2.

2.2.

There could not have been "vigilant residents" at 70 Krasnodarskaya Street: there are no residents there at all (see the site plan). The nearest residential buildings (Tsimlyanskaya St., 2-32) are out of sight of the incident site. In September 1999, these new buildings were only just being occupied; it was in them that many victims from Guryanova St. received apartments.

2.3.

Both caches (at Borisovskie Prudy and Krasnodarskaya Street) could not have been discovered within two days through a general inspection of non-residential premises.

• On September 23, the GUVD press service reported that 536 thousand inspections had been carried out, including 110 thousand attics and 115 thousand basements.
• On September 14, the same service reported that 7,908 non-residential premises on first floors, basements, and semi-basements had been inspected.

Even by the most rigorous estimate, it turns out that by the time of the discovery at Borisovskie Prudy (by the evening of Sept. 13; press briefings at the GUVD take place in the morning), about 1/30 of the premises in these categories had been inspected.

But 1/30 of the city's area adjacent to the two explosion sites does not in any way cover either Bor. Prudy or Krasnodarskaya (even if we assume—the least favorable assumption for my conclusion and not a very realistic one—that all inspection forces were deployed only to this district). Even if we assume that the inspections only began on Sept. 13, and therefore another 1/30 was inspected during the second 24-hour period, the explosion sites and both caches still would not fit into 1/15 of the city's area.

On the other hand, another reason why the second cache was found more than a day after the first looks quite realistic. The address "Krasnodarskaya, 70" covers a fairly large, disorganized territory (unlike Borisovskie Prudy St., where even with an inaccurate address it was enough to inspect just a few basements). It contains warehouses, sheds, garages, containers... Even now, many of them are difficult to access. The search could have been complicated by confusion with the address (see above).

3. Possible way to clarify information

All circumstantial evidence does not seem sufficient to me for court. Therefore, I suggest trying to clarify the GOChS [Civil Defense and Emergency Situations] information (since they have already admitted that they have these records) using an inquiry:

• "I ask you to reproduce the exact wording of the report from 13.9.1999 regarding the explosive substance planted on Borisovskie Prudy Street. Did this report contain any other address?"

Apparently, you asked them about Kapotnya; but, perhaps, house 7 appeared there, and that is no longer Kapotnya. Or—using an inquiry:

• "I ask you to report whether your service received information on September 13 about an explosive substance planted in house 7 or 70 on Krasnodarskaya Street."

Sincerely,
Lyudmila Evstifeeva, Evgeny Frumkin

Appendices:
1. Article from "Vedomosti".
2. Site plan in Kapotnya (to be handed over in person).