{"id":1483,"date":"2014-05-30T20:48:22","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T16:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monogoroda.closeuprussia.com\/?p=1483"},"modified":"2014-05-30T20:48:22","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T16:48:22","slug":"the-nonzeroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monogoroda.closeuprussia.com\/en\/the-nonzeroes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nonzeroes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coal, man and voidness.<\/h2>\n

Text and photo:<\/strong> Ilya Pilipenko<\/a><\/p>\n

T<\/span>here is a peculiar calendar in Novokuznetsk. Time is often measured by the tragedies here. That\u2019s what people say: \u201cwhen \u201cUlyana\u201d blew\u201d or \u201cafter \u201cRaspadskaya\u201d. In the line of the past the names of the mines in the black frames are the absolute and objective units of time measurement. I remember these endless funerals myself, traffic jams caused by the funeral processions, wreaths, wet snow on the black suits and on the faces burnt by another accident. Those memories are the distinct and almost perceivable border which separates \u201cbefore\u201d from \u201cafter\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"000341\"<\/a>Almost every mine has a stela with the names of the victims of the accidents. Wreath-laying ceremony is one of the administration\u2019s responsibilities. According to the official statistics there is one human life for each million tones of the mined coal in Russia. Dispassionate numerals equal the mountains of black rocks shining on the sun with the living human with his habits, family, soul. Only number. Then these units (in the local mining language \u2013 zero units, meaning the died and brought up by the rescue men after the explosion) are identified by the rings and keys and buried with honors. The widows receive compensation. And few more names add to the monument. It\u2019s almost ordinary life here.<\/p>\n

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\n \"01\"\/\n \n \n \n<\/div>\n
\n \"\u00cd\u00e5\u00ed\u00f3\u00eb\u00e5\u00e2\u00fb\u00e5\"\/\n \n \n \n<\/div>\n
\n \"000058\"\/\n \n \n \n<\/div>\n
\n \"\u00cd\u00e5\u00ed\u00f3\u00eb\u00e5\u00e2\u00fb\u00e5\"\/\n \n \n \n<\/div>\n
\n \"000206\"\/\n \n \n \n<\/div>\n
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\n \"000355\"\/\n \n \n \n<\/div>\n
\n \"\u00cd\u00e5\u00ed\u00f3\u00eb\u00e5\u00e2\u00fb\u00e5\"\/\n \n \n \n<\/div>\n
\n \"\u00cd\u00e5\u00ed\u00f3\u00eb\u00e5\u00e2\u00fb\u00e5\"\/\n \n \n \n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\nDuring one of the main local holidays \u2013 Miner\u2019s Day \u2013 few middle aged women are gathering together and recollect their perished husbands. Marina Ivanovna Zvil, Elena Vasilievna Kokova, Irina Eslavovna Vasilieva didn\u2019t know each other before May 24th 2007, when they were waiting for the news from the mine after the accident, together with the other relatives. Big empty flat. The portrait within the black frame on the table. Soft rustle of the newspaper with the photos of the dead, quiet telling about the cynicism of the authorities and disappearing hope that everything will work out like it did before. Unevitability of fate: one of the miners died the day before vacation, the other one \u2013 the day after. There are almost no tears already. The shot glasses are underfilled in a feminine way. No toast. There is music and congratulations from the stage behind the window. The holiday begins behind the window. <\/p>\n

Rusty monument \u201cMiners Glory\u201d is standing near the gateway to the city district where several mines were working, now all of them are closed. Near one of these closed and destroyed mines the Kondratievs house is standing. Sergey Andreevich, who has worked underground for 23 years, says: \u201cI\u2019m living within one hundred meters from the mine, there is no mine anymore, but still there is me and I\u2019m happy and glad.\u201d Everything is ordinary: the Army, then work \u2013 \u201cand the young man went to the mine face\u201d \u2013 life is like a song. He\u2019s also telling that he lived his life in this place and it was very convenient to work near home, and how the whole street was celebrating the holidays. He looks older than he is. His wife is nearby \u2013 Irina Yurievna, twisting an apple in her hands, listening for the same story for the thousandth time. They are recalling the past calmly and with the certain pride. Sergey Andreevich says that, despite of all, every night he sees the mine in his dreams, and in his dreams he is getting ready for work. In reality the remains of the mine are guarded by the same ex-miner as he. Irina is sighing. <\/p>\n

\"\u00cd\u00e5\u00ed\u00f3\u00eb\u00e5\u00e2\u00fb\u00e5\"<\/a>She is telling that there are voids under their house, like in all private housing here. These voids are caused by the mine working. I\u2019m listening to their intermissive story and trying to imagine that unknown voidness. I think that hard and dangerous work of many years is doing the same with the man. It is leaving the voids, which need to be filled. And everyone is filling them in his own way. Valeriy Pavlovich Prokopiev, a family friend, is also here. He is also a former miner. After leaving the mine he became a member of the \u201cChurch on the Stone\u201d. He says: \u201cI have evidences that God has been preserving me, there was no accident during all 13 years of work.\u201d He looks afraid and calm at the same time.<\/p>\n

One is filling his emotional emptiness with the memories, another \u2013 with faith. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They are the special caste. Those who didn\u2019t work underground can never fully understand why this profession is changing the person so much. Eyelashes blackened with the coal dust (which is impossible to wash out) are not the issue. The issue is in some special attitude toward death and life. Their everyday work is like a war. \u201cHot days of work, similar to the battles\u201d \u2013 from the same song. Which other industry has it\u2019s own medal? And the miners have \u201cMiner\u2019s Honor\u201d of three classes \u2013 the remains of the world, in which the value of life and heroic deed could be measured by the tone of coal and length of service. Now we have monetary units for this. May be it\u2019s good that now labor is only labor. But something else is needed except money, and now small money, by the way. <\/p>\n

\"17\"<\/a>This voidness because of the loss and getting back to work after it (because there is no other place to go) and, which is more important, the voidness caused by the lack of the meaning \u2013 everyone has it. And everyone has the stories which cannot be told. And what indeed we can understand, we, always staying at the surface. There are lots of stories about different things, but also about the same thing \u2013 about the happy and the sad, safe and mutilated, working and retired, about the price of the labor and about the priceless \u2013 about the nonzeroes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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