Barnaul miracle of Claudia Ustyuzhanina
Is there life after death? This question worries the minds of everyone living on earth.
The Barnaul miracle - the story of the resurrection of a woman who died on the operating table - gives a clear answer: earthly life is replaced by existence in another dimension: hell or heaven.
History of death
While performing an operation to remove a tumor from Claudia Nikitichna Ustyuzhanina, doctors at the Barnaul hospital confirmed the death of the patient on February 19, 1964.
The corpse lay in the morgue for three days, awaiting the arrival of relatives. A witness to these events, Nikolai Leonov, was present in the hall at the time of the resurrection of the dead man. A new dead man was placed next to the woman’s cold corpse, but at that moment the deceased Claudia sat down.
Photo by Klavdiya Ustyuzhanina
It is difficult to describe the state of the people standing around. The body, which had lain in a cold room during the Siberian frost for 3 days, was quickly transported to the ward and a consultation was held. Then it was time for the doctors to be surprised when they saw that in the unstitched abdomen all the organs were absolutely healthy.
Of course, the USSR authorities tried to hide this fact, having no explanation for everything that was happening, and anti-religious policies did not allow calling it a miracle of God.
What the resurrected Claudia Ustyuzhanina told about
In the first minutes of death, the woman saw what people who have experienced clinical death often talk about: an operating table, doctors, a body and very loud voices.
Further, unlike other evidence, Ustyuzhanina was not in a long tunnel and did not see a bright light. Her journey through Heaven was unique.
Claudia found herself in a deserted area, among which ran a green alley. The woman felt her body lying belly down on a flat object hanging in the air.
The greenery of the alley had a calming effect on a soul filled with anxiety, which realized that this was a pedestrian area and someone would come to it. According to the theologians, the board on which the soul lay could be a scale for weighing its harmonious state and beauty. The dark flat object was a square with a golden ratio, on which the soul could be seen right through.
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From the story of the resurrected Claudia it follows that there was a bright atmosphere around her, without bright light. Having looked closely, the woman saw a gate resembling the Royal Doors in a local temple, only the brightest light emanated from them, comparable to the radiance of the sun.
This light did not frighten the newly departed soul, but filled it with peace and tranquility.
Tall woman and guardian angel
As soon as the soul entered a state of peace, a tall woman appeared at the end of the alley, dressed in a monastic robe, accompanied by a boy who only reached her shoulder. With all her attention, Claudia was unable to see the boy's face.
Later, having returned to her body, Ustyuzhanina learned from the priest that the boy was her personal Guardian Angel.
Softly stepping with bare feet on the grass, a woman with a stern face seemed to be hovering above the green cover, without pressing it down, leaving no trace.
The young man with a pleading look constantly asked the Woman for something, who remained cold to his requests. This act annoyed Claudia, because she is a mother and would give anything for her son.
A woman with a cold face, looking up, asked where to send Claudia, to which a voice from above ordered her to be sent to the ground, for Ustyuzhanina’s hour had not yet come.
The miracle of the resurrection of a dead woman is God's mercy
Next comes a very interesting detail that may make some Christians think. The velvet baritone ordered the newly deceased to be let down by her hair, and since she had her hair cut, give her a braid.
God said that He knows about the son left on earth, who was sent to a boarding school, and that all people are His beloved children.
A pleasant voice in the instruction told Claudia to pray with a pure heart in the future, opening her thoughts to the Creator, sincerely repenting before the Savior, Who paid with His blood for the salvation of humanity.
A woman with a stern face, in long clothes, returned with a scythe to let Claudia go home, but before that the Mother of God, and it was She, showed Ustyuzhanina pictures of hell with burnt people, demons, fire. After the terrible pictures of hell, Claudia’s soul returned to the alley and descended into her body along a braid woven from three rows.
Life after resurrection
After the second operation, during which Claudia’s fistulas were sewn up and the healing of all internal organs was confirmed, the revived woman began to observe all fasts.
She refused fast food on Wednesdays and Fridays, because in hell she saw those who neglected abstinence in food, where they ate frogs and every reptile.
Ustyuzhanina, while still in the hospital, gathered people around her and told them about pictures of hell, which did not go unnoticed by the authorities.
Doctors were strictly forbidden to talk about resurrection from the dead, restoration of rotten insides. Klavdia Ustyuzhanina was warned that if she did not stop her religious activities, she would have to deal with the police.
After leaving the hospital, the once communist handed over her party card, went to church, was baptized and took Communion for the first time in her life.
At the age of 45, the former atheist and party activist died.
Claudia Ustyuzhaninova was not afraid of the threats of the authorities; until her death she called on people to repent so as not to endure the terrible torment in hell, which she saw with her own eyes.
Barnaul miracle. Claudia Ustyuzhanina
Source: https://molitva-info.ru/duhovnaya-zhizn/barnaulskoe-chudo.html
What happened in Barnaul in 1964. Is this the Barnaul miracle of resurrection or a hoax?
Hello! Today's story is about an amazing event that happened in 1964 in the USSR. This story still does not leave the pages of the press, exciting people’s minds and causing heated debates “for” and “against”.
Since 1966, the Soviet press has persecuted the participant in the events and those who spoke about it.
The event is known as the Barnaul miracle. A resident of Barnaul experienced a near-death state and clinical death during the operation. She claimed that her soul left her body, traveled beyond the border, and saw heavenly abodes.
She was shown heaven and hell, where the souls of sinners are tormented. After her soul returned to her body, she told everyone what had happened to her, became a deeply religious believer, and testified to the need for faith, repentance, and turning to God in order not to end up in a place of torment.
Of course, for such testimony during the times of atheism in the Soviet Union, she was persecuted, and the priest who mentioned this incident in a sermon even faced a criminal sentence.
Some participants in this event (the woman’s son, doctors, neighbors, residents of Barnaul) are still alive and argue about what really happened then
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Was this a real miracle or was it all the imagination of a woman with an unhealthy psyche?
What happened in Barnaul in 1964?
The name of the main participant in the events is Claudia Nikitichna Ustyuzhanina. This simple woman lived in the city of Barnaul, worked as a saleswoman in a store, and raised her young son.
Claudia Ustyuzhanina
In 1962, she fell ill and was diagnosed with neoplasm with MTS, or cancer with metastases. With this diagnosis she ended up on the operating table. The famous doctor Israel Isaevich Neimark operated on her.
Doctor, I. I. Neymark
During the operation, Claudia's heart stopped. Doctors managed to restore its function and operate on the patient. After which she was sent to the ward, where she spent two days unconscious. After she came to her senses, she talked about how she saw how the soul left the body, traveled through the next world, saw beautiful and terrible pictures:
A description of what Claudia saw when she was unconscious. (To zoom in on the picture and enlarge the text, click on the picture with the cursor)
Then she heard the voice of God saying that she was not ready and must return. After this, the soul of K.
Ustyuzhanina returned to her body. The woman recovered within 21 days. But despite the fact that it took her a long time to get into shape, the visions that she saw on the “other side” were clearly imprinted in her mind.
Throughout her life, she talked about what she experienced and saw to all people.
Why are some people trying to pass off what happened as a “soap bubble” and not a miracle?
To this day, people argue about what happened then, in 1964, when the atheistic ideology of the country of the Soviets did not allow talking openly about what happened.
The fact is that Claudia Ustyuzhanina herself claimed that during the operation the doctors confirmed death and issued a death certificate to the family. She then resurrected three days later.
How it really happened, no documents have survived. Or rather, perhaps they exist, but are classified.
Surviving witnesses, including medical personnel, claim that in fact, Claudia did not die for two days.
She actually experienced cardiac arrest and clinical death within 2 minutes, but resuscitation measures were carried out successfully. Thus, some argue, there was no resurrection.
There were standard resuscitation measures. After the operation, the patient was really unconscious for 2 days, and everything else was allegedly her invention.
An extract from the medical history confirms that the patient’s diagnosis was disappointing, she was discharged under the supervision of an oncologist, and during surgery she experienced a state of clinical death
But no matter what actually happened, there are points in this story that cannot be disputed: first
- this is the miraculous healing of Ustyuzhanina,
the second
is that she really saw visions that she could not hear about from others in the 60s.
last century, and the third
is her conversion to faith.
Ustyuzhanina herself lived another 14 years after what happened to her (this was with a diagnosis of “neoplasma with MTS” or cancer with metastases), testifying to everyone about what happened to her and about God. Many people were converted to faith after her testimony.
Claudia Ustyuzhanina lived for 14 years after the operation, until 1978
Is anyone surprised today by people’s stories about near-death experiences, about the soul leaving the body during operations, about unearthly visions?
No, today such stories do not surprise anyone. There is a lot of evidence from all over the world that people in a borderline state see and feel almost the same thing.
But for some reason, not everyone accepts the evidence of a near-death experience experienced by a woman in 1964, calling it not a miracle, but a “miracle-judgment” and a “soap bubble.”
Why does this happen, do you think?
“Resurrection” of Claudia Ustyuzhanina - a miracle or a deception? Faktrum
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“Resurrection” of Claudia Ustyuzhanina - a miracle or a deception?
“The Barnaul Miracle” - this is how journalists lightly called the incredible incident that happened in the capital of the Altai Territory in 1964. A woman suffering from terminal cancer died under a surgeon’s knife, and three days later was resurrected in the morgue. The story was passed down from mouth to mouth, became a real legend and still excites minds. The surgeon who performed the operation had a completely different opinion about death and resurrection. He tried to bring it to the public. True, the people in love with miracles did not want to listen to the doctor. Klavdiya Ustyuzhanina Version of the “miracle” from the words of Ustyuzhanina A convinced atheist Klavdiya Ustyuzhanina worked as a seller at the market. In the winter of 1964, she was given a terrible diagnosis - intestinal cancer. Claudia was lucky and ended up with a highly qualified surgeon, Israel Isaevich Neimark. Unfortunately, the situation turned out to be very neglected. The cancer has already given serious metastases throughout the body, including the pancreas. At the time of the intervention, the organ was an ugly piece of degenerated tissue, drowning in pus. The woman died during the operation; there was no doubt about the actual death that occurred. The body was hastily stitched up and moved to the morgue. Claudia claims that while the operation was going on, she looked at it from the side. She could see all the actions of the surgeon and her body. The body lay in the morgue for three days, and then Claudia returned to it and wanted to get up. The morgue workers saw the terrible attempts of a revived corpse with a hastily sewn up peritoneum to stand up and ran away in horror. The woman was stitched up and moved to intensive care, and then to a regular ward. There she excitedly began to talk about how, while she was dead, she met God and the Virgin Mary with a boy, obviously Jesus. God said that she died at the wrong time and sent her back to her body. A month later, Ustyuzhanina was again placed on the operating table for a second operation. The operation was also performed by an experienced surgeon Valentina Vasilievna Alyabyeva. Claudia says that the doctor came to her after the operation and cried. She did not find any signs of cancer in Ustyuzhanina’s body, much less metastasis. The surprised woman, after recovery, went to I. I. Neimark. She wanted to ask how such a high professional could make a mistake and diagnose metastatic cancer. Israel answered her that there could be no mistake, that not only he, but also the assistants and students who observed the operation, saw the terrifying picture of the state of her insides, and the cancer was also confirmed by the analysis. Saleswoman Klavdiya Ustyuzhanina Popularization of the history of Ustyuzhanin after an extraordinary event happened, she truly believed in God. She began to preach and tell her wonderful story to everyone. People liked the story, word spread throughout the cities and villages, and Ustyuzhanina believed in it more and more. She even considered herself a saint - she began selling the water she had previously washed herself with to everyone. Meanwhile, her son, who was small at the time of the “resurrection,” was growing up. He hardly had any other life path options other than professional service to God. His mother died in 1978 from heart disease, and Father Andrei began to promote the story to the masses. He is still promoted to the rank of archpriest in a convent in the city of Alexandrov. In 1998, the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper published Ustyuzhanina’s story exactly as it was told by her. There was not a shadow of doubt in the article that a miracle had happened, and the man who had been lying in the morgue for three days was resurrected.
Professional journalists should take into account the opinion of another character in this story - surgeon I. I. Neimark, who, by the way, was a Doctor of Medical Sciences and an Honored Scientist of the RSFSR. But the editors did not kill the goose that began to lay golden eggs. IN
version by I. I. Neimark Israel Isaevich, at an advanced age, died in 1998, just in the year the article was published in Komsomolskaya Pravda. The outrageous lies on the pages of the newspaper forced him to write a letter with his version of what happened. They sent the letter to the editor with a request to publish it, but they did not consider it necessary to do so.
For the fact that Neimark’s letter saw the light, we should thank journalist Natalya Vasilyeva. In 2004, she decided to get to the bottom of this strange and deceptive story. She contacted the son of the surgeon, Alexander Izrailevich Neimark, who at that time headed the department of urology at ASMU and was also a practicing surgeon. He told the journalist the story as he heard it from his father. I also handed over a copy of the letter that I. I. Neimark sent in 1998 to the editor of the newspaper. For ease of understanding, the main points of the letter, which refute Ustyuzhanina’s story, will be presented in the form of a list:
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In February 1964, Klavdia Ustyuzhanina was indeed diagnosed with transverse colon cancer. And it was with this diagnosis that she lay down on the operating table with Neimark.
While the anesthesiologist was working, the patient's heart stopped. Within two minutes, his normal activity was restored.
During the operation, the diagnosis was not confirmed. Fortunately, the patient simply had an inflammatory process in the transverse colon.
The operation lasted 25 minutes. Neimark placed a fistula on the cecum, which was supposed to drain gases and feces until the inflammatory process was eliminated. After this, the fistula was planned to be removed.
Naturally, she was not taken to any morgue, because she left the operating room alive.
Claudia did not believe Neimark when he congratulated her on her erroneous initial diagnosis and the absence of any signs of cancer in her body. She constantly tried to discuss the prognosis with him, as she was very worried about her young son. She constantly wanted to place him somewhere until she died.
The doctor assured in every possible way that if she were to die in the near future, it would not be from cancer.
The woman did not want to listen to him. Claudia regularly prayed in the ward even before the operation. Either she became a believer immediately after the terrible diagnosis was made, or she never stopped being one.
V.V. Alyabyeva sutured the fistula after the inflammation in Ustyuzhanina’s intestines was eliminated.
Before the operation, she called Neimark on the phone, and, of course, was aware that the patient had no trace of cancer. Ustyuzhanina first told a slightly different story of her “awakening in the morgue.” They say that an angel first returned her to her body, and she woke up from a fallen bucket, which was dropped by the morgue guard.
“Resurrection” quickly realized that you can make good money from your story. Therefore, she organized public appearances, at which she behaved rudely and made anti-Semitic statements about Neimark. She also sold water, which became “holy” after contact with her body.
Israel Isaevich was deeply offended by the article published in the newspaper, as well as by the antics of the son of the already deceased Ustyuzhanina. The latter, based on his mother’s lies, was able to go quite far in his church career.
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There are no miracles
It is hardly possible to add anything to the retelling of I. I. Neimark’s letter. No miracle happened. The woman obviously had an unstable psyche and was very frightened by the diagnosis that was given to her erroneously. So she came up with a fairy tale, believed in it herself, and then noticed that she could also earn extra money from this whole story. The mother’s work was continued by her son, who still attends various television programs, where he tells the story of his mother word for word (he is no longer confused in the testimony, unlike Ustyuzhanina), and the faceless extras applaud on command and shake their heads - they say, what only you won’t find miracles in the sublunary world.
Source: “Resurrection” by Claudia Ustyuzhanina - a miracle or a deception? — Faktrum
So, for the sake of money and her fantasies, to substitute the person who cured her... Real Orthodox morality and morality.
I propose that Savitsky prove the existence of a super-entity in a simple, experimental way. And not stories from yellow newspapers.
Petya climbs to a high-rise building, prays for health there, and jumps down from at least the sixteenth floor.
If after that he shakes himself off and gets up, then there are no bazaars, he proved it, he proved it.
Well, if the prayer doesn’t work, then the janitor will sprinkle sand on the wet spot, collecting a mush of bones and meat on a scoop... And we’ll wait for the next storyteller about miracles.
“Resurrection” of Claudia Ustyuzhanina - a miracle or a deception?
“The Barnaul Miracle” - this is how journalists lightly called the incredible incident that happened in the capital of the Altai Territory in 1964. A woman suffering from terminal cancer died under a surgeon’s knife, and three days later was resurrected in the morgue. The story was passed down from mouth to mouth, became a real legend and still excites minds.
The surgeon who performed the operation had a completely different opinion about death and resurrection. He tried to bring it to the public. True, the people in love with miracles did not want to listen to the doctor.
Claudia Ustyuzhanina
Version of the “miracle” from the words of Ustyuzhanina
A convinced atheist, Klavdiya Ustyuzhanina worked as a seller at the market. In the winter of 1964, she was given a terrible diagnosis - intestinal cancer. Claudia was lucky and ended up with a highly qualified surgeon, Israel Isaevich Neimark. Unfortunately, the situation turned out to be very neglected.
The cancer has already given serious metastases throughout the body, including the pancreas. At the time of the intervention, the organ was an ugly piece of degenerated tissue, drowning in pus. The woman died during the operation; there was no doubt about the actual death that occurred.
The body was hastily stitched up and moved to the morgue.
Claudia claims that while the operation was going on, she looked at it from the side. She could see all the actions of the surgeon and her body. The body lay in the morgue for three days, and then Claudia returned to it and wanted to get up.
The morgue workers saw the terrible attempts of a revived corpse with a hastily sewn up peritoneum to stand up and ran away in horror. The woman was stitched up and moved to intensive care, and then to a regular ward.
There she excitedly began to talk about how, while she was dead, she met God and the Virgin Mary with a boy, obviously Jesus. God said that she died at the wrong time and sent her back to her body.
A month later, Ustyuzhanina was again placed on the operating table for a second operation. The operation was also performed by an experienced surgeon Valentina Vasilievna Alyabyeva. Claudia says that the doctor came to her after the operation and cried. She did not find any signs of cancer in Ustyuzhanina’s body, much less metastasis.
The surprised woman, after recovery, went to I. I. Neimark. She wanted to ask how such a high professional could make a mistake and diagnose metastatic cancer. Israel answered her that there could be no mistake, that not only he, but also the assistants and students who observed the operation, saw the terrifying picture of the state of her insides, and the cancer was also confirmed by the analysis.
Saleswoman Klavdiya Ustyuzhanina
Popularization of history
After the extraordinary event that happened, Ustyuzhanina truly believed in God. She began to preach and tell her wonderful story to everyone. People liked the story, word spread throughout the cities and villages, and Ustyuzhanina believed in it more and more.
She even considered herself a saint - she began selling the water she had previously washed herself with to everyone. Meanwhile, her son, who was small at the time of the “resurrection,” was growing up. He hardly had any other life path options other than professional service to God.
His mother died in 1978 from heart disease, and Father Andrei began to promote the story to the masses. He is still promoted to the rank of archpriest in a convent in the city of Alexandrov.
In 1998, the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper published Ustyuzhanina’s story exactly as it was told by her. There was not a shadow of doubt in the article that a miracle had happened, and the man who had been lying in the morgue for three days was resurrected.
Professional journalists should take into account the opinion of another character in this story - surgeon I. I. Neimark, who, by the way, was a Doctor of Medical Sciences and an Honored Scientist of the RSFSR. But the editors did not kill the goose that began to lay golden eggs.
Another resurrection of Claudia, or the Barnaul miracle-yudo
The miraculous resurrection of Claudia has been written and rewritten, and each time the details of the miracle were different. Some said that before the “resurrection” Ustyuzhanina was an active communist, and then she handed over her party card, others that she drank and partied, and then came to her senses.
The scenes in the morgue also look different.
Articles about the “miracle” were written even after Claudia’s actual death. She died in 1978, but despite this, one of the newspapers published a story on her behalf 20 years after her death. Allegedly, 79-year-old woman Klava sits and talks... This is the incident.
The son of Claudia Nikitichna, Archpriest Andrei Ustyuzhanin, a priest of the Holy Dormition Monastery in the city of Alexandrov, Vladimir Region, politely said on the phone that the most truthful version is the one he wrote down from the words of his mother. The rest simply wrote down incorrectly, making mistakes.
Here are fragments of the story, recorded from the words of Ustyuzhanina’s son.
The soul went to hell
“In 1963-1964. I was forced to go to the hospital for examination. I was diagnosed with a malignant tumor. However, not wanting to upset me, I was told that the tumor was benign. I wanted to be told the truth, without hiding anything, but they only told me that my card was in the oncology clinic. Arriving there and wanting to find out the truth, I pretended to be my sister, who was interested in the medical history of a relative. They told me that I had a malignant tumor, or so-called cancer.
Before undergoing surgery, in the event of death, I needed to arrange for my son and make an inventory of his property. When the inventory was made, they began to ask relatives who would take my son, but everyone refused him, and then they registered him in an orphanage.
On February 17, 1964, I handed over the work in my store, and on February 19 I was already in surgery. It was conducted by the famous professor Israel Isaevich Neimark (Jewish by nationality) together with three doctors and seven student interns. It was useless to cut anything out of the stomach, since it was all covered in cancer; 1.5 liters of pus were pumped out, and death occurred right on the operating table.
I didn’t feel the process of separating my soul from my body, only suddenly I saw my body from the outside the way we see, for example, some thing: a coat, a table, etc. I see how people are fussing around my body, trying to bring me back to life. I hear everything and understand what they are talking about. I feel and worry, but I can’t let them know that I’m here.
Suddenly I found myself in places close and dear to me, where I had ever been offended, where I cried, and in other difficult and memorable places. However, I did not see anyone near me, and how long it took for me to visit these places, and how my movement was carried out - all this remained an incomprehensible mystery to me. Suddenly I found myself in a completely unfamiliar area. Suddenly I saw a tall Woman walking towards me from the east. Stern, dressed in a long robe (as I later learned - a monastic robe), with her head covered. A stern face was visible; a child walked next to Her, reaching only to Her shoulder. I tried to see his face, but I never succeeded, because he kept turning to me either sideways or with his back. As I found out later, this was my Guardian Angel. I was happy, thinking that when they came closer, I would be able to find out from them where I was.
All the time the child asked the Woman for something, stroked Her hand, but She treated him very coldly, not heeding his requests. Then I thought: “How ruthless She is.” If my son Andryusha asked me for something the way this child asks from Her, then I would even buy him what he asks with my last money.”
Not reaching 1.5 or 2 meters, the Woman, raising her eyes upward, asked: “Lord, where is she?” I heard a voice that answered Her: “She needs to be brought back down, she died at the wrong time.” It was like a man's voice crying."
After this, Claudia was allegedly shown hell with burnt bodies and said: pray, there is a meager century left. So what is next:
“...I found myself in the morgue in my body. I don’t know how or in what way I ENTERED it. At this time, a man whose leg had been cut off was brought into the morgue. One of the orderlies noticed signs of life in me. We informed the doctors about this, and they took all the necessary measures to save me: they gave me an oxygen bag and gave me injections. I stayed dead for three days (died on February 19, 1964, came to life on February 22). In March 1964, I underwent a second operation in order to find out about the state of my health and to have stitches sewn up. The repeated operation was performed by the famous doctor Valentina Vasilievna Alyabyeva. During the operation, I saw how the doctors delved into my insides, and, wanting to know my condition, they asked me various questions, and I answered them. After the operation, Valentina Vasilievna, in great excitement, told me that there was not even a suspicion in my body that I had stomach cancer: everything inside was like a newborn.” After this, according to the official version, the former atheist became a convinced preacher of faith in the Lord.
Death certificate
“Believe me, it was so,” assured priest Andrei. “Now the doctors say that my mother was in intensive care. But I remember, they brought me to my mother, and I remember the words “don’t kiss me on the mouth, kiss me on the forehead.” They probably wouldn’t have allowed me into the intensive care unit... But priest Anatoly Berestov saw with his own eyes the certificate of her death, which was issued when my mother was in the morgue.
When asked where this certificate is now, Father Andrei hesitated: “Mom used to have it, but then it disappeared somewhere.”
With Hieromonk Anatoly Berestov, Doctor of Medical Sciences and rector of the house church of St. Seraphim of Sarovsky at the Moscow Institute of Transplantology and Artificial Organs, we phoned on Friday, November 11.
“Indeed, I met this woman in the 60s at the Yaroslavl station,” the hieromonk shared. - I forgot the details. She said that she died on the operating table in a state of clinical death. I saw the death certificate and a certificate from a mental hospital about schizophrenia. But “schizophrenia” was never written on the certificates; a code was given. So, someone needed to give her this certificate so that they wouldn’t believe her? She struck me as a normal, calm person. She said that she woke up in the morgue, and the attendant saw her pink legs. I can judge what happened only from her story. I, as a doctor, kept asking her: “How could this be?” She answered: “I don’t know.” She complained about poor sleep and that the authorities were oppressive.
Why did you leave Barnaul? She said that she must testify to the whole world about God.
As a priest, I believe in the miracle of resurrection. I myself recently witnessed how a seriously ill drug addict, dying of AIDS, recovered. I personally saw him in a pre-agonal state. He said, get ready, there is no more than a day left. And suddenly he returns to this world and recovers.
“Klavka was a charlatan”
Priest Andrei Ustyuzhanin said that he and his mother lived on Krupskaya Street, 96, and that they later left Barnaul “by the will of God.”
On Saturday, November 12, dogs barked loudly from behind the fence of this wooden house. The owner of the house, who had once bought the house from the Ustyuzhanins, said she was ill and refused any conversations. But her neighbor, hearing that they were interested in Ustyuzhanina, could not stand it:
- This is a swindler, this Klavka. A common swindler. She told everyone that she had been resurrected, people began to come to her, thinking that she was a saint. If the bent-over grandmother arrived empty-handed, she wouldn’t let him in, but if they arrived with trunks of gifts, she would let him in. They put her in the bathroom, wash her, and then drink the water themselves. Ugh. “After these words, the woman, who did not want to introduce herself, went into the house without saying goodbye.
In Barnaul they didn’t consider this a miracle?
Things took a different turn. But neighbors are neighbors. In neighborly relations, they say, sometimes the devil himself will break his leg. What will the Barnaul priests say about Claudius?
“I don’t know the details of this story well,” said Konstantin Metelnitsky. “I only know that she lay in the morgue for three days, and then was resurrected.” Priest Nikolai Voitovich knows this better.
One of the many stories about the miraculous resurrection says that Claudia saw Nikolai Voitovich in a dream in a suit that he had, but he never put it on. She also said that Father Nikolai advised hiding medical certificates away.
“There was nothing like that,” says priest Nikolai Voitovich. “And she didn’t show me the death certificate.” She had clinical death, I spoke with the doctors afterwards. And she could, of course, see different pictures when she recovered from anesthesia. When she showed up, I didn’t pay any attention to her stories. Then, during a sermon in Tomsk, the priest spoke about the “Barnaul miracle”; crowds of people came here from Tomsk. But in
Barnaul does not consider this a miracle.
From a telephone interview with Andrey Ustyuzhanin:
“My mother, I remember, did not have a good relationship with my father Nikolai Voitovich. And the fact that they say that she sold water from herself is a slander. Imagine, these were the 60s, when religion was treated very harshly. She was not involved in selling water...
In those days the morgue was empty
The incredible story of the resurrection includes the real names of very respected doctors in the city: Neimark, Alyabyeva. Unfortunately, neither Israel Isaevich nor Valentina Vasilievna are alive. One of Alyabyeva’s colleagues from the 3rd city hospital said that she had not heard any story from her about Claudia Ustyuzhanina.
“How tired of all this already,” Alexander Neimark, son of Israel, shared over the phone
Isaevich, chief urologist of the region, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor. “It was an abnormal woman who was chasing my father.” In those days, patients did not die at all. There are no entries in the log book. She experienced clinical death while receiving anesthesia. They started the heart - that’s all the miracle. After that they called my father. He wrote how it all happened in one letter to the editor. Natalya Vasilyeva, who at that time was the editor of the medical university publishing house, quoted this letter in one of her articles.
“The stories of priests generally make me shiver,” the militant atheist Vasilyeva honestly admitted. “I don’t trust this public.” Their specialty is lying.
According to Vasilyeva, at the beginning of the “miracle” there was an unhappy woman, clearly with a not entirely healthy psyche, inventing fables about herself and, probably, believing in them herself. Then fans who believe in her holiness come to her for “holy water” and tell others about her. And, finally, sensation-hungry journalists who completed the job.
One of the stories, recorded from the words of Claudia Ustyuzhanina, even says that the Jewish professor wanted to kill her after her resurrection.
Letter from Professor Neimark
A copy of Israel Isaevich Neimark’s letter is kept by his student, Doctor of Medical Sciences, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences Yakov Naumovich Shoikhet. This letter was written in 1998 after the publication of the “Barnaul miracle” in one of the central newspapers. Here are fragments from it:
“In February 1964, Klavdiya Ustyuzhanina was admitted to the faculty clinic of the Altai Medical Institute on the basis of the railway hospital, headed by me, for an operation on the referral of oncologists with a diagnosis of transverse colon cancer. At the clinic, the patient was operated on under endotracheal anesthesia. During induction of anesthesia, cardiac arrest occurred. Resuscitation measures were immediately taken, and quickly, within two minutes, it was possible to restore cardiac activity. During the operation, a large inflammatory conglomerate was discovered emanating from the transverse colon, compressing and impeding its patency. No cancer metastases and 1.5 liters of pus mentioned in the article were found. A fistula is placed on the cecum to drain gases, intestinal contents and create conditions for eliminating the inflammatory process. Thus, cancer was excluded. The picture corresponded to the inflammatory process. The entire operation lasted 25 minutes.
After the operation, the patient was unconscious for two days. She was in the intensive care ward under the constant supervision of doctors and nurses. She was breathing on her own and her heart was beating normally. Then she regained consciousness and began to wonder what was found during the operation and what was done to her. I personally talked to her many times and convinced her that she did not have cancer, but had inflammation, and when it subsided, her fistula would be closed. But she didn’t believe me, because she often talked about this topic and told me that she was having a boy, Andrei. There is no father, and if she has cancer, she must think about how to arrange it. I assured her that there was no cancer and there was no need to do anything, that she would raise and raise her son herself.
Consequently, Claudia Ustyuzhanina did not die either on the operating table or after the operation, so there was no need for her to be resurrected. I don't understand how she could show the death certificate and medical history. I also doubt that she was a “convinced atheist,” she often prayed in the hospital, and God helped her - her heart activity quickly recovered, and there was no cancer. Subsequently, Ustyuzhanina recovered. The tumor shrank and resolved. At the city hospital, Dr. V.V. Alyabyeva sewed up her fistula, and the patient completely recovered. On the eve of the operation, Valentina Vasilievna called me on the phone, and I told her that the inflammatory tumor had resolved. V.V. knew before the operation that the patient did not have cancer. <…> As for Ustyuzhanina, she came up with a legend about how she rose from the dead. At the same time, the legend changed all the time. At first she spread the word that she had died, and they carried her, naked, into the cold into the morgue, where the corpses lay. The hospital guard came, dropped the bucket, and she woke up. The soul flew to the market (Ustyuzhanina worked in trade), an angel met her and ordered her to return to Claudia, and she came to life. In fact, at that time no one died in the railway hospital, there were no corpses, and there were never guards in the hospital at all.
Ustyuzhanina promoted her holiness and organized a business, carried out ablutions and sold the used water as holy. Her public appearances were accompanied by rude antics and curses in public places of the city addressed to me and the employees of the railway hospital with a completely anti-Semitic connotation.
Articles similar to the one you published appeared many times in different newspapers, but with different versions of fabrications... It is clear to me that the initiator of these speeches is her son Andrei, who now serves as a priest at the Holy Dormition Convent of Alexandrov. One has to wonder how, for 20 years after the death of his mother, he exaggerates the legend she invented to create popularity and fame for himself. Moreover, in all these publications there is a hint of anti-Semitism...
Over many years of surgical activity, this is the only case in my practice when I have to prove the absurdity of such a publication. I could never imagine that you could publish this nonsense and become like the tabloid press... By doing this you caused the deepest offense and mental trauma that you did not deserve.”
It was not Neymark who started the operation!
“Israel Isaevich himself did not start the Ustyuzhanina operation,” said Yakov Naumovich Shoikhet. Another experienced surgeon, his student, operated. But before he could begin the operation, induction anesthesia was given, and the patient went into cardiac arrest. Cardiac activity was restored quickly, and the question arose of what to do next. The patient had intestinal obstruction. Someone had to take responsibility for continuing the operation after clinical death. They called Neimark, he gave instructions to save. The operation continued. They opened the abdomen, found an infiltrate that compressed the transverse colon, brought it out, and allowed the intestinal contents to exit through another opening. In fact, this saved the patient’s life. Everything was done so that later, when the intestinal obstruction passed, it would be possible to restore intestinal patency. So that a person can walk naturally and not live with his intestines out. They even foresaw this. Thanks to Neimark, the patient not only recovered, but did not remain disabled.
And then this version of “resurrection” was born. I don’t even dare to judge who first created it. Of course, partly it came from her. First she said one thing, then another. In the end, she stated that she was opened at the morgue. But every physician knows that during an autopsy, organs are isolated and a piece of tissue from each organ is taken for histological examination.
My attitude towards this woman will still be like a patient who has undergone a serious operation. As to the suffering one. Despite the fact that she repaid the doctors with black ingratitude. At that moment, the doctors did absolutely everything extremely competently with a good prognosis for the future. Israel Isaevich looks here not just as an experienced, competent surgeon, but also as a courageous person who took upon himself the decision to continue the operation after clinical death. Further waiting could lead to intestinal necrosis. By delaying surgery in such cases, we endanger the patient's life. It is in such situations that a true surgeon emerges. There was an interesting episode in the life of Israel Isaevich, when the issue of an operation with a risk to the patient’s life was also decided. And without surgery there was no chance of recovery at all. He gathered all the surgeons: what are we going to do? It’s scary to operate, and not to operate means not to take advantage of the chance. Everyone spoke for an hour and a half. He says: “Think well and come to a conclusion, and I’ll go and work.” Gone. He returned an hour and a half later: “What conclusion did you come to?” - "Do a surgery". - “I already did that.” He was an amazing man. He combined the Leningrad school and the features of a surgeon who had served at the front. He was an active field hospital surgeon throughout the war. You rarely see people of such culture and such power these days.
And everything that then unfolded is dirty. And he took the fire, despite the fact that his student performed the operation. And the student did everything correctly, I repeat. The real intellectual Israel Isaevich did not respond to attacks in the yellow press. He was offended by an article in a national newspaper, a newspaper that he loved. He waited until his death for a response from the editor, but never received it... (We deliberately do not name the newspaper in question. Perhaps our colleagues will later repent).
