Every year, thousands of bodies are added to the list of unidentified human remains in the United States. Sometimes the dead match the descriptions on the list of missing people. Others remain nameless. According to estimates local press and actively updated blogs about murders, total number victims reach 40 thousand, but not a single figure can be called accurate. When a body is discovered whose facial features are deformed by pre-mortem trauma or cadaveric decomposition, law enforcement agencies turn to a forensic expert, who reconstructs the face from the found remains.

Using fiberglass, clay and intuition, a forensic artist works a mold directly onto the deceased's skull, creating a portrait of an unidentified victim. The reenactment is then photographed, the pictures are circulated in the hope of identifying the victim, and sometimes the coroner's office receives a call from someone who recognizes the victim as a neighbor, co-worker or daughter. Some murder cases are solved, others remain cold cases.

New York-based photographer Arne Swenson has traveled around the United States taking portraits of clay faces that are kept in cabinets at morgues and police stations, waiting for someone to identify them.

Not identified. Partially decomposed body found May 6, 1999 in Chastain Park, Atlanta, Georgia. The man had a plastic bag over his head and his head was loosely tied to a tree.

Swenson told Buzzfeed about how his photo project began. "Taking medical and pathological specimens at the Mütter Museum, a medical XIX Museum century in Philadelphia, I came across a surprising object: a sculpture of a woman's head lying on its side on one of the shelves of a warehouse. The sculpture wore 1980s-style glasses and a brown wavy wig; her lips were parted, and her heavy-lidded eyes behind the glasses were half-closed. She looked completely lost and seemed out of place anomaly in this warehouse filled with historical medical instruments, apparatus and bones. I took the head to the director of the museum, who told me that it was a sculptural reconstruction of a face for forensic purposes.”

Unidentified. Found in a field on April 26, 1991 in Vacaville, California. The woman was either strangled or strangled, and her body was found two to four weeks later.

The photographer found other faces, but the first one remained his favorite. “She was my guide to a world that I didn’t know existed. Her name was Linda Keyes,” Swenson says.

Identified: Aaliyah Davis. In 1982, she was found in a pipe under a bridge in southwest Philadelphia, seven months after her death. She was 5 years old and was beaten to death by her stepfather in the presence of her own mother. The girl's biological father identified her from this reconstruction.

“From a logistical point of view, the task of tracking down forensically reconstructed faces has been difficult because there are not many surviving examples. And when I found a few heads - mostly through sites dedicated to identifying the unidentified - it was not easy to access them."

Identified: Yesenia Nungaray. On May 1, 2003, the body of a 16-year-old girl was found in a canvas bag thrown behind a restaurant in Alameda County, California. She died of suffocation when someone shoved a cloth gag down her throat 10 days before her body was found. Her mother identified her from a reconstruction. In 2007, a man was found guilty of her murder, but he is still a fugitive.

“I had to go through many levels of law enforcement representatives, each time explaining and justifying my project. Ultimately, I was given permission to take photographs, but sometimes they refused the opportunity to film reconstructions.”

Identified: Linda Keys. On November 9, 1980, her whitish, almost intact skeleton was found in a forest belt along the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Charred personal belongings were found near him. Her father identified the girl from a reconstruction photograph published in a local newspaper. The cause of death was never established. Linda was 23 years old.

“This series of photographs was taken in police stations, morgues and coroner's offices. I was shooting with a wide-format studio camera and couldn’t carry it with me. a large number of equipment, so it was often necessary to use the available lighting, which could vary from a single light bulb to a wonderful illumination of the operating room.”

In an attempt to identify the emaciated and mutilated body of a young boy found in cardboard box in Pennsylvania on February 25, 1957 (still unsolved mystery, known as "The Boy in the Box"), reconstruction artist Frank Bender created a purported portrait of the boy's father at the time of the child's disappearance. The boy and his father remain unidentified.

“I had to shoot quickly. When I was located in a room that is usually used for organ procurement, I had to vacate the room with all my equipment in a few minutes if a donor organ showed up.”

Identified: Tammy Vincent. Body found fully clothed on the beach in Tiburon, California on September 26, 1979, the same day she died. The girl was beaten, stabbed with a knife, doused with acetone, set on fire, and then shot in the back of the head. Her face was so burned that identification was impossible. The murder investigation is still not completed.

“Most of the reconstruction sculptures end at the neck, but so that the viewer perceives the reconstruction as a person, I created the feeling that there is the rest of the body beyond the frame.”

Not identified. Found on September 11, 1992 in a wooded area near railroad tracks in Atlanta, Georgia. The man had two Canadian quarters in his pocket. He died five months before the body was found. The cause of death has not been established.

“I built the shoulders from what was at hand (pieces of wood, medical products, hanger), and dressed the bust in a shirt, often his own.”

Not identified. The body was found by a man walking his dog on January 24, 1988. The skeletal remains lay in a concrete-lined pit on the grounds of the defunct Publicker Industries oil refinery in south Philadelphia, along with the skeleton of a six-month-old fetus. A neighbor identified the woman as Jeanette Thumb, but DNA tests were inconclusive. No one else provided any information about the unidentified victim.

“Filming facial reconstructions made by forensic scientists was incredibly difficult for a number of reasons. Firstly, it is a reconciliation with the fact that I am dealing with the remains of men, women and children who were not only killed, but whose identity is not established, since soft tissues, skin, muscles, eyes and so on were damaged "

Identified: Mayra Juliana Reyes Solis. On November 7, 2001, the bodies of eight women were found in a shallow grave in a city parking lot in Chihuahua, Mexico. Since 1993, more than 450 women have been killed in the state of Chihuahua, and these crimes remain unsolved and the perpetrators go unpunished. A private foundation asked Frank Bender to do six renovations. Of these, two women were identified.

“This knowledge alone gave this series of photographs an unusual significance and intense sadness. I also felt a huge burden of responsibility, knowing that through my photographs, perhaps one of these nameless people would be identified and able to return home.”

Not identified. Found on February 23, 2000 by an engineer surveying a forested area in Fulton County, Georgia. Nobody knows how long the body lay there. The skeletal remains were partially buried, wearing a sleeveless T-shirt and a pair of Nike sneakers, and an empty wallet in the pocket of his blue jeans. The cause of death has not been established.

“My goal with this project is not only to bring the reconstructions into reality, but also to humanize them. Obviously, these photographs are photographs of lifeless sculptures, but my goal is to make the viewer see humanity in the reconstructions, and not just clay faces. And perhaps see them as someone similar to a lost friend or loved one, and begin to ask questions that will help us understand who it is and who killed them.”

Identified: Jerell Willis. On May 27, 1994, the decomposed body of a 4-year-old boy was found in an empty parking lot under the Benjamin Franklin Bridge in Philadelphia. The naked body was wrapped in sheets and stuffed into a bag. The boy died from heavy blows to the head; there were marks of old and fresh blows on him, indicating beatings. In 2005, his uncle identified him from a reconstruction. In 2007, his mother was sentenced to five years in prison for helping to dispose of the child's body. Her husband was accused of killing her stepson.

Not identified. The body was found on September 19, 1979, in a sewer between 21st and Bellevue Streets in north Philadelphia. The skull was crushed and the body was covered with alkali.

Not identified. Found by deer hunters on October 24, 2003, lying face down in a wooded area six miles west of Williams, Arizona. She had one bruise on her head. The woman died two or three weeks before her body was found. Despite some features(including about $20,000 worth of dental work), she remains unidentified.

Just the other day I came across a note on the Internet that a video was circulating online with footage of the “burial” of unidentified and unclaimed bodies in Kemerovo. I also found and decided to watch the story, which caused a scandal and even What -like an investigation at the regional level.

Well say? I personally think our time is really cruel and cynical. There are all sorts of wars going on around us all the time, terrorist attacks are being committed, children are being killed and raped, and many other terrible crimes are being committed. All this is filmed and, it seems, With with some pleasure they show it on television and post it on the World Wide Web. And yet, this not-at-all-bloody Kemerovo video really shook me.

Funeralunidentifieddead in Russia

The author of the video filmed a man throwing coffins from a tractor trailer into a common trench. They fall there at random, break, open. This video, as I understood thanks to my further searches, was shown on the Russia 24 TV channel in Vesti. They also voiced one of the main versions of the Kemerovo authorities: they allegedly buried biological waste, that’s why everything looked like that.

I wonder since when have we disposed of biowaste (that is, amputated limbs, embryos after miscarriages and abortions) directly in coffins? These are new GOSTs, SanPiNs or municipal institutions Is it just that there is nowhere to put the government dominos?

You know, it’s one thing when various atrocities end up on the conscience of criminals and other inferior individuals. Or when there is a war between irreconcilable opponents who hate each other, kill and mock each other bodies . It's crazy, but at least somehow understandable.

But this is completely different. DEAD PEOPLE were thrown into pits like garbage by representatives of the city ritual service - in fact, government officials. It’s terrible when the Motherland (in the person of its official representatives) considers this normal and justifies its institution, which was caught doing such a disgusting activity.

Federal legislation

requires a completely different attitude even to unidentified corpses , and the treasury allocates for This money is for other, normal funerals. Let it be without sentimentality, without a funeral service in the church, but human. Storage and burial of unclaimed and unidentified bodies are regulated by Article 8 of the current Federal Law“On burial and funeral business” dated January 12, 1996. According to her, in special cases body can be stored in morgue up to 7 days, and if the special representative is busy wanted relatives, this period is extended to a maximum of 14 days. This person is usually a representative of the police department.

For burial, a forensic report and permits from the police are required. If dead body not criminal, but all officials know, What the deceased is homeless, the time of his stay in morgue , in principle, can be obviously reduced to the usual 3 days. But the latter happens, alas, rarely, since funds for the burial of nameless dead are received irregularly and are often used not entirely for their intended purpose. It happens that additional delays occur due to the police, from whom they do not give necessary documents: once born. Sometimes, no one needs them bodies are transferred upon request to medical universities for scientific and educational purposes.

One of my friends With not romantic, but important profession pathologist, introduced me to the difficult everyday life of workers morgue , To
who take care of, among other things, street children corpses . Their ( dead bodies, and not workers) are usually stored in a separate room, much less civilized than the “front room” where the dead and their relatives lie. I will give a brief informational certificate from a friend almost without changing the vocabulary.

“They lie, my dears, homeless people, homeless people. Undressed (well, this is understandable: we come into this world naked and we leave naked into the next), dirty, smelly. And who will wash them, who needs it? There are not enough refrigeration units, so What The aroma, you understand, is not violet. Especially in the summer, when the heat is around 30 Celsius. Sometimes even the orderlies don’t want to go into the compartment because the stench hurts the eyes. And the ritualists generally vomit in the bushes. Can you imagine With what kind of flight do they take off from there? ordinary people who come for identification, are they looking for their missing ones? That is if they still have time to jump out. It's easy to faint. And it’s good if the funeral team takes these blue corpses to permanent place residence. It often happens like this, What We have them lying around for two weeks or more. Either there was no paperwork for them from the prosecutor's office or the police, or there was no money for the funeral. Now, however, it has become better. And about five years ago we even had to write reports to the authorities: they say, we will be forced to close morgue due to unsanitary conditions. Then only the stirring began.”

Whichcorpsesare consideredunidentified?

Unclaimed people include those whom, for some reason, their loved ones or relatives do not want to take for funeral, or not at all. These include stillborn children whose corpses were not taken by their parents. And unidentified dead people arrive at morgues are completely nameless and without documents, often withstreets or from hospitals. They are considered:

• homeless people, that is, homeless people (competent persons immediately recognize them by their characteristic appearance);
• criminal corpses , found without documents;
• not criminal (the person died of natural causes, which was confirmed by an autopsy) without documents, if no one identified them and found them in due time.

Bodyaccording to the rules, it will not be considered unidentified if at least one person appears by the time of its official inspection and description, which reliably identifies the deceased. Otherwise, dead body officially declared unidentified, he is photographed, fingerprinted and subject to state genomic registration. All this is regulatedPart 2 of Article 178 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation, but does authorized investigator-inquirer. He is the one doing wanted due to the discovery corpse.

Burying the nameless dead

Usually municipal funeral enterprises are municipal unitary enterprises. Money is allocated from the budget for this procedure. The amounts vary in different regions, but they are always small: usually somewhere from 6 to 8 thousand per burial. This money should go towards a simple wooden coffin, clothing, digging a grave, transporting the body to the cemetery, the burial itself and a plaque - no name, but With number assigned to the deceased. The burial number can then be used to identify the burial if relatives show up looking for their deceased.

Body The deceased in a coffin is usually delivered to the finished grave on special transport of the enterprise. The gravediggers lower it into a hole, bury it and place a sign above the mound with the same registration number and (sometimes) information about the hospital from which it camebody. The burial place for rootless people is determined in a special section of a cemetery.

Cremate them immediately corpses prohibited by law. After all, later there may be relatives who want to exhume the deceased for identification and re-interment in the family plot. However after 5 years, cemetery workers can exhume bodythemselves for their subsequent cremation. This is usually done, since areas for homeless people are small and, alas, fill up quickly. The ashes are taken away from the crematorium and placed in a mass grave at this or another designated graveyard. And the place for a new burial of the unknown becomes free again.

Information about such deceased

They are usually stored in the archives of the cemetery, to which a plot for the unknown is assigned. tel .All available data is recorded in special journals. If relatives are still found, they can rebury the deceased, or they may not touch him, but erect a monument at the site of a certain grave With photograph, cross, bring wreaths. Most likely they will not be allowed to make a fence.

Once I had the “fortune” to find out (and see!) how and where homeless people are buried. It all started With tragedy that happened in the family of my good friends. Their son Seryozha disappeared. He was, as they say now, problematic. I drank, used, it seems, some psychotropic drugs. He was the black sheep of the family. His parents (his father is a retired professor and his mother is a former librarian), nevertheless, loved him, pitied him and tried with all their might to help him somehow escape into normal life. In his last months, he lived in their house and constantly made scandals, demanded money and understanding.

And then he left home, went to another city. But sometimes he called his parents, and then disappeared completely. We all - their friends and loved ones - were looking for this prodigal son, and found him already in the cemetery for unknown people. I was, as it happened, at the head of all these searches, so I went through all the stages and authorities associated with wanted missing people. As a result, I was in morgue at the identification of the body, and at the graveyard site for the homeless and unidentified

Morgue was in itself a completely ordinary unpleasant place. But the room where the dead bodies that no one wanted were kept turned out to be simply disgusting. There is some suspicious dirt around. The stench of decay tel literally penetrated the brain; a scented handkerchief pressed to the nose did not help at all. What they showed me for identification was cyanotic and puffy, not much like the deceased I had seen many times. Fortunately, none of these dead poor fellows turned out to be the son of my friends.

As a result of various complex actions, we found his hypothetical grave in a section of the city cemetery intended specifically for homeless people.

This place turned out to be at the farthest end of the cemetery, almost in the forest. It was just a funeral day. In my presence, several gnarled coffins were brought to the final resting place at once, which they quickly threw into holes and buried with jokes and jokes. The graves were decorated, as expected, with iron numbers on sticks.

Moreover, the sticks were wooden. I wonder, when they rot and the numbers drop, how will possible loved ones manage to find their own grave? I was lucky: the stick I needed did not have time to rot and I found “my” number. All that remains is to survive the exhumation. morgue To be honest, this procedure turned out to be worse than identification in , after all, more than a month and a half has already passed since the funeral. The coffin was pulled out of a shallow hole and opened. The dead man turned out to be the same one. It would be better if I didn't see him. He was dirty and naked. As it turned out earlier, he not only died, but was hit by a car. with blood on their hair, and they didn’t even close their eyes.

In fact, I'm sure: funeral services are not available everywhere with unidentified bodies as terrible as what happened withthe late Seryozha. And just like they filmed it near Kemerovo. Surely many ritualists do their work honestly. Burial of the deceased, even a stranger, for normal people has always been an important duty. Any religion talks about death and seeing off the dead bodyas a great sacrament, not to fulfill which is a sin. But I periodically dream of the bloody dead Seryozha, covered in earth and With with open eyes. And then I wake up and think: “Well, what else can you expect from people who lost God many years ago and never truly returned to him? But all this will fall on them as a terrible punishment. Why aren’t they scared?”

"Help identify the corpses unknown people"- law enforcement agencies make such requests to the media quite often. Some bodies remain unknown for several years. They were buried long ago in a common grave. But who it was was never found out. Others still have relatives.

A similar story happened to Alena (name changed). When the girl grew up, she stopped communicating with her mother, who suffered from alcoholism and led an antisocial lifestyle. Alena moved away. Beginnings new life. About four years ago, Alena’s mother disappeared. Despite the strained relationship, the girl decided to find her. I wrote a statement to the police and found out that my mother had been dead for almost six months.

Alena identified her from a photograph. At first I wanted to get my mother’s body out of the common grave, but I decided that it was not Orthodox to disturb the dead. Alena organized the wake. The woman's body remained in the cemetery of the nameless.

But Zhazgul (name changed) still reburied her son. The guy, unlike the previous heroine, was an example of good upbringing. The trouble happened to him when he left his friend. The guy had a heart attack and died. The body was taken to the morgue. For unknown reasons, Zhazgul was able to find her son too late, when he was already lying in a common grave with unidentified bodies. The unfortunate mother had to dig him up and bury him again with all honors.

No money to bury

As the Republican Center for Forensic Medicine said, all unidentified bodies (including a contingent of people without a fixed place of residence) found in Bishkek are sent to them for examination.

In 2015, 229 corpses of unknown persons passed through the center, of which 149 were buried unidentified. Relatives identified some and took the bodies for burial. Others were identified, but not taken: it was too expensive to bury and there was no money. The relatives wrote a waiver and the body went to a common grave.

According to the deputy director of the Republican Center for Forensic Medicine, Ernis Akunov, these are isolated cases, but they do happen.

They are taken away as the morgue fills up.

"Unknown, unidentified persons are in our custody. The refrigeration chamber of the morgue is a room in one corner of which there is a refrigeration unit that supports a certain temperature regime. According to all standards, the camera is designed for 15-20 bodies. However, since there are no other places to save, it also goes huge pressure, sometimes the number of corpses reaches 40, and sometimes 50,” said Ernis Akunov.

He explained that the burial of abandoned, unclaimed bodies is carried out by a municipal enterprise - the Bishkek Agency of Funeral Services at the request of the Republican Center for Forensic Medical Examination, which indicates that a certain number of bodies have accumulated in the morgue that need to be collected.

“We regulate this ourselves. It happens that there are 30 corpses and we cannot accumulate further. Therefore, we begin to submit an application in advance: “We ask you to organize the burial of unidentified and unclaimed corpses", explained Akunov.

Then BARU employees arrive in an on-board vehicle, wrap the bodies in plastic wrap, into which a tag with an identification number is inserted, and bury them in a special square in the southwestern cemetery.

“It happens that we wait a month to collect. And sometimes a large number of bodies are collected in a week. There is a period of about a week for identification, after which we must submit an application for burial. It is inconvenient: organizing a car for two or three unidentified tel. Therefore, we give the bodies time to “collect themselves,” said the deputy director of the Center.

Recognized by hair and teeth

According to Akunov, situations when relatives ask for exhumation happen all the time. It happens that relatives come to the morgue after three or four months, or even after six months.

“For each case, we fill out a card of the unknown, where there are photographs, the latest clothing is described, down to special features: teeth, hair, eye color, body structure, defects, post-operative scars, tattoos and everything else, everything is indicated. Quite often people come , identify their relatives. Then we send them further - to other authorities, to law enforcement agencies, which issue an identification report. Relatives, in order to pay tribute, rebury the bodies of their relatives, take them to the villages or bury them in the same cemetery,” said the deputy director of the Republican. Center for Forensic Medical Examination.

He explained that the police have special people who deal with these matters. Law enforcement agencies turn to forensic experts for maps of unknown persons. “Even if we receive an unidentified corpse on the day of death or the next, a forensic expert arrives, takes fingerprints and keeps a file, in case someone identifies it. Also, a forensic expert goes to the scene if someone has died. That is, we are not the only ones involved in identifying corpses,” Akunov said.

The corpses lie there for several years.

As Ernis Akunov said, in Bishkek the situation with the burials of unknown persons is more or less settled. There are also unidentified corpses in the regions; the burial of such persons is carried out through akimiats.

“I won’t name them, but in some areas there are corpses that have been lying in morgues since 2013-14. They are packed in refrigerators. This problem must be solved. But land is a very big shortage,” he said.

There are five bodies in the grave

And in Bishkek, every meter of cemetery land counts. The municipality cannot afford to bury each unidentified corpse separately.

“A hole is dug about three meters deep and five bodies are laid out one on top of the other, after which they are buried. A sign with numbers is placed at the foot. The same numbers are on each body wrapped in a bag. A relative comes, for example, for body number 15. And According to the sign, he is the lowest. They pull him out and it is noted that the body was removed,” explained the deputy director. Republican Center forensic medical examination.

The director of the Bishkek funeral services agency, Ruslan Bochiev, noted that per month his employees at the southwestern cemetery bury 20-30 unidentified people and biological waste in barrel boxes (amputated body parts, dead fetuses, and so on). Information about the bodies is placed in special bottles where it is stored. A tag is placed on the corpse's toe.

“Not so often, but it happens that relatives show up after a few years. Usually in such cases they do not rebury the body. After, for example, five years, it is unrealistic to exhume the remains. They can put a fence on the grave, where their ashes lie loved one and visit him there,” he said.

In the capital, according to Bochiev, the question is that soon there will be nowhere to bury unidentified bodies. “This square of land that we are using is on the verge - there is almost no space. And the cemetery itself will be closed this year, because people have been buried there since 1973. We will move to the village of Grozd. There is also a separate square for the homeless. Then there will be enough land.” , he concluded.

Today's post will focus on identifying a corpse. So, identification of a corpse is an investigative action that is carried out using methods that allows one to establish the identity of a deceased person. Sometimes identification of a corpse may be the only means of establishing the identity of the deceased.

The investigator presents the corpse for identification in the case where the identity of the deceased has not been established at the scene of the incident.

Due to the specifics of this object for identification, it is not subject to the rule on presentation among similar objects (Part 4 of Article 193 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation), however, all other requirements of the criminal procedure law regarding presentation for identification must be observed.

When identifying a corpse, primary attention is paid to special intravital signs (traces of operations and wounds, tattoos, birthmarks, dental features, etc.).

In order to avoid mistakes due to the similarity of the clothes on the corpse and the clothes of the person being sought, it is advisable for persons who knew the deceased well to present the corpse without clothes, covering the body with a sheet and opening its individual parts to demonstrate special features. For persons who knew the deceased little or saw him only once, the corpse is presented in clothes.

As with the identification of living persons, those identifying a corpse must first be interrogated in detail about the characteristics of the person being identified.

The presentation of a corpse for identification can be carried out both at the scene of the incident and in the morgue.

In the first case, the corpse is usually presented for identification after examining the scene of the incident. The corpse is not “dressed” at the scene of the incident; it is presented in the clothes in which it was found.

Often the corpse has to be presented for identification a large number persons So, when a corpse is discovered on the road, it is presented to the residents of the surrounding area. settlements. In these cases, a preliminary interrogation of persons who can identify the corpse is not carried out, since they do not know whose corpse will be presented, however, if the corpse is identified, they are interrogated in detail about the signs by which it was identified.

It is advisable to sequentially present the corpse to several persons, taking measures to prevent their communication with each other and the undesirable influence of the opinions of some on the conclusions of others.

The presentation of the corpse for identification in the morgue is carried out by the investigator. In cases of rapid natural modification of the corpse, as well as damage as a result of an accident, transportation, disfigurement by rodents and predators, before the corpse is presented for identification, it is subjected to a special toilet, and sometimes restoration, which is done after a forensic medical examination, including an expert one.

The presented object (corpse) itself is specific, since the identifying features characterizing a person’s appearance on the corpse quickly change and then quickly disappear.

To identify a corpse along with data on appearance features great importance acquire the victim’s pathological features, scars,
gunshot wounds, skeletal deformities, tattoos. A very valuable circumstance for identifying a person is the properties and characteristics
dental apparatus.

If the corpse is disfigured, then a forensic physician is invited to perform a restoration or “toilet” of the corpse. At the same time, identification of the corpse is complicated by the unusual situation and features of the object itself. One corpse is presented for identification.

If the corpse is not identified, it is recommended to remove the plaster mask from the face, as well as take signal photographs and photograph special features. If a part of a corpse is presented for identification, the same conditions are observed as when presenting a whole corpse.

After presenting the corpse for identification, the investigator, in the presence of witnesses, draws up an identification protocol. At the same time, the correctness of the identification of the corpse is verified by interrogating other persons, as well as with the help of forensic and forensic examinations.

Identification of the corpse. Presentation of a corpse for identification

Launched in Moscow electronic system search for missing people. It's about about people who were admitted to hospitals, but their identity cannot be identified, their whereabouts are unknown to relatives and friends.

The people search system is based on the Find Me portal. The site contains information about height, weight, approximate age, clothing, personal belongings, where people were found and where they are located. At the same time, the data is also sent to the internal affairs bodies and volunteers assisting in the search for missing people.

Due to the confidentiality of information, access to photographs of people is limited. But family and friends can get one-time access to the patient’s image. To do this, on the website you need to click the “…” button and select the “request photo” menu item.

“You will be offered one of three options - contact the MFC closest to you, where upon written request you will be given access to the photo, contact the single window of the Department of Health, or go through authorization through the public services portal of the city of Moscow,” the message says. Online.

About 3.5 thousand people disappear in Moscow every year. Every day, more than 60 people are admitted to city hospitals who cannot report anything about themselves.

Earlier, Sergei Sobyanin supported the idea of ​​​​creating a portal to search for missing people. The mayor announced this at a meeting of the Moscow government presidium.

"About 3.5 thousand people disappear in Moscow every year. Fortunately, most of them are found, but searching for the missing is, of course, a lot of stress for their loved ones. It was created Information system searching for people admitted to hospitals and those who cannot be identified, cannot provide information about themselves, and cannot convey information to family and friends. The main thing is that this information gets into the search engines of organizations that deal with these problems and is available to relatives. At the same time, we must ensure the protection of personal data," Sobyanin said.

Let us remind you that at the beginning of September a joint campaign of “Active Citizen” and “Lisa Alert” started. Along with ongoing surveys on urban issues, signs and photographs of missing people are transmitted to the system.

Targets for people searched for by volunteers of the Lisa Alert squad are available to users localized in the area where the disappearance occurred. In the event of a child's disappearance, all users without exception receive his signs.

Users can note whether they have seen the missing person, find out the phone number where they can contact those who are looking for the person, and also declare their desire to participate in the rescue operation or their readiness to print out leaflets with signs.