Is it true that Putin has a personal train at the secret station?

Recently, the Dossier Center project has published an investigation about an armored special compartment, which, presumably, is moving Vladimir Putin. The publication "Project" in addition to the Moscow Special Staff for this train. We checked whether this information corresponds to reality.

On Monday, February 13, the Dossier Center published investigation About the armored special compartment, on which Putin is supposedly moved. In the afternoon, "Project" released addition, which mentions a special checkpoint at the Moscow-Kalanchevskaya station as a place of probable base of this train. Part of the investigation is based on information obtained from unhealthy sources. I must say that in 2019 a special correspondent told about the secret train of Putin and Medvedev in 2019 "Komsomolskaya Pravda"Who visited inside. Materials "Dossier" and "Project" were retold "Jellyfish","Rain","Radio Liberty"And others publications.

Video made on October 21, 2020, link To which (access to it was limited, but we managed to download it) gives the Center “Dossier” in his investigation, gives a lot of information about the special train that interests us. You can notice that the composition has the following characteristic features:

- on one side there is a rally of EP20 electric locomotive and two TEP70BS diesel locomotives, and on the other - another TEP70BS diesel locomotive;

- on the roof of many wagons, white caps of different shapes and sizes are installed, from one to three per car;

- in the windows of one - and only one - from the wagons there are no windows, while in all other wagons there is a window;

- in the lower part of this particular car there is a massive pallet;

- It is this car, unlike everyone else, which is installed on three -axle car cars;

-In the windows of the train, you can see poorly readable route signs, presumably “St. Petersburg-Evpatoria” (in the video the train moves in the opposite direction);

-A really existing passenger train from Yevpatoria to St. Petersburg should take place about five to six hours later.

All of the above not only gives significant reasons to believe that this train is very difficult, but will also help us find it at other points of Russia.

For example, video With the same 11-car composition in the Crimea, at the Ustryakovo nodular station, made on October 10, 2020 at 17:28, one and a half weeks before the video mentioned above. All wagons are present, only an electric locomotive is missing. The train rushes past the station south, towards Simferopol (both to St. Petersburg and Yevpatoria, you need to go north). Even more curious video clip, taken from the beach near the Platform Vardan in Sochi, about 18 km from Bocharov a stream, September 20, 2021, a week with a little before the official meeting of Putin and Erdogan, which took place in this residence. There is also no electric locomotive in the video, and there are two more wagons. But another thing is more important: the same 13-Wagon composition came across to the transpoters two days earlier (September 18, 2021) in Moscow, at the Kosino platform, and, thanks to excellent quality Filming And the successful location of the camera, we can clearly see that in this case the train is considered the following from St. Petersburg to Yevpatoria.

On the site "Art Gallery of Railway Transport"You can find a photograph of the composition already familiar to us in 11-Wagon execution of January 28, 2021, this time on the Sunflower-wedge, with the next signature:" There are a ghost train on the railways of our country. It is neither in schedules or in Russian Railways; Its windows are curtained, there are no numbers and identification marks on the locomotives, it rushes like frantic, and all other scheduled trains part in front of him. On the sides of his wagons, the Emblems "Grand-Service Express" flaunts, on the tablets there is always the same Evpatoria route-St. Petersburg ... "

Also, the video from the mow dispels the latest doubts about the reservation of the car No. 7 - one that has no window, one and a half times more axes and a mighty tray. It is clearly visible that the packaging of the car (mass in the empty state) is 101.6 tons, while the other wagons of the composition are from 56.4 to 70 tons, on average about 40% less. The most logical explanation of such a large mass of the car No. 7 is the presence of armor.

The car No. 6, which is not distinguished by massiveness, is nevertheless very remarkable: three white caps are installed on its roof, all of different shapes, and one with a displacement relative to the longitudinal axis of the car, due to which this car is easily recognized at the sight of from above. It was he who was looking for him primarily at the space cosmices in Moscow. The search was crowned with success: the car No. 6 is perfectly visible in the space cosmic from "Yandex.Cart"(But only with a maximum increase!) Dated July 2020. Nearby, in particular, the car No. 7 is guessed, and on one of the neighboring ways - a characteristic rally of two TEP70BS diesel locomotives.

In historical cosmiths in the Google Earth service, you can also see the special car, although the image quality there is noticeably worse. The car No. 6, for example, fell into the pictures taken in June 2020 and May 2019. In addition, it is easy to establish that the old government station, built in 1974 for Brezhnev, was reconstructed in 2016. It is logical to assume that the complex was revived to continue use for previous purposes.

Special Convention on the Google Space, made 09/26/2015, 05/08/2016 and 05/06/2017, respectively

It must be said that not all the assumptions published now on this topic in the media can confirm. So, "New Gazeta" on Saturday, February 18, released an article under the name "All the way". This material tells about the “small and inconspicuous” platform of Igor, built only “in five minutes of walking” from the existing platform of the 69th km, but located close to the fashionable ski resort built, as the new one from the Kovalchuk brothers already wrote. The logical connection with the resort was noted in the article correctly, however, this platform was built without a five-minute walk, and a kilometer with a small and on the existing paths of the St. Petersburg-Priozersk line, where dozens of electric trains run daily, so that no one who has been stated in the “secret” railway in the indicated area does not exist. At the moment, Igor’s platform trains do not really stop, but we believe that this phenomenon is temporary. The platform was supposed to open by early January. According to it, according to the official page of the Government of St. Petersburg, a stop of the New Year's tourist retropolitan train was planned "Lakhta", But judging by the frames video, removed from the window of this train, the construction work on January 3 was still far from the end.

Also on Tuesday, February 14, the Project said that "railway branches were brought to all the main residences of Vladimir Putin, and secret stations were built nearby." Reality looks more modest, even if we assume that “all the main residences” are only Novo-Ogarsovo, Bocharov stream (Sochi) and long beards (Valdai). Stations behind high fences were really built next to all of the listed locations, but the branch as such was laid only to long beards. The secret station in the Bocharov stream is located on the 800-meter dead end path, laid in a few meters and parallel to the existing public routes on the Sochi-Mamaika Parsing. The station near Putin’s main residence in Novo-Ogar is located only 300 m from the passenger platforms of the Usovo station, on a short dead end continuation of the line that existed long before Putin became the President of the Russian Federation. All in total, in our opinion, can only be called a “secret network of railways and stations” built for Putin with a very big stretch.

Nevertheless, we can say with good confidence that Putin has a personal train and that the port of its post is the so -called government station (he is a special station, Brezhnevsky station, Kim Jong Ira station), located in Moscow, near Komsomolskaya Square and the Metro station Prospekt Mira.

Photo on the cover: a special train at the Sinitsyno platform under Voronezh, 10/21/2020. Source: Railgallery.ru

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