Forgotten Heroes. Legendary sniper of the Chechen war. Volodya-Yakut. The main feats of the Russian military in the Chechen war Stories about military heroes in Chechnya

18-year-old Yakut Volodya from a distant deer camp was a hunter-salter. It had to happen that he came to Yakutsk for salt and cartridges, accidentally saw in the dining room on TV piles of corpses of Russian soldiers on the streets of Grozny, smoking tanks and some words about "Dudaev's snipers."

It hit Volodya in the head, so much so that the hunter returned to the camp, took his earned money, and sold the washed gold. He took his grandfather's rifle and all the cartridges, stuffed the icon of Saint Nicholas into his bosom and went to fight.

It’s better not to remember how he was driving, how he was in the bullpen, how many times they took away a rifle. But, nevertheless, a month later the Yakut Volodya arrived in Grozny.

Volodya heard only about one general who was regularly fighting in Chechnya, and he began to look for him in the February thaw. Finally, the Yakut was lucky, and he got to the headquarters of General Rokhlin.

The only document besides his passport was a handwritten certificate from the military commissar stating that Vladimir Kolotov, a hunter-trader by profession, was going to war, signed by the military commissar. The paper, which got worn out on the way, had already saved his life more than once.

Rokhlin, surprised that someone came to the war of his own free will, ordered the Yakut to let him in.

Excuse me, please, are you that General Rokhlya? Volodya asked respectfully.

Yes, I am Rokhlin, - answered the tired general, inquisitively peering at a small man dressed in a worn padded jacket, with a backpack and a rifle on his back.

I was told that you came to the war on your own. For what purpose, Kolotov?

I saw on TV how Chechens of our snipers felled. I can't stand it, Comrade General. It's embarrassing, though. So I came to bring them down. You don't need money, you don't need anything. I, Comrade General Rokhlya, will myself go hunting at night. Let them show me the place where they will put the cartridges and food, and I will do the rest myself. I'll get tired - I'll come in a week, I'll sleep in a warm day and go again. You don't need a walkie-talkie and all that ... it's hard.

Surprised, Rokhlin nodded his head.

Take, Volodya, at least a new SVDashka. Give him a rifle!

No need, Comrade General, I'm going out into the field with my scythe. Just give me some ammo, I only have 30 left now...

So Volodya began his war, a sniper one.

He slept for a day in headquarters kungs, despite the mine attacks and the terrible firing of artillery. I took cartridges, food, water and went on the first "hunt". They forgot about him at headquarters.

Only reconnaissance regularly brought cartridges, food and, most importantly, water to the agreed place every three days. Each time I was convinced that the parcel had disappeared.

The radio operator-"interceptor" was the first to remember Volodya at a meeting of the headquarters.

Lev Yakovlevich, the "Czechs" panic on the air. They say that the Russians, that is, we, have a certain black sniper who works at night, boldly walks through their territory and shamelessly brings down their personnel. Maskhadov even appointed 30 thousand dollars for his head.

His handwriting is like this - this fellow of the Chechens hits exactly in the eye. Why only in the eye - the dog knows him ...

And then the staff remembered the Yakut Volodya.

He regularly takes food and ammunition from the cache, - the head of intelligence reported.

And so we didn’t exchange a word with him, we didn’t even see him even once. Well, how did he leave you then to the other side ...

One way or another, they noted in the summary that our snipers also give their snipers a light. Because Volodin's work gave such results - from 16 to 30 people laid the fisherman with a shot in the eye.

The Chechens figured out that the federals had a hunter-hunter on Minutka Square. And since the main events of those terrible days took place on this square, a whole detachment of Chechen volunteers came out to catch the sniper.

Then, in February 1995, at Minutka, thanks to Rokhlin’s cunning plan, our troops had already been ground by almost three-quarters personnel the so-called "Abkhazian" battalion of Shamil Basayev. The carbine of the Yakut Volodya also played a significant role here. Basayev promised a gold Chechen star to anyone who would bring the corpse of a Russian sniper.

But the nights passed in an unsuccessful search. Five volunteers walked along the front line in search of Volodya's "beds", set up streamers wherever he could appear in direct line of sight of his positions. However, it was a time when groups, on both sides, broke through the enemy’s defenses and deeply wedged into its territory. Sometimes so deep that there was no longer any chance to break out to their own.

But Volodya slept during the day under the roofs and in the cellars of houses. The bodies of the Chechens - the night "work" of the sniper - were buried the next day.

Then, tired of losing 20 men a night, Basayev summoned a master of his craft, a teacher from a camp for training young shooters, an Arab sniper Abubakar, from the reserves in the mountains. Volodya and Abubakar could not but meet in a night battle, such are the laws of sniper warfare.

And they met two weeks later. More precisely, Abubakar hooked Volodya with a drill rifle. A powerful bullet that once in Afghanistan killed Soviet paratroopers right through at a distance of one and a half kilometers, pierced the padded jacket and slightly hooked the arm, just below the shoulder. Volodya, feeling the rush of a hot wave of oozing blood, realized that the hunt for him had finally begun.

The buildings on the opposite side of the square, or rather their ruins, merged into a single line in Volodya's optics. “What flashed, optics?” thought the hunter, and he knew cases when a sable saw a sight sparkling in the sun and went home. The place he chose was located under the roof of a five-story residential building.

Snipers always like to be at the top to see everything. And he lay under the roof - under a sheet of old tin, a wet snowy rain did not wet, which then went on, then stopped.

Abubakar tracked down Volodya only on the fifth night - tracked down his pants. The fact is that the Yakut pants were ordinary, wadded. This is American camouflage, which was often worn by Chechens, impregnated with a special composition, in which the uniform was indistinctly visible in night vision devices, and the domestic uniform shone with a bright light green light.

So Abubakar "figured out" the Yakut in the powerful night optics of his "Bur", made to order by English gunsmiths back in the 70s.

One bullet was enough, Volodya rolled out from under the roof and painfully fell back onto the steps of the stairs. "The main thing is that he didn't break the rifle," thought the sniper.

Well, that means a duel, yes, Mr. Chechen sniper! - the Yakut said to himself mentally without emotion.

Volodya deliberately stopped shredding the "Chechen order". The neat row of 200s with his sniper "autograph" on his eye stopped. "Let them believe that I was killed," Volodya decided.

He himself only did what he looked out for, where did the enemy sniper get to him from.

Two days later, already in the afternoon, he found Abubakar's "couch". He also lay under the roof, under the half-bent roofing sheet on the other side of the square. Volodya would not have noticed him if the Arab sniper had not given out a bad habit - he smoked marijuana.

Once every two hours, Volodya caught in the optics a light bluish haze that rose above the roofing sheet and was immediately blown away by the wind.

"So I found you, abrek! You can't live without drugs! Good...", the Yakut hunter thought triumphantly, he didn't know that he was dealing with an Arab sniper who had gone through both Abkhazia and Karabakh. But Volodya did not want to kill him just like that, shooting through the roofing sheet. Snipers didn't do that, and fur hunters didn't.

Well, you smoke lying down, but you will have to get up to go to the toilet, - Volodya decided coolly and began to wait.

Only three days later he figured out that Abubakar crawls out from under the sheet to the right side, and not to the left, quickly does the job and returns to the "couch". In order to "get" the enemy, Volodya had to change his position at night. He could not do anything again, because any new roofing sheet would immediately give away his new location.

But Volodya found two fallen logs from the rafters with a piece of tin a little to the right, about fifty meters from his point. The place was excellent for shooting, but very uncomfortable for a "couch". For two more days, Volodya looked out for the sniper, but he did not show up. Volodya had already decided that the enemy was gone for good, when the next morning he suddenly saw that he had "opened up". Three seconds to aim with a slight exhalation, and the bullet went to the target.

Abubakar was struck on the spot in the right eye. For some reason, against the impact of a bullet, he fell flat from the roof into the street. A large, greasy stain of blood spread through the mud on the square of the Dudayev Palace, where an Arab sniper was struck down by a single hunter's bullet.

“Well, I got you,” Volodya thought without any enthusiasm or joy. He realized that he must continue his fight, showing a characteristic handwriting. To prove thereby that he is alive, and that the enemy did not kill him a few days ago.

Volodya peered into the optics at the motionless body of the slain enemy. Nearby, he also saw the "Bur", which, he did not recognize, since he had not seen such rifles before. In a word, a hunter from the remote taiga!

And here he was surprised: the Chechens began to crawl out into the open to pick up the sniper's body. Volodya took aim. Three men came out and bent over the body. “Let them pick it up and carry it, then I’ll start shooting!” - Volodya triumphed.

The Chechens really raised the body together. Three shots were fired. Three bodies fell on the dead Abubakar.

Four more Chechen volunteers jumped out of the ruins and, throwing away the bodies of their comrades, tried to pull the sniper out. From the outside, a Russian machine gun fired, but the queues lay a little higher, without harming the hunched over Chechens.

Four more shots rang out, almost merging into one. Four more corpses had already formed a heap.

Volodya killed 16 militants that morning. He did not know that Basayev had given the order to get the Arab's body at all costs before it began to get dark. He had to be sent to the mountains to be buried there before sunrise, as an important and respectable Mujahideen.

A day later, Volodya returned to Rokhlin's headquarters. The general immediately received him as an honored guest. The news of the duel of two snipers has already spread around the army.

Well, how are you, Volodya, tired? Do you want to go home?

Volodya warmed his hands at the "potbelly stove".

Everything, comrade general, has done his job, it's time to go home. Begins spring work to the camp. The military commissar let me go only for two months. My two have been working for me all this time. younger brother. It's time and honor to know...

Rokhlin nodded his head in understanding.

Take a good rifle, my chief of staff will draw up the documents ...

Why, I have a grandfather's. - Volodya lovingly hugged the old carbine.

The general did not dare to ask the question for a long time. But curiosity took over.

How many enemies did you kill, did you count? They say more than a hundred ... the Chechens were talking.

Volodya lowered his eyes.

362 militants, comrade general.

Well, go home, we can handle it ourselves...

Comrade General, if anything, call me again, I will deal with the work and come a second time!

On the face of Volodya, frank concern for the entire Russian Army was read.

By God, I'll come!

The Order of Courage found Volodya Kolotov six months later. On this occasion, the entire collective farm celebrated, and the military commissar allowed the sniper to go to Yakutsk to buy new boots - the old ones had worn out in Chechnya. A hunter stepped on some pieces of iron.

On the day when the whole country learned about the death of General Lev Rokhlin, Volodya also heard about what had happened on the radio. He drank alcohol for three days at the zaimka. He was found drunk in a makeshift hut by other hunters who returned from fishing. Volodya kept repeating drunk:

It's okay, Comrade General Rokhlya, if necessary, we will come, just tell me ...

After the departure of Vladimir Kolotov to his homeland, scum in officer uniforms sold his data to Chechen terrorists, who he is, where he came from, where he went, etc. The Yakut Sniper inflicted too many losses on the evil spirits.

Vladimir was killed by a 9mm round. pistol in his yard, while chopping wood. The criminal case was never opened.

First Chechen war. How it all started.

***

For the first time, I heard the legend of Volodya the sniper, or, as he was also called, Yakut (and the nickname is so textured that it even migrated to the famous television series about those days) I heard in 1995. They told it in different ways, along with the legends of the Eternal Tank, the girl-Death and other army folklore.

Moreover, the most surprising thing is that in the story about Volodya the sniper, in an amazing way, there was an almost letter-like similarity with the story of the great Zaitsev, who put Hans, a major, head of the Berlin school of snipers in Stalingrad. To be honest, I then perceived it as ... well, let's say, as folklore - on a halt - and I believed it, and I did not believe it.

Then there was a lot of things, as, indeed, in any war, which you won’t believe, but turns out to be TRUE. Life is generally more complicated and more unexpected than any fiction.

Later, in the year 2003-2004, one of my friends and comrades-in-arms told me that he personally knew this guy, and that he really WAS. Whether there was that same duel with Abubakar, and whether the Czechs really had such a super sniper, to be honest, I don’t know, they had enough serious snipers, and especially in the Air Campaign.

And the weapons were serious, including the South African SWR, and cereals (including the B-94 prototypes, which were just going into the pre-series, the spirits already had them, and with the numbers of the first hundreds - Pakhomych would not let you lie.

How they got them is a separate story, but nevertheless, the Czechs had such trunks. Yes, and they themselves made semi-handicraft SWR near Grozny.)

Volodya-Yakut really worked alone, worked exactly as described - in the eye. And his rifle was exactly the one that was described - the old Mosin three-ruler of pre-revolutionary production, still with a faceted breech and a long barrel - an infantry model of 1891.

The real name of Volodya-Yakut is Vladimir Maksimovich Kolotov, originally from the village of Iengra in Yakutia. However, he himself is not a Yakut, but an Evenk.

At the end of the First Campaign, he was patched up in the hospital, and since he was officially a nobody and there was no way to call him, he simply went home.

By the way, his combat score is most likely not exaggerated, but underestimated ... Moreover, no one kept accurate records, and the sniper himself did not particularly brag about them.

Dmitry Travin

Rokhlin, Lev Yakovlevich

From December 1, 1994 to February 1995, he headed the 8th Guards Army Corps in Chechnya. Under his leadership, a number of districts of Grozny were taken, including presidential palace. On January 17, 1995, Generals Lev Rokhlin and Ivan Babichev were appointed to the military command for contacts with Chechen field commanders in order to cease fire.

The assassination of a general

On the night of July 2-3, 1998, he was found murdered at his own dacha in the village of Klokovo, Naro-Fominsk district, Moscow region. According to the official version, his wife, Tamara Rokhlina, shot at the sleeping Rokhlin, the reason was a family quarrel.

In November 2000, the Naro-Fominsk City Court found Tamara Rokhlina guilty of premeditated murder of her husband. In 2005, Tamara Rokhlina applied to the ECtHR, complaining about the long pre-trial detention and the protracted trial. The complaint was satisfied, with the award of monetary compensation (8000 euros).

After a new consideration of the case, on November 29, 2005, the Naro-Fominsk City Court for the second time found Rokhlina guilty of the murder of her husband and sentenced her to four years of probation, appointing her also a probationary period of 2.5 years.

During the investigation of the murder in the forest belt near the crime scene, three charred corpses were found. According to the official version, their death occurred shortly before the assassination of the general, and has nothing to do with him. However, many of Rokhlin's associates believed that they were real killers, who were eliminated by the Kremlin's special services, "covering their tracks."

On the eve of the anniversary of the Great Patriotic War I want to raise the issue of the heroes of the Chechen people.
On choice and the consequences of choice. About who they look up to and from whom they take an example ...

Let's not pay attention to rhetoric and piitika, but let's rely on logic and facts.
So,
who are the heroes and who are the "heroes" of the Chechen people?
How do they differ from each other?
Here are some examples:

Khanpasha Nuradilovich Nuradilov - Hero of the Soviet Union

Born on July 6, 1924 in the village of Yaryksu-Aukh, after the death of his parents, he and his brothers were sheltered by distant relatives from the village of Minai-Tugai (now the village of Gamiyakh, Novolaksky district of Dagestan). Chechen by nationality.

During World War II, he served as commander of a machine-gun platoon of the 5th Guards Cavalry Division. In the first battle near the village of Zakharovka, Nuradilov, remaining one of his crew, being wounded, stopped the advance of the German troops, destroying 120 Wehrmacht servicemen from his machine gun. In January 1942, during an attack near the village of Tolstoy, Nuradilov moved forward with his machine gun, clearing the way for the infantry. In this battle, he destroyed 50 Germans and suppressed 4 enemy machine guns. For this feat he was awarded the Order of the Red Star and he was awarded the rank of sergeant. In February 1942, during the battles for the settlement of Shigry, Nuradilov's calculation failed, wounded in the arm, he remained behind a machine gun and destroyed up to 200 Germans. In the spring of 1942, after one of the battles during the attack on the village of Bayrak, the squadron commander personally counted 300 German soldiers who were killed by the Nuradilov machine gun. For this feat, Khanpasha was awarded the Order of the Red Banner.

During the Battle of Stalingrad in September 1942, during the fighting in the area of ​​​​the city of Serafimovich, Stalingrad Region, Nuradilov commanded a machine-gun platoon. Seriously wounded, he left no military weapons, having destroyed 250 Germans and 2 machine guns. He died in this battle on September 12, 1942.

On October 21, 1942, a material dedicated to Nuradilov was published in the front-line newspaper "Red Army". The newspaper said: "The valiant knight of our Motherland. The immortal hero of the Caucasus, the son of the sun, the eagle of eagles, the fighter Khanpasha Nuradilov, who killed nine hundred and twenty (920) enemies."

Abukhadzhi (Abukhazhi) Idrisov - Hero of the Soviet Union

Born on May 17, 1918 in the village of Berdykel (now the village of Komsomolskoye, Grozny region of the Chechen Republic) in a peasant family. Chechen.

Graduated primary school. He worked as a shepherd on the collective farm "Soviet Russia". In October 1939 he was drafted into the Red Army. He served in the 125th Infantry Division, which was located near the western borders of the country in the Baltic. He received the specialty of a machine gunner.

Member of the Great Patriotic War from the first day. As part of the regiment with battles, he retreated to the east. In July 1941, his division took up defensive positions on the Pskov-Veliky Luki line between the lakes Ilmen and Seliger. Machine gunner Idrisov, together with fellow soldiers, fought off the daily attacks of the Nazis, rushing to Leningrad. During these battles, Idrisov became a sniper.

In his pillbox, he arranged a special nest for the machine gun, leaving a narrow slot in the direction of the enemy, but with a wide view. Behind a short time with single shots from a machine gun, he destroyed 22 Nazis. The command became aware of this, and the machine gunner was transferred to snipers.

Soon his name became known to the entire North-Western Front. Newspapers wrote about the sniper Idrisov, he was invited to help in other sectors of the front. In October 1942, as part of a group of snipers, he was transferred to one of the most difficult sectors of the front, where an enemy attack was expected. When the offensive began, the snipers, hunting down officers in the first place, opened well-aimed fire. The infantrymen, with sniper support, repelled several fierce attacks. Idrisov himself destroyed about a hundred enemy soldiers and officers in 10 days of fighting.

“Idrisov was waiting. He sat motionless all day. He was drawn to sleep, his eyes stuck together, he wanted to move his numb arms and legs, but it was impossible to move. The German did the same. But he couldn't resist. He still moved and it was his mistake. Bullet Idrisov found a sniper ... "

By April 1943, 309 fascists were killed by sniper Idrisov, which was confirmed in the political report of the 370th rifle division, in which he then served. After breaking through the blockade of Leningrad, the brave sniper, together with his comrades-in-arms, participated in the liberation of cities and villages in the Pskov region and the Baltic states. By March 1944, he already had 349 destroyed Nazis on his account, and he was introduced to the title of Hero. In one of the battles in April 1944, Irisov was wounded by a fragment of a mine that exploded nearby, covered with earth. Comrades unearthed him in an unconscious state, and sent him to the hospital.

In 1944, a front-line military exhibition was opened in the city of Mozovetsk. In one of its halls, Idrisov was assigned a whole stand. His sniper rifle, photographs were exhibited on it, and under them was the inscription: "The glorious son of the Chechen people, Hero of the Soviet Union Abuhazhi Idrisov destroyed more than three hundred German fascists."

He spent four months in a hospital in the city of Gorky. After recovery, as a special settler, a representative of the deported people, he lived in Kazakhstan: first in Alma-Ata, then in the Taldy-Kurgan region. Worked in agriculture, continued to engage in sheep breeding.

In 1957 he returned to Chechnya. Before last days lived and worked in his native village. Member of the CPSU since 1962.
Died October 22, 1983.
(Glory to Allah, or God, that he did not live to see Gorbachev's shame)

Khasan Israilov - hero of the Hitler Reich

Khasan Israilov, known under the pseudonym "Terloev" in 1929, joined the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks at the age of 19 and in the same year entered the Komvuz in Rostov-on-Don. In 1933, to continue his studies, Israilov was sent to Moscow to the Communist University of the Workers of the East. In 1935 he was arrested under Art. 58-10 part 2 and 95 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR and sentenced to 5 years in the camps, but already in 1937 he was released. Returning to Chechnya, he worked as a lawyer in the Shatoevsky district. After the start of the Great Patriotic War, Khasan Israilov and his brother Hussein developed a stormy activity in preparation for a general uprising of the Chechens. They created numerous battle groups.

Initially, the uprising was scheduled for the autumn of 1941 (and not for the winter of 1940, as Avtorkhanov lies) and was supposed to be timed to coincide with the approach of German troops to the borders of the republic. However, Hitler's blitzkrieg failed, and the date for the start of the rebellion was postponed to January 10, 1942.
But due to the lack of a clear connection between the rebel cells, it was not possible to postpone the uprising. A unified action did not take place, resulting in scattered premature actions of individual Chechen groups. On October 21, 1941, residents of the Khilokhoy farm in the Galanchozhsky district plundered the collective farm and offered armed resistance to the task force trying to restore order. A detachment of 40 people was sent to the area to arrest the instigators. However, his commander made a fatal mistake by dividing his people into two groups.

The first of them was surrounded by rebels, disarmed and shot. The second began to retreat, was surrounded in the village of Galanchozh and was also disarmed. The performance of the Chechens was suppressed only after the introduction of large forces. About a week later, an uprising broke out in the village of Borzoi, Shatoevsky district. The crowd that had gathered there disarmed the police, defeated the village council and plundered the collective farm cattle. With the rebels from the surrounding villages who joined, the Borzoevs tried to resist the approaching NKVD task force, however, unable to withstand its blow, the Chechens scattered through the forests and gorges.
Israilov actively engaged in party building. He built his organization on the principle of armed detachments by districts. On January 28, 1942, at an illegal meeting in Ordzhonikidze (Vladikavkaz), Israilov established the "Special Party of the Arms of the OPKB - the deportation of the Chechen Caucasian brothers" (OPKB). Its program provided for "the creation in the Caucasus of a free fraternal Federal Republic of the states of the fraternal peoples of the Caucasus under the mandate of the German Empire."
To better cater to the tastes of the German masters, Israilov renamed his organization the National Socialist Party of Caucasian Brothers (NSPKB). Its number soon reached 5,000 people. Another large anti-Soviet grouping in Checheno-Ingushetia was the Chechen-Mountain National Socialist Underground Organization, created in November 1941.

Sheripov, Mayrbek Dzhemaldinovich - the hero of the Hitler Reich

The younger brother of the famous commander of the so-called "Chechen Red Army" Aslanbek Sheripov, who was killed in September 1919 in a battle with Denikin, was a member of the CPSU (b), was also arrested for anti-Soviet propaganda in 1938, and in 1939 he was released for lack of evidence of guilt and soon appointed Chairman of the Forestry Council of the Chi ASSR.

In the autumn of 1941, he united gang leaders, deserters, fugitive criminals from Shatoevsky, Cheberloevsky and part of the Itum-Kalinsky districts around him, established contacts with religious and teip authorities, trying to provoke an armed uprising. Sheripov's main base was in the Shatoevsky district. Sheripov repeatedly changed the name of his organization: the Society for the Salvation of the Mountaineers, the Union of Liberated Mountaineers, the Chechen-Ingush Union of Mountain Nationalists, and, finally, the Chechen-Mountain National Socialist Underground Organization.

After the front approached the borders of the Chechen Republic, in August 1942 Sheripov got in touch with the inspirer of a number of past uprisings, an associate of Imam Gotsinsky, Dzhavotkhan Murtazaliev, who had been in an illegal position since 1925. Taking advantage of his authority, he managed to raise a major uprising in the Itum-Kalinsky and Shatoevsky regions. It began in the village of Dzumskaya. Having defeated the village council and the board of the collective farm, Sheripov led the bandits to the center of the Shatoevsky district - the village of Khimoy. On August 17, Khimoy was taken, Chechen rebels destroyed party and Soviet institutions, and the local population looted their property.

The capture of the regional center was successful thanks to the betrayal of the head of the department for combating banditry of the NKVD of the Chi ASSR, the Ingush Idris Aliyev, who was associated with Sheripov. A day before the attack, he withdrew from Himoy the task force and the military unit guarding the regional center. The rebels, led by Sheripov, went to capture the regional center of Itum-Kale, along the way joining their fellow countrymen. One and a half thousand Chechens surrounded Itum-Kale on August 20, but they could not take it. A small garrison repulsed all their attacks, and two companies that approached put the Chechen rebels to flight. The defeated Sheripov tried to unite with Israilov, but on November 7, 1942 he was killed by state security officers.
Let me remind you: the summer of 1942 - on August 6, units of the German 1st Panzer Army took Armavir and continued the offensive in the direction of Maikop. To prevent the enemy from breaking through to Tuapse and preventing the encirclement of troops in the Kuban, the Soviet command organized the defense of this direction with the forces of the 12th, 18th armies and the 17th Cossack cavalry corps. For four days there were battles on the rivers Kuban, Belaya, Laba. On August 10, German troops took Maykop and continued their offensive on Tuapse.

This is the difference between the essence of the true and false heroes of the people.
Traitors, on the orders of the Fuhrer, beating their brothers (the same Chechens) in the back. fighting at the front and drawing into their showdowns not only their families, but also the families of other Chechens.
And the Heroes, fighting against a strong enemy and defending their own and other people's families, from enslavement and destruction.

I note, for connoisseurs of "let's live together" that accepting them indiscriminately is schizophrenia, because they fought for different things and their goals were absolutely opposite.

This is confirmed, for example, by the fact that in the Gorbachev USSR and Yeltsin's Russia, within the framework of the war with history, even among the Chechens, the names of the heroes who fought for the Chechen people to grow, develop and become an example for the peoples around them, have been tabooed for the last 30 years.

But on the "heroes" who sought to transfer their people to the service of the owners, on the contrary, carte blanche was issued. And it was them who were advertised and praised in every possible way. And along with their "exploits" they praised the consequences of these exploits - prison and exile.
Moreover, it would be fine if they themselves sat down or were sent away, but they pulled the whole people with them.

Let me explain: since the teip system for the survival of childbirth involves helping any of the members of this clan (within the clan, it only looks at who you are, and not at what you have done in relation to others), then help is obligatory.
What is the term for helping a criminal commit a crime? Correctly! Complicity in the commission of a crime.
And it doesn’t matter for the state that a member of the clan simply helped him with food or told him where the police and the NKVD troops are located - according to the law, he is an accomplice. And subject to criminal prosecution under the law, like the offender himself.
And here we observe the great HUMANISM of the Soviet state in relation to the Chechen people. If they were tried according to the law, then, in fact, ALL the male part of the population of Chechnya should have been imprisoned under the article "banditry" and for crimes against statehood.

The consequences would be simple: children are sent to orphanages where they are brought up in the right spirit, the female part of the population, also in accordance with the law, or to a zone for 10-20 years or into exile (without children). And the people, the people are disappearing, because after 20 years in prison, the children will become adults and brought up in a completely different way, and the older generation will become too old to pass on the traditions of their people.

The Chechen people are disappearing.

It would be almost like the Polabian Slavs, from whom only surnames remained in the culture of Germany - Dönitz, von Bülow, von Verkhov or the last Prime Minister of the GDR Hans Modrow and the names of cities and localities - Berlin, aka Berlozhye or Brandenburg, aka Bran Bor .

So, we see two ways: either following the HEROES and then the people develop and become better. Or following the PSEUDO-HEROES who carry out other people's orders, and then the people first degrade, then become the slave of the masters chosen for their people by these same pseudo-heroes.

My father's heart sank in apprehension as he stepped out into the yard of the helicopter factory where he worked for a smoke break. Suddenly he saw two white swans flying in the sky with a mournful cooing. He thought about Dima. It became bad from a bad feeling. At that moment, his son Dmitry Petrov, together with his comrades, repelled the attacks of bandits led by Khattab and Shamil Basayev near the foot of Hill 776 near Ulus-Kert.

White swans in the March sky - harbingers of the death of Pskov paratroopers

On the day when the detachment of paratroopers advanced to the combat mission area, wet sticky snow began to fall, the weather was non-flying. And the terrain - continuous gullies, ravines, the mountain river Abazulgol and beech forest - prevented the landing of helicopters. Therefore, the detachment moved on foot. They did not have time to reach the height when they were discovered by the bandits. The fight has begun. The paratroopers died one by one. They didn't wait for help. Commander-in-Chief Shamanov has already reported to Russian President Vladimir Putin that the war in Chechnya is over, all major bandit formations have been destroyed. The general hastened. The parents of the dead 84 Pskov paratroopers urgently demanded an independent investigation and punishment of the perpetrators who failed during the three days of the battle, from February 29 to March 1, 2000, to come to the aid of the dying company. 90 paratroopers fought against 2500 thousand bandits.

For this battle, 21 paratroopers received the Star of the Hero posthumously. Dima Petrov is one of them. The parents cherished the star like the apple of their eye. But they didn't save it. The thieves stole the relic. Local newspapers wrote about it. And a miracle happened. Even thieves have a heart. They tossed the reward around front door to the apartment.

A school in the city of Rostov-on-Don is named after the hero of Russia. In 2016, a memorial plaque was installed on the house where Dima studied at the Young Pilot club. There is no monument to the hero in the city.

The feat of the Orthodox spirit without official awards

In the narrow, dead gorge Khanchelak during the first Chechen war in 1995 Chechen fighters set up an ambush. The time to rescue is only 25 minutes or less. Russian helicopter pilots succeeded. But after a short battle, the comrades missed Alexander Voronov. He was sitting on an armored vehicle and, apparently, was shot down by a shock wave. They were looking for him. To no avail. Only blood on the stones. Sasha was captured. For three more days they searched for him in the surrounding villages. Not found. Five years have passed. The second Chechen war began in 2000. After the assault on the village of Utam-Kala, local residents told the special forces that they had a special pit (zindan) in their backyard. A Russian man is sitting there.

A miracle happened. When by wooden stairs the soldiers descended into a seven-meter hole, they hardly recognized their lost friend in a bearded man in decayed camouflage, dressed in burlap. He staggered. Was very weak. Special Forces soldier Sasha Voronov was alive. He fell to his knees, wept and kissed the free land. He was saved by an indestructible will to live and an Orthodox cross. He took it in his hands, kissed it, rolled pellets of clay and ate. His hands were cut with the knives of bandits. They practiced hand-to-hand combat techniques on it. Not everyone gets these tests. This is a real feat. The feat of the human spirit. Even without official awards.

Zhukov walked through the minefield

In the Argun Gorge, the reconnaissance group was ambushed while performing a mission. She could not tear herself away, having two seriously wounded in her arms. Lieutenant colonel of the North Caucasian military headquarters of the district Alexander Zhukov receives an order to rescue his comrades. Land helicopters in dense forest fails. Fighters are being lifted by winch. To help evacuate the remaining wounded, Zhukov descends on the winch. Mi-24s, which are designed to provide fire support, cannot fire - a volley can destroy their own.

Zhukov lowers the helicopter. It turns out. At 100 meters, the militants surround him and the remaining two fighters from three sides. Heavy fire. And captivity. The militants did not kill the fighters. After all, a captured officer of the district headquarters can be profitably redeemed. The tractor driver - the head of the militants - orders the prisoners not to feed and beat them methodically. He sells Colonel Zhukov to field commander Gelaev. The gang of which is surrounded in the area of ​​​​the village of Komsomolskoye. The area is mined. Gelayev orders the prisoners to go through the minefield. Alexander Zhukov was blown up by a mine, was seriously wounded and received the star of the Hero of Russia. Alive.

I did not attach the Star of the Hero to the front tunic

In 1995, in the vicinity of Minutka Square, Chechen fighters dressed in airborne uniforms with short haircuts characteristic of paratroopers killed the local population. The alleged atrocities of Russian soldiers were filmed on cameras. This was reported to Ivan Babichev, the general of the united group "West". He gives the order to Colonel Vasily Nuzhny to neutralize the militants.

The right one twice visited Afghanistan, had military awards. The idea of ​​conferring the title of Hero of Russia had already been sent to him.

He and the soldiers began to clean up the ruins of houses. Found four militants. Surrounded. They were ordered to surrender. Suddenly, from the forks, shots were heard from other bandits who had sat in ambush. Vasily Nuzhny was wounded. Blood immediately appeared in the place on the chest where the golden star should have been hanging. He died almost immediately.

Tanya and 17 children were rescued by scouts

In the village of Bamut, 18 children were rescued by a reconnaissance platoon under the command of Sergeant Danila Blarneysky. Children were held hostage by militants in order to use them as human shields. Our scouts suddenly broke into the house and began to carry the children out. The bandits went berserk. They fired at their defenseless backs. The fighters fell, but under heavy fire they grabbed the children and ran to hide them under the saving stones. 27 soldiers were killed. The last rescued girl, Tanya Blank, was wounded in the leg. All other children survived. Danil was seriously wounded and did not receive the Hero of Russia star because he was discharged from the army. Instead of this well-deserved award, he puts on his tunic the Order of Courage.

Outside the 21st century. But, despite this, military conflicts do not subside, including with the participation of the Russian army. Courage and valor, courage and bravery are qualities characteristic of the soldiers of Russia. Therefore, the exploits of Russian soldiers and officers require separate and detailed coverage.

How ours fought in Chechnya

The exploits of Russian soldiers today do not leave anyone indifferent. The first example of boundless courage is the tank crew headed by Yuri Sulimenko.

The exploits of the Russian soldiers of the tank battalion began in 1994. During the First Chechen War, Sulimenko acted as a crew commander. The team showed good results and in 1995 took an active part in the storming of Grozny. The tank battalion was defeated by 2/3 of the personnel. However, the brave fighters led by Yuri did not run away from the battlefield, but went to the presidential palace.

Tank Sulimenko was surrounded by Dudaev. The team of fighters did not surrender, on the contrary, began to conduct aimed fire at strategic targets. Despite the numerical superiority of the opponents, Yuri Sulimenko and his crew were able to inflict colossal losses on the militants.

The commander received dangerous leg injuries, burns to his body and face. Viktor Velichko, in the rank of foreman, was able to provide him with first aid in a burning tank, after which he carried him to a safe place. These exploits of Russian soldiers in Chechnya did not go unnoticed. The fighters were awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation.

Yuri Sergeevich Igitov - a hero posthumously

Very often the exploits of Russian soldiers and officers today become well known after the death of heroes. This is exactly what happened in the case of Yury Igitov. Private was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation posthumously for the performance of duty and a special assignment.

Yuri Sergeevich took part in Chechen war. The private was 21 years old, but, despite his youth, he showed courage and valor in the last seconds of his life. Igitov's platoon was surrounded by Dudayev's fighters. Most of the comrades died under numerous enemy shots. The gallant private, at the cost of his life, covered the retreat of the surviving soldiers to the last bullet. When the enemy attacked, Yuri blew up a grenade without surrendering to the enemy.

Evgeny Rodionov - faith in God until the last breath

The exploits of Russian soldiers today cause boundless pride of fellow citizens, especially when it comes to young boys who gave their lives for a peaceful sky above their heads. Boundless heroism and unshakable faith in God was shown by Yevgeny Rodionov, who, under threat of death, refused to take off his pectoral cross.

Young Eugene was called to serve in 1995. He served on a permanent basis in the North Caucasus, at the border point of Ingushetia and Chechnya. Together with his comrades, he joined the guard on February 13. In carrying out their direct task, the soldiers stopped an ambulance carrying weapons. After that, the privates were captured.

For about 100 days the soldiers were tortured, severely beaten and humiliated. Despite the unbearable pain, the threat of death, the fighters did not take off pectoral crosses. For this, Yevgeny was beheaded, and the rest of his colleagues were shot on the spot. For martyrdom Rodionov Evgeny was awarded posthumously.

Yanina Irina - an example of heroism and courage

The exploits of Russian soldiers today are not only the heroic deeds of men, but also the incredible valor of Russian women. A sweet, fragile girl was a participant in two military operations as a nurse during the First Chechen War. 1999 was the third test in Irina's life.

August 31 became fatal. At risk to her own life, nurse Yanina saved more than 40 people by making three trips in an APC to the line of fire. Irina's fourth trip ended tragically. During the counter-offensive of the enemy, Yanina not only organized the lightning-fast loading of wounded soldiers, but also covered the retreat of her colleagues with automatic fire.

Unfortunately for the girls, two grenades hit the armored personnel carrier. The nurse rushed to the aid of the wounded commander and the 3rd private. Irina saved the young soldiers from certain death, but did not have time to get out of the burning car herself. The armored personnel carrier ammunition detonated.

For his valor and courage, he was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation posthumously. Irina is the only woman who has been awarded this title for operations in the North Caucasus.

Maroon takes posthumously

The exploits of Russian soldiers today are known not only in Russia. The story of Sergei Burnaev does not leave anyone indifferent. Brown - that's what his comrades called the commander - was in the "Vityaz", a special division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In 2002, the detachment was sent to the city of Argun, where an underground weapons warehouse with numerous tunnels was discovered.

It was possible to reach opponents only by going through an underground hole. Sergei Burnaev went first. The opponents opened fire on the fighter, who was able to answer the call of the militants in the darkness. The comrades hurried to help, it was at this moment that Bury saw a grenade that was rolling towards the fighters. Without hesitation, Sergei Burnaev closed the grenade with his body, thereby saving his colleagues from certain death.

For the accomplished feat, Sergei Burnaev was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation. The school where he studied was open so that young people could remember the exploits of Russian soldiers and officers today. The parents were presented with a maroon beret in honor of the memory of the brave soldier.

Beslan: no one is forgotten

The exploits of Russian soldiers and officers today are the best confirmation of the boundless courage of men in uniform. September 1, 2004 became a black day in the history of North Ossetia and all of Russia. The seizure of the school in Beslan left no one indifferent. Andrey Turkin was no exception. The lieutenant took an active part in the operation to free the hostages.

At the very beginning of the rescue operation, he was injured, but did not leave the school. Thanks to his professional skills, the lieutenant took an advantageous position in the dining room, where about 250 hostages were placed. The militants were eliminated, which increased the chances for a successful outcome of the operation.

However, a militant with an activated grenade came to the aid of the terrorists. Turkin, without hesitation, rushed to the bandit, holding the device between himself and the enemy. Such an action saved the lives of innocent children. The lieutenant posthumously became a Hero of the Russian Federation.

Combat Sun

In ordinary everyday life of military service, the feats of Russian soldiers are also often performed. or the battalion commander Sun, in 2012 during the exercises he became a hostage of the situation, the way out of which became a real feat. Saving his soldiers from death, the battalion commander covered the activated grenade with his own body, which flew off from the edge of the parapet. Thanks to Sergey's dedication, tragedy was avoided. The battalion commander was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation.

Whatever the exploits of Russian soldiers today, every person should remember the valor and courage of the military personnel of the army. Only the memory of the deeds of each of these heroes is a reward for the courage that cost them their lives.