On June 7, 1952, at 11:30 am, a special passenger train # 526 departed from the platform of the Finland Station.
He took the children of the Vyborg district to summer health camps located near the Kannelyarvi station, 75 kilometers from Leningrad.
Disappearing
Electric trains did not go to Vyborg in those years, and passenger trains, driven by steam locomotives, dragged themselves to their destination for a long time. Nevertheless, a special train with young passengers awaited at Kannelyarvi station by fourteen o'clock the same day. But hours after hours passed, and the train with children at this station still did not appear.
At 21 o'clock the same day, an alarming message came to the dispatching service of the Finlyandsky railway station, to the Department of Internal Affairs of the Oktyabrskaya railway: a special train # 526 did not arrive at the terminal station.
This circumstance was all the more strange and inexplicable, since at 13:30 pm the duty officer at the Gorkovskoye station, located 10 kilometers from the Kannelyarvi station, informed the railway administration that the train with the children had safely passed through her station. It turns out that the train disappeared on a small section of the track between the stations Gorkovskoye and Kannelyarvi.
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Unsuccessful searches
The incident was extraordinary and completely inexplicable. How could a passenger train disappear in broad daylight on the every minute controlled section of the railway track?
Naturally, the Department of Internal Affairs of Leningrad and the Leningrad Region and the State Security Committee were seriously interested in the incident. The incident was immediately reported to Moscow. The next day, Lavrenty Beria already reported on an unusual emergency to Stalin. The leader's answer was short and stern: within three days, find a train and report everything that happened to him personally.
All the Leningrad and partly Moscow police were raised to their feet. Hundreds of militiamen, KGB workers, all kinds of detectives and informants arrived in the area of the Kannelyarvi station. All sidings and sidings on the Gorkovskoye-Kannelyarvi section were examined. But there were very few of them. The single-track track to the Kannelyarvi station was not replete with either siding or any branches. The search has reached a dead end.
Where have we arrived?
From those extraordinary, completely inexplicable events of the early fifties, let's fast forward forty years, already in our post-perestroika time.
On June 7, 1992, on one of the distant platforms of the Finlyandsky railway station, a strange passenger train, consisting of pre-war wooden cars and an old IS series steam locomotive, stood under full steam, suddenly appeared in front of amazed passengers and traffic workers. The cars were decorated with red flags, pioneer symbols, portraits of Lenin and Stalin. It looked like the train had just arrived: the conductors were opening the doors of the carriages, and passengers began to get out of the carriages. The passengers were boys and girls aged 10-13, in white shirts, with red ties on the chest. They looked extremely surprised at everything that opened before them.
They saw beautiful, roomy electric trains, numerous passengers dressed in a strange and unusual way, luxurious cars, from time to time rushing along Bezymyanny lane. But most of all they were struck by the new station building, with its sweeping arched ceiling and a high spire above it, topped with a five-pointed star.
The huge inscription on the pediment of the station was no less striking for them. "St. Petersburg", - the guys read not without new surprise and bewilderment.
Finally, all the children got out of the cars, lined up in one common column. After a little consultation with each other, the leaders of the guys, headed by the head of the train, Nina Vladimirovna Pozdeevoy, decided to contact the station administration for clarifications.
Hostages of the fatal event
About forty minutes later, the teachers returned. From their absent-minded and depressed appearance, the guys realized that something unusual and amazing had happened. Many of them were in shock, some of the counselors were crying. The head of the train was pale and barely able to stand.
“Guys,” the senior counselor turned to the pioneers in a loud, loud voice, “everything that you see in front of you now is not our country and not our time with you. We became hostages of some terrible, inexplicable natural phenomenon that played a cruel joke on us. From the Soviet socialist state, from our correct and legitimate 1952, we have in some unknown way jumped 40 years ahead, into the distant and completely incomprehensible 1992.
A terrible, inexplicable metamorphosis has taken place, the meaning of which I cannot explain to you now. And now, quietly and calmly, you will enter your cars and wait for our further instructions.
After listening to such a speech by the counselor, the guys silently began to enter the cars and, shocked, quietly sat down in their seats.
On the slice of time and space
The counselors and educators of the lost train, having gathered in the first car, discussed the incredible event that happened to them today for a long time.
“It’s necessary for this to happen,” Nina Vladimirovna said quietly to her subordinates, “the communist party is in a semi-legal position, presidential rule, banks, oligarchs-entrepreneurs and … unemployment. Is this possible in our country?
- Georgy Petrovich, - Nina Vladimirovna unexpectedly turned to one of the teachers, - as a physics teacher, explain to us what is happening with our long-suffering train?
“It’s hard for me to imagine anything else,” the physics teacher said thoughtfully, “like the circumstance that, perhaps, our train got into some anomalous zone that exists in near-earth space, where there is another space-time dimension. Sometimes it is called the third dimension, but the essence of the phenomenon is the same: objects falling under its influence can suddenly be transferred from several hours, days, to several decades and even centuries forward or backward from their present time.
The duration of such a stay also varies: from a few minutes to several hours or even days. Near Kannelyarvi station, apparently, there is such an anomalous zone, though not always manifested …
Return
Now we will return again to the events of 1952, where a pioneer train disappeared in a strange way on the Gorkovskoye-Kannelyarvi section.
At about 2 pm on June 9, 1952, a passenger train, decorated with pioneer symbols, portraits of Lenin and Stalin, unexpectedly appeared on the third siding at Kannelyarvi station.
The appearance of the ghost train was so overwhelming that at first everyone who was at that moment at the station did not believe their eyes. After recovering a little, Olga Mikhailovna Petrova, the duty officer at the Kannelyarvi station, and the station workers immediately hurried to him.
The station attendant immediately bombarded the children and educators with questions:
- Where did you disappear, what happened to you? Why didn't they let you know about yourself?
- And we ourselves do not know what happened to us, - the head of the train began her story. - It seems that it was like this: on June 7, at about 2 pm, already approaching the Kanneljärvi station, all of us on this train felt unwell: suddenly we were dizzy, everything swam before our eyes, some kind of white shroud enveloped us, and then - a complete failure of memory and consciousness. And when we came to our senses, we saw a large railway station, somewhat similar to our Finland, we saw a city that very much reminded us of our native Leningrad.
Investigation and verdict
Immediately upon the return of the pioneer train from oblivion to the Kannelyarvi station, an investigative group was created in the Leningrad Department of Internal Affairs to investigate this unusual and mysterious phenomenon. The so-called "Cannelyar affair" was created under the heading "Secret".
The head of the pioneer train, Nina Vladimirovna Pozdeeva, senior pioneer leader Rufina Nikolaevna Kolokoltseva, educator Georgy Petrovich Burtsev, duty officer at the Kannelyarvi station Olga Mikhailovna Petrova and some others were arrested and taken into custody. The pioneers acted as key witnesses to the incident.
From the very first days of the investigation, an accusatory orientation in the case under investigation clearly predominated in the work of the investigation team. No arguments about a cruel joke of nature and an anomalous phenomenon were taken into account.
The investigation lasted six months. And the verdict was as one should have expected at that turbulent time: the train drivers Kubarev and Sechkin were shot, the attendant at the Kannelyarvi station was sentenced to 20 years in prison, the head of the pioneer train - 15 years in prison, the senior pioneer leader Kolokoltseva and the senior educator Burtsev - 10 years in prison. The rest, the counselors and educators who are indirectly involved in this matter - from 3 to 5 years in prison. So, due to an unusual, rare natural phenomenon, many innocent people have suffered undeservedly.