A bomb in a figurine is a rather unusual option.
According to one version, the explosive device that exploded on Sunday evening during the recital of military commissar Vladlen Tatarsky (who died as a result of the explosion) was hidden in a figurine. The bust was presented to Tatarsky minutes before the explosion, at a cafe on Universitetskaya Embankment in St. Petersburg. If this version is confirmed, then it can be said that the organizers of the murder used a new method to eliminate the “object”. And, perhaps, he borrowed it from literature.
As The Eastern Herald has repeatedly written, methods of disguising explosive devices have changed in recent years. In the dashing 90s, explosive devices were usually disguised as gifts. They were hidden in cake wrappers, shoe boxes, etc.
One day, an explosive device intended for a girl was hidden in a bouquet of flowers. However, some domestic terrorists still use this technique. More recently, in Troitsk (New Moscow), he hid a bomb for the girl who rejected him in a gift box, and when she opened the box, an explosion thundered.
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In the 2000s, as technology advanced, more sophisticated methods emerged. For example, the terrorists who staged a series of explosions in Sochi in 2008 disguised bombs as a variety of objects. It was a porstigar, and a borset, and a flask, and an electric flashlight. The VU was left in crowded places, alas, making the correct calculation that passers-by would certainly begin to examine the abandoned thing. As a result of these explosions, 8 people were killed and 19 were injured.
As for the figurine that killed Tatarsky, even experienced criminologists will not remember similar cases of VU disguise. But a similar variant has recently been described in detail in modern Russian literature. Alexei Ivanov’s novel “Bad Times” tells in detail about the confrontation between businessmen – soldiers-internationalists, participants in the hostilities in Afghanistan. One of them, the leader of the Afghan Union, Kairjan Gaydarzhi, was blown up with a memorial plaque to another Afghan soldier Yegor Bychenko (also, by the way, killed) during the opening ceremony of the monument near the school building. Here’s how Ivanov described it: “Kairzhan neatly placed the carnations on a narrow shelf. And then the whole tablet suddenly shattered in his face with fire and broken stone. The explosion of a bomb placed behind the stove crushed Kairzhan’s head and threw him like a rag.
As you can see, a literary murder looks a lot like an actual murder. In both cases, the “storage” of the bomb aroused no suspicion among the guards of the murdered one.
In St. Petersburg, military commander Vladlen Tatarsky was killed in an explosion: footage from the deceased journalist
