Inside Putin’s Train That Includes Beauty Room, Anti-Aging Machines

• A report printed by the File Heart reveals what the within of Putin’s luxurious prepare seems to be like.
• The prepare, which price at the very least 6.8 billion rubles to make, is supplied with a cinema, spa, and gymnasium.
• It additionally has a magnificence room that features anti-aging machines, the report stated. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s luxurious armored prepare is fitted with a magnificence room, anti-aging machines, and a gymnasium, based on a brand new report. 

A number of images and blueprints of the prepare have been printed in a joint investigation by the File Heart, CNN, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, and Norddeutscher Rundfunk on Wednesday.

The media retailers cited intelligence paperwork, interviews with former officers, and at the very least 25,500 inner paperwork belonging to Zircon Service, the corporate that has been servicing the prepare for many years. 

The prepare price taxpayers at the very least 6.8 billion rubles ($74 million), the report stated, including that repairs and upkeep prices round 1.45 billion rubles ($15.8 million) a yr.

The prepare is made up of twenty-two carriages, although not all of them are at all times used on the similar time, the investigation discovered.

Eight of them are technical carriages, which home communication facilities, satellite tv for pc tools, and a diesel energy station.

The opposite vehicles are fitted with eating places, a cinema, and a lavish eating room in addition to a Turkish hammam steam room and a magnificence room, the report stated. 

The wonder room, which is sound-proof, has every thing from “anti-aging machines” to “firming emulsion”, and “cherry blossom” facial masks, per the reviews. Additionally on board is tools for life-saving emergencies, reminiscent of a ventilator and defibrillator, and a affected person monitor.

One other automotive has been became a gymnasium, which is supplied with a press bench, a hyperextension machine, and dumbbells weighing as much as eight kilograms, the report stated.

Putin’s safety group, the Presidential Safety Service (SBP), additionally particularly requested that the gymnasium contains train tools for “coaching thigh muscular tissues,” the report added. 

Rumors of Putin’s supposed obsession with well being and the way he seems to be have lengthy existed in Russia.

Studies of him having cosmetic surgery first surfaced in 2010 after he was noticed with an enormous blue-and-yellow bruise round his eye throughout a gathering in Kyiv, The Guardian reported

The reviews pressured Putin’s spokesperson to problem a denial, telling reporters on the time: “It is in all probability simply how the sunshine fell. The prime minister is drained,” the outlet reported. 

Putin additionally particularly requested a particular communications system on his prepare, which permits him to look at tv with out interruption because it strikes by way of tunnels, the most recent investigation discovered.

It’s at all times manned by dozens of workers who’re anticipated to endure quarantine earlier than engaged on the prepare when Putin is current.

“Persons are at all times prepared … in order that they’re already ‘clear’ and might go together with the president when he is onboard,” Gleb Karakulov, the previous captain of the Federal Guard Service — a gaggle tasked with defending Russia’s highest-ranking officers — informed the File Heart earlier this yr. 

This seems to be commonplace process for Putin, who began taking excessive measures to isolate himself in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic — and apparently hasn’t stopped.

A report printed in June 2020 discovered that he constructed a particular disinfection tunnel in his palace in Novo-Ogaryovo that each one guests needed to go by way of.

Putin just isn’t solely paranoid about his well being, but additionally his safety. The armored prepare runs on a secret railway community that features parallel strains and stations close to his residences round Russia. This was beforehand reported by the Russian investigative outlet Proekt.

However the newest investigation particulars simply how properly protected the prepare is, discovering that every thing from the partitions, doorways, and home windows are bulletproof.

The Federal Guard Service’s press division didn’t instantly reply to Insider’s request for remark.

Karakulov beforehand informed the File Heart that the prepare additionally has a secret timetable in order that it will possibly transfer round inconspicuously.