Now in Valeev’s house at 4 Molodezhnaya Street in the city of Vsevolozhsk there are still three hundred reptiles, two lynxes and a dog. A private zoo with deadly inhabitants belonged to a deceased serpentologist blogger. Law enforcement agencies are concerned that dangerous reptiles will not spread to neighboring areas. Otherwise, panic will begin in the city.

Reptile specialist and popular blogger Arslan Valeev demonstrated the bite marks of his pet, a poisonous black mamba snake, directly during an Internet broadcast. This remained behind the scenes, but he may have deliberately exposed himself to a fatal blow. After all, there are no attempts to call a doctor or administer an antidote. Acceptable conclusion: Artur Valeev decided to commit sophisticated suicide in live.

Those who saw this online, realizing the tragedy, tried to call doctors and relatives instead. The full horror of the situation and the fear of death reaches Arslan himself when he is no longer online. According to relatives, the young man, allegedly with the words “I want to live,” asks them to urgently take him to the toxicology department of the hospital, reports NTV correspondent Nikolai Bulkin.

Sergey Glushkov, leading researcher at the Department of Clinical Toxicology at the Dzhanelidze Research Institute of Emergency Medicine: “We fought for the life of this patient for a day and a half. This poison has a very highly resorptive effect. The poison is quickly absorbed, enters the blood and finds its target organs."

Flirting with a poisonous snake attracted tens of thousands of views on the Internet. The black mamba in Arslan's collection is the most dangerous reptile. But for a specialist it is also the most favorite. Fast, aggressive, with a terrifying black mouth. When bitten, it releases hundreds of milligrams of poison, and 15 is fatal to humans.

His video blog was dedicated to dangerous experiments. Here he prepared the so-called cocktail of poisons from five different cobras. I drank it with soda. He will tell you what it cost him in the next video, showing a doctor’s certificate.

What is here – the desire of a specialist to learn more about the subject of study or is it still working for the public for the sake of a larger number of likes? His own house - a terrarium with cobras, mambas, vipers, boa constrictors and other reptiles - was openly shunned by his neighbors.

But Arslan was a recognized expert in his specific field. And on his Internet channel there are dozens useful videos, how to keep reptiles, feed them, breed them. He observed precautions more often.

Friends insist it was an accident. But if it was still suicide, then it could have been due to the recent difficult separation from his wife Ekaterina. She shared his interests and made videos for him. And during his last broadcast, he, being alone, said her name several times.

More details in the NTV story.

Arslan Valeev is a Russian video blogger, the author of popular channels on Russian-language YouTube: “Private Exotarium” - about the popularization of terrarium animals (snakes, lizards, crocodiles, turtles, amphibians, spiders, scorpions) and BobCat TV - about lynxes and other exotic animals. Arslan hosted the second channel together with his wife Ekaterina Valeeva (Pyatyzhkina).

On Saturday, September 23, during a live broadcast, Arslan Valeev talked about his recent separation from his wife and talked about death. For some time he disappeared from the camera's field of view, and when he returned, he said that he had been bitten by a poisonous snake - a black mamba. Next, the blogger dictated his wife’s number and asked to call her. After some time, Valeev lost consciousness on live television.

While there are suggestions that in this way Arslan Valeev wanted to attract attention and commit suicide. When he lost consciousness, subscribers to his channel called an ambulance, and the blogger was hospitalized. Unfortunately, around noon on September 25, he died without regaining consciousness.

The tragic event, as it turns out, was preceded by a major quarrel with his wife - the video blogger accused his wife of cheating, then attacked her.

Ekaterina reported the attack on Instagram, posting a photo and a medical examination.

Later, Valeev publicly apologized to his wife, but the reunion did not take place.

Then Arslan Valeev provoked a black mamba during a stream, and the animal bit him. At the hospital, the blogger was put into an induced coma, however, despite all medical efforts, Valeev died.

Although the black mamba has a reputation for being extremely dangerous, the snake is not aggressive and never attacks without reason. In the wild, she avoids contact with people in every possible way. And only when an inevitable meeting occurs does the snake make a warning pose, and if this does not help, then it only bites.

The BigPicchi editors offer their condolences to the family, friends and fans of Arslan Valeev.

I love YouTube: there is a lot of useful information, and it’s interesting to follow some people’s video blogs. One of my subscriptions is the BobCat channel, on which the spouses Katya and Arslan posted videos of their tame lynx Hannah, and then two more domestic lynxes Martin and Umka, and also often conducted live broadcasts - streams. And now Arslan is no more.

To say that I am shocked by this news is an understatement. The worst thing is that there is already a sea of ​​videos on YouTube where the relationship between Katya and Arslan is discussed up and down and subscribers are encouraged to discuss it, and most importantly, they talk out loud about whether Arslan’s death was an accident or a suicide.
Now let's talk about everything in order.

Snakes, lynxes and love

I subscribed to the BobCat channel 11 months ago. Then Arslan already had his own YouTube channel “Private Exotarium”, on which he talked about reptiles, because he has been keeping and breeding them at home for more than 20 years. But reptiles were not too interesting to me, but lynxes - they are cute and funny. Everyone loves cats, even if they are big ones. Katya and Arslan lived in a private house near St. Petersburg, built enclosures in their yard, and kept a real lynx kitten in the house. Since the kitten was taken from its mother on the third day after birth, it grew up absolutely tame, very affectionate and sociable. Hannah grew up and moved from home to her own enclosure. Two more lynxes soon settled in Arslan and Katya's yard: the tame, but not wild Martin, and the almost tame Umka. Arslan and Katya several times organized large-scale streams like “Night in an enclosure with a lynx” or a whole day in an enclosure with lynxes.

Watching the streams and regularly released videos was incredibly interesting. It’s not that I’m very interested in the peculiarities of keeping large wild cats in a private home, I just somehow got used to Hannah and her owners.

I never liked Katya. There seems to be nothing so repulsive about her, but for some reason she aroused and continues to arouse antipathy. Arslan, a comrade who was not at all attractive from the point of view of the canons of beauty, just aroused sympathy. In the spring of this year, the guys announced that they were separating and moving away. Katya took a couple of cats and moved to a rented apartment 15 minutes from Arslan’s house. Arslan was left with lynxes, dogs, the cat Missa, and his extensive collection of snakes. Soon he got himself a little puppy. Everyone, as one, said that Arslan and his new pet were very similar.

Who would have imagined?..

Then, like a bolt from the blue, photographs of the beatings inflicted by Arslan appeared on Katya’s Instagram. It seems like he waylaid her near the apartment and beat her. No serious signs of beatings on the small screens of smartphones and on big screens it was impossible to see the tablets. A pimple on the neck and two tiny abrasions on the back - that’s all the “beatings”. Katya went to the doctors, they diagnosed a concussion and gave her a certificate. What started in the comments! I read everything and monitored the situation. Arslan is a unique person. In Russian speaking, a classic nerd with an inferiority complex. Just two years ago, when he and Katya got married, he was the happiest man on earth, he said that he had met the one who was the whole universe for him. The happiness was short-lived. Somehow Arslan found out that Katya was cheating on him, found out how long ago and with whom. Could he have beaten her? Rather yes than no. Even the calmest person has a limit to his patience. Did he actually do it? More likely no than yes. Did Katya really cheat on him? I don’t even doubt that I cheated, but no one held a candle. All this is speculation and speculation.

Time passed. Streams began to happen much more often. Sometimes there were three a day: first on the “Private Exotarium” Arslan talked about some kind of snake, then on BobCat he showed a puma, and then he went to Instagram and cooked some food there or simply communicated with subscribers. Of course, when your entire social circle is limited to animals, and you see people a couple of times a week and even then not always, you want to talk. Man is a social being. Since the lack of real communication, apparently Arslan, went entirely into virtual communication. He spoke himself and answered questions from very real people on the other side of the screen.

Trouble has come - open the gate

It was clear that Arslan was depressed and that he was damn tired. It is not easy to maintain such a large farm alone. It was necessary to clean up the snakes in time, and to devote time to the lynxes, and to nurse the pupena. At first, Arslan bottle-fed the cougar every few hours, then spent the whole day in the veterinary clinic because his new pet had digestive problems, then the cougar fell off the couch and had serious surgery on his little paw, the cure was on the clock.

But everything began to improve more or less. Although it was clear that Arslan was being thrown from side to side. Either he is cheerful, jokes and laughs, then his ears wither from his tediousness, then he is depressed, drunk and says evil words about his ex-wife. Last week I watched several of Arslan's streams. He decided that cooking would be his new hobby, because he had never cooked anything more complicated than pasta and sausages. First, he cooked borscht live under the advice of the audience, the next day he baked oatmeal cookies, then he swung at the Napoleon cake.

I had guests over on Saturday, and although I saw the notification pop up about the start of the stream, I didn’t tune in. On that day, a tragedy occurred live, but I found out about it only 5 days later. The day before yesterday morning, I received a notification on my phone from YouTube about the appearance of a new video on BobCat with the title “Clarification of the situation regarding animals.” I thought that they would talk about where, when and at what price the cats were bought, and analyze the difficulties of keeping them at home. In the evening, when I had some free time, I watched a video that said that “the heirs will have access to communicate with animals.” It seemed to me that I had misheard. What are the heirs? What are we even talking about? The previous videos and recommended materials in the right column of the player on YouTube explained everything to me. For several hours I simply could not believe what had happened. To be honest, I still don’t believe it until now. The recording of the broadcast was deleted by YouTube; fragments of it remained with some subscribers, but when they try to post the recording again, it is almost immediately deleted due to the naturalistic nature of the content. I downloaded the video with a duration of 7:09. Next I describe the events according to the timing of this video.

Death of Arslan Valeev: stream by seconds

On September 23, Arslan Valeev began a previously announced broadcast on YouTube, the main character of which was to be the black mamba - one of the most dangerous snakes not only in the collection of this herpetologist, but in the world in general. Arslan was sad, judging by his appearance, he either hadn’t slept for more than a day, or had a cold: he looked tired, his eyes were shining (many subscribers are sure that he was very drunk, and his mother’s opinion is further in this post). The cat Missa is licking herself in the background; the little pup is not visible in the frame. Arslan silently looks at the camera, apparently reading the comments.

00:36 Greets subscribers.
00:39 He says, sighing heavily: “Well, guys, it’s time to do what needs to be done,” and smiles bitterly.
00:58 Answers the question from the comments “The broadcast has moved, yes.” Steps out of frame.
01:42 In the background you can hear: “Aw.... Let go. Let go. It hurts. Well done, you killed me. I’ll go broadcast.”
01:59 Arslan says: “I’ll die like this,” and returns to the computer.

It is clear that Arslan almost immediately felt pain; it was becoming difficult for him to breathe.

02:28 “I’ll just stay with you a little,” Arslan says to his viewers.
02:42 “If anything, there’s an entry on the phone for Katya”
02:59 “Just reading your messages”
03:14 Arslan’s eyelids began to tremble and his eyes closed.
03:42 Every breath comes with great difficulty
03:46 Sound signal about the receipt of a donation (a monetary transfer to the owner of the broadcast from a viewer) prompted Arslan to open his eyes for a moment.
03:49 "Tell Katya that I loved her very much"
04:01 Arslan shows his right hand to the camera, where bite marks and a drop of blood are visible on the index finger. "Beauty, huh?" - Arslan asks.
04:04 Arslan swallows with difficulty and says: “Oh wow, what a…”
04:15 “Bye everyone,” Arslan says goodbye, for a while he gathers his strength to get out of his chair, breathing heavily.
04:44 “I can’t even believe that all this is happening to me”
05:15 Arslan dictates the number cell phone“This is Katya’s phone. If someone gets through to me, if she manages to get to me, at least see me, I would be glad. But in fact, I’m already dying.”
05:36 "Goodbye... But Katya would be glad to see... It's fucking shaking."

Arslan sits in front of the camera, but it is clear that all his strength is spent just to continue breathing.

06:39 He shows his hands to the camera. The fingers are cramped, the right hand is noticeably swollen.
06:41 Arslan gets up from his chair, turns on the water in the bathroom for a few seconds, and then, apparently, leaves the room.

5 minutes until death

5 minutes. Just 5 minutes from a bite to almost complete paralysis. Arslan managed to go outside, reach the gate, where he fell to the ground and began to wait for help. In Russia, doctors will not be able to save a life after a black mamba bite. Immediately after the bite, within literally a few minutes, an antidote must be administered, otherwise death is inevitable. But you need to be sure of the dosage of the antidote and that the person is definitely not allergic to the components of the drug. Arslan spoke about this many times in interviews with journalists, as well as in videos on the “Private Exotarium”.

Black mamba venom contains fast-acting cardio and neurotoxins. In one bite, the snake injects 100-400 mg of poison; for an adult, 10-15 mg is enough for a lethal dose.

Here's what they write about the consequences of a black mamba bite on Wikipedia:

Many documentaries and articles say that the black mamba, like a shark, does not seek to attack a person and does this only when necessary - when it is provoked. Arslan could not help but know this. He also could not “forget” about precautions, for example, about a thick glove, which he repeatedly wore when working in front of a camera with dangerous snakes.

Arslan was taken to the hospital. Doctors put him into a medically induced coma, but alas... Around noon on September 25, Arslan Valeev died. The man died, but then a large-scale Internet squabble began, which was, in fact, to be expected.

The BobCat channel has 275 thousand subscribers. The "Private Exotarium" has 249 thousand. Some of these people subscribe to both channels. The stream with the black mamba bite was watched by about 600 people. Arslan and Katya may have been known in the online community, but mainly to those who love exotic snakes and wild cats. I myself noticed that the rapid growth in the number of subscribers on the channels occurred between streams, where Arslan said something negative about Katya, or she published something on her Instagram about Arslan. In general, people were interested not only and not so much in animals, but in the personal lives of two adults. So sometimes I wanted to slap some commentators and stream viewers on the forehead, slap them on the forehead and scribble on the same forehead: get away from people, it’s none of your business - their relationships are boring you with your questions. But no, everyone wants to ask for the millionth time. Did Katya and Arslan divorce or not, and when, and why, and why, but definitely divorced?..

In pursuit of sensation

On September 25, just a few hours after Arslan passed away, journalists literally did not allow his sister access. On the same day, the death of the herpetologist was commented on by the host of the program “In the Animal World,” Nikolai Drozdov, with whom Arslan was familiar. Over these 5 days, a little more than a dozen different videos with stories were posted on YouTube information programs various TV channels, with excerpts from radio broadcasts...

A news presenter on one TV channel said in a summary of the story that “Arslan Valeev was known for playing with wild animals on Internet broadcasts.” In the story itself, the journalist says that the black mamba, it turns out, needs to be very angry for it to attack. Yeah, it’ll lead to hysteria and a nervous breakdown, well, yes, of course. Do they at least sometimes think with their heads when they write texts for their stories? Make you angry... It’s good that you don’t upset, don’t offend, don’t make you laugh, don’t make you ashamed - or force you to show any other purely human emotions.

In another television company, a journalist reports that Arslan “died live in front of thousands of subscribers” - well, if 600 and thousands of subscribers are the same thing, then excuse me, you get a bad mark in mathematics. The expert gives a comment and says that when a black mamba bites, it injects about 20 lethal doses, and in the running line below they already write about 200 lethal doses. And the psychiatrists, who are also asked to comment on the situation, are great! The diagnosis is made not even over the phone, but through retellings. “This man’s condition apparently was close to severe depression, leading to demonstrative behavior and completed suicide.”

Every first journalist called Arslan a herpeNtologist, although the correct word would be a herpetologist.

Surprisingly, the NTV story caused the least negativity in me. Only they showed the exact address in vain...

Upon the death of Arslan Valeev, the Investigative Committee for Leningrad region inspection has begun. The herpetologist’s friends promise to continue running channels on YouTube. A collection of dangerous poisonous snakes (just under 300 specimens), some of which cost several thousand dollars, was taken by Arslan’s father, with the assistance of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, to a closed serpentarium for scientific research. The man openly tells reporters:

“Private collections, especially of poisonous snakes, are illegal. And there is not a single legal snake brought to Russia that is poisonous. It’s all smuggled goods. So you say, private hands... The fight is on! This fight is on to own. They are quite expensive..."

Katya and Arslan's mother were going to fight for the snakes. In one of the interviews, Katya, dramatically adjusting her glasses, says that Arslan’s death was an accident, because “he is a professional.” The mother is also surprisingly calm. In one of the telephone interviews, she suggested that during the fatal broadcast, Arslan was under the influence of sedatives and, due to lethargy and poor reaction, could not avoid the bite. I don’t understand how you can give an interview so calmly when someone close to you has died, when your SON has died! Rumor has it that the mother of the deceased believes in Buddha and sincerely believes that her son is now in the best of all possible worlds

Pumenok and cat Missa now live with Arslan’s ex-wife Katya; the lynxes are in the Sirin center for the rehabilitation of wild animals. The dogs were taken away former owners. The question of the unique collection of snakes remains open. Arslan's friends ask him not to panic, there is a problem, it is in the process of being resolved, and talk and scandals will not help.

freedom of speech

In general, everything revolves around two topics:
1. Was Arslan’s death an accident or a deliberate suicide against the backdrop of protracted depression from unhappy love?
2. Who will get the collection of expensive and extremely dangerous snakes and what will the new owner do with this collection: sell it for big money, continue Arslan’s work, or sacrifice it to science?

Hundreds of thousands of comments, sometimes very aggressive... Opposite opinions, but they come down to one of the sides I indicated in the very wording of the question. People are either black or white...

I still can’t believe that Arslan Valeev died from a black mamba bite. Yes, I didn’t know him, I never talked or corresponded, but for a whole year I watched at least one video a week with his participation, at least 2-3 live broadcasts a month. When I first found out about his death the night before yesterday, my first thought was: “Come on, this is fake! Allegedly, “death” on air is a risky, but bold way to attract subscribers.” Then I looked at the recording of that terrible stream and a second thought came: “Lord, please, let it be fake, let us in a day, two, a month, find out that it was a brilliant acting and laugh at the effect produced.” Yesterday I spent the whole day racking my brains over the first question I formulated, today – over the second.

I sat down to write this post and was sure that by the end of writing I would definitely be able to answer both of these questions, or rather, formulate my personal opinion. And so I finish the post and I don’t care at all why Arslan allowed the mamba to bite and where his numerous snakes will be sent.

The man is gone. Good/bad, right/wrong - it doesn't matter. Just a week ago he was uploading videos, posting photos and responding to comments, and then he practically died live: in front of hundreds of people. How scary this is, Lord! This is how you watch an entertaining video and see how your breathing gradually slows down, your eyes roll back, your hands cramp...

Bloggers of various sizes have already started making videos so as not to miss trend "Arslan Valeev bite mamba stream". Some call him Valiev, some Arsen... People spend tens of minutes analyzing the views and behavior of this or that participant in history, expressing fake condolences to their relatives (who, I’m sure, are especially fond of the semi-literate aunt from Nerezinovsk with 3 thousand subscribers painted like a circus clown) and they cannot even remember and correctly write the name of the person they are talking about.

Meanwhile, the person is no longer there. No, well, we will all die someday. And it’s not a fact that from illness or old age, it could be planned or by accident. Did Arslan understand what he was doing and how he looked in the eyes of the audience? Did the viewers participating in that ill-fated stream, who watched it in real time and not in the recording, understand what was happening? Do we people understand that some of the most terrible predictions of science fiction writers have become reality: people are dying on screens, live, before our eyes...

PS: Science and technology have developed at a particularly rapid pace in the last 25 years. According to statistics, this rise will continue for some time, and then there will be a sharp decline, a crisis. So how many more new technologies will enter our lives during this rise? How many more people will we know and love without ever meeting or interacting with them? In what ways will our friends and acquaintances communicate with us in 10-20 years: by the power of thought, by scanning the retina, or by electronic encrypted protocols? How many

Arslan Valeev talked about reptiles on the Exotarium YouTube channel and about wild cats on the BobCat TV public page.

Firstly, the time of administration of the antidote is important - the sooner, the greater the likelihood of survival. But the fact is that in Russia it simply will not exist due to the extreme rarity of such bites.

The second option is to put the patient into a medically induced coma, as was done with Arslan. Since metabolism slows down at this time, the poison can be removed by blood transfusion or plasmapheresis, users say.

In Western literature they write that the venom of the mamba can cause muscle fasciculation and cramps, therefore coma is eliminated and this is in theory, but this is debatable

Network User

What happens when a bite occurs and the poison enters the body? The most dangerous consequences: respiratory failure due to paralysis of the respiratory muscles, rhabdomyolysis due to the cytotoxic effect of the poison, acute renal failure, damage to the heart muscle due to cytotoxin and cardiotoxins.

Many expressed confidence that Arslan’s act was connected with family drama. The blogger accused his ex-wife of cheating, and she accused him of beating him. However, after a verbal showdown on social networks, Arslan asked her for forgiveness, after which the accident occurred. Valeev's acquaintances called him ambulance, however, the hospital was unable to save the young man.

The channel of the popular St. Petersburg blogger Arslan Valeev has hundreds of thousands of subscribers. The 32-year-old man talked in his public about big wild cats and exotic reptiles. Viewers could see Arslan walking a puma cub, or a cobra eating a white mouse. And the other day, subscribers to the public 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 poisonous snakes on earth, a black mamba. For more than a day, doctors fought for the man’s life, 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 St. Petersburg resident told subscribers about big wild cats and poisonous snakes and showed their habits and habits. In the video, Valeev played with a puma cub, stroked a lynx and deftly handled boa constrictors 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 take the snake out of the terrarium to move it into a special plastic container for online broadcasts. The blogger has done this many times, but now something has gone wrong. When Arslan took the snake in his hands, it suddenly bit him. The man returned to the computer, showing a bite mark.

The blogger could no longer call an ambulance - his hands were numb.

"I can't believe this is happening to me"

Some viewers at first decided that Valeev was joking on them, but the “prank” dragged on too long. Arslan was getting worse every second. At the same time, the blogger realized the tragedy of the situation, because he himself is an expert in keeping poisonous snakes with 20 years of experience.

If you are 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 broadcasting and continued to communicate with viewers, asking them to contact his wife. “I’ll just stay with you a little,” 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 for the blogger. Valeev found the strength to go outside and wait there for the doctors to arrive. Arslan was urgently hospitalized. Doctors put the man into an artificial coma and fought for his life for more than a day, but they were unable 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 deleted from the network, but viewers still cannot forget this last entry Valeeva. “His channel gave so much positivity!”, “It seems like a bad dream,” “It’s like I lost a loved one,” viewers write on social networks.

The blogger's pets are under supervision. 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 friends of the deceased man.

“On behalf of the immediate family, 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 loved ones from Arslan’s social circle,” it is written on official page community "BobCat TV / Wild cats". - There are many questions about the future fate of the resources, and we understand your concern about this. On this moment There is no definite answer, but we, as Arslan’s mother, Katya and the absolute majority of viewers and subscribers, would like further development of those projects that were part of Arslan’s life.”

The incident with Valeev was not the first in a number of tragic cases involving exotic animal specialists. Thus, in 2006, the famous “crocodile hunter” Steve Irwin died from a blow to the chest from a poisonous stingray. The man's death was caught on film: the last moments of the Australian's life were filmed by a cameraman who was swimming behind him.