Died from the bite of a black mamba. And he accepted death from his beast. Sensitive and risky
About the death of the popular St. Petersburg video blogger, zoologist and serpentologist Arslan Valeev, who ran YouTube channels about wild cats and reptiles. On the eve of his death, Valeev led a stream, during which one could see the consequences of a snake bite. The administrators of his channels and communities stated that it was a black mamba bite.
At the same time, some subscribers believe that Valeev intentionally let himself be bitten because of a conflict with his wife. Subscribers are also concerned about the fate of animals from the blogger's large collection. "Paper" collected everything that is known about the circumstances of Valeev's death and the future of his pets.
Valeev was bitten by a black mamba during a YouTube stream
The death of the St. Petersburg 32-year-old video blogger Arslan Valeev became known on September 25 from a message in his group about wild cats "BobCat TV" on VKontakte.
It followed from the text that Valeev received a bite from one of the most dangerous poisonous snakes in the world - the black mamba, which is part of his extensive collection of reptiles. The bite allegedly occurred while trying to transfer her from the terrarium to a special container that he uses for broadcasts.
At the time of the bite on September 23, the man was streaming on one of his channels. Viewers of the stream called an ambulance, but the bite turned out to be fatal.
After the stream, as reported on the UK website, a 32-year-old man was taken to the Janelidze Research Institute. On September 25, he died without regaining consciousness. The cause of death was determined to be poisoning by a poison of unknown origin.
Valeev was a well-known blogger and serpentologist
As follows from the information on Valeev's page on VKontakte, he is a biologist by education, he worked as a zoologist, he has many years of experience working with exotic animals.
He also worked at the Leningrad Zoo and at the Herpetology Department of the Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences. Valeev took part in the filming of the program "In the world of animals" on Channel One and commented snake-related incidents in the media - for example, the death of a 39-year-old Petersburg woman from a python bite in 2015.
Some subscribers believe that he set the mamba on himself
Some subscribers of Valeev believe that he deliberately set a snake on himself. They put forward their theories in the comments under the videos dedicated to the death of Valeev. As arguments, the participants in the discussions cite the behavior of the blogger, who, after being bitten behind the scenes, returned to the camera with the words “I will die like this.”
Subscribers believe that the conflict between Valeev and his wife could be the cause of the alleged suicide. Before losing consciousness, Valeev dictated the phone number of his wife, Ekaterina Pyatyzhkina, asking subscribers to contact her. There is no stream recording on the channel.
In August, Valeev's wife said that they broke up at the beginning of the year due to beatings on his part.
Valeev led the channel with his wife Ekaterina Pyatyzhkina, but they parted at the beginning of the year.
In August, Pyatyzhkina posted photos of bruises on her body on her Instagram account, claiming that the reason for the separation was constant beatings from Valeev.
Wild animals remained in Valeev's house, including lynxes and poisonous snakes
According to 47News, about 300 snakes and other reptiles, as well as two lynxes, remained in Valeev's house in Vsevolozhsk. The publication claimed that Valeev's mother was looking after them.
Video: 47NewsThe authorities of the Leningrad region refused to intervene in the situation with the animals. The press service of the regional administration told Interfax about this.
Press service of the administration of the Leningrad region:
This is private territory, and, by law, we must not interfere there. We can do this if we are approached by the police or relatives [living in the house]. Animals are in cages. There is no danger of an epidemic now.
The administrators of Valeev's groups and channels reported that they were distributing his pets. Valeev's father says he gave the snakes to the laboratory
The administrators of Valeev's groups report that they are solving problems with the animals that the blogger left behind and urge subscribers not to worry. According to them, some of the animals were handed over to "government bodies" and "Moscow colleagues."
The lynxes were transferred to the Sirin Animal Rehabilitation Center. At the same time, representatives of the center promised that they would continue to upload videos with the participation of lynxes on the BobCat TV channel, and that the videos would be provided to the current administrators of YouTube channels. The center clarified that they had received three lynxes from Valeev's collection.
Arslan's father, Murat Valeev, told the St. Petersburg channel that, through employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he transferred a collection of snakes to a closed serpentarium for scientific research. At the same time, he stated that all poisonous snakes were brought to Russia in circumvention of the law.
Administrators cannot yet
This African snake is highly venomous. At the same time, they were able to bring the victim back to life even without an antidote. How it was done, will tell Ekaterina Ivanova.
Timur Shopovalov hides his face. Worried about the mental health of his neighbors. They don't even suspect who lives through the wall. The homegrown herpetologist has ten snakes in his collection. There are cobras and even a green mamba. Its bite is deadly. And now, the owner did not please her with something.
A lover of exotic assures - he is to blame. Violated safety rules. After the attack, he did not lose his head. He gave himself first aid. I even had to cut a piece of skin.
- He enlarged the wound, bled and went to the ambulance station Timur said.
The doctors gathered a whole council, because in Russia there is no antidote and it is not clear how to treat it. Went through the literature. The prognosis is disappointing. Internal organs fail one after another... The patient was connected to a ventilator. The blood was put on filtration. On the verge of life and death, Shapovalov spent three days in intensive care.
“Given that the snake is rare and extremely toxic, we decided to put the patient into drug sleep,- said Aliya Nasibulina, a toxitologist at the City Clinical Hospital No. 7.
A unique case will certainly be included in the textbooks. Experts do not believe that this is even possible. Vladimir Cherlin at one time also kept poisonous pets at home. For example, a doctor of biological sciences brought a cobra from a business trip. But he got a fatal bite at work. A rattlesnake almost sent the scientist to the next world.
- This was the first time that a snake bit in a zoo in St. Petersburg. The hospitals didn't know how to help at all,- says Doctor of Biological Sciences Vladimir Cherlin.
We've tried everything we can. It took almost a year to heal.
Poisonous snakes at home are like playing Russian roulette. The nature of reptiles is bad. If they run away, they might attack. The instinct of a predator - and there's nothing you can do about it. Dangerous reptiles are afraid to keep even in the zoo. Now there are no poisonous snakes in St. Petersburg. Officially. But, in private collections you can find many curious specimens. A blogger from St. Petersburg kept three hundred potential killers. And he himself decided to die from the bite of a black mamba. And, live. In such a non-trivial way, he decided to take revenge on his wife.
According to experts, anyone can be bought on the black market. Timur Shapovalov refused to name his supply channels. But he assured that he would tie up with a deadly hobby. On the second bite of health may not be enough. But where to put the pets, he does not know yet. Just like that, it is unlikely to give in good hands.
"Actually I'm dying. Farewell", - almost the last words that subscribers heard from 32-year-old video blogger from St. Petersburg Arslan Valeev. Live he was bitten by a black mamba. And hundreds of people watched the consequences within a few minutes. Moving away from the shock, they called an ambulance. But this did not save Arslan Valeev. A victim of black mamba venom should immediately be given an antidote. Otherwise (as happened with the video blogger), death is inevitable. Despite its abilities, this African snake, as a rule, tries to avoid contact with a person. Freezes in hope that they will not notice her and pass by. And she becomes aggressive only when, in fact, she is provoked. Arslan Valeev could not help but know about this. Exotic animals, including snakes, were his specialization. Actually, he was dedicated to them why did he actually make the black mamba bite?
At 13, I bought a snake on Ptichka, secretly from my parents, at 18 I entered the biological faculty. Then there were years of work for private companies, a zoo, a public about wild cats and a channel about reptiles. Tiger cubs, lizards, spiders and, of course, snakes lived in his house. The main passion of life and at the same time the cause of death. The network is still discussing the shocking news.
Zhenya Kush: " It's time to do what needs to be done". He got up and left to be bitten. Nobody was embarrassed by this moment? And after that it's not a suicide?"
Igor Nikitin: " Sophia, he teased her on purpose to bite her. It was all done for show.".
Danila Volkov: "Richard, suicide or accident, it's not up to you! You signed up for them a year ago, I also signed up a year ago, and so what?".
Many are sure: Arslan Valeev died intentionally. This version has its own reasons: at the end of the fatal broadcast, after the bite, the blogger dictates the phone of his ex-wife and talks about his desire to see her before his death. The episode has been removed from the public domain.
At the same time, the history of the couple's relationship is still on the Web. One of the resources even made a selection - from screenshots from Instagram to medical certificates and police reports. Most are the posts of the deceased himself, in which he accuses the ex-wife of treason. It is curious that they were specially removed from the archive of the Network. The blogger himself deleted them - in response to criticism from subscribers who considered that the author's personal life was not a place in a public about wild cats.
However, from the very beginning she was in front of everyone: Ekaterina Pyatyzhkina is also a video blogger. Arslan and Ekaterina ran a public page about cats together for a long time, where they answered questions from the audience: who lives at their house, is it difficult to take care of such pets, and where is it better to buy them. Note that Arslan - both then and later, when he began to maintain his own blog, warned enthusiasts about the dangers of wildlife for humans at home. And at the same time, he showed quite dangerous tricks to the camera. For example, there was a video in which a blogger himself bites a black mamba.
“This snake can be up to 4.5 meters long,” says herpetologist Vladislav Starkov. “Well, where can you keep it at home? There are no special aesthetic virtues in this particular snake. There are beautiful snakes, poisonous. "You can't hold a snake like that. Why did he hold it like that? I don't know."
It's strange, but still: now it's a trend - both for television and for YouTube. “On one major western channel about wildlife, the presenter really wanted to dance with a huge king cobra and be sure to kiss her,” says naturalist journalist Alexander Khaburgaev. “He kisses her, says:“ Yes, I did it! ”This is the finale. But it was clear that this cobra had gums sewn up with harsh threads, she could not even open her mouth! But some not very distant person would look at this and want to repeat it. This is what we must fight against. "
“Negative is a marketing ploy: the more likes you get, the more comments, the more likely it is that your channel will be advertised, or companies will provide you with any barter services,” explains Maria Shakhova, head of the PR agency.
The fact that there would be no chance to survive, Arslan Valeev, probably, if he did not know, then guessed. Long years of work with reptiles and specialized education should have prompted: there is no antidote for the bite of a black mamba in our hospitals. Well, the nature of the snake suggested: it’s better not to appear on the air with it, because it is the black mamba, unlike its relatives, that most often reacts to human movements.
The blogger was taken to the hospital in an ambulance, which was called by his fans during the broadcast. They tried to help. So, there is hope: we have not lost everything yet.
This material was published on the BezFormata website on January 11, 2019,below is the date when the material was published on the site of the original source!
The host of TV and video broadcasts often risked his life, but everyone was so convinced of his invulnerability that the news of his death was a real shock for many fans. Arslan Valeev was...
The host of TV and video broadcasts often risked his life, but everyone was so convinced of his invulnerability that the news of his death was a real shock for many fans. Arslan Valeev was a famous Russian blogger whose videos were breathtaking for many. It seemed that the guy was not afraid of anything at all! He is best known for the big wild cat community BobCat TV and the Exotrium video channel about snakes and other reptiles.
It was another live broadcast of Arslan Valeev, in which he decided to tell his subscribers about such a dangerous mammal as the black mamba (the poison of this reptile instantly kills an adult). During his story, the young man became so carried away that he himself provoked a black mamba to sting his hand.
It should be noted that the man was indeed in a very absent-minded state. This terrible incident was preceded by a major quarrel with his wife. Arslan suspected her of treason, after which he tracked down the woman and severely beat her. The woman immediately went to the police, where she took off the beatings, and on her Instagram provided not only pictures of her body covered with bruises, but also a document confirming that she had a concussion.
The man was beside himself, he still considered himself right, but Internet users insisted that he make a public apology to his ex-wife. The former, because Catherine did not forgive her husband for such an act. And assuring that she was not guilty of anything, she refused to return to him.
“I have apologized to you more than once. He also apologized publicly. I also apologize to the public, I am not a robot for cleaning up after animals and generating videos, I am a person who is rather weak in character, as I am, ”the blogger wrote on the eve of his death on the air.
Now most of the netizens believe that the video blogger set the snake on himself. And indeed, on the air, he behaved somewhat strangely and kept repeating: “I’ll just stay with you a little. If anything, there's a recording on the phone for Katya. I just read your posts. Tell Katya that I loved her very much. All for now. I can't even believe this is happening to me. This is Katya's phone, if she has time to drive up to me and see me, I would be glad. In fact, I'm already dying. Farewell. But I would be glad to see Katya. I'm shaking," Medialtaks.ru quotes Arslan's last words.
Arslan's subscribers who watched this picture hurried to call an ambulance for him. The doctors who rushed to the place immediately put the young man into an artificial coma, but they could not save him. This incident happened on the night of September 23rd. On September 25, Arslan passed away. All eyewitnesses of the incident claim that the video blogger himself, deliberately and in cold blood, provoked this bite.
Nikolai Drozdov, the permanent TV presenter of the program “In the Animal World”, decided to comment on this situation. According to him, the snake could provoke anything. She is fast and merciless, and on live television, attention is diverted and often dulled.
“On the air, attention is lost, you are distracted by shooting. Very dangerous. I was bitten by a snake the only time, there was a viper on the set, I was in the hospital. It is better not to perform on the air with snakes. Mamba is very dexterous and fast, bites instantly,” said Drozdov.
The channel of the popular St. Petersburg blogger Arslan Valeev has hundreds of thousands of subscribers. A 32-year-old man spoke in his public about big wild cats and exotic reptiles. Spectators could see how Arslan walks a puma cub, or how a cobra eats a white mouse. And the other day, public subscribers had to witness the death of a blogger. Valeev died in front of thousands of viewers during a live broadcast after being bitten by one of the most venomous snakes on earth, the black mamba. For more than a day, doctors fought for the life of a man, but they could not save him.
Black mamba bite
Blogger Arslan Valeev became known to the public thanks to his channel about the life of exotic animals. The 32-year-old Petersburger told subscribers about big wild cats and poisonous snakes and showed their habits and habits. In the video, Valeev played with a cougar cub, stroked a lynx and deftly handled boas and pythons, unraveling a tangle of snakes and distributing them in their places.The blogger's live broadcasts were the most popular. On the night of September 23, Valeev again decided to go live with one of his favorite poisonous snakes - the black mamba. Arslan, as always, turned on the camera and went to get the snake out of the terrarium in order to move it into a special plastic container for online broadcasts. The blogger has done this many times already, but now something has gone wrong. When Arslan took the snake in his hands, she suddenly bit him. The man returned to the computer, showing a bite mark.
The blogger could no longer call an ambulance for himself - his hands were numb.
"I can't believe this is happening to me"
Some viewers at first decided that Valeev was joking with them, but the "prank" was too long. Arslan was getting worse every second. At the same time, the blogger was aware of the tragedy of the situation, because he himself is an expert in keeping poisonous snakes with 20 years of experience.
When bitten by a black mamba, medical attention should be provided immediately. With every second lost, a person's chances of survival decrease. However, Arslan did not stop the broadcast and continued to communicate with the viewers, asking them to contact his wife. “I’ll just stay with you a little bit,” said Valeev. I can't even believe that this is happening to me. Tell Katya that I loved her very much. If she manages to drive up to me and see me, I would be glad. In fact, I'm already dying. Farewell".
Frightened viewers called an ambulance to the blogger. Valeev found the strength to go outside and wait for the arrival of the doctors there. Arslan was urgently hospitalized. Doctors put the man into an artificial coma and fought for his life for more than a day, but they failed to save the blogger. On the afternoon of September 25, Arslan Valeev died.
What will happen to the channel?
Now the fatal broadcast has already been removed from the network, but viewers still cannot forget this last recording of Valeev. “His channel gave so much positive!”, “Looks like a bad dream”, “Like a loved one I lost,” viewers write on social networks.The blogger's pets are supervised. What will happen to Valeev's projects is still unknown. It is possible that the channel about exotic animals will continue to be run by the friends of the deceased man.
“On behalf of the closest relatives, as well as the administration of Arslan Valeev’s resources, we express our deepest gratitude to all those who sincerely empathized during this difficult period and brought words of support to close people from Arslan’s circle of friends,” it is written on the official page of the BobCat TV / Wild cats." - There are many questions about the future fate of the resources, and we understand your concern in this regard. At the moment there is no definite answer, but we, as Arslan's mother, Katya and the absolute majority of viewers and subscribers, would like to further develop those projects that were part of Arslan's life.
The incident with Valeev was not the first in a number of tragic cases with specialists in exotic animals. So, in 2006, the famous “crocodile hunter” Steve Irwin died from a blow to the chest from a poisonous stingray. The death of a man was caught on film: the last moments of the life of an Australian were filmed by a cameraman who swam after him.
31-year-old blogger Arslan Valeev, author of video channels BobCat TV and Private Exotarium dedicated to exotic animals, died on Monday afternoon. The death of a young man came as a result of a black mamba bite, which he received during a live broadcast on YouTube on the night of September 23. After that, Arslan fell into a coma. Doctors fought for Valeev's life, but they failed to save him.
Meanwhile, information is being disseminated on the Internet that shortly before his death, Arslan's mood worsened due to the departure of his wife Catherine. According to some reports, Valeev allegedly was very jealous of her and even beat her the other day, and on the eve of the tragic incident he behaved strangely - he used obscene language and talked about death and pain.
Shortly before the tragic incident, the young man met a good friend Marina, with whom they took the cougar cub to the hospital. Friends celebrated this event. After Arslan's friend left, he again got in touch with subscribers. At some point, Valeev walked away from the computer, and then returned, showing a snake bite.
“Just stay with you for a little bit. If anything, there's a recording on the phone for Katya. I just read your posts. Tell Katya that I loved her very much. All for now. I can't even believe this is happening to me. This is Katya's phone, if she has time to drive up to me and see me, I would be glad. In fact, I'm already dying. Farewell. But I would be glad to see Katya. I'm shaking," said the young man.
The worried viewers of Valeev did not understand what was happening. After some time, an ambulance was called, and the moderators turned off the chat, writing that Arslan was alive. All this time, the subscribers of the young man watched what was happening live and panicked. Then Ekaterina came to the blogger and turned off the broadcast.
The opinions of subscribers about what happened to Arslan differ. Some of them believe that he decided to commit suicide. At the same time, others, on the contrary, believe that Valeev was not going to commit suicide, and his dying speech was not planned and is a shock reaction of the body to a snake bite. In their opinion, the Internet figure was the victim of an accident. Many followers of Arslan urge not to blame Catherine for what happened to him.
Valeev's fans wish him to rest in peace. Internet users write that they do not believe in the sudden death of a blogger. From the outside, nothing foreshadowed trouble. Arslan seemed like a determined young man who genuinely cared about animals. “Remember, love, mourn”, “Please take care of yourself”, “Sincerely condolences”, “It's terrible. Painfully. I hope his soul is at peace. Sleep well, good friend”, “How I lost a loved one”, “Very sad”, “Looks like a bad dream”, “His channel gave me so much positive,” Valeev’s subscribers discuss.
The fact that the blogger broke up with Catherine became known in April of this year. Valeev's subscribers suspected that there were difficulties in his relationship with his wife, and bombarded the young man with questions.
Why so many channels? Where is Katya? Why then? Why is this? Yes, we parted, everything is simple. And with this there are no problems, so, to get rid of unnecessary questions. We share everything slowly, ”Arslan shared a few months ago.
Last Thursday, Arslan publicly apologized to Catherine. The blogger said that he behaved unworthily, omitting impartial remarks about his former lover. Valeev noted that he was hurt and lonely.
“There are no excuses for my statements addressed to you personally, I acted low and stupid, it is extremely far from the ideal, but you must understand, it’s very hard for me now, it’s hard to live within those walls in which we wanted to meet old age, it’s hard to see everything that connected with you and is an obligatory part of my lonely (I have no one!) life, it is very difficult to accept the fact that everything is already behind and nothing can be fixed. And I see that everything has definitely passed for you, a new life has begun with someone you have sympathized with for a long time, ”the blogger addressed Ekaterina.
Valeev also noted that the girl is a wonderful person whom he undeservedly offended. “Not a single impartial statement addressed to you personally has any meaning and weight, all this is a lie from resentment and wild envy, you know this, but not all observers understood this. I've apologized to you over and over again. He also apologized publicly. I also apologize to the public, I am not a robot for cleaning up after animals and generating videos, I am a person who is rather weak in character, as I am, ”Arslan shared.
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31-year-old blogger Arslan Valeev, author of video channels BobCat TV and Private Exotarium dedicated to exotic animals, passed away on Monday afternoon. The death of a young man was due to a bite from a black mamba, which he received during a live broadcast on YouTube on the night of September 23. After that, Arslan was in a coma. Doctors fought for Valeev's life, but they could not save him.
In addition, information is being disseminated on the Web that shortly before his death, Arslan's mood worsened due to the departure of his wife Catherine. According to some reports, Valeev seemed to be very jealous of her and even beat her the other day, and on the eve of the tragic incident he behaved strangely - he used obscene language and talked about death and pain.
On the eve of the tragic incident, Arslan met a good friend Marina, with whom they took the cougar cub to the hospital. Friends celebrated this event. After Valeev's friend left, he again got in touch with subscribers. At some point, Valeev walked away from the computer, and then returned, demonstrating a snake bite.
“Just stay with you for a little bit. If anything, there's a recording on the phone for Katya. I just read your posts. Tell Katya that I loved her very much. All for now. I can't even believe this is happening to me. This is Katya's phone, if she has time to drive up to me and see me, I would be glad. In fact, I'm already dying. Farewell. But I would be glad to see Katya. I'm shaking," said the young man.
The worried viewers of Valeev could not understand what had happened. After some time, an ambulance was called, and the moderators turned off the chat, saying that Arslan was alive. Throughout this time, the subscribers of the young man watched what was happening live and panicked. Then Ekaterina came to the blogger and turned off this broadcast.
The opinions of subscribers regarding what happened to Arslan differ. Some of them believe that he made the decision to commit suicide. At the same time, others, on the contrary, believe that Valeev did not plan to commit suicide, and his dying speech was not planned and is a shock reaction of the body to a snake bite. They note that the Internet figure was the victim of an accident. Many followers of Arslan urge not to blame the ex-wife for what happened to him.
Arslan's admirers wish him to rest in peace. Netizens write that they do not believe in the sudden death of a blogger. It seemed that nothing foreshadowed trouble. Valeev seemed to be a purposeful young man who wholeheartedly cared for animals.
“Remember, love, mourn”, “Please take care of yourself”, “Sincerely condolences”, “It's terrible. Painfully. I hope his soul is at peace. Sleep well, good friend”, “How I lost a loved one”, “Very sad”, “Looks like a bad dream”, “His channel gave me so much positive,” Valeev’s fans discuss.
The fact that the blogger broke up with Catherine became clear in April this year. Valeev's subscribers suspected that difficulties had appeared in his relationship with his wife, and bombarded the young man with questions.
Why so many channels? Where is Katya? Why then? Why is this? Yes, we parted, everything is simple. And with this there are no problems, so, to get rid of unnecessary questions. We share everything slowly, ”Arslan said a couple of months ago.
Last Thursday, Arslan publicly apologized to his wife. The blogger noted that he behaved unworthily, omitting impartial remarks about the ex-lover. The young man said that he was in pain and lonely.
“There are no excuses for my statements addressed to you personally, I acted low and stupid, it is extremely far from the ideal, but you must understand, it’s very hard for me now, it’s hard to live within those walls in which we wanted to meet old age, it’s hard to see everything that connected with you and is an obligatory part of my lonely (I have no one!) life, it is very difficult to accept the fact that everything is already behind and nothing can be fixed. And I see that everything has definitely passed for you, a new life has begun with someone you have sympathized with for a long time, ”the blogger wrote to Ekaterina.
Valeev also said that the girl was a wonderful person whom he undeservedly offended.
“Not a single impartial statement addressed to you personally has any meaning and weight, all this is a lie from resentment and wild envy, you know this, but not all observers understood this. I've apologized to you over and over again. He also apologized publicly. I also apologize to the public, I am not a robot for cleaning up after animals and generating videos, I am a person who is rather weak in character, as I am, ”Arslan noted.
Everything happened so unexpectedly that many of Arslan Valeev's fans still cannot believe what happened. Shortly before the tragedy, the video blogger, along with his girlfriend, took the cougar cub to the doctor, after which the young people decided to celebrate this event. Shortly thereafter, Arslan turned on the YouTube broadcast to chat with his fans. According to eyewitnesses, the guy left for just a few minutes, and then he came and showed a snake bite.
The stunned viewers listened in horror as the video blogger informed them of the approaching death. After that, Arslan showed the phone number of his ex-wife and asked the fans to tell her that he loved her very much. The video blogger said that he would be glad to see her in the end. Soon Ekaterina herself appeared, Arslan's ex-wife, who turned off the broadcast.
Later it became known that due to the bite of a black mamba, the video blogger fell into a deep coma. Doctors made every effort to save Arslan, but, unfortunately, nothing came of them. The news that the blogger has died became known this afternoon. Some of the fans believe that it was suicide, to which the guy was prompted by the separation from his wife.
The host of TV and video broadcasts often risked his life, but everyone was so convinced of his invulnerability that the news of his death was a real shock for many fans. Arslan Valeev was... Presenter...
The host of TV and video broadcasts often risked his life, but everyone was so convinced of his invulnerability that the news of his death was a real shock for many fans. Arslan Valeev was... Presenter...
Photo: Arslan Valeev, photo from Vkontakte page
Arslan from Vsevolozhsk had two seconds to cut off his finger. But the serpentologist stung by the black mamba decided to leave as a scientist and blogger - live. Locals say that the sister of the chief of the Foreign Intelligence Service lives nearby, and counterintelligence evacuated the snakes.
A well-known serpentologist from Vsevolozhsk, Arslan Valeev, died on September 25 at the Janelidze Institute for Emergency Medicine. According to official information from the Investigative Committee for the Leningrad Region, the cause of death was poisoning with a poison of unknown origin. But it is known that two days earlier, he, 31-year-old, was stung by a black mamba, a snake common in central and eastern Africa.
Valeev was stung by a mamba literally on the air. He talked about his condition online on the Youtube channel. In the footage you can see him disheveled. He addresses the "dudes" with the words "I'll die, so I'll die." The serpentologist says that he is "shaking", and also admits that he cannot believe that what is happening happened to him.
There are two versions of the snakeman's deadly bite. According to one, he was stung by a mamba before the start of a live broadcast in which he was supposed to talk about a dangerous reptile. The fact is that the serpentologist was a co-host of the community about wild cats "Bob Cat TV", and also video blogging on the public "Private Exotarium".
"Turning on the camera, as he used to do regularly, he went to get a snake out of the terrarium in order to move it into a plastic container used for broadcasts. In the process of manipulating the snake, a bite was received," - this is how Valeev's colleagues write about the tragedy that occurred on September 23 with " Bob Cat TV.
There is also a second opinion. Arslan could have committed suicide and deliberately set a reptile on himself because of a conflict with his wife Catherine. In the video, the zoologist, who has already received a bite, really asks to tell a certain Katya that he loves her. Perhaps he says this because he is aware of the fatality.
Valeev is well known in the community of serpentologists, not only in our regions, but also in Russia. He has experience of working at the Leningrad Zoo and at the Department of Herpetology of the Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences. A specialist in snakes from the Leningrad region was attracted to participate in his program "In the world of animals" by zoologist Nikolai Drozdov.
Experience with reptiles - almost 20 years. Valeev has repeatedly commented on the tragic cases associated with snakes. So, for example, when a 39-year-old St. Petersburg woman Tatyana Onosova died from the bite of a three-meter python Rimma in June 2015, Valeev called the incident "the greatest rarity." He popularized reptiles as best he could, including poisonous ones. About 300 snakes were kept in his house, as well as lynxes, chihuahuas, not to mention dogs and cats. By the way, one of them, a redhead, yawning, was lying on the bed next to the owner when he talked about his impending death.
47news journalists looked at the house from which Arslan was broadcasting his deadly broadcast. It is located in the eastern part of Vsevolozhsk in the Melnichny Ruchey microdistrict. Modern private sector with a variety of architectural styles and trends. Mushroom of two-three-story halls with outbuildings behind high fences, to which disgusting roads lead. Nearby is an ennobled fire pond with ducks.
The two-storey, red-brick house of the Valeevs, registered to his father Hadji Murad, does not stand out for its beauty, but the structure is solid. The site is large, through from Molodezhnaya street to Otradninskaya. Land Rover and Mercedes-Benz GLA are parked in the yard. An impressive boat with a sticker of the information center of the Naval Board under the Government of the Russian Federation is installed on a trailer nearby. The presence of a watercraft is quite understandable. The head of the family, Khadzhi-Murat Valeev, works as the head of the department of state scientific and technical programs of Okeanpribor Concern JSC. Previously, he was a co-owner of Center for Scientific Research and Innovation of Electrical Systems LLC and Exoil LLC, which was engaged in the production of petroleum products.
Photo: Valentin Ilyushin, 47news
The site is clearly divided into two parts. The first is given to a residential building, and the second, separated by a brown metal fence, houses the exotarium itself. There are enclosures and cages with lynxes. At the fence, the battery of aquariums is unloaded. Near booths and booths for dogs. In the neighborhood, the simple belongings of the owner of the pets are bowls for feeding and toys-rodent. An attempt to graft ivy is visible. Apparently, the owner really had plans to eventually organize something like a private zoo here.
Lights were on in the house. But the hosts did not respond to calls, knocks on the mailbox and shouts. Not only journalists shuddered at the noise in the building, but also animals in cages - two lynxes and one wild spotted cat. Perhaps they just wanted to eat.
The patience of the inhabitants of the house in Mill Creek gave up when the TV crews arrived at the place. It became clear that at least some explanations, but it would be necessary to give.
Guys, don't sit around here, it's really hard for people, that's enough, - a man of Asian appearance in a green jacket came out to reporters.
Valentin Ilyushin, 47news
He introduced himself not as a local, but as a relative of the family.
What about snakes? How many are there, 200-300 pieces? Now, after all, the whole Vsevolozhsk will rise up on its ears, can you calm people down? - the 47news journalist asked a relative.
All the snakes were taken away in the morning. The special service arrived.
- And where to?
To the city zoo.
- And what about the lynxes?
The lynxes will be taken away in the evening, late. Everything's under control. Guys, don't stand here, have pity on the people.
Valeev's neighbors, as it turned out, were not aware that a menagerie was functioning near them. “I only found out about this death yesterday from the news. It’s quiet here. No howling, no growling. But in general, everyone here lives behind high fences, they have little interest in the lives of their neighbors,” Irina, who walks a pug along Otradnenskaya Street, told 47news.
It’s hard to believe in the words of Valeev’s relative that all the blogger’s snakes have already been given to the Leningrad Zoo. The fact is that earlier the director of the zoo, Irina Skiba, told 47news that they would not be able to accept Vsevolozhsk reptiles. “Firstly, we all need documents and certificates, and secondly, we don’t keep poisonous snakes, we simply don’t have specialists and antidotes,” Skiba said, adding that the Moscow Zoo deals with these types of snakes.
It should be noted that, according to 47news, the mamba that sent the serpentologist to the other world has been found, and the FSB was involved in the procedure for exporting the reptiles. Apparently, the snakes left without a host will somehow be disposed of. 47news tried to estimate the cost of these efforts.
One of the St. Petersburg veterinary ritual centers reported that a team of 2-3 people is ready to leave even now for the final showdown with reptiles. Euthanasia or cremation with the subsequent removal of one snake costs 1,000 rubles. But since there is a bill for hundreds of tails, they can give a discount of 200 rubles. Total killing of 300 snakes will cost 240 thousand rubles. In another veterinary center, they said that, in fact, they specialize in the cremation of dogs and cats, but they can also take on snakes. "What difference does it make who, there are 700 degrees and that's it," the source said to 47news. Only here the reptiles were ready to be taken by weight. Cremation of 10 kilograms of biomass costs 1,800 rubles, and if more, then the same discount mechanism is launched.
Vladimir Cherlin, Candidate of Biological Sciences, who worked with Valeev in the exotarium of the Leningrad Zoo, in a conversation with 47news, noted that Arslan was a real professional, an expert in his field. His private collection is the largest in St. Petersburg. However, it is not clear what to do with Vsevolozhsk snakes. Theoretically, non-poisonous ones can be sold among St. Petersburg reptile lovers. But with the poisonous problem. In fact, Arslan was the only one in the city and the region who dealt with poisonous reptiles. There are no more such fans. The question of how such a brood appeared in Vsevolozhsk in general also remains open. The situation is such that today you can get any animal to a private zoo. There would only be money. The presence of permits should be looked at, but no one is looking.
As for Arslan's chances of surviving a mamba bite, there were practically none. The antidote for the bite of this snake can be obtained, but only in Africa. Theoretically, amputation was possible, but it should be literally instantaneous.
"If it's an accidental bite on the finger, then it must be chopped off within two seconds. That's it. Otherwise, you can die from the bite of a simple viper. There is such a thing as" anaphylactic shock "- an allergic reaction of the body to a foreign protein," said 47news Cherlin.
It is interesting that in Melnichny Ruchey there are dachas of relatives of federal officials. In any case, the taxi driver Lenya, who has lived in the village since 1960, pointed at one of the buildings, located a hundred meters from the serpentologist's house, and said that this was the dacha of the sister of the director of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation, Sergei Naryshkin. He found this out when the roads were once again blocked in Vsevolozhsk.
Well, what happened to this biting in the end, ”Lenya asked, driving 47news journalists to the editorial office.
- Died.
The taxi driver paused and concluded:
You probably saw a pond with ducks there. We walk the dog there. I'll call, tell my people to go to another place.
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