Was the body of Sergei Bodrov found in the Karmadon Gorge? How Sergei Bodrov died: mysterious facts about the tragedy in the Karmadon Gorge Where is Sergei Bodrov.

Everything that is reliably known about the death of actor Sergei Bodrov can be summed up in a few words. He went missing in 2002 in the Karmadon Gorge in the Caucasus (North Ossetia). This happened approximately in the morning of September 20th.

“Missing” in this case means that neither Sergei’s remains nor any other material evidence of his death were found. This gives very slim hope to his family and food for a colossal amount of rumors to outsiders.

Descended glacier

According to the official version, Bodrov Jr. allegedly died due to a collapsed glacier. In the area of the Karmadon Gorge there are 2 glaciers: Maili and Kolka. The latter caused the death of Sergei Bodrov’s film crew (they were filming the film “The Messenger”). An avalanche descending from a glacier is a huge colossus destructive force. The glacier that killed the Moscow filmmakers that day weighed about 200 million tons. The ice mass was moving at a speed of 160-180 km/h. It is simply impossible for anyone to survive along its path.

Due to an avalanche, the village of Verkhniy Karmadon was completely wiped off the face of the earth. About 100 people died (these are only those whose remains were discovered or at least something is known about them). The bodies of people from the cinematographic group, including Bodrov himself, were not found. After such avalanches, remains are often discovered hundreds of years later. In all likelihood, confirmation of Sergei’s death may not come very soon.

Why did this happen

In connection with the fact of the death of the film crew, the press often raises the topic of why a multi-ton ice block then it began to move. According to some observers, the Kolka glacier melted at the end of summer and therefore disappeared on September 20. Professional geologists claim that this is impossible. A glacier that has been formed for many thousands, or even millions, of years cannot just melt and suddenly begin to move.

Another version seems more likely. The day before, tectonic plates had moved deep underground in that mountainous region. As a result, a powerful gas chemical release occurred on September 20. Only this could move the glacier. According to the testimony of tourists in the group of Dmitry Solodky and Olga Nepoba, who were in Caucasus mountains on the eve of the tragedy, long before it, a threatening roar was heard coming from underground. This sound could indicate movements occurring in the rock mass.

If these dire omens had been taken into account then, Sergei would probably be alive now. To justify people who did not pay attention to such a serious point, we can say that tectonic shifts occur extremely rarely. This, even in mountainous areas, can happen once every 100, or even 1000 years. Not everyone is “lucky” to observe such “breathing of the Earth.”

The deep memory of him was preserved only in folk traditions. It is not for nothing that since ancient times it was customary in the Caucasus to settle higher in the mountains, and not at their foot. The ancestors preserved the memory of the tragedies that happened centuries ago in the foothill regions.

Possibly alive

More optimistic citizens put forward an alternative version: Bodrov Jr. could have been saved. Confirmation of the likelihood of this, among other things, is the testimony of some eyewitnesses who survived the glacier collapse. One witness later told reporters how the glacier bypassed her five-story building.

Mountaineers know many stories about how people miraculously survived an avalanche and settled in high-mountain villages. As a result of the injuries, some lose their memory, others can be seriously crippled. If someone discovers such a crash victim, she can be rescued. Sergei Bodrov had a small chance to survive, but still.

This tragedy is still remembered today, more than thirteen years after it happened. Not everyone can confidently answer the question of what year Sergei Bodrov died, but their favorite artist was not forgotten, and almost everyone is upset and bitter about such an early death talented actor, director and screenwriter. He really was a bright personality.

Life outside the world of cinema

Sergei Bodrov Jr. was born and raised in creative family. His father - famous director(also Sergei), mother, Valentina Nikolaevna - art critic. In the cinema, it seemed to him that the road was paved in advance, but what does an artist mean? knowledgeable of life? Having entered the history department of Moscow State University, the young man successfully graduated five years later (1994) and entered graduate school. Another four years passed, and he received his Ph.D. degree, writing a qualifying thesis on architecture in Venetian Renaissance painting. This should be remembered due to the fact that many viewers identify Sergei with the image of “Brother,” a boy who served in the army and came to peaceful life And " resolving issues"mainly by force. With all the merits of this character, such as courage and honesty, his cap (figuratively speaking) would be too small for Sergei Bodrov Jr.

The future actor and director gained knowledge about life not only on the academic bench. School teacher, a confectioner at the Udarnitsa factory, a beach lifeguard (this was in Italy), and then a journalist - this is his short track record.

"Prisoner" and "Brothers"

In 1989, Sergei Bodrov Jr. made his screen debut in his father’s film “SIR”. This film, which was very successful, told the story of difficult teenagers who ended up in a special boarding school. The artists did not want to cut their hair, and then the director brought in his own son, who, of course, agreed and did not regret the hair. Only after almost seven years did Sergei get next role, very serious, in “Prisoner of the Caucasus”, where he had the opportunity to work in tandem with Oleg Menshikov, an excellent actor and a true master. Real fame and popular love came after “Brother” (1997) and “Brother-2” (2000). In these films, audiences saw what they really yearned for in the troubled period of the nineties. The character of Bodrov Jr. became the personification of “good with fists”; his image of a taciturn, active defender turned out to be as close to the people as the “Voroshilov shooter” played by Ulyanov. Of course, the plot of revenge is a win-win in itself, but the film was a success not only because of the exploitation of this artistic device.

Other works

In addition to the most famous film works, Sergei had other roles, and all of them turned out to be successful. Paul Pawlikowski directed the film Stringer in 1998. “East-West”, another very good film by a foreign director (this time the Frenchman Regis Warnier) was released in 1999, with the participation of magnificent screen masters Catherine Deneuve, Oleg Menshikov, Bogdan Stupka, and many others. Less than a year before Sergei Bodrov died, he made his first own film called “Sisters,” giving himself a small role in the episode. This directorial debut was a triumph. The film immediately took first place in the box office ratings, and it also received international recognition in the form of a prize at the Venice Film Festival.

In the same year, there was a small role in “Let’s Do It Quickly” and serious work in the film “War” directed by Alexei Balabanov. And also “Bear Kiss”, which was again directed by Sergei, and the project “ The Last Hero"on ORT. In general, such activity implied a rapid rise to the top of fame. And then - the trip to filming in Bodrov did not return from there.

Family

The wife of Bodrov Jr. was actress Svetlana Mikhailova, and this marriage, which took place in 1987, can confidently be called happy. They had a daughter, Olya (1988), and in August 2002, a month before Sergei Bodrov died, a son, who was named Alexander. The then young actor married for love, and at first sight, as he himself talked about in his interviews. The couple did not separate for long; the trip to the Caucasus should not have taken much time. IN North Ossetia Sergei was filming the film “The Messenger,” for which he himself wrote the script and in which he was going to play the main role.

Avalanche

Much is known today about how Sergei Bodrov died, but the very moment of his death can only be reconstructed based on the circumstances revealed during the investigation. On the early autumn morning of September 20, the group, having gathered in the hotel lobby, went out for location shooting in the mountains. The day didn’t go well right away, there was a climb ahead, and we had to wait a long time vehicles, in connection with which the start of work planned for 9-00 was delayed until one in the afternoon. Then, as it turned out later, filming began and continued until about seven in the evening, when it began to get dark. Sergei Bodrov's film crew loaded up the equipment and set off on their way back. At a quarter past nine it covered a huge area, its mass was several million tons of stones, dirt, sand and ice, and its speed exceeded 100 km/h. The layer turned out to be thick and reached three hundred meters.

Natural disaster victims

On the morning of September 21, the whole country already knew about what trouble had come to the Karmadon Gorge. Bodrov and his Moscow group were not the only victims of the disaster. The Narty equestrian theater took part in the filming; vacationers from enterprise camps, students and local residents found themselves in the disaster zone. A total of 127 people were missing, who were initially declared missing. The rescue operation began immediately, during which EMERCOM employees and local volunteers found 17 corpses and body fragments. The members of the film crew who died with Sergei Bodrov, like him himself, have not yet been found. This fact for a long time gave vague hope and became the basis for many dubious versions regarding the fact that the actor beloved by millions of viewers is still alive. Alas, there is no longer any hope for this now, thirteen years later.

Memory

The search lasted until February 2004. Theoretically, there was a possibility that the group managed to take refuge in one of the tunnels dug in the mountains, so first of all they drilled the soil in those places where voids could remain, but to no avail. Most likely, we will never know how Sergei Bodrov died. The melting of the resulting glacier, according to geologists, will take about twelve years, during which time it is unlikely that anything will be preserved from the remains of the missing people. An alder grove has now grown in the mudflow desert, and next to it there is a tree with the names of the victims. The sad date reminds us of the year in which Sergei Bodrov and 126 other people died, for whose deaths there is no one to blame, because such disasters are absolutely unpredictable.

According to the script of the film "The Messenger", main character passes away young. Sergei Bodrov Jr. was thirty...

The mysterious circumstances of the tragedy force scientists today to put forward new versions of the reasons for what happened.

Faktrum tells what is known from the facts today.

In the fall of 2002, Sergei Bodrov worked on the film “The Messenger,” in which he acted as a director, screenwriter and actor. On September 18, the film crew arrived in Vladikavkaz. Filming was planned for September 20 in the Karmadon Gorge - only one scene of the film was filmed there. Due to transport delays, the start of filming was moved from 9:00 to 13:00, which cost the lives of all participants. The work had to be completed around 19:00 due to poor light. The group collected equipment and prepared to return to the city.

At 20:15 local time, a giant mass of ice fell from the spur of Mount Kazbek. In 20 minutes, the Karmadon Gorge was covered with a 300-meter layer of stones, mud and ice. No one managed to escape - mudflows moved at a speed of at least 200 km per hour, covering entire villages, recreation centers and tourist camps for 12 km. More than 150 people were trapped under the rubble, 127 of them are still considered missing.

The road was blocked, and rescuers were able to reach the gorge only after several hours. All the residents of the surrounding villages also came to help. As a result of a 3-month rescue operation, only... 19 bodies were discovered. Over the next two years, volunteers continued the search. Right on the glacier they set up a camp called “Nadezhda”, searching every day. According to their version, the film crew could get to the car tunnel and take shelter from the avalanche there. However, no traces of people were found in the tunnel. The search was stopped in 2004.

There are many mystical coincidences in this story. According to S. Bodrov’s script, only two of the main characters remained alive by the end of the film “The Messenger” - surprisingly, the performers of these roles actually returned home unharmed. According to the script, Bodrov’s hero was supposed to die. Filming in Karmadon was originally scheduled for August, but this month Bodrov’s second child was born, which is why everything was postponed to September. In Vladikavkaz, Bodrov lived in the same hotel with another film crew: in a nearby gorge, director Ya. Lapshin was filming a film about the collapse of a glacier that destroyed local settlements. The plot of the picture became prophetic.

Kolka is a so-called pulsating glacier that falls down about once every hundred years. It was known for sure that he had to go down, but it was not possible to foresee the time of the catastrophe. Although seismic stations recorded unusual activity a few days before the disaster - presumably hanging glaciers from neighboring peaks were falling onto Kolka. But this data was not processed and taken into account.

Today scientists say that The collapse of the glacier could not be provoked by ice growths collapsing from above. Photos were published indicating that in early September there were no hanging glaciers above Kolka. L. Desinov is sure: the nature of the glacier release is gas-chemical. The collapse was caused by fluid gas flows coming out of the mouth of the Kazbek volcano. Warm jets of gas pushed the glacier out of its bed like a cork from a bottle of champagne.

Scientists are also confident that the collapse of the glacier was not only not accidental, but could also indicate more dangerous and large-scale processes occurring in the layers of the lithosphere. There is a version that the reason for the sharp revival of Kolka was several faults in the ground that converged at one point. Magma approached the bottom of the glacier, and 200 tons of ice were forced out of its bed. This could be a warning signal of future earthquakes due to faults.

The mysterious circumstances of the tragedy forced many people to put forward incredible versions of what happened. Among the mountaineers there were witnesses who claimed that an hour and a half after the glacier disappeared, members of the group got in touch, and also that they allegedly saw Bodrov alive years after the tragedy.

The exact circumstances of the death of Sergei Bodrov are still not known. But one thing is certain: sooner or later the glacier may collapse again, and people are unable to prevent this catastrophe.

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15 years ago, together with a film crew in North Ossetia, he died under a collapsed glacier. famous actor and director Sergei Bodrov. Komsomolskaya Pravda spoke with the head of the search operation, rescuer Sergei Shchetinin, who told how they were looking for Bodrov and why he and the bodies of the other victims had not yet been found.

This is one of the most serious operations ever carried out in North Ossetia-Alania. At that time, I led a rescue team in this republic, so I found myself at the epicenter of events. I myself could have become a victim of that disaster. It was in the evening. After work, I went to a cafe, which was located just at the bottom of the Karmadon Gorge. I didn’t reach my destination by only five minutes...

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Shchetinin said that he was one of the first to arrive at the scene of the tragedy precisely because he was nearby.

It was dark, but I could see a pile of stones, rubble, and dirt. There was equipment in the trunk, I quickly changed clothes and got out of the car. I remember hearing screams, someone crying, and it was very cold, just like in a freezer. I started moving, lighting the way with a flashlight. And then something flashed under the rays of light. It turned out to be ice.

According to the rescuer, similar glacier collapses have already occurred in these places, although they were not a very frequent occurrence. The rescue operation began almost immediately after the emergency services learned about the incident.

In the first hours, the operation took place at great risk to the lives of the rescuers themselves: the ice-mud-stone mass was still moving, crackling and creaking disgustingly. We moved with difficulty, almost swimming. Moreover, nothing is visible... The volume of the descended glacier was about 125 million cubic meters, and the height in several places reached three hundred meters. It was almost impossible to work! But we appreciated the full scale of the disaster when we flew around the gorge in a helicopter. The mass was enormous, terrifying.

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According to an experienced rescuer, the speed of the glacier was at least 220 kilometers per hour. The people who got in his way had practically no chance. None of the rescuers thought at that moment that a famous actor could be among the victims.

An artist, a politician, an athlete, a mere mortal - for us, rescuers, this does not matter while performing our duty. The life of any person is priceless. And we are doing everything to save her. A professional differs from an amateur in that he can hide his emotions and not think about unnecessary things. It was enough for us that old people, women, and children were trapped under the rubble.

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Some time after the incident, Sergei’s father, director Bodrov, the eldest, arrived at the scene. Shchetinin accompanied him while he inspected the site of his son’s death.

We flew with him over the gorge several times. I remember how he looked at these blocks of ice and said: “Everything is clear.” It was clear that it was difficult to find anyone here. It is very difficult to evaluate the behavior of a person whose child is in such a state - he is neither among the living nor among the dead. But Sergei Bodrov, the eldest, behaved courageously and with dignity, although he loved his son very much. The situation as a whole was nervous; no one believed that this could happen...

As the rescuer says, it is almost impossible to find the remains of the body of Sergei and other victims, even though that same glacier has already melted for the most part.

Everything happens in life, but the probability is small. We found fragments of heavy equipment - bulldozers, cranes, KamAZ trucks. They were pieces of metal, torn to shreds. Can you imagine what could have happened to human bodies?.. Unfortunately, the glacier collapse caused a ball mill effect. This is a unit that grinds rock into powder. The pin destroyed everything that came in its way.

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For some time, while the search was going on, rescuers had hope that people could have survived, for example, by taking refuge in a car tunnel. But, unfortunately, it turned out to be empty. There was only water there. Even psychics provided assistance to rescue teams.

There was no exact information about his (Sergei Bodrov) location. Neither scientists nor clairvoyants could help. Psychics showed where to drill. They never guessed right... To be honest, I am skeptical about these people. In all my work, I have never seen any “seer” help the rescuers in any way. The tragedy in the Karmadon Gorge was no exception.

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To the question of whether Bodrov’s group had a chance to survive, the rescuer cannot give a definite answer.

It's hard to talk about this. Professionals understood: there could be no survivors in the gorge. But we couldn’t kill hope, because there were someone’s parents and children, brothers and sisters. Therefore, we were close to the relatives of the missing. Moreover, it was impossible to leave people alone in such a state.

The Karmadon Gorge tragedy occurred on September 20, 2002. More than a hundred people became victims of the collapse of the Kolka glacier, including Sergei Bodrov Jr. and members of his film crew, who were there filming an episode of the film “The Messenger.” At about seven o'clock in the evening, filming stopped due to poor light, the group collected equipment and moved to the city. At this time, around 20:15 local time, the glacier began to melt. The bodies of Bodrov and 105 other people have still not been found. Officially, 19 people were recognized as victims of the emergency.
Sergei Bodrov Jr. - popular Russian actor and film director. He became widely known for the films “Brother”, “Brother-2”, “ Caucasian prisoner"and others. He was also known as a television presenter and film scriptwriter. Repeatedly received various awards in the field of cinema.

Descended glacier

According to the official version, Bodrov Jr. allegedly died due to a collapsed glacier. In the area of the Karmadon Gorge there are 2 glaciers: Maili and Kolka. The latter caused the death of Sergei Bodrov’s film crew (they were filming the film “The Messenger”). An avalanche descending from a glacier is a colossus of enormous destructive power. The glacier that killed the Moscow filmmakers that day weighed about 200 million tons. The ice mass was moving at a speed of 160-180 km/h. It is simply impossible for anyone to survive along its path. [C-BLOCK]

Why did this happen

In connection with the fact of the death of the film crew, the press often raises the topic of why the multi-ton ice block began to move then. According to some observers, the Kolka glacier melted at the end of summer and therefore disappeared on September 20. Professional geologists claim that this is impossible. A glacier that has been formed for many thousands, or even millions, of years cannot just melt and suddenly begin to move. [C-BLOCK]

Another version seems more likely. The day before, tectonic plates had moved deep underground in that mountainous region. As a result, a powerful gas chemical release occurred on September 20. Only this could move the glacier. According to the testimony of tourists in the group of Dmitry Solodky and Olga Nepoba, who were in the Caucasus Mountains on the eve of the tragedy, long before it a threatening roar was heard coming from underground. This sound could indicate movements occurring in the rock mass.

The deep memory of him is preserved only in folk traditions. It is not for nothing that since ancient times it was customary in the Caucasus to settle higher in the mountains, and not at their foot. The ancestors preserved the memory of the tragedies that happened centuries ago in the foothill regions.

Perhaps alive. More optimistic citizens put forward an alternative version: Bodrov Jr. could have been saved. Confirmation of the likelihood of this, among other things, is the testimony of some eyewitnesses who survived the glacier collapse. One witness later told reporters how the glacier bypassed her five-story building. [C-BLOCK]