One day of investigator Matveeva. How a single mother from Kupchino became a general and a threat to St. Petersburg bandits Unions of entrepreneurs and their demands for the transformation of the state and economic system of Russia

Marina Matveeva spent more than 35 years in the world of robberies, robberies and massacres.

And she retired as the chief investigator of the St. Petersburg police. And even with the rank of major general. Marina Anatolyevna told MK in St. Petersburg about women’s joys during a well-deserved retirement and the dashing 90s.”

Photo from the archive of Marina Matveeva

“I lived in prison for ten years”

He'll kill me! - this is how the heroine of the interview said with feminine care about her husband, who was waiting for her while we were talking: two hours instead of the agreed upon forty minutes. Still, it’s unusual to hear such a phrase from the former head of the Main Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, who led one and a half thousand “sledaki”.

- Why did you choose the police?

After school, I thought about going to study as a philologist and a historian, and even dreamed of becoming a journalist. But under the impression of the then famous TV series “The Investigation is Conducted by Experts,” I decided to study law. At first she worked as an inquiry inspector, a “little investigator” in the Frunzensky district. Parasites, tramps, alimony defaulters - I always felt sorry for these lost people. I brought them sandwiches with Belomor to prison.

She worked as an investigator for four years. During this time, she managed to get married and divorced twice. My first husband and I did not have the same character. The second one left me: not everyone can stand it when his wife leaves at eight in the morning and comes back at nine in the evening.

Then they sent me to help clear up cases at the Investigation Department for three months. That's where I stayed.

- Was it not easy for a fragile girl investigator in the dashing 90s?

I'm not fragile at all! She weighed a normal 70 kg. I had no time to be afraid. The laws then were not as loyal and democratic as they are now. Works - for the eyes and ears. In one case, gangs of 5-6 people were imprisoned as extortionists who were “protecting” cooperatives with irons and soldering irons.

We worked non-stop. This is not a movie where the investigator sits and calmly conducts one case. We had 30–40 of them at the same time! We spent the night on our sagging office sofas, brushed our teeth in the common toilet in the morning and continued working. Otherwise there was no way to do anything.

I lived in prison for ten years, if you add up all the interrogations. Just now they rebuilt this prison in Kolpino, I saw it on TV, and it brought tears to my eyes - some kind of sanatorium! But “Crosses” was not a sanatorium.

I assure you: this work can be done by a person who has dedicated his whole life to it. Like a draft horse that has been harnessed, and it follows its own track, not knowing about another life.

- How did the bandits perceive you? Have you made contact?

It’s one thing to come and say: “Well, you bastard, you’ll sit with me and die there!” And it’s completely different to first say: “My wife said hello to you, the children are not sick, mom is healthy too!” Here they begin to behave completely differently: no matter how scum they were, they loved their families.

All of them are people with broken destinies. And the investigator needs to understand and get to the bottom of why this happened to them. There were only two or three real bastards during my practice.

I remember the first time I fiercely hated a person so much that I was shaking and sick of hatred. And I did everything to make him sit down. Of course, you have to be cool-headed at work. But here it was so disgusting: a healthy man came out of prison and sat on the neck of his 75-year-old mother. He took everything from her. And when she once again tried to keep at least something for herself, he kicked her to death in the kitchen under the sink. This was not a person, but a creature. He talked to me like an animal too. There was very little evidence. We had to do complex examinations, which no one really did then. All his shoes were confiscated, and he went to prison with plastic bags on his feet. But I proved that it was he who beat her while wearing specific shoes.

“They promised to kill a million times”

- Among thousands of cases, are there any that you remember the most?

It is not deeds that are remembered, but actions and people. I remember Stas, nicknamed Spider, whom I released from custody. This was in the mid-90s. He and his friends protected businessmen. His mother was an incredibly intelligent woman. She came to me, didn’t ask for anything, didn’t beg - some, you know, crawl on their knees, pushing money - but she simply said that she had breast cancer at the last stage and she had three weeks to live and that there would be no one to bury her. She unbuttoned her jacket and showed her: everything was cut off there.

I came to Stas and said: “You’re jumping, right? And your mother is dying!” His face immediately changed: “I admit everything, but you will let me out, I’ll bury my mother and come to court myself.” She released me on her own responsibility. He buried his mother, appeared in court and fully admitted his guilt. About five years later he came to me, decently dressed, in a suit, and handed me a package: they say, my mother asked me to give it to me. And there was an old pre-revolutionary Bible with words of gratitude, which she bequeathed to me before her death. She wrote that if a person has God in his soul, then this person lives with God (here Marina Anatolyevna’s eyes turned red. - Ed.). My son now has this Bible. And after that, every year on March 8, Stas and a messenger handed me a basket of white orchids. I stopped doing this about five years ago.

-Have you ever received death threats?

They promised to kill me, hang me, rape me a million times. I ignored all this: whoever threatens will not do anything. The one who is silent or strikes on the sly is dangerous.

“At night I sewed jeans in a cooperative”

- Do you have time for your personal life?

I lived for a long time in a room in a communal apartment on Sennaya with my little son. Apparently, the lack of constant maternal bouncing around made him an independent boy. It was a familiar situation for him when a yellow UAZ came to pick him up from kindergarten and took him to the police department with flashlights. Because, you see, his mother has a gang, a confrontation... The operatives treated him to sandwiches, chocolates, took the clip out of his Makarov pistol and let him play. And he ran with him through the corridors of the criminal investigation department and “shot.”

At the age of 12–13, she showed him a heroin addict in withdrawal in his cell. The child remembered this picture for the rest of his life and never touched drugs. You know, I would take modern children on such excursions so that they can see how things can be.

Of course, there wasn’t enough money then. To be honest, at nights and weekends I sewed jeans at the cooperative, and “laid” the seams across the neighbors’ site. But I earned money, my child was fed, went to the pool, clubs, and was not shamefully dressed - in the same cooperative the girls sewed suits for him.

My son, thank God, did not follow in my footsteps. Although he is also dealing with a difficult task. In one of the district administrations he heads the housing department. Hard labor, I tell you. But while he’s young, let him work hard. In our family, everyone pushes themselves.

- How do you spend your free time?

I try to go to the theater. I also have dogs - three American Akitas, a Chihuahua and a Maltese. I'm not a breeder, I just love them very much. You come home, get out of the car, and they rush towards you. They don’t care whether you are rich, poor, lame, or with general’s shoulder straps - their paws fall on any shoulders. Three minutes with them - and all the negativity is gone. One of my dogs (with pride. - Ed.) is already a champion of 12 countries. For the last two years, however, I haven’t gone abroad with him myself - work doesn’t allow it. My husband helps.

“Without my husband there would be no career”

- How did you manage to find an understanding life partner with such a busy life?

He's one of the "former" ones. We met at work. It was terrible (smiles). I am already a major, head of a department, with nine subordinates. I walk around looking so authoritative. And then a boy sergeant appears, recently after the army, who for some reason got it into his head that the woman of his life is me. He's younger than me. For six months I didn’t take him seriously. Starved me out. And now we have been together for almost 25 years. During this time, we never quarreled with him. He never gave me scandals or scenes of jealousy, which I can’t stand.

We initially decided that two police officers in one family was too much. He deals with the security of one of the banks. He can do everything: fix plumbing, sewerage, boiler, car. If it weren’t for him, I wouldn’t have any career, we wouldn’t have our country house in which we live, because he built everything with his own hands. There would be no champion dogs and my quiet life. I call this mutual understanding. You can consider it love.

- Aren’t you bored in retirement after an active life?

I had been nurturing the idea of ​​leaving for several months. I understood that I was so mentally tired that no vacation would save me. I have never lived a normal life - always working. And dying at work is probably not entirely right. And if someone says that it is easy to be a general, do not believe it. The higher you are, the more difficult and responsible it is in making decisions, not only procedural, but also personnel and political. I honestly pulled this burden for four years, but I realized that I had to stop.

It doesn't break me if that's what you mean. I got enough sleep, felt how it was possible to get up at nine in the morning without a twinge of conscience, lie in the bathroom for an hour with a mask on my face, and meet with friends. But I’m not going to sit at home and knit socks. I was nominated to the Public Chamber under the governor, and soon, I hope, I will benefit the city with my work. I can’t say which one yet. I have a lot of ideas.

19 June 2014 16:12 / Economy

In the Agalatovsky rural settlement, plots for construction are being distributed, bypassing the auctions provided for by law.

The Prosecutor's Office and the Investigative Committee have repeatedly pointed out the fraudulent nature of this procedure, but criminal cases never reach a verdict.

At first, the head of the settlement, Vladimir Sidorenko, distributed plots of land to the state farmers who came from nowhere, and then petitioned for the allocation of a plot of 86 thousand square meters to the Zvezda gardening. m. Sidorenko has never been charged as a defendant, but in the criminal cases initiated regarding the distribution of plots in the settlement, documents signed by him appear.

For example, in criminal case No. 115118 we are talking about six hundred square meters in the village of Vartemyagi (part of the Agalatovskoye rural settlement), which was received by a certain Sergei Klimenko, who lives in the Krasnodar Territory and worked as a tractor driver in Agalatov in the 1980s. They remembered an ordinary machine operator, found him two thousand kilometers away and helped him realize his legal right.

The reason for the criminal case was a number of forged signatures by Klimenko and the too quick sale of the plot for only 990 thousand rubles. The investigator did not find anything illegal in the actions of Vladimir Sidorenko, who signed this and similar resolutions on the transfer of land, bypassing the state procedure.

But in case No. 259063 we are no longer talking about six hundred square meters. The Zvezda gardening non-profit partnership located in Agalatovo was illegally deprived of 86 thousand square meters. m of land. The cadastral value of the site exceeds 52 million rubles.

We found out about the cutting by chance. In 2013, the Leningrad Interdistrict Environmental Prosecutor's Office drew attention to the work that was carried out on the banks of the Okhta River. Prosecutors found three houses under construction there just 20 meters from the shore, a plowed coastal strip and dumps of soil. We started to investigate and it turned out that the site belongs to SNT “Zvezda”.

From the response of Deputy Environmental Prosecutor Vitaly Dorozhkin, it follows that in June 2011, the head of the Vsevolozhsk district, Alexander Sabalenko, received letters from the chairman of the SNT, Anatoly Surikov, and the head of the settlement, Vladimir Sidorenko, with a request to cut off the land.

“The Town Planning Code provides for a procedure for providing garden plots on the principles of fairness, publicity, openness and transparency,” lawyer Nikolai Artamonov commented on the situation to Novaya. — To do this, local governments are required to publish information: gentlemen, we have free lands on such and such conditions. Interested citizens submit applications in writing or electronically. And the local government body chooses whose reasons are more significant: priority is given to local people on the waiting list who have merit to the country.”

In Agalatovo, people on the waiting list were given a graceful ride. Local authorities allowed the development, and in September 2012, an advertisement for the sale of plots in Zvezda could be found on the Internet.

Motivating the need for the addition, Chairman Surikov wrote an “unaddressed letter of guarantee” in which he promises that in the event of a positive decision on the addition of land, land plots of 10 acres will be allocated to citizens V.V. Sidorenko (completely coincides with the full name of the head of the settlement ), Sad I. Ya., Shchelkanov K. A., Frolov P. L. Five plots per brother.

Considering that the average market price of a plot of 10 acres is 1.5 million rubles, as a result of the addition, new residents received a benefit of 7.5 million rubles. every.

The resolution of the investigator of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Vsevolozhsk region is striking in its vagueness of wording. It follows from the document that an unidentified person at an unspecified time, in violation of federal law, applied for the allocation of 86 hectares of land to the Zvezda SNT. The municipalities bought it, after registering the land for lease, “persons from the administration of the municipality “Agalatovskoe rural settlement” allowed the development of the extension, then formalized it as part of the gardening. The criminal case was initiated in May 2014, but with such wording it is unlikely to reach the court.

This is not a general's business

SNT "Zvezda" is not difficult to find - on the highway in Kasimov there is a sign to a broken dirt road. At the entrance, immediately behind the barrier there is a board trailer. The security guard explains: the board deprived Chairman Anatoly Surikov of his powers back in November 2013. However, the new head of horticulture, Sergei Zaitsev, refused to talk about the incidental story. “I have enough of my own problems,” Zaitsev explained. — The gardening industry has debts for electricity, penalties are ticking, and we cannot access the account. The former chairman considers his dismissal illegal and tried to challenge it in court. I lost, but the arrest of the account was never lifted.”

The gardeners who agreed to talk to Novaya asked not to have their names mentioned. “The horticulture board knew nothing about cutting at all,” one of them explained. “Then it turned out that we rented it, and the chairman paid all the expenses for processing this addition from our budget: from the money we collect for road repairs, garbage removal, and landscaping!” He then explained that the new plots would supposedly allow gardening to receive the missing kilowatt-hours of electricity, but this explanation did not satisfy anyone: after all, any energy supply organization is only happy to sell the available capacity to the maximum. And the chairman was removed.”

According to the SNT charter, every year the work of the board is checked by an audit commission from among gardeners. Based on the results of the work, it is said about the extension: “On September 12, 2013, without permission, bypassing consideration by the board, A. N. Surikov signed a new lease agreement for five years. The rent transferred in 2013 amounted to RUB 138,038.76. This amount went to the detriment of gardening... On March 31, through a general meeting, a decision was illegally made to admit citizens from the lists compiled according to distributed plots in leased lands as members of SNT "Zvezda", which contradicts 66-FZ, since only owners of plots can be members of SNT with confirmation of ownership of title documents.”

The style of development taking place on the extension is externally different from the modest houses in the “historical” part of “Zvezda”: huge respectable villas, video cameras on the fences, a dozen workers at just one site. Who are their owners?

“Novaya” managed to obtain a list of new residents, agreed upon by Vladimir Sidorenko on January 21, 2013. The new members were assigned plots with numbers from 503 to 572. We did not find officials from Vsevolozhsk or Agalatov among the gardeners. But one of the plots is listed as Marina Anatolyevna Matveeva. We found the same date of birth on the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Major General Marina Anatolyevna Matveeva, who has headed the Main Investigation Department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region since July 2011. As follows from her official biography, General Matveeva was born in Leningrad and worked her way up here from an inquiry inspector of the 40th police department of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Frunzensky District Executive Committee to the first deputy head of the Main Investigation Department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.

Also listed in SNT is the plot of Gilina Ekaterina Genrikovna. Her date of birth coincides with the data of the honorary employee of the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation, Gilina Ekaterina Genrikovna, who currently holds the position of first deputy head of the Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Novgorod Region. Until 2012, she also worked in St. Petersburg and was awarded the medal “For Impeccable Service” of the second and third degrees.

Nobody forbids security forces from having dachas. There is no evidence that high-ranking employees somehow contributed to the closure of criminal cases initiated on the facts of land fraud in Agalatovo. But where does the district investigator, who most likely also saw Zvezda’s lists of gardeners, find courage?

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