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 it collapsed in 1991 Soviet Union, in the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, on the basis of national and religious hostility, the influence of the separatists increased, 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 one - 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" was able to successfully reach Grozny on December 12 - the other two were blocked in different parts of Chechnya by local residents and partisan detachments of militants. A few days later, the remaining two groups of 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. Battalion Maykop brigade, which moved the furthest to the city center, was surrounded and was almost completely destroyed along with the 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.
On March 6, part of the last detachments of Chechen separatists were killed, the other 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 the weak points in the defense of Russian troops, preparing an 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 entire buildings left there, and at the moment it is a large 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.
In front of the entrance to the hall, a portrait of Alexander Buzin, who died in Chechen war. Candle burns. There are fresh flowers.
The book exhibition "Soldiers Are Not Born" dedicated to the memory of the soldiers who served in Chechnya has been arranged.
The song "Memory". Slide "Dedicated to the living and the dead."
Our country failed to leave all the troubles and tragedies in the last century. IN New century and for a millennium Russia came with the Chechen war - cruel, merciless. And although war is never merciful - it is always a tragedy, pain, tears, death ... and the current one, as it is called, is the second Chechen company, is also terrible because it has become commonplace for us. People have become accustomed even to the reports of the death toll, they looked indifferently at the TV screens, where footage from the devastating Grozny flashed by.
And the stories themselves from the Chechen war, which used to open any news release, now migrated to the second, third, fifth places ...
This war has no history yet. She is not written. We know as much about it as it is not dangerous for us to know, so as not to see ourselves as we are. But much has been said about the causes of this bloodshed, much has been written about how fighting. But one thing is clear: there was a war going on.
There, in Chechnya, our soldiers were on duty - young guys. And no matter where each of them was - neutralizing any charger, bypassing the infamous Minutka Square in Grozny, or standing on duty - they were obliged to adequately fulfill their military duty, as befits a real man.
And we... We had to wait for them. And do everything possible to make our guys feel supported, be sure that they are remembered, loved and expected.
B. Galkin "Russia"
What has happened to us now...
How tired Russia is...
And what kind of war awaits Russia?
I don't want blood
And we don't need fame
There are so few of us left
And Russia is one.And obedient soldiers
For solemn dates
About birches and maples
Sweet voice sings
Should be ashamed of shoulder straps
Defend the ramparts
stolen life
Those and these gentlemen.The wounds of the body will heal
If the matter is affected.
Well, if they incite -
Let's go to each other.
Will drink our blood again
Power is a blind crow.
I probably won't meet
Year two thousand.Underground in Stalingrad
The awards will be minted
lingering rains
Tears of Russian Matryonas
Along Siberia, along the Don,
For a long time in Russia
The alarm will not subside
And a prayer call.If only the souls were resurrected
And with hope and song
Everyone who believes stood up.
That Russia is one
Brother, father and childhood friend,
For Russia, all together!
Our wounds will heal.
But the soul - never!
Of course, waiting is not easy. Especially parents whose children served in the North Caucasian Military District. More than 150 guys from our Soviet district were on a combat watch there. It so happened that they did not receive letters for months.
And then their relatives went to the Committee of Soldiers' Mothers - to learn at least something about the fate of their boys. The Committee of Soldiers' Mothers "Sibiryachka" in Sovetsky in November 1999 was registered as an independent public organization. In just a month and a half of 2001, Sibiryachka received about 50 applications, where parents asked to find children from whom there were no letters for a long time, asked to help deal with cases of hazing in military units, unauthorized abandonment military units. This is that huge invisible work that few people know about.
The war in Chechnya has left an indelible mark on the hearts of many of us. After the defeat in Afghanistan, our politicians had to not get involved in even more terrible war. The reasons for not letting go of Chechnya were clear. This is the problem of territorial integrity, as the most important condition for statehood; economic reasons: Chechnya is oil. There were also historical reasons. The religious factor also played an important role.
As a result, the value of a person, his rights and freedom, contrary to the constitutional norm, gave way to the supremacy of the interests of oil structures, the military-industrial complex.
But whatever the reasons, the fate of the soldiers was decided by the military leaders. And the boys had to suffer, who just yesterday sat at the school desk and never sniffed gunpowder. Mothers whose children went to the army had to worry: someone was destined to meet disabled children, someone to bury them.
For the entire period of hostilities, 44 young men were called to Chechnya from the city of Sovetsky, Yugorsk - 47, Agirish - 8, Alyabyevo - 3, Zelenoborsk - 5, Communist - 5, Taiga - 6, Pioneer - 15. Malinovsky - 4. Seven soldiers died and two are missing. Eleven people were injured, two of them died in peacetime, 15 soldiers were awarded orders and medals, 1 received the title of Hero of Russia, posthumously.
It is still not clear to them: what they fought for, what they died for ... But they know that war is a cruel, terrible phenomenon. And as long as there is malice and hatred on earth, there will be wars that inflict battle wounds on people, take away children and loved ones from life.
Slide "Portrait of A. Buzin"
We dedicated our evening to Alexander Buzin, our countryman, who died almost 15 years ago in the Chechen war.
This happened at a time when the end of hostilities in Chechnya had not yet been announced. It happened on May 21, 1996. It was on that day that Private Alexander Buzin died. Or rather, junior sergeant A. Buzin. Alexander never found out that a few days before his death, he was awarded the rank of junior sergeant.
Of the 12 Heroes of Russia awarded this title posthumously in the Chechen war, the first, and possibly the only one in Khanty-Mansiysk autonomous region- Alexander Buzin, a guy from our Soviet city.
On May 21, “on this tragic day,” he took part in a raid by an air assault group on the rear of militants. During the operation, the instructor of the mine-search department, together with his four-legged assistant John, discovered and defused 16 mines and 4 land mines, then the group was ambushed. Alexander was the first to understand this, he walked ahead and, in order to warn his comrades, opened fire on the militants. In this short battle, Buzin was mortally wounded ...
The poem "I was killed in the Chechen war" written by a teacher primary school Akinfova Evgenia Pavlovna.
There was a boy, I was smart and lively,
In the hallway with friends "buzzed"
Got fives and twos
But he loved his school.Don't rush, wait, guys!
Speak quietly to me.
And say: “What a fun!
And how young he is!Wait girls laugh,
Look at this portrait
I just turned 20
And I'm no more, just no...I saw this terrible war,
With a machine gun, I went into battle.
So that no one here offends you,
Don't let anyone kill you here!I would like to run on the football field,
And meet a friend in the spring ...
I did not return from the battle in the spring
I was killed in the Chechen war.Mother weeps, grieves, suffering,
Above my early grave,
Yes, he sings, flooding in the spring,
Podporozhsky crazy nightingale.Visit your mother in the apartment,
Visit my relative.
So that she knows what about her son.
Someone remembers in his native land.Mourn and you are over the grave,
Bring flowers of the field.
To smell to me of the dear Motherland,
On my unearthly roads.
Slide "Obelisk to A. Buzin"
Soviet city. Quiet cemetery. Monument with a name. Age 20 years.
What was Alexander Buzin like? How did you live? What remains of a life that is only 20 years long?
Alexander's childhood passed in our city. Alexander dreamed of becoming a woodworker since his school days. It is no coincidence that after graduating from the eighth grade, he went to study at the Soviet PU-11, where he received an education of interest to him - a carpenter of artistic furniture, a furniture-machinist. After graduating from college, he worked only 10 months in his specialty. Then he was drafted into the army. He did not grumble at fate, which prevented him for some time from enjoying what he had achieved. He was completely ready for army trials. And he believed that after serving, like everyone else, he would return home, to his mother, to his beloved work.
“I don't know why…” Words by A. Vertinsky.
I don't know why, and who needs it,
Who sent them to their deaths
Not with a trembling hand.
It's just so useless
So evil and unnecessary
They were released into eternal rest.watchful spectators,
Silently wrapped in fur coats
And some woman with a distorted face
Kissed the dead man on blue lips
And threw a wedding ring at the priest.Threw them with Christmas trees, kneaded them with mud
And went home under the guise of interpreting,
That it's time to put an end to the disgrace,
That and so soon we will begin to starve.And no one thought to just kneel,
And tell these boys
What in a mediocre country,
Even bright feats are just steps
In the endless abyss of unapproachable war.
The service of Alexander Buzin, about him as a person, an excellent warrior, a reliable comrade, was later told by local newspapers in the essay “Give me a paw, John, for good luck.”
As Alexander Buzin's colleagues told, John was very devoted to his master. Immediately after the tragedy, John did not let anyone near the body of the owner. To itself - more than three days! Having blown up on a mine, like the owner, he also received a severe gunshot wound. The dog only survived the owner by a month. John passed away on June 23rd.
Here is what A. Buzin's colleagues say.
Perhaps it is these memories that will help us answer the question. : "What is human life?"
Junior Sergeant Vladimir Biryukov says:
We called with Buzin at the same time. Alexander from the first day dreamed of being near the aviary, feeling like a trainer. In addition to diligence, he was distinguished by such qualities as love for animals and the ability to convey to them the most necessary things. Already in the first half of the year, Private A. Buzin proved himself with better side, he was thanked.
Says the assistant head of the group for work with personnel Art. Lieutenant Petr Anatolievich Belashev:
Private Buzin was nothing special. On assignments, like most military personnel, he was executive. But I was always attracted to it by such a detail as the correspondence of height with the size of boots.
Alexander was not very tall, if not vice versa. And the boots were large - a kind of peasant from the forests. When he and his colleagues were preparing for his first trip to Chechnya, a small incident occurred. Everyone picked up, customized uniforms. They began to try on bulletproof vests. Private A. Buzin also began to try on a bulletproof vest. When I saw him in armor, I just smiled. He seemed to sway under the weight, a little more and he would fall. But that was only a fleeting impression.
On the first trip, he proved that he makes an excellent fighter and a good comrade.
Colleague Private Oleg Alinovsky tells:
Sasha was charm itself. It was easy to communicate with him, the guy had a great attitude to humor and never took offense at jokes. In general, he was very calm.
Narrated by Private Andrey Telegin:
He was an excellent hairdresser. Shear all your hair - just ask. And yes, he was a great guy.
In early May 1996, Alexander Buzin, as the most trained and experienced specialist, was attached to the reconnaissance unit of the airborne division. Intelligence operations began in the rear, in the Bamut area. On May 21, as part of an air assault group, he left for a long flight through the rear of the militants. As it was supposed to be for a mine-detecting dog instructor, Private Alexander Buzin was in front of the group. The operation lasted not one hour. The instructor with the dog managed to detect and neutralize 20 mines and land mines. At some point, Alexander felt someone's heavy gazes on him. There was no time to think. He opened fire on the entrenched militants. By calling fire on himself, Alexander thus warned his comrades about the ambush. He himself was mortally wounded in a short battle.
Sasha died in the arms of his comrades.
Years will pass. Much will be forgotten over time. The current discussions about "Afghans" and "Chechens" and the reproaches that hurt them so painfully will sink into oblivion. Wounds will heal, reminding you of yourself for bad weather. Military orders will fade, soldiers will have children. But these wars will forever remain in the memory of nothing indelible tragic mark.
There will remain poems and songs born in the war, telling about the strength of the spirit and courage of the Russian soldier.
In the homeland of Alexander Buzin there is a modest obelisk. This is material evidence of the memory of the Hero of Russia.
Well, intangible evidence - in the memory of colleagues, in the memory of those who served with him in part.
In memory of those whom he saved in Chechnya, neutralizing mines and land mines.
Commander Suvorov defined six qualities necessary for a soldier, and said that he "should be healthy, brave, resolute, fair, pious."
The current Russian soldier, serving in Chechnya, in addition to these qualities, needs many others. And, above all, wisdom and patience. He owes his duty, withstanding the onslaught of conflicting information, orienting himself in the Caucasian political intricacies, not succumbing to provocations.
As you know, wars do not end with the long-awaited moment when weapons fall silent. They continue in the souls of those who participated in them. And this war on Chechen soil is no exception. She will remind of herself for a long time - while the mothers who have lost their breadwinners are alive, while the wounds of the soldiers hurt.
Russian soldiers who returned from the Chechen war brought with them, as it were, a renewed love for the Motherland. To some extent, they returned to us the high concept of patriotism, courage, military and human duty.
The song "Memory"
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 Samara region, and found out who was actually 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. younger 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 on Huseynov in criminal world, apparently, they started talking about 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 finally 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 him to trial invited an interpreter. 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.
In memory of Misha Dorozhkin who died in the Chechen war
Literary and musical composition
Decoration set up on the stage geometric shape, a candle burns, fresh flowers lie.
The metronome sounds. Against the background of the metronome Narration text:
“This war has no history yet. She is not written. We know about it exactly as much as it is not dangerous for us to know, so as not to see ourselves as we are. But this war has witnesses. Thousands of witnesses. They want to be heard before they are invented as they will be convenient and again someone needs them for something. They want to be needed by the truth.
The ringing of bells is a phonogram.
1 leader.
The ringing of a bell, Like a call, like an alarm, like a memory. We dedicate today's composition to Misha Dorozhkin, our countryman who died in the Chechen war.
War is a cruel terrible phenomenon
But as long as there is malice on earth,
Hatred, there will be wars
Who inflict battle wounds on people,
They take away children and loved ones.
2 leading.
Russian people are characterized by love for their native land, where they were born and raised, for their beautiful motherland. This love from time immemorial is manifested in their readiness to defend, not sparing their lives, their Fatherland. The Russian people are convinced that a true man and a son of the Fatherland are one and the same. Patriotism - love for the Motherland, devotion to her, the desire to protect her from enemies, to serve her interests with her deeds - a great, wonderful feeling.
Lyric melody.
an excerpt from a poem against the background of music
M. Plyatskovsky "Motherland"
"Motherland" - we say worried,
We see endless distance in front of us
This is our childhood, our youth
This is all that we will wind with fate,
Motherland! Holy Fatherland
Coppices, Groves, Barega
Field of golden wheat
Haystacks blue from the moon
Motherland! Land of fathers and grandfathers
We fell in love with these clovers
Having tasted spring freshness
From the edge of a clinking bucket
It will hardly be forgotten
And forever remain holy
The land that was called Motherland
If we have to protect the heart.
Against the background of music, a story about M. Dorozhkin.
For Misha, the homeland was the village, friends, sister Nadya, father Viktor Savelyevich, mother Valentina Mikhailovna.
What kind of guy was he?
... An ordinary swirling mischievous boy. Gathering peers around him, he drove a ball in the yard, played with a toy machine gun in the war.
He, born under the auspices of the sun, was given by nature to rule, to do good deeds, so everyone who turned to his responsive heart always achieved what he wanted.
From the memories of fellow villagers, teachers, classmates, relatives, colleagues.
P.I. Krapchatova, a distant relative of the Dorozhkin family:
“How do I remember? He responded to the good with the same. Wherever we meet, he will always stop and ask questions. So last summer, when he came on vacation, he said: “Aunt Paul, I’ll come for good soon.” In May, I had to ...
Childhood, youth, unforgettable years. Tatyana Milyutina, a classmate, recalls:
“I studied like all boys. He wasn't the first, but he wasn't the last either. How could he help, no, he laughed it off. Couldn't be rude. Energetic such, cheerful, groovy. He always cheered us up with his smile.
Childhood friend Alexander Pakhomov sadly says about Misha:"Ordinary person. What you don’t ask for, it will break into a board, but it will do it. ”
“I studied to the best of my ability,” says the director of the Ostrov school, Skachkova V.I. - but what's the difference a good student, bad. He is our disciple, the child of his mother. Each has its own zest."
Briefly, according to the reviews of colleagues: "World guy" Everyone was there, like one fist ... Very young, not shot. Sorry guy, because even one person is the whole world.
Dorozhkin Mikhail Viktorovich is a soldier who fulfilled his duty to the end in this terrible unfair, useless war.
A good memory of him will forever remain in the hearts of all who knew him.
Misha died on February 24th.
Parents learned about the death of their son only on the 28th. This terrible news instantly spread through the homes of fellow villagers and Misha, Mishenka, echoed in their hearts with acute pain!
How little fate has taken you in this world of only 19 with a little. Cruel, unfair. Where to find the words to drown out the pain of the mother, to calm the father.
(Further the poem "Krovinushka - son", A young man enters, approaches the portrait of M. Dorozhkin, lights a candle).
Krovinochka, son, you were stolen by the war
A blade of grass, a leaf, how empty I am alone
Trouble croaked like a bad dream
She came to me with funeral paper
I desperately drove the damned crow
I cried my eyes
And everyone was waiting for you
Come with a light gait
Overcoat wide open
You will come alive, whole
With a smile on my lips
Come, kissed by fire
With a combat award
Let it be bandaged
And yet alive
week after week
Year after year goes by
I'm tired of eating
Only pain lives in me
My son, bloody
It's been so many years
My leaf, blade of grass
You are not and are not.
The poem "I was killed in the Chechen war"
There was a boy, I'm smart and lively
Buzzed in the hallway with friends
Got fives and twos
But I loved my school
Don't rush, wait guys
Talk quietly to me
And say: "What a fun
And how young he is!
Wait girls laugh,
Look at this portrait
I just turned 19
And I'm no more, just no...
I saw this terrible war
With a machine gun I went into battle
Don't let anyone offend you here!
So that no one will kill you here
I would like to run around the football field
And meet a friend in the spring
I did not return from the battle in winter
I was killed in the Chechen war
Mother weeps, grieves, suffering,
Above my early grave.
Yes, sings in the spring flooding
Ostrovsky our crazy nightingale
Visit your mother in the apartment,
visit my relative
So that she knows what about her son
Someone remembers in his native land
Mourn and you are over the grave
Bring the flowers of the field
To smell to me dear Motherland
On my unearthly roads.
Misha was buried on March 3. The day turned out to be truly spring, the bright sun was shining, drops were ringing, birds were chirping.
How wonderful life is! And the heart is heavy. There is mourning in Ostrovskaya today. The whole station was in motion.
All old and young are moving in the same direction. And here is the house where Misha lived. And around people, people, people, different - those who knew and did not know him.
A beautiful lifeless face with marks of fragments, black from grief the faces of mother, father, grandmother, sister ... flowers, wreaths, wreaths, wreaths.
2-3 minutes the guard of the cadets of the Kamyshinksky military school, leaders of the district, villages, friends changes. At 12 o'clock in the afternoon, to the sounds of a military band, Misha leaves his home forever. Many hundreds of people see off Misha on his last journey.
With candles in their hands, students enter the stage.
1st. I don't know why, and who needs it
who sent them to their deaths with a non-trembling hand
only so useless, so evil and unnecessary
released them to eternal rest.
2nd. Cautious spectators silently wrapped themselves in fur coats
and some woman with a distorted face
kissed the dead on blue lips
and threw a wedding ring at the priest.
3rd. threw them trees, kneaded them with mud
and went home under the guise of talking,
it's time to put an end to the disgrace,
that soon we will start to starve
4th. And no one thought to just kneel
and tell these boys that in a mediocre country
even bright feats are just steps
into endless abysses in an incomprehensible war.
A girl in a black headscarf enters the stage and reads a poem.
N. Nekrasov "Listening to the horrors of war."
Listening to the horrors of war
With each new answer to the battle
I feel sorry for neither friend nor wife,
I feel sorry for not the hero himself
Alas, the wife will be comforted
And a friend best friend will forget
But there is only one soul in the world
She will remember until death
Among our peaceful affairs
And all the vulgarity and prose
One I saw in the world
Holy, sincere tears
Those are the tears of our mothers
They can't forget their children
Those who died in the bloody field
How not to raise a weeping willow
Of their drooping branches.
A moment of silence.
1st Leader.
Russian soldiers returning from the Chechen war bring with them, as it were, a renewed love for the Motherland. To some extent, they returned to us the high concept of patriotism, courage, military and human duty.
Years will pass. Much will be forgotten over time. But there will remain poems and songs that tell about the strength of mind and courage of the Russian people.
2nd leader.
Life is like a spiral going up. Tread firmly on the ground, soldier, the path is not yet close. Go stronger, because your enemies want trials to knock you down more often. There will still be a lot of them on your way and you need to learn to overcome them. Step by step, and kilometers run back. How many of these kilometers have been covered, the soldier does not count. As long as it takes, so much will pass.
The song of M. Ischaym “No, son!” sounds.
Against the backdrop of the music of Schumann's "Dreams", children leave fresh flowers on the scenery of a geometric shape, reminiscent of a burst cartridge case. A girl in a black scarf descends to a small elevation (cube) next to the portrait of the deceased, remaining seated until the curtain closes.
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 trenches in full height and 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 opposite us, on Chechen Republic, first four appeared, then about 20 more militants. 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 houses. 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 the brigade internal troops aimed at strengthening 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 served time in a colony strict regime on the territory of the Kirov region, when the investigation, thanks to a videotape seized during a special operation on the territory of Chechnya, managed to establish that he was one of those who participated in the bloody 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 regiment special purpose’ Abdulmalik Mezhidov, Shamil Basayev’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 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 her direct executors 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.
http://www.gzt.ru/topnews/accidents/47339.html?from=copiedlink
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 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 in 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, in his 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 a military hospital, from whom internal organs were removed (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)
From famous members 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 in 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
Movie include famous video with cutting off the heads of our fighters in Chechnya - details in this article. Official reports are always stingy and often lie. So on September 5 and 8 last year, judging by the press releases of 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 on these days, entire platoons and assault groups. 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 terrible cost, yesterday's boys survived in lead hell. However, for the soldiers it was one of 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. Officers on duty chased 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 one. 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 similar examples. Too many - in order to understand: popular prints of victorious pictures and reality are different, like the sun and the moon. While the troops were desperately storming Karamakhi, in Novolaksky district 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 ...
