The Cheka-OGPU managed to talk with the port workers in Feodosia, where the BDK was attacked…

The Cheka-OGPU managed to talk with the workers of the port in Feodosia, where the Novocherkassk BDK was attacked, including the daughter of the deceased employee Nadezhda Tolshchina. From their stories it follows that most of the deaths were not from the strike itself, but from the subsequent explosion of the large landing craft, which was incredibly powerful. Moreover, the time difference between the explosions was considerable, about ten minutes. “Novocherkassk” was loaded to capacity with something, which exploded.

Several of our interlocutors from the port said that over the past couple of months the BDK has been used “in different ways, including not for its intended purpose.” Some cargo was transported on it in high secrecy, and Novocherkassk was usually packed to capacity. So on the day of the strike, the BDK was “clogged” with something.

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According to eyewitnesses, during the attack there was an “air danger” command; Tolshchina was at her workplace, on the 4th floor (not the place closest to the explosion, closer to the checkpoint). After the first arrival, she called her daughter on the phone and said: “They hit us.” Her daughter recommended that she leave urgently. All other employees who were in the port building managed to successfully leave. Nadezhda, an elderly woman, was slower than the others, and was wearing heels. Left behind others. After 10 minutes, the daughter called her mother again, she answered: “I’m out,” and then suddenly the connection was cut off. Just at that moment the cargo on the BDK exploded. One fragment hit the women and she died near the Dovzhenko monument.