To the Public Commission for the Investigation of the Apartment Bombings

On Gochiyayev's calls to emergency services

Dear Sergei Adamovich, Lev Semyonovich, and Valentin Mikhailovich!

1. Congratulations! You managed to obtain what others did not.
   We tried to find out about the calls through 'Novaya Gazeta' employee Galya Mursalieva. But her friends from the Moscow Rescue Service cited the insurmountable difficulty of retrieving archives.
   Mikhail Trepashkin said that he also failed to find out anything.
   See also Appendix 1 – an article from 'Vedomosti'.

2. We agree with your conclusion that Gochiyayev indeed reported two placements [of explosives].
   Versions that the finds were made based on signals from residents or a truck driver contradict the chronology of media reports and the results of the crime scene investigation.

2.1. The appeal to the driver was issued only after the discovery of explosives on Krasnodarskaya:

• Polit.ru, 15.09.1999, 13:49. MUR [Moscow Criminal Investigation Department] officers ask the driver of a ZIL-'Bychok' vehicle, which transported bags of sugar from house number 70 on Krasnodarskaya Street from September 7 to 12, to immediately contact Petrovka, 38, or the nearest police station, or a road inspection post.
  • Misunderstanding with the address. Note from the Polit.ru agency to this report: Judging by the 'Streets of Moscow' Road Atlas (published by the 'National Road Atlases' company, 1999), Krasnodarskaya Street is located in the Lyublino district, which is in the southeast of Moscow near Pechatniki. However, on the map (p. 54), the even side of the street ends at house number 58. It is unclear whom to believe - the atlas or MUR.
• A couple of hours later, the same Polit.ru reported: 16:15. NTV clarifies previously heard information about the truck on which hexogen was transported: the explosives under the guise of sugar were transported not from house No. 70, but from house No. 7 on Krasnodarskaya Street. There is no house numbered 70 on this street.
  • This is a mistake: 'house 70' already existed (the company 'Transservice', which, according to the official version, rented the premises to the terrorists, is still listed at this address - see euroadress.ru).
  • House 7 on Krasnodarskaya Street does not fit a number of published characteristics of the crime scene: there are no garage cooperatives near it; the basement of the house itself, dry and quite spacious, gives the impression that it was never used for commercial purposes; this end of the street is far from Kapotnya (even closer to Pechatniki), it can only be attributed to the Lyublino district.
• In the vicinity of the territory designated 'Krasnodarskaya St., 70', on one of the fences one can read the inscription 'Proyektiruemyy Proyezd' [Projected Driveway] — a name also heard in several media reports.
• We did not find similar appeals indicating other addresses (or no address at all, which would have been pointless) in the news summaries.
• The published composite sketches have nothing in common with the people who were later declared suspects, and therefore could not serve as a basis for singling out this particular freight shipment from thousands of others.