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Last week, a photograph of the paralyzed USSR trampoline champion Elena Slipachenko (married Ivanova) spread across social networks. A random passer-by, Sergei Gordeev, who was walking along Nevsky Prospekt, drew the attention of followers to the plight of the woman. The man was outraged that the athlete, who became disabled, was forced to beg.

“Every day, in order to leave the house, she pays her neighbors two hundred rubles to let her out! Her pension is only enough to pay for housing and communal services,” wrote Sergei.

The information that appeared on Sergei’s page caused heated discussions on the Internet and attracted the attention of journalists. Correspondents met with Elena Slipachenko to find out her story firsthand. As it turned out, back in 1980, the athlete took part in the opening ceremony of the Olympics. This was considered very honorable, because trampoline workers were selected from all over the Soviet Union.

A year later, Elena Slipachenko became the champion of the Soviet Union in trampolining. The athlete’s performance consisted of ten elements; she managed to show the highest degree of complexity and quality of performance. The girl’s achievement significantly improved the financial situation of her family.

“I was put on the so-called “second payment” - athletes are paid money. Then it was 160 rubles a month. So you understand, my mother received 90 rubles...” said Elena.

However, after a resounding triumph, Slipachenko decided to leave the big sport. Her coach, who helped her achieve outstanding results, has retired from teaching. And the champion’s parents suggested that she do something else, more reliable. As a result, Slipachenko went to study to become a bartender. “Kind of like Chaldean, but it was considered prestigious,” she explains. Then Elena began an ordinary life - she got married, gave birth to a son, and worked in trade.

Ten years ago, Slipachenko’s life began to turn into hell. The woman's legs began to fail. The athlete went to doctors, but they could not understand what was happening to her. At different times, Elena was suspected of oncology and kidney disease. Until one medical specialist insisted on a paid MRI procedure. It turned out that Slipachenko had a compression fracture of the vertebrae, leading to paralysis. She needed emergency surgery. The champion's life was saved, but after that she remained confined to a wheelchair. Now Elena's only arms, neck and head move.

“As I was told, this process could have been triggered by a blow or fall I once received. Perhaps this was during the trampoline days of the past. This happens when an old injury suddenly makes itself felt, and rot begins in the bones. If I had done an MRI earlier, I might be able to walk now. But not a single doctor - and in three years of examinations I went through a lot of them - directed me on the right track...” she said.

Due to illness, Slipachenko had to leave his job. The woman’s parents, who initially helped her in every possible way, passed away. Slipachenko divorced her husband back in 1997. When Elena had the operation, her former lover was serving a fifteen-year sentence in prison. The son visits his mother from time to time.

“He works in pubs and clubs, lives separately: he’ll come and take out the trash, pour tea. He works like Papa Carlo, so he has no time for me. And how will he help? - says the athlete.

A paralyzed woman communicates with social service employee Tatyana. Once every six months, Father Alexander comes to visit Elena. Basically, the champion’s leisure time is brightened up by her beloved dog Lika, who is already fifteen years old. A dilapidated two-room apartment in the center of St. Petersburg is also shared with Elena by tenants - her older brother let them in. According to Slipachenko, he “squeezed out” half of the living space and the dacha. Sometimes neighbors help the athlete.

To go outside, Elena pays a worker one hundred rubles for the descent and ascent. A man who came to the cultural capital to earn money doesn’t need anything more. “I call, and he comes in fifteen minutes,” the champion shared. Slipachenko's acquaintances refused to help her, citing a lack of energy and time.

A woman’s pension is only 12,300 rubles. It includes subsidies for an apartment and disability benefits. Slipachenko pays about three thousand a month for housing, and in winter the amount of payments more than doubles.

“The heating works, my apartment is large, both my brother and son are registered in it - but I’m crying alone. The rest goes to food and medicine. Since the beginning of 2016, I have been deprived of subsidies for medicines. (...) Even the services of a social worker who comes to me because I am bedridden, and even then they made it paid,” Elena shared.

But the world is not without good people. Last year, a trampoline player from Moscow sent Elena twenty thousand - with this money she underwent a course of therapy. And recently, on Nevsky Prospect, an elderly woman approached the paralyzed champion and offered her the services of a massage therapist. A random passer-by paid for Elena for ten sessions. She was shocked by the sign of attention from a complete stranger. Now Slipachenko is again saving for treatment.

“Nobody owes me anything: I didn’t get a sports injury. And on Nevsky - at least some money. And at least some communication,” she noted.

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Elena Slipachenko, the USSR champion in trampolining, is forced to beg in the center of St. Petersburg today. Once upon a time, she was awarded certificates and medals for winning places, but now they are gathering dust in the sideboard. For several years now, the woman has been barely surviving on a tiny pension and shares an apartment with her only son Maxim, who is awaiting Elena’s imminent death. What caused the long-term conflict between mother and son? And what secrets will the athlete’s relatives and friends reveal in the program’s studio? Today on “Live” are all the participants in this family drama.

The plight of the USSR champion became known thanks to Dmitry Apryatkin, who saw a woman begging on Nevsky Prospekt and wrote about it on his page on the social network. The post instantly collected thousands of views and comments, and the media learned about Elena Slipachenko’s story. As it turned out, the woman lives in the very center of St. Petersburg, not far from Nevsky Prospekt. She is confined to a wheelchair, and whenever she feels better, she asks to be taken outside to ask people for help.

According to Elena, she barely makes ends meet. Her son, who lives in the same apartment with her, does not help, her relatives are far away, and her neighbors have no time for her. The woman lives on the first floor, but the stairs are not equipped with runners for lowering a wheelchair. And she is forced to pay 200 rubles to a guest worker to take her outside. Slipachenko is a disabled person of the first group; she received her injury 10 years ago, when she had already retired from sports.

Elena's son Maxim believes that his mother herself is to blame for everything that happens to her. The young man even changed his last name and first name so as not to associate himself with her in any way. He said that even as a child he learned that his mother used and distributed drugs. “I saw this with my own eyes, everything happened in front of me. People came home, everywhere I saw scattered paraphernalia for the use of illegal drugs,” said Maxim. His classmates knew about this, which is why conflicts constantly arose between them. The guy believes that drugs were the reason his mother lost her legs and became disabled.

Meanwhile, it became known that Elena’s brother Andrei, who is also registered in her apartment, is the owner of half of the living space and is threatening to take his part. But Elena does not believe that he has serious intentions. According to the woman, her brother loves her and is very worried. And he even admitted Elena to the clinic when she had health problems associated with the use of illegal drugs.

Honored Master of Sports of the USSR Lidia Ivanova came to the studio to support Elena. She said that she remembers very well how Slipachenko began her sports career. She was a member of the youth team and was the winner of youth competitions. But she was not the champion of the Soviet Union. Lidia Gavrilovna asked Elena to remove the word “champion” from her sign so as not to humiliate the high rank and honor of the athlete.

How does Elena's son feel about his mother asking for alms? Is it true that she drinks? Why doesn't the Sports Federation help her? And what does Elena dream about? The answers are in Andrei Malakhov’s “Live Broadcast” program.

It is hosted by Ivan Sannikov from Krasnoyarsk. In it, he regularly puts forward sound ideas for improving the urban environment. Now Ivan is exploring U-shaped pedestrian crossings.

This is a real problem of the city - when at an intersection there are only 3 crossings instead of 4, and pedestrians are forced to make a detour, waiting three times for a green traffic light instead of simply crossing to the other side of the road. Idiocy, you say? Of course! Unfortunately, not everyone shares this point of view...

Unfortunately, this is common practice in our cities. At key places, passages are uprooted and a beautiful fence is installed to prevent people from climbing. Refusal to cross, as a rule, is explained by the intensity of traffic at a particular intersection, and a fence is explained by “concern for pedestrians.” Quite cynical, right?

Usually some chief traffic cop convinces the mayor's office to close the pedestrian crossing - then “all problems will be solved”! The traffic jams will clear up, happy grandmothers will descend underground like moles and joyfully emerge from there like dolphins. Happiness and eternal spring will come! And so that lost souls do not violate the established order, it is necessary to put up FENCES. Oh, that's a separate topic. The people, you see, are still cattle, and the only way to curb them is with a fence!

You can encounter “anti-pedestrian” fences anywhere in Russia.

This is Omsk (well, you already understood...):

Moscow (on the opposite side of the street)

Tula

A little more classic Omsk...

Volgograd;(

In Sergiev Posad several years ago there was an elite fence for respectable gentlemen. I don't know if it survived.

Experience shows that the effect of such measures is the opposite. Cities are becoming dangerous and uncomfortable. Nobody wants to cross the road three times instead of crossing it once. People are willing to risk their lives to save time and effort. Therefore, they ignore the rules, climb over the fence and run across the road in the wrong place.

This is what Ivan and his assistants counted during one day of observing the intersection in Krasnoyarsk:

“On the first day, from 8:00 to 20:00, I and three assistants sat on a chair at the intersection of Peace and Robespierre, counting pedestrians crossing the road “with violations.” People cross the road in the wrong place, where, according to the logic of a comfortable urban environment there must be a crossing. We counted 261 violators. Including 66 - elderly people with limited mobility. Unlike others, it is more difficult for them to cross the road three times than once. From 18:00 two patrol cars appeared at our intersection. At this time the number violations were halved (in two hours): 22 versus 44.

We count pedestrians because the P-crossing is the most significant, acute and problematic point in the city’s pedestrian environment. We need to understand it. Imagine: there are hundreds of people here breaking the rules, running in front of cars. This is not available anywhere else in this volume."

Motorists immediately came running to comment on Ivan, arguing that pedestrians themselves are to blame for everything, and they need to be punished. There are also drivers who are also annoyed by U-shaped crossings, but they propose to solve all problems with the help of underground and overground crossings.

Sergey Kholivanov:

“Why remove them? They are convenient for me as a driver, they are understandable for a pedestrian, 5 minutes of extra time won’t make a difference, and no one wants to stand in traffic jams.”

Anastasia Kuznetsova:

Instilling in people to follow the rules is also an option) Underground or overground passages are an ideal solution, but expensive. Yes, even they don’t help; they still pass Lenin near the Institute of Arts on the road.

U-shaped [crosswalks] relieve the city from traffic jams! And drivers are right, because pedestrians are violating! Why does a driver drive 70 [km/h] where the [limit] is 60, and he [is given] a fine? And a person goes where he’s not supposed to, and nothing happens to him?) And if someone like that gets hit when he jumps out 1 meter in front of the car, is it only the driver’s fault?! Elementary physics will prove that the driver could not have helped him in any way, but it will be him and not the pedestrian who will be imprisoned.”

Roman Eraser

“Any adequate person understands that this is insanity. Crossing “bridges” at EVERY intersection is the solution to all pedestrian and traffic problems.

The truth is that it is not the pedestrians who are to blame, but careless planning.

Even if you put a traffic cop and cameras at every intersection, people will still do as they please. And you yourself know what the statistics of road accidents are... For example, in the Krasnoyarsk region in question, in 2016 alone there were 1,259 road accidents involving pedestrians. 1,190 people were injured and 115 died. In Russia as a whole, 5,931 pedestrians died last year and almost 50 thousand were injured.

This means that one pedestrian dies every 3 days in the region. Almost all of the country's deaths are caused by car collisions. 15 pedestrians every day.

This is an order of magnitude more than in Europe or the USA. Just compare the statistics. Now remember any city in which it was convenient for you to walk: Paris, London, Amsterdam, Vienna, etc. Are there many fences and overpasses there? We ourselves create unsafe and uncomfortable cities, and then we wonder why so many people die. That's why he dies.

Elena Slipachenko became the heroine of the talk show “Live”. A participant in the opening ceremony of the 1980 Olympics is barely making ends meet. Even his own son refuses to help the woman.

Some time ago, Dmitry Apryatkin met a woman in a wheelchair on the streets of St. Petersburg. She begged for alms. It turned out that this was Elena Slipachenko. Previously, she was the USSR champion in trampoline sports, and also took part in the opening ceremony of the 1980 Olympic Games. Now Elena can hardly feed herself on retirement. She lives in an apartment with her son, who refuses to help her.

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Today the champion became the heroine of the talk show “Live”. She said that she sometimes asks to be taken outside to beg because she does not have enough money. However, she cannot always sit outside for several hours due to her health. “The first time they took me out for an hour. I cried because I was very ashamed,” admitted Slipachenko. She moves only with the help of a wheelchair. “There was once a blow. Due to missed treatment, the spine rots. It was necessary to insert a record. They cleaned me up and said: “We saved you.” The relatives had no money for treatment. No one was consulted,” the champion said about how she became disabled.

Thanks to Dmitry, many learned that the USSR champion lives in poverty / photo: frame from the program

Presenter Andrei Malakhov asked the former gymnast why she has a difficult relationship with her son Maxim. Elena explained that she raised him alone. She assumes that she paid little attention to him, which is why their relationship deteriorated over time. A woman is divorced from her husband. “We have not been together since 1997. He didn’t help with alimony or anything,” Slipachenko noted. The editors of the program got in touch with the champion’s son. He explained that he does not consider himself a relative of Elena. The young man assured that she suffered from alcohol addiction.

Elena Slipachenko is forced to beg / photo: frame from the program

After that, Maxim appeared in the studio. He said that he changed his last name, as well as his first name. The young man believes that Slipachenko herself is to blame for the current situation. “I hardly remember my childhood. Then, at a certain age, quite young, I learned about prohibited substances, both used and distributed by this very woman. That’s when my attitude deteriorated,” said Maxim. According to him, children teased him at school because of his mother. He noted that the parent herself often belittled him. The young man admitted that he decided to change his last name when his mother’s legs gave out. He suspects that this happened because Elena took drugs at one time. The former athlete assured that she has been trying to improve relations with the heir for quite some time, but she is not succeeding.

Elena’s son refuses to help her / photo: frame from the program

It also turned out that Slipachenko has a brother. According to the champion, a relative sometimes helps her, but this is not enough. The man is registered in the ex-athlete’s apartment. Elena assures that they are not trying to kick her out of the house, she wants to leave her share of the living space to her son.

At the end of the broadcast, having heard the arguments of both sides, Andrei Malakhov urged his guest to rethink his life. He hopes that there will be people who will help the USSR champion.

July 24, 2017

Elena Slipachenko tries not to lose heart, despite the difficult life situation.

Elena Slipachenko is forced to beg/Photo: Komsomolskaya Pravda

Last week, one of the social network users posted a photo of trampolining athlete Elena Slipachenko on her Instagram page. In the caption to the photo, the man said that in the past the woman was the champion of the USSR, but was forced to say goodbye to big sport. Now Elena is asking for help from caring people on the streets of St. Petersburg.

“Every day, in order to leave the house, she pays her neighbors two hundred rubles to let her out! Her pension is only enough to pay for housing and communal services,” wrote Sergei Gordeev on the microblog. The “cry for help” was instantly picked up by the media; journalists contacted Elena Slipachenko, to whom the woman told about how it happened that the former champion was forced to beg. During the conversation, it turned out that in her younger years Elena was an outstanding trampoline athlete, but when the time came to decide on a profession, the woman decided to say goodbye to big sports and, on the advice of her parents, choose something more thorough. Slipachenko worked in trade for a long time, got married, gave birth to a son, but 10 years ago her life was literally turned upside down.

Elena’s legs began to fail, doctors could not make an accurate diagnosis, talking either about kidney problems or about oncology. After several years of examinations, doctors found out that Slipachenko had a compression fracture of the vertebrae, leading to paralysis. She underwent surgery and thus saved her life, but deprived her of the ability to move. The woman found herself confined to a wheelchair and lost her job. Elena receives a pension for health reasons, but this money is still not enough to pay for housing and communal services and the necessary treatment, so she is forced to ask people for help.

The story of Elena Slipachenko is actively discussed on social networks/Photo: social networks

“The heating works, my apartment is large, both my brother and son are registered in it - but I’m crying alone. The rest goes to food and medicine. Since the beginning of 2016, I have been deprived of subsidies for medicines.<…>Even the services of a social worker, who comes to me because I am bedridden, were made paid,” Elena said. Despite the difficult life situation, the woman tries not to lose heart.