Then, 20 years ago, “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” sent in Vidyaevo his correspondent, the writer and marine painter Nikolai Cherkashin, a former submariner, captain 1st rank, who served in the Northern fleet. I flew to Volgograd, the hometown of the commander “Kursk”, where lived his father, sister and father-in-law.
In those days the commander “Kursk” Gennady lyachin was discussed most of all: and that the fate of his childhood was deprived – father left the family, mother died early. And the service he had bad luck, and the crew was getting random, then someone there pressed the wrong button… Not a day went by that did not appear some new “sensation”.
In the Volgograd colleagues from the city newspaper I was warned that the family of the commander with correspondents to talk to refuses. And yet, knowing the address of father Gennady Lyachin, I called his apartment. The door was opened by an elderly, thin man with a very tired face – Pyotr Stepanovich lyachin. Just had to say that I’m from the “Russian newspaper”, as he said, “Come, daughter, let’s talk.” Pushed me a chair, and he walked up to the TV just turn down the sound: “turn Off I will not listen, what else can you say about “Kursk”. How are they?”
Said that I know no more than he. Asked about his son. And he answers: “write the Truth? I’m very offended by journalists, is about us spun!” He walked over to the wall on which was pasted photographs of her son and his boat. Ran her hand over her portrait. Appeared, anywhere, ever father of the family never left. And Gene didn’t grow up an orphan. Mother died a year after the wedding of his son. “Why is it a lie?”
the son Pyotr Stepanovich said briefly: Gene from childhood was the leader. But never misbehaved, do not talk back. Although able to fend for themselves. Be honest and fair.
Irina Glebova and Gene lyachin went to the same school but in different classes – Irina in the eighth Gene in the seventh. Met one day at the rink and became friends. Could then think Pyotr Stepanovitch that the girl Ira years later will become his daughter-in-law and will wear his name? And that youthful love of the son will grow into a great feeling that he will remain faithful until the end of life?
Pyotr Stepanovich asked me if I wanted to meet Irina father? It is he, Yuri Glebov, a former submarine officer, influenced the choice of profession Genes.
the Apartment Glebov is just around the school. We turned the corner and saw Yuriya Nikolaevicha – toned, gray-haired man in a bright blue cap of the submariner. He looked at the top of the huge poplars, which once put his son Gennady. “Son, he corrected me Glebov. And Gene turned to me: “Father.” He had two fathers.
the Soldier was really hoping the crew will save. And nobody knew that almost the entire crew along with the commander was killed instantly from the explosions. And 23 sailors headed by captain-Lieutenant Dmitry Kolesnikov, the backsides��trying, slowly dying in one of the compartments. In the dark, suffocating smoke Dmitry wrote a note in pencil on notebook paper. Those who will find them. Say hi to the young wife, mother and parents. And built the list of everyone who was in those moments with him.
Yuri in those days tried to look calm and confident. But his soul suffered infinitely. When he learned that the cruiser is at the bottom, he realized at once: Gene died. Otherwise the son would necessarily have thought of something! He would not be confused. And his crew too, he was under a commander. “I want to serve on this ship until retirement!” – wrote home sailors of the “Kursk”. And now an underwater vehicle was silent. Then there was irreparable.
In a tiny two-room “Khrushchev” Glebov everything was imbued with the romance of the sea. Pennants, flags, a steering wheel on the wall, models of ships on shelves. In a conspicuous place hung a cutlass officer Yury Nikolaevich.
not surprisingly, Gene, listening to the stories of a seasoned sailor, decided to go after school, the Leningrad higher naval school of diving. Then he would write in his diary: “I chose a profession – to defend their people and Homeland. And so I say to you openly: “the Submarine fleet is my calling!!!” This record is made by the student by Latinum in 1973.
We had a long conversation with Yuri Nikolayevich before he decided to show me the diary of a cadet Lyachin – little fat notebook with a picture of a submarine on the cover. Gene kept a diary all five years of study. Clear close handwriting outlined under paragraphs “Personal plan” for the day, week, month. “To prepare for the meeting.” “Practice your English”. “Bring strict order!” From childhood he was a neat freak. Always ironed, neatly combed. Those who had the opportunity to visit the “Kursk”, recalled: “everything shone and sparkled with cleanliness, all the time…” When he became commander of the “Kursk”, for it passed almost all of his former crew.
Reading the diary, I suddenly came across a strange entry: “Fly to the sky, and suddenly out of a stone…” what is it? Really long time ago this young man felt, what will happen to his underwater ship many years later?!
There are in the diary and romantic poems: “May we meet soon, let the separation and longing!..” Just below the line like a mantra: “Just write to me often, just remember me!..”
This appeal to Ira, blue-eyed girl with a braid below the belt, whose photo is pasted on the first page of the diary of a cadet Lyachin. Many years later, the officer Gennady lyachin admits, a little embarrassed, one of the journalists: “Irina is my first and only love…”
Gene studied in Leningrad, and Ira – Moscow Institute of steel and alloys. They not only corresponded, and met. She came to visit him in the city on the Neva, he pulled her to the capital. One��dy they had to spend the night at the Moscow station in Leningrad. People were so many that was no place to sit. But there was a place on the windowsill. Gene sat there Ira and put it under her cheek his hand, so she slept in. He’s standing next to. Well how not to trust your fate to this knight! In Volgograd for the holidays they came together and parents said: “I Want to get married.”
On the fragile yellowed black and white photo captures the wedding day Genes and Ira. He is tall, thin, in a white uniform, which is highly revered by sailors badge “For distant cruise” and “high achiever of the Navy”. She is slender, pinevalley, in a white dress with a veil, with a bouquet of roses in his left hand. Right given to Gennady, he wears a wedding ring, the one that Irina is today. Now only in his left hand, widow… Although the submarine is called the widows of the sailor’s wives only wives.
Their first son was born, when she graduated with a diploma. Gennady, alas, to meet my wife and son from the hospital could not – was on a long voyage. The name of the boy came up with the Gene in advance. Decided to make a nice father-in-law, who has two daughters and his name Glebov pass was none. So may his grandson be Gleb.
to Become submariners Junior lyachin, judging by the photos, have been preparing since childhood. In many pictures he is shown in my father’s downstairs, in my father’s cap with crab… Father taught him to play guitar, to iron the pants, to swim, to go skiing, to be independent. Going into swimming, chastised: “You are now the only the man of the house, help my mom and sister, take care of them.” And son tried.
But daughter She dad spoiled. With pleasure, he used to sew her school uniform collar and cuffs. And when she started to do ballroom dancing – sewn sequins special dresses.
After school, son of Gleb enrolled at the same school, which he graduated from his father. And later together with the other trainees passed training on the ship of his father.
the father and the son. The last two on the bridge of a nuclear submarine. Both in the pussy divers. Stand shoulder to shoulder amid the Barents sea – this beautiful and cruel!.. As well, the son Lyachin had not taken those fatal doctrines!
fell ill from the shock, and then my mother died, Irina Lidia. Because it was so many years son-in-law a second mother! Later died and Pyotr Stepanovich. Health deteriorated and Yuri Nikolayevich. And I have long been a tradition every year to visit favorite Peter, because there are so many museums! Came at their own expense a second-class carriage early in the morning, leaving late in the evening, during the day time to see much. And of course, met with Yuri Nikolaevich. He lived there alone with Irina, who has been in the St. Petersburg apartment.
VNUchka Dasha got married and lived with her husband. Gleb graduated from the Higher naval school of diving, he began to serve close to Vidyayevo. The young Lieutenant was entrusted first to step on Board the “Kursk” raised from the seabed. On the day of the death of the cruiser guy was 21. Yuri introduced me to her grandson.
last year, in the fall, I met with Yuri Nikolaevich for the last time. Surprised no papers on his Desk. Walked into the kitchen were treated to tea and cake baked by Irene. She ordered me to regale. Was sad.
in the Spring, the day of the submariner, he quietly passed away.
We, today, are not only his, but also their lives.
Today, on one of the warships of the Northern fleet is Igor crimson dyes is the son of captain first rank Vladimir Bagryantseva, the division chief of staff submarines, which on that fateful day, was on Board the “Kursk”. About his father he talks sparingly, but for short phrases, hiding ancient pain.
– He was strong-willed, honest, – says Igor. – Since childhood, I decided to follow in his footsteps and become a submariner. Love of the sea instilled from childhood… we left his form, the mark boats and crucifix. He was buried at Serafimovskoye cemetery in St. Petersburg.
the Parents of bilge commander group captain-Lieutenant Sergey kokurina, as usual, has been on the Kominternovsky cemetery of Voronezh, where in the Alley of heroes buried their son.
the Wife there every week sometimes. Place in sight, at the entrance, it is necessary that always the order was, – says Sergey Arkadyevich.
He is also a submariner, studied in the same school, where later he entered his son, was also bilge, only served in the far East.
At the time of the disaster Kokurin was in the Central post of the submarine. On combat alert (“Kursk” was on maneuvers and was going to attack conventionally powered cruiser “Peter the Great”) the duty of the commander of the bilge of the group is to control the valves of emersion and immersion. The Central post in the submarine project “Antey” is located in the second compartment just behind the first gun, where the explosion occurred. He was such force that the body of Sergey and the rest of the Central was found on 30 meters closer to the stern. The blast crushed the steel walls like paper.
Other children Komarinyh no. Alla and Sergey Arkadyevich keep fighting the room with the working clothes of the son – charred flap of a yellow material with the acronym “CTE.Gr.”, pictures, dagger and counter-Admiral shoulder straps. His colleagues gave Sergei on his birthday. A hint: you’ll go far. The rest, including the charred jacket with splavilsya in the cloth badge of the naval Academy, gave away to museums.
today relatives of sailors? No matter what they say, time heals, said the captain of the first rank of a stock, Chairman of the Board The St. Petersburg club of submariners and veterans of the Navy Igor Kurdin, author of the new book, “Kursk” 20 years later. The secrets hidden under the water”, which maintains contact with many families of the victims. They have their everyday Affairs and concerns. Oddly enough, many of the children of submariners no benefits have. For example, this applies to admission to universities. It would seem that higher education places should be provided – after all, their fathers died for their country. In reality, according to Igor Kurdina, you have to write petitions and go to the rectors. Most of them are going to meet, but there are those who throws up his hands: inviting entrance for the children of fallen law.
– We must always remember this greatest tragedy in the history of the submarine fleet in the world, – says the Chairman of the Board of the club. – If those who teach divers who designs and builds boats, who himself comes to them in the sea, forget about the “Kursk”, we are threatened with a repetition of the disaster.
, Murmansk detox
