreamed of a navy, but once he joined the infantry, he was still eager to go to the front to fight the Nazis.

However, the physically strong and healthy guy was left in the reserve regiment, from which he was then sent for a medical examination. After it, the young soldier was announced: he was heading to the Armavir pilot school, where he was to master the profession of a parachutist.

Like all cadets, he first thoroughly mastered the duties of a parachute handler and only then was allowed to jump. Cadet Andreev performed his very first jump confidently, without fear, which earned him the approval of the instructors.

After undergoing special training, Evgeniy Andreev became a member of the group of parachute equipment testers at the Air Force Research Institute.

Do you see the shark? But she exists!

In 1947, Andreev, together with his colleagues, began testing rescue means for pilots of new jet aircraft that were just entering service.

Among the test jumps were splashdown jumps, not in the warm Black Sea, but in the chilly Barents Sea.

As they say, only fools are afraid of anything. Test parachutist Andreev was not afraid of anything in the sky, but in the sea he felt uneasy from... sharks. On the eve of the jumps, an experienced sailor told him how in these waters during the war, a pilot who jumped with a parachute into the sea was eaten by a shark.

How true this story was is unknown, but, as Andreev himself recalled, all night he dreamed exclusively of sharks.

However, work is work, and the next day the parachutist, dressed in a test suit, completed the jump. A rubber boat tied to it with a cord was supposed to splash down with him.

However, everything went wrong. The boat was carried away by a strong wind, and the cord connecting it to the parachutist tore a part from Andreev’s suit. Ice water began to get inside the survival suit, which lost its buoyancy. With great difficulty, Andreev managed to inflate the collar of the suit, remaining afloat.

But the parachutist himself admitted that all this seemed trivial to him against the backdrop of a possible “shark threat.” However, everything worked out - the helicopter arrived and picked up the tester safely.

Following the example of Maresyev

Testing ejection seats and other equipment was fraught with many dangers for paratroopers. During one of the ejections from a high-speed bomber, which Andreev himself considered not very difficult, the paratrooper immediately after leaving the cockpit felt severe pain. The fall was not normal, and he suddenly saw his right leg, which lay horizontally on the air flow at an angle of ninety degrees to the body, like a foreign object.

In some incredible way, the injured tester managed to make a relatively soft landing. As it turned out later, at the moment of separation, a chair hit his thigh. The injury was monstrous - the leg turned into a bloody mess, 16 centimeters of bone were crushed into small pieces.

Doctors at the Sklifosovsky Institute rendered a verdict: amputation! But the 27-year-old parachutist insisted: save your leg, I want to return to the profession. Decided to do the impossible surgeon Alexey Smirnov, who, together with his colleagues, spent two months “gluing together” the crippled bone piece by piece. Another year was spent on rehabilitation, after which Andreev appeared before a medical board.

The commission members, having studied the medical documents, announced: you will serve, but no jumping.

And then Evgeny Andreev did almost the same thing as pilot Alexey Maresyev, - decided to clearly show the commission his capabilities.

From the memoirs of Evgeny Andreev: “The doctors are looking and shaking their heads. No, they say, friend, serve, but forgive me for jumping. Oh so?! - Think. Yes, he ran up, did a back somersault, fixed the stand on one hand... “To hell with you,” the general, chairman of the commission, waved his hand. “Jump.”

After that terrible injury, one of the parachutist’s legs became 4 centimeters shorter than the other. But this did not stop him from making unique test jumps.

Why cows don't like skydivers

Sometimes testers experienced completely unexpected problems during landing. One day, a group that included Andreev was performing precision landing jumps in the specified area. We had to land on an ordinary meadow that did not foretell any problems.

But when the paratroopers began to descend, it turned out that a herd of cows was peacefully grazing at the landing site. And the testers had to sit down right among the cows.

The first paratrooper sat astride the cow. He hurried to jump off it, but then a dome descended on the poor animal, covering it entirely. The cow, panicking, began to rush about, dragging behind it the parachutist who had not had time to unfasten his belt. A few minutes later, real chaos began on the field. Cows mooed desperately, paratroopers tried to collect parachutes and get out of this nightmare. And then a bull appeared, clearly intending to teach the uninvited guests a lesson.

Order was restored only with the appearance of an old shepherd, who drove away the bull, helped the paratroopers get out and bitterly complained: “Why did you, falcons, disperse all the cattle for me?”

Experiment on the instructions of Korolev

In the early 1960s, Evgeny Andreev, as one of the best test parachutists, was included in a group that worked on testing rescue equipment for the first Soviet cosmonauts.

After Gagarin's flight, in the fall of 1962, on instructions chief designer of Soviet space technology Sergei Korolev, an experiment was planned to conduct a parachute jump from “near space” - from a height of 25,000 meters.

Pyotr Dolgov - parachute equipment tester, Air Force colonel. Photo: wikimapia.org

The secret experiment was called "Star". Its participants were appointed Evgeny Andreev And Peter Dolgov.

Dolgov had to test an automatic parachute of his own design, which should open the parachute immediately after the jump. He had to make the jump in a special spacesuit. Andreev’s jump had to be carried out in a regular high-altitude anti-g suit for fighter pilots. He had to fly in free fall for about 24 kilometers, opening the dome only a kilometer from the ground.

On November 1, 1962, the Volga stratospheric balloon, whose cabin imitated the descent module of the Vostok spacecraft, rose from a test site located near the city of Volsk, Saratov Region. Before the ascent, Dolgov and Andreev were subjected to desaturation - the lungs were purged with oxygen, nitrogen was removed from the blood so that it would not “boil” due to large changes in atmospheric pressure.

The ascent lasted three hours and 25 minutes. During this time, the Volga reached a height of 25,458 meters. According to the experiment program, Evgeniy Andreev was the first to make the jump.

4 minutes 30 seconds

From the memoirs of Evgeny Andreev: “I shot off the cover of my hatch through which I had to eject, waved goodbye to Dolgov, turned over on my back so that the heat transfer was less, and forward. Before this I had to jump a lot at night. And yet the sky was amazing: thick, inky color, and the stars were very close. I glanced down over my shoulder, and there was blue, bright orange sun... Beautiful.”

The free fall from “near space” began at 10:13. Andreev was flying to the ground with his back down, in a position in which it was extremely difficult to control his body. It turned over at approximately 12,000 meters. My hands were so frozen that I lost sensitivity, and the glass of my helmet froze. Trying to warm his hands, which the parachutist needs as rudders, Andreev squeezed and unclenched them, which led to a tailspin. But the squeezing and unclenching had an effect - the returned sensitivity in the hands allowed the parachutist to stabilize the flight.

Suddenly Andreev was shaken sharply - the automatic system released the parachute. Soon he landed safely.

Evgeny Andreev spent 4 minutes 30 seconds in free fall, during which time he flew down 24,500 meters.

“Only he didn’t return from the battle...”

Once on the ground, the parachutist first looked at the sky - the canopy of Peter Dolgov’s parachute was visible there. It seemed that the jump of the second tester was also going according to plan.

The technology really did not fail, but Andreev’s partner landed already dead.

The specialists who developed the Zvezda experiment program did not take into account one nuance - at an altitude of over 25 kilometers, the stratospheric balloon cabin needed more time in order to reach a state of stability in rarefied air conditions after Andreev’s jump.

Pyotr Dolgov began completing the task at the time provided for by the experiment plan. But at that moment the cabin continued to sway. Because of this, when exiting the cockpit, Dolgov hit his helmet against a small pin in the hatch opening. The pin punched a 9x16 mm hole in the helmet. The tester died as a result of depressurization.

By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of December 12, 1962, for the courage and heroism shown during the testing of parachute equipment, Evgeniy Andreev was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, with the presentation of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal. Pyotr Dolgov was posthumously awarded the same award.

Evgeny Andreev completed his military service with the rank of colonel, and in 1985 he became one of the first in the country to be awarded the title “Honored Test Parachutist of the USSR.” Andreev received badge number 3.

His predecessor did not live up to Felix Baumgartner's record. Evgeniy Nikolaevich Andreev died on February 9, 2000 at the age of 73 years. He is buried in the cemetery of the village of Leonikha, Shchelkovsky district, Moscow region.

Flight faces

E.N. Andreev - Hero of the Soviet Union (1962), Honored Test Parachutist of the USSR (1985), Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1963). Colonel.

Born in Novosibirsk September 4 1926 He was educated in an orphanage. In the ranks of the Soviet Army since 1943. He studied at a flight school in Armavir, in a group of parachute equipment testers at the USSR Air Force Research Institute.

In 1955 he graduated from the Ryazan Airborne School. After graduation, he became a tester of parachute systems.

On November 1, 1962, as part of a secret experiment conducted by the head of the Soviet space program S.P. Korolev, from the Volsky training ground on the SS-Volga stratospheric balloon, together with P.I. Dolgov rose to a height of 25,500 meters and made a parachute jump. He covered 24,500 meters in free fall with a maximum speed of 900 kilometers per hour. Thus, he set world records for time (4 minutes 30 seconds) and free fall distance (24,500 m) counted by the International Aviation Federation (FAI).

Notes in the margins: This is how Evgeniy Nikolaevich recalled about the assault on the stratosphere: “I don’t feel the usual elasticity of the air. To make the glazing of the pressure helmet freeze less, I turn over on my back. In the boundless darkness of the black sky, the stars are shining, they seem very close and somehow not real. I look at the altimeter - already nineteen thousand meters. At this altitude, the fall occurs at the highest speed. When I reached a height of twelve thousand meters, the speed decreased, the tension devices of the high-altitude suit weakened. I sigh freely, straighten my body and turn over face down.

Below is the Volga with its many tributaries. Although I’m wearing a marine life jacket over my high-altitude equipment, I don’t feel like swimming, I decide to get away from the water, choosing a huge field as a reference point, turn around and plan at an angle of forty-five degrees towards it. At an altitude of one thousand five hundred meters the alarm device goes off. After twenty seconds the device will open the parachute. I take one last look at my equipment and grab the pull ring with my left hand. You don’t have to pull it out, the parachute opens automatically.”

Having landed, Evgeniy Nikolaevich began to look for his friend, who was supposed to land later. Far to the side I noticed two open domes, and my heart began to beat joyfully: “Alive!” But the joy was premature - Pyotr Ivanovich Dolgov, leaving the hatch, hit the glazing of his spacesuit on a sharp bolt securing the pipeline on the ship. The hole was the size of a pinhead, but oxygen instantly escaped through it, and the parachutes lowered the already lifeless body of the brave parachutist to the ground.

The feat of Evgeny Nikolaevich Andreev and Pyotr Ivanovich Dolgov was awarded the country's highest award.
By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated December 12, 1962, for the courage and heroism shown during the testing of parachute equipment, Evgeniy Nikolaevich Andreev and Pyotr Ivanovich Dolgov (by name) were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, with the presentation of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal.

On October 14, 2012, Austrian Felix Baumgartner set a series of new records, breaking Andreev’s altitude record by 12,000 m. Andreev’s record for free fall duration stood: the Austrian parachutist was in free flight for 4 minutes 20 seconds.

In 1985, E.N. Andreev was one of the first in the country to be awarded the honorary title “Honored Test Parachutist of the USSR”, badge No. 3.

In total, Evgeny Andreev made 8 jumps from the stratosphere. He has 4,800 parachute jumps, including 8 world records.

Author of the book "The Sky Around Me".

Lived in the village of Chkalovsky. Died February 9, 2000. He was buried in the cemetery of the village of Leonikha, Shchelkovsky district, Moscow region.
Awarded the Order of Lenin (1962), Red Star (1967); medals.

Greetings, dear friends, buddies and friends!
A year ago I started my daily column - “Flight Faces”. The time has come to finish this plan - quite troublesome and thankless.
I don’t know when I’ll shut down this project... Any day, starting next Monday.
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So, we will continue to meet again - on other sections.
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