Alexander Perov was born on May 17, 1975 in the city of Viljandi, Estonian SSR, in the family of a career GRU special forces officer, Colonel Valentin Antonovich Perov and his wife Zoya Ivanovna, an economist at the city state bank. Alexander was the second child in the Perov family after the eldest son Alexei. Alexander was born prematurely: at 7.5 months, and weighed 2400 g with a height of 45 cm.
In the summer of 1977, Valentin Antonovich was transferred to serve in the city of Cherepovets, Vologda Region. It was there that Alexander spent his childhood and the first year schooling, after which Father Alexander was transferred to Moscow to the military academy named after M.V. Frunze. In the capital, Alexander entered the secondary general education school No. 47. At the same time, his parents began to introduce him to sports, first sending their son to a table tennis school. After about a month, Alexander said that he would no longer go, as "the coach swears." Then the father enrolled his son in a hand-to-hand combat school, but Alexander did not stay there for a long time either: the coach forced Perov, who had not yet mastered the techniques, to fight with more experienced guys.
The family moved again in 1985, since Valentin Antonovich was given an apartment from the academy, located on Kashirskoye Highway. Therefore, in the 4th grade, Alexander went to new school No. 937 in Orekhovo-Borisovo: the third in three years of study, but, as it turned out in the end, the one he would finish. While studying there, Alexander became seriously interested in skiing: back in the 5th grade, he completed the standard of the 1st adult category, and subsequently repeatedly won prizes at the Moscow championships and took part in the Russian Ski Track. In addition, following in the footsteps of his father, Alexander was fond of orienteering. Already being a military man, he did not leave sports and repeatedly became the winner of competitions at the FSB championships in cross-country skiing, orienteering and service biathlon.
military school
While still at school, Alexander firmly decided to become a military man. Zoya Ivanovna Perova urged her son to enter MEPhI, on the basis of which the school of the Olympic reserve was located, where Alexander studied. Her father even supported her, proving to his son that the prestige of the military in the country was falling. Nevertheless, Alexander was going to enter a military school, and, as a result, was admitted to the Moscow Higher Combined Arms command school, having passed the exams for the courses for one five.
Perov studied with great interest and excellent marks. In the spring of 1994, Alexander began to engage in hand-to-hand combat, first enrolling in a club in a civilian institution closest to the school. Then the hand-to-hand combat section was created at the school, and Alexander began to study in it. The teacher, Captain Drevko, recalled that Sasha worked hard in the section and soon achieved good results, joining the school's national team and successfully performing at various competitions. In particular, in 1995, at the Moscow Championship among clubs, Perov took an honorable 3rd place, losing only one fight.
In addition, he was still in the ski school's national team, defending the honor of the school in various championships, and was also involved in running, orienteering, shooting and other sports. Thanks to comprehensive training, Alexander successfully defended the honor of the school in competitions in these sports, and in the championship Armed Forces in pentathlon (running 8 km, swimming 50 meters, shooting from a machine gun, gymnastics, obstacle course) also won a prize.
Service at Alpha
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In 1996, shortly before the final exams, a commission from department "A" arrived at the school, which needed qualified personnel. Of all the graduates, only 15 cadets expressed their desire to serve in Alpha, and Alexander was among them. All candidates had to go through the most careful selection, in particular, a difficult physical training exam, which included a three-kilometer cross with a standard of 10 minutes, more than 100 push-ups from the floor, more than 20 pull-ups on the bar and combat sparring with an experienced Alpha fighter. In addition, a test of 300 questions was conducted, 90% of which Alexander answered correctly with a passing score of 75%. As a result, out of 15 candidates for Alpha, he was the only one. It should be noted that after the exam he was asked if he was ready to give his life in rescuing the hostages, to which Alexander answered in the affirmative. After successful delivery state exams(all "five" and one "four") Alexander Perov was accepted into the prestigious special forces.
Service in "Alpha" for Alexander began with the position of a junior detective and consisted in carrying out combat duty with a frequency of 2-3 days and combat training. One of the main tasks was not only to learn a well-aimed shooter, who is well versed in hand-to-hand combat, but, above all, a competent tactician who can consciously act as part of a team and think quickly during a combat operation. Due to good military training and excellent physical development, Alexander in less than a year mastered the skill of storming buses, planes, individual apartments and buildings in order to free the hostages. For success in operational training, conscientious performance of official duties, a year later, Perov was promoted to the operative officer and assigned another military rank"Senior Lieutenant" In his free time, Alexander worked part-time as a bodyguard for large businessmen, because the state salary was not enough.
In the same period, Alexander married Zhanna Igorevna Timoshina, having played a wedding on February 20, 1999. However, the young did not manage to enjoy the honeymoon to the end: from the same year, Alexander began to repeatedly go on business trips to the North Caucasus region, where he participated in complex operational and combat measures to suppress acts of terrorism, during which he mastered mine-blasting business. Colleagues gave him the nickname "Pooh", an indirect derivative of the surname, because outwardly this nickname was not associated with almost two-meter Alexander.
During one of the trips, a group of fighters went on a mission in an armored personnel carrier, which was blown up by a land mine. As a result of the explosion, Perov was severely shell-shocked and he began to hear poorly in one ear, although he told his parents that his ears hurt from target practice. Subsequently, Perov was more than once in dangerous situations and was repeatedly under fire, but for the second time he received a head injury in Moscow, during a clash with Ossetian bandits, who first created an emergency situation on the road, and attacked the indignant Perov with baseball bats. The bandits were found and convicted, and Alexander had to be treated for a concussion for a long time.
After treatment, business trips to the North Caucasus resumed. One of the operations in which Alexander took part was the battle for the village of Komsomolskoye, during which Perov had to cover the retreat of his comrades, and then save himself under fire from the militants.
In 2001, Perov's son Vyacheslav was born.
Nord-Ost
Main article: Dubrovka terrorist attack
Alexander Perov took part in the release of hostages and the elimination of terrorists during the terrorist act in Nord-Ost, during which 40 Chechen fighters led by Movsar Barayev took hostage more than 800 spectators of the musical "Nord-Ost" in the building of the Theater Center on Dubrovka.
Early in the morning, on October 26, the theater center was stormed, during which Perov and five other fighters acted in the most difficult and dangerous area, in the auditorium, where there were about 800 people, and under the threat of an explosion of a 50-kilogram bomb hanging from the ceiling . Perov was supposed to make a breach in the metal door, which led into the orchestra pit in the hall of the theater center on Dubrovka, by means of an explosion. But the situation changed during the battle, and Alexander made a decision: do not blow up the door, because assault groups already broke into the hall and there was a possibility of defeating their own. The militants, suicide bombers with explosive devices and spectators were semi-conscious from the effects of the gas. Having destroyed the militants and suicide bombers, the fighters began to evacuate the hostages and six of them, within 40 minutes, carried people out, while being in full combat gear and gas masks. Alexander managed to take out about 50 hostages, until the employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations arrived.
For the operation in Nord-Ost, Major Perov was awarded the Order of Courage and a commemorative sign "For Nord-Ost".
Beslan
September 1, 2004 went down in history as the day on which a terrorist act unprecedented in its inhumanity was committed: a detachment of militants took hostage 1,128 people at school No. 1 in Beslan, North Ossetia.
Alexander Perov at that time was with his unit in Khankala, where he flew on August 16 to participate in the search and liquidation of the militants who carried out the attack on the city of Nazran in June of the same year. Having received the news of the capture of the school, the Alpha task force immediately flew by helicopter to Beslan. Perov, as one of the commanders, was entrusted with the task of determining places around the school for machine gunners and snipers and equipping firing points for them.
On September 3, a forced operation to free the hostages began. Major Perov's group had to clear the corner of the building on the ground floor, which included a spacious dining room with utility rooms, a toilet and a washing room. When trying to enter the building, Alexander was injured: a metal grate flying off from the explosion hit him in the leg and crushed the bone. Despite the fact that the fighters wanted to take him to the ambulance, Perov categorically refused and continued to carry out the combat mission, which was complicated by the fiercest resistance of the bandits who fired from the windows of the classrooms on the second and first floors. Then Perov decided to enter the building from the other side, but hostages were already jumping out of the windows, and the special forces, standing under the windows, began to pull the children from the windowsills to the ground, continuing to shoot back from the militants. Meanwhile, Perov received a new task: to continue clearing the entire right wing of the building.
During the cleaning of the assembly hall, Alexander's colleague, Oleg Loskov, was killed, struck down by machine gun fire. Perov dragged Oleg to the beginning of the corridor to the stairs, where, with Major Vyacheslav Malyarov and Vympel fighters, Andrei Velko and Mikhail Kuznetsov, he tried to help Loskov. At that moment, the terrorist, who ran out of the dust and darkness, severely wounded both Vympel fighters with heavy fire from a machine gun, and killed Major Malyarov on the spot. Perov tried to defend himself, but the machine ran out of bullets, and Alexander immediately received two bullets in the groin below the bulletproof vest. Another Alpha soldier wounded the militant, but he threw a grenade into the dining room and disappeared into the corridor. With the last throw, Major Perov managed to jump back into the dining room and cover with his body from grenade fragments a group of children who had not yet been evacuated. The employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations who jumped up dragged Alexander to the window to transfer him to the ambulance, but Perov was already dead.
By decree of the President of Russia of September 6, 2004, FSB Major Alexander Perov was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation (posthumously) for the courage and bravery shown during the release of the hostages.
Alexander Perov was buried at the Nikolo-Arkhangelsk cemetery in the Novokosino district of Moscow.
Memory
On May 19, 2006, a museum in memory of Alexander Perov was opened on the basis of the capital's comprehensive school No. 937 of the Southern Administrative District. Also at school No. 937, the Alexander Perov Prize for the best creative work was established, and a festival of sports achievements named after him is held, in which all classes participate, starting from the 1st. On August 3, 2007, by order of the government of the city of Moscow, this educational institution was officially named after the hero. Earlier, on May 12, 2005, by the decision of the management of the Department "A" of the Center special purpose The Federal Security Service of Russia and the Association of Veterans of the Alpha anti-terror unit, the name of the Hero of Russia, Major Alexander Perov, was given to the Military-Patriotic Youth Association "Warrior" (Chelyabinsk).
In the village of Mikhalenino, Nizhny Novgorod region, where Alexander Perov spent his childhood years, one of the streets was named after him.
In the regional center of Varnavino, in the park of Glory, a memorial shield of Alexander Perov was installed next to the Heroes Soviet Union area of the Great Patriotic War. In memory of Alexander, an inter-district chess tournament is held annually in Varnavin, a skiing competition in Moscow, and a tree is planted in the Alley of Heroes at the 41st kilometer from Moscow along the Volokolamsk highway.
Removed in 2010 documentary"In memory of the hero of Russia Alexander Perov", which tells about the life of Perov, and in November 2011, the presentation of the book "A Hero of Our Time" by Alexei Pryashnikov took place. The book is a non-fiction story that describes life path Alexandra Perov. In February 2011, the Hero of Russia Alexander Perov electric train began to run on the Gorky Railway in the Nizhny Novgorod Region.
Awards and titles
Order of Courage;
Medal of Honor";
Suvorov medal;
Medal "For Distinction in Special Operations";
Medal "For Distinction in military service 3 degrees";
Medal "For the accomplishment of the impossible" (Association of Veterans of Special Forces "Brotherhood" maroon berets "Vityaz");
Memorial sign "For service in the Caucasus";
Memorial sign "Nord-Ost";
Badge of the Special Purpose Center (TsSN);
Badge "For Distinction in Special Operations"
Alexander Valentinovich Perov(May 17, Viljandi, Estonian SSR, USSR - September 3, Beslan, North Ossetia-Alania, Russia) - Russian soldier, head of the operational group of the 1st department of Directorate "A" ("Alpha") of the Special Purpose Center of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation , major , who died during the release of hostages during the terrorist attack in Beslan . He was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Russian Federation.
Biography [ | ]
Childhood [ | ]
Alexander Perov was born on May 17, 1975 in the city of Viljandi, Estonian SSR, in the family of a career GRU special forces officer, Colonel Valentin Antonovich Perov and his wife Zoya Ivanovna, an economist at the city state bank. Alexander was the second child in the Perov family after the eldest son Alexei. Alexander was born prematurely, at 7.5 months, and weighed 2400 g with a height of 45 cm.
In the summer of 1977, Valentin Antonovich was transferred to serve in the city of Cherepovets, Vologda Region. It was there that Alexander spent his childhood and the first year of schooling, after which Alexander's father was transferred to Moscow to the M.V. Frunze Military Academy. In the capital, Perov entered secondary school No. 47. At the same time, his parents began to introduce him to sports, first sending their son to a table tennis school. After about a month, Alexander said that he would no longer go, as "the coach swears." Then the father arranged his son for a hand-to-hand combat school, but Alexander did not stay there for a long time either: the coach forced Perov, who had not yet mastered the techniques, to fight with more experienced guys.
The family moved again in 1985, since Valentin Antonovich was given an apartment from the academy, located on Kashirskoye Highway. Therefore, in the 4th grade, Alexander went to a new school No. 937 in Orekhovo-Borisovo: the third in three years of study, but, as it turned out in the end, the one he would finish. While studying there, Perov became seriously interested in skiing: back in the 5th grade, he completed the standard of the 1st adult category, and subsequently repeatedly won prizes at the Moscow championships and took part in the Russian Ski Track. In addition, following in the footsteps of his father, Alexander was fond of orienteering. Already being a military man, he did not leave sports and repeatedly became the winner of competitions at the FSB championships in cross-country skiing, orienteering and service biathlon.
military school [ | ]
While still at school, Alexander firmly decided to become a military man. Zoya Ivanovna Perova urged her son to enter MEPhI, on the basis of which the school of the Olympic reserve was located, where Alexander studied. Her father even supported her, proving to his son that the prestige of the military in the country was falling. Nevertheless, Alexander was going to enter a military school, and as a result he was admitted to the Moscow Higher Military Command School, having passed the exams for courses for one five.
Perov studied with great interest and excellent marks. In the spring of 1994, Alexander began to engage in hand-to-hand combat, first enrolling in a club in a civilian institution closest to the school. After the hand-to-hand combat section was opened at the school, Alexander began to study in it. Perov's teacher, Captain Drevko, recalled that Sasha worked hard in the section and soon achieved good results by joining the school's national team and successfully performing at various competitions. In particular, in 1995, at the Moscow championship among clubs, Perov took an honorable 3rd place, losing only one fight.
In addition, he was still in the ski school's national team, defending the honor of the school in various championships, and was also involved in running, orienteering, shooting and other sports. Thanks to comprehensive training, Alexander successfully defended the honor of the school in competitions in these sports, and also won a prize at the championship of the Armed Forces in pentathlon (running 8 km, swimming 50 meters, shooting from a machine gun, gymnastics, obstacle course).
Service at Alpha[ | ]
In 1996, shortly before the final exams, a commission from Department "A" arrived at the school, which needed qualified personnel. Of all the graduates, only 15 cadets expressed their desire to serve in Alpha, and Alexander was among them. All candidates had to go through the most careful selection, in particular, a difficult physical training exam, which included a three-kilometer cross with a standard of 10 minutes, more than 100 push-ups from the floor, more than 20 pull-ups on the bar and combat sparring with an experienced Alpha fighter. In addition, a test of 300 questions was conducted, 90% of which Alexander answered correctly with a passing score of 75%. As a result, he was the only one out of 15 candidates for Alpha. When, after the exam, he was asked if he was ready to give his life in rescuing the hostages, Alexander answered the question in the affirmative. After successfully passing the state exams (one "four", all other subjects - "excellent") Alexander Perov was accepted into the prestigious special forces.
Service in Alfa for Alexander began with the position of junior detective and consisted of combat duty with a frequency of 2-3 days and combat training. One of the main tasks was not only to learn a well-aimed shooter, who is well versed in hand-to-hand combat, but, above all, a competent tactician who can consciously act as part of a team and think quickly during a combat operation. Due to good military training and excellent physical development, Alexander in less than a year mastered the skill of storming buses, planes, individual apartments and buildings in order to free the hostages. For success in operational training, conscientious performance of official duties, a year later, Perov was promoted to the operative officer and was awarded the next military rank " senior lieutenant". In his free time, Alexander worked as a bodyguard for large businessmen, because the state salary was not enough.
In the same period, Alexander married Zhanna Igorevna Timoshina, having played a wedding on February 20, 1999. However, the young did not manage to enjoy the honeymoon to the end: from the same year, Alexander began to repeatedly go on business trips to the North Caucasus, where he participated in complex operational and combat measures to suppress acts of terrorism, during which he mastered mine-blasting. Colleagues gave him the nickname "Pooh", an indirect derivative of the surname, because outwardly this nickname was not associated with almost two-meter Alexander.
During one of the trips, a group of fighters went on a mission in an armored personnel carrier, which was blown up by a land mine. As a result of the explosion, Perov was severely shell-shocked and he began to hear poorly in one ear, although he told his parents that his ears hurt from target practice. Subsequently, Perov was more than once in dangerous situations and was repeatedly under fire, but for the second time he received a head injury in Moscow, during a clash with Ossetian bandits, who first created an emergency situation on the road, and attacked the indignant Perov with baseball bats. The bandits were found and convicted, and Alexander had to be treated for a concussion for a long time.
After treatment, business trips to the North Caucasus resumed. One of the operations in which Alexander took part was the assault on the village of Komsomolskoye, during which Perov had to cover the retreat of his comrades, and then go out himself under fire from militants.
In 2001, Perov's son Vyacheslav was born.
Nord-Ost [ | ]
Alexander Perov took part in the release of hostages and the liquidation of terrorists during the terrorist act in Nord-Ost, during which 40 Chechen militants, led by Movsar Baraev, took hostage more than 800 spectators of the musical Nord-Ost in the building of the Theater Center on Dubrovka .
Early in the morning of October 26, the theater center was stormed, during which Perov and five other fighters acted in the most difficult and dangerous area, in the auditorium, where there were about 800 people, and under the threat of an explosion of a 50-kilogram bomb hanging from the ceiling. Perov was supposed to make a breach in the metal door, which opened into the orchestra pit in the hall of the Theater Center on Dubrovka, by means of an explosion. But the situation changed during the battle, and Alexander made a decision: do not blow up the door, since the assault groups had already broken into the hall and there was a possibility of defeating their own. The militants, suicide bombers with explosive devices and spectators were semi-conscious from the effects of the gas. Having destroyed the militants and suicide bombers, the fighters began to evacuate the hostages and six of them carried people out for 40 minutes, while being in full combat gear and gas masks. Alexander managed to take out about 50 hostages until the employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations arrived.
For the operation in Nord-Ost, Major Perov was awarded the "Order of Courage" and a commemorative sign "For Nord-Ost".
Beslan [ | ]
September 1, 2004 went down in history as the day on which a terrorist act unprecedented in its inhumanity was committed: a detachment of militants took 1,128 people hostage at School No. 1 in Beslan, North Ossetia.
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Alexander Perov at that time was with his unit in Khankala, where he flew on August 16 to participate in the search for and liquidation of the militants who attacked the city of Nazran in June of the same year. Having received the news of the seizure of the school, the Alpha task force immediately flew by helicopter to Beslan. Perov, as one of the commanders, was entrusted with the task of determining places around the school for machine gunners and snipers and equipping firing points for them.
On September 3, a forced operation to free the hostages began. Major Perov's group had to clear the corner of the building on the ground floor, which included a spacious dining room with utility rooms, a toilet and a washing room. When trying to enter the building, Alexander was injured: a metal grate flying off from the explosion hit him in the leg and crushed the bone. Despite the fact that the fighters wanted to take him to the ambulance, Perov categorically refused to leave his group and continued to carry out the combat mission, which was complicated by the fierce resistance of the bandits who fired from the windows of the classrooms on the second and first floors. Then Perov decided to enter the building from the other side, but hostages were already jumping out of the windows, and the special forces, standing under the windows, began to pull the children from the windowsills to the ground, continuing to shoot back from the militants. Meanwhile, Perov received a new task: to continue clearing the entire right wing of the building.
During the cleaning of the assembly hall, Alexander's colleague, Oleg Loskov, was killed, struck by machine gun fire. Perov dragged Oleg to the beginning of the corridor to the stairs, where, with Major Vyacheslav Malyarov and Vympel fighters, and Mikhail Kuznetsov, he tried to help Loskov. At that moment, a terrorist who ran out of dust and darkness with heavy fire from a machine gun seriously wounded both Vympel fighters and killed Major Malyarov on the spot. Perov tried to defend himself, but the machine ran out of bullets, and Alexander immediately received two bullets in the groin below the bulletproof vest. Another Alpha soldier wounded the militant, but he threw a grenade into the dining room and disappeared into the corridor. With the last throw, Major Perov managed to jump back into the dining room and covered with his body from grenade fragments a group of children who had not yet been evacuated. The approaching employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations dragged Alexander to the window to transfer him to the ambulance, but Perov was already dead.
By decree of the President of Russia of September 6, 2004, FSB Major Alexander Perov was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation (posthumously) for the courage and bravery shown during the release of the hostages.
Alexander Perov was buried on September 7, 2004 at the Nikolo-Arkhangelsk cemetery in the Novokosino district of Moscow.
Memory [ | ]
On May 19, 2006, a museum in memory of Alexander Perov was opened on the basis of the capital's comprehensive school No. 937 of the Southern Administrative District. Also, at school No. 937, the Alexander Perov Prize was established for the best creative work and a festival of sports achievements named after him is held, in which all classes participate, starting from the 1st. On August 3, 2007, by order of the government of the city of Moscow, this educational institution was officially named after the hero. Earlier, on May 12, 2005, by decision of the leadership of Directorate "A" of the Special Purpose Center of the FSB of Russia and the Association of Veterans of the Anti-Terror Unit "Alpha", the name of the Hero of Russia, Major Alexander Perov, was given to the Military Patriotic Youth Association "Warrior" (Chelyabinsk).
In 2010, a documentary film "In Memory of the Hero of Russia Alexander Perov" was filmed, which tells about the life of Perov, and in November 2011, the presentation of the book "A Hero of Our Time" by Alexei Pryashnikov took place. The book is a documentary story that describes the life path of Alexander Perov. In February 2011, the Hero of Russia Alexander Perov electric train began to run on the Gorky Railway in the Nizhny Novgorod Region.
Awards and titles[ | ]
Sources [ | ]
- Hero of Russia Perov Alexander Valentinovich (indefinite) . Site "Heroes of the country". Retrieved March 18, 2018. Archived from the original on March 18, 2018.
Hero of the Russian Federation Alexander Perov
Alexander Perov was born on May 17, 1975 in Viljandi, Estonia, in the family of a military man. His father, Valentin Antonovich Perov, served there as chief of staff of a separate district special-purpose brigade. Sasha was a smart, well-developed boy from childhood.
In 1977, my father was transferred to a new place of service, and the family moved to the city of Cherepovets, Vologda Region. In Cherepovets, Sasha went to school, graduated from the first grade with only “fives”.
In 1983, my father was transferred to Moscow, to a teaching position at the military academy.
In Moscow, Sasha began to play sports: table tennis, hand-to-hand combat, skiing. He especially liked skiing, and for 8 years he studied at the Olympic reserve school at the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI), participated in competitions for the championship of Moscow and Russia. After the 11th grade, as a good athlete, Alexander could easily enter MEPhI. But he decided to become a military man, like his father, like his older brother Alexei.
In May 1992, having passed all the exams with excellent marks for training courses, he was enrolled in the Moscow Military School. The Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR (now the Moscow Military Institute), where his father once studied.
Active sports, good physical fitness and good health helped Lieutenant Perov in 1996, after graduating from a military school, to enter the service of the Alpha special unit of the Federal Security Service (FSB).
It took a little time for Alfa's fighter Alexander Perov to become a real professional.
In 1999, Alexander married Muscovite Jeanne, and on January 28, 2001, the Perovs had a son, Vyacheslav.
Alexander, as part of the special forces, spends most of his service in the North Caucasus. During each of the business trips, I had to conduct fighting to be in mortal danger...
North Ossetia Beslan
September 2004
This tragic date is forever inscribed in the history of Russia. On that day, a large group of terrorists seized the school, where there were more than a thousand people, most of whom were children. They all became hostages...
The special unit, in which Major Alexander Perov served, arrived from Chechnya in Beslan on September 1. He was the commander of the group, which was entrusted with the task of placing machine gunners, snipers on the buildings around the school, and equipping firing points. The operation to rescue the hostages was scheduled for 3 September. Everyone understood that only by destroying the bandits could this difficult task be completed.
Perov's group had to clear the school cafeteria on the 1st floor of the bandits. In the most difficult situation, conducting targeted fire, the guys managed to get into the building and cope with the task. But the militants were still in the classrooms, in the cinema hall. There were shots, dust and smoke all around... A terrorist who ran out of this darkness shot down one of the fighters with an automatic burst and wounded A. Perov. In addition, the militant managed to throw a grenade before he was killed. The wounded Alexander Perov rushed towards the dining room and covered a group of children with himself. One of his friends saw Sasha fall in front of the children and, smiling, showed his friend that he was wounded. He thought that their commander - a strong guy, would survive ...
When the EMERCOM officers arrived in time, they dragged Alexander to the window to transfer him to the ambulance, a bloody trail trailed behind him: both arteries that feed the entire lower body were broken. The blood flowed out in a few seconds ...
For heroism and courage shown during the rescue of children in a school in Beslan, Major Alexander Valentinovich Perov was awarded the high title of Hero of the Russian Federation (posthumously).
Alexander Perov was never a Varnavinian. But he is connected with the Varnavin land by his roots: here is the homeland of his ancestors, in the village of Mikhalenino, Varnavinsky district, his father was born and raised. From the age of two, Sasha annually came with his father to the village, where he learned a lot, was not afraid of peasant labor. From childhood, he fell in love with his father's native places, the Vetluga River, and not without reason considered our region his homeland.
He came to Mikhalenino and on his last vacation - in the summer of 2004.
The weather was rainy, but he and his father still managed to go fishing, ride a boat.
It was his last meeting with parents…
To perpetuate the memory of the Hero of Russia Alexander Perov, a street in the village of Mikhalenino was named after him, a children's health and education center (former youth physical training club) is named after the Hero of the Russian Federation A. Perov. On the initiative of the administration of the Varnavinsky district and the father of Alexander Perov, retired colonel V.A. Perov, various sports competitions for the Cup of the Hero of Russia A. Perov are annually held in Varnavino: an inter-district chess tournament, skiing competitions (since 2008 they have become inter-district), track and field cross-country .
In 2009, the Administration of the Varnavinsky District, with the support of the Government of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, prepared a spiritual and patriotic project "The Link of Times: from Alexander Nevsky to Alexander Perov", the main component of which is the Alexandrovskaya expedition to the regions of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, during which O. Dubova's film "Alexander ”, patriotic songs are performed, flowers are laid at the monuments to fallen soldiers.
In 2010, a wonderful book by Alexei Pryashnikov "A Hero of Our Time" was published, telling about Alexander Perov and his comrades.
In 2011, by decision of the leadership of the Gorky railway An electric train is named after Alexander Perov.
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Alexander - a documentary film about the Hero of the Russian Federation, FSB Major Alexander Perov, head of the operational group of the 1st department of Directorate "A". For the stamina and courage shown in the fighting, was awarded the order Courage, medals "For Courage" and Suvorov.
Alexander Valentinovich Perov (May 17, 1975 - September 3, 2004) - Russian soldier, head of the operational group of the 1st department of Directorate "A" ("Alpha") of the Special Purpose Center Federal Service security of the Russian Federation, who died during the release of the hostages during the terrorist attack in Beslan. He was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation.
Alexander Perov was born on May 17, 1975 in the city of Viljandi, Estonian SSR, in the family of Colonel Valentin Antonovich Perov, a career officer of the GRU special forces, and Zoya Ivanovna, an economist at the city state bank. Alexander, the second child in the Perov family after the eldest son Alexei, was born prematurely: at 7.5 months, and weighed 2400 g with a height of 45 cm.
In the summer of 1977, Valentin Antonovich was transferred to serve in the city of Cherepovets, Vologda region. It was there that Alexander's childhood passed, and the first year of schooling, after which Alexander's father was transferred to Moscow to the MV Frunze Military Academy. In the capital, Alexander entered secondary school No. 47. At the same time, his parents began to introduce him to sports, first sending their son to a table tennis school. After about a month, Alexander said that he would no longer go, as the coach swears. Then the father enrolled his son in a hand-to-hand combat school, but Alexander did not stay there for a long time either: the coach forced Perov, who had not yet mastered the techniques, to fight with more experienced guys.
The family moved again in 1985, since Valentin Antonovich was given an apartment from the academy, located on Kashirskoye Highway. Therefore, in the 4th grade, Alexander went to a new school No. 937 in Orekhovo-Borisovo: the third in three years of study, but, as it turned out in the end, the one he would finish. While studying there, Alexander became seriously interested in skiing: back in the 5th grade, he completed the standard of the 1st adult category, and, subsequently, repeatedly won prizes at the championships in Moscow and took part in the Russian Ski Track. In addition, following in the footsteps of his father, Alexander was fond of orienteering. Already being a military man, he did not leave sports and repeatedly became the winner of competitions at the FSB championships in cross-country skiing, orienteering and service biathlon.
While still at school, Alexander firmly decided to become a military man. Zoya Ivanovna Perova urged her son to enter MEPhI, on the basis of which the school of the Olympic reserve was located, where Alexander studied. Her father even supported her, proving to his son that the prestige of the military in the country was falling. Nevertheless, Alexander was going to enter a military school, and, as a result, he was admitted to the Moscow Higher Combined Arms Command School, having passed the exams for courses for one five.
Perov studied with great interest and excellent marks. In the spring of 1994, Alexander began to engage in hand-to-hand combat, first enrolling in a club in a civilian institution closest to the school. Then the hand-to-hand combat section was created at the school, and Alexander began to study in it. The teacher, Captain Drevko, recalled that Sasha worked hard in the section and soon achieved good results, joining the school's national team and successfully performing at various competitions. In particular, in 1995, at the Moscow Championship among clubs, Perov took an honorable 3rd place, losing only one fight.
In addition, he was still in the ski school's national team, defending the honor of the school in various championships, and was also involved in running, orienteering, shooting and other sports. Thanks to comprehensive training, Alexander successfully defended the honor of the school in competitions in these sports, and also won a prize at the championship of the Armed Forces in pentathlon (running 8 km, swimming 50 meters, shooting from a machine gun, gymnastics, obstacle course).
In 1996, shortly before the final exams, a commission from department "A" arrived at the school, which needed qualified personnel. Of all the graduates, only 15 cadets expressed their desire to serve in Alpha, and Alexander was among them. All candidates had to go through the most careful selection, in particular, a difficult physical training exam, which included a three-kilometer cross with a standard of 10 minutes, more than 100 push-ups from the floor, more than 20 pull-ups on the bar and combat sparring with an experienced Alpha fighter. In addition, a test of 300 questions was conducted, 90% of which Alexander answered correctly with a passing score of 75%. As a result, out of 15 candidates for Alpha, he was the only one. It should be noted that after the exam he was asked if he was ready to give his life in rescuing the hostages, to which Alexander answered in the affirmative. After successfully passing the state exams (all "five" and one "four"), Alexander Perov was accepted into the prestigious special forces. Service in "Alpha" for Alexander began with the position of a junior detective and consisted in carrying out combat duty with a frequency of 2-3 days and combat training. One of the main tasks was not only to learn a well-aimed shooter, who is well versed in hand-to-hand combat, but, above all, a competent tactician who can consciously act as part of a team and think quickly during a combat operation. Due to good military training and excellent physical development, Alexander in less than a year mastered the skill of storming buses, planes, individual apartments and buildings in order to free the hostages. For success in operational training, conscientious performance of official duties, a little over a year later, Perov was promoted to an operative officer and awarded the next military rank of "senior lieutenant". In his free time, Alexander worked as a bodyguard for large businessmen, because the state salary was not enough. In the same period, Alexander married Zhanna Igorevna Timoshkina, having played a wedding on July 18, 1999. However, the young did not manage to enjoy the honeymoon to the end: from the same year, Alexander began to repeatedly go on business trips to the North Caucasus region, where he participated in complex operational and combat measures to suppress acts of terrorism, during which he mastered mine-blasting business. Colleagues gave him the nickname "Pukh", an indirect derivative of the surname, because outwardly this nickname was not associated with almost two-meter Alexander. During one of the trips, a group of fighters went on a mission in an armored personnel carrier, which was blown up by a land mine. As a result of the explosion, Perov was severely shell-shocked, and he began to hear poorly in one ear, although he told his parents that his ears hurt from target shooting. Subsequently, Perov was in dangerous situations more than once and was repeatedly under fire, but for the second time he received a head injury in Moscow, during a clash with Ossetian bandits, who first created an emergency on the road, and attacked the indignant Perov with baseball bats. Despite the fact that the bandits were found and convicted, Alexander had to be treated for a concussion for a long time.
After treatment, business trips to the North Caucasus resumed. One of the operations in which Alexander took part was the battle for the village of Komsomolskoye, during which Perov had to cover the retreat of his comrades, and then save himself under fire from militants .....
PEROV ALEXANDER VALENTINOVICH (05/17/1975 - 09/03/2004) Alexander Valentinovich Perov (May 17, 1975 - September 3, 2004) - Russian soldier, head of the operational group of the 1st department of Directorate "A" ("Alpha") of the Special Purpose Center of the Federal security services of the Russian Federation, who died during the release of the hostages during the terrorist attack in Beslan. He was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation. BESLAN Major Perov's group had to clear the corner of the building on the 1st floor. It was a spacious dining room with utility rooms, a toilet and a washing room. Having specified the task to the group, Alexander personally scattered the prepared charges from behind the fence and thus cleared the approach to the wall of the building. powerful explosions were heard throughout the city. Following the explosions, 9 fighters of the group jumped to the school through a doorway in the fence and pressed against its wall. Immediately, a young officer was wounded by a grenade thrown by a militant from the 2nd floor, but remained in the ranks. The most difficult thing remained - to break into the building in order to destroy them in contact with terrorists and ensure the evacuation of children. Perov decided to enter the dining room through the door, of which there were two in the wall. Having planted explosives, he blew up one of them. It turned out that the inside of the door was littered with tables and desks. I had to blow up another one. The inner metal grille has not fallen off. The guys pulled it off with a rope, but Alexander did not have time to jump back, the door hit him in the leg and crushed the bone. The guys wanted to take him to the ambulance, but he categorically refused and continued to carry out the task assigned to the group. All actions of the group took place under the threat of being hit by militant fire from the windows of the 2nd floor. To exclude this, we ourselves had to conduct intense fire on the upper floor. The tension of the battle grew. It is not yet possible to penetrate the school and destroy the terrorists, thereby delaying the implementation of the main task - rescuing the hostages. The militants in this wing of the building put up fierce resistance. They fire from the windows of classrooms on the second and first floors. The special forces responded with machine gun fire at window openings in order to prevent the bandits from leaning out and conducting aimed fire. They are assisted by a machine gunner, firing in long bursts from the balcony of the 4th floor of a neighboring residential building, hiding behind sandbags. The actions of terrorists are restrained by snipers located on the roofs of buildings. And the bullets near the special forces still whistle, click on the asphalt. They have to snuggle up against the wall. There are already two wounded in the group. Alexander, overcoming the pain in his leg, continues to control the group and orders to enter the dining room through the windows on the other side of the building. There was no other way. You can also blow up the wall and get inside the building into the resulting opening. This required a lot of explosives, which Perov no longer had. Moreover, children who were inside the premises could suffer from the explosion. Jumping to the side where the windows are, the guys saw schoolchildren leaning out of the open windows, they waved white rags and shouted: "Don't shoot, there are a lot of them here." Then Sasha and the guys, standing under the windows, began to pull the children from the windowsills to the ground. A short video of this moment was shown on TV. The windows overlooked the front side of the school, the square. A huge crowd of people was noisy to the side and followed the actions of the group. The militants opened aimed fire from inside the room at the windows. Shards of glass, chips, and plaster fell on the children. They fired back, sticking only machine guns through the windows, trying not to lower the barrels of their weapons down so as not to hit the children lying on the floor. It was six o'clock in the evening. Major Perov was in suspense for more than 10 hours, without food or even water, the fifth hour with the group in battle. He, Malyarov and Loskov stood at the stairs leading to the 2nd floor. Behind them was the wall of the dining room with a doorway, a corridor to the center of the school stretched to the left, in front of them began a long, dim corridor of the entire right wing of the building. The staircase was controlled by Malyarov, Perov and Loskov - the corridor space was straight ahead, Igor V. was watching from the left. The rest carried the children. The evacuation was slow. Each child had to be taken carefully, many were injured, moaning. All the commandos were terribly tired to such an extent that they even began to lose control of themselves, the sense of danger was dulled, and confidence in the correctness of actions decreased. According to calculations, fighters can act competently in battle for no more than an hour and a half. They would be taken out of the battle, replaced by a group from the reserve. However, the group commander Alexander Perov receives a new task to continue cleaning the entire right wing of the building. From the opposite end, one of the groups could not break in. Having specified the task to the comrades, outlining the order of actions for each, the group began to carry out a new task. Alexander, with a shattered leg, three of his comrades continued to act in front, although, as a commander, he could entrust the most dangerous work to other fighters. Victor said that in the course of the further battle, they managed to clear the first class, destroy one terrorist, so as not to risk when cleaning the next classes, they destroyed an adjacent wall with a cumulative charge from a grenade launcher, killing another militant. So for a short time managed to free four classes from the bandits on the right side of the corridor. However, there was intense machine gun fire from everywhere, especially from the cinema hall, located on the left side of the corridor. The bullets hit the walls, the ceiling, the plaster fell off. From the destroyed walls and shooting in the corridor, dust hung, it became difficult to breathe, visibility was limited. His cleaning began at about 25 minutes past six in the evening. Loskov threw two hand grenades into the room. Following the explosions, firing from a machine gun, he stuck his head in the doorway and was immediately struck down by machine gun fire. Fell in the corridor next to the door. Sasha, limping heavily, ran up to him and dragged him to the beginning of the corridor to the stairs. Two pennants came to the aid of Sasha's group and stopped not far to the left, waiting for orders from him. Malyarov helped Alexander unbutton Loskov's jacket. The vest was pierced in several places. Their friend was dead. They didn’t notice how a terrorist runs out of a dusty corridor and darkness, shouting: “Allah Akbar!”, kills Major Velko with heavy fire from a machine gun and injures Major Kuznetsov from Vympel, immediately strikes Major Malyarov on the spot - a bullet from the side hit him in the heart. Sasha, having risen, pulls the trigger of the machine gun, no shots followed, there were no cartridges in the magazine, he himself receives two bullets at once in the groin below the bulletproof vest. Igor V., having dodged somersaults from bullets, wounds a militant in a burst, he throws a grenade into the dining room and hides in the corridor. Sasha manages to jump back into the dining room and with his body covers a group of children from grenade fragments, who have not yet been evacuated by the Ministry of Emergency Situations. It was approximately 17:30. Victor, being behind the wall in the dining room, saw how Perov fell in front of the children. He, still smiling, showed him with his hand that he was wounded. Victor thought, the guy is strong, he will survive. Soon he noticed how a pool of blood began to appear under a friend, and when the emergency workers who jumped up dragged Alexander to the window to transfer him to an ambulance, a trail of blood trailed behind him. Then Victor and other fighters realized that Sasha Perov had died. The wound turned out to be fatal, both arteries were broken in the groin. Major Kuznetsov also died in the hospital from a broken artery. The fight continued. In the course of it, the special forces managed to clear all the classrooms on the right side of the corridor. They did not break into the cinema hall through the doorway. As it turned out, the militants set up a firing point made of sandbags there. It was defended by six terrorists. Hiding behind the bags, they fired continuously at the windows and the doorway, preventing the Alpha fighters from entering the cinema hall. The guys decided to act from the outside of the room, destroying the wall with cumulative shells and grenades. The militants hid in the basement under the cinema hall. They were destroyed there by fire from grenade launchers. Only in the second hour of the night the fighting at the school ended. Six militants were found dead in the basement, two more were found in classrooms. In total, in this way, 20 terrorists were destroyed in the right wing of the building. Therefore, the most fierce battles took place here, the building itself in this place was most of all destroyed. Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of September 6, 2004 No. 1198 for the courage and heroism shown in the implementation special task, Major Perov Alexander Valentinovich was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation (posthumously). He was buried in Moscow at the Nikolo-Arkhangelsk cemetery. . Nina Andreevna Kardashova wrote a poem: In a light cloud, slowly, The soul departed from the body ... And around is dust, and soot, and smoke. He was handsome, young. And his friends: “Sanya, how are you?” The hand pointed to the wounds. "Be patient, we are now, we are in battle!" he gave them his smile. Oblivion ... Sweet face of the son. He waves his hand: "Bye!" And the wife: “I would call me ...” “I will come to you, Zhanna, in a dream!” Mother passes, mourning: "My dear ...", Lips whisper: "You are my son ..." Next to her, her father is sad. "You don't cry! I am a special forces soldier. He himself taught us to live like this - To be the best and serve the Fatherland! The warrior's voice is firm and stern. - I could not do otherwise. I am Perov! Everything. Farewell!" The hero's soul flies slowly to the Throne.
