Victim of the Moscow Theatre Hostage Crisis.
Vera was attending the theatre with her husband, Yevgeni, who also died in the crisis. She died during the liquidation of the siege, as a result of toxic gas inhalation. The couple left behind two young sons.
"On October 23, 2002, about 50 Chechen rebels storm a Moscow theater, taking up to 800 people hostage during a sold-out performance of a popular musical.
The second act of the musical "Nord Ost" was just beginning at the Moscow Ball-Bearing Plant's Palace of Culture when an armed man walked onstage and fired a machine gun into the air. The terrorists—including a number of women with explosives strapped to their bodies—identified themselves as members of the Chechen Army...
After a 57-hour-standoff at the Palace of Culture, during which two hostages were killed, Russian special forces surrounded and raided the theater on the morning of October 26. Later it was revealed that they had pumped a powerful narcotic gas into the building, knocking nearly all of the terrorists and hostages unconscious before breaking into the walls and roof and entering through underground sewage tunnels. Most of the guerrillas and 120 hostages were killed during the raid. Security forces were later forced to defend the decision to use the dangerous gas, saying that only a complete surprise attack could have disarmed the terrorists before they had time to detonate their explosives.
Because Russian officials refused to reveal what was in the gas they'd released, medical professionals didn't know how to treat the hundreds of victims. They spent several hours testing antidotes before finding that naloxone, a drug used to treat opioid overdoses, could help counter the effects of the gas. By then, more lives had been lost, and the survivors' health had worsened. Those who lived through the experience continued to suffer from problems that no one knew how to treat, because the gas that'd caused them was still a mystery." --- via history.com
read more about Vera here:
https://memorial.nord-ost.org/en/frolova-vera/
Vera was attending the theatre with her husband, Yevgeni, who also died in the crisis. She died during the liquidation of the siege, as a result of toxic gas inhalation. The couple left behind two young sons.
"On October 23, 2002, about 50 Chechen rebels storm a Moscow theater, taking up to 800 people hostage during a sold-out performance of a popular musical.
The second act of the musical "Nord Ost" was just beginning at the Moscow Ball-Bearing Plant's Palace of Culture when an armed man walked onstage and fired a machine gun into the air. The terrorists—including a number of women with explosives strapped to their bodies—identified themselves as members of the Chechen Army...
After a 57-hour-standoff at the Palace of Culture, during which two hostages were killed, Russian special forces surrounded and raided the theater on the morning of October 26. Later it was revealed that they had pumped a powerful narcotic gas into the building, knocking nearly all of the terrorists and hostages unconscious before breaking into the walls and roof and entering through underground sewage tunnels. Most of the guerrillas and 120 hostages were killed during the raid. Security forces were later forced to defend the decision to use the dangerous gas, saying that only a complete surprise attack could have disarmed the terrorists before they had time to detonate their explosives.
Because Russian officials refused to reveal what was in the gas they'd released, medical professionals didn't know how to treat the hundreds of victims. They spent several hours testing antidotes before finding that naloxone, a drug used to treat opioid overdoses, could help counter the effects of the gas. By then, more lives had been lost, and the survivors' health had worsened. Those who lived through the experience continued to suffer from problems that no one knew how to treat, because the gas that'd caused them was still a mystery." --- via history.com
read more about Vera here:
https://memorial.nord-ost.org/en/frolova-vera/
Victim of the Moscow Theatre Hostage Crisis.
Vera was attending the theatre with her husband, Yevgeni, who also died in the crisis. She died during the liquidation of the siege, as a result of toxic gas inhalation. The couple left behind two young sons.
"On October 23, 2002, about 50 Chechen rebels storm a Moscow theater, taking up to 800 people hostage during a sold-out performance of a popular musical.
The second act of the musical "Nord Ost" was just beginning at the Moscow Ball-Bearing Plant's Palace of Culture when an armed man walked onstage and fired a machine gun into the air. The terrorists—including a number of women with explosives strapped to their bodies—identified themselves as members of the Chechen Army...
After a 57-hour-standoff at the Palace of Culture, during which two hostages were killed, Russian special forces surrounded and raided the theater on the morning of October 26. Later it was revealed that they had pumped a powerful narcotic gas into the building, knocking nearly all of the terrorists and hostages unconscious before breaking into the walls and roof and entering through underground sewage tunnels. Most of the guerrillas and 120 hostages were killed during the raid. Security forces were later forced to defend the decision to use the dangerous gas, saying that only a complete surprise attack could have disarmed the terrorists before they had time to detonate their explosives.
Because Russian officials refused to reveal what was in the gas they'd released, medical professionals didn't know how to treat the hundreds of victims. They spent several hours testing antidotes before finding that naloxone, a drug used to treat opioid overdoses, could help counter the effects of the gas. By then, more lives had been lost, and the survivors' health had worsened. Those who lived through the experience continued to suffer from problems that no one knew how to treat, because the gas that'd caused them was still a mystery." --- via history.com
read more about Vera here:
https://memorial.nord-ost.org/en/frolova-vera/
Vera was attending the theatre with her husband, Yevgeni, who also died in the crisis. She died during the liquidation of the siege, as a result of toxic gas inhalation. The couple left behind two young sons.
"On October 23, 2002, about 50 Chechen rebels storm a Moscow theater, taking up to 800 people hostage during a sold-out performance of a popular musical.
The second act of the musical "Nord Ost" was just beginning at the Moscow Ball-Bearing Plant's Palace of Culture when an armed man walked onstage and fired a machine gun into the air. The terrorists—including a number of women with explosives strapped to their bodies—identified themselves as members of the Chechen Army...
After a 57-hour-standoff at the Palace of Culture, during which two hostages were killed, Russian special forces surrounded and raided the theater on the morning of October 26. Later it was revealed that they had pumped a powerful narcotic gas into the building, knocking nearly all of the terrorists and hostages unconscious before breaking into the walls and roof and entering through underground sewage tunnels. Most of the guerrillas and 120 hostages were killed during the raid. Security forces were later forced to defend the decision to use the dangerous gas, saying that only a complete surprise attack could have disarmed the terrorists before they had time to detonate their explosives.
Because Russian officials refused to reveal what was in the gas they'd released, medical professionals didn't know how to treat the hundreds of victims. They spent several hours testing antidotes before finding that naloxone, a drug used to treat opioid overdoses, could help counter the effects of the gas. By then, more lives had been lost, and the survivors' health had worsened. Those who lived through the experience continued to suffer from problems that no one knew how to treat, because the gas that'd caused them was still a mystery." --- via history.com
read more about Vera here:
https://memorial.nord-ost.org/en/frolova-vera/
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