Combat operations of the 324th motorized rifle regiment

1. Formation and preparation of the regiment for combat operations

Operational situation in the area Chechen Republic in December 1994, even before the New Year's storming of Grozny, it showed that a further build-up of forces and means of the grouping of federal troops was necessary. The command of the military districts received the order to prepare new units for deployment to the North Caucasus before the New Year. Among others, the transfer of the 324th MSP of the Ural Military District was also planned.

The regiment, stationed in the 32nd military town of Yekaterinburg, was part of the 34th motor division, and in peacetime was staffed by a reduced staff. Moreover, when the 276th SME was sent to the conflict zone, almost all available soldiers and sergeants were transferred for its resupply. Many officers of the regiment went there to fill vacant positions. Thus, the 324th SME had to be assembled almost anew, and if the garrisons of Yekaterinburg, Verkhnyaya Pyshma, Chebarkul and Elani could provide the regiment with officers and ensigns, then there were no “extra” soldiers and sergeants in the Ural Military District. Therefore, the General Staff decided to transfer soldiers and sergeants from the Trans-Baikal Military District to replenish the regiment to the full staff. It was considered inexpedient to train a regiment in Transbaikalia, and then to pull it in echelons across all of Russia.

The regiment was recruited according to the states of wartime, however, it included only two motorized rifle battalions. Lieutenant Colonel A. Sidorov, who already had experience afghan war. Lieutenant Colonel V. Bakhmetov became deputy commander of the regiment, lieutenant colonel became deputy for armaments, lieutenant colonel N. Kutupov for educational work, lieutenant colonel for rear. A lieutenant colonel was appointed chief of staff of the regiment.

Motorized rifle battalions were taken under command by lieutenant colonels V. Chinchibaev and M. Mishin. Motorized rifle companies of the battalions were equipped with BMP-1, mortar batteries were armed with 2S12 "Sani" complexes with 120-mm 2B11 mortars. Tank battalion, formed on base 341 tank regiment, headed by Lieutenant Colonel A. Mosievsky. The battalion was armed with T-72B1 tanks. The artillery battalion was armed with 122 mm 2S1 self-propelled howitzers, the self-propelled anti-aircraft battalion was armed with ZSU-23-4 Shilka self-propelled anti-aircraft guns.

In addition, the regiment included:

communications company;

reconnaissance company under the command of Captain I. Terlyansky;

anti-tank battery under the command of Captain B. Tsekhanovich, armed with SPTRK 9P148;

repair company under the command of Captain I. Tsepa.

The personnel arrived in Yekaterinburg by VTA planes on January __. The formation and preparation of the regiment for combat operations took place at the Gorelovsky and Aduisky training grounds from __ to __ January. In the course of preparation, training firing from all types of weapons and exercises with live firing were carried out. January __ The 324th regiment plunged into echelons.

The regiment arrived in the North Caucasus on January 21, 1995. Unloading took place at the Terek-Chervlennaya railway station. Already during the unloading, the regiment was fired upon, as a result of which one of the soldiers was wounded in the leg. On the night of January 23, the regiment marched to Tolstoy-Yurt, where for a week he conducted combat coordination of units. On January 31, the 324th MRR moved to the village of Adjoining on the eastern outskirts of Grozny.

2. Fighting to block Grozny

Ibid.

Ural military news. 1995. No. 27.

Ural military news. 1997. No. 9.

Decree. op. S. 232.

Remember and bow down. S. 449.

Ibid.

Ibid.

The dual power that developed in 1991 in Chechnya, which declared itself a sovereign republic, led to confrontation with the federal government and internal conflicts in the struggle for power, which ended with the introduction of Russian troops in December 1994. So began to participate in which wanted not all the military leadership of the country. But if the generals could resign and avoid being sent to the North Caucasus, then the conscripts and junior officers simply had no choice. In a hurry, regiments were understaffed and sent to carry out a combat mission in Chechnya. The 245th, which lost a significant part of its personnel during military operations, did not escape this fate. The most dramatic was the battle near the village of Yaryshmardy on April 16, 1996, which took place exactly twenty years ago.

245th SME

The 245th regiment has the title of Guards for its heroic history during the Great Patriotic War. quartered in Nizhny Novgorod region, during the ten days of January 1995, after the failed operation of the federal forces to capture Grozny, he begins to actively replenish conscripts under wartime conditions. Its contingent grew 10 times and amounted to 1,700 people due to recruitment from the KDVO (Red Banner Far Eastern Military District). In addition to recruits, volunteers who did not undergo the necessary training were also called up. On the eve of entering Chechnya, the fighters did not have a single joint exercise to practice interaction.

Considering that already in the North Caucasus the regiment will be replaced by 4 sets of officers, it becomes clear from his example that the army will participate in the First Chechen campaign turned out to be unprepared and was doomed to losses. Only those killed at 245 SMEs will amount to 220 people, including the son of Lieutenant General Pulikovsky (December 1995) and those guys who laid down their lives during another 20 military operations. The bloodiest battle was near the village of Yashmardy, which caused a huge public outcry.

In the war zone

The 245th SME has always been at the forefront, participating in the assault on Prigorodny (Grozny), Goisky, Vedeno, Arkhtan-Yurt, Shatoi and Goths. Since the spring of 1995, the regiment settled not far from Shatoi, guarding roads and guarding the roadblocks. The fighters accompanied transport columns carrying fuel, food and civilians. Beginning in February 1995, after the encirclement and blocking of Dudaev's main troops in the South-East grouping of troops, strange events began to occur more and more often associated with concessions to the separatists.

During the operation to capture Shatoi in June 1995, a column of the 245th regiment was ambushed near the village of Zone in Argun Gorge. This happened due to the carelessness of the leadership and the lack of reconnaissance on foot. Despite the losses, this fact remained almost unnoticed in the general jubilation associated with the capture of Chatoy. But this was the first call to the tragedy that went down in history as the battle at Yaryshmarda. On March 31, 1996, a convoy of paratroopers near the village of Benoy, marching to Vedeno, was shot, but this did not induce the command to increase security measures when passing through the gorge.

What preceded the April events

On April 4, the administration of the village of Yaryshmardy signed a peace treaty with federal troops, which imposed a ban on hostilities in the area. On the basis of a document from the chief of staff of the 324th SME, under whose control the section of the road to Shatoi was located, a checkpoint was removed 500 meters from the village. The regimental commander was not informed.

The battle near Yaryshmarda will take place in the context of the order of the Minister of Defense on the use of artillery only in case of self-defense and the complete refusal of the participation of aviation on the territory of Chechnya. He came through secret communication channels about ten days before the column left Khankala.

Shot column

The central base of the 245th SME prepared a column on Shatoi, the purpose of which was to deliver material and technical means, fuel and young replenishment to the military unit. The demobilized and sent home for family reasons joined the column. There is evidence that there were also mothers of soldiers looking for their missing children. From Goisky, 4 vehicles of the 324th SME joined them. The rear column under the command of Major Terzovets left on April 15, immediately after the celebration of Easter. After spending the night in Khankala, by the middle of the next day, cars and military equipment passed Dacha-Borzoy and Yaryshmardy, stretching for 1.5-2 km. Ahead was a narrow mountain serpentine, which in everyday life is called "mother-in-law's tongue."

Reconnaissance controlled artillery spotter maintained contact with the 324th SME, and this is all that was done to protect people and military equipment. The battle near Yaryshmarda was filmed by the militants themselves, whose material became public. Against the background of birds singing and the conversations of the detachment of the Jordanian Khattab and Ruslan Gelaev, the rumble of cars is heard. It can be seen from behind the branches from the cliff how a tarpaulin "Ural", a tanker, an armored personnel carrier appear. The distance between cars is about 20 meters. And suddenly the silence is torn by explosions, and then shooting. With dense fire from a height, invisible behind the "green" and a curtain of smoke, the militants shoot the Russian convoy point-blank. The time recorded on the video is 13 hours 23 minutes. These are the minutes when the battle began at Yaryshmarda.

Battle scheme

The presented diagram shows that the militants deliberately waited for the convoy, having equipped up to 20 points for a fire strike. Trenches were specially dug in the rocks, which is a very time-consuming task. All places of deployment of the Khattab and Gelaev gang are equipped with a sufficient number of weapons. They are located on both sides, which allows you to shoot through all sections of the path. On the road in the direction of traffic, radio-controlled land mines are installed. The place for the attack is ideally chosen due to the bend that hides the lead transport from the tail of the column. The road in this place is so narrow that it is impossible for tankers or trucks to turn around to leave the battlefield.

On the left is a practically sheer cliff, on the right is a cliff about five meters high, under which the Argun River flows. During heavy fire, some soldiers managed to jump into the dry river. Those who did not crash during the fall were finished off by snipers, which excluded the possibility of escaping. The trap for the transport column slammed shut when the leading tank was blown up on a landmine and an explosion was heard at the end of the procession. The bandits hit clearly on target, shooting in the first minutes of the battle the BMP and BRDM leading the column. Senior Major Terezovets, a radio operator and an artillery spotter, were killed. A company of 245 SMEs turned out to be without communication with outside world(in the VHF band, interference was specially placed), without control and support from artillery and aviation. The battle at Yaryshmarda turned into a real massacre for Russian soldiers and officers.

1996: tragic events through the eyes of eyewitnesses

According to the 245th SME, during the bloody events, 73 people died, 52 were injured, 6 infantry fighting vehicles, 1 armored infantry fighting vehicle, 11 vehicles were destroyed. Komsomolskaya Pravda published an article that indicated 95 dead, taking into account those demobilized and those who joined the column, whose presence was not officially recorded by anyone. This is easy to believe, because the mother of the deceased machine gunner Oleg Ogoreltsev, one of the demobilized, had to search for her son in Chechnya for a month and was able to identify the corpse in Rostov only after meeting with the surviving participants in the dramatic events. 30 bodies were removed from the battlefield without the possibility of identification: the guys burned like torches after direct hits from grenade launchers on tankers and infantry fighting vehicles. What do eyewitnesses say about the battle at Yaryshmarda?

Sniper Denis Tsiryulnik, a contractor, says that after the smoke cleared, the surviving soldiers resisted to the last bullet in conditions of almost zero visibility. After the battle, seven bodies of militants will be found - residents of the Shatoi region. Only at 6 o'clock in the evening, the armored group of Miroshnichenko and the 324th SME, as well as a battered reconnaissance detachment, made their way to the column. By this time, the Chechens and Arab mercenaries involved in the Khattab gang had already fled. Only one question was asked: why did help arrive so late? The head BRDM resisted to the last, the guys could have survived. To which the answer followed: the command of the regiment was waiting for instructions from above, and the groups began to break through to help only at the fourth hour. The helicopters that flew up hit the mountains, artillery hit, but there were no more militants on the slopes.

Igor Izotov, who was in the third truck, said that those who managed to squeeze into a patch between the front BMP and the rocks, which became the only dead zone for the enemy, survived. The guys were pulled out from under the cars by snipers, shooting with a ricochet on the asphalt.

The wounded Sergei Cherchik recalls that, despite the fire, there was mutual assistance between the soldiers. He, wounded by shrapnel, was pulled out from under the car by a contract soldier, and when he was hit in the kneecap, the two of them were saved by a conscript soldier.

Eternal memory to the dead

The fact that the convoy was expected and Khattab had complete information about its composition is evidenced by the fact that the most important vehicles. The medical vehicle remained intact. The wounded were gathered into it, and the bodies of the dead were laid on the armor. When MTLB began to turn around, its wheels hovered over the cliff. The driver miraculously managed to straighten the car, but the bodies of the already dead guys fell into Argun. All morning on the 17th, they cleared the road, finding seven more unexploded land mines. Burnt trucks were thrown off a cliff, they were looking for things and personal numbers of soldiers. Thus ended the almost four-hour battle at Yaryshmarda.

The list of the dead of 245 SMEs includes 11 officers, including artillery spotter Captain Vyatkin, who met death in the first minutes of the battle, Captain Lakhin, Major Milovanov, 2 ensigns and 27 soldiers and sergeants. Among them, 8 33 remained unidentified, and for a long time their names, like the machine gunner Ogoreltsev, were established with the help of their parents and relatives. A book of memory is posted on the website of 245 SMEs, and a monument has been erected in the Nizhny Novgorod Region to those who fulfilled their goal at the cost of their lives.

official investigation

The mass death of the personnel of 245 SMEs became the subject of an official investigation, as a result of which the prosecutor's office also spoke in the State Duma, which did not see corpus delicti in the actions of officials. Rokhlin blamed the leadership of the country and the Ministry of Defense for not controlling the situation in Chechnya and for allowing the manifestation of carelessness, which led to the death of the military. He pointed to the loss of vigilance, tactical illiteracy and lack of interaction between the 245th and 324th SMEs. But no one, including the regiment commander, Lieutenant Colonel Romanikhin, was punished for the dramatic battle at Yaryshmarda.

20 years later

On May 5, 1996, the first article about the tragedy with the column of the 245th SME appeared on the pages of the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper, which was immediately called sold on the sidelines. Khattab openly speaks in a video message about the venality of some high-ranking officers. But he cannot be trusted, a thorough judicial investigation is needed, which should answer the question of the causes of terrible coincidences and mass deaths of soldiers. But so far, no such investigation has taken place. One of the mysteries of the First Chechen War remains the April battle at Yaryshmarda. Military secrets have been carefully guarded since the days when the participants in the events were strictly forbidden to transfer details and details. terrible tragedy everyone, including journalists. Today their memoirs are published, but they do not contain answers to main question: why is the command not responsible for the lives of its soldiers? ..

The 324th regiment was formed as follows: almost completely, with the exception of 4 people who remained in the permanent composition of the regiment at the beginning of 1995, the officers were staffed by units of the garrisons of Yekaterinburg, Verkhnyaya Pyshma, Elani, Chebarkul - i.e. almost from the entire Ural Military District. As a replenishment, transport aircraft were sent from the Trans-Baikal Military District with privates and partially officers from the garrison of Gusinoozersk. Thus, the officers of the 324th regiment at first did not even know each other by sight, not to mention their subordinate soldiers. The regiment was given a week to conduct combat coordination. From February to mid-April 1995, the regiment was assigned a special forces group from the city of Kyakhta (ZabVO).

According to Konstantin Pulikovsky, this unit was one of the most combat-ready and well-trained.

The fighters dubbed the regiment "red dogs", as many officers in the regiment grew beards that turned red in the sun.

At the end of January 1995 he left Yekaterinburg for Tolstoy-Yurt. On the night of January 21, 1995, when unloading the echelon at Terek station (Republic of North Ossetia), were fired upon, as a result of which one of the soldiers was wounded in the leg. On January 22, 1995, units of the 324th regiment lined up in a marching column, marched across the Tersky Range and settled down near the village of Tolstoy-Yurt, which is about 20 km from the city of Grozny.

By February 1, 166 motorized rifle brigade and 324 motorized detachments were concentrated in the area east of Khankala. Thus, the eastern direction of Grozny was completely blocked.

On the morning of February 3, two regiments (324 and 245 infantry regiments) of the South-East group of troops carried out a maneuver from the Khankala region to the south and southeast of Grozny. 324 SMEs, advancing under incessant enemy mortar fire, saddled the Prigorodnoye-Gikalovsky road, set up checkpoints at the main intersections and provided escort for the main forces of 245 SMEs and part of the rear with ammunition. Already after 2 days, the Dudayevites, who had previously received reinforcements, were forced to stop resistance in the area of ​​​​Minutka Square through a corridor covered by motorized riflemen.

Capture and hold locality Gikalovsky: the regiment advanced along the bypass road running along the southeastern outskirts of Grozny, through the areas of Oilfields and Chernorechye. The forward detachment of motorized rifle company and two mortar crews, as well as a tank platoon, passed Chernorechye at speed and rushed along the highway to the village of Gikalovsky. When the avant-garde broke into Gikalovsky, no one expected him. Several militants were taken prisoner and, after a short search and interrogation, they were shot. The main forces of the regiment could not break through to Gikalovsky, as a result, by the evening of February 3, the battalion was almost completely surrounded.

The militants began to gather their forces to the village of Chechen-Aul, located 3 km from Gikalovsky. At 5 o'clock in the morning on February 4, 1995, the battle flared up with renewed vigor. First, the militants, hiding behind a thick veil of fog, went through the thickets of elm and along the channel of the canal to the rear of the positions of the tank platoon and almost point-blank shot two tanks from grenade launchers. Militant attacks on the positions of the 3rd battalion continued for 7 hours. Having received a rebuff, the militants stopped trying to attack in the forehead and retreated to Chechen-Aul. The battalion lost 18 men killed and 50 wounded. The tank company lost 5 vehicles, which were knocked out mainly in the first minutes of the battle.

For two more days and three nights, the firefight continued, but both sides did not dare to move on to more decisive action. On February 6, 1995, units of the 1st Battalion of the 324th Regiment, with the support of marines, made a breakthrough from Chernorechye, as a result, the encirclement was removed, and Grozny was finally blocked.

On March 13, the 324th regiment launched an offensive against the positions of militants in the area of ​​​​the villages of Chechen-Aul and Starye Atagi. The purpose of the offensive is to capture the crossing over the Argun River. As a result of an 8-hour battle, the militants were pushed back to the river, and their stronghold in the area of ​​a small-scale commodity farm was practically destroyed. But as a result of a mismatch between the actions of the 1st and 3rd battalions, a gap of about 800 m turned out between them and the regiment retreated to its original positions. On March 15, a second attack on the positions of the militants began.

Then he attacked Chechen-Aul, participated in all major operations: Argun, Gudermes, Vedeno.

Since the spring of 1995, the area of ​​​​responsibility in the Dargo region.

Mid-March 1995 - in the group "South"

late March 1995 - Shawls. 3/324 SMEs started a fight in the PTF area, southwest. elevation 251.3, elevation 277.5 (south-west of Shali), providing operations from the rear of the 503th infantry regiment and 141th detachment to block Shali.

Throughout April 1995, the 324th regiment did not undertake active combat operations. However, on average per day, as a result of actions Chechen snipers 1-2 people in the regiment were injured or died. To combat the snipers, a duty combat group was allocated as part of a motorized rifle platoon on the BMP-1, which periodically combed the area around the regiment's location.

At the beginning of April 1995, reinforcements arrived in the regiment - approximately 200 people, who were mainly distributed between the 1st and 3rd motorized rifle battalions. In the 1st battalion, the fighters from the replenishment immediately joined the divisions, and in the 3rd they were formed into three training platoons, the commanders of which were young. Two weeks later, in the replenishment of the 3rd battalion, a young soldier, a Baptist in his religious beliefs, hanged himself.

May-June 1995 - campaign in the mountains. On Shatoysky direction. On the night of June 9-10, 324 SMEs occupied and equipped strongholds (checkpoints) in the area 1.5 km north of Malye Varanda. On June 11, 324 SMEs by the end of the day captured the line 2 km northwest of Small Varanda, Mamyshasty, 1 km north of the Zone, and continued to advance in the direction of Big Varanda.

On June 12, 324 SMEs blocked the western outskirts of the Zone with part of the forces, ensured the entry into battle of 245 SMEs and continued to advance in the direction of Sovetskoye (Shatoy).

On June 13-18, the 324th MRR continued to block and destroy groups of militants in the fortified area they occupied on the western outskirts of the Zone. By the morning of June 19, by night actions, the regiment, in cooperation with part of the forces of the PDP 104 and PDB 7, completely blocked the airborne division, and by 17.00 completed the clearance of the settlement and the surrounding areas from the remnants of militants.

On May 24, the 104th Airborne Division and 324th Infantry Regiment, with the support of aviation and artillery, went on the offensive, attacked the enemy in the Duba-Yurt, Chishki area, 3 km west of Dachu-Borzoi, and by the end of May 26 reached the northern outskirts of Chishki and Dachu-Borzoi.

May 7, 1996 - Goiskoye (reinforced battalion) with 166 and 136 Omsbr. At 10.00 attacked the village from the east side and by 15.00 captured the village.

Having obsolete weapons (the main means of infantry in the regiment was the BMP-1), 324 SMEs was nevertheless known as one of the most combative in the grouping.

The regiment was withdrawn from Chechnya on August 2, 1996. 171 servicemen were killed, 9 were missing. On August 10, units of the regiment were already loading into trains to return home, when a new order was received: to enter Grozny in three consolidated columns and clear several blocks in the city center of militants. By the end of the day on August 11, the battalions completed their task, taking control of all the indicated quarters. This cost the regiment another 39 dead and more than a hundred wounded. After that, the regiment remained in Grozny for another 2 weeks. Then, after the withdrawal from Grozny, he camped in Khankala for another month.

Memorial complex 34 MSD and 324 SMEs on the territory of the division. Yekaterinburg. Photo from the personal archive of A.A. Venidiktova

Burial place of Igor Moldovanov. Trans-Baikal Territory, Chara village

Stella with the name of the hero of the senior sergeant of Russia Moldovanov Igor Valerievich. Memorial complex 34 MSD and 324 SME. Yekaterinburg city. Photo from the personal archive of A. Venidiktov

In different sources, information about the awardees varies. Two names of the Heroes of Russia are indicated. Maybe it's because the guys died on different days. Igor Moldovanov - on the first day of the fight, and A. Sorogovets and Yu. Nesterenko a day later. But the steles with the names of the heroes in Yekaterinburg were put up for all three.
324 SMEs dedicated


Covers the field with a white blanket.
Our platoon is dying near Chechen-Aul.
Evil spirits huddle to the shore of the Argun.
Mortars hit infantry platoons.
The young boy so wanted to return.
And today he might be killed.
A festive garland in the air rockets.
The BMP burns with a memorial candle.
Hiding by the canal, he smokes a cigarette.
The one who will be, maybe killed.
The boy winds along the muddy ground.
Tears run down the cheeks in streams.
He runs on the attack and does not know yet.
That he might be killed today.
Tanks burn out on a broken field.
In the sooty sky, a pale disk of the sun.
Those who remained alive poured vodka.
Near the river above the bridge - Black obelisk.
White snow is fluffy, clean, silvery.
From the dark clouds breaking off above the ground spinning.
Like a white shroud, he covered the area.
On this day, I once lost a friend.
Poems by Eliseev Sergey, a participant in the hostilities in Chechnya

Moldovanov Igor Valerievich
Decree of the President Russian Federation No. 1059 of October 19, 1995 for courage and heroism shown in the execution special task, senior sergeant Moldovanov Igor Valerievich was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation (posthumously).
He fought in Chechnya as part of the 324th motorized rifle regiment Ural Military District. On March 13, 1995, during the capture of a fortified dairy farm south of Chechen-Aul, our units were stopped by heavy fire from militants. Acting as a signalman, Moldovanov ensured uninterrupted communication between the company commander and subordinate and attached units, which contributed to successful solution tasks. During the battle, he personally destroyed the grenade launcher crew of the Dudaevites. Having received an order to cover the evacuation of the wounded, he took a place in the BMP and advanced to the southeastern outskirts of the dairy farm, where one of the platoons suffered losses. Having taken a convenient firing position, allowing him to cover his comrades who were carrying out the wounded, he, in fact, switched over the fire of the militants. During the battle, the BMP was hit and caught fire. Having been wounded and burned, senior sergeant Moldovanov did not leave combat post, continued to fire from the flaming car until the ammunition exploded.
http://www.divizia.org/history/heroes/23.html

Stella with the name of the hero of Russia Sorogovets Alexander Vladimirovich. Memorial complex of 34th infantry division and 324 infantry division in Yekaterinburg. From the personal archive of A.A. Venidiktov

Sorogovets A.V.

BUT. Sorogovets. Hero of the Russian Federation Ural Military District , senior lieutenant .
Top left. Chechen-Aul. 1995 photo by Yu. Belousov. Newspaper "Red Star"

Alexander Vladimirovich Sorogovets - participantFirst Chechen War , Hero of the Russian Federation , assistant chief of intelligence of the 324th motorized rifle regiment of the 34th motorized rifle division Ural Military District , senior lieutenant .
Was bornMay 7 1971 in Tashkent . Belarusian . Graduated from 8 classes high school No. 209 of the city of Tashkent (microdistrict Karasu-1). Subsequently, he studied atvocational school . Being an excellent student, he had the opportunity to enter the university without exams. , but in the end chose the path of the military. From 1989 to 1993 he studied at the Tashkent Higher Combined Arms command school them. V.I. Lenin.
After graduating from a military school, he was sent for further service inTurkestan military district .
passed military service as group leader special purpose special purpose brigade, deputy commander of a special purpose company. AT1994 commanded a special forces group of a separate special forces company in the Urals military district.
January 18 1995 was appointed assistant chief of intelligence of the 324th motorized rifle regiment of the 34th motorized rifle division. The regiment was stationed atYekaterinburg and ready to ship toChechen Republic . January 22 units of the 324th motorized rifle regiment arrived in Chechnya and settled down near the villageTolstoy-Yurt. With January 23 1995 Sorogovets took part in the fighting.
Died of a severe woundMarch 15th 1995 in the battle for the bridge across the riverArgun located near the villageNew Atagi . The command of the 324th regiment petitioned for posthumously conferring on him the title of "Hero of the Russian Federation ».
Buried atBotkinskoye cemetery the city of Tashkent.
In memory of Alexander Sorogovets, an obelisk was erected in the military unit in which he served.
Awards:
Medal of Honor" (April 20, 1995);
Title "Hero of the Russian Federation " (January 29, 1997).
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorogovets,_Alexander_Vladimirovich

Stella with the name of the hero of Russia Nesterenko Yuri Ivanovich photo from the archive of A. Venidiktov

Hero of Russia - Captain Yuri Nesterenko, commander of a motorized rifle company. Killed in battle near Chechen-Aul on March 15, 1995 . 324th motost rifle regiment.

Tombstone of Yu.I. Nesterenko. Alley of Glory of the Krasnogvardeisky Park in Vladivokavkaz, photo by Vl.Rogov

Nesterenko Yury Ivanovich
By Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 1059 dated October 19, 1995, Captain Nesterenko Yuri Ivanovich was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation (posthumously) for the courage and heroism shown in the performance of a special assignment.
In Chechnya, he fought as part of the 324th motorized rifle regiment of the Ural Military District. On March 15, 1995, the commander of a motorized rifle company, Captain Yuri Nesterenko, with one of the platoons of the company, struck at the enemy's flank and knocked him out of position.
At one of the moments of the battle, Captain Nesterenko's infantry fighting vehicle was damaged, the company commander himself was wounded, however, he did not leave the car, but continued to fire and control the unit. After the second hit in the BMP, Nesterenko received another wound, but he did not leave the battlefield, but took up a firing position in the trench. Having received medical assistance, he led a company on foot to attack and captured the second line of defense of the militants. Heavy machine gun fire pinned one of the platoons to the ground. Twice wounded, Captain Nesterenko with several soldiers rushed to the rescue of his subordinates. He destroyed a machine-gun crew with machine-gun fire and grenades, but received multiple shrapnel wounds from a grenade explosion. The brave officer died on the way to the hospital.
http://www.divizia.org/history/heroes/12.html

And the first monument to Igor Moldovanov was erected before Victory Day - there, on Chechen soil.
Boris Tsekhanovich:
“... The holiday was approaching - Victory Day, and there was a possibility that the militants would try to spoil our mood that day. But everything went fine. On the morning of May 9, I built a battery and congratulated everyone on Victory Day, and after that I took everyone I could to a concert organized by the regimental amateur performances. The whole concert was directed by Vitka Peretz. After the concert, a large-screen TV set was installed and a film about our regiment and the 276th was shown, filmed by Sverdlovsk TV journalists who came to us in February. There were also shots of an anti-tank battery, they showed me in a German helmet, which caused loud laughter. They also laughed at the commentary of the TV journalist, where he says in all seriousness that the militants during their stay on the tribe. stations ate a herd of two hundred cows. Everyone laughed when they remembered how the regiment had been eating beef for a month.
After lunch, the officers went to the shore of the Argun, where they erected a monument to the guys who died on March 15. At the entrance to the bridge, on a cliff, they installed a metal pyramid with a star and on a pedestal a tower from an infantry fighting vehicle, in which senior sergeant Moldavanov burned down.

This monument: an iron stele topped with an artillery shell and machine-gun belts with a modest sign: " Everlasting memory soldiers of the 324th SME who died in Chechnya. From officers, ensigns and soldiers" in 1996, after the conclusion of the Khasavyurt peace and the withdrawal of our troops from Chechnya, militants will blow it up.