Document Excerpt

• ...workshop type, and a parking lot, and a fire station under construction, and a huge area enclosed by a fence, stretching for half a kilometer into the fields and accommodating many small firms with their sheds and hangars. This can explain the almost 24-hour delay in discovering the warehouse on Krasnodarskaya compared to the discovery of the cache on Borisovskie Prudy, even if reports about them were received simultaneously.
• Thus, the probability of Gochiyaev's call about Kapotnya can be assessed as increased, and the call about Borisovskie Prudy as high.

Addresses and Titles

• Guryanova Street, 19
  • Bird of the seas and ship of the desert
  • This chapter cannot be published yet.
• Kashirskoye Highway, 6, bldg. 3
  • 'Ours' are those who pay

Investigation Details

• The head of the Moscow GUVD, Nikolai Kulikov, shortly after the explosions (September 21), reported on the air of 'Ekho Moskvy': Achimez Gochiyaev, using the documents of Mukhit Laipanov, starting from August 10, inspected about 38 warehouses that he found through the newspaper 'Iz Ruk v Ruki' [From Hand to Hand]. Operatives checked all these addresses. The premises on Kashirskoye Highway were not on this list.
• 'We still cannot figure out which of the REU [Repair and Maintenance Unit] workers covered for the person who secretly rented "sublet" the premises in the basement of building No. 6. No one will admit it,' officials at the district administration told an 'MK' correspondent (quoted here from the book by Y. Felshtinsky and A. Litvinenko).
• The officials of the 'Nagatino-Sadovniki' district administration did not tell the members of the Kovalev Commission this: they simply refused to talk. 'Igor Viktorovich is at a meeting,' 'Igor Viktorovich has gone to the enterprises,' the secretary of the head of the administration replied to all calls from the Commission member. Even a letter signed by Kovalev on State Duma deputy letterhead did not help.
• But the surviving residents know perfectly well who rented out the basement. The terrorist did not lead anyone astray 'somewhere in the depths of citizen Epifan's restaurant,' as a similar story was described in a Vysotsky song. He simply walked into the 2nd REU section across from the doomed house. 'She should be imprisoned!' a woman who buried her family later shouted. This referred to the current head of the section, Nina Borisovna Epifanova. It was she, according to the residents, who rented the basement to the terrorist. And on the evening of September 12, when residents asked the district police officer Dmitry Kuzovov to check this basement, Kuzovov called Epifanova, and she reassured him: 'Dima, they are all ours.' (Conversation with the victims. Tape recording)

Visual Reference

[Photograph of the destroyed building]
This is what building 6, building 3 on Kashirskoye Highway looked like, only with one entrance. N.B. Epifanova at a memorial prayer.

Interview Attempts

• When we approached Nina Borisovna with a request to speak with the members of the Commission (she seems to us a very important witness, and we did not dare to question her ourselves; it was necessary to at least conduct an identification of the terrorist from photographs in the presence of sufficiently authoritative people), she initially did not object, but asked to obtain permission for this conversation from the head of the district administration. For two weeks, it was not possible to obtain such permission. We called Nina Borisovna again, but her tone was already completely different: 'I will not talk to anyone. It is hard for me to remember. A friend of mine died there. That's all, I have a reception.' Short beeps.
• Let's not think the worst. Let's assume that the case with Gochiyaev is the only case when Ms. Epifanova rented out premises that did not belong to her for cash. If this were repeated many [times...]