A married couple from the Neutrino village of Kabardino-Balkaria, killed by the militants, was buried according to Islamic canons. meters deep into the earth

The Baksan Neutrino Observatory (BNO) is a physical observatory for the study of neutrinos, located in the Baksan Gorge of the Caucasian Mountain Range (38 km from the city of Tyrnyauz, Elbrus District, Kabardino-Balkaria). The underground facilities of the observatory are located in two tunnels 3670 m long under the Andyrchi mountain (the tunnels lead towards the peaks of Andyrtau (3937 m) and Kurmutau [Kurmu (n) chi (bashi), Kurmychi] (4045 m)), their equivalent depth is from 100 up to 4800 m of water equivalent. Belongs to the Institute for Nuclear Research, RAS. The number of employees together with service personnel is about 250 people, most of them live in the village of Neutrino, located between Elbrus and Verkhniy Baksan.

Has the following settings:

Baksan underground scintillation telescope (BUST) with a volume of 3000 m³ at a depth of 300 m below the surface;

gallium-germanium neutrino telescope (GGNT) - a radiochemical detector of solar neutrinos with a gallium metal target weighing 60 tons (SAGE project, located at a distance of 3.5 km from the tunnel entrance);

installation "Andyrchi" for registration of extensive air showers (EAS), located on the surface of the mountain (height 2060 m above sea level) above the BUST on an area of ​​5 · 10 ** 4 m2 and consists of 37 scintillation detectors;

the complex of ground installations KOVER (includes a Large muon detector, a scintillation telescope and a neutron monitor), designed to study the hard component of cosmic rays and extensive air showers).

Directions of scientific research:

study of the internal structure and evolution of the Sun, stars, the nucleus of the Galaxy and other objects of the Universe by registering their neutrino radiation;

search for new particles and super rare processes predicted modern theories elementary particles, at a sensitivity level inaccessible to other methods;

research of high-energy cosmic rays, gamma-astronomy.

History

1958 - Moisei Aleksandrovich Markov, Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences, put forward the idea of ​​using natural neutrinos to study the problems of weak interactions in the physics of elementary particles and problems associated with the astrophysics of the Universe.

1962 - a group of physicists, namely M.A. Markov, G.T. Zatsepin, I. M. Zheleznykh, V.A. Kuzmin, published a number of articles in which they analyzed the fundamental theoretical and experimental possibilities of implementing Markov's idea, in particular, the study of the behavior of the neutrino-nucleon interaction cross section as a function of the neutrino energy (by that time there were already data from experiments on accelerators up to 10 GeV), the intermediate masses boson, etc.

1963 - G.T. Zatsepin proposed a fundamentally new scheme for a possible installation (neutrino telescope). For screening from various components of cosmic rays, which make up the background when registering neutrinos, the installation must be placed under a large thickness of matter. For this, the Andyrchi mountain on Baksan was chosen.

In the late 70s - early 80s, two deep-lying chambers were dug in a tunnel under the Andyrchi mountain for experiments with atmospheric neutrinos and neutrinos from the Sun, and the installations began to work, and they are still working.

In 1998, for the creation of the BNO scientific complex, the staff of the Institute and the Observatory was awarded the State Prize Russian Federation, in 2001 for achievements in the field of research of the neutrino flux from the Sun was awarded the International Prize. B. M. Pontecorvo.

In 2011 - in the staff of the Observatory there are 29 scientific workers actively conducting scientific work (2 doctors and 14 candidates of physical and mathematical sciences). Head of the Observatory, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences V.V. Kuzminov.

Geographical position

The village is located in the southern part of the Elbrus region, in the Baksan river valley. It is located 22 km south-west of the regional center - the city of Tyrnyauz, and 4 km north of the administrative center - the village of Elbrus.

It borders on the lands of settlements: Elbrus in the south and Upper Baksan in the north.

The village is located in the high-mountainous part of the republic, in the valley of the Baksan gorge. The height differences in the village are significant and amount to about 250 meters. The average altitude in the valley of the gorge in the territory of the village is 1670 meters above sea level. The highest point is Andyrchi Mountain (3937 m), located to the east of the village.

The village is located between the rivers Adyr-Su and Adyl-Su, in the gorges of which there are more than 10 mountaineering camps and tourist centers. The hydrographic network is represented by the Baksan River and its small tributaries flowing down from the surrounding ridges through the territory of the village.

The climate is moderately continental. Average temperatures range from + 13.5 ° C in July to -5.2 ° C in January. The average annual rainfall is 920 mm. Snow in the valley is from October to April. Particularly dangerous is the hot dry wind blowing from the mountains to the valleys in the spring - a foehn, whose speed can reach 25-30 m / s.

History

Economy

In fact, the entire economy of the village is associated with tourism and the activities of the Baksan Neutrino Observatory.

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- No, you cannot understand what I learned from this illiterate man - a fool.
“No, no, talk,” said Natasha. - Where is he?
- He was killed almost in my presence. - And Pierre began to tell recent times their retreats, Karataev's illness (his voice trembled incessantly) and his death.
Pierre recounted his adventures in a way he had never told anyone before, as he had never recalled them with himself. He now saw as if a new meaning in everything that he had experienced. Now, when he was telling all this to Natasha, he experienced that rare pleasure that women give when listening to a man - not smart women who, listening, try or remember what they are told in order to enrich their minds and, on occasion, retell that or adapt what is being told to his own and communicate as soon as possible his clever speeches, developed in his small mental economy; but the pleasure that real women give, gifted with the ability to choose and absorb all the best that is only in the manifestations of a man. Natasha, herself not knowing this, was full of attention: she did not miss a word, not a hesitation of her voice, not a glance, not a startle of a muscle in her face, not a gesture of Pierre. On the fly, she caught a word that had not yet been expressed and directly brought it into her open heart, guessing the secret meaning of Pierre's entire spiritual work.
Princess Marya understood the story, sympathized with it, but now she saw something else that absorbed all her attention; she saw the possibility of love and happiness between Natasha and Pierre. And for the first time this thought came to her filled her soul with joy.
It was three in the morning. Waiters with sad and stern faces came to change the candles, but no one noticed them.
Pierre finished his story. Natasha, with brilliant, lively eyes, continued to stubbornly and attentively look at Pierre, as if wishing to understand the rest that he had not said, perhaps. Pierre, in bashful and happy embarrassment, occasionally glanced at her and thought of what to say now in order to turn the conversation to another subject. Princess Marya was silent. It never occurred to anyone that it was three in the morning and that it was time to sleep.
“They say: misery, suffering,” said Pierre. - Yes, if only now, this very minute I was told: do you want to remain what you were before captivity, or first survive all this? For God's sake, once again captivity and horse meat. We think how we will be thrown out of our usual path, that everything is lost; and here is just the beginning of a new, good. As long as there is life, there is happiness. There are many, many ahead. I'm telling you this, ”he said, addressing Natasha.
“Yes, yes,” she said, answering something completely different, “and I would not want anything but to go through all over again.
Pierre looked at her attentively.
“Yes, and nothing else,” Natasha confirmed.
“Not true, not true,” cried Pierre. - It is not my fault that I am alive and want to live; and you too.
Suddenly Natasha dropped her head in her hands and began to cry.
- What are you, Natasha? - said Princess Marya.
- Nothing, nothing. - She smiled through tears to Pierre. - Goodbye, it's time to sleep.
Pierre got up and said goodbye.

Princess Marya and Natasha, as always, met in the bedroom. They talked about what Pierre had said. Princess Marya did not express her opinion of Pierre. Natasha did not talk about him either.
“Well, goodbye, Marie,” Natasha said. - You know, I am often afraid that we do not talk about him (Prince Andrei), as if we are afraid to humiliate our feelings, and we forget.
Princess Marya sighed heavily, and with this sigh recognized the truth of Natasha's words; but in words she did not agree with her.
- How can you forget? - she said.
- It was so good for me to tell everything today; and hard, and painful, and good. Very good, - said Natasha, - I am sure that he definitely loved him. From that I told him ... nothing that I told him? - suddenly blushing, she asked.
- Pierre? Oh no! How beautiful he is, ”said Princess Marya.
“You know, Marie,” Natasha suddenly said with a playful smile that Princess Marya had not seen on her face for a long time. - He has become some kind of clean, smooth, fresh; exactly from the bath, do you understand? - morally from the bath. Truth?

BNO is an underground physical observatory for the study of neutrinos, located in two tunnels 3670 m long under the Andyrchi mountain in the Caucasus. Belongs to the Institute for Nuclear Research, Russian Academy of Sciences. It was built first by Moscow metro builders, and then by workers from Baku and Donetsk, commissioned in, I think, 1978.

Main gallery of the object.


The lining is leaking in one place.


You will go to the right - you will see the Baksan underground scintillation telescope, you will go straight ahead - you will find a gallium-germanium neutrino telescope, or maybe you will get some pussy :) We will go to the right.


Let's walk and take a look around.


One of the vertical scintillation planes.


Plane detectors.

This design (underground scintillation telescope) works approximately as follows: from a large number detectors made up a parallelepiped with a volume of 3000 m³. The detectors detect the passage of high-energy particles, electron neutrinos and muons, the analysis of signals from the detectors makes it possible to judge the trajectories of the particles. By registering muons from the lower hemisphere of the Earth and at large zenith angles, one can get rid of the background of atmospheric muons and have pure neutrino events. Every second the detector detects the passage of 17 muons, neutrino events occur several times a year. The depth is about 300 meters.
The detector is a 70x70x30 cm metal tank filled with white spirit, to which a scintillator (causes the substance to glow when particles pass) and a shifter (shifts the wavelength) are added. A photomultiplier tube (electronic tube) is attached to the tank through a special glass, which reacts to light flashes and sends the measurement results to the EC. The scintillation telescope operates in real time, i.e. on a computer in the computer center, you can see what each of the sensors shows and what is happening in general. It's so rude general outline, a description of the telescope, if anything - experts will correct.


Bottom plane of the telescope ...


... and its conjugation with one of the vertical planes.


The upper plane is 4 floors higher.


...


Sensor.


Disassembled sensor: vacuum tube inside.


And here is the stock of these lamps.


Upper plane.


VTS and the main computer, which replaced a dozen cabinets with relays.


The vacated place, as I understand it.


Glory to Soviet science!


Central hall, rescuers.


Control room.

The underground part consists of two parallel adits (main and service tunnels with a narrow-gauge track) with monolithic lining, technical rooms between them, working out of large cross-sections (in metal insulation) for telescopes.


...


Battery bucket.


Lamp protection.

The facility also has a gallium-germanium neutrino telescope - a radiochemical detector of solar neutrinos with a gallium metal target weighing 60 tons (located at a distance of 3.5 km from the tunnel entrance, a depth of about 800 meters. Liquid gallium under the action of neutrinos turns into radioactive germanium, inspection and study of the target is carried out once every 1.5 years), a low-background camera, the Andyrchi installation for recording wide air showers located on the surface of the mountain, a complex of ground installations Carpet.


The main gallery.

The main gallery.


Auxiliary gallery. Greetings from the metro


The carriage. Doesn't it look like anything? :)


In the spring of 2006, an avalanche descended directly above the BNO portals, covered the entrances and demolished half of the territory. There were some buildings on this place.


A stone brought by an avalanche.


A slope with fallen trees in the background is the result of an avalanche.


And something has already been abandoned for a long time.


Bridge across the Baksan river, the only way to BNO.
(c) danila85

An underground laboratory, radioactive carbon, searches for dark matter, supernova explosions ... No, this is not a fantasy thriller. This is the Baksan Observatory.

Scientists have been hunting neutrinos for a long time. Born in the interior of the Sun, these particles allow us to understand what is happening inside our star. And those ejected by a burst of supernovae tell about deep space.

The neutrinos emitted by the Earth's interior have low energy and have not yet been caught, but in the future they will certainly give information about our planet. Perhaps neutrinos can be used for communication at large distances, deep under water and underground - after all, they move at almost the speed of light, have no charge and fly through everything that comes their way without interacting with matter. Almost without interacting - sometimes they still collide with atoms, which is what they use at the Baksan Neutrino Observatory in Kabardino-Balkaria, one of the most important points on the map for world science. Here, in a deep underground, two neutrino telescopes are working at once.

3500 meters deep into the earth

Those who have been at the foot of Elbrus from the south must have paid attention to the nameplate settlement"Neutrino" shortly before Terskol. In a series of ethnic names of settlements, the scientific word looks unusual. However, nothing strange can be seen from the track. The road here goes to the scientific building, and a little further on the hill there are several high-rise buildings, where scientists, engineers and technical staff live. And the most interesting thing, "the heart of Neutrino", is located on the other side of the gorge, across the Baksan River - the structures were built right under the mountain. This arrangement allows many times to reduce the background radiation, which can affect the results of experiments.

A suspension bridge is thrown over the stormy stream. On one side of it hangs a sign "Avalanche zone". Our fellow traveler, physicist, senior researcher at the Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Valery Gorbachev, says that an avalanche came down here in 2003. She destroyed a technical building, literally razed it to the ground, demolished a stop by the road. The crumb of snow then covered up the windows of apartment buildings on the other side of the slope.

But in the mid-90s, the object already suffered at the hands of a person. At night, unidentified persons seized an electric locomotive on which they move through kilometer-long tunnels, and staged a pogrom in the laboratories. Since then, the entrance to the downhill has been guarded, and all rooms have been locked.

At the entrance to the adit, people are already standing, as they themselves say, "waiting for the subway." Soon the train arrives, although the residents major cities they are unlikely to recognize it as familiar to the subway carriages. An electric locomotive, more like a rectangle on rails with two asymmetrically located headlights, pulls along a narrow-gauge railroad trolleys. The work of transport is provided by a whole staff of railway workers, and the train runs strictly on schedule. Did not have time? We'll have to walk several kilometers on foot in complete darkness.

On the way, you can take a nap, to your destination - about 20 minutes deep into the mountain range. The train stops several times: sometimes someone goes to his laboratory, and sometimes another gate needs to be opened - to close it again immediately behind the train. Finally we are there. The mark is 3500 meters. This is the final stop for most passengers. The train goes even further.

How to see neutrinos?

In a spacious room there is a change house, where all employees must change their shoes. We are not ready for this, and we are given shoe covers. The attendant checks the passes, gives out the keys. And so we pass through the high gate with the inscription "Gallium-Germanium Neutrino Telescope". Abbreviated - GGNT.

“They do wet cleaning here every day, and change shoes are needed so as not to bring in dust and dirt from the mine,” says Valery, as we walk through the spacious rooms of the telescope, “All objects on the surface, and the rock inside the mountain, contain radioactive isotopes. They can influence the results of experiments. Therefore, the walls of the telescope are made of special concrete with a low content of radioactive elements and sheathed with metal sheets. Such protection reduces the radiation background by tens of millions of times.

When the telescope is located under a mountain, there is no need to talk about a classic tube with mirrors and lenses. None of this is in sight here. The "heart" of GGNT consists of 50 tons of gallium, a light metal with a melting point of 30 degrees. It is placed in reactors, where it interacts with a neutrino - an elementary particle that has no charge and which practically does not interact with matter.

Neutrinos are born in the interior of the Sun in the course of thermonuclear reactions and are immediately carried away into space. Some of them reach the Earth, but due to their properties they fly through the planet and hardly interact with it. It is possible to catch only an insignificant part.

There are several installations in the world for registering these elusive space wanderers. The gallium technology is unique in its kind. According to Gorbachev, the GGNT detects low-energy neutrinos, which other detectors are not capable of.

But even after catching it, it is impossible to see the neutrino. You can only fix the consequences of their interaction with matter. So in GGNT they catch one of three types - electron neutrinos. They cut into the gallium nucleus and convert it into the isotope germanium-71, which is located in the adjacent cell of the periodic table. Once a month, the germanium formed in this way is extracted from a gallium target (this is what experts call 50 tons of this element).

- On average, only about 30 atoms are formed per month. Can you imagine what kind of work is worth extracting them from the multi-ton mass? - says Valery. - For this we add 250 micrograms of germanium, but another, non-radioactive. Then, using chemical reactions, we extract it, place it in a special counter, and it determines the number of radioactive atoms. By the way, during the extraction of germanium, engineers remain in the laboratory for a day - a test that is not easy.

Therefore, there is an aquarium here, although due to the surrounding atmosphere at first it seems that experiments are being carried out on the fish.

We move to a room where the number of isotopes formed is counted. It is not possible to see the meter itself - it is hidden by lead blocks, which, by the way, are everywhere here. - It is pure, non-radioactive lead. It protects the counters from external radiation, which can affect the purity of the experiment, explains Gorbachev. One of the employees joins us. His responsibilities include auditing the available radioactive elements. Valery takes out a metal container with a characteristic radiation symbol from the safe, opens it and boldly takes the radiation sources in his hands. “Of course, you shouldn't swallow them, but you can hold them in your hands,” he jokes.

Sterile neutrinos: catch if you can

It turns out that registration of solar neutrinos is a daily routine that employees of GGNT have been performing for many years. But now they are preparing a new experiment that could bring the Nobel Prize. - Science knows three types of neutrinos - electron, muon and tau neutrinos. And they can transform into each other when they travel long distances. There is also a hypothesis about the existence of a fourth type - a sterile neutrino, which does not interact with matter at all, says Gorbachev.

It is here that they are going to search for sterile neutrinos. New installation will be a tank with a radioactive source, into which 50 tons of gallium will be pumped. The isotopes will emit neutrinos, which, just like in the GGNT, will convert gallium into germanium. And then - the usual procedure for counting newly formed atoms. In general, sterile neutrinos that do not interact with matter will search for ... by their absence.

When scientists expect to find a certain number of events, but in fact there are fewer of them, it is reasonable to assume that the missing number of interactions are accounted for by these elusive particles. Of course, you first need to get rid of all the side factors that can lead to the same results and cause confusion in the calculations.

For the new experiment, most of the necessary equipment is already in place: a barrel and 50 tons of gallium. There is still a need to purchase a radioactive source, but there is no funding yet. - To launch the project, we need 300 million rubles. This amount is not as large as it might seem, especially since we will receive scientific results already five years after the launch of the project, - explains the physicist.

Underground sources and dark matter

Less than an hour is left before the departure of the electric locomotive, and we hurry further deeper into the tunnel - up to the mark of 3800 meters. We go on foot, and when we move away from the entrance to the GGNT, darkness envelops us. The sound of narzan sources beating out of the ground is heard. No one dares to drink this water, but the springs create bizarre stalactites and stalagmites. The lab staff split them off and show them to the guests.

A light appears ahead, and soon we come to the low-background research laboratory. There are no grandiose buildings here, therefore, several experiments are carried out at once on a relatively small territory. Almost all of them have practical goals. For example, a germanium low-background ultrapure semiconductor detector helps detect materials that are almost free of unstable isotopes. They are looking for materials for other scientific experiments here, explains Vladimir Kazalov, a researcher at the laboratory of the Institute for Nuclear Research.

- In many experiments, materials are required in which there is very little thorium and uranium and their decay products. Here we select samples from those that are sent to us, - he says.

With the help of carbon-14, the age of archaeological and paleontological finds is determined. Most of it is formed in the upper atmosphere, in small amounts it is found throughout the atmosphere. When an object hits the ground, carbon-14 stops flowing into it. And since the isotope is radioactive, it decays over time.

Scientists calculate the remaining amount and determine the age of the find - whether it be a dead prehistoric animal or an ancient man's tool of labor. The detector has serious protection. From the inside it is copper and lead, and from above it is covered with borated plastic.

In the adjoining room, behind a 15-centimeter lead door, there is an installation for studying scintillators for the presence of carbon-14. Scintillators are substances that have the ability to emit light when absorbing ionizing radiation. They are also used to register neutrinos. But carbon-14 is a radioactive isotope. According to Vladimir Kazalov, when an experiment requires a carbon-based scintillator, radioactivity only interferes. Therefore, the laboratory for low-background research has created an installation for the search for scintillators with a low carbon-14 content. It is very difficult to find such a natural source.

In the next room there is an installation for the search for hadronic axions - hypothetical candidate particles for dark matter. So far, they have not been found.

- Once my colleague from Moscow, he is searching for dark matter, comes up to me and asks: “Have you discovered anything? Do not open. It's too early, "Kazalov jokes.

By the way, as we move from one room to another, the temperature around rises noticeably. Without artificial ventilation, the air here can warm up to 40 degrees and above: the radioactive elements contained in the rock, as a result of decay, release heat, and it accumulates here.

Old telescope for supernovae

An electric locomotive is approaching. This time, the journey takes less time, since we stopped about a kilometer from the surface. Physicist Musabi Boliev meets us. He leads us to the very old building under the mountain - the Baksan underground scintillation telescope (BUST), built in 1977. The telescope is a four-story building. It consists of tanks filled with kerosene in which a scintillator is dissolved. A photomultiplier tube (PMT) is inserted into each tank. There are 3186 of them in total. The inside of the tank is covered with white enamel that reflects photons.

If low-energy electron neutrons are registered in GGNT, then this telescope catches muons. They are formed when muonic neutrinos slam into an atom. These charged particles "flash" the scintillator, resulting in the birth of photons. Reflecting from the walls of the containers, they enter the PMT - the signal from them is amplified many times and enters the computer system for analysis.

- At the time of construction, many did not believe that the installation would work. Each multiplier has a voltage of 1600 to 2000 volts. The signals from them must be synchronized so that they all arrive at the equipment at the same time, says Boliev.

The telescope is old, but it works flawlessly. PMTs, which were purchased in large quantities in the 70s, now stand in boxes along the wall. Most of them are still not needed. However, despite the fact that the telescope was built almost 40 years ago, today it solves the fundamental problems of physics. In addition to statistical information about solar neutrinos, BUST records catastrophic events in deep space, such as supernova explosions.

It's time to return, and Musabi Boliev undertakes to lead us back to the surface. This time we go on foot. Everything, as in the well-known expression - "light at the end of the tunnel", to which we went. Contemporary pop culture creates an aura of mystery around such objects: an underground laboratory, Scientific research, radioactivity. The noise of dripping water in the dark and the whistle of the never-ending wind ...

The reality turns out to be much more impressive. They are not afraid of radiation, because they know its nature and know how to handle it. There are no legends and tales about the spirit of the mountain, because people of a scientific view work here. Being here, you feel a belonging to something great. Communication with space and, for that matter, with all progressive humanity interested in scientific problems.

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Employees of the Baksan Neutrino Observatory of the Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the spouses Zhamal and Elena Guliyevs, who were killed in the attack on October 7, were buried according to Islamic canons in the village of Elbrus, where Zhamal Guliyev was born and where his relatives live.

As the "Caucasian Knot" reported, on October 7, in the Elbrus region of Kabardino-Balkaria, two employees of the Baksan neutrino observatory, 56-year-old spouses of the Guliyevs, were killed. According to the UK, the gunmen who killed the spouses fired at the victims about 20 times.

The other day, the Guliyevs' spouses were buried in her husband's native village - the village of Elbrus. “The elders of the village approached me,” the mother of the deceased Elena Gulieva, Elizaveta Petrovna Vasilyeva, told the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent, “and asked for permission to bury Zhamal and Lena together. They lived for 32 years in a happy marriage, decided not to separate them even after death. objected. "

About the events of the night when her son-in-law and daughter were killed, 87-year-old Elizaveta Petrovna, who lived with the Guliyevs, says: “Lena and Zhamal came from the garden and were going to have supper. They were in the kitchen, I was in the room. I heard two muffled sounds - as if something heavy had fallen. I got up and went out into the corridor. There was a stranger. I asked: what happened, who are you? At that moment, another stranger appeared in the corridor - a young guy. He ordered me return to the room and lie on my stomach. I said that I was limited in movement, as the neck of the thigh was broken. Then he allowed me to lie on my back and sealed the rod with tape, tied my arms and legs. "

After that, the elderly woman heard, "the drawers in the cupboards were pulled out, but it subsided quickly." After the attackers left, she freed her arms and legs and went out to see what had happened: her daughter was lying on the couch in a pool of blood, and her son-in-law was on the floor. The woman went to the neighbors to call for help.

When asked what could have caused the reprisal against her daughter and son-in-law, Elizaveta Petrovna replied that "an investigation is underway, it will sort it out." At the same time, she is convinced that the murder was not an everyday matter: her children were dealt with by their ideological opponents. “Last year, Zhamal was beaten and threatened. Everyone in the village knows about this,” she says. “It’s not clear why they didn’t kill me. After all, I’m a witness.”

Now Elizaveta Petrovna, who has lost her daughter and son-in-law, at the age of 87 is forced to change her place of residence - to move to St. Petersburg, to her eldest son, a retired military man. There are not enough funds for the move. Therefore, the woman, who had worked for many years in the party organs of the republic, turned to the Council of Veterans of the KBR.

“I would not mind accepting help from the Council of Veterans. I would see this help as an assessment of what happened. But they don’t have the means,” Vasilyeva says.

Recall that Zhamal Guliev worked as the chief engineer of the laboratory building, and his wife Elena, who graduated from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Rostov State University, was the system administrator of the entire observatory.

According to law enforcement agencies, at about 21.00 Moscow time, when the couple were in the kitchen, two unknown persons entered the apartment through an open door and shot the couple. Police officers at the scene of the murder found at least 12 shell casings. Several bullets were removed from the wall.

On the same night, at about 4.30 Moscow time, on the southern outskirts of Tyrnyauz, 200-300 meters from the Baksan-Azau highway, officers of power structures killed two people who resisted. They are suspected of involvement in the murder of the Guliyevs. One of the killed - 36-year-old resident of Tyrnyauz Rustam Benigerov, the second could not be identified - during the clash his head was blown off. When Benigerov was killed, Zhamal Guliyev's passport was found, as well as credit cards and Winston cigarettes from an apartment in Neutrino. Next to Benigerov's body, they found a Kedr submachine gun with a silencer, from which the spouses were killed.

According to one version, Zhamal Guliyev was killed for opposing the ideology of radicals. In particular, according to some information, he tore off leaflets that they hung around the village.

"Caucasian Knot" continuesmonitor the situation that is developing in Kabardino-Balkaria, and chronicles the terrorist attacks, shelling and explosions taking place there.