Tragedy on Syamozero in Karelia: fourteen dead children. Tragedy in Karelia. Chronicle of events  On which lake the tragedy occurred in Karelia

In Karelia, 14 children from Moscow, who were vacationing at the Park-Hotel Syamozero health camp, died. On June 18, several dozen children, accompanied by adult instructors, went on boats to Lake Syamozero and got caught in a storm. Details of the tragedy are in the TASS material.

What happened?

  • On June 18, 47 children and four adult instructors on boats were caught in a storm on Lake Syamozero in the Pryazhinsky district of the republic. The boats capsized and sank.
  • 14 children died, rescuers found the body of a child who was considered missing.
  • There are no adults among the dead.
  • The incident became known from local residents, to whom the rescued girl came to the village.

How is the investigation going?

  • A criminal case was initiated under Part 3 of Article 238 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (provision of services that do not meet safety requirements, resulting in the death of two or more persons through negligence).
  • Punishment under this article involves up to 10 years in prison. The investigation was transferred to the central office of the Investigative Committee.
  • Five suspects were detained.
  • On June 21, another criminal case was opened - about negligence. The head of the Rospotrebnadzor department for Karelia was detained.
  • The camp on Syamozero is closing.
  • The authorities of Karelia have terminated a government contract worth 2.7 million rubles with Park-Hotel Syamozero LLC for services for organizing summer holidays for children.
  • The services of Park-Hotel Syamozero LLC for organizing children's recreation cost the Moscow government 45.3 million rubles this year.
  • The Department of Labor and Social Protection of Moscow conducted searches in connection with the death of children.
  • The camp was prohibited from conducting hikes. “The camp did not have permission. Contrary to all the norms and prohibitions, the camp held a shift and took the children on a hike, although it had a direct ban. It’s not that there was no permission, but there was a direct ban on hiking,” noted Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets .
  • The Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation noted that the camp violated basic child safety rules to save money. According to her, a complete violation of all possible norms and rules was recorded in the Karelian camp.
  • Changes to the legislation of the Russian Federation in connection with the death of children on a lake in Karelia will be prepared by September 2016.
  • The Moscow authorities will terminate the contract with Park Hotel Syamozero LLC through the court, and will also recover damages caused to the parents of children who died on a camping trip.
  • The Petrozavodsk City Court refused to arrest counselor Valery Krupoderschikov from the Syamozero park hotel for two months.
  • The court arrested the director of the Syamozero Park Hotel.

Could the tragedy have been avoided?

  • On June 17, the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations warned of showers, thunderstorms and wind gusts of up to 17-20 m/s in most regions of Karelia.
  • According to the representative of the RF Investigative Committee, Vladimir Markin, teenagers from the camp proposed canceling boat trips to the lake, but the instructors insisted.
  • At the same time, Professor of St. Petersburg State University, Doctor of Geographical Sciences Dmitry Sevastyanov believes that the emergency could have occurred due to a sudden change in weather, which is typical for large lakes in these latitudes.
  • According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the children could have been saved if the rafting had been registered.

What is being done for the families of the victims?

  • The Moscow authorities will cover all expenses for organizing the funeral.
  • The families of the victims will be paid compensation according to
Tragedy on Syamozero in Karelia, 15 children died

Tragedy in Karelia. A children's camp based at the Syamozero park hotel organized a water crossing in the area of ​​the village of Syargilakhta. On June 19, news arrived that a storm had capsized one of the boats. As a result, 14 people drowned, 13 of whom were teenagers.

The picture of the tragedy on Syamozero is gradually emerging. One of the main reasons for what happened was bad weather. There are still very strong winds and low clouds here, many trees have been knocked down. The search and rescue operation has already ended.

The children went on a boat trip between three small islands. They came from one of the banks of Syamozero, spent the night on the other and had to move on. Back on June 18, in the afternoon, when a group of children was walking from one island to another, they were overtaken by not just a storm - a hurricane. Wind gusts reached more than 25 meters per second. Obviously, then four boats, in which there were 47 children and four of their guides, who can hardly be called adults - three of them were 19 years old, one was 17, he also died - capsized.

The fact that the tragedy had occurred became known only on the afternoon of June 19, when local residents came to the shore of the lake to see if the waves had subsided and saw the first dead. They called rescuers. Employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and the leadership of the republic arrived at the scene of the incident.

One girl - she was only 12 years old - miraculously survived. She herself reached the shore and told about what happened. Then rescuers evacuated 37 surviving children from one of the islands. They were sent to hospitals in Petrozavodsk.

“It was probably planned to go hiking on these very days,” said the head of the Republic of Karelia, Alexander Khudilainen. “But when the wind blows at a speed of 14 meters, the wave reaches a height of two meters. Not a single sane adult would go out into such a wave, even in a small lake, not like in Syamozero!

14 people died. Thirteen little tourists were between 12 and 15 years old. One of the conductors, who, according to yet unconfirmed data, was 17 years old, also died. 37 survivors are being treated, all showing signs of hypothermia. The water in Syamozero did not warm up above 14 degrees.

The progress of the investigation is monitored by the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, and regular conference calls are held at the Ministry of Emergency Situations. Psychologists work with surviving children.

All the children who were on this trip were teenagers from Moscow and the Moscow region. Their relatives and friends have already been invited to the social protection departments. "There is no connection. We don't know anything yet," said one of the mothers.

The organizers did not notify the rescue services about this hike, so they learned about what happened on the evening of June 18 only on the afternoon of the 19th thanks to a miraculously surviving 12-year-old girl. The investigation still has a lot to find out.

There is a hotline for relatives of dead children and those who survived: 8-8142-73-02-30, 8-800-775-17-17.

Earlier it was reported that investigators completed an examination of the bodies of 14 victims and determined that all of them were camp students.
The official ombudsman for children's rights, Pavel Astakhov, spoke on Life about the discovery of another body of a child who died on Syamozero in Karelia. Thus, according to the latest data, 15 children became victims of the tragedy.

Let us remind you that the tragedy occurred on the night of June 19. During a storm on Syamozero, one of the watercraft on which 47 children and four instructors were traveling capsized. It was previously reported that all those who died in Karelia were camp students born in 2002-2004. There are no adults among them.

The children who died in Karelia were placed in a spontaneous tent camp, not a permanent camp, which passed all inspections.

The Investigative Committee of Russia opened a criminal case for the provision of services that did not meet safety requirements, resulting in the death of two or more persons through negligence.

Four suspects were detained: director of Park Hotel Syamozero LLC Elena Reshetova, her deputy Vadim Vinogradov, as well as instructors Regina Ivanova and Lyudmila Vasilyeva.

The rescue operation has now been completed. In Karelia, June 20 has been declared a Day of Mourning, TASS reports.

Today marks exactly one year since the tragedy on the Karelian Syamozero. On June 18, 2016, a group of children under the guidance of instructors set off from the children’s camp “Park Hotel Syamozero” on a water trip. A storm broke out on the lake, the boats capsized, and 14 children died. The first rescuers were residents of the village of Kudama. Thanks to them, an even greater tragedy was avoided. A year later, they remember the tragic events and do everything possible to preserve the memory of the victims. The "" correspondent went to Kudama on the eve of the anniversary of the tragedy and talked with the people's heroes.

Kudama

Time flows calmly in Kudam: local residents dig in their gardens, children play in a puddle, sometimes someone rides a bicycle through the streets. And it’s as if that terrible tragedy didn’t happen here a year ago, as if these people didn’t take the cold bodies of children out of the water, as if they didn’t warm up those who survived the storm and swam ashore. But when you start communicating with people, you understand: the pain of June 18, 2016 is still alive, and all this regularity is just powder on top of a wound that is just beginning to heal.

Administrator of the recreation center “Quiet Lake” Tatyana Kustysheva flips through the pages in the guest book. Tatyana shows a couple of lines written a year ago:

"Thanks for the welcome! You helped us a lot, good luck in the prosperity of the cafe! With love, Karelia OPEN , 2nd squad."

This was written by children from the camp, says Tatyana. - We only noticed this modest entry after their departure.

On the morning of June 19, 2016, Tatyana, together with other base employees, literally saved children from cold and hunger. The men heated the bathhouse, the women prepared the food. The first eleven children who washed ashore were warmed up with brooms in the bathhouse and hot tea.

Someone's temperature immediately rose, one girl was simply burning with heat. Apparently, she was very cold, and after the bath the body reacted like this. After the bath, right in the administration building, we moved the sofas and armchairs together, they all lay together and... cried.

At first, Tatyana talks about last year’s events somehow easily and simply. He says that at first it was scary to think about what happened, but now it’s easier to remember. And yet, with each new detail, Tatyana’s pauses in her speech become longer.


Tatyana Kustysheva

Our forest is pine, but they walked barefoot, walking on needles. Then these needles were taken out of each other’s legs... One girl was all scratched up - she was thrown onto the island, in order not to freeze, she tore spruce branches and covered herself with them at night... Many were bruised. There were waves that day, and the shore here was rocky, it was so easy to catch on the stones, so they were pounding... And one girl, she cried the most. She told me that her parents sent her to this camp to distract her from the death of her grandfather. He drowned a month ago, and now she... It’s some kind of wild fate,” says Tatyana.

For saving children in last year’s tragedy, Tatyana and four other employees of the base in Kudam received medals and certificates on June 15, 2017. The modest watchman Vladimir Dorofeev also received the medal “For saving the dead.” It was he who, on his morning walk around the base, found the children on the shore of the lake.

“I don’t like all these interviews of yours,” Vladimir begins our conversation. - Yes, and I don’t like to remember that day either.


Vladimir Dorofeev

According to Vladimir, when he found the first five guys and found out that there were 19 people in the group, he realized that something terrible had happened.

First, they found five children with a boy instructor, then another girl on the island, then Andrei Severikov went to other islands,” says Vladimir. - And when we found their location, it turned out that this was not a location, but something in general that was not clear...

"Museum of Angels"

The tragedy at Syamozero really changed the life of quiet Kudama. The grief that the storm brought them on June 18 is still experienced by many to this day. Elena Yakunenkova did not participate in rescuing the survivors. Together with her neighbors, she pulled the bodies of the dead from the water.

The first girl we picked up had a blue rubber band in her hair, she was wearing a vest, and the rest were all without vests,” says Elena. - And one, the smallest boy, was wearing nothing but swimming trunks.

Elena remembers almost every detail on the bodies of the seven children that she pulled out of the water. He just doesn’t remember their faces. He says it was too hard to look at them. He remembers that everyone was taken out with the hope that at least someone was still breathing.

I take the first girl, and she is still tiny and warm, I shout that she may still be alive, but she is no longer... And when the rescuers arrived, we asked why they were all swimming on the surface, even without vests, and they told us because the water did not get into their lungs, they died from the cold.


Elena Yakunenkova

Today Elena knows the names and faces of all 14 children who drowned in Syamozero. An entire “Museum of Angels” was dedicated to them in Kudam. On its walls are portraits of children, under the icon of the Mother of God are 14 figurines of angels, each with their own name. The villagers had the idea to open such a museum for a long time. But the tragedy pushed people to implement it faster. The owner of the very base where the children were warmed up, Nikolai Stolyarov, renovated the building of the former club, and people chipped in money for angel figures.

This destroyed building was there, there was nothing here, and this tragedy just happened. Since children are the same angels, it just so happened that the kids ended up here, says Nikolai Stolyarov.

We can say that we collected the exhibition of this unusual museum from the world, piece by piece. Some made free nameplates, some printed photographs, some donated frames for them. Elena Yakunenkova and her daughter were in charge of all the preparations. He says that in the future people want to set up a stand with children’s personal belongings, but this will be done with the help of the children’s parents. She communicates with many on social networks.

I think that parents will be pleased that we have such a museum where the memory of their children is preserved,” says Elena.

But it’s not just the “Museum of Angels” that reminds residents of the 2016 tragedy. Immediately after the sad events, a worship cross was erected on the shore of the lake. Again at your own expense. It’s surprising that people don’t expect any other help. To the questions - is it necessary? They say they won’t refuse, but they won’t ask either. And this despite the fact that representatives of the republican authorities themselves stated several times that on the anniversary of the tragedy a memorial sign would be installed on the shore of the lake. The new head of the region, Artur Parfenchikov, personally promised that by June 18, 2017, there will be a memorial on Syamozero. True, a few days before the memorable date it is known that there will still be no sign. Apparently there was a need to discuss the future sign with the children’s relatives. It is unknown whether the parents themselves are ready for such a discussion.

Karelia Closed

The Syamozero Park Hotel or the Karelia Open camp today does not live up to its name. On the welcome sign are posted papers with orders to close the camp. On the gate is the security guard's phone number. According to the head of the local settlement, Andrei Orekhanov, no one is allowed into the territory, it is only known that all things are gradually removed from there.

Andrei Orekhanov speaks about the fate of the camp just as emotionally as he did a year ago: he has been pushing for the closure of this place for many years.

There have been many complaints about this camp. I have already told you that in 2015 I managed to close the camp by decision of an interdepartmental commission, but the court overturned this decision. After all, they seized the territory next to the camp and built houses and toilets there. We fought with the residents of Syargelakhty, but [camp director Elena] Reshetova called the police allegedly because of illegal entry into private territory. Now they have sorted it all out, but again they left the mess on the shore,” says Andrey Orekhanov.


Andrey Orekhanov

There really is a mess. Former buildings seem to have been torn out from small foundations, and there is construction debris and dirt all around.

It’s hard to imagine that just a year ago life was in full swing here: children played “Robinson”, perhaps conquered the obstacle course put together next to the camp territory. And so abruptly this life ended. Just as the lives of fourteen children who went on a boat trip to Lake Syamozero a year ago were cut short.

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Inspections and closure of children's camps

Immediately after the death of children on Syamozero, unscheduled inspections of children's camps began throughout the country. Several recreational places were closed at once, not only in, but also in others.

Before the start of the new summer season in Karelia, Acting Governor Arthur Parfenchikov announced a “rigorous inspection” of vacation spots. As a result of inspections, the leadership of Rospotrebnadzor rejected several camps that had successfully passed inspections and had been operating for many years. Thus, in the vicinity of Petrozavodsk, three out of four municipal camps were unable to accommodate children. The Karelian Rospotrebnadzor refused to comment on what was happening, demanding that a written request be sent to the department. The editors of "" will receive and publish answers to questions about how many camps are closed, why they did not pass inspection this year and when a repeat study will be conducted.

Personnel decisions and criminal cases against officials

Three days after the tragedy, the court of the head of the Karelian Rospotrebnadzor department, Anatoly Kovalenko. He lost his position and became a defendant in a criminal case for negligence. His former deputy Lyudmila Kotovich, who received the position of acting director after Kovalenko’s arrest, is accused under the same article. Since May 2017, she has been under recognizance not to leave. their positions as director and deputy director of the Petrozavodsk Pedagogical College, sending students to practice at the Park-Hotel Syamozero camp.

The leadership of the republic did not make any other personnel decisions. and vacationing children demanded the resignation of the Karelian children's ombudsman Oksana Starshova, but she continues to work. Unlike her federal colleague Pavel Astakhov, who was forced to resign after a scandal related to his inappropriate behavior with injured children: while visiting the victims in the hospital, Astakhov asked one of the girls the question “Well, how was your swim?”

Information appeared in the media that deputies of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia intended to demand the resignation of Deputy Prime Minister Valentina Ulich, who then headed the interdepartmental commission for organizing summer holidays for children, but she continued to work as part of the government of Alexander Khudilainen and resigned only after the change of the head of the region.

In the spring of 2017, Irina Shcherbakova, a paramedic at the Suojärvi District Hospital, was sentenced to three years in a penal colony with a deferred sentence for negligence. She took the call from drowning children as a joke and did not notify the rescue service about it. The father of the boy who called, who was present at the court hearing, did not consider the health worker guilty, and proposed to judge those who are responsible for the operation of emergency telephones in Karelia.

Now an investigation is underway against the management of the Park Hotel Syamozero camp - director Elena Reshetova and her deputy Vadim Vinogradov. Both were placed in pre-trial detention. One of the camp counselors, Valery Krupoderschikov, who accompanied the group of dead children, is under a written undertaking not to leave the place. He is under the same articles of the Criminal Code as Reshetova and Vinogradov - 125 (“Leaving in danger”) and 238 (“Providing services that do not meet safety requirements”).

Changes in legislation and public procurement system in the field of children's recreation

Two months after the tragedy, in August 2016, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a government order to exclude services for organizing children's recreation from the list of purchases through the electronic auction system. This means that now, when determining the company responsible for children’s recreation, not only the price is taken into account (previously, the one who offered the lowest price at the auction won it and received a government contract), but also experience in organizing children’s recreation, the qualifications of employees working with children, and real conditions for placing children.

The tragedy in Karelia showed the flaws in the electronic auction system: Syamozero LLC won government contracts not only because auctions were organized with the participation of shell companies close to the management of Syamozero, but also because it offered the lowest price. The price was reduced due to the use of free labor of student trainees, the organization of a camp “carousel” (when a group of children was taken on a hiking or boat trip, and the next batch of vacationers moved in in their place) and savings on infrastructure (not far from the camp where the children lived in brick houses, wooden temporary huts were built, which also housed groups of children).

The legislation has also changed: in the federal law “On Basic Guarantees of the Rights of the Child in the Russian Federation,” Article 12 (“Ensuring the rights of children to rest and recreation”) was changed. It contained words about “improving the quality and safety of recreation” for children and about control by the authorities. A new article of the law (Article 12.1) instructs the Federal Ministry of Education and Science to develop “model regulations” and “methodological recommendations” for organizing children’s recreation. However, before the start of the 2017 summer season, the approximate regulations were not approved, nor did unified methodological recommendations appear.

Gleb and Anna Yarovoy, photo by Gleb Yarovoy, ""

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case

14 children died on Syamozero in Karelia while boating. In total, there were 47 children and four adults in the tour group. The five surviving children were hospitalized. The rest are safe. According to the mayor of the capital Sergei Sobyanin, among the dead were children from Moscow. An investigation team is currently working on the spot. One of the instructors has already been detained.

17:05 It became known that the Investigative Committee conducted searches in the Moscow department of social protection after the tragedy on Syamozero in Karelia. To check the officials who oversaw the sending of children to the camp.

15:55 There are two girls injured in Karelia in the Bashlyaeva Children's Hospital in Moscow. The condition of one of them is assessed as moderate, RIA Novosti reports. Earlier, the victims were taken to the capital by plane of the Ministry of Emergency Situations.

15:45 The Duma Committee on Family, Women and Children will consider on Tuesday the issue of the tragedy that occurred in Karelia.

15:36 One of the surviving schoolgirls told the Life portal that the life jackets they were given were expired: they could not keep people afloat. But only half of the rafting participants received such “life-saving” equipment.

15:15 The deputy director of the camp, detained in the case of the deaths of children, turned out to be a well-known KVN member in the republic. He has a pedagogical education and extensive experience working with young people, reports “”. Moreover, it was he, according to the victims, who insisted on rafting a couple of hours before the storm. The children tried to dissuade him.

15:06 The authorities of Karelia will terminate the contract with the Park-Hotel Syamozero company after the mass death of schoolchildren in the lake. The camp itself is already closed.

14:37 The Nika TV channel crew talked with the two surviving boys. According to them, they fought the storm for several hours, desperately trying to get to the shore, but at some point their strength left them. Many found themselves in cold water.

14:09 After the Karelian tragedy, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said that he was not confident in the safety of all children's camps in the country. He said this during a meeting with deputy prime ministers.

13:39 Dmitry Peskov said that the government will not make changes to the law on public procurement due to the tragedy in Karelia. In turn, the representative of the Investigative Committee, Vladimir Markin, told the Life portal that a banal desire to save money led to the mass death of children.

13:27 Meanwhile, the Camp filed a lawsuit against the Park-Hotel Syamozero for a million rubles. The essence of the requirements has not yet been disclosed. The hearing is scheduled for July 18.

13:15 The Children's Ombudsman of Karelia stated that there were 284 people in the camp when the permitted 213. At the time of the inspection, the entire leadership was absent, and only 63 people were present in the institution itself. The rest were on the routes. At the same time, no one could say where, in what quantity, and who is responsible for them.

13:09 The children rescued in Karelia flew to Moscow on the plane of the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, Vladimir Puchkov. At the same time, before boarding, the minister personally thanked the schoolchildren for their courage. In the near future, children will be examined at a boarding house for war veterans in the Konkovo ​​district of Moscow.

12:27 The two surviving children are still in shock, and psychologists continue to work with them. A few more have a somatic reaction.

12:15 The head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, Vladimir Puchkov, demanded that the group on Lake Syamozer be strengthened and that every centimeter of the reservoir be searched in search of the fourteenth dead schoolchild.

11:57 The Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR) stated that the tragedy in Karelia is a natural consequence of the lack of professional specialists when serving groups of children, TASS reports.

11:36 Children's Ombudsman of Karelia Oksana Starshova stated that the camp director allegedly did not know about the schoolchildren going to the lake - this was the initiative of his deputy. At the same time, the camp did not have access to tourist trips and rafting.

11:22 Russian Children's Ombudsman Pavel Astakhov reported that the permissible number of children in the camp was exceeded by 71 people.

11:15 The funeral of the children who died rafting in Karelia will take place until Thursday. The burial sites will be chosen by the parents. The head of the capital’s department of trade and services, Alexey Nemeryuk, told RIA Novosti about this.

11:00 After the tragedy in Karelia, inspections of children's camps began in a number of regions. The authorities of the Novgorod and Leningrad regions, as well as the Primorsky Territory, announced the start of inspections.

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09:50 The authorities of Karelia signed a decree to allocate one million rubles to the families of the dead children. This was stated by the head of the republic, Alexander Khudilainen, at an operational meeting led by Vladimir Puchkov.

09:44 After the tragedy in Karelia, the authorities of Primorye decided to check all children's camps in the region. Earlier, Senator Elena Mizulina said that it was necessary to check all children's recreation institutions in the country.

09:39 The head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, Vladimir Puchkov, said that the Karelian camp is being closed. The procedure has begun to return the children to their parents.

09:36 The EMERCOM board will deliver 34 children from the Karelian camp to Moscow, including those injured in the tragedy. Six relatives will also fly with them. A team of doctors will meet them in the capital.

09:25 The injured children told Life that when they went rafting, the weather was good. The storm broke out when they were already quite far from the coast.

01.14 Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin decided to declare June 20 a day of mourning after the death of children in a summer camp in Karelia.

0 0.57 A representative of the government of Karelia reported that 10 children are currently hospitalized after the emergency on the lake. Earlier it was reported about five victims sent to medical institutions in Karelia.

00.31 On Monday, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Government Olga Golodets will hold an all-Russian conference call with the heads of regions, representatives of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Labor and the Ministry of Health, at which the situation in the children's camp "Park Hotel Syamozero" will be discussed, as well as the conditions of recreation for children in children's camps countrywide.

00.28 Alexandra Tokareva, one of the counselors at the children’s camp where the tragedy occurred, spoke about a 12-year-old girl who was the first to get ashore and call for help. According to her, the girl is very athletic and independent, she always took care of her brother (he was also on a tragic campaign and survived), writes KP.

00.05 According to the press service of the Russian government, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev expressed condolences to the families of children who died during the storm and instructed the Ministry of Education and Science and the Ministry of Labor to conduct an unscheduled inspection of all children's health institutions.

23.58 The head of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, Vladimir Puchkov, flew to Karelia to monitor how assistance is being provided to the victims of Syamozero. He headed the working group of the government commission, which will work in Petrozavodsk.

23.48 Commenting on the tragedy in Karelia, First Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security Franz Klintsevich emphasized that it was caused by the criminal negligence of the organizers of the campaign.

“The storm warning was openly ignored, although it had been in effect since Friday. All other organized tourist groups were on the shore,” he said.

23.31 It is reported that one of the instructors who accompanied the children on the rafting trip to Syamozero turned out to be a minor. He also died during the storm.

23.19 The head of the Moscow Department of Social Protection, Vladimir Petrosyan, went to the scene of the tragedy.

23.10 The official representative of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Markin, once again emphasized that the safety of children on the water directly depended on the instructors accompanying them.

22:57 State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin called for severe punishment for the perpetrators of the tragedy in Karelia. “The circumstances leading to this horrific tragedy must be thoroughly investigated and those responsible must be severely punished,” he said. Let us remind you that tomorrow there will be a day of mourning in the republic.

22:48 The rescued children are now in a temporary accommodation center in Petrozavodsk. There are also five victims in the capital of Karelia: two were taken to the Children's Republican Hospital, three to the infectious diseases hospital.

22:39 Psychologists are currently working with the parents of the deceased children. The identification procedure, as previously reported, will take place in Moscow, since many of the victims were from the capital.

22:25 First Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security Franz Klintsevich did not agree with Pavel Astakhov that the organizers of the tour in Karelia should not be held criminally liable. Earlier, the Ombudsman stated that there is no direct cause-and-effect relationship between the death of children and the conclusion of a government contract for their vacation.

22:14 It became known that the fifteenth child who died was not registered in the camp.

22:05 To date, four people have been detained in connection with the death of children: the director of the Syamozero Park Hotel LLC, her deputy and two instructors.

21:55 Putin also ordered to provide assistance to the families of the victims and victims and to identify the causes that led to the tragedy.

21:45 Russian President Vladimir Putin was promptly informed about the tragedy. The head of state expressed his condolences. This was announced by his press secretary Dmitry Peskov.

21:38 The surviving children were taken to Petrozavodsk and are currently being examined by doctors. The identification procedure for the dead will take place in Moscow.

21:21 Official representative of the Investigative Committee Vladimir Markin clarified that only children were victims of the incident. It was previously reported that an instructor was among the dead.

21:12 According to Russian Children's Ombudsman Pavel Astakhov, 15 children have already become victims of the tragedy.

21:07 In connection with the tragedy, Senator Elena Mizulina proposed checking all children's camps in Russia.

21:02 - And here is our material with details about what happened in the camp in past years - the management drinks all night with the workers, barbecues, songs with a guitar... and then the deputy director of the camp crushes the head of a young guard with a bat, and everyone is told to be silent... . .

20:58 - A MK correspondent found a family that sheltered 12-year-old Yulia, a girl who escaped on Syamozero and told about the tragedy. Read it, it turned out... impossible to read

20:56 - And Vladimir Markin, commenting on Twitter on the news that all the dead were children, wrote: “The instructors were thinking about saving their own “skin”... How could they even trust “such” with the lives of children?!”

20:38 - Markin also said that a fourth person involved in the case had been detained. This is Elena Reshetova, director of the company Park Hotel Syamozero LLC, which deals with recreation organizations. Earlier it was reported that instructors Regina Ivanova and Lyudmila Vasilyeva, as well as deputy director of Park Hotel Syamozero LLC Vadim Vinogradov, were detained.

20:37 - An official representative of the RF IC told RIA Novosti that the investigation has completed the examination of the bodies of the victims. It turned out that there was no instructor among them - all 14 dead were children born in 2002-2004.


Park-Hotel "SYAMOSERO". Photo: karelia-open.ru

18:37 - Now at a meeting of the working group of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in connection with the death of children in Karelia, the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Vladimir Puchkov said that the employees participating in the search activities must be removed, but the investigation team must be strengthened.

18:27 - Patriarch Kirill expressed condolences over the tragic death of the children. His press service noted that the patriarch is praying for the repose of the children and conveying words of support to the relatives.

18:22 - Videos from the scene of the tragedy began to appear on social networks. Well, it’s clear that this was already filmed during the search operation. By the way, the video shows that the weather is still not ideal, and there was a storm when the children died.

18:16 - At the same time, it became known that Moscow children did not end up in this camp by accident. It turned out that the Department of Labor and Social Protection of the Population of Moscow held a tender and the Syamozero park hotel won this competition for children's recreation. Well, now the Investigative Committee is already interested in what criteria this competition was held by, what kind of personnel was hired to work with children, what kind of training they had.

18:12 - According to the NTV channel, parents have previously complained about this Karelian camp and stated that there are fights between children, the children are not properly looked after, they play for money and sell food to each other. Children also complained to their parents about endless trips, in which there was no normal diet, and the accompanying person drank alcohol.


Here is a photo of the counselors who, according to the camp director, authorized the boat trip. (from left to right: Valery Krupoderschikov, Vadim Vinogradov)

18:01 - New information was disseminated by the official representative of the RF Investigative Committee Vladimir Markin. According to him, in addition to the detained instructor, two more people are being investigated in the case, who are now hiding. The investigation is also looking for the direct organizers of children’s holidays on Syamozero. Markin confirmed the death of 13 children and one instructor and offered condolences to the parents of the children who died “due to the sloppiness and stupidity of adults.”

18:00 - Meanwhile, RIA Novosti channels reported that the child, who was listed as missing, had been found alive.

17:56 - Meanwhile, the press service of the head of the republic stated that there were no serious claims against the Syamozero Park Hotel in Karelia during the current tourist season. At the same time, an ex-employee of the park hotel told MK: “Yes, there are a lot of violations there... A commission should have been expelled and closed this damn camp a long time ago.” In particular, he noted that the group.

17:55 - A day of mourning has been declared in Karelia on Monday. This decision was made by the head of the Republic of Karelia Alexander Khudilainen.

17:53 - Now rescuers are transporting the last batch of surviving children from the island on Syamozero. There were 25 people there and 15 of them had already been brought ashore.

17:51 - Source in emergency services confirmed to Interfax thatand the bodies of 14 dead were raised to the surface. Thus, there are no more missing persons and the search operation is completed.

17:35 - H The death toll on Syamozero has increased to 14 people; rescuers have discovered the body of another child, reports Life.

17:14 - According to MK in Karelia, 11 children died on Syamozero. All of them are Muscovites.

15:57 - The camp instructor was detained.

15:31 - I joined the investigation of the tragedy on Syamozero. All prosecutors of districts and cities of Karelia have been instructed to check how carefully all child safety measures are observed in places of public recreation.

15:12 - The fate of two children remains unknown, reports

14:51 - According to “MK” in Karelia,” there were no Petrozavodsk residents in the group; among the children there were St. Petersburg residents, Muscovites and Kondopo residents.

14:10 - The Ministry of Emergency Situations of Karelia reported that they managed to save 11 children. The number of victims is not yet known.

14:02 - As Interfax reports, citing a source in the rescue services, on Sunday night a boat carrying schoolchildren capsized on Syamozero in Karelia. A search and rescue operation is underway at the site. The fate of the children is unknown, according to some sources.