In world history, there were many mentally ill people who shed someone else's blood for wild ideas that were born in their unhealthy heads, but even among them, Peter Volynsky looks like an original.
Petr Volynsky was born in Krasnodar in 1939. And then the Great Patriotic War began, which made him an orphan. Probably, the loss of his parents affected his psyche, but then similar tragedies befell many children. Little Petya ended up in an orphanage, and then was enrolled in the Stavropol Suvorov School, after which he returned to Krasnodar, where he entered the local medical institute. He received his medical degree at the age of 29. The long study period is due to the break in treatment.
Schizophrenic doctor
During his studies at the university, Peter did not live in poverty. He had a two-room apartment: he lived in one room himself, and rented out the other for money to the guests. Once, a KGB officer Kirill Cherednichenko, who was transferred from the Kursk region to Krasnodar, became his guest. Soon the tenant became interested in the eccentricity of the owner of the home. He hung out the lids from the saucepans outside the window at night. Cherednichenko asked why he was doing this. To which I received an interesting answer. Like, you are a Chekist, but you don't understand the obvious. It's an alarm! If thieves climb through the window at night, the dishes will rattle.
Cherednichenko reported on the strangeness in Volynsky's behavior to the Kuban Medical Institute. However, in terms of vigilance, Peter could give him a hundred points ahead. From 1964 to 1967, he wrote more than 80 anonymous letters and letters to the Soviet and party authorities to leaders of various levels, whom he denounced of all mortal sins. Presumably, the leadership of the university got it for his slander, but they pitied the orphan and did not want to ruin his life by expulsion from the institute. But the signal from the KGB officer about the inadequacy of the student Volynsky was obliged to react. And instructed the head of the Department of Psychiatry of the Medical Institute, Nikolai Khromov, to conduct a preventive conversation with him. Either it coincided, or Khromov had a hand, only in 1967, after another revelatory letter to Moscow, Peter was taken to a psychiatric hospital,where he was diagnosed with sluggish schizophrenia and treated for eight months.
Volynsky still received a medical diploma, only his work as a therapist did not last long. He was dismissed miserably when he received complaints from patients that he was treating them by burning his fingers on an alcohol lamp. The path to medicine was ordered to him, and therefore Volynsky subsequently worked as an auxiliary worker at a construction site and
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Reflecting on his failures in life, Peter was imbued with a delusional maniacal idea of the struggle between the undersized and the tall. He himself was not tall - 164 centimeters, and his so-called Napoleon complex was aggravated. It seemed to him that tall people oppress the little ones, so they must be fought with all available means. Peter proclaimed the creation of the "League of short people" and began to pester people of short stature on the streets with stupid questions. For example, he almost got it in the face from a passer-by when he asked if he understood that his wife would be fertilized by tall, thoroughbred men? But those who politely listened to him, recorded them as comrades-in-arms and firmly believed that the league he formed was expanding and multiplying. At the same time, Volynsky kept a diary, in which he argued that kids are entirely mentally gifted people, and giants are completely fools,which must be destroyed. And when he decided that it was time to act, his first goal was to choose the dean of the medical institute, Khromov, believing that he had helped to send him to a psychiatric hospital.
The beginning of the 1970s in the USSR was a time of a kind of disorder. From a household chemicals warehouse, where Volynsky worked, he brought in ammonium nitrate, aluminum powder, sulfur and other components for making bombs. Where for a bottle, where for a ruble he got fire extinguishers and small iron items for filling his bombs. He hung his first explosive device in a cylinder of a fire extinguisher on the door of Khromov's apartment. He narrowly escaped death. A neighbor, having found a strange structure on Khromov's door, called the police. The militiamen arrived with sappers who defused the bomb. But the police also showed disorder. Deciding that this was a trick of students who decided to scare the dean, she did not draw up any documents, but threw the bomb into the river.
Volynsky tried to carry his second bomb in a suitcase to the Aurora cinema, where city officials were watching an Italian film.
From the terrible fate of innocent people was saved by a simple ticket-keeper who did not let Peter into the cinema hall without an invitation. And then he chose the easier path.
Scary explosion
On June 14, 1971, a metal cylinder filled with explosives and small balls from bearings exploded in a LAZ-695E passenger bus near Krasnykh Partizan Street in Krasnodar. Almost immediately after the explosion, the bus caught fire, but the driver, who was not injured, managed to open the jammed doors and release the surviving passengers before the vehicle finally burned out. Eyewitnesses recounted with horror how wildly shouted people who could not get out of the bus and burned alive. And the investigator who examined the scene later said that he was haunted by the smell of burnt human flesh for years. Five people died on the spot, five more died from their wounds in the hospital, several dozen passengers were injured and injured.
After questioning the people on the bus, the guards had a suspect. Eyewitnesses and victims recalled and described a short man in a cap and with a large black suitcase, who before the explosion, referring to poor health, asked the driver to let him out of the bus. But finding a suspect was extremely difficult. The attentiveness of the criminologists and the tenacious memory of one of the operatives helped. The forensic experts identified a piece of fire extinguisher in the component of the explosive device attached to the case, and the operative recalled the bomb on the door at Khromov's. Employees of the regional KGB department interviewed the psychiatrist, and he named Volynsky as his ill-wisher. The KGB operatives went to Peter's home. His home was not found, but they made a so-called secret search of his home. And they found a bunch of interesting things: fire extinguisher cylinders,gunpowder, disassembled bearings. They say that Volynsky kept explosives at home, which were enough to blow up a five-story building. They were also interested in the portrait of Napoleon I in a prominent place with the inscription: "I can do anything."
There is practically no doubt that it was Volynsky who staged the attack. And soon Peter was detained near the Krasnodar-1 station. When asked about the motives for the crime, he expounded his schizophrenic theory of discrimination by tall people from short people. After the court found Volynsky's guilt, he was placed in a closed-type psychiatric hospital in the village of Novy Achinsky District, Krasnodar Territory. According to the doctors, he was no longer destined to leave the mental hospital.
To each his own
The police officer who "hushed up" Volynsky's assassination attempt on the psychiatrist Khromov was convicted and punished for his carelessness. The terrorist himself probably died a few years ago. However, according to another version, he is alive and is still being treated in one of the psychiatric clinics in the Kuban.
Oleg LOGINOV