Notes of a militant about the Chechen campaign. Learned to kill in the Chechen war I was killed in the Chechen war

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I was killed in the war
Viktor Elmanov

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Kostroma, December, 1996.

Poetess Maria Chapygina.

Maria Chapygina:

No, he didn't want to die!
He only wanted to live and laugh.
In tears, a grey-haired mother:
He was only nineteen!
No, he didn't want to die!
Beloved crying girl.
He suddenly ... did not have time to escape
From the mines, howling thinly.
We were all waiting for relatives,
Coming to terms with loss is not easy.
Did he die in the forties?
No. Just yesterday. In the nineties...

A small pause.

Maria Chapygina:

- This is a poem...

Grozny, February 1995.

Outskirts. Private one-story houses. Military trucks and equipment are moving along the street, raising clouds of dust.

One of the central streets of Grozny. Miraculously surviving bus stop.

Guys from OMON and marines; the building of the former Muslim center in Grozny; grave with wooden plaque.

“We were transferred to Grozny and attached to the Kostroma OMON. They settled in the basement of the former Muslim center. And even earlier here was the district committee of the party. Not far from us, right on the lawn, is a grave. This is after the January battles. Buried then right in the city. And they didn’t put up any signs - they just buried them in the ground. And many were not even buried, covered with something - and that's it ... "

Kostroma, December, 1996.

Militia Lieutenant Colonel Nikolai Galkin.

Nikolay Galkin:

- The picture was depressing: around the corpses. Everything was littered, but it was impossible to pick it up - the sniper was working ... Such a depressing picture was ...

- And what troops did you contact?

- We were in contact with internal troops. We were given four armored personnel carriers with crews. But, you understand, the guys are young, eighteen years old. The commander of the BTEer, the crew, he still has to study and study himself, but he was drafted into the army and sent to such a meat grinder. It was already necessary to appoint from our guys-officers senior BTEers, take them under their command, and so serve. But I won’t say, we got good guys soldiers. Everyone understood. They ate porridge with us, shared everything, as in a war, everything was brotherly.

Grozny, February 1995.

The guys from the OMON and the marines wash, shave, cut each other's hair, cook food.

From the diary of Alexei Safonov:

“Little by little we are getting ready…

A puppy came running from somewhere. The guys called him "Chechen" ...

Often, women come up to us and talk about sore. One such story was filmed by the guys.”

Woman:

- There was not enough good ... In December and January, two of my sons were killed ... (Crying).

The soldier's hands unfold a piece of paper folded in four from a school notebook.

From the diary of Alexei Safonov:

“When this letter was handed to me, it was a complete surprise! At first I even thought it was a joke. But this is a real letter. How it came here, to Chechnya, is completely incomprehensible! True, the name of the sender is unfamiliar to me. But anyway, I'm very happy! So glad I even decided to rewrite the letter in my diary. Here it is…"

Text of the letter.

“Hello, Alexey.

Greetings to you Zhenya.

This letter will probably surprise you very much, maybe you will not be satisfied with this anxiety. But then please excuse me.

Do you think what I have to do with you and why I decided to write? I just saw Yura's mother and asked if you were sent to the army or not? She said that she had already received a letter from you and gave me your address. And I asked her if anyone you have, in the sense of a girl, and she writes to you, but she replied that you have no one.

Things are going on in my old way, I don’t go anywhere, I sit at home. Maybe you will ask a question about Tolka, then I have absolutely nothing to do with him and do not want to have. But that's all for now. Goodbye. With regards, Zhenya, I hope I didn’t forget, although we don’t know each other very well, except at Aunt Valya’s when I was with them. But nothing, I hope we will get to know each other very well, and, of course, it will depend on you.

Goodbye again.

Waiting for an answer if you write.

The soldier's hands fold the sheet.

From the diary of Alexei Safonov:

“The surname of the girl is Kulikov. I don’t remember who it is, although the house where she lives is not far from mine.

Kostroma, December, 1996.

Was there a strict schedule?

Nikolay Galkin:

- On such a business trip without strict discipline is impossible. At seven o'clock rise, wash, at eight o'clock breakfast. At eight-twenty we were already given a task: either we went to clean up the area or to clear mines.

Nikolai Galkin watches footage on TV: an armored personnel carrier is moving down a narrow street in Grozny's private sector, followed by riot police; search of suspects; OMON officers approach a private house, look into the basement; the military man, stepping carefully, enters the room; half-tipped crib; a dead dog on the floor in a pool of blood.

- Combed the forest ...

Nikolay Galkin:

- They combed the greenery. It was just from the north side that greenery came close to us, that is, thickets of thick bushes. When it blooms in the spring, almost nothing is visible for twenty meters, and at night there were constant shelling from there. And so we combed it twice. They found streamers there, signs that the militants were following, and flophouses.

Footage on TV: a detachment of riot police is approaching the "green"; riot police enter the thickets, move carefully; one riot policeman, noticing a building ahead, shoots at its window with a grenade launcher; grenade explosion inside the building.

- And when did they return, was there a certain time, at such and such a gathering?

Nikolay Galkin:

- You understand, a time was assigned for each operation, we leave for three hours, but it did not always work out. It used to be six o'clock. But it happened and in two hours they were in time. It depended on the scope of the operation.

But they returned in the evening.

- Yes, by the evening everything ... Dinner in the evening. For whom and lunch at the same time, checking weapons is a must. And the appointment to the outfit, that is, for the night, the divorce of the outfit. A duty officer was appointed - he was responsible around the clock - who monitored the change of outfits and the safety of weapons.

- Lights out at ten o'clock?

- As such, the end ... it all depended on the situation. Because if the shelling began, what kind of retreat can there be? ..

Footage on TV: riot police sleeping on the floor; two are standing, shivering from the cold, yawning.

Nikolay Galkin:

- ... And so at ten or eleven o'clock, in order to really let people sleep. But there was not a single day of such sleep, normal, human sleep. People are in tension, constant shelling, bombing...

Helicopter flying over the city.

From the diary of Alexei Safonov:

“Today I re-read the letter of this Zhenya Kulikova.

Who is she? It is clear that from our yard. Looked secretly, fell in love. From somewhere knows Yurka's mother. I got her address. And boldly asked - do I have a girlfriend? Actually there is. For all the time I sent one postcard - and that's it. And here, in the army, especially now, in Chechnya, you really want to be written letters, congratulating you on the holidays. By the way, today is our holiday - the twenty-third of February.

OMON soldiers are sitting in a cramped room, one of them is reading a holiday order.

Omonovets:

- Combat friends! On behalf of the operational headquarters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia of the Chechen Republic, I congratulate you on the Day of Defenders of the Fatherland. In difficult combat conditions, we celebrate this holiday, but this is the purpose of people in uniform: to be where it is difficult, where it is dangerous, where blood is shed, where real male powers and will. Loyalty to military duty, the desire to preserve the unity of great Russia brought the army, police and internal troops into a single peacekeeping detachment on Chechen soil. And let us not be for today festive tables with relatives and friends, however, we honor this holy holiday for our fathers and grandfathers and try to be worthy successors of their glorious traditions. Thank you for your courage, dedication and professional skills! They guarantee our return to family and friends. Many thanks to our comrades who died here fighting the bandits. Great sorrow for them and eternal memory to them. I wish everyone happiness, health, success in service, prosperity, and a speedy recovery to the wounded. Today you proved that the Fatherland can rely on you. Happy holiday!

Head of the Control Group of the Operational Headquarters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Major General of Militia Khrapov.

Nikolay Galkin:

- Guys, I ask you, let's honor the memory of those guys-fighters who remained on this earth and who are not with us.

Everyone gets up. A moment of silence.

Nikolay Galkin:

- Please sit down.

Everyone sits down.

Nikolai Galkin (referring to the police officer):

- Well, Alexander Nikolaevich, will you serve a festive dinner?

Omonovets:

- Pasta.

Everyone laughs.

Street on the outskirts of Grozny. Burnt Muslim mosque. Houses with cross-glued glass in the windows. Tanks are on the side of the road.

From the diary of Alexei Safonov:

“The third day I sort through all the girls I know in my head. There is an opportunity to forward the letter to this Zhenya Kulikova, but I have a brake. And I want to answer! For some reason, she seems so lonely. Pity her! And then, who is this Tolka? Why doesn't she want to have a relationship with him? Did he offend her with something? With this Chechnya you will get completely dumbfounded. They say that on TV they show us all so good! And there's enough here! And shit too!.. Yesterday OMON from Orenburg caught marauding soldiers… They took away the last watch from one woman. Prapor was offended by the riot police and wanted to throw a grenade. They say he already pulled out the check. Barely selected."

Kostroma, December, 1996.

Nikolai Galkin is watching footage on TV: drunken soldiers; riot police search

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In Chechnya, Russian troops fought under the tsars, when the Caucasus region was only part of Russian Empire. But in the nineties of the last century, a real massacre began there, the echoes of which have not subsided so far. The Chechen war in 1994-1996 and in 1999-2000 are two disasters for the Russian army.

Background of the Chechen Wars

The Caucasus has always been a very difficult region for Russia. Questions of nationality, religion, culture have always been raised very sharply and were solved by far from peaceful means.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the influence of the separatists increased in the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic on the basis of national and religious hostility, as a result of which the Republic of Ichkeria was self-proclaimed. She entered into a confrontation with Russia.

In November 1991, Boris Yeltsin, then President of Russia, issued a decree "On the introduction of a state of emergency on the territory of the Chechen-Ingush Republic." But this decree was not supported in the Supreme Council of Russia, due to the fact that most of the seats there were occupied by opponents of Yeltsin.

In 1992, on March 3, Dzhokhar Dudayev announced that he would only negotiate when Chechnya gained full independence. A few days later, on the twelfth, the Chechen parliament adopted a new constitution, self-proclaiming the country a secular independent state.

Almost immediately, all government buildings, all military bases, all strategically important objects were captured. The territory of Chechnya completely came under the control of the separatists. From that moment on, legitimate centralized power ceased to exist. The situation got out of control: the trade in weapons and people flourished, drug trafficking passed through the territory, bandits robbed the population (especially Slavic).

In June 1993, soldiers from Dudayev's bodyguard seized the parliament building in Grozny, and Dudayev himself proclaimed the emergence of "sovereign Ichkeria" - a state that he completely controlled.

A year later, the First Chechen War (1994-1996) will begin, which will mark the beginning of a whole series of wars and conflicts that have become, perhaps, the bloodiest and most cruel throughout the entire territory of the former Soviet Union.

First Chechen: the beginning

On December 11, 1994, Russian troops entered Chechnya in three groups. One entered from the west, through North Ossetia, another - through Mozdok, and the third group - from the territory of Dagestan. Initially, the command was entrusted to Eduard Vorobyov, but he refused and resigned, citing the complete unpreparedness of this operation. Later, the operation in Chechnya will be headed by Anatoly Kvashnin.

Of the three groups, only the Mozdok group was able to successfully reach Grozny on December 12 - the other two were blocked in different parts Chechnya by local residents and partisan detachments of militants. A few days later and the remaining two groups Russian troops approached Grozny and blocked it from all sides, with the exception of the southern direction. Up to the start of the assault from this side, access to the city will be free for the militants, this later influenced the siege of Grozny by federal waxes.

Assault on Grozny

On December 31, 1994, the assault began, which claimed many lives of Russian soldiers and remained one of the most tragic episodes in Russian history. About two hundred units of armored vehicles entered Grozny from three sides, which were almost powerless in the conditions of street fighting. Communication between the companies was poorly established, which made it difficult to coordinate joint actions.

Russian troops are stuck on the streets of the city, constantly falling under the crossfire of militants. The battalion of the Maykop brigade, which advanced the farthest towards the center of the city, was surrounded and was almost completely destroyed along with its commander, Colonel Savin. Battalion of Pietrakowski motorized rifle regiment, which went to the rescue of the "Maikopians", according to the results of two days of fighting, totaled about thirty percent of the original composition.

By the beginning of February, the number of stormers was increased to seventy thousand people, but the assault on the city continued. Only on February 3, Grozny was blocked from the south side and taken into the ring.

March sixth part last detachments Chechen separatists were killed, another left the city. Grozny remained under the control of Russian troops. In fact, little was left of the city - both sides actively used both artillery and armored vehicles, so Grozny practically lay in ruins.

On the rest, there were continuous local battles between Russian troops and militant groups. In addition, the militants prepared and conducted a series (June 1995), in Kizlyar (January 1996). In March 1996, the militants made an attempt to recapture Grozny, but the assault was repelled by Russian soldiers. And Dudayev was liquidated.

In August, the militants repeated their attempt to take Grozny, this time it was a success. Many important objects in the city were blocked by the separatists, Russian troops suffered very heavy losses. Together with Grozny, the militants took Gudermes and Argun. On August 31, 1996, the Khasavyurt Agreement was signed - the First Chechen War ended with huge losses for Russia.

Human losses in the First Chechen War

The data varies depending on which side is counting. Actually, this is not surprising and it has always been so. Therefore, all options are provided below.

Losses in the Chechen war (table No. 1 according to the headquarters of the Russian troops):

The two figures in each column, where the losses of Russian troops are indicated, are two headquarters investigations that were carried out with a difference of a year.

According to the Committee of Soldiers' Mothers, the consequences of the Chechen war are completely different. Some of those killed there are called about fourteen thousand people.

Losses in the Chechen war (table No. 2) of militants according to Ichkeria and a human rights organization:

Among the civilian population, "Memorial" put forward a figure of 30-40 thousand people, and the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation A.I. Lebed - 80,000.

Second Chechen: main events

Even after the signing of the peace agreements, things did not become calmer in Chechnya. The militants ran everything, there was a brisk trade in drugs and weapons, people were kidnapped and killed. On the border between Dagestan and Chechnya, it was alarming.

After a series of kidnappings of major businessmen, officers, journalists, it became clear that the continuation of the conflict in a more acute phase is simply inevitable. Moreover, since April, small groups of militants began to probe weak spots defense of Russian troops, preparing the invasion of Dagestan. The invasion operation was led by Basayev and Khattab. The place where the militants planned to strike was in the mountainous zone of Dagestan. There, the small number of Russian troops was combined with the inconvenient location of the roads, along which you could not transfer reinforcements very quickly. On August 7, 1999, the militants crossed the border.

The main striking force of the bandits were mercenaries and Islamists from Al-Qaeda. For almost a month there were battles with varying success, but, finally, the militants were driven back to Chechnya. Along with this, the bandits carried out a series of terrorist attacks in various cities of Russia, including Moscow.

As a response, on September 23, a heavy shelling of Grozny began, and a week later, Russian troops entered Chechnya.

Casualties in the Second Chechen War among Russian servicemen

The situation had changed, and Russian troops now played a dominant role. But many mothers never waited for their sons.

Losses in the Chechen war (table No. 3):

In June 2010, the commander-in-chief of the Ministry of Internal Affairs gave the following figures: 2,984 killed and about 9,000 wounded.

Losses of militants

Losses in the Chechen war (table No. 4):

Civilian casualties

According to official data, as of February 2001, more than a thousand civilians had died. In the book by S. V. Ryazantsev “Demographic and migration portrait of the North Caucasus”, the losses of the parties in the Chechen war are five thousand people, although we are talking already about 2003

Judging by the assessment of the organization Amnesty International, which calls itself non-governmental and objective, there were about twenty-five thousand dead among the civilian population. They can count for a long time and diligently, only to the question: "How many actually died in the Chechen war?" - hardly anyone will give an intelligible answer.

Outcomes of the war: peace conditions, restoration of Chechnya

While the Chechen war was going on, the loss of equipment, enterprises, land, any resources and everything else was not even considered, because people always remain the main ones. But then the war ended, Chechnya remained part of Russia, and the need arose to restore the republic from practically ruins.

Enormous money was allocated to Grozny. After several assaults, there were almost no whole buildings left there, and on this moment it is a big and beautiful city.

The economy of the republic was also raised artificially - it was necessary to give time for the population to get used to the new realities, so that new factories and farms were rebuilt. Roads, communication lines, electricity were needed. Today we can say that the republic is almost completely out of the crisis.

Chechen wars: reflection in films, books

Dozens of films have been made based on the events that took place in Chechnya. Many books have been released. Now it is no longer possible to understand where the fiction is, and where the real horrors of war are. The Chechen war (as well as the war in Afghanistan) claimed too many lives and went through a "skating rink" for a whole generation, so it simply could not remain unnoticed. Russia's losses in the Chechen wars are colossal, and, according to some researchers, the losses are even greater than in ten years of war in Afghanistan. Below is a list of films that most deeply show us the tragic events of the Chechen campaigns.

• documentary film from five episodes "Chechen trap";
• "Purgatory";
• "Cursed and forgotten";
• "Prisoner of the Caucasus".

Many fiction and journalistic books describe the events in Chechnya. For example, the now famous writer Zakhar Prilepin, who wrote the novel "Pathology" about this war, fought as part of the Russian troops. Writer and publicist Konstantin Semyonov published a series of stories "Grozny Tales" (about the storming of the city) and the novel "The Motherland Betrayed Us". The storming of Grozny is dedicated to the novel by Vyacheslav Mironov "I was in this war."

Video recordings made in Chechnya by rock musician Yuri Shevchuk are widely known. He and his DDT group performed more than once in Chechnya in front of Russian soldiers in Grozny and at military bases.

Conclusion

The State Council of Chechnya published data showing that between 1991 and 2005 almost one hundred and sixty thousand people died - this figure includes militants, civilians, and Russian soldiers. One hundred sixty thousand.

Even if the figures are overestimated (which is quite likely), the amount of losses is still simply colossal. Russia's losses in the Chechen wars are a terrible memory of the nineties. The old wound will hurt and itch in every family that lost a man there, in the Chechen war.

Yes, I was Elmir's mistress, and I'm not going to hide it, - said 18-year-old Svetlana Barkova (surname changed - V.E.) at the court session. - In general, I have known him and his father for about ten years - from the time the Huseynovs arrived in Chapaevsk and bought a house on the same street as us. When I was still little, Elmir and I were just friends, and then I grew up - and soon became his mistress. He constantly helped me with money, gave me 500 rubles a week ...

Then, at the trial, which took place in 2004, other girls from the same Chapaev outskirts also spoke, who also admitted that they were the defendant's mistresses. At the same time, each of them was well aware that Huseynov Jr. had other girlfriends besides her, but even under such conditions, all the girls got along well with each other and did not even try to be jealous of each other.

However, sometimes there were exceptions. In particular, the already mentioned Sveta Barkova during the court session said that she once had a fight with a certain Katya, another girlfriend of Elmir Huseynov. The fight, as it turned out, was serious, because at the same time Katya broke Sveta's finger on her hand. However, the reason for the brawl in this case was not jealousy at all, but money: one of the girls told Sveta that this 25-year-old loving Azerbaijani Katya pays more than her ...

Apparently, some girls really loved Huseynov in their own way, because on occasion they were ready to do everything he asked. So Elmir once asked Sveta to take a small package from him, find a safe place for him in his house and keep it until he asks. The girl could not resist and begged her friend to show what is in the package. It turned out that in the bundle lay ... a Makarov pistol. True, Huseynov assured his passion that this weapon is not military, and besides, it is faulty, and therefore, they say, it will not bring you any trouble.

As a result, the reassured Sveta put the package in her sofa and forgot about it for several weeks. She remembered the pistol only after Elmir asked him to bring it. The next day, he usually again returned the weapon to the girl, who again hid the blued object in its original place. This went on until one day the police raided the Huseynovs' yard and took Elmir away in a yellow car with barred windows. And a few days later, people in civilian clothes came to the Barkovs' house and asked in a good way, without a search, to give them the ill-fated pistol ...

It was then that the inhabitants of that quiet street on the outskirts of Chapaevsk, a small town in the Samara region, found out who was really hiding under the guise of a respectable Azerbaijani businessman Elmir Huseynov. It would be more accurate to say that his father, Huseynov Sr., was engaged in genuine commercial activities (grain trade), but 25-year-old Elmir, formally listed as a participant in his father's business, actually had his main income from night robberies and even contract killings. At the same time, the main object of Huseynov Jr.'s attacks, as it turned out, were farmers from villages neighboring Chapaevsky. Of course, he robbed not alone, but as part of a gang, which, according to his testimony, included three more young gypsies. However, strangely enough, their identities and addresses could not be established, and therefore Huseynov was subsequently forced to answer for bandit raids on farmers alone.

In addition to the already mentioned Makarov pistol, the criminal group was also armed with three TT pistols, a sawn-off hunting rifle, RGD-5 grenades and an AK-47 assault rifle. All this arsenal, except for the machine gun, was discovered by the police in the Huseynovs' house during the arrest of their youngest son. However, the operatives were able to find a magazine for the mentioned AK-47 with 30 rounds, so the bandits did not even try to deny the absence of this weapon.

During the investigation of the case, the prosecutor's office charged Huseynov with organizing and participating in armed raids on the Mayers farmers from the village of Makaryevka in the Bezenchuksky district, as well as on the farmers Arefievs from the village of Kuibyshevsky in the Krasnoarmeisky district. In these cases, the crime scenarios were very similar. Around midnight, masked bandits broke into the house of unsuspecting farmers, beat the men, and put guns to the temples of women and children. In such a situation, of course, the victims of the attacks were ready to give anything to the robbers, if only they were left alive. Having thoroughly frightened the victims, the criminals took money, gold jewelry and other valuables from their home, after which they disappeared into the night. Later, during the calculation, it was found that the Mayers were deprived of property by the raiders for almost 33 thousand rubles, and the Arefievs - for more than 23 thousand.

After a series of armed raids, Guseynov in the criminal world was apparently talked about as a tough gangster. One way or another, but soon local Chapaev businessmen began to turn to him in order to “remove” an objectionable competitor. The young Azerbaijani agreed to this "wet" work, but he decided to himself that he himself would not get dirty with blood. By that time, Elmir had already looked after a candidate for the role of a killer: he turned out to be 23-year-old Musa Kaimov, a resident of the village of Shali in the Chechen Republic, who had recently come from his historical homeland to the banks of the Volga to earn money. However, Musa did not master any civilian profession by his age: during the years of the armed conflict in Chechnya, he only learned to master any weapon well and kill in cold blood. Therefore, the young Chechen willingly agreed to Huseynov's proposal to fulfill specific "orders" for him.

The first victim of this hired killer was a private entrepreneur Bakhriev from the village of Vladimirovka, Bezenchuksky district. A certain competitor "ordered" him to Huseynov for 100 thousand rubles. Having received his "fee", Elmir gave half to Kaimov, and to complete the "task" he supplied him with a TT pistol. Then the mercenaries acted according to the usual pattern. They arrived at Bakhriev's house around midnight, and Huseynov knocked on the door. The owner of the house went out onto the porch - and immediately received a bullet in the temple from Kaimov, who was hiding in the dark. Bakhriev died on the threshold of his own house within a few minutes, without regaining consciousness.

Then, according to the same scenario, the accomplices committed a contract killing of the private entrepreneur Magerromov, who lived in Chapaevsk. For this “work”, the customer paid Huseynov $1,500, and half of this amount, like last time, went to Kaimov. True, unlike the previous case, the Chechen had to shoot Magerromov through the window glass, because the cautious businessman, when knocking on the door, did not go out onto the porch, but tried to examine the night visitors from the window. However, this did not save the businessman: a bullet from Kaimov's pistol pierced his head, which was followed by instant death.

As you know, contract killings are always very difficult to solve, so the fact that the killer ended up in the dock in 2004 should be considered a great success for our law enforcement officers. But the most surprising thing here is not at all that Kaimov was eventually put on trial, but something completely different. It turns out that in the course of the investigation into these murders, the detectives managed to find only the perpetrator, but not the customers of the crimes. Huseynov, who received money from them, during interrogations could not say anything intelligible, not only about the names and addresses, but even about their names and portraits. One way or another, it was not possible during the investigation to establish the identity of the merchants who wished to remove a competitor from their path with the help of mercenaries.

And Huseynov, after the successfully executed "orders", apparently, decided to expand his criminal business, and even tried to bring it "in line with the times." In any case, the young Azerbaijani bought a batch of TNT bombs from the former soldier Piskunov. But then the leader of the gang, apparently, was "crushed by a toad" - and he decided that it was too expensive to pay the seller for this product. From that moment on, Piskunov's fate was sealed.

This time, Huseynov went to the "wet business" himself, without intermediaries. The Azerbaijani told the seller of TNT that he would be able to pay him off only after he received the appropriate amount of money from a certain forester who lived somewhere in the wilderness of the river beyond Chapaevsky. Piskunov agreed to go with Huseynov in order to quickly receive payment for the goods. And what happened next, as you can already guess, happened according to the classical scheme. In a deserted place, Elmir, under a plausible pretext, stopped the car, and then, seizing the moment, knocked down the unlucky seller, after which he killed him with a shot in the head ...

During the investigation, the prosecutor's office decided not to prosecute Svetlana Barkova for keeping a Makarov pistol in her house, since the girl did not understand weapons at all and was misled by her friend about the lethality and serviceability of the PM. As a result, of all the defendants in this criminal case, only Elmir Huseynov and Musa Kaimov ended up in the dock. At the same time, from the very beginning, the Azerbaijani partially confessed to the crimes he had committed, not agreeing only that he took at least some part in the murder of Bakhriev and Magerromov. But Kaimov did not admit a single point of the accusation. Moreover, the Chechen filed a petition for an interpreter to be invited to the trial for him. However, the court rejected his request, arguing that Kaimov, a Russian citizen, graduated from a Russian school, and, therefore, must have sufficient command of the main language of his state. Then the offended defendant generally refused to say anything in court, and as a result, he remained silent until the very end of the trial.

We present you the release of photographs by Alexander Nemenov about the First Chechen War and the history of this military conflict. (Warning! This issue contains photographic materials that may seem unpleasant or frightening)

1. First Chechen war (Chechen conflict of 1994-1996, First Chechen campaign, Restoration of constitutional order in the Chechen Republic) - fighting between the troops of Russia (the Armed Forces and the Ministry of Internal Affairs) and the unrecognized Chechen Republic of Ichkeria in Chechnya, and some settlements in the neighboring regions of the Russian North Caucasus, in order to take control of the territory of Chechnya, on which the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria was proclaimed in 1991.

2. Officially, the conflict was defined as "measures to maintain constitutional order", military operations were called the "first Chechen war", less often the "Russian-Chechen" or "Russian-Caucasian war". The conflict and the events preceding it were characterized by a large number of casualties among the population, military and law enforcement agencies, there were facts of ethnic cleansing of the non-Chechen population in Chechnya.

3. Despite certain military successes of the Armed Forces and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, the results of this conflict were the withdrawal of Russian units, massive destruction and casualties, the de facto independence of Chechnya before the Second Chechen War, and a wave of terror that swept through Russia.

4. With the beginning of perestroika in various republics of the Soviet Union, including Checheno-Ingushetia, various nationalist movements became more active. One such organization was the All-National Congress of the Chechen People (OKCHN), which was set up in 1990 and aimed at secession of Chechnya from the USSR and the creation of an independent Chechen state. It was headed by a former general of the Soviet Air force Dzhokhar Dudayev.

5. On June 8, 1991, at the II session of the OKCHN, Dudayev proclaimed the independence of the Chechen Republic Nokhchi-cho; Thus, a dual power developed in the republic.

6. During the "August coup" in Moscow, the leadership of the CHIASSR supported the State Emergency Committee. In response to this, on September 6, 1991, Dudayev announced the dissolution of the republican state structures, accusing Russia of a "colonial" policy. On the same day, Dudayev's guards stormed the building of the Supreme Council, the television center and the Radio House. More than 40 deputies were beaten, and the chairman of the Grozny City Council, Vitaly Kutsenko, was thrown out of a window, as a result of which he died. On this occasion, the head of the Chechen Republic Zavgaev D. G. spoke in 1996 at a meeting of the State Duma "Yes, on the territory of the Chechen-Ingush Republic (today it is divided), the war began in the fall of 1991, namely the war against the multinational people, when the criminal criminal regime with some support from those who today also show an unhealthy interest in the situation here, these people were covered in blood. The first victim of what is happening was the people of this republic, and the Chechens in the first place. The war began when Vitaly Kutsenko, chairman of the Grozny city council, was killed in broad daylight during a meeting of the republic's Supreme Council. When Besliev, vice rector, was shot dead in the street state university. When Kankalik, the rector of the same state university, was killed. When every day in the fall of 1991, up to 30 people were found killed on the streets of Grozny. When, from the autumn of 1991 until 1994, Grozny's morgues were packed to the ceiling, announcements were made on local television asking them to pick them up, find out who was there, and so on. - Zavgaev D.G., Head of the Chechen Republic, transcript of the meeting of the State Duma dated July 19, 1996.

8. Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR Ruslan Khasbulatov then sent them a telegram: "I was pleased to learn about the resignation of the Republic's Armed Forces." After the collapse of the USSR, Dzhokhar Dudayev announced the final withdrawal of Chechnya from the Russian Federation. On October 27, 1991, presidential and parliamentary elections were held in the republic under the control of separatists. Dzhokhar Dudayev became the President of the Republic. These elections were recognized by the Russian Federation as illegal

9. On November 7, 1991, Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed the Decree "On the introduction of a state of emergency in the Chechen-Ingush Republic (1991)". After these actions of the Russian leadership, the situation in the republic deteriorated sharply - supporters of the separatists surrounded the buildings of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the KGB, military camps, blocked railway and air hubs. In the end, the introduction of the state of emergency was frustrated, the Decree "On the introduction of a state of emergency in the Chechen-Ingush Republic (1991)" was canceled on November 11, three days after its signing, after a heated discussion at a meeting of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR and from the republic the withdrawal of Russian military units and units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs began, which was finally completed by the summer of 1992. The separatists began to seize and loot military depots.

10. Dudayev's forces got a lot of weapons: Two launchers of an operational-tactical missile system in a non-combat ready state. 111 L-39 and 149 L-29 training aircraft, aircraft converted into light attack aircraft; three MiG-17 fighters and two MiG-15 fighters; six An-2 planes and two Mi-8 helicopters, 117 R-23 and R-24 aircraft missiles, 126 R-60s; about 7 thousand GSh-23 air shells. 42 T-62 and T-72 tanks; 34 BMP-1 and BMP-2; 30 BTR-70 and BRDM; 44 MT-LB, 942 vehicles. 18 MLRS Grad and more than 1000 shells for them. 139 artillery systems, including 30 122-mm D-30 howitzers and 24 thousand shells for them; as well as self-propelled guns 2S1 and 2S3; anti-tank guns MT-12. Five air defense systems, 25 memory various types, 88 MANPADS; 105 pcs. ZUR S-75. 590 units of anti-tank weapons, including two Konkurs ATGMs, 24 Fagot ATGMs, 51 Metis ATGMs, 113 RPG-7 systems. About 50 thousand small arms, more than 150 thousand grenades. 27 wagons of ammunition; 1620 tons of fuel and lubricants; about 10 thousand sets of clothing items, 72 tons of food; 90 tons of medical equipment.

12. In June 1992, the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Pavel Grachev, ordered that half of all weapons and ammunition available in the republic be transferred to the Dudaevites. According to him, this was a forced step, since a significant part of the “transferred” weapons had already been captured, and there was no way to take out the rest due to the lack of soldiers and echelons.

13. The victory of the separatists in Grozny led to the collapse of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR. Malgobeksky, Nazranovsky and most of the Sunzhensky district of the former CHIASSR formed the Republic of Ingushetia as part of the Russian Federation. Legally, the Chechen-Ingush ASSR ceased to exist on December 10, 1992.

14. The exact border between Chechnya and Ingushetia has not been demarcated and has not been defined to date (2012). During the Ossetian-Ingush conflict in November 1992, Russian troops entered the Prigorodny district of North Ossetia. Relations between Russia and Chechnya deteriorated sharply. The Russian high command proposed at the same time to solve the "Chechen problem" by force, but then the entry of troops into the territory of Chechnya was prevented by the efforts of Yegor Gaidar.

16. As a result, Chechnya became de facto independent, but not legally recognized by any country, including Russia, as a state. The republic had state symbols - a flag, emblem and anthem, authorities - the president, parliament, government, secular courts. It was supposed to create a small Armed Forces, as well as the introduction of their own state currency - nahara. In the constitution adopted on March 12, 1992, CRI was characterized as an "independent secular state", its government refused to sign a federal treaty with the Russian Federation.

17. In fact, state system CRI turned out to be extremely ineffective and in the period 1991-1994 it was rapidly criminalized. In 1992-1993, over 600 premeditated murders took place on the territory of Chechnya. For the period of 1993 at the Grozny branch of the North Caucasian railway 559 trains were subjected to an armed attack with complete or partial looting of about 4 thousand wagons and containers in the amount of 11.5 billion rubles. For 8 months in 1994, 120 armed attacks were carried out, as a result of which 1,156 wagons and 527 containers were looted. Losses amounted to more than 11 billion rubles. In 1992-1994, 26 railway workers were killed in armed attacks. The current situation forced the Russian government to take a decision to stop traffic on the territory of Chechnya from October 1994

18. A special trade was the manufacture of false advice notes, on which more than 4 trillion rubles were received. Hostage-taking and the slave trade flourished in the republic - according to Rosinformtsentr, since 1992, 1,790 people have been kidnapped and illegally held in Chechnya.

19. Even after that, when Dudayev stopped paying taxes to the general budget and forbade employees of the Russian special services from entering the republic, the federal center continued to transfer funds from the budget to Chechnya. In 1993, 11.5 billion rubles were allocated for Chechnya. Until 1994, Russian oil continued to flow to Chechnya, while it was not paid for and resold abroad.

20. The period of Dudayev's rule is characterized by ethnic cleansing against the entire non-Chechen population. In 1991-1994, the non-Chechen (primarily Russian) population of Chechnya was subjected to murders, attacks and threats from Chechens. Many were forced to leave Chechnya, being expelled from their homes, leaving or selling apartments to Chechens at a low price. Only in 1992, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, 250 Russians were killed in Grozny, 300 were missing. The morgues were filled with unidentified corpses. Widespread anti-Russian propaganda was kindled by relevant literature, direct insults and appeals from government stands, desecration of Russian cemeteries[

21. In the spring of 1993, the contradictions between President Dudayev and the parliament sharply aggravated in the CRI. On April 17, 1993, Dudayev announced the dissolution of the Parliament, the Constitutional Court and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. On June 4, armed Dudayevites under the command of Shamil Basayev seized the building of the Grozny City Council, in which meetings of the parliament and the constitutional court were held; thus, a coup d'état took place in CRI. The constitution, adopted last year, was amended, Dudayev's regime of personal power was established in the republic, which lasted until August 1994, when legislative powers were returned to parliament

22. After the coup d'état on June 4, 1993, in the northern regions of Chechnya, not controlled by the separatist government in Grozny, an armed anti-Dudaev opposition was formed, which began an armed struggle against Dudayev's regime. The first opposition organization was the National Salvation Committee (KNS), which held several armed actions, but was soon defeated and disintegrated. It was replaced by the Provisional Council of the Chechen Republic (VSChR), which proclaimed itself the only legitimate authority on the territory of Chechnya. The VChR was recognized as such by the Russian authorities, who provided it with all kinds of support (including weapons and volunteers).

23. Since the summer of 1994, hostilities have unfolded in Chechnya between troops loyal to Dudayev and the forces of the opposition Provisional Council. Troops loyal to Dudayev carried out offensive operations in the Nadterechny and Urus-Martan regions controlled by opposition troops. They were accompanied by significant losses on both sides, tanks, artillery and mortars were used.

24. The forces of the parties were approximately equal, and neither of them was able to prevail in the struggle.

25. Only in Urus-Martan in October 1994, the Dudayevites lost 27 people killed, according to the opposition. The operation was planned by Aslan Maskhadov, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the CRI. The commander of the opposition detachment in Urus-Martan, Bislan Gantamirov, lost from 5 to 34 people killed, according to various sources. In Argun in September 1994, a detachment of the opposition field commander Ruslan Labazanov lost 27 people killed. The opposition, in turn, on September 12 and October 15, 1994, carried out offensive actions in Grozny, but every time they retreated without achieving decisive success, although they did not suffer heavy losses.

26. On November 26, oppositionists unsuccessfully stormed Grozny for the third time. At the same time, a number of Russian servicemen who “fought on the side of the opposition” under a contract with Federal Service counterintelligence.

27. Entering troops (December 1994)
At that time, the use of the expression "the entry of Russian troops into Chechnya", according to the deputy and journalist Alexander Nevzorov, was, to a greater extent, caused by journalistic terminological confusion - Chechnya was part of Russia.
Even before the announcement of any decision by the Russian authorities, on December 1, Russian aircraft attacked the Kalinovskaya and Khankala airfields and disabled all the aircraft at the disposal of the separatists. On December 11, President of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin signed Decree No. 2169 "On Measures to Ensure Law, Law and Order and Public Security on the Territory of the Chechen Republic." Later, the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation recognized most of the decrees and resolutions of the government, which justified the actions of the federal government in Chechnya, as consistent with the Constitution.
On the same day, units of the United Group of Forces (OGV), consisting of parts of the Ministry of Defense and the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, entered the territory of Chechnya. The troops were divided into three groups and entered from three different sides - from the west from North Ossetia through Ingushetia), from the north-west from the Mozdok region of North Ossetia, directly bordering on Chechnya and from the east from the territory of Dagestan).
The eastern group was blocked in the Khasavyurt district of Dagestan by local residents - Akkin Chechens. The Western group was also blocked by local residents and came under fire near the village of Barsuki, however, using force, they nevertheless broke through into Chechnya. The Mozdok grouping advanced most successfully, already on December 12 approaching the village of Dolinsky, located 10 km from Grozny.
Near Dolinskoye, Russian troops came under fire from the Chechen Grad rocket artillery installation and then entered the battle for this settlement.
The Kizlyar group reached the village of Tolstoy-Yurt on December 15.
The new offensive of the units of the OGV began on December 19. The Vladikavkaz (western) group blockaded Grozny from the western direction, bypassing the Sunzha Range. On December 20, the Mozdok (northwestern) group occupied Dolinsky and blocked Grozny from the northwest. The Kizlyar (eastern) group blocked Grozny from the east, and the paratroopers of the 104th airborne regiment blocked the city from the side of the Argun Gorge. At the same time, the southern part of Grozny was not blocked.
Thus, at the initial stage of hostilities, in the first weeks of the war, Russian troops were able to occupy the northern regions of Chechnya practically without resistance.

28. Assault on Grozny (December 1994 - March 1995)
In mid-December, federal troops began shelling the suburbs of Grozny, and on December 19 the first bombing of the city center was carried out. Many civilians (including ethnic Russians) were killed and wounded during artillery shelling and bombing.
Despite the fact that Grozny was still not blocked from the south side, on December 31, 1994, the assault on the city began. About 250 units of armored vehicles, extremely vulnerable in street battles, entered the city. The Russian troops were poorly trained, there was no interaction and coordination between the various units, and many soldiers had no combat experience. The troops had aerial photographs of the city, outdated city plans in limited quantities. The means of communication were not equipped with closed communication equipment, which allowed the enemy to intercept communications. The troops were ordered to occupy only industrial buildings, squares and inadmissibility of intrusion into the houses of the civilian population.
The western grouping of troops was stopped, the eastern one also retreated and did not take any action until January 2, 1995. In the northern direction, the 1st and 2nd battalions of the 131st separate Maikop motorized rifle brigade(more than 300 people), a motorized rifle battalion and a tank company of the 81st Petrakuvsky motorized rifle regiment (10 tanks), under the command of General Pulikovsky, reached the railway station and the Presidential Palace. The federal forces were surrounded - according to official data, the losses of the battalions of the Maykop brigade amounted to 85 people killed and 72 missing, 20 tanks were destroyed, the brigade commander Colonel Savin died, more than 100 servicemen were captured.
The eastern group under the command of General Rokhlin was also surrounded and bogged down in battles with separatist units, but nevertheless, Rokhlin did not give the order to retreat.
On January 7, 1995, the Northeast and North groups were united under the command of General Rokhlin, and Ivan Babichev became the commander of the West group.
The Russian troops changed tactics - now, instead of the massive use of armored vehicles, they used maneuverable air assault groups supported by artillery and aviation. Fierce street fighting ensued in Grozny.
Two groups moved to the Presidential Palace and by January 9 occupied the building of the Oil Institute and the Grozny airport. By January 19, these groups met in the center of Grozny and captured Presidential palace, but detachments of Chechen separatists withdrew across the Sunzha River and took up defense on Minutka Square. Despite the successful offensive, Russian troops controlled only about a third of the city at that time.
By the beginning of February, the strength of the OGV had been increased to 70,000 people. General Anatoly Kulikov became the new commander of the OGV.
Only on February 3, 1995, the South grouping was formed and the implementation of the plan to blockade Grozny from the south began. By February 9, Russian units reached the boundary of the Rostov-Baku federal highway.
On February 13, in the village of Sleptsovskaya (Ingushetia), negotiations were held between the commander of the United Forces, Anatoly Kulikov, and the chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the CRI, Aslan Maskhadov, on the conclusion of a temporary truce - the parties exchanged lists of prisoners of war, and both sides were given the opportunity to take out the dead and wounded from the streets of the city. The truce, however, was violated by both sides.
In the 20th of February, street fighting continued in the city (especially in its southern part), but the Chechen detachments, deprived of support, gradually retreated from the city.
Finally, on March 6, 1995, a detachment of militants from the Chechen field commander Shamil Basayev retreated from Chernorechye, the last district of Grozny controlled by the separatists, and the city finally came under the control of Russian troops.
A pro-Russian administration of Chechnya was formed in Grozny, headed by Salambek Khadzhiev and Umar Avturkhanov.
As a result of the assault on Grozny, the city was actually destroyed and turned into ruins.

29. Establishing control over the flat regions of Chechnya (March - April 1995)
After the assault on Grozny, the main task of the Russian troops was to establish control over the flat regions of the rebellious republic.
The Russian side began to conduct active negotiations with the population, persuading local residents to expel the militants from their settlements. At the same time, Russian units occupied the dominant heights above the villages and cities. Thanks to this, on March 15-23, Argun was taken, on March 30 and 31, the cities of Shali and Gudermes were taken without a fight, respectively. However, the militant groups were not destroyed and freely left the settlements.
Despite this, local battles were going on in the western regions of Chechnya. March 10 began fighting for the village of Bamut. On April 7-8, the combined detachment of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, consisting of Sofrino brigade internal troops and supported by detachments of SOBR and OMON entered the village of Samashki (Achkhoy-Martanovsky district of Chechnya). It was alleged that the village was defended by more than 300 people (the so-called "Abkhazian battalion" of Shamil Basayev). After the Russian servicemen entered the village, some residents who had weapons began to resist, and skirmishes began on the streets of the village.
According to a number of international organizations (in particular, the UN Commission on Human Rights - UNCHR), many civilians died during the battle for Samashki. This information, disseminated by the separatist agency "Chechen-Press", however, turned out to be quite contradictory - thus, according to representatives of the human rights center "Memorial", these data "do not inspire confidence." According to Memorial, the minimum number of civilians who died during the cleansing of the village was 112-114 people.
One way or another, this operation caused a great resonance in Russian society and increased anti-Russian sentiment in Chechnya.
On April 15-16, the decisive assault on Bamut began - Russian troops managed to enter the village and gain a foothold on the outskirts. Then, however, the Russian troops were forced to leave the village, as now the militants occupied the dominant heights above the village, using the old missile silos of the Strategic Missile Forces, designed to conduct nuclear war and invulnerable to Russian aviation. A series of battles for this village continued until June 1995, then the fighting was suspended after the terrorist attack in Budyonnovsk and resumed in February 1996.
By April 1995, almost the entire flat territory of Chechnya was occupied by Russian troops, and the separatists focused on sabotage and partisan operations.

30. Establishing control over the mountainous regions of Chechnya (May - June 1995)
From April 28 to May 11, 1995, the Russian side announced the suspension of hostilities on its part.
The offensive resumed only on May 12. The blows of the Russian troops fell on the villages of Chiri-Yurt, which covered the entrance to the Argun Gorge and Serzhen-Yurt, located at the entrance to the Vedeno Gorge. Despite a significant superiority in manpower and equipment, Russian troops were bogged down in the enemy's defense - it took General Shamanov a week of shelling and bombing to take Chiri-Yurt.
Under these conditions, the Russian command decided to change the direction of the strike - instead of Shatoi to Vedeno. The militant units were pinned down in the Argun Gorge and on June 3 Vedeno was taken by Russian troops, and on June 12 the regional centers of Shatoi and Nozhai-Yurt were taken.
Also, as in the plains, the separatist forces were not defeated and they were able to leave the abandoned settlements. Therefore, even during the "truce", the militants were able to transfer a significant part of their forces to the northern regions - on May 14, the city of Grozny was shelled by them more than 14 times

31. Terrorist act in Budyonnovsk (June 14-19, 1995)
June 14, 1995 group Chechen fighters numbering 195 people, led by field commander Shamil Basaev, drove trucks into the territory of the Stavropol Territory and stopped in the city of Budyonnovsk.
The building of the GOVD became the first object of attack, then the terrorists occupied the city hospital and drove the captured civilians into it. In total, about 2,000 hostages were in the hands of the terrorists. Basayev put forward demands to the Russian authorities - the cessation of hostilities and the withdrawal of Russian troops from Chechnya, negotiating with Dudayev through the mediation of UN representatives in exchange for the release of the hostages.
Under these conditions, the authorities decided to storm the hospital building. Because of the leak of information, the terrorists had time to prepare to repel the assault, which lasted four hours; as a result, the special forces recaptured all the corps (except the main one), releasing 95 hostages. Spetsnaz losses amounted to three people killed. On the same day, an unsuccessful second assault attempt was made.
After the failure of military actions to free the hostages, negotiations began between the then Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Viktor Chernomyrdin and field commander Shamil Basayev. The terrorists were provided with buses, on which they, along with 120 hostages, arrived in the Chechen village of Zandak, where the hostages were released.
The total losses of the Russian side, according to official data, amounted to 143 people (of which 46 were employees of law enforcement agencies) and 415 wounded, the losses of terrorists - 19 killed and 20 wounded

32. The situation in the republic in June - December 1995
After the terrorist attack in Budyonnovsk, from June 19 to 22, the first round of negotiations between the Russian and Chechen sides took place in Grozny, at which it was possible to achieve a moratorium on hostilities for an indefinite period.
From June 27 to June 30, the second stage of negotiations took place there, at which an agreement was reached on the exchange of prisoners "all for all", the disarmament of the CRI detachments, the withdrawal of Russian troops and the holding of free elections.
Despite all the agreements concluded, the ceasefire regime was violated by both sides. Chechen detachments returned to their villages, but not as members of illegal armed groups, but as "self-defense units." There were local battles throughout Chechnya. For some time, the emerging tensions could be resolved through negotiations. So, on August 18-19, Russian troops blocked Achkhoy-Martan; the situation was resolved at the talks in Grozny.
On August 21, a detachment of militants of the field commander Alaudi Khamzatov captured Argun, but after a heavy shelling undertaken by Russian troops, they left the city, into which Russian armored vehicles were then introduced.
In September, Achkhoy-Martan and Sernovodsk were blocked by Russian troops, since militants were in these settlements. The Chechen side refused to leave their positions, because, according to them, these were "self-defense units" that had the right to be in accordance with the agreements reached earlier.
On October 6, 1995, an assassination attempt was made on the commander of the United Group of Forces (OGV), General Romanov, as a result of which he ended up in a coma. In turn, "retaliation strikes" were inflicted on Chechen villages.
On October 8, an unsuccessful attempt was made to eliminate Dudayev - an air strike was launched on the village of Roshni-Chu.
The Russian leadership decided before the elections to replace the leaders of the pro-Russian administration of the republic, Salambek Khadzhiev and Umar Avturkhanov, with the former head of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Dokka Zavgaev.
On December 10-12, the city of Gudermes, occupied by Russian troops without resistance, was captured by detachments of Salman Raduev, Khunkar-Pasha Israpilov and Sultan Geliskhanov. On December 14-20, there were battles for this city, it took Russian troops about a week of “cleansing operations” to finally take Gudermes under their control.
On December 14-17, elections were held in Chechnya, which were held with a large number of violations, but nevertheless recognized as valid. Supporters of the separatists announced in advance the boycott and non-recognition of the elections. Dokku Zavgaev won the elections, having received over 90% of the votes; at the same time, all military personnel of the UGV participated in the elections.

33. Terrorist act in Kizlyar (January 9-18, 1996)
On January 9, 1996, a detachment of 256 militants under the command of field commanders Salman Raduev, Turpal-Ali Atgeriev and Khunkar-Pasha Israpilov raided the city of Kizlyar. Initially, the goal of the militants was a Russian helicopter base and an armory. The terrorists destroyed two Mi-8 transport helicopters and took several hostages from among the soldiers guarding the base. Russian military and law enforcement agencies began to pull up to the city, so the terrorists seized the hospital and the maternity hospital, driving about 3,000 more civilians there. This time, the Russian authorities did not give the order to storm the hospital, so as not to increase anti-Russian sentiment in Dagestan. During the negotiations, it was possible to agree on providing the militants with buses to the border with Chechnya in exchange for the release of the hostages, who were supposed to be dropped off at the very border. On January 10, a convoy with militants and hostages moved to the border. When it became clear that the terrorists would leave for Chechnya, the bus convoy was stopped by warning shots. Taking advantage of the confusion of the Russian leadership, the militants captured the village of Pervomaiskoye, disarming the police checkpoint located there. Negotiations were held from January 11 to 14, and an unsuccessful assault on the village took place on January 15-18. In parallel with the assault on Pervomaisky, on January 16, in the Turkish port of Trabzon, a group of terrorists seized the Avrazia passenger ship with threats to shoot the Russian hostages if the assault was not stopped. After two days of negotiations, the terrorists surrendered to the Turkish authorities.
On January 18, under the cover of night, the militants broke through the encirclement and left for Chechnya.
The loss of the Russian side, according to official figures, amounted to 78 people dead and several hundred wounded.

34. Attack of militants on Grozny (March 6-8, 1996) On March 6, 1996, several detachments of militants attacked Grozny, controlled by Russian troops, from various directions. The militants captured the Staropromyslovsky district of the city, blocked and fired at Russian checkpoints and checkpoints. Despite the fact that Grozny remained under the control of the Russian armed forces, the separatists, when withdrawing, took with them stocks of food, medicine and ammunition. The losses of the Russian side, according to official figures, amounted to 70 people killed and 259 wounded.

35. Battle near the village of Yaryshmardy (April 16, 1996) On April 16, 1996, a column of the 245th motorized rifle regiment of the Russian Armed Forces, moving to Shatoi, was ambushed in the Argun Gorge near the village of Yaryshmardy. The operation was led by field commander Khattab. The militants knocked out the head and trailing column of the vehicle, thus the column was blocked and suffered significant losses - almost all armored vehicles and half of the personnel were lost.

36. Liquidation of Dzhokhar Dudayev (April 21, 1996)
From the very beginning Chechen campaign Russian special services have repeatedly tried to eliminate the President of the CRI, Dzhokhar Dudayev. Attempts to send assassins ended in failure. It was possible to find out that Dudayev often talks on the satellite phone of the Inmarsat system.
On April 21, 1996, the Russian AWACS A-50 aircraft, on which equipment was installed for the bearing of a satellite phone signal, received an order to take off. At the same time, Dudayev's motorcade left for the area of ​​the village of Gekhi-Chu. Unfolding his phone, Dudayev contacted Konstantin Borov. At that moment, the signal from the phone was intercepted, and two Su-25 attack aircraft took off. When the aircraft reached the target, two missiles were fired at the cortege, one of which hit the target directly.
By a closed decree of Boris Yeltsin, several military pilots were awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation

37. Negotiations with separatists (May - July 1996)
Despite some successes of the Russian Armed Forces (the successful elimination of Dudayev, the final capture of the settlements of Goiskoye, Stary Achkhoy, Bamut, Shali), the war began to take on a protracted character. In the context of the forthcoming presidential elections, the Russian leadership decided once again to negotiate with the separatists.
On May 27-28, a meeting of the Russian and Ichkerian (headed by Zelimkhan Yandarbiev) delegations took place in Moscow, at which it was possible to agree on a truce from June 1, 1996 and an exchange of prisoners. Immediately after the end of the negotiations in Moscow, Boris Yeltsin flew to Grozny, where he congratulated the Russian military on their victory over the "rebellious Dudayev regime" and announced the abolition of military duty.
On June 10, in Nazran (Republic of Ingushetia), during the next round of negotiations, an agreement was reached on the withdrawal of Russian troops from the territory of Chechnya (with the exception of two brigades), the disarmament of separatist detachments, and the holding of free democratic elections. The question of the status of the republic was temporarily postponed.
The agreements concluded in Moscow and Nazran were violated by both sides, in particular, the Russian side was in no hurry to withdraw its troops, and the Chechen field commander Ruslan Khaykhoroev took responsibility for the explosion of a regular bus in Nalchik.
On July 3, 1996, the current President of the Russian Federation, Boris Yeltsin, was re-elected to the presidency. The new Secretary of the Security Council Alexander Lebed announced the resumption of hostilities against the militants.
On July 9, after the Russian ultimatum, hostilities resumed - aircraft attacked militant bases in the mountainous Shatoisky, Vedensky and Nozhai-Yurtovsky regions.

38. Operation Jihad (August 6-22, 1996)
On August 6, 1996, detachments of Chechen separatists numbering from 850 to 2,000 people again attacked Grozny. The separatists did not set out to capture the city; they blocked administrative buildings in the city center, and also fired at roadblocks and checkpoints. The Russian garrison under the command of General Pulikovsky, despite a significant superiority in manpower and equipment, could not hold the city.
Simultaneously with the storming of Grozny, the separatists also captured the cities of Gudermes (taken by them without a fight) and Argun (Russian troops held only the building of the commandant's office).
According to Oleg Lukin, it was the defeat of Russian troops in Grozny that led to the signing of the Khasavyurt ceasefire agreements.

On the site of the Tukhcharskaya tragedy, known in journalism as the “Tukhcharskaya Golgotha ​​of the Russian outpost”, now “there is a solid wooden cross, erected by riot police from Sergiev Posad. At its base there are stones stacked in a hill, symbolizing Golgotha, withered flowers lie on them. On one of the stones, a slightly bent, extinguished candle, a symbol of memory, stands forlornly. And the icon of the Savior with the prayer "For the forgiveness of forgotten sins" is also attached to the cross. Forgive us, Lord, that we still do not know what kind of place this is ... six servicemen of the Internal Troops of Russia were executed here. Seven more then miraculously managed to escape.

ON A NAMELESS HEIGHT

They - twelve soldiers and one officer of the Kalachevsky brigade - were thrown to the border village of Tukhchar to reinforce the local policemen. There were rumors that the Chechens were about to cross the river, strike at the rear of the Kadar group. The senior lieutenant tried not to think about it. He had an order and he had to follow it.

They occupied a height of 444.3 on the very border, dug full-length trenches and a caponier for infantry fighting vehicles. Below - the roofs of Tukhchar, a Muslim cemetery and a checkpoint. Behind a small river is the Chechen village of Ishkhoyurt. They say it's a robber's nest. And another one, the Galaites, hid in the south behind a ridge of hills. You can expect a blow from both sides. The position is like the edge of a sword, at the very front. You can hold on to a height, only the flanks are unsecured. 18 cops with machine guns and a violent motley militia - not the most reliable cover.

On the morning of September 5, Tashkin was woken up by a sentinel: “Comrade senior lieutenant, it seems like there are ...“ spirits ”. Tashkin immediately became serious. He ordered: “Raise the boys, only without noise!”

From the explanatory note of Private Andrei Padyakov:

On the hill that was opposite us, in the Chechen Republic, first four, then about 20 more militants appeared. Then our senior lieutenant Tashkin ordered the sniper to open fire to kill ... I clearly saw how, after the sniper shot, one militant fell ... Then they opened massive fire on us from machine guns and grenade launchers ... Then the militia surrendered their positions, and the militants went around the village and took us into ring. We noticed how about 30 militants ran across the village behind us.”

The militants did not go where they were expected. They crossed the river south of height 444 and went deep into the territory of Dagestan. Several bursts were enough to disperse the militias. Meanwhile, the second group - also twenty or twenty-five people - attacked a police checkpoint near the outskirts of Tukhchar. This detachment was led by a certain Umar Karpinsky, the leader of the Karpinsky Jamaat (a district in the city of Grozny), who personally reported to Abdul-Malik Mezhidov, the commander of the Sharia Guard. . At the same time, the first group attacked the height from the rear. From this side, the caponier of the BMP had no protection, and the lieutenant ordered the driver-mechanic to bring the car to the ridge and maneuver.

"Vysota", we are under attack! shouted Tashkin, pressing a headset to his ear, “They are attacking with superior forces!” What?! I ask for fire support! But "Vysota" was occupied by Lipetsk riot police and demanded to hold on. Tashkin cursed and jumped off the armor. “What the f… hold on?! Four horns per brother…”***

The denouement was drawing near. A minute later, a cumulative grenade that flew in from nowhere broke the side of the "box". The gunner, along with the tower, was thrown about ten meters; the driver died instantly.

Tashkin glanced at his watch. It was 7:30 am. Half an hour of battle - and he had already lost his main trump card: a 30-mm BMP machine gun, which kept the "Czechs" at a respectful distance. In addition, and the connection was covered, the ammunition was running out. We must leave while we can. Five minutes later it will be too late.

Picking up the shell-shocked and badly burned gunner Aleskey Polagaev, the soldiers rushed down to the second checkpoint. The wounded man was dragged on his shoulders by his friend Ruslan Shindin, then Alexei woke up and ran himself. Seeing the soldiers running towards them, the police covered them with fire from the checkpoint. After a brief skirmish, there was a lull. Some time later, local residents came to the post and reported that the militants had given half an hour to leave Tukhchar. The villagers took civilian clothes with them to the post - this was the only chance for salvation for policemen and soldiers. The senior lieutenant did not agree to leave the checkpoint, and then the policemen, as one of the soldiers later said, “got into a fight with him.”****

The force argument was convincing. In the crowd of local residents, the defenders of the checkpoint reached the village and began to hide - some in basements and attics, and some in corn thickets.

Tukhchar resident Gurum Dzhaparova says: He came - only the shooting subsided. Yes, how did you come? I went out into the yard - I look, it is standing, staggering, holding on to the gate. He was covered in blood and badly burned - no hair, no ears, the skin burst on his face. Chest, shoulder, arm - everything is cut with fragments. I'll take him to the house. Fighters, I say, all around. You should go to yours. Will you come like this? She sent her eldest Ramadan, he is 9 years old, for a doctor ... His clothes are covered in blood, burnt. Grandma Atikat and I cut it off, rather into a bag and threw it into a ravine. Somehow washed. Our rural doctor Hassan came, took out the fragments, smeared the wounds. He also made an injection - diphenhydramine, or what? He began to fall asleep from the injection. I put it with the children in the room.

Half an hour later, on the orders of Umar, the militants began to “wool” the village - a hunt for soldiers and policemen began. Tashkin, four soldiers and a Dagestani policeman hid in a shed. The barn was surrounded. They dragged cans of gasoline, doused the walls. "Surrender, or we'll burn you alive!" In response, silence. The fighters looked at each other. “Who is your senior there? Make up your mind, commander! Why die in vain? We don't need your lives - we'll feed you, then exchange them for our own! Give up!"

The soldiers and the policeman believed and left. And only when police lieutenant Akhmed Davdiev was cut by a machine-gun burst, they realized that they had been cruelly deceived. “But we have prepared something else for you!” Chechens laughed.

From the testimony of the defendant Tamerlan Khasaev:

Umar ordered to check all the buildings. We dispersed and two people began to go around the house. I was an ordinary soldier and followed orders, especially a new person among them, not everyone trusted me. And as I understand it, the operation was prepared in advance and clearly organized. I learned by radio that a soldier had been found in the barn. We were told by radio the order to gather at the police post outside the village of Tukhchar. When everyone gathered, those 6 soldiers were already there.”

The burnt gunner was betrayed by one of the locals. Gurum Dzhaparova tried to defend him - it was useless. He left, surrounded by a dozen bearded guys - to his death.

What happened next was meticulously recorded on camera by the cameraman of the militants. Umar, apparently, decided to "educate wolf cubs." In the battle near Tukhchar, his company lost four, each of the dead found relatives and friends, they were indebted to blood. "You took our blood - we'll take yours!" Umar told the prisoners. The soldiers were taken to the outskirts. Four bloodlines cut the throats of an officer and three soldiers in turn. Another escaped, tried to escape - he was shot from a machine gun. Umar killed the sixth person personally.

Only the next morning, the head of the administration of the village, Magomed-Sultan Hasanov, received permission from the militants to take away the bodies. On a school truck, the corpses of senior lieutenant Vasily Tashkin and privates Vladimir Kaufman, Alexei Lipatov, Boris Erdneev, Alexei Polagaev and Konstantin Anisimov were delivered to the Gerzelsky checkpoint. The rest managed to sit out. Some local residents were taken to the Gerzelsky bridge the very next morning. On the way, they learned about the execution of their colleagues. Alexei Ivanov, after spending two days in the attic, left the village when Russian aircraft began to bomb him. Fyodor Chernavin sat in the basement for five whole days - the owner of the house helped him get out to his people.

The story doesn't end there. In a few days, a recording of the murder of soldiers of the 22nd brigade will be shown on Grozny television. Then, already in 2000, it will fall into the hands of investigators. Based on the materials of the videotape, a criminal case will be initiated against 9 people. Of these, justice will overtake only two. Tamerlan Khasaev will receive a life sentence, Islam Mukaev - 25 years. Material taken from the forum "BRATISHKA" http://phorum.bratishka.ru/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7406&start=350

About the same events from the press:

"I just approached him with a knife"

In the Ingush regional center of Sleptsovsk, employees of the Urus-Martan and Sunzha district police departments detained Islam Mukaev, suspected of involvement in the brutal execution of six Russian servicemen in the Dagestan village of Tukhchar in September 1999, when Basayev's gang occupied several villages in the Novolaksky district of Dagestan. A video cassette was confiscated from Mukaev, confirming the fact of his involvement in the massacre, as well as weapons and ammunition. Now law enforcement officers are checking the detainee for his possible involvement in other crimes, since it is known that he was a member of illegal armed groups. Before Mukaev's arrest, the only participant in the execution who fell into the hands of justice was Tamerlan Khasaev, who was sentenced in October 2002 to life imprisonment.

Hunting for soldiers

In the early morning of September 5, 1999, the Basayev detachments invaded the territory of the Novolaksky district. Emir Umar was responsible for the Tukhchar direction. The road to the Chechen village of Galayty, leading from Tukhchar, was guarded by a checkpoint where Dagestani policemen served. On the hill, they were covered by an infantry fighting vehicle and 13 soldiers of a brigade of internal troops sent to strengthen the checkpoint from the neighboring village of Duchi. But the militants entered the village from the rear, and, having captured the village police department after a short battle, they began to fire at the hill. An infantry fighting vehicle buried in the ground caused considerable damage to the attackers, but when the encirclement began to shrink, Senior Lieutenant Vasily Tashkin ordered the infantry fighting vehicles to be driven out of the trench and open fire across the river at the car that brought the militants. The ten-minute hitch proved fatal for the soldiers. A shot from a grenade launcher demolished the tower. The gunner died on the spot, and the driver Alexei Polagaev was shell-shocked. Tashkin ordered the rest to retreat to a checkpoint located a few hundred meters away. Polagaev, who lost consciousness, was initially carried on his shoulders by his colleague Ruslan Shindin; then Aleksey, who received a through wound to the head, woke up and ran on his own. Seeing the soldiers running towards them, the police covered them with fire from the checkpoint. After a brief skirmish, there was a lull. Some time later, local residents came to the post and reported that the militants had given half an hour for the soldiers to leave Tukhchar. The villagers took civilian clothes with them - this was the only chance for salvation for policemen and soldiers. The senior lieutenant refused to leave, and then the policemen, as one of the soldiers later said, “climbed into a fight with him.” The force argument proved to be more persuasive. In the crowd of local residents, the defenders of the checkpoint reached the village and began to hide - some in basements and attics, and some in corn thickets. Half an hour later, the militants, on the orders of Umar, began cleaning up the village. Now it is difficult to establish whether the locals betrayed the military or whether the reconnaissance of the militants worked, but six soldiers fell into the hands of bandits.

‘Your son died due to the negligence of our officers’

By order of Umar, the prisoners were taken to a clearing next to the checkpoint. What happened next was meticulously recorded on camera by the cameraman of the militants. The four executioners appointed by Umar carried out the order in turn, cutting the throats of an officer and four soldiers. Umar dealt with the sixth victim personally. Only Tamerlan Khasaev 'blundered'. Having slashed the victim with a blade, he straightened up over the wounded soldier - he felt uneasy at the sight of blood, and he handed the knife to another militant. The bleeding soldier broke free and ran. One of the militants began to shoot after him with a pistol, but the bullets missed. And only when the fugitive, stumbling, fell into the pit, he was finished off in cold blood from a machine gun.

The next morning, the head of the village administration, Magomed-Sultan Gasanov, received permission from the militants to take the bodies. On a school truck, the corpses of senior lieutenant Vasily Tashkin and privates Vladimir Kaufman, Alexei Lipatov, Boris Erdneev, Alexei Polagaev and Konstantin Anisimov were delivered to the Gerzelsky checkpoint. The rest of the soldiers of military unit 3642 managed to sit out in their shelters until the bandits left.

At the end of September, six zinc coffins were lowered into the ground in different parts of Russia - in Krasnodar and Novosibirsk, in Altai and Kalmykia, in the Tomsk region and in the Orenburg region. Parents for a long time did not know the terrible details of the death of their sons. The father of one of the soldiers, having learned the terrible truth, asked to be entered in the death certificate of his son with a mean wording - ‘gunshot wound’. Otherwise, he explained, the wife would not survive this.

Someone, having learned about the death of his son from television news, protected himself from the details - the heart would not withstand the exorbitant load. Someone tried to get to the bottom of the truth and searched the country for his son's colleagues. For Sergei Mikhailovich Polagaev, it was important to know that his son did not flinch in battle. He learned about how everything really happened from a letter from Ruslan Shindin: ‘Your son died not because of cowardice, but because of the negligence of our officers. The company commander came to us three times, but never brought ammunition. He brought only night binoculars with dead batteries. And we were defending there, each had 4 stores…’

Hostage Executioner

Tamerlan Khasaev was the first of the thugs to fall into the hands of law enforcement agencies. Sentenced to eight and a half years for kidnapping in December 2001, he was serving a term in a strict regime colony in the Kirov region, when the investigation, thanks to a videotape seized during a special operation in Chechnya, managed to establish that he was one of those who participated in the massacre on the outskirts of Tukhchar.

Khasaev ended up in the Basayev detachment in early September 1999 - one of his friends seduced him with the opportunity to get captured weapons on a campaign against Dagestan, which could then be sold at a profit. So Khasaev ended up in the gang of Emir Umar, who was subordinate to the notorious commander of the ‘Islamic Special Purpose Regiment’ Abdulmalik Mezhidov, Shamil Basaev’s deputy…

In February 2002, Khasaev was transferred to the Makhachkala pre-trial detention center and shown a recording of the execution. He did not retract. Moreover, the case already contained testimonies from residents of Tukhchar, who confidently identified Khasaev from a photograph sent from the colony. (The militants did not particularly hide, and the execution itself was visible even from the windows of houses on the edge of the village). Khasaev stood out among the militants dressed in camouflage with a white T-shirt.

The Khasaev trial took place in the Supreme Court of Dagestan in October 2002. He pleaded guilty only partially: ‘I admit participation in illegal armed formations, weapons and invasion. But I did not cut the soldier ... I just approached him with a knife. So far, two have been killed. When I saw this picture, I refused to cut, gave the knife to another.

‘They started first,’ Khasaev said of the battle in Tukhchar. - The BMP opened fire, and Umar ordered the grenade launchers to take up positions. And when I said that there was no such agreement, he assigned three militants to me. Since then, I myself have been held hostage by them.

For participation in an armed rebellion, the militant received 15 years, for the theft of weapons - 10, for participation in an illegal armed formation and illegal possession of weapons - five. For the encroachment on the life of a serviceman, Khasaev, according to the court, deserved the death penalty, however, in connection with the moratorium on its use, an alternative measure of punishment was chosen - life imprisonment.

Seven other participants in the execution in Tukhchar, including four of its direct perpetrators, are still on the wanted list. True, as Arsen Israilov, an investigator for particularly important cases of the Directorate of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation in the North Caucasus, who investigated the Khasaev case, told a GAZETA correspondent, Islam Mukaev was not on this list until recently: “In the near future, the investigation will find out what specific crimes he was involved in. And if his participation in the execution in Tukhchar is confirmed, he may become our ‘client’ and be transferred to the Makhachkala pre-trial detention center.

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And this is about one of the guys brutally murdered by Chechen thugs in September 1999 in Tukhchar.

"Cargo - 200" arrived on the Kizner land. In the battles for the liberation of Dagestan from bandit formations, a native of the village of Ishek of the Zvezda collective farm and a graduate of our school Alexei Ivanovich Paranin died. Alexei was born on January 25, 1980. Graduated from Verkhnetyzhminsk basic school. He was a very inquisitive, lively, courageous boy. Then he studied at the Mozhginsky GPTU No. 12, where he received the profession of a bricklayer. True, he did not have time to work, he was drafted into the army. He served in the North Caucasus for more than a year. And now - the Dagestan war. Went through several fights. On the night of September 5-6, the infantry fighting vehicle, on which Alexey served as a gunner, was transferred to the Lipetsk OMON, and guarded a checkpoint near the village of Novolakskoye. The militants who attacked at night set fire to the BMP. The soldiers left the car and fought, but it was too unequal. All the wounded were brutally finished off. We all mourn the death of Alexei. Words of consolation are hard to find. On November 26, 2007, a memorial plaque was installed on the school building. The opening of the memorial plaque was attended by Alexei's mother, Lyudmila Alekseevna, and representatives from the youth department from the district. Now we are starting to make an album about him, there is a stand at the school dedicated to Alexei. In addition to Alexei, four other students of our school participated in the Chechen campaign: Kadrov Eduard, Ivanov Alexander, Anisimov Alexei and Kiselev Alexei, awarded the Order of Courage. It is very scary and bitter when young guys die. The Paranin family had three children, but the son was the only one. Ivan Alekseevich, Alexei's father, works as a tractor driver on the Zvezda collective farm, his mother, Lyudmila Alekseevna, is a school worker.

We mourn with you over the death of Alexei. Words of consolation are hard to find. http://kiznrono.udmedu.ru/content/view/21/21/

April, 2009 The third trial on the case of the execution of six Russian servicemen in the village of Tukhchar in the Novolaksky district in September 1999 was completed in the Supreme Court of Dagestan. One of the participants in the execution, 35-year-old Arbi Dandaev, who, according to the court, personally cut the throat of senior lieutenant Vasily Tashkin, was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment in a special regime colony.

Former member of the national security service of Ichkeria, Arbi Dandaev, according to the investigation, took part in the attack of the gangs of Shamil Basaev and Khattab on Dagestan in 1999. In early September, he joined a detachment led by Emir Umar Karpinsky, who on September 5 of the same year invaded the territory of the Novolaksky district of the republic. From the Chechen village of Galayty, the militants went to the Dagestan village of Tukhchar - the road was guarded by a checkpoint where Dagestani policemen were serving. On the hill, they were covered by an infantry fighting vehicle and 13 soldiers from the brigade of internal troops. But the militants entered the village from the rear and, having captured the village police department after a short battle, began to fire at the hill. An infantry fighting vehicle buried in the ground caused considerable damage to the attackers, but when the encirclement began to shrink, Senior Lieutenant Vasily Tashkin ordered the armored vehicle to be driven out of the trench and open fire across the river at the car that brought the militants. A ten-minute hitch turned out to be fatal for the soldiers: a shot from a grenade launcher near the infantry fighting vehicle demolished the tower. The gunner died on the spot, and the driver Alexei Polagaev was shell-shocked. The surviving defenders of the checkpoint reached the village and began to hide - some in basements and attics, and some in corn thickets. Half an hour later, on the orders of Emir Umar, the militants began to search the village, and five servicemen who hid in the basement of one of the houses had to surrender after a short firefight - a grenade launcher shot sounded in response to a machine gun burst. After some time, Aleksey Polagaev joined the captives - the militants "figured out" him in one of the neighboring houses, where the hostess hid him.

By order of Emir Umar, the prisoners were taken to a clearing next to the checkpoint. What happened next was meticulously recorded on camera by the cameraman of the militants. Four executioners appointed by the commander of the militants in turn carried out the order, cutting the throats of an officer and three soldiers (one of the soldiers tried to escape, but he was shot dead). Emir Umar dealt with the sixth victim personally.

Arbi Dandaev was hiding from justice for more than eight years, but on April 3, 2008, Chechen policemen detained him in Grozny. He was charged with participation in a stable criminal group (gang) and its attacks, an armed rebellion in order to change the territorial integrity of Russia, as well as an encroachment on the life of law enforcement officers and illegal arms trafficking.

According to the materials of the investigation, the militant Dandaev turned himself in, confessed to the crimes committed and confirmed his testimony when he was taken to the place of execution. In the Supreme Court of Dagestan, however, he pleaded not guilty, saying that the appearance took place under duress, and refused to testify. Nevertheless, the court recognized his previous testimony as admissible and reliable, since they were given with the participation of a lawyer and no complaints were received from him about the investigation. The court examined the video recording of the execution, and although it was difficult to recognize the defendant Dandaev in the bearded executioner, the court took into account that the recording of Arbi's name was clearly audible. Residents of the village of Tukhchar were also interrogated. One of them recognized the defendant Dandaev, but the court reacted critically to his words, given the advanced age of the witness and the confusion in his testimony.

Speaking in the debate, lawyers Konstantin Sukhachev and Konstantin Mudunov asked the court to either resume the judicial investigation by conducting expert examinations and calling new witnesses, or to acquit the defendant. The accused Dandaev last word stated that he knew who led the execution, this man is free, and he can give his last name if the court resumes the investigation. The judicial investigation was resumed, but only in order to interrogate the defendant.

As a result, the examined evidence did not leave the court in doubt that the defendant Dandaev was guilty. Meanwhile, the defense believes that the court hastened and did not investigate many important circumstances for the case. For example, he did not interrogate Islan Mukaev, already convicted in 2005, a participant in the execution in Tukhchar (another of the executioners, Tamerlan Khasaev, was sentenced to life imprisonment in October 2002 and died soon after in the colony). “Practically all petitions significant for the defense were rejected by the court,” lawyer Konstantin Mudunov told Kommersant. “So, we repeatedly insisted on a second psychological and psychiatric examination, since the first was carried out using a falsified outpatient card. The court rejected this request. He was not sufficiently objective, and we will appeal the verdict.”

According to the relatives of the defendant, Arbi Dandaev developed mental disorders in 1995, after Russian servicemen wounded him in Grozny younger brother Alvi, and some time later, the corpse of a boy was returned from the military hospital, from whom internal organs(relatives attribute this to the trade in human organs that flourished in Chechnya in those years). As the defense stated during the debate, their father Khamzat Dandaev achieved the initiation of a criminal case on this fact, but it is not being investigated. According to lawyers, the case against Arbi Dandaev was opened to prevent his father from punishing those responsible for the death of his youngest son. These arguments were reflected in the verdict, but the court considered that the defendant was sane, and that the case had long been initiated into the death of his brother and had nothing to do with the case under consideration.

As a result, the court reclassified two articles relating to weapons and participation in a gang. According to Judge Shikhali Magomedov, the defendant Dandaev acquired weapons alone, and not as part of a group, and participated in illegal armed formations, and not in a gang. However, these two articles did not affect the verdict, since the statute of limitations had expired on them. And here is Art. 279 "Armed rebellion" and Art. 317 "Encroachment on the life of a law enforcement officer" was pulled for 25 years and life imprisonment. At the same time, the court took into account both mitigating circumstances (the presence of young children and confession), and aggravating ones (the onset of grave consequences and the particular cruelty with which the crime was committed). Thus, despite the fact that the state prosecutor asked for only 22 years, the court sentenced the defendant Dandaev to life imprisonment. In addition, the court satisfied the civil claims of the parents of the four dead servicemen for moral damages, the amounts for which ranged from 200 thousand to 2 million rubles. Photo of one of the thugs at the time of the trial.

This is a photo of the deceased at the hands of Arbi Dandaev Art. Lieutenant Vasily Tashkin

Lipatov Alexey Anatolievich

Kaufman Vladimir Egorovich

Polagaev Alexey Sergeevich

Erdneev Boris Ozinovich (a few seconds before death)

Of the known participants in the massacre of captured Russian soldiers and an officer, three are in the hands of justice, two of them are rumored to have died behind bars, others are said to have died during subsequent clashes, and someone is hiding in France.

Additionally, according to the events in Tukhchar, it is known that no one was in a hurry to help Vasily Tashkin's detachment on that terrible day, not the next one, and not even the next! Although the main battalion was only a few kilometers away from Tukhchar. Betrayal? Negligence? Deliberate collusion with militants? Much later, aviation flew into the village and bombed it ... And here, as a summary of this tragedy and, in general, about the fate of many, many Russian guys in the shameful war unleashed by the Kremlin clique and subsidized by some figures from Moscow and directly by the fugitive Mr. A.B. Berezovsky (there are his public confessions on the Internet that he personally financed Basayev).

Fortress children of war

The film includes the famous video of cutting off the heads of our fighters in Chechnya - details in this article. Official reports are always stingy and often lie. So on the 5th and 8th of September last year, judging by the press releases of the law enforcement agencies, ordinary battles were going on in Dagestan. Everything's under control. As usual, casualties were reported casually. They are minimal - a few wounded and killed. In fact, just in these days, entire platoons and assault groups lost their lives. But on the evening of September 12, the news instantly spread through many agencies: the 22nd brigade of internal troops occupied the village of Karamakhi. General Gennady Troshev noted the subordinates of Colonel Vladimir Kersky. So we learned about another Caucasian victory for Russia. It's time to get rewards. "Behind the scenes" the main thing remained - how, at what a terrible price, yesterday's boys survived in lead hell. However, for the soldiers it was one of the many episodes of bloody work in which they remain alive by chance. Three months later, the fighters of the brigade were again thrown into the thick of it. They attacked the ruins of a cannery in Grozny.

Karamakhinsky blues

September 8, 1999. I will remember this day for the rest of my life, because it was then that I saw death.

The command post above the village of Kadar was busy. Some generals I counted a dozen. Artillerymen scurried around, receiving target designations. The officers on duty were driving the journalists away from the camouflage net behind which radios crackled and telephone operators yelled.

... "Rooks" emerged from behind the clouds. In tiny dots, the bombs slide down and after a few seconds turn into pillars of black smoke. An officer from the press service explains to journalists that aviation is working with precision on enemy firing points. With a direct hit from a bomb, the house cracks like a walnut.

The generals have repeatedly stated that the operation in Dagestan is strikingly different from the previous Chechen campaign. There is definitely a difference. Every war is different from its bad sisters. But there are analogies. They don't just catch the eye, they scream. One such example is the "jewelry" work of aviation. Pilots and gunners, as in the last war, work not only against the enemy. Soldiers are dying from their own raids.

When a unit of the 22nd brigade was preparing for the next assault, about twenty soldiers gathered in a circle at the foot of the Wolf Mountain, waiting for the command to go forward. The bomb flew in, hitting exactly in the midst of people, and ... did not explode. A whole platoon was then born in shirts. One soldier's ankle was cut off by a cursed bomb, like a guillotine. The guy, who became crippled in a split second, was sent to the hospital.

Too many soldiers and officers know about such examples. Too many - in order to understand: popular prints of victorious pictures and reality are different, like the sun and the moon. At a time when the troops were desperately storming Karamakhi, in the Novolaksky district of Dagestan, a special forces detachment was thrown to the border heights. During the attack, the “allies” messed up something - fire support helicopters began to work in height. As a result, having lost dozens of killed and wounded soldiers, the detachment withdrew. The officers threatened to deal with those who fired at their own ...