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“I didn’t take off my dark glasses, and then I sat in the hall for a long time.”

Vitaly Kaloev came to the film festival from neighboring Vladikavkaz to watch a film about himself. Having lost his loved ones - his wife and two children - in a plane crash in 2002, he committed lynching, killing the Swiss air traffic controller, through whose fault the tragedy occurred and who never apologized. He was also the father of three children. An act of retribution has taken place. Kaloev remained unforgiven, just as he himself could not forgive.

Vitaly Kaloev came to the show not alone, but with his brother, who also became the hero of the film “Unforgiven” by Sarik Andreasyan, and other relatives. The Ossetian delegation that arrived at the Open Festival of Popular Film Genres was so large that they had to give up their place so that everyone could sit nearby. We met with Vitaly Konstantinovich during breakfast, but few people dared to approach him, and if they did, the conversation was laconic. Kaloev did not allow himself to be photographed; he quickly passed by. Relatives said that Vitaly Konstantinovich lives on the outskirts of Vladikavkaz, next to the cemetery where his relatives are buried, and every time it was necessary to force him away from there.

Emotions were running high. I have never had the opportunity to watch a film through the eyes of another person. The fact that a real hero was in the audience and reliving the tragedy with us produced an incomparable effect. Brother Vitaly Kaloev wiped away a tear and strengthened himself with all his strength. Vitaly himself did not take off his dark glasses until the lights went out, and sat frozen, and then did not leave the hall for a long time until the audience had left. The excited Sarik Andreasyan was not himself and burst into tears while waiting for his hero’s reaction. He himself is a native of Yerevan, and people from the Caucasus, according to him, if something is wrong, they will tell you right away. “The relatives were crying. One of them came up after the show: come with us. In the room where we went, there were Vitaly Kaloev and his relatives. They were silent. I said: sorry if something is wrong. And I heard in response: let all children go to heaven, if it exists. We were sitting at the same table, and Vitaly Konstantinovich said: this is not a film, this is a story. And they let me go. Them too."

Getting to work, Andreasyan had a 15-minute meeting with Kaloev, gave him the script, which was never read - I didn’t want to plunge into the terrible days again. If Kaloev had told him “no,” he would not have filmed it. But I heard the following: “I’m not holding your hand. You can do whatever you want. I saw a movie with Schwarzenegger. (“Consequences” by British director Elliott Lester, where Arnold Schwarzenegger played Roman Melnik, who lost his loved ones in a plane crash, whose prototype was Kaloev, he refused to meet with the authors of this film. - S.Kh.) Aren’t they ashamed? What is that hut on the screen? Do you know what my house is like?! I have a brick house." But the film crew did not have a chance to visit it. I had to study the interiors using chronicles and fragments of recordings that appeared on air during the days of the double tragedy. So on the screen there is a collective image of a Caucasian house. Kaloyev’s relatives asked after the show: “Have you been to his house? Everything has been recreated exactly.”

Surely Dmitry Nagiyev, who played the main character, has Eastern roots, judging by his surname and facial features. For the role I had to lose 8 kg and change my eye color. Andreasyan does not justify Kaloev’s actions, but as a man and father he understands: “He did not go to kill. Something unconscious happened. This is a meeting of two civilizations. If the dispatcher had apologized on the doorstep, everything would have been different. The human factor comes first only in the post-Soviet space. We have a soul first of all. Europeans are different, which is why they talk about compensation to the relatives of the victims when they need an apology. This is the story of a little man who can change the course of things. The words of our hero “what would you do if you saw children in a coffin?” we took from an interview with brother Kaloev. “I quarreled with God” - the words of Vitaly Konstantinovich himself are heard in the film, hearing which his brother closed his eyes while watching. The time of lynching has passed, but to this day in the Caucasus the tradition of “an eye for an eye” exists. In our country, Vitaly would probably have been given a life sentence for killing a person, but in Europe he was sentenced to 14 years, but he was given eight years, and then released two years later, given the circumstances of the case.”

The birth story of each competition film is full of strong emotions. Awarded for its directing, Eduard Novikov's Yakut "Tsar Bird" took 12 years to create, since the director read the story of his fellow countryman. Then I prepared for a long time, but technically I could not implement my project. Nobody gave money, citing the fact that the film was non-commercial. According to jury member - director Alexander Proshkin, this is the third Yakut film to which he has awarded a prize in the last two years. “Burn!” Kirill Pletneva, who aroused the ire of critics for the very fact of fraternization between prisoners and guards, was, oddly enough, unanimously recognized by the jury as the best picture and received the Grand Prix.

Sixteen years ago, a terrible plane crash occurred in the skies over Germany, which claimed the lives of 71 people - 52 children and 19 adults. These were passengers and crew of a Russian Tu-154 aircraft and a Boeing 757 cargo plane. On the night of July 1–2, 2002, aircraft collided in Germany due to an error by Swiss air traffic controllers.

How the Tu-154 collided with the Boeing 757

Tu‑154 of the Bashkir Airlines company was operating a charter flight from Moscow to Barcelona, ​​a cargo Boeing‑757 of the international air transportation company DHL was flying from Italian Bergamo to Brussels. On board the Tu-154 there were 12 crew members and 57 passengers - 52 children and five adults. The children were flying to Spain on vacation. They were given a voucher by the UNESCO Committee of Bashkiria for their excellent studies.

On the plane was a family from Vladikavkaz - Svetlana Kaloyeva with 10-year-old Kostya and four-year-old Diana. They were heading to the head of the family, architect Vitaly Kaloev, who worked in Barcelona under a contract.

Colliding with a cargo plane, the Tu-154 broke into several parts in the air. They fell in the vicinity of the city of Uberlingen (federal state of Baden-Württemberg). The debris was scattered over a radius of 40 square kilometers. Rescuers searched for the bodies of the victims for a week, finding them in fields, next to buildings and on the side of roads.

The tragedy occurred a few minutes after German air traffic controllers handed over the escort of the Russian aircraft to their colleagues from Switzerland, who were located at the SkyGuide air control center operating at Zurich-Kloten Airport.

Dispatcher Peter Nielsen's fault

On that fateful night, only one dispatcher was on duty at work - Peter Nielsen, despite the fact that according to the rules there should have been two. The Dane ordered the Tu-154 crew to descend, while the airliners approaching each other no longer had the opportunity to occupy safe echelons.

Later, the media learned that the main equipment for telephone communication and automatic notification of center personnel about dangerous proximity of aircraft was turned off. The main and backup phone lines were not working. The air traffic controller in Karlsruhe, Germany, drew attention to the dangerous approach of the planes. The man tried to call 11 times, but to no avail.

At first, Nielsen continued to work after the disaster, but then SkyGuide fired him.

Kaloev's revenge: more than 20 stab wounds

Heartbroken Vitaly Kaloev, who was waiting for his family in Spain, was one of the first to arrive in Germany, to the site of the plane crash. At first, the special services did not want to let him into the tragedy zone, but agreed when they learned that he agreed to search for the bodies of the dead with them. As a result, in the forest, Kaloev found a pearl necklace that belonged to his daughter Diana. To the surprise of the rescuers, the girl’s body was almost undamaged. Later, the bodies of his son and wife, disfigured by the disaster, would be discovered.

Having learned from journalists about the fault of the dispatcher in the disaster, Kaloev many times persistently made attempts to talk with the airline management. He asked the same question regarding the extent of Nielsen's guilt in what happened. It is known that the director of the company was very scared of the “Russian with a beard.”

Then Kaloev decided to talk directly with the Dane. He asked Skyguide to facilitate this meeting. At first they gave consent, but then they flatly refused and did not explain the reasons for this. During the mourning events dedicated to the anniversary of the tragedy, Kaloev again approached the leaders of the Swiss company, but nevertheless they refused to answer him.

On February 24, 2004, a Russian killed Nielsen in his home in the Zurich suburb of Kloten. Kaloev came to the dispatcher’s house to show him photographs of his dead wife and children. He wanted the man to repent of what he had done. But Nielsen pushed him away, causing the photographs to fall to the ground. Kaloev lost control of himself and inflicted more than 20 knife wounds on the dispatcher, from which he died. Nielsen is survived by his wife and three children.

Kaloev's punishment

Swiss police quickly found the Danish killer. A tip was sent out to a man of oriental appearance who was wearing a black coat and trousers of the same color. Kaloyev was found nearby at a local hotel. During interrogation, he told how he found out Nilsen’s address and what happened in his apartment. According to him, he entered the dispatcher’s house and showed him the photographs. And what happened next, the grief-stricken father and husband did not remember. He didn’t tell the investigator anything else.

It was decided to place him in a psychiatric clinic for examination. Experts found him sane, and in October 2005 the court sentenced him to eight years in prison. Kaloev served his sentence in a Swiss prison. Meanwhile, already in the fall of 2007, the Supreme Court of Switzerland decided to release him from punishment for exemplary behavior. Kaloev returned to his homeland in North Ossetia, where he was appointed deputy minister of architecture and construction of the republic.

Results of the investigation, SkyGuide apology

In the spring of 2004, German authorities released a conclusion based on the results of the investigation into the disaster.

Experts have come to the conclusion that Swiss air traffic controllers are to blame for the collision between the Bashkir Airlines Tu-154 and a Boeing cargo plane. The control center in Zurich did not immediately notice the danger of two aircraft converging on the same flight level. As a result, the Tu-154 pilots followed the dispatcher’s command to descend, while the on-board flight safety system required them to urgently gain altitude.

Only after the expert report was published did SkyGuide admit its mistakes. Two years after the disaster, director Alain Rossier apologized to the families of the victims. On May 19, 2004, then-Swiss President Joseph Deiss sent his counterpart Vladimir Putin an official letter of apology for the plane crash.

Based on the tragedy over Lake Constance, “Aftermath” was released in the United States in 2017 (the first title was “478”) with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the title role.

On Thursday, September 20, there will be a press screening of the feature film “Unforgiven” directed by Sarik Andreasyan about the plane crash over Lake Constance. Architect Vitaly Kaloev was played by a famous Russian actor in the social drama

Peter Nielsen is the notorious “hero” of one of the most resonant air accidents of the early 2000s, called the “Collision over Lake Constance”. Any disaster is terrible, but in this one the vast majority of those killed were children.

The guilt of the Skyguide dispatcher was proven by the court and the employer’s own internal investigation, but the person involved in the case did not live to see the moment when the management of the Swiss company and the injured party heard each other.

It just so happens that in the story of the plane collision in July 2002 in the skies over Germany, there are much more facts about the biography of another person involved - whose wife and children were on board the TU-154. All that is known about Peter is that he is Danish.

Career

There is no information about how long Nielsen worked at Swiss Air Navigation Services Ltd, or simply SkyGuide, and whether this was his first or next job. The website of the “air navigation service provider” states that an applicant for the position of dispatcher must speak at least two foreign languages, be able to think logically and work in multitasking conditions, cope with psychological stress and maintain team spirit.

Air traffic controller Peter Nielsen apparently possessed these qualities. And during a meeting between the Skyguide management and the Russian delegation, which took place on the anniversary of the tragic events, the Swiss side reported that their employee had undergone recertification in a timely manner and received confirmation of his license.

Personal life

Peter had a family; he lived with his wife and three children in the wealthy suburb of Zurich - Kloten. As Danish publications wrote, there were few foreigners in the town, and everyone knew the Nielsens. When Kaloev turned to local residents for help in search of their house, they easily pointed to the lawn near the one-story mansion.

Release of the program “Let Them Talk” about the tragedy over Lake Constance

Subsequently, neither after the death of the dispatcher, nor during the investigation that lasted for more than one year, information about Peter’s family members did not surface. SkyGuide management classified the employee's name immediately after the disaster, but paparazzi photos ended up on television and in Swiss and Danish newspapers.

Plane crash and murder

As the head of the Skyguide company, Alan Rossier, said in an interview with Arguments and Facts, a chain of 10-12 circumstances led to the collision of airliners. On that July day in 2002, Nielsen was the shift supervisor and, in violation of the rules, allowed his partner to rest in another room. In an emergency, it was possible to contact via pager, but it was puzzling how, if the main and backup telephone networks were turned off during repairs.

Plane crash over Lake Constance

In addition, due to the notorious repairs, the main radar did not work. And Peter did not know about any of these facts. Then the dispatcher was distracted by a conversation with a delayed airbus coming in to land, and landing the plane was a priority task according to Skyguide instructions.

This was compounded by a sharp increase in flight intensity - as records later showed, there were 15 aircraft in the sky. It is not surprising that when the investigator asked why Nilsen did not call his partner, the answer was: “There was no time for that.” The nearby control center in Karlsruhe saw that disaster was approaching, but could not get through.

When the controller noticed the dangerous approach of the planes, he instructed the Russian TU-154 to begin descending, but at that time he moved to another screen and did not hear the message from the Boeing crew that they were performing a similar maneuver. The pilot also hesitated, as the on-board collision warning system gave a signal to climb.

Peter also relied on TCAS on airplanes, but the ground analogue was again disabled. He repeated the command and warned that another plane was on course, but he was wrong in the direction. After 50 seconds, the Bashkir Airlines airliner and the DHL Boeing 757 cargo plane disappeared from the radar screens.

The employer did not leave the employee alone. Peter was sent for psychological rehabilitation, and then transferred to another place. But it did not help. In February 2004, Nielsen died on the threshold of his own home. The cause of death was 12 stab wounds inflicted by Vitaly Kaloev.

When a message about the murder of a Swiss air traffic controller appeared in the news feeds of Western media, but it was not yet known whose hands it was, almost immediately there were suggestions that this was revenge from the relatives of the victims. This scenario seemed to be a priority only because, as the Russian portal Izvestia wrote:

“...the leaders of the Skyguide company behaved defiantly from the very beginning. They not only did not admit the guilt of their dispatcher, but also put forward an offensive version about the allegedly poor knowledge of English by Russian pilots.”

The man whose guilt was confirmed by the black box recordings continued to work. The publication suggested that if his trial had begun earlier, perhaps Nilsen would have avoided death,

“But the company is more concerned about the issue of reducing compensation to relatives of disaster victims. In exchange for the money, SkyGuide demanded a waiver of any future claims."

In 2007, a court decision was made in which four SkyGuide managers were found guilty of causing death by negligence. But the sentences turned out to be lenient: three received a suspended one-year prison sentence, one got off with a fine of 13,500 Swiss francs. Four more officials were acquitted. Nielsen's error is called the main, but not the only reason for the collision of the airliners.

15 years after the disaster, answering questions from Komsomolskaya Pravda in connection with the release, in which he played the role of Kaloev, Vitaly said that he had not forgiven Peter and did not regret his action. But even at the court hearing in Zurich, which sentenced him to 8 years in prison, the former architect apologized to the dispatcher’s family:

"Because of my children, I apologize to Nielsen's children. It is very difficult for me to speak, but I speak sincerely."

The SkyGuide website makes only a brief mention of the collision between the two aircraft and says that the tragic nature of the accident and subsequent events has fundamentally changed the perception of aviation safety in Swiss and international aviation. Culture and safety management have taken a big step forward., Samvel Muzhikyan. The premiere in Russia is scheduled for September 27, 2018.

Trailer for the film "Unforgiven"

Memory

• 2009 – “Flying in the Night – Disaster at Überlingen” (a joint German-Swiss film)
• 2017 – “Aftermath” (director Elliott Lester, producer Darren Aronofsky)
• 2018 – “Unforgiven” (director)
• Monument to the victims of the disaster at the Zurich Air Navigation Center, Wangen area, Dübendorf

Where did it all start?

On July 1, 2002, a Tu-154 plane took off from Moscow to Barcelona, ​​carrying 52 children (most of them were the best students of a UNESCO special school, winners of various Olympiads, children of civil servants and heads of educational institutions) flying to Spain on vacation.

Before that, they were late for their flight - and the Bashkir Airlines company organized an additional one. Moreover, other late passengers were also offered to use this flight. As a result, eight last-minute tickets were sold three hours before departure. Among the buyers was economist Svetlana Kaloyeva from Vladikavkaz, who, with her ten-year-old son Kostya and four-year-old daughter Diana, was going to visit her husband, architect Vitaly Kaloyev, in Barcelona. They didn't see each other for nine months.

How did the collision happen over Lake Constance?

At 21.35 UTC, the Tu-154 collided in the air with a Boeing 747 flying from Bahrain to Brussels (there were no passengers on board, only two experienced pilots). The crash occurred near the small town of Uberlingen, near Lake Constance, and, despite the fact that both planes were over German territory at that moment, the air traffic was controlled by the Swiss company Skyguide, and only two (! ) air traffic controller.

When one of them went on a break, only 34-year-old Peter Nielsen and an assistant remained on duty. At the same time, Nielsen had to work simultaneously at two terminals. Because some of the equipment in the room was turned off, the controller noticed too late that the planes were dangerously close to each other. A minute before the collision, he tried to correct the situation and transmitted instructions to the Tu-154 to descend, although the automatic system for warning of dangerous approaches, on the contrary, recommended the pilots to gain altitude. The Boeing 747 also began to descend, but Nielsen did not hear its message, and also made a fatal mistake by telling the Tu-154 crew that the Boeing was on the right (while in fact it was on the left).

Seconds before the collision, the plane pilots saw each other and made a desperate attempt to prevent a disaster - but this did not save them. 69 people on the Tu-154 and two Boeing pilots were killed. At the same time, despite the fact that some debris from the airliners fell into the courtyards of residential buildings, fortunately, no one was injured on the ground.

What happened after the tragedy?

Two years later, a commission created by the German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation established the cause of the collision and pointed out the mistakes of the Skyguide management, which did not provide the control center with enough personnel during the night shift (and for a long time tolerated the fact that only one controller controlled air traffic , while his partner was resting). In addition, the equipment that was supposed to indicate a dangerous approach was turned off for maintenance. Telephone service was also disconnected and the backup telephone line was faulty.

The day after the tragedy, no one knew about all the details, but one desperate person had already flown from Barcelona to Zurich, and then to Germany - to Iberlingen. At first the police did not let him into the crash site, but he managed to convince them that his wife and children were on board the Tu-154. As a result, the man’s personal search culminated in him first finding the beads of his daughter Diana, and then her body. This man’s name was Vitaly Kaloev, and the pearl necklace he found gave the name to the “Broken String of Pearls” memorial, which was later installed at the site of the tragedy.

Who is Vitaly Kaloev?

Vitaly Kaloev is an architect from Vladikavkaz. The youngest child in a family of Ossetian teachers. He graduated from school with honors, served in the army, entered the Institute of Architecture and Civil Engineering, and worked in his profession. Until 1999, he headed the construction department in Vladikavkaz, until he signed a contract with one company and went to Spain to design houses.

© Igor Kubedinov / ITAR-TASS

Kaloev killed the dispatcher?

At that time, no one officially named Peter Nielsen as the culprit of the collision, and Skyguide only temporarily suspended him from work and sent him to psychological rehabilitation, without even imposing penalties. A year after the tragedy, Kaloev came to a funeral ceremony in Iberlingen and, being in an excited state, terribly scared the head of Skyguide, Alan Rossier. Then he went to the company’s office, where he began to ask its employees whether the dispatcher was to blame for the incident, and to seek a meeting with Nielsen.

Kaloev eventually received a photograph of the dispatcher from a Moscow detective agency, which he contacted after the disaster. On February 24, 2004, Kaloev appeared on the threshold of Nielsen’s house, asked permission to enter and showed him photographs of his dead children so that he would apologize for what happened. But, according to the architect, the dispatcher pushed him away, the photos fell to the ground - and then Kaloyev “remembers nothing.”

The court found that Kaloev inflicted 12 stab wounds on Nilsen, from which he died. The murder took place in the presence of the dispatcher's wife and his three children. Kaloev received eight years in a maximum security prison. However, after some time, the man repented and handed over the $150,000 compensation paid by the airline to the dispatcher’s family. Later, Kaloev was released early and returned to his homeland, where he was greeted extremely warmly (almost like a hero) at the airport, which contributed to the appearance of bewildered people.

Is Aftermath the first film to focus on this plane crash?

No, before this, the collision over Lake Constance was covered in detail in two National Geographic TV series (“Air Crash Investigations” and “Seconds to Disaster”), several documentaries and the television film “Flying in the Night - Disaster over Ueberlingen.” It also formed the basis of a German film and even a Russian one.

In 2002, two planes collided over the German Lake Constance near the city of Uberlingen on the night of July 1-2: a passenger Tu-154 of Bashkir Airlines and a postal Boeing 757 of an American airline. 72 people died, including 52 children from the Republic of Bashkiria, who, according to UNESCO, were recognized as the best in their studies and received a two-week vacation in Spain as a gift.

Architect Vitaly Kaloev, whose wife and two children died, stabbed air traffic controller Peter Nilsson more than 20 times, whom he considered the main culprit in the tragedy that happened 14 years ago.

Random flight

The family of Vitaly Kaloyev got on this flight by accident. They were flying to see him, their father, a famous architect who was finishing a project to build a house near Barcelona. In Moscow, Svetlana and her children had a transfer, but did not have the necessary tickets. They were offered to fly on a Bashkir Airlines plane that was flying to Barcelona.

Burnt trees

Residents of southern Germany saw in the night sky many multi-colored fireballs, bright sparks that quickly approached the lake and exploded. Some even thought that it was somehow connected with a UFO. But it was one of the worst and rarest aviation disasters of our time.

Plane debris fell on the border of Germany and Switzerland. Shrapnel and debris were scattered over a radius of 40 square kilometers. The trees were burned. For a whole week the police searched for the bodies of the victims. They found them in the field, near the school, near the roads.

Daughter's pearl necklace

Vitaly Kaloev, meanwhile, was waiting for his family in Barcelona. He was one of the first to come here to look for his relatives in the rural province of Southern Germany. The police did not want to let him into the scene of the tragedy, but they met him halfway when they learned that he would be looking for the dead with them.

In the forest, he found a torn pearl necklace of his four-year-old daughter Diana. To the surprise of the rescuers, his daughter’s body was practically undamaged. Search services will find the mutilated bodies of his wife Svetlana and ten-year-old son Konstantin much later.

Failed attempt to meet with dispatcher

After this, Vitaly approached the airline’s management several times and asked the same question regarding the degree of guilt of the dispatcher in the disaster that occurred over the lake. The director of the company was afraid of the “man with a beard”. The company management said nothing more about this. The aviation dispatcher remained at work in his place.

During this time, Vitaly went to the cemetery many times to visit the deceased family; in Vladikavkaz, he erected a monument to them.

Kaloev repeatedly appealed to the management of the Skyguide company with a request to meet with the dispatcher. At first they met him halfway, but then they refused without explanation. When mourning events dedicated to the anniversary of the tragedy took place, Kaloev again approached the leaders of the Swiss company, but did not receive any response from them.

Versions of the crash

Initially, a version widely spread in the media was that on that fateful night, aviation dispatcher Peter Nielsen was left alone in the room, while his comrades went to rest. He monitored the movements of the aircraft using two screens located at a distance of about a meter from each other. This was common practice in the company: only one operator remained to work at night. That night, the company's engineers turned off some of the equipment because they were carrying out preventative work on the radars.

According to investigators, on that day, by fatal accident, the air traffic controller did not correctly calculate the air corridor for two aircraft. They gained the same altitude and began a rapid approach, acting on commands from the ground. At this time, a third aircraft entered the airspace, diverting the controller's attention. There is interference in the radio communications. 22 months after the disaster, German investigators announced two main versions of the incident. Firstly, Peter Nielsen noticed the danger of a collision too late, and secondly, the Russian crew made a mistake by following the operator’s commands, and not their special on-board system warning of a dangerous approach. Investigators also pointed out to the company management that it was inadmissible for one operator to be on duty.

Air traffic controller killed

A year and a half later, this tragedy continued. In 2004, another terrible news spread across news agencies: on the threshold of his home on February 24, an air traffic controller, who was responsible for providing an air corridor for two aircraft, was killed. Forensic experts counted more than 20 stab wounds on the body of the attack victim, inflicted chaotically and with great force. The dispatcher died from his wounds on the threshold of his home. He left three children and a wife.

The 36-year-old dispatcher became the last, 72nd victim.

Mentally healthy

The police sent out a tip about a man of oriental appearance, dressed in black trousers and a black coat. Vitaly Kaloyev was found nearby in a local hotel. He was detained.

During the interrogation, he said that he found out the address of the dispatcher and rang his doorbell. When he opened it, he showed photographs of his children and wife. But then, according to Kaloev, he didn’t remember anything. Kaloyev did not tell the Swiss investigators anything else. He was placed for examination in a psychiatric clinic and, found sane, was given eight years in prison. The avenger served his term in a Swiss prison. Two years later, by decision of the Supreme Court of Switzerland, Kaloyev was released early for good behavior. He returned to his homeland in Ossetia, where he began working as Deputy Minister of Architecture and Construction of the Republic of North Ossetia.

The tragedy over Lake Constance became the main motive of the film by the American director "Aftermath", in which Arnold Schwarzenegger played by Vitaly Kaloev.