What happened in the gas. Based on jealousy: a triple murder was committed at the GAZ plant in Nizhny Novgorod, two more were wounded

  • 05.08.2019

23/08/2017 - 11:27

What happened in Nizhny Novgorod at the GAZ plant now, today, August 23, 2017? There was a murder there. A former employee of the enterprise stabbed three people on the territory of Gorkovsky automobile plant. Photos and videos from the scene of the murder on August 23 at the GAZ plant appeared online, as well as photos of the suspect himself in the murder of at least three people. The killer himself fled to the crime scene.

Who killed three people at the GAZ plant today, August 23, 2017? This is 41-year-old Sergei Viktorovich Barakhov, born in 1976. Previously, management said they were firing him. Enraged by this situation, he stabbed five people, two of whom are now in a Nizhny Novgorod hospital, and three more died on the spot. The massacre took place in the foundry of the enterprise.

Photos from the scene of the murder at the GAZ plant in Nizhny Novgorod:


Colleagues of the man who carried out the massacre say he has always had a terribly hot temper. He came to work that day, but was told that he was fired. After that, he stabbed his boss and two molders who simply witnessed the conflict.

Photo of murder suspect Sergei Barakhov:



The social network reports that the man previously served in “hot spots”, and today he returned to work on his first day after vacation. There is another version of the murder at the plant in Nizhny Novgorod: it allegedly occurred out of jealousy. The man Sergei B. killed his lover, laboratory assistant and boss. As he was leaving the foundry, his colleagues tried to stop him, as a result of which he injured two more people.

Several cases of household gas explosions occurred this week in Russian regions. Karelia, Stavropol Territory, Dagestan. There are victims everywhere. In Makhachkala, two died from severe burns, including a child. Dmitry Zabrudsky, correspondent of the MIR 24 TV channel, looked into the reasons.

Amateur footage from the scene shows the ruins burning; almost nothing remains of the residential building. The explosion occurred in the early morning, when the owners were still sleeping. They decided not to use heavy equipment; 70 rescuers cleared the rubble manually. The whole family was found under the rubble, including a child.

“Initially, three victims were recovered - the owner of the house, his son and daughter. They were taken to the burn department. The search for a girl born in 2005 continued for 40 minutes, and at 9:15 a.m. the girl’s body was found,” said Oleg Kolpikov, First Deputy Head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for the Republic of Dagestan.

The 12-year-old girl could not be saved, nor could her mother. The woman died without regaining consciousness from severe burns. Two more victims are in the hospital. Firefighters have only one version of the emergency - a gas leak. Pops - this is what experts call household gas explosions - in Russia most often thunder during the cold season. There are dozens of such tragedies every year.

It’s even worse when an emergency occurs in an apartment building. This happened in May of this year. Due to a gas explosion, an entire entrance collapsed and 12 apartments were destroyed. Four people died. The house had to be demolished. In November 2016, a similar explosion occurred in Yaroslavl, also in a high-rise building. A year before this, a serious tragedy occurred in Ryazan. Then seven residents of the high-rise building became victims of a gas explosion. Experts have calculated that every 43 hours in Russia there is a gas-related accident.

“We keep statistics and see a steady increase in such incidents. If in industry, on the contrary, there is a steady decline in various incidents and accidents, then in households, subject to total gasification, the number of incidents is increasing,” stated Alexander Moskalenko, president of the City Center of Expertise group of companies.

The geography of domestic gas explosions in Russia is constantly growing: Zelenokumsk, Yasnogorsk, Ivanovo and Chelyabinsk region, Caucasus, Bashkiria, Tatarstan. The reasons are usually the same: irregularities in the operation of equipment, wear and tear and human error. In connection with the increasing frequency of household gas explosions several years ago, the government issued a special decree; now management companies are required to conduct inspections gas equipment. True, only once every three years. More often, inspectors come only after high-profile tragedies. So, in Makhachkala, after the explosion, inspections will come to all residential buildings built in the gas pipeline security zone.

In private homes the situation is even worse. “Householdings were transferred from the state to private property, any inspector who comes to check the gas system may not be allowed into the house. Therefore, a huge system, a huge economy was left unattended,” notes Moskalenko.

Last year, Rostechnadzor proposed equipping new residential buildings with electric ones instead of gas stoves. But things didn’t go further than talk. According to Rosstat, today about 70% of the housing stock in the country is gasified. Experts remind: gas is a blessing, but due to negligence, many live “on a powder keg.”

The flagship of the domestic auto industry continued after perestroika, despite the fact that the Gazelles it produced were captivated Russian roads. The plant was in decline before the arrival Boo Andersson, who headed the GAZ Group in 2009. Under him, the company entered into contracts for car assembly with foreign concerns, “revitalizing” production.

The Gorky Automobile Plant began to make a profit: in 2012 it amounted to 8.8 billion. A year later, before leaving, Andersson announced investments in creating a new car within 3 years. However, the new leadership failed to cope with the task: the country did not see new models. And, according to an automobile expert Sergey Aslanyan, in future.

Not only the plans of the previous leadership, but also those achieved economic indicators. GAZ began to turn to the government of the country for help, mired in loans. At the same time, problems began in cooperation with foreign concerns - production was idle. Both workers and experts saw this as a management mistake.

Gusev called what was happening at the plant a “mess.” According to him, the company is talking about closing the “Avtomat” workshop, because it is more profitable for GAZ to purchase the parts it produces “outside.” IN Lately workers are dismantling premises on the territory of the Gorky Automobile Plant.

“We cut scrap metal. Order No. 1, as all the employees joke about. All services are being cut from old workshops. Recently we were cutting down some kind of building. They want to demolish the wall to remove the machines. Little by little the workshop is falling apart,” said the worker. He added that there are also problems in assembly shops under contracts with foreign concerns.

According to Gusev, after 5 years of using the Gazelle, it begins to rot. As Aslanyan said in an interview with NewsNN, “The Gorky Automobile Plant has always had problems with quality. There always will be. And the Gorky Automobile Plant will never be able to do anything about them.”

The company has a program that allows employees to purchase Gazelles with a 10% discount. Gusev said that he did not know a single person from his workshop who would use it. “Only one boss, but he took her a long time ago. I didn’t see anyone boasting. Basically, there are foreign cars in the parking lot, “tags” and “nines,” he said.

One of the conditions for participation in the program is 2 years of work at the Gorky Automobile Plant. However, the company has a high staff turnover. According to Gusev, at 22 years old he is the youngest in the workshop. However, there are “plenty” of pensioners there. Earlier, plant employees told the publication that management was leaving loyal retirees.

GAZ employee Alexey Kolesov He said that he had a higher engineering education, but was forced to work as a forklift driver. At the same time, Rostechnadzor inspections revealed that about 20% of the smelting site foremen did not have higher or technical education, and a number of foundry sites were managed by people without the appropriate qualifications.

Gusev, who works as a welder, is studying to become a manager in the field of mechanical engineering, but does not see any prospects at the Gorky Automobile Plant, declaring that “there are a lot of bosses at GAZ.” “Turnover is constant. Many people don’t like the working conditions, some don’t like the salary, some don’t like something else. And they all leave,” he said.

He moves to work in another workshop: he is not satisfied with the lack of work in the Avtomat workshop. According to him, he has to independently distribute the workload and put some things aside so that he has something to do during the day. At the same time, the actions of management may not be coordinated, and the employee may receive tasks simultaneously from different persons.

“The question is, why should this be done if there is an employer? He must, in essence, distribute the work. Okay, not the site manager, let’s say a mechanic. Why he is sitting there - I don’t understand. The mechanic recently began to “drive” me: clean up there, clean up there. The question is logical: am I your janitor? Or am I a welder? - said Gusev.

Expert Aslanyan also spoke about this, saying that if the production were modern, it would not require such a number of employees. “Where there is a robot in the whole world, we have 5 people with a sledgehammer. The Gorky Automobile Plant is not modern. Therefore, he will not have losses and profits every day,” he said.

“Managers treat employees in a rude manner in face-to-face communication. They will come up, be rude and leave. I understand - the head of the site, the head of the workshop, they are also weak-willed people, there are also bosses above them,” he said. In addition to the tense situation in the team, employees are dissatisfied with the level of wages.

The press service of the NewsNN plant stated that the average salary at the enterprise is 36 thousand rubles. The publication's interlocutor stated approximately 22 thousand per month during working hours and 14 thousand during vacation. “Honestly, you save money everywhere and eat the Red Price.” I'm still paying off the loan. It’s not every day that I get to go to McDonald’s with a girl,” he said.

Working conditions also cause dissatisfaction. For several years, the plant has been among the enterprises in the region in terms of the number of occupational diseases. In 2016, the State Labor Inspectorate reported that most often emergencies involving serious injury and death occur at the plant. In 2017, inspections by regulatory authorities revealed numerous violations.

“Lately, I’ve seen quite a few (accidents - NewsNN). A service technician at one of the production sites lost a finger due to negligence. In the “Reinforcing” (workshop - NewsNN) a woman had 4 fingers cut off by stamping,” said Gusev. NewsNN sent a request to the plant's press service. At the time of publication, no response had been received.

The result of the work of the current management of the Gorky Automobile Plant was both a drop in product sales over several years, during which GAZ asked for tax breaks and took out loans, and a tense situation in the team. Nevertheless, GAZ was given the confidence of the federal government.

On December 6, it was here that Vladimir Putin announced his candidacy for the elections. He spoke to ordinary employees of the plant, declaring that they “are our country,” the people who are at the heart of production development. He did not contact the management of the enterprise. The authorities once again showed their dissatisfaction with the management system and the results of GAZ.

According to Gusev, from this moment on the enterprise changes in better side Did not happen. “Honestly, I didn’t notice any changes. Purely on the shop floor, it seemed to me that it had gotten even worse,” he said.

A jealous man carried out a massacre in Nizhny Novgorod at the GAZ plant, it happened triple murder. A woman and two men died at the hands of an employee of the enterprise.

It is also reported that the attack took place in a foundry. The details of the incident are being established.

The attacker attacked his friend with a knife out of jealousy, and then injured his colleagues who tried to detain him. As a result, three people died and two were injured. The GAZ Group said it would provide support to the families of the victims and wounded.

“Lock yourself in your offices. The killer is Barakhov”: employees were immediately notified about the massacre at GAZ

Employees of the Gorky Automobile Plant learned about the murder from their managers; at the time of the arrest they were asked to remain in place, RIA Novosti reports.

As previously reported, a triple murder occurred at the Gorky Automobile Plant in Nizhny Novgorod. On the morning of August 23 former employee out of jealousy, the man inflicted stab wounds a friend, as well as two other plant workers. The victims died from their injuries. Two more wounded men were hospitalized in city hospital number 13.

According to a plant employee, workers who were in their offices received a message via corporate chat: “There was a murder at the plant, for now lock yourself up and don’t leave your offices, the killer is Barakhov, they are looking for him now.”

Pools of blood. A video filmed at the GAZ plant after the massacre has been published.

The picture in the workshop of the GAZ plant in Nizhny Novgorod after today's triple murder resembled footage from a horror film. In the footage published on the SHOT telegram channel, you can see a man lying in a pool of blood.

The victim spoke about the massacre at the plant in Nizhny Novgorod: He immediately stuck it in my neck

REN TV journalists took exclusive interview from Alexander Korolev, who miraculously survived the bloody massacre that occurred at a factory in Nizhny Novgorod.

“He immediately stuck it in my neck. He immediately attacked me. I caught his hand. I didn’t feel like he was hitting me with a sharpener. I thought it was just a struggle. I bent him over…” the man recalls.

“We were eye to eye with him. I didn't smell any alcohol. I didn't feel any pain. I turned away and he ran away. The boss was covered in blood. I went to the office to call an ambulance,” the victim said.

“I still remember the boss’s words: “For what?!” - Alexander noted.

Let us recall that 39-year-old molder Sergei killed three colleagues at the GAZ plant in Nizhny Novgorod. Two more people were injured.

Massacre at GAZ: factory workers armed themselves with assembly lines to protect themselves from a jealous foundry worker

In connection with the massacre that occurred at the Gorky Automobile Plant, a criminal case was opened under two articles: “Murder” and “Causing grievous bodily harm.”

According to the Investigative Committee, the crime was committed out of jealousy. A foundry worker stabbed his friend and two men to death. Two more men were stabbed and taken to hospital, Interfax reports.

“The crime occurred on a personal basis, not related to official relations, the rest of the employees were injured while trying to stop the attack on the girl,” confirmed the press service of the GAZ company.

The criminal was captured by police who arrived at the scene of the emergency. During his arrest, he received a gunshot wound to the leg.

Currently, psychologists from the medical unit of the enterprise are providing assistance to eyewitnesses of the incident. Plant employees also talk about the details of the incident on social networks.

“They almost declared a state of emergency. They told those who were in the offices to lock themselves in their offices and not stick their heads out. In the workshops, people are in panic. Some took a crowbar, some took a mounting tool, some took other “weapons,” wrote one of the workers.

According to the decision of the president of the GAZ group, Vadim Sorokin, the families of the victims and the injured will be provided with all necessary assistance, the company promised.

The picture of the massacre at the plant in Nizhny Novgorod has been restored

A man who committed a massacre at the Gorky Automobile Plant was detained in Nizhny Novgorod. As a result of the attack, three employees of the enterprise were killed and two were seriously injured.

Doctors are fighting for their lives. Available REN TV turned out to be exclusive footage from the scene of the tragedy. The victims lie on the floor of the workshop. The criminal himself was also taken to the hospital; he resisted the police, so they had to shoot him.

Preliminarily, the attack took place in the foundry. According to police, this morning a factory worker had an argument with his girlfriend and then grabbed a knife.

The boss of a 40-year-old laboratory assistant fell into the hands of a jealous man. Allegedly, the killer found them together in the same office. With a few blows he dealt with them. Three more factory workers tried to stop the madman - he killed one, seriously wounded others. Afterwards, the criminal walked around the production area for some time.

According to some reports, the crime was committed by a 40-year-old molder. He worked at the factory for a short time more than a year. According to unconfirmed information, the day before they wanted to fire the man.

The Internet talked about the reasons for the triple murder at a plant in Nizhny Novgorod

Thus, in a group on VKontakte they said that a 41-year-old man, Sergei B., who worked as a manual molder, learned that he was fired. After that, he stabbed his boss and two molders who witnessed their conversation.

According to another version, stated by a factory employee, the conflict between the alleged killer and the head of the foundry occurred due to jealousy, they write on social networks. It is reported that Sergei B. showed signs of attention to one of his colleagues, and she went on a date with the head of the workshop.

According to the latest data, as a result of the attack in the foundry shop of the plant, three people were killed, two more were hospitalized with serious injuries in hospital No. 13.

Colleagues talk about the man who committed a triple murder at a car plant

As colleagues of the alleged criminal, who committed a triple murder on the territory of the Gorky Automobile Plant, said, he had a restless character.

“He was always very hot-tempered,” said a local public on the social network VKontakte.

There are also reports that the man was a participant in the fighting. As it became known earlier, Sergei B., born in 1976, who worked as a hand molder, is suspected of the crime.

Photos and videos have appeared from the scene of a triple murder at a plant in Nizhny Novgorod (18+)

Now there are police officers working at the plant who are establishing all the circumstances of the emergency.

This morning a man attacked people with a knife on the GAZ territory. As a result of the massacre in the foundry of the plant, three people were killed and two more were injured. As colleagues of the alleged criminal, 41-year-old Sergei B., said, he had a restless character.

The Investigative Committee named the reason for the triple murder on the territory of GAZ

The murder on the territory of the Gorky Automobile Plant (GAZ) was committed out of jealousy. The official representative of the Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR), Svetlana Petrenko, told Interfax on Wednesday, August 23.

“At approximately 06:20 on Wednesday, a man fatally stabbed his friend, a laboratory assistant at the company. Then he killed two more random witnesses to the crime,” she explained. Petrenko also noted that a criminal case has been opened into the incident under two articles - “Murder” and “Causing grievous bodily harm.”

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A representative of the Investigative Committee emphasized that the attacker, who received a gunshot wound to the leg, was detained by officers law enforcement.

At the same time, according to the agency, which refers to messages from plant employees on social networks, the conflict occurred because the man was informed of his dismissal. It is also noted that the attacker was a participant in the fighting in Chechnya.

The names of those killed and injured in the massacre at the GAZ plant have been published

The names of those killed and injured as a result of the massacre on the territory of the Gorky Automobile Plant in Nizhny Novgorod were published on the social network VKontakte. According to the public “Typical Nizhny Novgorod”, three people died from knife wounds:

– Agushkin A. N. (51 years old);

– Kurin A.V. (55 years old);

– Bogatova L.V. (44 years old)

It is noted that two victims, Alexander K. and Sergei B., tried to stop the killer and were seriously injured. They are now hospitalized.

A molder at the foundry shop of the Gorky Automobile Plant of the GAZ Group in Nizhny Novgorod, Sergei Barakhov, attacked five colleagues with a knife early in the morning, killing three and wounding two people, and then disappeared into the territory of the enterprise. During the arrest, the worker rushed at the police with a knife, received a bullet wound and was hospitalized. The investigation calls jealousy the main version of what happened. According to Kommersant’s sources, the attacker was embarrassed by the boss’s attentions to the laboratory assistant, who was allegedly Sergei Barakhov’s mistress. GAZ Group promises assistance to the families of the victims and injured. The criminal case, on behalf of Alexander Bastrykin, was transferred to the Main Directorate of the Investigative Committee.


The attack in foundry No. 3 of the Gorky Automobile Plant of the GAZ Group, as Kommersant’s sources at the enterprise and the investigative authorities told, occurred around seven o’clock in the morning. Moulder Sergei Barakhov, born in 1976, who came to work on his first shift, saw that the head of foundry shop No. 3, 52-year-old Alexander Agushkin, was communicating with his subordinate Lyudmila Bogatova. Kommersant's sources at the enterprise said that Sergei Barakhov had a personal relationship with laboratory assistant Lyudmila Bogatova. Having become jealous of her for the workshop manager, the molder attacked Alexander Agushkin with a knife and killed him, then stabbed the laboratory assistant and colleague Andrei Kurin, who happened to be nearby. Shop foreman Alexander Korolev and Sergei Bazin rushed to help their colleagues, but they were unable to stop the molder - both received multiple stab wounds and were taken to hospital No. 13, sources at the enterprise told Kommersant. According to the hospital, the victims were admitted with penetrating wounds to the neck, left side chest and forearms. Both required operations. Sergei Bazin is in a stable and serious condition, doctors’ forecasts regarding Alexander Korolev’s health are favorable, noted in medical institution, he is in the hospital.

Kommersant's interlocutors spoke about Sergei Barakhov's military past - he participated in the Chechen campaign. The worker appeared to be a professional stabber.

The police officers who arrived at the plant were not immediately able to detain Sergei Barakhov. First, he hid on the territory of the enterprise not far from the foundry (management was informed about the incident only at nine o’clock in the morning). When the police found him, he began to threaten them with a knife. After warning shots, law enforcement officers had to open fire. After this, they managed to handcuff the wounded Sergei Barakhov and take him under escort to the hospital.

On the fact of the incident, the investigative department of the RF IC for Nizhny Novgorod region initiated a criminal case under paragraph “a” of Part 2 of Art. 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (murder of two or more persons). “An investigative team consisting of the most experienced investigators and criminologists from the regional department of the Investigative Committee of Russia is working at the scene of the incident,” the department reported. Official version The investigation calls the incident jealousy.

On behalf of the Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin, the criminal case “for the most complete and objective investigation” was transferred to the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. “Experienced forensic investigators from the central apparatus of the Investigative Committee also joined the investigation,” the department’s website reports.

“Sergei Barakhov has a wife on maternity leave with a small child, and Bogatova was allegedly his mistress. The shop manager talked to her about work issues, but the attacker did not take this well. The rest fell under the hot hand,” sources familiar with the situation told Kommersant.

The version that appeared in in social networks, the interlocutors do not confirm that the attacker could have been drunk: “He was an athlete and drove healthy image life. Moreover, upon entering the plant, all employees are thoroughly checked.” At the same time, the question remains unclear how Sergei Barakhov managed to smuggle a knife into the enterprise through the entrance where workers are searched.

The GAZ Group is shocked by what happened. “The staff and management of the company are deeply shocked by the incident and express deep sympathy to the families of the dead and injured,” the holding says in an official statement. The company assured that the incident did not affect the operation of the plant. "The company will provide all necessary support and financial assistance to family and friends. The company covers all expenses for treating and caring for the wounded, as well as for organizing funerals of the dead, paying for accommodation for visiting relatives, and providing transportation. In addition, the company will continue to provide families with all possible support: relatives will be offered employment at GAZ, assistance in registering children in preschool institutions, admission to universities and technical schools,” reported the GAZ Group.