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In May of this year, the chief ufologist of Russia, coordinator of the Kosmopoisk association, Vadim Chernobrov, died under mysterious circumstances.

Independent sources believe that the cause of death was radiation in one of the anomalous zones visited by the researcher.

We will show what secrets Vadim Chernobrov managed to uncover, the answer to what events he was looking for all his life, what unexpected evidence of UFO activity in Russia he was able to collect and what he hid from journalists.

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Who is killing leading Russian ufologists

The famous researcher of anomalous phenomena Vadim Chernobrov died at the age of 52. Komsomolskaya Pravda finds out why Russian UFO researchers are passing away in the prime of life

THERE, ON UNKNOWN PATHS...

Chernobrov was rightly called the country's main ufologist. “Ufology” comes from the abbreviation “UFO” (Unidentified Flying Object). In Russian - “UFO”, Unidentified Flying Object. How alternative science appeared in the late 40s of the last century, when the West started talking about “flying saucers” and aliens. In the USSR, the pioneer of ufology was the science fiction writer Alexander Kazantsev, who promoted the version of the famous Tunguska meteorite as having suffered an accident spaceship aliens.

There doesn't seem to be one mysterious place in Russia, wherever Chernobrov visited with his expedition in search of aliens, Bigfoot... He also traveled a lot around the world (see Dossier “KP”). He willingly talked about the results on TV. He has written two dozen books and many articles on the topic of the Unknown. By the way, his first article appeared 22 years ago in Komsomolskaya Pravda. About mysterious circles in a Russian wheat field. “Back then everyone already knew about British crop circles, but no one believed that they appeared in our country,” the researcher recalled. - Komsomolskaya Pravda published my article about this. It was reprinted by almost all publications, and not only domestic ones. It was a success!”

His death also became a mystery. Vadim was not even 52. Why did the tall, bearded traveler, full of energy, die so early?

“On May 18, the wonderful researcher and writer Vadim Aleksandrovich Chernobrov passed away,” his colleague Nikolai SUBBOTIN, director of the Russian Ufological Institute, immediately responded on Facebook. research station(RUFORS), President of the Protohistory Association, author of documentaries about mysterious places planet Earth on the REN-TV channel. - And again a strange feeling appeared, which first arose after the mysterious death of Yaroslavl ufologist Yuri Smirnov. He worked on the topic of implants and kept several such artifacts in his archive. Then Svetlana Zharnikova and Andrei Sklyarov left... It’s like an unknown and ruthless sniper is knocking out commanders from our ranks with precise shots...”

However! The people listed by Subbotin are truly iconic figures in Russian ufology, as well as alternative history. (See REFERENCE “KP” - “Victims of the mysterious Sniper.)

Vadim Chernobrov willingly shared his amazing finds. Photo: RIA Novosti

ALIEN CHIPS

I'm calling Nikolai.

What kind of mysterious “Sniper” is shooting our leading ufologists? From earthly intelligence agencies or aliens?

I reject the earthly conspiracy theory out of hand. I don’t suspect any killers from the secret world government, the US intelligence services, or Russia. Smirnov, Zharnikova, Sklyarov, Chernobrov have been engaged in their research for decades. If they really interfered with specific powerful people or the System, they would have been eliminated long ago.

Aliens remain!

Eat interesting theory, it is shared by a number of researchers. Self Space- World mind, God, Higher power, everyone calls it differently! - protects humanity. So that it does not come to an understanding of certain things before it can “digest” them. You can't give a grenade to a monkey! She might blow herself up. So it is with humanity.

It turns out that these ufologists have approached the Truth, which it is still too early for unreasonable earthlings to know. Because Higher intelligence“cleansed” them?

I repeat, there is such a version. Perhaps they simply came too early to the discovery of the global Universal laws of existence.

Or maybe everything is much simpler, Nikolai? You write about mysterious death Smirnov, who worked on the topic of implants and kept artifacts. These extraterrestrial things could well destroy the ufologist. Radiation, bacteria... By the way, what are his implants? Not implanted teeth, which are now advertised everywhere.

Smirnov called implants certain miniature sensors that he managed to extract from under the skin of people who claimed that they were abducted by a UFO. Yuri believed that with their help the aliens exercise some kind of control. Back then, in the 90s, it seemed fantastic. And now such technologies have entered our everyday life. Chips.

I for a long time talked to Yuri. We corresponded and exchanged materials. He sent me videotapes of his research and filming. He was reluctant to talk about the implants themselves. Sometimes it seemed to me that he was afraid to advertise this topic. I know, from the stories of his close friends, that the implants, along with other artifacts, disappeared from Smirnov’s apartment after his death. A collection of meteorites, which, according to some estimates, was very valuable, also disappeared.

COSMONAUT GRECHKO WAS SEARCHING FOR ALIENS

Then, perhaps, ordinary earthly criminals killed the ufologist for these collections at the age of 52. Zharnikova can be excluded from the list of mysterious victims due to her age; at 69 years old, many people get sick and die. But Sklyarov’s story is truly mystical. I was impressed by his books, films about ancient civilizations, I was planning to do an interview with Andrei Yuryevich about the secrets Egyptian pyramids. Didn’t have time... As his widow recalled: “Death was not unexpected. The problems appeared earlier. Always! after each expedition, the electronics in the house “just like that, for no reason” broke down!.. We got used to it, and the second time we started copying everything to disks in advance. They remembered the Strugatskys and smiled. A year ago I had a stroke on an expedition in Turkey. But he managed to find strength and fully recovered. In May, he suffered a heart attack after an accident in Armenia, in which several people were injured, including his son. Survived." In September, a second heart attack. Fatal. He was 55. Early death Chernobrova, it turns out, was not sudden either. Now it turns out that he suffered from a blood disease for eight years.

Indeed, Sklyarov constantly exposed himself to danger. Going to places where there may be troubles for health and life itself. The same story with Chernobrov. He became seriously ill, although he hid his illness and continued his search.

Let me remind you that literally a month before Chernobrov, on April 8, 2017, cosmonaut Georgy Grechko died. (Heart failure. - Ed.) Perhaps from the same reason. After all, they were on the same expeditions.

Is it really twice a Hero? Soviet Union, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Georgy Mikhailovich Grechko, ufologist?

He was Russia's most active space explorer. The title of his book says a lot: “Cosmonaut No. 34. From a splinter to aliens.” Back in 1960, Grechko participated in the expedition of Sergei Pavlovich Korolev to search for traces of the alleged explosion of an alien spacecraft on Podkamennaya Tunguska. This version was popular back then Tunguska meteorite. After that, the scientist joined the cosmonaut corps. He has collaborated with Kosmopoisk for more than 20 years. He called Chernobrov his friend, despite the large age difference. In 2006, together with Vadim, he organized an expedition to search for the “Cave of Moses” and the “white disc-shaped object” in Sinai in Egypt. In 2010 they studied the Chapel. One of the most anomalous zones in the Moscow region, where UFOs seem to land. This was Grechko’s last trip to the field. Although before last days the astronaut was interested in searching for representatives of Extraterrestrial civilizations. On April 4, a report in Orel was devoted to Grechko’s ufological research. 4 days before his death.

It turns out that Grechko and Chernobrov received a serious blow to their health while searching for a UFO in the Chapel or in the Sinai Desert. Which led to their death...

This is just a guess based on a number of coincident facts. After all, no one seriously considers from a medical point of view what dangers ufologists expose themselves to when going to the so-called anomalous zones. Another problem is the lack professional devices, capable of warning about negative impact. You need to understand that many researchers in our country most expeditions are organized at their own expense, there is no time to purchase expensive equipment.

The chapel in the Pavlovo-Posad district of the Moscow region is popularly considered a cursed place. Photo: places.moscow

DISCHARGE FROM "LIGHT CIRCLES"

The chapel in the Pavlovo-Posad district of the Moscow region has long been considered by the people as a lost, cursed, enchanted place. You ufologists call such places anomalous, geopathogenic zones. When I saw Chernobrov’s reports from such “zones” on TV, my first thought was: how is he not afraid to go into the abode of all sorts of devilry?

Devilry has nothing to do with it. There is always a risk factor on such expeditions of ending up on earthly anomalies: radiation, heavy metals, ancient bacteria clogged in caves...

In 2008 there was a similar situation in the RUFORS expedition to Kola Peninsula. While exploring the mines in Apatity, we found ourselves in a radioactive radiation zone. My friend's two years were very serious problems with health.

You yourself have worked a lot on the famous Molebka anomalous zone in the Perm region.

I am also an experimenter in life. For the time being (sighs). There are a lot of interesting anomalies in Molebka. Both natural and associated with unknown factors that I cannot yet explain. Maybe the UFO really left a legacy? Old-timers talked about “circles of light.”

Witches, or what?

Witches, elves, fairies - this is what people call circles, rings of mushrooms, often poisonous. There is such a natural phenomenon. Light circles are also a purely terrestrial geoanomaly, described in science, and quite rare. They look like a faint glow in the twilight in the form of circles with a diameter of several meters. It is believed that in this way static electricity accumulates in the soil layer. On one of the expeditions to Molebka I met such a “circle”. I wondered what would happen if I stepped on it? I walked into the very center and received a strong electric shock. I toiled on my feet for two years. The so-called “Contactee Disease”.

What disease?

At one time, the famous ufologist Emil Bachurin compiled a special classification, describing many negative aspects that can happen to a researcher in anomalous and geopathogenic zones, as well as during close contacts with UFOs. In fact, this was the first domestic instruction on ufological safety precautions. But I checked it on myself, and now I know that it is impossible to enter such a circle.

Near Molebka in the Urals - mysterious Pass Dyatlov, whose mystery Komsomolskaya Pravda is trying to solve. It is also considered a dead place.

Many legends and sightings of unusual objects are indeed associated with this Pass. But I think it is not appropriate to call this zone a lost place. A more interesting object is located near the Dyatlov Pass - Mount Chistop. At its top in the 80s there was a military radar station (radar station). There were a lot more “misunderstandings” going on there. The military themselves constantly reported increased electromagnetic activity, which actually burned out sensitive equipment, and they repeatedly observed luminous balls and strange glows. And the Mansi themselves, the indigenous inhabitants of these places, warned that Chistop, like the Dyatlov Pass area, is a sacred and forbidden place. According to their legends, under Mount Chistop, giants sleep for the time being in ancient shelters.

Your fellow treasure hunters, who also love to wander through “lost places,” have a custom. Before picking up a coin or other treasures found in the ground, you must cross them and read a prayer to remove the spell of the previous owners. Do ufologists have similar protective rituals? Cross the same “circle of light” so that your legs don’t get shaky...

I honestly don’t know how much the trick works - cross old coin, raised by treasure hunters. This is more from the realm of fetishism. We rely more on science and instruments. If you see that the electromagnetic, gravitational, radioactive background is increased, you should turn on your mind and think - is it necessary to go to this place? Another thing is that we do not always protect ourselves. Because they are too passionate about the search process. Most often, the problem comes from the person himself, who incorrectly assesses the situation. And then conversations begin that the Dyatlov Pass is a lost place, aliens are abducting people on Molebka. Or they irradiate with harmful rays...

So, Vadim Chernobrov was ruined by risk? I was irradiated in an anomalous zone, the same Chapel, and developed leukemia...

The situation with Vadim cannot be called a thoughtless risk. This is a special category of people who put themselves on the altar of science without reserve. Even if it is an alternative science, not officially recognized today. But it will definitely be recognized, no matter tens or hundreds of years from now. Ufology is a direction that can provide brilliant discoveries. This is what Vadim did. He always moved forward, regardless of his health. Even close friends did not always understand the danger he exposed himself to when he was exploring, for example, the radioactive Vitim fireball or UFO debris in the Sinai desert.

Chernobrov inspired many people. And I don’t know who can replace Vadim.

Researcher Nikolai Subbotin. Photo: Personal archive

FROM THE KP DOSSIER

Vadim CHERNOBROV. Most famous in post-Soviet Russia ufologist-researcher of anomalous phenomena. Candidate of Technical Sciences, Aerospace Design Engineer aircraft. Back in 1980, a student at the Moscow Aviation Institute created a group to study anomalous phenomena. It grew into the All-Russian Research Institute public association"Kosmopoisk" with branches in many regions of the Russian Federation. Organized expeditions to the areas of the fall of the Tunguska meteorite and the Vitim fireball, Molebskaya anomalous zone, looked for Noah’s Ark on Mount Ararat and “snow people” in Mountain Shoria, a “dragon” in Tver Lake Brosno, “flying saucers” in Russia and abroad, studied the Kyshtym “alien Alyoshenka”, mysterious crop circles and much, much more . In 1999, he took part in the Komsomolskaya Pravda expedition to the mysterious Lake Labynkyr in Yakutia, in the waters of which, according to legend, lives a monster like the Loch Ness, nicknamed the “Labykyr devil.” Conducted experiments with a “time machine”. Died at 51.

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VICTIMS OF THE MYSTERIOUS SNIPER

Ufologist Yuri SMIRNOV undertook the study of all anomalous phenomena, the origin of which academic science could not explain, the same poltergeist. His Center in Yaroslavl in the early 80s collected about 3 thousand stories of UFO eyewitnesses and contactees with extraterrestrial civilizations. In 1986, the KGB confiscated these documents. Smirnov turned to Gorbachev. The papers were returned and the Center was officially registered. As they say, every cloud has a silver lining. It seems that in 2000 one psychic predicted that he would die in 6 years. And so it happened.

... The neighbors called the police when they saw the door to Smirnov’s apartment ajar, which had never been noticed before. The arriving squad discovered the body. Smirnov was 52.

Svetlana ZHARNIKOVA- candidate historical sciences, ethnographer, full member of the Russian Geographical Society. She proved that the ancestral home of the Aryans (Indo-Europeans) was in the Russian North. Official science rejects this version. One of the interviews with her was called: “It’s too late to kill me!”

She passed away in 2015 at 69.

Andrey SKLYAROV- graduate of the legendary “Phystech” (faculty of aerophysics and space research), research physicist. Worked in the space industry. An active promoter of the version of paleocontact - the interaction of ancient earthly civilizations with aliens from outer space. I looked for traces of an ancient highly developed civilization in Egypt, Mexico, Peru, Turkey, Ethiopia, Easter Island, and other places on the planet. Wrote two dozen books, published documentaries, created the “Alternative History Laboratory”... Died last year. At 55!

EVGENY CHERNYKH

"My only son betrayed me because of 50 square meters. Since childhood, he was accustomed to living in contentment and grew up as a parasite,” he recently admitted with shame famous actor Yuri Smirnov. In the 70s, the whole country hated Smirnov. When he was invited to film the legendary TV series “Eternal Call”, he was asked to choose the role himself. And he decided to play not the front-line hero Ivan Savelyev and not the just Polikarp Kruzhilin, but the vile Pyotr Polipov. But he already had the role of the vengeful bandit Gavrila from Bumbarash behind him. Did he know then that this role would finally make him the main villain of Soviet cinema?

His Polypov turned out to be so disgusting that Yuri Smirnov turned out to be almost the only actor who did not receive an award for filming in “Eternal Call”. Later he admitted that he was offended, especially since Smirnov himself is a devoted and faithful man. For half a century he served in the same theater under the direction of Yuri Lyubimov. He remained faithful to the director, even when he fired his wife Galina from the theater. He did not go against him even when almost all the actors took up arms against Lyubimov because of his wife, Catalina,’s interference in the affairs of the theater. At the same time, the actor himself more than once became a victim of betrayal, sometimes from the people closest to him...

Yuri was born several years before the war. The father, the commander of a machine gun platoon, returned from the front without a leg: the wound was so severe, and gangrene had also set in, that the soldier underwent four amputation operations. He also received a bullet in the heart; the only thing that saved the commander from instant death was the fact that a metal disc was accidentally placed in his left breast pocket. The people's artist's mother cared for her husband for 13 years. Smirnov's father died at the age of 58. And Yuri Nikolaevich buried his mother a year ago, she lived to be 100 years old.

The Smirnov family lived on Arbat. “I studied at school with Alexander Zbruev, we failed the final exams: I failed three, and Zbruev failed seven. Zbruev retook them, and I went to work,” recalls Yuri Nikolaevich. Finished my studies future actor at the school for working youth. There he first fell in love with a girl whose brother was an actor at the Lenin Komsomol Theater. Then the mother of Smirnov’s beloved dissuaded her daughter from early marriage.

Yuri considers Zbruev to be his godfather; he previously entered the Shchukin School, and later Smirnov also wanted to go there. Alexander told his friend how to behave in entrance exams. However, my friend's instructions did not help. Not finding his name on the list of those admitted to Shchukinskoye, Yuri took the documents to the Maly Theater, from where student Smirnov was soon expelled for reasons unknown to him. Then he went back to the Shchukin School... The head of the course recommended that the aspiring artist go to the great Okhlopkov at the Mayakovsky Theater. “There are a lot of people there, and you will be invisible,” the mentor said, which “simply killed” Smirnov.

The actor met his future wife, actress Galina Gritsenko, on stage. They played a couple in love in Pyotr Fomenko's play "Microdistrict", and then fell in love with each other for real. For his sake, she divorced her husband, with whom she had a daughter, and left her career as an actress, devoting herself entirely to new family. She had to come to terms with the fact that her husband was often surrounded by the most charming women of Soviet cinema. “Remaining faithful to each other is genetic,” Smirnov is sure. And he immediately told his beautiful wife that treason is a war crime that has no statute of limitations... “Our profession is very tough and cruel, in to a greater extent in relation to women. One actor in the house is enough,” the People’s Artist believes. Therefore, after leaving the Taganka Theater, Galina began to take care of the house and children; by that time the couple had already had a son together. Due to her husband’s addiction to alcohol, Galina was ready to file for divorce, but managed to save the family.They have been together for more than fifty years, recently celebrated their golden wedding.

The Smirnovs had a lawsuit with their own son over a will. Then mother and brother Yuri Nikolaevich was deprived of all real estate on Arbat People's Artist, which outraged young man, and he decided to find out everything “by legal means.” “Then he realized he was wrong in this regard and dropped all claims regarding the will,” the couple said in Boris Korchevnikov’s studio. Despite these disagreements, they are proud of their only son, who graduated with honors from two universities: the directing department of VGIK and philosophy foreign literature at Moscow State University. They meet, help each other, but they no longer have the friendship that happens between father and son...

Why didn’t Smirnov receive state prize behind " Eternal Call"? How did it happen that the actor and his son became enemies? Did Yuri Nikolaevich manage to forgive his son? And what poems does he write to his beloved wife? The answers are in the program .

In the history of the Great Patriotic War There are enough examples of the boundless courage and perseverance of our soldiers, who were ready to give their lives for victory over the enemy. One of those who chose cruel death instead of betrayal was the young soldier Yuri Smirnov, about whose feat this post will tell us.

Offensive in Belarus

At the end of June 1944, troops of the 3rd Belorussian Front began an offensive in Belarus along the entire Orsha direction. The Nazis retreated, but put up fierce resistance.
Orsha was an important node in their defense. The fortified area consisted of dozens of lines of trenches with wire fences, minefields, swamps. This impregnable line, behind which stood the 78th Nazi division of Lieutenant General Hans Traut, covered the path to Minsk.
After heavy fighting on June 22 and 23, the Soviet command decided to launch a tank landing in the direction of Orsha on the night of June 24. The defenders had to wedge into the German defense, disrupt communications and control of the division's units, and after the main forces arrived, cut the Moscow-Minsk highway.
The landing party included soldiers of the 77th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 11th Guards Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front. Among them was 18-year-old Red Army guard Yuri Smirnov.

Guardsman Smirnov

His pre-war biography is the same as that of most guys from ordinary working families. Born on September 2, 1925 in the village of Deshukovo Kostroma region. He graduated from school in the city of Makaryev, where the Smirnovs moved in the 30s, and there was a vocational school there. He worked as a welder at the Krasnoye Sormovo plant in Gorky (ZR: Nizhny Novgorod).
Yuri's father, Vasily Averyanovich, died at Stalingrad - the family received a funeral at the beginning of 43rd. And soon after that, Yuri was called to the front.
He fought as part of the 77th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 26th Guards Rifle Division of the 11th Guards Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front.
In the fall of 1943, in a battle near Vitebsk, Smirnov was wounded and ended up in the hospital. “The wound is minor. “I’ll soon be cured and back to the front,” Yuri wrote home. “Mom, don’t worry about me, I serve well, I follow all orders.”
After a month of guard service, the Red Army soldier returned to his home unit. He called it his second home.

Night landing

On the night of June 24-25, near the village of Shalashino, a tank landing force broke through to the rear of the German defense. With a swift rush, the fighters walked through the command dugouts, deprived the enemy of communication, and blocked control. Panic gripped Trout's headquarters.
Soon, a paratrooper was delivered to one of the command dugouts of the 78th SS division - after being wounded, he fell from the armor of the tank. The Nazis needed information about the situation, so “language” came in handy.
After searching the prisoner, they found documents - a Red Army book and a Komsomol card. The fighter turned out to be Red Army soldier Yuri Smirnov.
During interrogation, the enemy was interested in the direction of movement of those who broke through to the rear Soviet forces, their number, tasks. But the young soldier was silent.
He didn't say a word, even under terrible torture. Then the Nazis crucified the exhausted but still alive Smirnov on the wall of the dugout.

The prisoner is silent

His body was discovered in the early morning of June 25, when our main forces drove the enemy out of the occupied line. “...Two nails in the head, arms outstretched horizontal position, a nail was hammered into the palm, a nail was hammered into the instep of the legs. In addition, four dagger wounds were inflicted in the chest and two in the back. The head and face were beaten with cold steel,” said the report drawn up by the Soviet soldiers who found the guardsman.
On the table were documents and an interrogation report, in which only one phrase was written: “The prisoner is silent.”
The whole country learned about the guardsman’s feat, with his bravery simple soldier Even seasoned officers were amazed.
On October 6, 1944, Yuri Smirnov was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, the Order of Lenin and the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree. His name is forever included in the lists of the 1st Rifle Company of the 77th Guards Rifle Regiment, in which he served so briefly, but so selflessly.