A few days after the beatings inflicted by the eldest sons), including 7 sons, were part of the family jazz ensemble "Seven Simeons".

Mother - Ninel Sergeevna (51 years old). Children - Lyudmila, Olga (28 years old), Vasily (26 years old), Dmitry (24 years old), Oleg (21 years old), Alexander (19 years old), Igor (17 years old), Tatyana (14 years old), Mikhail (13 years old) ), Ulyana (10 years old), Sergey (9 years old). (The age of all family members is indicated at the time of capture). The family lived in Irkutsk, on Detskaya street, house 24.

The eldest daughter Lyudmila lived separately from the rest of the family and did not take part in the hijacking of the plane.

The ensemble was organized at the end of 1983 and soon won victories on a number of music competitions in various cities of the USSR, became widely known: the Ovechkins were written about in the press, filmed documentary etc. At the end of 1987, after a tour in Japan, the family decided to flee the USSR.

Plane hijacking

The assault on the aircraft was carried out by the forces of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs units, not intended for such tasks. As a result of the actions of the capture group, three passengers were killed, another 36 were injured. The capture group also failed to prevent the terrorists from detonating an explosive device with which they tried to commit suicide: when it became clear that the escape from the USSR had failed, Vasily shot Ninel Ovechkina at her request, after which the older brothers tried to commit suicide by blowing up bomb. However, the explosion turned out to be directed and did not bring the desired result, after which the Ovechkins took turns shooting themselves from one sawn-off shotgun.

According to the testimonies of the passengers, the treatment of the soldiers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs with the passengers who left the plane was rude and harsh. They wringed their hands and laid them face down on concrete. One of the passengers was shot in the back and was barely rescued by doctors. These actions were later explained by the fact that terrorists could be hiding among the passengers.

In total, 9 people died during the assault: a flight attendant, three passengers, Ninel Ovechkina and her four eldest sons.

Court

Olga Ovechkina in court

Ulyana gave birth to a child at the age of 16, led an asocial lifestyle. Tried to commit suicide, became disabled.

Sergei played in restaurants with Igor for some time, then traces of him are lost.

There is no publicly available information about the fate of Tatyana.

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Organized a family musical group " Seven Simeons". On March 8, 1988, they captured a Tu-154 aircraft (tail number 85413) with passengers in order to escape from the USSR.

History of the Ovechkin family

The Ovechkin family lived in a small private house on Detskaya Street in c. In 1979 mother Ninel Ovechkina was awarded the medal "Mother-Heroine". Father, Ovechkin Dmitry Dmitrievich, died in 1984. Children - Olga, Basil, Dmitriy, Oleg, Alexander, Igor, Tatiana, Michael, Ulyana, Sergey. Studied at school number 66. The family was friendly and close-knit, mother Ninel Sergeevna enjoyed unquestioning authority in the family.

Almost all children in the Ovechkin family attended a music school. Elder sons Basil And Dmitriy After graduating from school, they entered the Irkutsk School of Arts. In 1983 they organized a family ensemble " Seven Simeons". They gained wide popularity in 1985 after participating in the All-Union Jazz-85 festival in Tbilisi and the program of the Central Television" Wider Circle ".

Hijacking

After touring Japan, the Ovechkins decided to go live abroad. There was no legal opportunity, therefore, at the family council, all family members, except for the eldest Lyudmila(by this time she lived separately), they unanimously decided to hijack the plane.

They prepared carefully for the hijacking of the aircraft. On March 8, 1988, the Ovechkin family, except for Lyudmila, attempted to hijack a Tu-154 passenger plane flying Irkutsk - Kurgan - Leningrad.

The official purpose of the trip was a tour in Leningrad. When boarding an aircraft, a thorough screening hand luggage was not produced, which allowed the Ovechkins to carry on board two sawn-off shotguns, 100 rounds of ammunition and improvised explosive devices hidden in musical instruments.

When the plane was approaching Leningrad, one of the brothers handed over a note to the stewardess demanding to change course and land in London under the threat of the plane blowing up.

The Ovechkins forbade passengers to leave their seats, threatening them with sawn-off shotguns. After negotiations, the terrorists were persuaded to allow landing to refuel the aircraft in Finland. However, in reality, the plane landed at the Veshchevo military airfield near the Finnish border. Seeing through the windows Soviet soldiers The Ovechkins realized they had been duped. Dmitry Ovechkin shot the flight attendant Tamara Zharkuyu, together with his brothers, tried to break the cockpit door. According to the memoirs of a participant in the events, police major I. Vlasova, the Ovechkins did not go to negotiations in principle, a categorical refusal followed the proposal to release at least women and children.

The assault on the plane was carried out by police officers. The capture group failed to prevent the terrorists from detonating the explosive device with which they tried to commit suicide: when it became clear that the escape from the USSR had failed, Basil shot Ninel Ovechkin at her request, after which the older brothers tried to commit suicide by detonating a bomb. However, the explosion turned out to be directed and did not bring the desired result, after which Vasily, Oleg, Dmitry and Alexander took turns shooting themselves from one sawn-off shotgun. As a result of the fire that started from the explosion, the aircraft was completely burned out.

In total, 9 people died - Ninel Ovechkina and her four eldest sons, a flight attendant and three passengers; 19 people were injured and injured (two Ovechkins, two police officers and 15 passengers). The dead Ovechkins were buried in Vyborg in the village of Veshchevo at the city cemetery.

Court

On September 6, 1988, the trial of the surviving family members began - Igor And Olga Ovechkin because only they were subject to criminal liability due to their age. Olga was sentenced to 6 years in prison, Igor- 8 years (they served only half of their terms).

During the capture and trial Olga was pregnant and gave birth to a daughter Larisa. Judgment escaped only Ludmila Ovechkina, since she got married long before the capture and left the family. I didn't know anything about capture. The court placed the minor Ovechkins under her guardianship. After the trial, the authorities offered Lyudmila publicly disown her mother, but she refused.

After the trial

The further fate of the surviving Ovechkins developed in different ways. Igor Ovechkin played in Irkutsk restaurants, was killed in the detention center of the Irkutsk prison. Mikhail Ovechkin moved to St. Petersburg. Olga Ovechkina in 2004, she was killed by her partner during a domestic drunken quarrel. Ulyana gave birth to a child at the age of 16, led an asocial lifestyle. Tried to commit suicide, became disabled. Tatiana married, had a child and settled in

At the end of the Soviet era, the Seven Simeons jazz ensemble, a jazz band, was born in Irkutsk. It consists of 7 Ovechkin brothers. The youngest is 9 years old, the eldest is 26. The founder and producer rolled into one is their mother Ninel Sergeevna. The biography of this harsh woman can be put in a line: she grew up in an orphanage, lost her husband early, left with 11 children in her arms. The Ovechkins were talented musicians and were in a special position with officials from the city department of culture. For participation in all-Union festivals, they were even given two apartments in a nine-story building, they were assigned a salary for young musicians and secured places at the Institute. Gnesins.

Only suddenly these cream of society turned into something foul-smelling and bloody, says the famous photojournalist Alexander Knyazev.

In 1987, the Ovechkin brothers went on tour to Japan. After returning from abroad, they had a desire to escape from poverty and total shortages. In addition, on tour in Tokyo, the ensemble was hinted at a tempting contract with a European recording studio: in London, the Siberians hoped to get asylum and live on a grand scale. The Ovechkins have been preparing a terrorist attack for six months! Younger children were not included in the plans. The mother managed to buy guns and cartridges for a penny on the black market - allegedly for hunting, together with her older sons made a bomb and ... On March 8, 1988, "Seven Simeons" set off to hijack an airplane en route Irkutsk - Kurgan - Leningrad.

Either we all fly away, or we all die, - Ninel conjured to the children.

Heading for London

76 passengers on board, 8 crew members. 9 people died ... Documentaries and art films, there were cycles of TV shows and articles in newspapers.

After 30 years, Komsomolskaya Pravda managed to find the crew members of that same flight. The main character - flight engineer Innokenty Stupakov, who negotiated with the terrorists, risking his life, is now 87 years old. He talks about what he could not voice in Soviet times.

I don't want to remember that day - that's enough! - says Innokenty Dmitrievich. It's good that it ended without much bloodshed. Until now, the thought haunts that the innocent died (flight attendant and three passengers. - Approx. Aut.) and the plane burned down like a matchbox in 15 minutes. But it's not the crew's fault. After all, I often think about it ... About how a mother could hold her sons like that! They are without shutters, unquestioningly, as if under hypnosis, fulfilling everything she said. Rather, she shouted: “Kill!”


But we will remember that day. Morning March 8, 1988. The Ovechkins with the whole family arrived at the Irkutsk airport (only their older sister Lyudmila was not with them - she got married and lived separately. - Approx. Aut.). They said that they were flying to the festival, they even gave flowers to the employees of the air harbor. Everyone's favorites, apparently, were not even really inspected. The Ovechkins knew this and hid the weapons and explosives in the double bass case.

It was not included in the introscope (X-ray device. - Approx. Aut.), Therefore, the instrument was not inspected, - explains Vitaly Zosimovich, the navigator of that flight. Now he is 67 years old. The first half of the flight went smoothly. On the contrary, everyone had good mood. They even joked: they say, we will fly with music. But after refueling in Kurgan, our girls distributed food to the passengers and brought us a note from the Ovechkins on a tray: “Go to London. Don't go down or we'll blow up the plane. You are under our control."

The crew initially thought it was a prank. But still they sent the flight engineer Stupakov to the musicians. The two older brothers of the Ovechkins, Vasily and Dmitry, stood with sawn-off shotguns in their hands, and on the floor was the same double bass, already marked with a red cross.

There are 11 terrorists on board. Weapons, explosives, - the commander of the ship Valentin Kupriyanov immediately contacted the flight director in Moscow.

We were shocked, but tried not to get lost, followed the instructions, - continues the navigator Vitaly Kravchenko. - After all, even those times there were terrorist attacks: for example, the hijacking of the An-24 to Turkey, where the stewardess Nadezhda Kurchenko died. The instructions included a list of airfields where one could land in case of an emergency. The military airfield Veshchevo near Vyborg turned out to be the closest to us. They took a course on it ...

Mother is the queen of terrorists

Why? The pilots understood that if they crossed the air border, then everyone would die. The Tu-154 captured by the "Seven Simeons" was escorted by fighters. And their order was simple: when crossing the border, open fire to kill. Even at the cost of the lives of so many people! Therefore, especially for the terrorists, the crew came up with a legend - to land the plane allegedly for refueling, because there would not be enough fuel to reach London. And Vyborg looks like a European town. The Ovechkins believed that they were landing somewhere in Finland and therefore made a deal with the crew. Flight engineer Stupakov, on behalf of the management, set only one condition: at the refueling airport, all passengers must leave the Tu-154.


Ninel Ovechkina. Still from the film "Seven Semions", East-Siberian newsreel studio.

Those one and a half hours before Vyborg seemed like an eternity ... - says Vitaly. - The plane took a height of 10 thousand meters. One wrong word, one wrong move, and the Ovechkins would have opened fire. The slightest hole from a bullet - and a complete depressurization of the cabin, which means death ... We could not allow this. The flight attendant girls did the impossible: they calmed the passengers, “courted” the Ovechkins. They brought some water, smiled, and kindly talked to them.

The real hero of that fatal flight is flight engineer Stupakov. He got the role of negotiating with musicians armed to the teeth. And he played it like clockwork. He said that the liner was already in the air harbor of Finland and was about to land. Surprisingly, the Ovechkins believed and behaved calmly. Mother Ninel sat in the chair of the last row, like a queen. Look, pose - she was looking forward to a beautiful London life. Nearby was daughter Olga, habits and manners copied her mother. The two eldest sons, with sawn-off shotguns in their hands, like faithful Cerberus, walked up and down the salon, constantly asking their mother what to do next.

When they started landing at Veshchevo, they heard the rumble of the Tu-134, ”recalls Vitaly. - In it, as the land gave us, there was a professional capture group from Moscow. But the liner could not land. The take-off in Veshchevo is small. Two such large aircraft as ours and the Tu-134 would not land at the same time. The security forces were turned around and sent to Leningrad. From there, the capture group was to be transferred to Vyborg by helicopter. And this, I think, was not entirely true. If we were asked to drive further from the point where we were ordered to park, then the Tu-134 could easily land. Perhaps we would not have to sit in fear and horror for another 3.5 hours in the liner in complete uncertainty. And, most importantly, perhaps no one would have died ...

Plan b

But history took a different turn. What happened happened.

We stood on the runway, refueled the plane and waited for something incomprehensible, - continues the navigator. - We told Ovechkin that this is the procedure: first, they say, you need to inspect the vessel for technical serviceability. And the flight engineer was just playing for time. About an hour or two later, six people climbed into the cockpit windows. They were members of the local police department. We helped them climb up, put on body armor and helmets. The Ovechkins grabbed a stepladder and began to break down the armored door of the cockpit with it. Opening the door to the salon, the policemen began firing at the brothers! But instead, the bullets ricocheted down on them.

Bullets also hit several passengers in the first cabin. This caused a terrible panic and angered the criminals. Then they killed the stewardess Tamara ...

The crew understood that this was only the beginning. And they weren't wrong. The Ovechkins, realizing that they were surrounded, set fire to the double bass case, where they hid a homemade bomb. The explosion was too weak, but caused a fire. Smoke, fumes, a pungent smell... Panic-stricken passengers jumped out of their seats and rushed to the emergency hatch. Having managed to open it, they began to jump from a height of 6 meters.

We, smelling smoke, opened the door to the cabin, but nothing was visible, - recalls the navigator. - Just at that moment, through the windows they saw how soldiers were running (the same capture group from Leningrad), buses were approaching. We went down the ropes, and the passengers rolled head down into the snowdrifts along special chutes. Women and children were put on buses, men were held at gunpoint - in the dark it was impossible to make out where the criminals were and where ordinary people. I remember how Olga Ovechkina rolled down the gutter. She got on the bus first. This scene is still in front of my eyes.

What about other criminals? Later, the crew learns that while the plane was on fire, four Ovechkin brothers shot themselves, and before that one of them killed his mother. They perfectly understood: they had nothing more to count on, none of them would remain free.

And that plan was plan B.

After the incident, the entire crew was sent to a sanatorium for a month, ”recalls Vitaly Kravchenko. We all need time to recover...

What happened to the survivors

After the terrorist attack, 5 Ovechkins survived, not counting Lyudmila, who did not fly with her family to London. But only two were in the dock - 28-year-old Olga and 17-year-old Igor. The rest, due to their age, escaped punishment. Olga did not admit her guilt, saying that until the last she did not want to participate in this case. She was sentenced to 6 years. The mitigating factor was her pregnancy. Igor received 8 years in prison. Both brother and sister spent only half of their time behind barbed wire, both were released ahead of schedule under an amnesty. But their further path was not rosy: in 2004, Olga was killed by a cohabitant in a drunken quarrel, and after his release, Igor lived for some time in St. Petersburg, made a living with music (played in restaurants), but became a drug addict and again got a term. In 1999, he was killed in a cell by another detainee.


The younger brothers, Mikhail and Sergey Ovechkin, also, instead of fame and honor, were left out of life. The talented Misha lived in St. Petersburg, where he worked in various jazz bands. In 2002 he moved to Spain. But drunkenness ruined him: he was expelled from the band, and he became a street musician. In 2012, he suffered a stroke, becoming disabled. As of 2013, he resides in a hospice in Barcelona. Nothing is known about Sergei. They say he went missing. The younger sister of the Ovechkins suffers from alcoholism. The fate of only two sisters was fortunate. Tatyana changed her surname when she got married. Lyudmila, the only one who did not take part in the attack, lives in Cheremkhovo. Women do not favor journalists and do not want to reopen unhealed wounds.

How would we live now? Somewhere abroad. We would have left anyway - they were good musicians. Everything is upside down. All life, - the surviving Ovechkins admitted in an interview 5 years ago to the Irkutsk TV channel.

Now they flatly refuse to comment. Yes, and it is not necessary. Life itself has dotted all the i's.

OPINION

Valery NIKIFOROV, former navigator, ex-head of the Irkutsk Aviation Technical College:

“They didn’t want to live in the USSR and dreamed of big money”

The Ovechkins felt like great musicians. And after a trip to Japan, they were seized by an unbridled desire for a good life, they wanted big money wanted to be famous like the Beatles! Not less! All this against the backdrop of special relationships within the family, where the mother totally ruled over everything, where everyone had clearly assigned roles, the strictest discipline, a guideline for making money: they did nothing for free. Ninel Ovechkina was a very domineering, strong-willed woman. Exactly the same as Nona Mordyukova played her in the movie "Mom". Yes, not everyone would think of making a bomb for the sake of a better life, but this just speaks of the inadequacy of this family. illiterate, limited people who lived as if in their own sect and they were unaware that in 3 years the USSR would collapse. It never occurred to them to study history, to follow the trends that were taking place in the world at that time. Therefore, there is no need to conjecture anything in this story. The Ovechkins wanted to live abroad and probably hated the Soviet Union!

The case of an attempted hijacking by the Ovechkin family is the loudest and most resonant in the late 80s of the last century. It was widely covered in the press, discussed in every Soviet family. Ordinary citizens were outraged not so much by the audacity of the hijackers as by their very personalities. If Ovechkin were recidivists, hardened criminals, the case would not have received such publicity.

Jazz Ensemble "Seven Simeons"

The hijackers turned out to be the most common Soviet “cell of society”. Ninel Sergeevna Ovechkina was a heroine mother of many children, raising 11 children almost alone. Her husband, Dmitry Dmitrievich, drank heavily during his lifetime and paid little attention to his offspring. He died 4 years before the events described and left his wife to cope with a huge family.

Ninel Sergeevna performed this role well. Moreover, many of the children were already adults and actively helped her raise the kids. By Soviet standards, the Ovechkins lived mediocre lives. They had 2 three-room apartments in Irkutsk itself and a house with a plot in the suburbs, but the mother's pension and the salaries of older children were very small.

The sons of Ninel Sergeevna were incredibly musical and therefore organized a jazz ensemble called "Seven Simeons". A documentary was made about them. "Simeons" were very proud and even sent on tour to Japan. This rare success was a turning point in the fate of the Ovechkins themselves and many people who found themselves on board the plane they hijacked in 1988.

The desire to break out of an impoverished country of total scarcity

During the tour, a very tempting offer was made to young musicians from a London record company. "Seven Simeons" even then could ask for asylum from Great Britain and stay abroad forever, but they did not want to leave their mother and sisters in the USSR. They would never have been released abroad; Yes, and they would have persecuted at home.

Returning home after the tour, the boys offered their mother to flee the USSR. There must have been stories about beautiful life Abroad. That's when the plan to hijack the plane matured. Ninel Sergeevna not only supported this idea, but also fully supervised the preparation. The plan was implemented on a holiday - March 8, 1988.

How did the capture

The Ovechkins prepared very carefully for the hijacking. Cases for musical instruments were specially reshaped so that weapons could be carried in them. Already after the tragic events on board the TU-154 (tail number 85413, flight Irkutsk - Kurgan - Leningrad), 2 sawn-off shotguns, about a hundred rounds of ammunition and several improvised explosive devices were found.

It was easy for the Ovechkins to carry such an arsenal. The musicians were well known in hometown and were practically ignored. All Ovechkins participated in the capture, except for the eldest daughter Lyudmila. She was married, lived in another city (Cheremkhovo) and did not know about the impending escape from the USSR.

When the Ovechkins, led by their mother, were on board, they waited for the intermediate landing of the plane in Kurgan for refueling. Then they demanded that a course be set for London. At first, the pilots took the demand as a joke. The situation immediately changed when sawn-off shotguns appeared in the hands of the older Ovechkins. "Simeons" threatened to blow up the plane in case of disobedience.

Outcome of the case

No one was even going to let the hijackers go abroad. The plane was landed at a military airfield in Veshchevo, after which they took it by storm. During the capture, 9 people were killed (five of them were terrorists), 19 were injured. The failed hijackers were determined. In case of failure, they decided to commit suicide so as not to be judged as traitors to the Motherland. The eldest son Vasily (26 years old) shot his mother, after which he committed suicide.

24-year-old Dmitry did the same, having previously killed the flight attendant T. I. Hot. Oleg and Sasha (21 and 19 years old) passed away in a similar way. At the trial, 17-year-old Igor was sentenced to 8 years in prison. His pregnant 28-year-old sister Olga is 6 years old. She was the only one against the hijacking of the plane and until the last she tried to dissuade her relatives from the criminal undertaking.

Lyudmila, the eldest daughter of Ninel Sergeevna, became the guardian of her younger sisters and brothers. She also adopted a newborn niece, whom Olga gave birth to in prison. Thus ended the case of the first hijacking in the USSR in order to escape abroad.

They tried to escape from the USSR. It can be considered the last: the capture of an aircraft with hostages, followed by a bloody denouement, was committed in 1988. Three years remained before the collapse of the country. Of the 11 terrorists, six survived then: a pregnant woman, a minor teenager and four youngsters. 11 years have passed since that terrible March 8th. All this time, human curiosity did not allow for a moment to relax either the criminals who had served their sentences or the growing children. Terrible fame pursued them on their heels. With the release of the movie "Mom" interest in Ovechkins new force. They again became the object of the hunt for the curious. The Ovechkins categorically refuse to meet with journalists. But for "MK" they made an exception. Our reporter not only met these people, but also lived with their family... - I am proud of my surname. I will never change it. This is my kind. And we will sue Evstigneev. No one even asked our opinion. Everyone learned from the newspapers, - one of the prototypes of the film "Mother", Igor, boils. - I found a lawyer who will handle the case, and he has no doubt that the law is on our side. After all, as soon as everything began to calm down, and here again they were shouting at all corners: Ovechkins, Ovechkins ... It is today that information about terrorists and their hostages has become familiar, like a weather report, and no longer evokes almost any emotions in Russians. Then, 11 years ago, the seizure of a plane with hostages on the territory of the USSR for the purpose of hijacking was not just an out of the ordinary event - it was a shock. And when it became known that the invaders - big family from Siberia, a musical group, that among them are children, the whole country froze in shock. The terrorists, paradoxically, were very naive. They demanded that the pilots fly to London, not even suspecting that they could be extradited to the Soviet authorities, and if not, the Ovechkins were threatened with a life sentence under British law. Why, then, was the decision taken to take the plane against the interests of the hostages? According to the direct participants in the assault - for ideological reasons, so that from now on it would be disrespectful to other hijackers. There were 11 terrorists on the plane. Mother, Ninel Sergeevna Ovechkina, and eldest sons - Vasily, Oleg, Dmitry and Alexander - died. The rest ended up in the dock. Trial lasted 7 months. 18 volumes of the case were written with different testimonies. And on September 23, the Leningrad Regional Court ruled: “Olga Ovechkina was sentenced to 6 years in prison for the armed seizure of an aircraft with the aim of hijacking outside the USSR, Igor Ovechkin to 8. Four - Sergey, Uliana, Tatyana and Mikhail - were released from criminal liability by infancy." The mining town of Cheremkhovo is located 170 km from Irkutsk. Before entering the poster - "The health of the people - the wealth of the country." At 8 pm the streets of the city are empty. Here they drink everything that burns, and all year round wear winter hats. Here every month there is information about the disappearance of children who are never found. Here, three-year-olds fight with dogs in the market for a fish head that has accidentally fallen. Ovechkins found shelter here. We knew that they refused to communicate with journalists, and yet they came. We got there in the evening - trains run here three times a day. And suddenly: - Come into the house, we have only suicides on the evening train. So stay overnight. We were seated at a table. After the trial, the younger Simeons were offered to be sold to Amsterdam Eldest daughter, Lyudmila, the only one of the 11 Ovechkin children, was lucky at one time, long before the hijacking of the plane, to get married and leave Irkutsk. The second daughter, Olga, was forbidden by her mother and brothers to choose their own fate, her betrothed turned out to be Caucasian. "What, I forgot how in the army the chumps mocked us Russians?" Vasya reproached her. - I could not get used to this backwater for a long time, - says elder sister Ovechkin. - Gradually, of course, I got used to it. I have been working at the open pit for 15 years, sorting coal. Work is in two days. The rest of the time I work in the market. In order to earn a piece of bread, Lyudmila sells sweets, cookies, marshmallows all day long in a 40-degree frost. She has chronic bronchitis, but she is glad that there is at least such a job. - Well, Seryozhka helps, - Luda sighs. - The one who was wounded on the plane ... In 1988, Sergei turned 9 years old. He did not know anything about the plans of the family, the younger ones were not initiated into criminal plans. He did not fully understand why brother shot his mother, why the plane burned down, why his leg hurt so much. Now he is 20. - That year I was assigned to the Cheremkhovo musical boarding school. I played the saxophone. Then he tried to enter the music school in Irkutsk. The first year they immediately told me: "You know, your last name is still well known, so it's better to come back in a year." For three years I've been knocking on thresholds admission committee. There is no more strength. Yes, and I have already abandoned the instrument. I'll probably join the army. The message has already arrived. Serezha has a bullet wound in his left thigh. The operation was not performed. Doctors thought that the body itself would reject the bullet over time. After that ill-fated International Women's Day, Lyudmila took Ulyana and Tanya to her place. Seryozha and Misha were also constantly at home, their boarding school was in the neighborhood. Yes, there were three of them. And soon another "daughter" appeared - Larisa. Native sister Olga gave birth to her in the colony. Now 25-year-old Tanya got married, had a baby and lives in Cheremkhovo. Ulya works and lives in Irkutsk, Misha in St. Petersburg. They eat in this family once a day, and even what they bungled in a quick hand. They don't succeed anymore. A lot of work. 6 cows, 6 pigs, 12 chickens require care. In the kitchen - one round table for all. The room has one large bed. There are photographs of the mother on the walls. Even the old custom in the family remained: if a problem or question arose, do not solve it alone. At the family council, everything will be discussed together. A the last word remains now for Lyudmila, as it used to be for her mother. True, photographs, letters from relatives and records of "Seven Simeons" have not been preserved. In March 1988, 2 huge bags of records were confiscated from the family. “We believe that our mother raised us well,” the Ovechkins recall, “no one went to the cinema, didn’t jump at discos, didn’t drink vodka in the basements. But they worked from morning to night. The money was needed. How can you feed such a family without them? Today, our children also have no time to go out, and their elders do not let them. Tears suddenly appear in Lyudmila's eyes. - You know, I wanted to become a journalist. I even tried writing. The mother did not. Then they predicted me as an actress. And then she told me: "What kind of actress are you, look at your rough hands, and your accent is not the same. Throw this rubbish out of your head and take care of the garden better." So I didn't get anywhere. I couldn't go against my mother's will. After the trial, the authorities offered Lyudmila to publicly disown her mother. Her house was constantly crowded with journalists and business people. One businessman from Amsterdam even offered to “give way” to him the younger Ovechkins for good money in order to revive the scandalous ensemble “Seven Simeons”. Lyudmila refused everything. Together with the Ovechkins we watch the film "Mom", then documentary footage of the tragedy on March 8, 1988. “I didn’t even know anything about their departure,” Lyudmila says sadly. “On that day, we were going to visit our mother with the kids ... Now March 8 is not a holiday for us, but a day of mourning.” When burnt corpses appear on the screen, Lyudmila tells all the children to leave the room. She can't hold back her tears. Turns away. - I was called to an already burned-out plane. I was horrified. In my presence, the fighters threw everyone to the ground, handcuffed them, and beat them on the legs. In total, there were 9 burnt corpses on the plane. Four of them were lying together, near the toilet. It was impossible to tell which one was which. The remains were numbered, packed in plastic bags and taken away for examination. They buried near Vyborg, in the village of Veshchevo under the numbers. - We were there only once, but the graves were never found, - says Lyudmila. - But for 10 years we have not gone there, and we are unlikely to go. There is no money, and it is not known which hillock to put the flowers on... A demolition bomber Olga gave her last testimony in court while sitting. She was 7 months pregnant. Despite the threats of the family against her beloved, she continued to meet with him and was expecting a child. Until the very last moment, Olga was against the plan. She even tried to disrupt the trip, from March 5 to March 6 she did not come home to spend the night. The brothers then made a scandal to her, locked her in the house, did not take their eyes off her all day. Olga was given a term less than the minimum - 6 years (according to the law - from 8 years to capital punishment). Olya was a second mother to all her brothers and sisters. Even from the conclusion she wrote: “Lyuda, send warm clothes to Igor. Tell him, let him take care of his hygiene. How is his health, you tell me everything. It’s hard for me, I miss you very much. (10/19/1988) Olya gave birth to a girl in the colony. The girl spent the first six months of her life on the bunk. There was no children's home at this institution. The administration of the colony decided to transfer Olga to Tashkent, and hand over the child to an orphanage. - Lord, how much effort and nerves we spent to take Lara to us, - recalls Lyudmila. - They didn't want to give it to us for a long time. But still managed to pick up a small one. So she lived with us for 4 years, until Olga got out of prison. But this was a completely different person. Rude, arrogant, evil. She took her daughter to Irkutsk. Contacted some Fazil. She arranged for Larisa in a commercial kindergarten, then in a paid school. The girl did not study very well. And one day I came to them, I see, Lariska is all dirty, hungry, and Olga drinks vodka from a neighbor and says to me: "Why should she study, she is already so beautiful. She will get married early." Olga works at the central Irkutsk market. Trades in red fish. She was not at work that day. - In vain you are looking for her, she does not talk to journalists at all, - the neighbors on the counter squealed in one voice. - So she is a good woman, talkative, but behaves cautiously with strangers. What she experienced will never be forgotten, and you are still adding fuel to the fire. By the way, she did not like the film at all. Two iron doors Olga's apartment was never opened to us. Only the neighbor stopped: - Olga almost does not communicate with anyone. And we go to her only after phone call. Igor, why didn't you shoot yourself? - Ovechkin?! How not to know! Half an hour ago, a drunk came in, - they say in one of the restaurants in Irkutsk. - Yes, you walk around the central taverns, you will definitely find it. Or take a look at his work, in the "Old Cafe". Midnight. The place where Igor works is hidden in one of the dark lanes of Irkutsk. - If you agree to marry me, I will give an interview, - and without this phrase it was clear that the person standing in front of me was drunk. - You know, I still have to work. The administrator does not allow drinking. Maybe give me a chirp? I'll wave a beer on the street, the conversation will start easier. Just be careful, otherwise they will notice ... they will be fired from work. - I drink heavily, because there are many problems. Both domestic and psychological. I understand that there is no getting away from them. I don't know why I'm talking to you... Journalists are my number one enemy. Some even had to fight. In this life I want a little - peace. So that they don’t poke a finger at me, and this often happens. People specially come to the "Old Cafe" to stare at me. It's very disgusting. At first, Igor was in the Angarsk juvenile colony. When he turned 18, he was transferred to an adult, in Bozoi. In total, he spent 4.5 years in prison. In the colony he was the leader of a brass band and a vocal and instrumental ensemble, which he himself created. When he was released, he began to earn money in restaurants playing the piano. Gradually recruited guys, created a group. He married a singer from the band. I lived in St. Petersburg for a year. But the family could not be saved. He drank heavily. The girl left, leaving her husband without money, without an apartment, without a soloist. Now he plays the synthesizer in a new restaurant, where he earns 64 rubles a night, and paints scores for Irkutsk orchestras for free, although this work costs at least 500 rubles. - I don't want to come up with a name for my group, and in the colony the ensemble was nameless, - says Igor. - For me, always the best name and the best group, of course, "Seven Simeons." I remember this story every day... The fear remained. Fear of an explosion, fear of prison, fear of death, fear of ... mother. There was not a single night that I didn’t dream about it ... Before the trial, my hair was completely black, but now - you see? Turned gray then literally for a month. At the trial, Igor was constantly asked: "All yours committed suicide, and what are you? Why didn't you shoot yourself?" The teenager was silent. Until now, Igor is looking for an answer to this question. - If I were older, I would have shot myself, - says the sister. - There is a mistake in the film, - says Igor, - however, the same as in all newspapers ... What does mom have to do with it? No one understood that my mother, no matter how badly they said about her, could not do such a thing. By the way, she was already 52 years old. She found out about everything already on the plane, but it was too late. Oleg was the instigator... And how it all began! The head of the family became the mother-heroine from the principle And everything began on the outskirts of the working suburb of Irkutsk. - There is no street with the name Nursery anywhere else, - they say locals. - And they called it that because the kids ran here from all over the area. But the Ovechkins were not heard here ... It was a family where the younger unquestioningly obeyed the elders, and all together - the mother. She kept the children to herself, shielding them from outside world a palisade of petty-bourgeois and philistine habits. On her instructions, all the boys entered the music school, and the daughters, like a mother, went to the trading part. teachers high school No. 66, where in different time Ovechkins studied, they say that they did not participate in subbotniks and other events. “On the other hand, work was always in full swing on their site, the children were all the time swarming in the ground, scampering like frantic for water, repairing the house, taking care of the cattle,” says a grandmother from a neighboring house. - None of the Ovechkins smoked or drank. The whole day was spent at work. And at night, until two o'clock, they beat the drums. I could not fall asleep under this thunder ... The Ovechkins' house is the last one on this street. The gate is tightly fused to the ground. From the once neat dwelling, only rotten boards remained, somehow holding each other, a leaky roof and a plate with the number 24. Local guys burn bonfires in the evenings in the walls of the house, those that are older organized a drug den here. And 11 years ago, only flowers were missing on the local 8 acres. “Why are they needed?” the hostess thought. “You can’t spread them on bread.” - I'll tell you everything as if in spirit, - from the old-timer of the Children's Uncle Vanya's street, there was a slight smell of fumes. - Ninka was a creature and a whore. She ruined all the children and brought her husband to the grave. What a foreign name I thought up for myself! We still called her Nina. Vodka, I remember, was selling underground, there was more water in it than there was alcohol. Ninel Sergeevna's parents are rural. Her father died at the front when the girl was 5 years old. A year later, the mother dies absurdly. I was walking from the field work, I decided to dig up five potatoes. The drunk watchman, not understanding what was happening, fired point-blank. The girl was sent to an orphanage. At the age of 15, she was taken in by her cousin, whose wife became her godmother. At the age of 20, Ninel Sergeevna married the "noble chauffeur" Dmitry Vasilyevich Ovechkin, the young people received a house from the executive committee. And a year later, the first child was born - Lyudmila. The second daughter was born dead. Then Ninel Sergeevna swore: "I will never kill a single child in my life. I will give birth to all." For 25 years, 10 more children filled her house. - I strongly terrorized my husband, Mitka. It cost a peasant to drink 50 grams, so he was yelling at the whole district. He, although he was not an alcoholic, sometimes drank heavily, - says Uncle Vanya. If a Siberian man says that Ovechkin "drank hard", there is no doubt that he did not dry out. Until now, the neighbors remember how Dmitry Vasilyevich fired a gun at the window of the house, while the children were all lying on the floor. In 1982, Ovechkin's leg was paralyzed. In 1984 he died. The eldest of the Ovechkin sons, Vasya, was the deputy drummer at the school. Ninel Sergeevna loved him more than anyone. Only Vasya she forgave all the whims and pranks. Only he was allowed to postpone work for the next day. Only hoped for him on the plane. Only he was entrusted with the right to shoot himself. Olga's colleagues did not even know that she was from a large family. The older brother's fiancée only had a glimpse of his mother once. I learned about the incident from the newspapers. They never went to visit, they didn’t let neighbors into the house, they didn’t make friends. However, they were of no particular interest to anyone. The eldest, Lyudmila, married early and left Irkutsk. Olga worked as a cook in the Angara restaurant and traded in the market. Igor, Oleg, Dima studied at a music school and helped with the housework. Vasily served in the army. And the kids went to school. Ninel Sergeevna herself worked for a long time in a wine and vodka shop, and later in the market. Traded in milk, meat and herbs. In 1985, during the dry law, she sold vodka around the clock through the window. No one will remember that Ninel Sergeevna raised her voice to one of the children. But on the plane, when one of the sons began to beg: “Please don’t blow up the plane,” his mother clamped his mouth shut, shouting: “Shut up, you bastard! We must fly to any capitalist country, but not to a socialist one!”. We did not notice that they approached us: - Che look? the young man spat. - Go away from this place, we have already bought this site from the executive committee. This, in fact, ends the story of house number 24 on Detskaya Street. But really, for so many years, none of the Ovechkins visited their father's house? - Why? Olga came recently, looked at the half-rotten hut, - the neighbor sighs. - I then asked her: "Olenka, when will you be building? After all, the boys will burn down the hut, and we, God forbid, will catch fire." And she threw in my direction: "Let it all burn with a blue flame!". Who was waiting for them behind the cordon? For the first time, information about the "Seven Simeons" appeared in 1984. Vasya in "Native speech" subtracted a fairy tale about seven boys. Later, a film of the same name was shot at the East Siberian Studio, which received a prize at an international film festival. Vasily, Dmitry and Oleg began their musical activities at the School of Arts in the department of wind instruments. In 1983, Vasya came to the department's teacher Vladimir Romanenko with the idea of ​​creating a family jazz. This is how Dixieland "Seven Simeons" appeared. In April 1984, they made their debut on the Gnesinka stage. In the same year, the city gave the family two 3-room apartments. The younger ones grew up on state security. The group was gaining momentum. 1985 - festival in Riga "Jazz-85", then - the World Festival of Youth and Students, participation in the program "Wider Circle". It was then that the mother realized what a profitable commodity music is. They began to give currency concerts for foreigners in the Center international trade . In the autumn of 1987 we went to Japan on tour. Still not enough money. The exit has been found. Leave their homeland, go to a place where "thousands" are paid for hitting the strings, where until recently they were well received, which means that they will now be accepted with joy. - Often Romanenko himself told us: “Guys, they don’t understand jazz in Russia, nobody needs you here, you have to leave here, you will be appreciated only abroad,” Igor recalls. - He kept dripping on our brains, and we began to believe and dream about other countries. When the money ran out, when they stopped inviting us to concerts, when they began to forget us, we were finally convinced of this ... The Irkutsk Regional College of Musical Arts is located in the very center of the city. Everyone here knows Romanenko. He has changed a lot since the trial. Then the teacher had a thick dark beard, lush hair. Now he looks even younger. Clean-shaven face, neatly trimmed. “I won’t talk to you,” he immediately interrupted us. - And so much was dragged through the courts, so much was written, and everything is not true. We have always been friends with this family, even now. The guys write me letters, come, communicate. Everything has improved, and you are reopening old wounds again! Romanenko at the trial denied all Igor's testimony that he advised them to leave more than once. He had not spoken to the Ovechkins for about 10 years. - To be honest, the musicians of them were not so hot, - Boris Kryukov, head teacher of the school, talked to us. - Some were lazy, others were not given. For example, we took an earring three times, and all to no avail. The guy did not want, and could not study. Of course, the boarding school spoiled him badly, bad company. There were two talents in this family - Igor and Mishka. One has absolute pitch, the other is very assiduous. But Igor, because of drunkenness, could not continue his studies, and Misha did well. He left for St. Petersburg, created his own group. He generally tries to communicate less with his family. The fate of Michael was, perhaps, the best. He married the daughter of a famous Irkutsk poet. He left for St. Petersburg, created his own group. Already went on tour in Italy. True, the performances ended again in the spirit of the Ovechkins. “They got drunk there, or something, and they did such things that they were urgently deported from the country,” Luda laughs. 24-year-old Mikhail can be taken into the army. "I'll never go there," he says, "I'll do anything, I'll pay any money, but after that day I can't even see a weapon, let alone hold it in my hands." Ulyana turned 22, she works today in the Irkutsk reception center. Recently, two 17-year-old girls escaped from her care. It is not easy to live in Irkutsk with the surname "Ovechkin". Many relatives have changed her. - I often think what if they did emigrate? Who would need them there? - thinks Kryukov. - No, nobody. Just in Soviet time it was necessary to show once what kind of families we have, what an exemplary country we have, so they went on tour for a year, the state paid them bonuses, gave them money. But all this quickly ended. Nobody even needed them in Moscow, what to say about England?! IN last hike terrorists were collected by the whole world Yakovlev, a turner of the regional consumer union, made threads and plugs for explosive devices for a bottle of vodka. former master industrial training Trushkov took 30 rubles for turning metal cups. Prusha obtained and illegally sold weapons to them, on which he made 150 rubles. The mechanic of the Melnikovsky poultry farm and at the same time the sound engineer of the ensemble bought gunpowder for them and loaded guns, ostensibly for hunting. At the same time, he knew perfectly well that no one hunted in the Ovechkin family. The double bass, stuffed with weapons and an improvised explosive device, got into the plane solely due to the negligence of the inspection service. The plane could have been released without the slightest damage to the pride of the USSR, but it was landed near Vyborg, where the capture group was already waiting. The assault was carried out ineptly. Flight attendant Tamara Zharkaya died, three passengers were shot dead in a shootout, Igor and Sergey were wounded. When the Ovechkins set fire to the plane, there was only one fire truck on the airfield. She did not cope, and the signal to the paramilitary fire department of Vyborg was received when the plane was already on fire. The rest of the cars arrived at the charred remains. Excerpts from the testimony of Mikhail Ovechkin: “The brothers realized that they were surrounded and decided to shoot themselves. Dima shot himself under the chin first. Then Vasily and Oleg approached Sasha, stood around the explosive device, and Sasha set it on fire. When the explosion rang out, none of the guys was not injured, only Sasha's trousers caught fire, as well as the upholstery of the chair, and the glass of the porthole was shattered. A fire started. Then Sasha took a sawn-off shotgun from Oleg and shot himself ... When Oleg fell, his mother asked Vasya to shoot her ... He shot to my mother's temple. When my mother fell, he told us to run away and shot himself." This tragedy is absurd in the first place. In 1988, the Ovechkins did not have the slightest opportunity to escape abroad. And they went over the corpses. To a bright, as it seemed to them, future. Now it is impossible to believe in it, but the Ovechkins' fear of the OVIR, which would refuse them, the fear of the consequences of the refusal was stronger than the fear of retribution for the armed seizure of the plane, for the death of the hostages. - The authors of "Mama" did not understand anything in what happened, - the Ovechkins say in one voice, - there was nothing to take the history of our family as the basis of the script. Some video vendors define Mom as an action movie, while others call it a melodrama. "Buy" Mom ", - advised a woman selling cassettes in the subway passage, - a wonderful family movie" ... " Iron curtain"reopened two years after the bloody hijacking of the plane.