I first heard about this confusing and complex case 5 years ago. And most importantly - the explosion of a large director from Kuibyshev in the center of Moscow subordinate to the KGB of the USSR in the mid-80s was unheard of in those days. What role did our V.A. Nekhoroshev play in this, and for what the USSR Prosecutor’s Office marinated him until 89 or 90, if the film does not tell, Vladimir Alexandrovich himself will tell somehow.
Original taken from analyzer_sam IN THE SHADOW OF THE PAST...

And here is the long-awaited movie "Bomb for the Chief Designer"

The filming process took about an hour and a half - I outlined my vision of those days, naturally, through the prism of the 35 years experienced ... Even my amateur films were interested in the film crew - the videos of 1976 and 1979 were taken for digitization, where the KBAS team went on field work and subbotnik. ..

The date of the 30th anniversary of the tragic death of the Chief Designer of the Kuibyshev Design Bureau of Automatic Systems (KBAS), Professor, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Igor Alexandrovich BEREZHNY was marked by a massive outburst in the electronic and printed media of Media Holding slanderous libel no one Valeria Erofeeva…
We dig and we recent Chronicles ...
Newspaper "Volzhskaya Kommuna" supplement "Saturday" dated October 7, 1995, article "DISPUTED EDITOR DETAINED":
“On September 25, operational officers of the Samara Central Internal Affairs Directorate in Simferopol detained the wanted editor of the Samara newspapers Vremya X and Mikhail Valery Erofeev. He was arrested on charges of brothel maintenance and pandering. Until the trial, V. Erofeev will stay in the pre-trial detention center” …
The wrong bazaar from the "cockerel" crows, not "according to concepts" - me and my "accomplices", "sharks from red huts", the owner of the "furry huts" calls "crooks" and "scammers" ... Media Holding godfathers should, at least , to break through the Yerofeevsky "oar" and "shlenka" ...
Answered the spiteful critics in an interview Igor Kondratiev on the site "RegionSamara.Ru" …

The “Berezhny case” of those ancient years is one to one the “Khodorkovsky case” of our times ... at first, STATE CRIMES were charged under article 66 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR “Terrorist” ... when the Basic Case of the Cheksts was rotten - they decided to serve a “wormy dish” under the sauce of article 93/1 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR “theft of socialist property on an especially large scale” ...
I will describe my "accomplices" in the "Berezhnoy case"- Investigation file of the General Prosecutor's Office of the USSR No. 19-55Sl under the heading "Top Secret" ...
Igor Alexandrovich BEREZHNOY- an outstanding designer of aerospace technology, chief designer of the design bureau of automatic systems, professor, doctor of physical and mathematical sciences ... a man from the Future ...
Solomon Tovievich BERENSTEIN- a party member since October 1941, an order bearer, a member of the Moscow Defense, went to the German rear as a saboteur ... then a test engineer at the LII, an employee of the Minaviaprom ... the closest employee to the Chief in KBAS ...
Gennady Afanasyevich NEROZYA- Berezhny's classmate, went through all the design bureaus and airfields with him, was responsible for testing the chassis of the Soviet super-bomber T-100 ...
Mikhail Ivanovich TSYGANKOV- a photographer-artist, a laureate of all-Russian and republican competitions ... he was very much appreciated by the Chief - he personally invited him to work at KBAS, entrusted responsible tasks ...

The "Berezhnoy case" was led by the Investigator for Particularly Important Cases under the USSR Prosecutor General, Senior Counselor of Justice Nikolai Alexandrovich ANTIPOV- the legendary raker of the millionth "Fishery" ...
In fact, there could not be any "Trap" in the local KGB - only the captain of the 8th Department of Internal Affairs worked from Kuibyshev in the Special Investigation Brigade Vladimir Grigorievich TITARENKO... upon arrival from the “business trip”, I informally informed the head of the department, a KGB colonel Yuri Fedorovich GRUSHIN about the state of the "Berezhnoy case" ... for which he received scolding from Antipov - “You gave a“ subscription ”, and you divulge information ... you will sit down with your friends in Lefortovo again - they all remember how Berezhny and I played preference ... again you will paint the bullet, only without the Chief!”…
Colonel Grushin (the brother of that very bard Valery) oversaw the KBAS ... during flight tests, the attached KGB officer was sick and he vomited equipment - at the request of Yuri Fedorovich and the Chief, during the debriefing, I did not mention the incident ... I was detained in Moscow with a weapon that was not I was able to hand it over to the arsenal - the curator smeared ...

Igor Alexandrovich Berezhnoy(April 21, Balashov - February 4, Moscow) - designer of aerospace technology, chief designer of the design bureau of automatic systems, professor, doctor of physical and mathematical sciences.

Biography

Born on April 21, 1934 in the city of Balashov, Nizhne-Volzhsky Krai.

Awards

• Order of the Red Banner of Labor (03/10/1981, posthumously)
• Order of the Badge of Honor (04/26/1971)

Major Publications

• On the torsion of prismatic rods from an ideally plastic material, taking into account microstresses // Journal of Applied Mechanics and Technical Physics. - 1963. - No. 5. - S. 154-157. (jointly with D. D. Ivlev)
• On the influence of viscosity on the mechanical behavior of elastic-plastic media // Doklady AN SSSR. - 1965. - T. 163. - No. 3. - S. 595-598. (jointly with D. D. Ivlev)
• On dissipative functions in the theory of viscoplastic media // Problems of continuum mechanics (to the 60th anniversary of Academician VV Novozhilov). - 1970. - S. 67-70. (jointly with D. D. Ivlev, E. V. Makarov)
• On deformation models of the theory of plasticity and continuous media // Applied Mathematics and Mechanics. - 1970. - T. 40. - Issue. 3. - S. 553-557. (jointly with D. D. Ivlev, E. V. Makarov)
• On the acquired anisotropy of plastic bodies // Continuum Mechanics and Related Problems of Analysis. Sat. articles dedicated to 80th anniversary of Academician N. I. Muskhelishvili. M., 1972. S. 601-605. (jointly with D. D. Ivlev, V. V. Dudukalenko)
• On the construction of a model of granular media based on the definition of the dissipative function // Fundamentals of plasticity: Sat. proceedings of the symposium. Warsaw, 1973, pp. 601-605. (jointly with D. D. Ivlev, V. B. Chadov)
• On the construction of a model of granular media based on dissipative functions // Doklady AN SSSR. - 1973. - T. 123. - No. 6. (with D. D. Ivlev, V. B. Chadov)
• On some models based on the mechanisms of elasticity, viscosity and plasticity with variable defining parameters // Izvestiya AN SSSR. Mechanics of a rigid body. - 1974. - No. 1. (with D. D. Ivlev, N. V. Gerasimov)
• On the loading function for ideally plastic models // Selected Problems of Applied Mechanics: Sat. articles dedicated to 60th anniversary of Academician V.N. Chelomey. M., 1974. S. 113-117. (jointly with D. D. Ivlev, V. I. Zeiler)
• On the construction of surfaces of complex rigid-plastic models // Mechanics of deformable bodies and structures: Sat. articles. M.: Mashinostroenie, 1975. S. 62-70. (jointly with D. D. Ivlev, V. I. Zeiler)
• On the flow of a fluid with controlled viscosity // Doklady AN SSSR. - 1975. - T. 223. - No. 3. - S. 582-584. (jointly with D. D. Ivlev, N. V. Gerasimov, V. I. Zeiler)
• On some experiments with converging ring waves on the surface of a heavy liquid // Doklady AN SSSR. - 1975. - T. 223. - No. 4. - S. 810-811. (jointly with D. D. Ivlev, R. K. Logvinova)
• On defining inequalities in the theory of plasticity // Doklady AN SSSR. - 1976. - T. 227. - No. 4. - S. 824-826. (jointly with D. D. Ivlev)
• Dissipative function in the theory of plasticity // Mechanics of a deformable body: Mezhvuz. Sat. Kuibyshev, 1977. Issue. 3. S. 5-22.
• Laser Leads to Landing // Civil Aviation. - 1978. - No. 9. - S. 26-27. (jointly with D. D. Ivlev)
• On integral inequalities in the theory of an elastic-plastic body // Applied Mathematics and Mechanics. - 1980. - T. 44. - No. 3. - S. 540-549. (jointly with D. D. Ivlev)
• Defining inequalities in the theory of an elastic-plastic body: Abstracts of reports. V All-Union Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. Alma-Ata, 1981. (with D. D. Ivlev)

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- The persuader is a brother to the cause. As he said by Friday, he did so, ”Plato said, smiling and unfolding the shirt he had sewn.
The Frenchman looked around uneasily and, as if overcoming doubt, quickly threw off his uniform and put on a shirt. Under his uniform, the Frenchman had no shirt, and over his naked, yellow, thin body was put on a long, greasy, silk vest with flowers. The Frenchman, apparently afraid that the prisoners who were looking at him, would not laugh, and hastily put his head into his shirt. None of the prisoners said a word.
“Look, just right,” Plato kept saying, tugging at his shirt. The Frenchman, sticking his head and arms out, without raising his eyes, looked at his shirt and examined the seam.
- Well, falcon, it's not a fluff, and there is no real tool; but it is said: you can’t kill even a louse without tackle, ”said Plato, smiling round and, apparently, rejoicing at his work himself.
- C "est bien, c" est bien, merci, mais vous devez avoir de la toile de reste? [Okay, okay, thanks, but where is the canvas, what is left?] – said the Frenchman.
“It will be even nicer when you put it on your body,” Karataev said, continuing to rejoice at his work. - That will be good and pleasant.
- Merci, merci, mon vieux, le reste? ]
Pierre saw that Plato did not want to understand what the Frenchman was saying, and, without interfering, looked at them. Karataev thanked for the money and continued to admire his work. The Frenchman insisted on the leftovers and asked Pierre to translate what he was saying.
What does he need leftovers for? - said Karataev. - We would get important underbelly. Well, God bless him. - And Karataev, with a suddenly changed, sad face, took out a bundle of scraps from his bosom and, without looking at him, handed it to the Frenchman. - Ehma! - said Karataev and went back. The Frenchman looked at the canvas, thought, looked inquiringly at Pierre, and as if Pierre's look told him something.
“Platoche, dites donc, Platoche,” the Frenchman, suddenly blushing, shouted in a squeaky voice. - Gardez pour vous, [Platosh, but Platosh. Take it for yourself.] - he said, giving the scraps, turned and left.
“Here you go,” said Karataev, shaking his head. - They say, non-Christs, but they also have a soul. Then the old people used to say: the sweaty hand is torovat, the dry is unyielding. Himself naked, but he gave it away. - Karataev, smiling thoughtfully and looking at the scraps, was silent for a while. “And the little undercarriages, my friend, the important ones will be blown out,” he said and returned to the booth.

Four weeks have passed since Pierre was in captivity. Despite the fact that the French offered to transfer him from a soldier's booth to an officer's booth, he remained in the booth in which he entered from the first day.
In devastated and burned Moscow, Pierre experienced almost the extreme limits of deprivation that a person can endure; but, thanks to his strong build and health, which he had not realized until now, and especially due to the fact that these hardships approached so imperceptibly that it was impossible to say when they began, he endured not only easily, but also joyfully his position. . And it was at this very time that he received that calmness and self-satisfaction, for which he had vainly sought before. For a long time in his life he searched from various sides for this peace, harmony with himself, that which so struck him in the soldiers in the Battle of Borodino - he searched for this in philanthropy, in Freemasonry, in the dispersion of secular life, in wine, in heroic deeds. self-sacrifice, in romantic love for Natasha; he sought it by way of thought, and all these searches and attempts all deceived him. And he, without thinking about it, received this peace and this agreement with himself only through the horror of death, through deprivation and through what he understood in Karataev. Those terrible moments that he experienced during the execution seemed to have washed away forever from his imagination and memories the disturbing thoughts and feelings that had previously seemed important to him. He did not even think about Russia, or about the war, or about politics, or about Napoleon. It was obvious to him that all this did not concern him, that he had not been called and therefore could not judge all this. “Yes, let Russia fly - there is no union,” he repeated the words of Karataev, and these words strangely reassured him. It seemed to him now incomprehensible and even ridiculous his intention to kill Napoleon and his calculations about the cabalistic number and the beast of the Apocalypse. His bitterness against his wife and his anxiety that his name should not be put to shame now seemed to him not only insignificant, but amusing. What did he care about the fact that this woman led somewhere the life that she liked? To whom, especially to him, what did it matter whether or not they found out that the name of their captive was Count Bezukhov?
Now he often recalled his conversation with Prince Andrei and fully agreed with him, only understanding Prince Andrei's thought somewhat differently. Prince Andrei thought and said that happiness can only be negative, but he said this with a touch of bitterness and irony. As if, saying this, he was expressing a different idea - that all the strivings for positive happiness invested in us are invested only in order to torment us, not satisfying. But Pierre, without any ulterior motive, recognized the justice of this. The absence of suffering, the satisfaction of needs, and, as a result, the freedom to choose occupations, that is, a way of life, now seemed to Pierre the undoubted and highest happiness of a person. Here, now only, for the first time, Pierre fully appreciated the pleasure of eating when he was hungry, drinking when he was thirsty, sleeping when he was sleepy, warmth when it was cold, talking with a person, when he wanted to speak and listen to a human voice. Satisfaction of needs - good food, cleanliness, freedom - now, when he was deprived of all this, seemed to Pierre perfect happiness, and the choice of occupation, that is, life, now that this choice was so limited, seemed to him such an easy thing that he forgot the fact that an excess of the comforts of life destroys all the happiness of satisfying needs, and a great freedom in choosing occupations, the freedom that education, wealth, position in the world gave him in his life, that this freedom makes the choice of occupations inextricably difficult and destroys the very need and opportunity to practice.

This murder is called the first custom-made in the history of the late USSR. Berezhnoy occupied a high position in Kuibyshev, he was predicted to be the secretary of the city party committee. Four subordinates of the chief designer of the design bureau were arrested on charges of fraud. During the arrest, one of them managed to poison himself, the other stuck a knife in himself, but he was pumped out. Kuibyshevsky Judge A.A. Shchupakov, who was involved in the proceedings of this case, assured in his interview with Volga Commune that Berezhnoy clearly helped to write off valuables. According to one of the versions, voiced in the film "Bomb for the Chief Designer" on behalf of the former designers who worked in KKBAS, the contract killing was connected precisely with the illegal activities of the Design Bureau. In particular, the planes of the secret enterprise were often used for other purposes by the party elite of Kuibyshev, allegedly the mafia was interested in this aircraft, which was going to transport certain goods on it.

The Samara Review also cites the exotic hypothesis of the murder of Berezhnoy, which is associated with the beloved flight attendant L.I. Brezhnev. The only person involved in the criminal case that has survived to this day, initiated on the fact of abuses in KKBAS, V. Nekhoroshev, who received a suspended sentence, believes that Berezhny was simply removed indicatively so that other prominent Soviet designers "did not stick out." Allegedly, the "Glissade" system, developed under the leadership of Igor Alexandrovich, was very interested in the Americans, and they wanted to lure the scientist to the United States. Opponents of this version argue that there was nothing special in Glissade, moreover, its parameters were published by Pravda at one time.

Ultimately, no one was charged with the murder of I.A. Berezhny (they were removed from one of the chief designer's subordinates, who was subsequently convicted of financial fraud in the design bureau). The authors of the film "Bomb for the Chief Designer" requested information about the criminal case initiated on the fact of the murder in the archives of the FSB and the Prosecutor General's Office. But these services reported that they did not have any materials. Thus, the questions of who and for what killed the chief designer in 1981 remain unanswered today.

In connection with the death of the former deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, Irina Berezhnaya, media attention fell not only on the identity of the deceased, but also on the sponsor and alleged father of her child, Boris Fuksman.

A businessman of Ukrainian origin is a fairly well-known personality - a media mogul, an investor, an active member of many Jewish communities in the world and a cousin of Alexander Rodnyansky. And if there is enough information about his path in the field of media, then the Fuksman family is a book closed to the public.

The INFORMER managed to talk to a person close to the environment of the media mogul, who spoke about the Fuchsman family.

Boris Fuksman was born into a Jewish family of a Kyiv antique dealer. In 1970 he graduated from the Technological Institute of the Food Industry, and not the Kyiv Trade and Economic Institute, as some sources write. After graduation, he worked at the Kyiv Documentary Film Studio as an assistant cameraman, then as an assistant director, and finally as a film director. Explaining the career rise of a young engineer is not difficult. Fuchsman's cousin is Alexander Rodnyansky. It was Rodnyansky's father who helped the still young Fuchsman to start a career as a cinematographer.

But he was attracted to money, so Fuchsman began to deal in fartsovka - he worked with almost everything from Marlboro cigarettes to Levis jeans. Then Fuchsman married for the first, and at the moment, for the last time. Fuksman's chosen one was a Kyivan from a Jewish family - Erna, later Fuksman. Erna gave birth to Fuchsman's first daughter, Michelle.

In 1974, Fuchsman, having earned start-up capital on fartsovka and taking some antiques, moved with his family to Germany, where his relatives still live.

Already living in Germany, Fuchsman broke up with Erna, but did not officially divorce. In fact, she is still his official wife. Fuchsman did not file a divorce, since at that time he had already amassed a certain amount of capital, dealing in antiques and smuggling, and in the event of a divorce, according to German laws, he would have remained with nothing, since all the assets would have gone to Erna.

In Germany, Fuchsman met his current common-law wife, Lilia, who gave another impetus to his business activities. At the time of their acquaintance, Lilia was a widow, she had a daughter, Elena, whom Fuchsman raised as her own. After some time, they had a common daughter - Natalia Fuksman.

Fuchsman and Lilia are not officially scheduled, at least in Germany. Most likely, their marriage was registered in another country. As it became known to the INFORMER from a source close to Fuksman's entourage, he is still officially married to Erna.

Lilia is the cousin of Natalia Kobzon, which helped Fuchsman a lot in his business. In the nineties of the last century, Iosif Kobzon was closely associated with the Soviet army, which gave Fuchsman access to the provision of the Soviet army. So the values ​​of repatriates and smuggled icons, including those of criminal origin, were transferred to the West and back to the USSR. At the same time, Fuchsman mastered a new smuggling channel - the household utensils of Soviet officers. According to some reports, Fuksman in those years also traded in used weapons of the Soviet contingent in Germany. This became his new income. Thanks to the family ties of his new wife, Fuchsman received almost unlimited business opportunities. It was the money he earned in the nineties that provided the material basis for organizing the media business, which Fuchsman owns now.

It is impossible to find information about the Fuchsman family in the media. Wikipedia indicates that he has two daughters - Natalia and Michelle. Some sources call the third - the daughter of Lilia from her first husband - Elena. But there is no information about wives or grandchildren. Although, according to information received from the source, Fuksman has many grandchildren, and at least two wives. In several publications with posted photographs, mainly from social events of the cinematic beau monde, Lilia is referred to as "Fuchsman's wife", but her name does not appear anywhere. As, in general, and the surname. According to the source, Lilia bears the surname of her first deceased husband.

The story of the death in a car accident (a kept woman and the mother of Fuksman's fourth child - Daniella, - ed.) of the former deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine from the Party of Regions Irina Berezhnaya again drew attention to Fuksman's person. A number of media reported that after the death of Berezhnaya, Fuchsman, the alleged father of Daniella, came to Croatian Zadar for a child. According to the source, he is listed as the girl's father in the documents. Most likely, Interpol called him into the country, since if there is a living father or mother, the child is given out first of all to them, and not to other relatives.

According to a source close to Fuchsman's entourage, he suffered a stroke about five years ago, which significantly affected the health of the media mogul. He speaks poorly and has difficulty moving. It was in this state that Fuchsman arrived for his eight-year-old daughter.

According to the source, Lilia did not believe in Fuchsman's relationship with Berezhnaya for a long time, but when she was provided with irrefutable facts, she forced her husband to part with his mistress. They did not communicate for about two years, although Fuchsman continued to fully provide for the passion with his daughter. Berezhnaya, being a "barefoot", according to his wife, had a bad effect on her husband's health, especially after a stroke. The source claims that Berezhnaya treated Fuchsman badly, was rude to him in public at business meetings, demanding increased attention from a very middle-aged man, calling him an "old asshole." Also, according to the source, Berezhnaya, like two drops of water, looks like Lily in her youth.

Later, information appeared in the media that Fuchsman and Lilia decided to adopt Berezhnaya's child after the death of her mother. A source close to Fuchsman confirms this information. In his opinion, Lily could make such a decision, as she is very angry with her husband, and not with the girl. Lilia is a wise enough woman not to transfer her anger to a child. In Düsseldorf, where the Fuksman family lives, there is a large post-Soviet party, among which the Fuksman family is the elite. And they, among other things, will have to explain why they adopted the girl. Most likely, she will be presented as the daughter of dead friends. According to the source, the Düsseldorf-Berlin party will not soon understand that Daniella is Fuksman's own daughter.

We will remind, earlier it was reported that the former MP from the Party of Regions and an ardent supporter of the “Russian world” Irina Berezhnaya died in a car accident in Croatia.

The accident occurred in Croatia at night, around 01.30 on the highway between Maslenica and Posedarje. Two people died: passenger Berezhnaya and a 38-year-old driver, a citizen of Bulgaria. As a result of an accident, Berezhnaya's 8-year-old daughter was injured, she was hospitalized.

Later, her father, Boris Fuksman, came to Zadar for the girl.

It also became known that Boris Fuksman and his wife Lilia decided to adopt the child of the deceased Berezhnaya.

Fell into a "trap"
Here is what the Chairman of the KGB of the USSR Yuri Andropov reported to General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU Leonid Brezhnev about the high-profile state of emergency in the capital: “February 4, 1981, at about 19 hours 30 minutes on the street. Kirov in Moscow in his official car, when opening an explosive device of the "trap" type, camouflaged as a box of medicines and transferred through employees, the chief designer of the Kuibyshev Design Bureau of Automatic Systems (KKBAS) of the Ministry of Aviation Industry of the USSR Berezhnoy Igor Alexandrovich, born in 1934, died from the explosion , Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor KuAI.
Due to the fact that Berezhnoy was a candidate member of the Kuibyshev city committee of the CPSU, a deputy of the city council and the head of the KKBAS, engaged in the development of important defense topics, a criminal case into his death was initiated on February 5, 1981 by the Investigative Department of the KGB of the USSR. Taking into account the identity of the deceased and the circumstances of his death, several investigative versions have been put forward and are being worked out.”
Nothing like this has ever happened either in Kuibyshev, or in Moscow, or in the USSR in general in all the years of Soviet power. For a "secret" scientist to be physically eliminated in our country, and even in such an exotic way - the KGB could not imagine such a thing even in a nightmare.

but on the other hand
However, in those years, almost no one knew about the other side of Igor Berezhny's life, carefully hidden from the public eye - about his participation in fraud under the guise of a KKBAS sign. It is possible that no one would have known about this if the aforementioned emergency had not happened. After the explosion in the car and the death of the designer, the State Security Committee came to grips with the affairs of the KKBAS. On the fact of the state of emergency, a criminal case No. 59 was opened here, which the Chekists themselves called "Kapkan".
And the results of the first checks shocked even the leadership of the KGB. During the subsequent audit, numerous abuses surfaced in the financial and economic activities of the bureau. As a result, on August 25, 1981, the USSR Prosecutor's Office opened another criminal case - first under Art. 170 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR (abuse of official position), and then under Art. 93-1 (theft of state property on an especially large scale).
It turned out that the management of KKBAS simply wrote off inventory items purchased at the expense of the budget. The head of the technical department of the design bureau, 47-year-old Gennady Nerozya, his deputy, 28-year-old Vladimir Nekhoroshev, the photographer of the same department, 32-year-old Mikhail Tsygankov, and the head of the special technical bureau of KKBAS in Moscow, 58-year-old Solomon Berenstein, were involved in this.
All of the above scammers were supposed to be arrested on the same day, but Tsygankov drank a lethal dose of dichloroethane before being arrested. During the arrest, Nerozya also tried to commit suicide, stabbing himself in the stomach in front of the investigator, but he was immediately taken to the hospital, where doctors saved his life. Nekhoroshev was soon released from the pre-trial detention center on bail, since the investigation considered that the total amount of abuses committed by him was not too large.
It turned out that on a special scale from all Nerozy, who, being a financially responsible person, wrote off and then sold at a good price literally everything that came to his hand: large batches of imported Kodak film, Orvo-Khrom film and Orvo- color", imported color photographic paper and chemicals, and so on. At the same time, Tsygankov helped him sell the write-off deficit.
In addition, by mutual agreement, the thieves converted into cash and other material assets regularly purchased by KKBAS - televisions, projectors, furniture, ethyl alcohol, spare parts, fabric, etc. In total, during 1976-1981, fraudsters were able to steal state property for a total of 21,266 rubles. Huge money for those times, considering that the average salary of an engineer did not exceed 120 rubles a month.
As for the role of Igor Berezhny himself, Nikolai Antipov, an investigator for especially important cases of the USSR Prosecutor's Office, issued the following decision: “... Berezhny's actions ... contain signs of a crime under Art. 92 part 2 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR. However, here the investigator decided: “The criminal case against Igor Alexandrovich Berezhnoy should be terminated by further proceedings in connection with the death of the latter.”

Prosecutor's decision
But, of course, the investigation was most interested in another question: who exactly and, most importantly, why did it take to eliminate Igor Berezhny? From the materials available in the case, it can be seen that the KGB of the USSR almost immediately ruled out the possible participation of foreign special services in the case. Therefore, they began to look for the cause of the emergency in Kuibyshev, inside the KKBAS.
But the first perpetrators of the incident were named only three years after the death of Berezhny. In the resolution of the Investigation Department of the KGB of the USSR of January 30, 1984, this is stated as follows: “... it was established that Nerozya handed over the improvised explosive device to Berezhny ... through other persons, who admitted that he had committed a crime on domestic grounds. In this regard, he was charged under paragraph "e" of Art. 102 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR ”(premeditated murder under aggravating circumstances. - V.E.). After that, all materials about the explosion were separated from the general criminal case and transferred for further action from the KGB of the USSR to the USSR Prosecutor's Office.
It would seem that the investigation of the state of emergency is almost completed. The main culprit has been identified, and now it is only necessary to settle some formalities and take the case to court. However, on November 12, 1984, the USSR Prosecutor's Office issued a decision ... to terminate this criminal case due to "the lack of evidence against Neroza's accusation."
The author of these lines could not find any information about whether the federal prosecutor's office continued to search for those responsible for the murder of the head of the secret Kuibyshev Design Bureau after that. However, it is obvious that even if the investigation continued, it did not lead to the capture of any other criminals.

Killer unknown
In the spring of 1985, the criminal case against Nerozzi, Nekhoroshev and Berenshtein about the theft of state property by them on an especially large scale was transferred to the Kuibyshev Special Court. So in Soviet times, special divisions were called in the structure of all regional courts of the USSR, where criminal cases were heard, in which secret enterprises appeared in one way or another. Proceedings in this case were taken over by judge Alexander Shchupakov, who at that time held the position of chairman of the special court. But despite the fact that at that time he considered only materials about theft, Shchupakov had his own version of the murder of Igor Berezhny.
- There is no doubt that Berezhnoy was aware of most of the abuses happening at KKBAS, - says Alexander Anatolyevich. - After all, it was he who endorsed many acts for the write-off of material values. At the same time, I believe that the main organizer of the theft was not Nerozya at all, but Berenstein, whose role during the investigation turned out to be very blurred.
One day, the head of the KKBAS received information that the regional department of the KGB was very interested in his department. And this meant that these actions received a sanction from Moscow. Local initiative in such cases was completely excluded. Then Berezhnoy ordered to stop stealing at least for a while. However, his henchmen balked. But Berezhnoy insisted, and the thieves decided that in order not to be interfered with, the chief should be eliminated physically. Which was done on February 4, 1981.
Here a reasonable question arises: why was his murder never solved? After all, this case was not dealt with by anyone, but by the all-powerful KGB. My opinion on this matter is this. As can be seen from the case, in 1984 the investigation into the murder was taken away from the hands of the KGB and handed over to the prosecutor's office, whose leadership was then instructed from above not to identify the customer. It's just that someone really did not want the investigation to come to the "big people" from Moscow involved in the theft in KKBAS.
It remains to be added that in August 1985, by the verdict of the Kuibyshev Special Court, Gennady Nerozya received 10 years, and Solomon Berenstein - 8 years in prison. Vladimir Nekhoroshev got off with three years probation. And a year later, the Supreme Court of the USSR reduced the sentence for Berenstein to 6 years.

Dossier
Berezhnoy Igor Alexandrovich was born on April 21, 1934 in Samara. From 1951 to 1957 he studied at the Kuibyshev Aviation Institute, then worked here at various departments. Already at that time, Berezhnoy proved himself to be a talented experimenter. In 1966, he defended his Ph.D. thesis, and soon, with the assistance of Tupolev, Antonov, Myasishchev and others, the Design Bureau "Aircraft and Helicopter Chassis" was created as part of the Kuibyshev Aggregate Production Association - specifically "under Berezhnoy". In 1971, he successfully defended his doctoral dissertation, and in 1972, on the basis of the design bureau named above, KKBAS was formed. This bureau Berezhnoy and headed until his death. He was the author of more than 200 scientific papers, many inventions and scientific and technical developments, the most famous of which was the Glissada laser landing system.