Residents Chained and Beaten? Footage Emerges from Prokopyevsk Boarding Home
The lawyer who published the video claims he was subsequently punished in court.
Residents of a psychoneurological boarding home in Prokopyevsk, where nine people died in a month, were allegedly beaten, chained, and fed rotting food. Footage of the alleged abuses was published online, but it is unknown if anyone has been punished for it—the director was not fired, the editorial board of NGS42.RU found out on Thursday, January 29.
Violence against the mentally ill in the social institution was reported several years ago by one of the region«s public organizations. Kuzbass lawyer Alexey Mukhin published footage of young people beaten until they bled, claiming that they are residents of the psychoneurological boarding home (PND) and were punished for disobedience.
«As punishment, they could be prescribed strong medications, forced to work, humiliated, and intimidated,» the lawyer wrote in the fall of 2025.
According to public activists and Mukhin himself, the resident in the video was severely beaten and put on a chain as a theft prevention measure. However, the author of the video did not specify whether this was done by the staff or by the residents themselves.
The authorities of Kuzbass confirmed NGS42.RU«s information about deaths in the boarding home in January. According to the latest data, nine people died within the institution, in an ambulance, and in a hospital, three of them from a mass outbreak of flu.
The editorial board of NGS42.RU sent a request to the boarding home asking them to comment on the videos and information about violence against residents.
In the fall of this year, the editorial board of NGS42.RU found out that psychiatric patients were fed food made from rotten vegetables and foul-smelling meat. Footage was sent to us by employees who were tired of being pressured to poison people.
Also from the staff, we learned that residents of the institution, including bedridden ones, could have been kept in the cold for several months. In addition to details of the deaths in Prokopyevsk, we published photos of the places where those who died in the boarding home were buried.
All the most important information about the situation in Prokopyevsk we are collecting in a special report.
