The survivor found in the Listvyazhnaya mine in the Kemerovo Region turned out to be not a miner, but a rescuer, Alexander Zakovryashin, said the acting head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Alexander Chupriyan on November 26.
“Found alive our rescuer – Alexander Zakovryashin. I can regard it as a miracle. But our people are doing a miracle, ”he told reporters.
According to Chupriyan, the mine rescuers carried out exploration, sampling, investigation of the mine’s destruction. During these works, a surviving mine rescuer was found. He is also a physician, explained the acting head of the Ministry of Emergencies.
At the same time, Zakovryashin had already been recognized as dead. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, he is the assistant commander of the VGSV platoon No. 2 of the Novokuznetsk VGSO branch of the FSUE VGChS. The man is 51 years old, he has been in the service since 2011.
Doctors assess the condition of the surviving rescuer as serious; he is in the intensive care unit.
Previously, he was diagnosed with general hypothermia, poisoning with combustion products and dehydration. The rescuer was taken to the miners’ health center in Leninsk-Kuznetskiy.
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree awarding the Order of Courage to six rescuers who worked in the mine. Five – posthumously, will add “Gazeta.RU“.
On the morning of November 25, smoke began to form in the mine workings of Listvyazhnaya Mine LLC. On the same day, it was reported that the accident killed 46 miners and five rescuers. The combustion products poisoned 67 people. In total, there were 285 people in the mine.
On the fact of the incident, a criminal case was initiated under Part 2 of Art. 217 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Violation of industrial safety requirements for hazardous production facilities, resulting in the death of a person by negligence”).
Also, a criminal case was opened on the fact of negligence of employees of the Rostekhnadzor department. According to the investigation, in November of this year they drew up acts on the inspection of the roadway, without actually checking it.
The criminal cases were transferred to the central office of the Investigative Committee (IC) of the Russian Federation. According to the official representative of the department, Svetlana Petrenko, the director of the mine, Sergei Makhrakov, his first deputy, Andrei Molostov, and the head of the section, Sergei Gerasimenok, who were detained the day before, violated industrial safety requirements.
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