Torture of captured soldiers in Chechnya. Execution of apostates (Chechnya)

September 1999. Dagestan. It has been a month since the flames of the “liberation” war unleashed in the mountains of Botlikh, Tsumadinsky and Buynaksky regions have been blazing. She swooped in from neighboring Chechnya unexpectedly and treacherously.

There is a war going on in the mountains, but here, to the north, in Novolaksky district relatively calm. On the eve, however, the militia commander shared information that several thousand militants had accumulated on the other side, but somehow it was hard to believe that such forces were gathered behind the verdant peaceful hills. The militants are already having a hard time. Most likely, a detachment of some local field commander simply became more active.

The head of a small outpost, which occupied a dominant height on the southwestern outskirts of the village of Tukhchar only five days ago, senior lieutenant Vasily Tashkin did not guess and, having got in touch with Vershina, he reported the situation to his command, adding that behind them with that parties are under observation.

In response, he was instructed to triple his vigilance and set up additional observation posts. Across the Aksai River is Chechnya, the large village of Ishkhoy-Yurt is a gangster's nest. The outpost is ready for battle. The position for the bempeshka was chosen well. The trenches are equipped, the firing sectors are targeted. And the garrison of the outpost is not green youth, but twelve proven fighters. Plus, the neighbors are the militia on the left and two posts of the Dagestan police below, to reinforce which the Kalachevskys arrived - servicemen of the operational brigade internal troops. Only ammunition would be enough: in addition to the BMP-2 with full ammunition, there is also a PC with seven hundred rounds of ammunition, SVD and 120 rounds for it, an old Kalashnikov handbrake with three hundred and sixty rounds and four magazines from machine gunners. From the platoon lock, he also has an underbarrel grenade launcher and four grenades each - ergedeshki. Not a lot, but in which case they promised to send help: the battalion is stationed in Duchi, it's not far.

However, in war as in war.

- Tyulenev, - Tashkin called the sergeant, - Vershina again asks to increase vigilance. I'll check the posts tonight!
The night was stuffy and moonlit. Two kilometers away, the ominous lights of a Chechen village shone, there was a strong smell of mint, and restless grasshoppers chirped in the grass until morning, making it difficult to listen to the silence of the night.

As soon as dawn broke, Tashkin picked up the resting fighters and with a sniper moved to the neighboring hill, from where, from the positions of the militia, what was happening on the adjacent side could be seen much better even without optics. From here it was clearly visible how the Chechens, almost without hiding, were fording a shallow river. The last doubts were dispelled, this is war. When the militants, marching in a dense line, became visible to the naked eye, Tashkin gave the command to open fire. The silence was broken by a burst of machine-gun fire, two militants walking in front fell, and other guns rumbled and rattled after them. The outpost accepted the battle when the sun barely appeared from behind the mountains. The day promised to be hot.

As it turned out, the militants still outwitted the Kalachevites. For the same reasons that the outpost could not be taken head-on, with the main forces they hit it from the rear, from the Dagestan village of Gamiyakh. I immediately had to forget about all the carefully calibrated sectors of fire and leave the equipped position for the infantry. She turned into a nomadic, causing effective damage to the enemy "shaitan-arba".

The militants realized that it was not possible to bring down the fighters from a height, and without this it was risky to enter the village. Having entrenched themselves on its outskirts, in the area of ​​​​the village cemetery, they tried to get soldiers out of there. But it was not easy for them to do so. No less steadfastly, supported from a high-rise by fire, the Dagestan policemen fought below. But the poorly armed militias were forced to leave their positions, which were immediately occupied by militants.

Field commander Umar, who was in charge of operations from nearby Ishkhoy-Yurt, was noticeably nervous. For the second hour, his detachment, which was part of the so-called Islamic regiment special purpose, actually stomped on the spot.

But the unequal battle could not last forever. Ammunition was running out, strength was fading, the number of wounded was increasing. The militants have already captured one checkpoint, and then the village police department. Now they broke into the village and almost surrounded the hill. And soon the BMP was also shot down, which only lingered for a minute longer in the field of view of the enemy, aiming at the ZIL crossing the river with bearded men. The crew of the heroic "kopeck piece" managed to get out, but the gunner of the Siberian private Alexei Polagaev was severely burned by fire.

The sight of burning equipment with exploding ammunition caused the militants to rejoice, diverting their attention from the servicemen who continued to hold the height for some time. But the commander, realizing that now it was not only dangerous, but also impossible, and most importantly, inexpedient, decided to leave. There was only one way - down to the policemen holding the defense of the second checkpoint. Under the cover of a smoky car, they were able to go down the hill, taking all the wounded with them. Thirteen more people were added to the eighteen defenders of the now only point of resistance in the village of Tukhchar.

The Russian officer managed to save the lives of all his subordinates by leading them off the hill. At 7.30 am on September 5, the connection between Vershina and the Tukhchar outpost was interrupted. Realizing that it was not possible to destroy the federals, and during the next assault there would be losses, to the last defenders who sat behind the concrete blocks
village militants sent elders:

The militants were told to come out without weapons, guaranteed life.
“We won’t give up,” came the reply.

There is still a chance to get out of the battle, they thought, saving their lives, weapons and honor. After counting and dividing the cartridges, fraternally embracing in the end, the soldiers and policemen, covering each other with fire, rushed to the nearest houses. The wounded were dragged along. Having fallen under heavy fire from the militants, Senior Lieutenant Tashkin and four other soldiers jumped into the nearest building.

A few seconds before that, police sergeant Abdulkasim Magomedov died here. At the same moment, the semi-collapsed building was surrounded, and it was not possible to leave. Ammunition was running out. The militants again offer to surrender. However, they themselves do not risk going to storm the temporary building, where only a handful of armed people have settled. They put pressure on the psyche. They promise to burn them alive if they refuse. Gasoline is ready. Give time to think. In the end, they send in a truce, the owner of the temporary hut, who turned gray in one day. Did our guys have any hesitation at that moment?

Everyone wants to live forever. This is especially acute in a moment of calm, when you realize that life is so beautiful! And the sun, so gentle, now already at its zenith, was so bright, so life-affirming. The day was really hot.

Vasily Tashkin did not believe in the sweet speeches of the militants. The prophetic heart and some experience told the officer that these nonhumans would not leave them alive. But looking at his boys, in whose eyes HOPE was read, the officer nevertheless made up his mind and left the shelter ...

Having instantly disarmed the fighters, roughly pushing them in the back with butts, the fighters drove the soldiers towards the smoking ruins of the checkpoint. The burnt and wounded BMP gunner, private Alexei Polagaev, was also soon brought here. The soldier, dressed in civilian clothes, was hidden in her house by Gurum Dzhaparova. Did not help. The militants were told about the guy's whereabouts by local Chechen boys.

The meeting about the fate of the servicemen was short-lived. Amir Umar on the radio station ordered the "execution of Russian dogs", they put too many of his soldiers in battle.

- The first to be brought to execution was Private Boris Erdneev from Kalmykia. The blade cut his throat. The inhabitants of Tukhchar, numb with horror, watched the massacre. The soldiers were defenseless, but not broken. They passed away undefeated.

They died in Tukhchar

execution Russian soldiers Chechen fighters filmed on a video camera, which dispassionately recorded the last minutes of the life of the soldiers.

Someone accepts death silently, someone escapes from the hands of the executioners.

Now, not far from the place of execution, there is again a checkpoint of the Dagestan police, covering the road to the Chechen village of Galayty. Five years have passed, much has changed in relations between neighboring republics. But the inhabitants of Tukhchar also look with apprehension and distrust in the direction of a restless and unpredictable neighbor.

There is no more military outpost on the high-rise. Instead, an Orthodox cross rises, a symbol of the eternal victory of life over death. There were thirteen of them, six died, ascending to Golgotha. Let's remember their names:

"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. Alexey 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 so - .

Went through several fights. On the night of 5 to 6 September fighting machine infantry, on which Alexey served as a gunner, was transferred to the Lipetsk OMON, and guarded a checkpoint near the village. The militants who attacked at night set fire to the BMP. The soldiers left the car and fought, but it was too unequal. All the wounded were brutally finished off. We all mourn the death of Alexei. Words of consolation are hard to find. On November 26, 2007, a memorial plaque was installed on the school building.

The opening of the memorial plaque was attended by Alexei's mother, Lyudmila Alekseevna, and representatives from the youth department from the district. Now we are starting to make an album about him, there is a stand at the school dedicated to Alexei.

In addition to Alexei, four other students of our school participated in the Chechen campaign: Kadrov Eduard, Ivanov Alexander, Anisimov Alexei and Kiselev Alexei, who was 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.

Erdneev Boris Ozinovich (a few seconds before death)

(The essay “Defending Tukhchar” was used)

Of the Chechen murderers, only three fell into the hands of justice: Tamerlan Khasaev, Islam Mukaev, Arbi Dandaev

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

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

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

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

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

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

Islam Mukaev (25 years in prison - in 2005)

It is known that in July 1999, Mukaev joined the Karpinsky jamaat (named after the Karpinka microdistrict in Grozny), headed by Emir Umar, and already in September took part in a raid on Dagestan. After the battle, the bandits captured the post, losing four people in the process. Among them was Mukayev's cousin.

He, like other relatives of the dead militants, was offered to take part in the execution of soldiers in order to ‘take a blood feud’. Mukaev said that he would not be able to cut his throat. However, during the execution he helped to kill the platoon commander Vasily Tashkin. The officer struggled, and then Mukaev hit him and held his hands until another militant finally finished off the senior lieutenant.

Arbi Dandaev (for life in 2009). The remaining participants in the massacre are still on the “federal wanted list”. April 2009

In the Supreme Court of Dagestan, the third trial on the case of the execution of six Russian servicemen in the village of Tukhchar, Novolaksky District, in September 1999, was completed. 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 gangs of Shamil Basayev and went to 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 inflicted considerable damage on 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.

Umar Karpinsky (Edilsultanov) in the center. Amir of the Karpinsky jamaat. He personally dealt with Alexei Polagaev - he died 5 months later while trying to break out of Grozny.

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 with the aim of changing territorial integrity Russia, as well as encroachment on the lives 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 his younger brother Alvi in ​​Grozny, and some time later the corpse of a boy was returned from a military hospital, from whom internal organs(relatives attribute this to the trade in human organs that flourished in Chechnya in those years).

As the defense stated during the debate, their father Khamzat Dandaev achieved the initiation of a criminal case on this fact, but it is not being investigated. According to lawyers, the case against Arbi Dandaev was opened to prevent his father from punishing those responsible for the death of his youngest son. These arguments were reflected in the verdict, but the court considered that the defendant was sane, and that the case had long been initiated into the death of his brother and had nothing to do with the case under consideration.

As a result, the court reclassified two articles relating to weapons and participation in a gang. According to Judge Shikhali Magomedov, the defendant Dandaev acquired weapons alone, and not as part of a group, and participated in illegal armed formations, and not in a gang.

However, these two articles did not affect the verdict, since the statute of limitations had expired on them. And here is Art. 279 "Armed rebellion" and art. 317 "Encroachment on the life of a law enforcement officer" was pulled for 25 years and life imprisonment.

At the same time, the court took into account both mitigating circumstances (the presence of young children and confession), and aggravating ones (the onset of grave consequences and the particular cruelty with which the crime was committed).

Thus, despite the fact that the state prosecutor asked for only 22 years, the court sentenced the defendant Dandaev to life imprisonment.

In addition, the court satisfied the civil claims of the parents of the four dead servicemen for moral damages, the amounts for which ranged from 200 thousand to 2 million rubles.

New details of the Tukhchar tragedy

... The battles of 1999 in the Novolaksky district responded with tragic events in the Orenburg region, and in the Topchikhinsky district of the Altai Territory, and in other Russian villages. As the Lak proverb says, "War does not produce sons; war takes away sons." The bullet of the enemy that kills the son also wounds the heart of the mother.

On September 1, 1999, the platoon commander, Senior Lieutenant Vasily Tashkin, received an order to advance to the Chechen-Dagestan border on the outskirts of the village of Tukhchar, Novolaksky District. Not far from the village, at a height, the fighters dug trenches, prepared a place for an infantry fighting vehicle. From the nearest Chechen village Ishkhoyurt to Tukhchar two kilometers. The border river is not a barrier for militants. Behind the nearest hill is another Chechen village of Galayty, where there were a lot of militants armed to the teeth.

Having taken up all-round defense and observing the village of Ishkhoyyurt through binoculars, Senior Lieutenant Vasily Tashkin, a graduate of the Novosibirsk School of Internal Troops, recorded the movement of militants, the presence of fire weapons, and surveillance of his post. The commander's heart was restless. His task is to provide fire cover for two police checkpoints: at the entrance to Tukhchar and at the exit from it in the direction of Galaita.

Tashkin knew that the militiamen, armed only with small arms, gladly accepted the appearance of his BMP-2 with soldiers on the armor. But he also understood the danger they, the military and policemen, were in. For some reason, the Novolaksky district was poorly covered by troops. It was possible to count only on themselves, on the military commonwealth of outposts of internal troops and the Dagestan police. But thirteen servicemen on one BMP - is this an outpost?

The BMP gun was aimed at a height behind which was the Chechen village of Galayty, but the militants early in the morning of September 5 did not hit where they were expected: they opened fire from the rear. The forces were unequal. With the very first shots, the BMP effectively hit the militants who were trying to knock out the fighters of the internal troops from a height, but the radio frequencies were clogged with Chechens, and it was not possible to contact anyone. Policemen at the checkpoint also fought in the ring. Poorly equipped with firepower, reinforced only by thirty military personnel of the internal troops, they were doomed to death.

Senior Lieutenant Tashkin, fighting at a height, did not expect help. The Dagestan militiamen were running out of ammunition. The checkpoint at the entrance to Tukhchar and the village police department have already been seized. Increasingly violent onslaught of militants on the surrounded height. In the third hour of the battle, the BMP was hit, caught fire and exploded. “The metal burned like a haystack. They would never have thought that iron could burn with such a bright flame, ”said eyewitnesses of that unequal battle.

The enemy rejoiced. And it diverted attention. Covered by the fire of the defenders of the police checkpoint, senior lieutenant Tashkin and his guys, dragging the wounded on themselves, managed to escape from the height. BMP mechanic Aleksey Polagaev, all burnt, ran into the first house he came across ...

Today we are in Tukhchar visiting a woman who ten years ago tried to save the life of a wounded BMP mechanic driver Alexei Polagaev. This story shocked us to the core. Several times we had to turn off the recorder: ten years later, Atikat Maksudovna Tabieva says, bursting into bitter tears:

“I remember this day like it was yesterday. September 5, 1999 When the militants entered the area, I firmly stated: “I won’t go anywhere, let those who came to our land with bad intentions leave.” We sat at home, waiting to see what would happen to us next.

I went out into the yard - I see a guy standing, a wounded soldier, staggering, holding on to the gate. Covered in blood, burned very badly: no hair, the skin burst on the face. Chest, shoulder, arm - everything is cut with fragments. I sent my eldest grandson Ramazan for a doctor, brought Alexei to the house. All his clothes were covered in blood. My daughter and I burned it and so burned it military uniform, and so that the militants would not interrogate what they burned, they collected the remains of the fire in a bag and threw them into the river.

In the neighborhood lived with us a doctor, an Avar Mutalim, it was he who came, washed and bandaged the wounds of Alexei. The guy moaned terribly, it was clear that the pain was unbearable, because the wounds were deep. The doctor somehow removed the fragments, smeared the wounds. We gave Alexei diphenhydramine to help him fall asleep and at least calm down a little. The wounds oozed blood, the sheets had to be changed frequently and hidden somewhere. Knowing that the militants might come in and search the house, I nevertheless, without hesitation, rushed to help the wounded Alexei.

After all, it was not just a wounded soldier bleeding to death that got into our house, for me he was just a son, someone's son. Somewhere his mother is waiting for him, and it doesn’t matter what nationality or religion she is. She is also a mother, just like me. The only thing I asked Allah for was that the Almighty would give me the opportunity to save him. The wounded guy was asking for help, and all I thought about was that I had to save him.”

Atikat through the rooms leads us to the most remote. Here in this far room she hid Alyosha from Siberia, closing the door with a lock. As expected, the militants soon appeared. There were sixteen of them. A local Chechen showed the militants the Atikat house. In addition to her daughter, her young sons were at home. The militants searched the basement, ransacked the cellar, the barn.

Then one of the militants pointed a machine gun at the children and yelled: “Show me where you hide the Russians!” The bandit grabbed the nine-year-old grandson of Ramazan by the collar and lifted him slightly: “Where did the mother and grandmother hide the Russian soldier? Tell!" They pointed weapons at Ramadan. I shielded the children with my body and said: "Don't touch the children." Tears welled up in the boy's eyes from pain, but he shook his head to all the questions and stubbornly answered: "There is no one in the house." The children knew that they could be shot at, but they did not betray Alexei.

When the bandits pointed their machine gun at me and their command sounded: “Show me where the Russian is!” I just shook my head. The bandits threatened to blow up the house. And I thought: right next to it, there, in the next room, lies a Russian guy, bleeding. His mother and relatives are waiting. Even if they kill us all, I won't betray him. Let's all die together. Realizing the futility of the threats, the bandits continued the search. They probably heard the groans of Alexei, started shooting at the locks, broke down the door. The bandits shouted “Allahu Akbar!” with joy, jumped on the bed where the wounded Alexei was lying.

Daughter Gurun ran to their room, she, sobbing, looked at Alexei. But I didn’t go into the room, I couldn’t look into his eyes ... When they took the guy out, I began to ask, beg not to take him away. One of the bandits pushed me away and said: “Grandma, don’t defend the Russians, if you defend, you will die the same death.”

I tell them: this is a wounded and burned soldier, the wounded are not divided into friends and foes. The wounded must always be helped! I am a mother, how can I not protect him, the wounded, trouble will come to you, and you will be protected.

I clung to their hands, begged, begged to let Alexei go. A frightened nineteen-year-old boy looks at me and asks: “What will they do to me?” My heart was breaking. I told them that I do not consider Russians to be enemies, and I never distinguish people by nationality. According to Sharia, a great sin is to distinguish people by nationality. We are all humans.

“Go away, grandma, and don’t teach us,” the bandits said, took Alexei away, and left the yard. And I followed him around. It was very hard for me that I could not save him. I wept bitterly and followed them. Even a Chechen who lived next door told the bandits: “Leave him guys, he’s not a tenant!”

Several Russian soldiers remained in one of the nearby houses, they opened fire, and the militants entered the battle, and Alexei was thrown near the wall under the supervision of one of their own. I ran to Alyosha, hugged him. We both wept bitterly...

Again and again he stands before my eyes: he is about to rise to his feet with difficulty, swaying, holding on to the wall and looking directly at the militants. Then he turns to me and asks: “What will they do to me, mother?”

Atikat Tabieva closes her eyes in pain: “The bandits said that they would exchange him for their prisoners. How could you trust their words? Even if they shot me, I would not let Alyosha go. And I shouldn't have let go."

Atikat shows us the route along which Alexei was taken away. When she reaches the gate, she falls to the ground and sobs. Like then, 10 years ago. In the same way, she fell on her back at the gate and sobbed, and Alexei, surrounded by two dozen bandits, was taken away for reprisal.

Atikat's daughter, Gurun, says: “Not far from Tukhchar, at a checkpoint, I, working as a cook, fed the policemen. Although this was not part of my duties, I also took care of the Russian guys who served on the border with Chechnya. The company was headed by senior lieutenant Vasily Tashkin, there were 13 Russian guys in total. When the wounded Alexei entered our house, the first question was: “Gulya, do you live here?”

I did not have time to warn my sons that it was impossible to extradite Alexei, and I was amazed at how courageously my boys behaved. When the militants pointed a machine gun at them and asked the guys: “Where are you hiding the Russian?”, the boys stubbornly answered: “We don’t know.”

Alexey, when he came to himself, asked me to bring a mirror. There was no living place on his face, solid burn marks, but I began to console him: “You are beautiful, as before, the main thing is that you got out of trouble, you didn’t burn out, everything will be fine with you.” He looked into the mirror and said: "The most important thing is that he is alive."

When the bandits broke down the door and entered the room, sleepy Aleksei did not understand at first what was happening. I told him that he was being taken to the hospital. When he woke up, he quietly said to me: “Gulya, discreetly remove the badge from me, if something happens to me, take it to the military registration and enlistment office.”

The militants shouted: "Get up quickly!" He was unable to get up. The guy was courageous, he tells me: “Gulya, so that I don’t fall in front of them, hold me and put a shirt on me.”

My mother ran up to him in the yard, it was impossible to look at her, she was crying, asking the bandits to let him go. “We must cure him,” said the Chechens. “I’ll cure him myself,” I pleaded.
“Whoever hides a Russian will face the same fate,” said the militant. And in their own language, one says to the other (I understand the Chechen language a little): “To kill, or something, is he here?” ...

Not far from Tukhchar, on the way to the Chechen village of Galayty, the militants brutally dealt with six Russian guys. Among them was the driver-mechanic of the BMP Alexei Polagaev. Aunt Atikat never looks in the direction where the soldiers were executed. She always mentally asks for forgiveness from Alexei's relatives, who live in distant Siberia. She is tormented that she could not save the wounded soldier. Not people came for Alexei, but animals. However, sometimes even from animals it is easier to save a human life.

Later, when one of the militant's local accomplices is put on trial, he admits that Atikat's courageous behavior surprised even the militants themselves. This short, thin woman, risking her life and the lives of her loved ones, in that cruel war tried to save a wounded soldier.

“In a cruel time, you need to save the wounded, show mercy, instill goodness in the hearts and souls of Russians and Caucasians,” Aunt Atikat says simply and wisely and grieves that she could not save the Soldier Alyosha. “I'm not a hero, I'm not a brave woman,” she laments. “Heroes are those who save lives.”

Allow me to object, Aunt Atikat! You have accomplished a feat, and we want to bow low to you, mother, whose heart does not divide children into their own and others.

... On the outskirts of the village, at the place of execution of six Kalachev soldiers, riot police from Sergiev Posad installed a solid metal cross. The stones piled at its base symbolize Golgotha. The inhabitants of the village of Tukhchar are doing everything possible to perpetuate the memory of Russian soldiers who died defending the Dagestan land.

Excerpts from the testimonies of forced migrants who fled from Chechnya in the period from 1991-1995.

A. Kochedykova, lived in the city of Grozny: “I left the city of Grozny in February 1993 due to constant threats of action from armed Chechens and non-payment of pensions and wages. She left the apartment with all the furnishings, two cars, a cooperative garage and left with her husband. In February 1993, the Chechens killed my neighbor, born in 1966, on the street. They hit her head, broke her ribs, and raped her.

A war veteran Elena Ivanovna was also killed from an apartment nearby.

In 1993, it became impossible to live there, they were killed all around. Cars were blown up right with people. Russians were fired from work for no reason.

A man born in 1935 was killed in the apartment. Nine stab wounds were inflicted on him, his daughter was raped and killed right there in the kitchen.

B. Efankin, lived in Grozny:

“In May 1993, in my garage, two Chechen guys armed with a machine gun and a pistol attacked me and tried to take possession of my car, but they couldn’t, because. she was under renovation. Shots were fired over my head.
In the autumn of 1993, a group of armed Chechens brutally killed my friend Bolgarsky, who refused to voluntarily give up his Volga car. Such cases were widespread. For this reason, I left Grozny.”

D. Gakyryany, lived in Grozny:

“In November 1994, Chechen neighbors threatened to kill with a gun, and then kicked out of the apartment and settled in it themselves.”

P. Kuskova, lived in Grozny:

“On July 1, 1994, four teenagers of Chechen nationality broke my arm and raped me, in the area of ​​the Red Hammer plant, when I was returning home from work.”

E. Dapkylinets, lived in Grozny:

“On December 6 and 7, 1994, he was severely beaten for refusing to participate in Dydayev’s militia as part of Ukrainian militants in the village. Chechen-Aul".

E. Barsykova, lived in Grozny:

“In the summer of 1994, from the window of my apartment in Grozny, I saw how armed people of Chechen nationality approached the garage belonging to the neighbor Mkrtchan H., one of them shot Mkptchan H. in the leg, and then they took his car and left.”

G. Tarasova, lived in Grozny:

“On May 6, 1993, my husband went missing in Grozny. Tarasov A.F. I suppose that the Chechens forcibly took him to the mountains to work, because. he is a welder.

E. Khobova, lived in Grozny:

“On December 31, 1994, my husband, Pogodin, and brother, Eremin A., were killed by a Chechen sniper at the moment when they were cleaning up the corpses of Russian soldiers in the street.”

H. Trofimova, lived in Grozny:

“In September 1994, Chechens broke into the apartment of my sister, Vishnyakova O.N., raped her in front of the children, beat her son and took her 12-year-old daughter Lena with them. So she never returned. Since 1993, my son has been repeatedly beaten and robbed by Chechens.”

V. Ageeva, lived in Art. Petropavlovskaya, Grozny district:

“On January 11, 1995, in the village on the square, Dudayev’s militants shot Russian soldiers.”

M. Khrapova, lived in the city of Gudermes:

“In August 1992, our neighbor, Sargsyan R.S., and his wife, Sargsyan Z.S., were tortured and burned alive.”

V. Kobzarev, lived in the Grozny region:

“On November 7, 1991, three Chechens fired on my dacha with machine guns, miraculously I survived.
In September 1992, armed Chechens demanded to vacate the apartment, threw a grenade. And I, fearing for my life and the lives of my relatives, had to leave Chechnya with my family.”

T. Aleksandrova, lived in Grozny:

“My daughter came home in the evening. The Chechens dragged her into a car, beat her, cut her and raped her. We were forced to leave Grozny.”

T. Vdovchenko, lived in Grozny:

“A neighbor in the stairwell, a KGB officer V. Tolstenok, was pulled out of his apartment early in the morning by armed Chechens, and a few days later his mutilated corpse was discovered. I personally didn’t see these events, but O.K. told me about it (K.’s address is not specified, the event took place in Grozny in 1991).”

V. Nazarenko, lived in Grozny:

“He lived in the city of Grozny until November 1992. Dydayev condoned the fact that crimes were openly committed against the Russians, and for this no one from the Chechens was punished.

The rector of Grozny University suddenly disappeared, and after some time his corpse was accidentally found buried in the forest. They did this to him because he did not want to vacate his position.

O. Shepetilo, born in 1961:

“She lived in Grozny until the end of April 1994. She worked in Art. Kalinovskaya Naypsky p-on the director of the music school. At the end of 1993, I was returning from work from Art. Kalinovskaya in Grozny. There was no bus, and I went to the city on foot. A Zhiguli car drove up to me, a Chechen with a Kalashnikov assault rifle got out of it and, threatening to kill me, pushed me into the car, took me to the field, and mocked me for a long time, raped and beat me.

Y. Yunysova:

“The son Zair was taken hostage in June 1993 and held for 3 weeks, released after paying 1.5 million rubles..”

M. Portnykh:
“In the spring of 1992, in the city of Grozny, on Dyakova Street, a wine and vodka shop was completely looted. A live grenade was thrown into the apartment of the head of this store, as a result of which her husband died, and her leg was amputated.

I. Chekylina, born in 1949:

“I left Grozny in March 1993. My son was robbed 5 times, all outerwear. On the way to the Institute, my son was severely beaten by the Chechens, his head was crushed, and they threatened him with a knife.

I was personally beaten and raped just because I am Russian. The dean of the faculty of the institute where my son studied was killed. Before our departure, my son's friend Maxim was killed.

V. Minkoeva, born in 1978:

“In 1992, in the city of Grozny, an attack was made on a neighboring school. Children (seventh grade) were taken hostage and held for 24 hours. The whole class and three teachers were gang raped. In 1993, my classmate M. was abducted. In the summer of 1993, on the railway platform. station in front of my eyes a man was shot by Chechens.

V. Komarova:

“In Grozny, I worked as a nurse in the children's polyclinic No. 1. Totikova worked for us, Chechen fighters came to her and shot the whole family at home.
All life was in fear. Once Dydayev with his militants ran into the clinic, where we were pressed against the walls. So he walked around the clinic and shouted that there was a Russian genocide, because our building used to belong to the KGB.

I was not paid my salary for 7 months, and in April 1993 I left.”

Y. Pletneva, born in 1970:

“In the summer of 1994, at 1 pm, I witnessed the execution on Khrushchev Square of 2 Chechens, 1 Russian and 1 Korean. The execution was carried out by four Dydaev guardsmen, who brought victims in foreign cars. A citizen passing by car was injured.

At the beginning of 1994, a Chechen was playing with a grenade on Khrushchev Square. The check jumped off, the player and several other people who were nearby were injured. There were many weapons in the city, almost every inhabitant of Grozny was a Chechen.
The Chechen neighbor got drunk, made noise, threatened with rape in a perverted form and murder.”

A. Fedyushkin, born in 1945:

“In 1992, unknown persons armed with a pistol took away the car from my godfather, who lives in st. Scarlet.

In 1992 or 1993, two Chechens, armed with a pistol and a knife, tied up his wife (b. 1949) and eldest daughter (b. 1973), committed violent acts against them, took away the TV set, gas stove and disappeared. The attackers were wearing masks.

In 1992 in Art. Scarlet my mother was robbed by some men, taking away the icon and the cross, causing bodily harm.

Brother's neighbor, who lived in St. Chervlennaya left the village in his car VAZ-2121 and disappeared. The car was found in the mountains, and 3 months later he was found in the river.”

V. Doronina:

“At the end of August 1992, the granddaughter was taken away in a car, but was soon released.
In Art. In Nizhnedeviyk (Assinovka), armed Chechens raped all the girls and teachers in the orphanage.

Neighbor Yunys threatened my son with murder and demanded that he sell the house to him.
At the end of 1991, armed Chechens broke into my relative’s house, demanded money, threatened to kill, and killed my son.”

S. Akinshin (born 1961):

“August 25, 1992 at about 12 noon on the territory suburban area 4 Chechens entered Grozny and demanded that my wife, who was there, have sexual intercourse with them. When the wife refused, one of them hit her in the face with brass knuckles, causing bodily harm…”.

R. Akinshina (born 1960):

“August 25, 1992, at about 12 noon, at a dacha near the 3rd city hospital in Grozny, four Chechens aged 15-16 demanded to have sexual intercourse with them. I was outraged. Then one of the Chechens hit me with brass knuckles and they raped me, taking advantage of my helpless state. After that, under threat of murder, I was forced to have sexual intercourse with my dog.”

H. Lobenko:

“In the entrance of my house, persons of Chechen nationality shot 1 Armenian and 1 Russian. The Russian was killed for standing up for an Armenian.”

T. Zabrodina:

“There was a case when my bag was torn out.
In March-April 1994, a drunken Chechen came into the boarding school where my daughter Natasha worked, beat his daughter, raped her and then tried to kill her. The daughter managed to escape.

I witnessed how the neighbor's house was robbed. At this time, the residents were in a bomb shelter.

O. Kalchenko:

“My employee, a 22-year-old girl, was raped and shot by Chechens in the street near our work in front of my eyes.
I myself was robbed by two Chechens, under the threat of a knife they took away the last money.

V. Karagedin:

“They killed their son on 01/08/95, earlier the Chechens on 01/04/94 killed their youngest son. "

“Everyone was forced to take citizenship of the Chechen Republic, if you don’t accept, you won’t get food coupons.”

A. Abidzhalieva:

“They left on January 13, 1995 because the Chechens demanded that the Nogais protect them from Russian troops. They took the cattle. My brother was beaten for refusing to join the army.”

O. Borichevsky, lived in Grozny:

“In April 1993, the apartment was attacked by Chechens dressed in riot police uniforms. They robbed and took away all valuable things.

N. Kolesnikova, born in 1969, lived in Gudermes:

“On December 2, 1993, at the stop “section 36” of the Staropromyslovsky (Staropromyslovsky) district of Grozny, 5 Chechens took me by the hands, took me to the garage, beat me, raped me, and then drove me to apartments where they raped me and injected drugs. They were released only on December 5th.”

E. Kyrbanova, O. Kyrbanova, L. Kyrbanov, lived in Grozny:

"Our neighbors - the T. family (mother, father, son and daughter) were found at home with signs of violent death."

T. Fefelova, lived in Grozny: “They stole a 12-year-old girl from neighbors (in Grozny), then planted photographs (where she was abused and raped) and demanded a ransom.”3. Sanieva:

“During the fighting in Grozny, I saw female snipers among Dydayev’s fighters.”

L. Davydova:

“In August 1994, three Chechens entered the house of the K. family (Gydermes). Myzha was pushed under the bed, and a 47-year-old woman was brutally raped (also using various objects). K. died a week later.
On the night of December 30-31, 1994, my kitchen was set on fire.”

T. Lisitskaya:

“I lived in the city of Grozny near the railway station, every day I watched trains being robbed.
On the night of the new year, 1995, Chechens came to me and demanded money for weapons and ammunition.”

K. Tselikina:

T. Sykhorykova:

“In early April 1993, a theft was committed from our apartment (Grozny). At the end of April 1993, a VAZ-2109 car was stolen from us. May 10, 1994 my husband Bagdasaryan G.3. was killed in the street by machine gun shots.

Ya. Rudinskaya, born in 1971:

“In 1993, Chechens armed with machine guns committed a robbery attack on my apartment (Novomaryevskaya station). Valuable things were taken out, my mother and I were raped, tortured with a knife, causing bodily harm. In the spring of 1993, my mother-in-law and father-in-law were beaten on the street (Grozny).

V. Bochkarev:

“Dydayevites took hostage the director of the school of Art. Kalinovskaya Belyaev V., his deputy Plotnikov V.I., chairman of the Kalinovsky collective farm Erin. They demanded a ransom of 12 million rubles ... No. having received a ransom, they killed the hostages.

Ya. Nefedova:

“On January 13, 1991, my husband and I were subjected to a robbery attack by Chechens in my apartment (Grozny) - they took away all valuable things, up to earrings from my ears.”

V. Malashin, born in 1963:

“On January 9, 1995, three armed Chechens broke into the apartment of T. (Grozny), where my wife and I came to visit, robbed us, and two raped my wife, T., and E., who was in the apartment (1979 . R.)".

Yu. Usachev, F. Usachev:

E. Kalganova:

“My neighbors - Armenians were attacked by Chechens, their 15-year-old daughter was raped. In 1993, the family of Prokhorova P.E. was subjected to robbery.

A. Plotnikova:

“In the winter of 1992, the Chechens took away the warrants for apartments from me and my neighbors and, threatening with machine guns, ordered to move out. I left an apartment, a garage, a dacha in Grozny. My son and daughter were witnesses to the murder of neighbor B. by Chechens - he was shot from a machine gun.”

V. Makharin, born in 1959:

“On November 19, 1994, Chechens committed a robbery attack on my family. Threatening with a machine gun, they threw his wife and children out of the car. Everyone was kicked and their ribs were broken. The wife was raped. They took away the GAZ-24 car and property.”

M. Vasilyeva:,

"In September 1994, two Chechen fighters raped my 19-year-old daughter."

A. Fedorov:

“In 1993, the Chechens robbed my apartment. In 1994 my car was stolen. Appealed to the police. When he saw his car, in which there were armed Chechens, he also reported this to the police. I was told to forget about the car. The Chechens threatened and told me to leave Chechnya.”

N. Kovpizhkin:

“In October 1992, Dydayev announced the mobilization of militants aged 15 to 50. While working on the railway, Russians, including me, were guarded by Chechens as prisoners. At the Gydermes station, I saw how the Chechens shot a man I did not know from machine guns. The Chechens said that they had killed a blood lover.”

A. Bypmypzaev:

“On November 26, 1994, I was an eyewitness to how Chechen fighters burned 6 opposition tanks along with their crews.”

M. Panteleeva:

“In 1991, Dydayev's militants stormed the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Chechen Republic, killing police officers, some colonel, and wounding a police major. In the city of Grozny, the rector of an oil institute was kidnapped, the vice-rector was killed. Armed militants broke into my parents' apartment - three in masks. One - in a police uniform, under the threat of weapons and torture with a hot iron, took away 750 thousand rubles .., stole a car.

E. Dydina, born in 1954:

“In the summer of 1994, Chechens beat me up on the street for no reason. They beat me, my son and my husband. They took the watch off my son. Then I was dragged into the entrance and had sexual intercourse in a perverted form. One woman I knew told me that when she was traveling to Krasnodar in 1993, the train was stopped, armed Chechens entered and took away money and valuables. In the vestibule they raped and threw out of the car (already at full speed) a young girl.

I. Udalova:

“On August 2, 1994, at night, two Chechens broke into my house (the city of Gudermes), my mother cut her neck, we managed to fight back, I recognized a schoolmate in one of the attackers. I filed a complaint with the police, after which they began to persecute me and threaten my son's life. I sent my relatives to Stavropol region then she left on her own. My persecutors blew up my house on November 21, 1994.”

V. Fedorova:

» In mid-April 1993, my friend's daughter was dragged into a car (Grozny) and taken away. Some time later she was found murdered, she was raped. My friend at home, whom a Chechen tried to rape at a party, was caught by the Chechens on the way home the same evening and raped her all night.

On May 15-17, 1993, two young Chechens tried to rape me in the entrance of my house. Repulsed neighbor on the entrance, an elderly Chechen.

In September 1993, when I was driving to the station with a friend, my friend was pulled out of the car, kicked, and then one of the attacking Chechens kicked me in the face.”

S. Grigoryants:

“During the reign of Dydayev, Aunt Sarkis’s husband was killed, a car was taken away, then my grandmother’s sister and her granddaughter disappeared.”

H. Zyuzina:

“On August 7, 1994, a work colleague, Sh. Yu. L., and his wife were captured by armed bandits. On August 9, his wife was released, she said that they were beaten, tortured, demanded a ransom, she was released for money. On September 5, 1994, the mutilated corpse of Sh. was found in the area of ​​the chemical plant.”

“In October 1993, our employee A.S. (1955, a train sender) was raped at about 6 pm right at the station and several people were beaten. At the same time, a dispatcher named Sveta (b. 1964) was raped. The police spoke to Chechen-style criminals and let them go.”

V. Rozvanov:

“Three times the Chechens tried to steal Vika's daughter, twice she ran away, and the third time she was rescued.

Son Sasha was robbed and beaten.

In September 1993, they robbed me, took off my watch and hat.

In December 1994, 3 Chechens searched the apartment, smashed the TV set, ate, drank and left.”

A. Vitkov:

“In 1992, T.V., born in 1960, a mother of three young children, was raped and shot dead.

They tortured neighbors, an elderly husband and wife, because the children sent things (container) to Russia. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya refused to look for criminals.”

B. Yaposhenko:

“Repeatedly during 1992, Chechens in Grozny beat me, robbed my apartment, and smashed my car for refusing to take part in hostilities with the opposition on the side of the Dydaevites.”

V. Osipova:

“I left due to harassment. She worked at a factory in Grozny. In 1991, armed Chechens arrived at the plant and drove the Russians out to the polls by force. Then unbearable conditions were created for the Russians, general robberies began, garages were blown up and cars were taken away.

In May 1994, the son, Osipov V.E., was leaving Grozny, armed Chechens did not allow him to load things. Then it happened to me too, all things were declared “property of the republic”.

K. Deniskina:

“I was forced to leave in October 1994 due to the situation: constant shooting, armed robberies, murders.

A. Rodionova:

“At the beginning of 1993, weapons depots were destroyed in Grozny, they were armed. It got to the point that children went to school with weapons. institutions and schools were closed.
In mid-March 1993, three armed Chechens broke into the apartment of their Armenian neighbors and took away valuables.

She was an eyewitness in October 1993 of the murder of a young guy who had his stomach ripped open right in the afternoon.

H. Berezina:

“We lived in the village of Assinovsky. My son was constantly beaten at school, he was forced not to go there. My husband’s work (local state farm) removed Russians from leadership positions.”

L. Gostinina:

“In August 1993 in Grozny, when I was walking down the street with my daughter, in broad daylight a Chechen grabbed my daughter (b. 1980), hit me, dragged her into his car and took her away. She returned home two hours later and said that she had been raped.
Russians were humiliated in every way. In particular, in Grozny, a poster hung near the Press House: “Russians, don’t leave, we need slaves.”

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Dagestan, Tukhchar 1999 Execution of 6 fighters of the 22nd brigade of explosives.

The murder of Russian servicemen in the village of Tukhchar was committed by members of a gang of Chechen fighters in the village of Tukhchar, Novovolaksky district of Dagestan on September 5, 1999.

Background.
Having suffered a defeat in August in the Tsumadinsky and Botlikh regions, the Wahhabis of Khattab and Basayev made a new attempt to invade Dagestan, this time in the Novolak region. The operation was given the name "Imam Gamzat-bek" by the Wahhabis. When planning this operation, Basayev and Khattab counted on the fact that the main forces of the Russian troops were drawn into fighting on the territory of the Kadar zone. According to Basayev, the operation "Imam Gamzat-bek" was undertaken by Chechen fighters in order to ease pressure Russian army on their Dagestan "co-religionists" - the Wahhabi rebels of the Kadar zone.

The village of Tukhchar is located in the Novolaksky district, on the very border with Chechnya. Behind the shallow river Aksai on the Chechen side is the village of Ishkhoi-Yurt, to the south of it is another Chechen village, Galayty. The road from the Chechen border to Tukhchar was covered by a checkpoint where Dagestani policemen served. In the village itself there was a small detachment of local Dagestan militias. Height 444.3, over the village was occupied by detachment 22 separate brigade special purpose of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, military unit 3642, Kalach-on-Don, consisting of 12 soldiers and 1 officer, supported by 1 BMP-2. At an altitude of 444.3, Russian soldiers dug trenches in full height and caponier for infantry fighting vehicles.

Fight at height 444.3
On the morning of September 5, a detachment of militants led by Umar Edilsultanov, Amir of the Karpinsky jamaat (Grozny district), crossed the border with Dagestan. Edilsultanov, Amir Karpinsky was personally subordinate to Brigadier General Abdul-Malik Mezhidov, commander of the Sharia Guard of Ichkeria. In the meantime, the second group, led personally by Edilsultanov - also twenty or twenty-five people - attacked a police checkpoint near the outskirts of Tukhchar. The Chechens occupied the checkpoint with a short blow, where there were 18 Dagestan policemen, and hiding behind the tombstones of the Muslim cemetery, began to approach the positions of motorized riflemen. At the same time, the first group of militants also began shelling a height of 444.3 from small arms and grenade launchers from the rear, from the side of the village of Tukhchar.

Recalls the surviving participant in the battle, Private Andrey Padyakov:

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

From the side of the village, the caponier of the BMP had no protection, and the lieutenant ordered the driver-mechanic to bring the car to the crest of the height and maneuver, firing at the militants. Despite this, after half an hour of battle, at 7:30, the BMP was hit by a grenade launcher. The gunner-operator died on the spot, and the driver was seriously shell-shocked. Tamerlan Khasaev, a militant who participated in the battle for height 444.3, says:

“They were the first to start - 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 with them as a hostage.

At the third hour of the battle, Russian soldiers began to run out of ammunition. For requests for assistance, Art. Lieutenant Tashkin was ordered to hold out on his own. The fact is that at the same time, the militants attacked the district center with. Novolakskoye, where employees of the Novolaksky District Department of Internal Affairs and a detachment of the Lipetsk OMON were blocked (see "Capture of Novolaksky by militants") and all forces were thrown to free them. After that, the platoon commander Tashkin decided to withdraw from a height of 444.3. The Russian fighters, taking with them weapons, the wounded and the dead, were able to break through to the Dagestan policemen, who took up all-round defense at the second checkpoint, on the outskirts of Tukhchar. Seeing the soldiers running towards them, the police covered them with fire from the checkpoint. After a short skirmish, there was a lull. By this time, up to 200 militants had already entered the village, starting looting and pogroms. The militants sent the elders of the village of Tukhchar to the defenders with an offer to surrender, but were refused. It was decided to break out of the encirclement through the village. Lieutenant of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Akhmed Davdiev, the commander of a detachment of Dagestan policemen, while doing reconnaissance, was ambushed by militants. During the battle, Davdiev destroyed two militants, but he himself was killed by a machine-gun burst. After that, the soldiers and policemen dispersed throughout the village and began to try to get out of the encirclement in all directions, but all the streets of the village were tightly blocked by militants.

Execution of military personnel by militants
By order of Amir Karpinsky, the gang members began to search the village and the surrounding area. Having fallen under heavy fire from the militants, Senior Lieutenant Tashkin and four other soldiers jumped into the nearest building. A few seconds before that, police sergeant Abdulkasim Magomedov died here. The building was surrounded by militants, who sent a truce to the fighters with a proposal to surrender. The Chechens promised to save the lives of those who surrendered, otherwise they threatened to burn everyone. "Decide, Commander! Why die in vain? We don't need your lives - we'll feed you, then exchange them for our own! Give up!" After a warning shot from a grenade launcher, the soldiers, led by Lieutenant Tashkin, were forced to leave the building and surrender.
The shell-shocked and badly burned BMP mechanic Aleksey Polagaev came out to the house of G. Dzhaparova. 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 stands, staggers, holds on to the gate. He was covered in blood and burned badly - 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 were 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 Hasan 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.

Aleksey Polagaev was handed over to the militants by local Chechens. Gurum Dzhaparova unsuccessfully tried to defend him. Polagaev was taken away, surrounded by a dozen Wahhabis, towards the outskirts of the village. From the testimony of the defendant Tamerlan Khasaev:

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

By order of Umar Karpinsky, the prisoners were taken to a clearing next to the checkpoint. The captives were first held in a destroyed checkpoint. Then the field commander ordered the “execution of the Rusaks.” In the battle for height 444.3, the detachment of Edilsultanov (Amir Karpinsky) lost four militants, each of those killed in the detachment found relatives or friends, on whom now “a debt of blood hung”. "You took our blood - we'll take yours!" Umar told the prisoners. Further massacre was scrupulously recorded on camera by the cameraman of the militants. The prisoners were taken out one by one to the concrete parapet. Four bloodlines in turn cut the throats of a Russian officer and three soldiers. Another escaped, tried to escape - militant Tamerlan Khasaev "blundered". Having slashed the victim with a blade, Khasaev straightened up over the wounded soldier - he felt uneasy at the sight of blood, and 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. Umar Edilsultanov killed the sixth person personally.

Together with senior lieutenant Tashkin Vasily Vasilyevich (08/29/1974 - 09/05/1999) were killed:

Anisimov Konstantin Viktorovich (01/14/1980 - 09/05/1999)
Lipatov Alexey Anatolyevich (06/14/1980 - 09/05/1999)
Kaufman Vladimir Egorovich (06/07/1980 - 09/05/1999)
Erdneev Boris Ozinovich (07/06/1980 - 09/05/1999)
Polagaev Alexey Sergeevich (01/05/1980 - 09/05/1999)
The next morning, September 6, the head of the village administration, Magomed-Sultan Hasanov, 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 in the village until the bandits left.

Videotape of the murder
A few days later, a video of the murder of soldiers of the 22nd brigade was shown on Grozny television. Later, in 2000, a video of the murder of Russian servicemen, made by one of the gang members, was found by members of the operational services of Dagestan. Based on the materials of the videotape, a criminal case was initiated against 9 people.

The trial of the participants in the murder
Umar Edilsultanov (Amir Karpinsky)
The first to be punished for the Tukhchar crime was the leader of the killers, Umar Edilsultanov (Amir Karpinsky). He was the executor of the murder of Private Alexei Polagaev and the leader of the murder of all other servicemen. Edilsultanov was destroyed 5 months later, in February 2000, when trying to break out from Grozny. (See Operation "Wolf Hunt")

Tamerlan Khasaev
Tamerlan Khasaev was the first of the thugs to fall into the hands of law enforcement agencies. He is the executor of the attempted murder of Private Alexei Lipatov. After that, Lipatov tried to escape, but they caught up with him and shot him. T. Khasaev ended up in the Basayev detachment at the beginning of 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 Amir Karpinsky.

He was sentenced to eight and a half years for kidnapping in December 2001, was serving a term in a strict regime colony in the Kirov region, when the investigation, thanks to a videotape seized during a special operation, managed to establish that he was one of those who participated in bloody massacre on the outskirts of Tukhchar. Khasaev did not deny. Moreover, the case already contained testimonies from residents of Tukhchar, who confidently identified Khasaev. Khasaev stood out among the militants dressed in camouflage with a white T-shirt.

On October 25, 2002, T. Khasaev, a 32-year-old resident of the village of Dachu-Borzoi, Grozny District of Chechnya, was found guilty of committing this crime by the Judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Dagestan. He partially admitted his guilt: “I admit participation in illegal armed formations, weapons and invasion. And I didn’t 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.

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

Arbi Dandaev
Arbi Dandaev, born in 1974, is the perpetrator of the murder of Senior Lieutenant Vasily Tashkin. On April 3, 2008 he was detained by police officers in the city of Grozny. 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. Dandaev was charged under Art. 279 "Armed rebellion" and art. 317 "Encroachment on the life of a law enforcement officer."

In March 2009, the Supreme Court of Dagestan sentenced the defendant Dandaev to life in prison, despite the fact that the public prosecutor asked for 22 years in prison for the defendant. 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 200,000 to 2 million rubles. Later, Dandaev tried to appeal the verdict. The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the verdict.

Islan Mukaev
He is an accomplice in the murder of Private Vladimir Kaufman, holding his hands. Islan Mukaev was detained at the beginning of June 2005 during a joint operation by officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya and Ingushetia. The operation was carried out in the Ingush regional center Sleptsovskaya, where Mukaev lived. He fully admitted his guilt, repented of his deeds at the trial, as a result of which the court did not appoint a life sentence for him, as the state prosecutor demanded.

On September 19, 2005, the Supreme Court of Dagestan sentenced Mukaev to 25 years in prison in a strict regime colony.

Mansur Razhaev
He is the executor of the murder of Private Boris Erdneev. He did not admit guilt, said that he simply approached him with a knife. The video shows that Razhaev approaches Erdneev with a knife, Erdneev’s murder itself is not shown, the footage after the murder is shown below. On January 31, 2012, the Supreme Court of Dagestan found Mansur Razhaev guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Rizvan Vagapov
Vagapov was detained on March 19, 2007 in the village of Borzoi in the Shatoi region of Chechnya. In 2013, his case was sent to the Supreme Court of Dagestan for consideration. On November 12, 2013, he was sentenced to 18 years in prison.

Today federal Service Security Service reported that as a result of the operation in the Shatoy district of Chechnya, a special group of the FSB seized a huge video archive. The militants scrupulously recorded all their actions on film. Preparing this material for broadcast, we tried to reduce all the scenes of violence captured

militants, to a minimum, however, we do not recommend watching this material for people with weak nerves and children.

This is only a small part of the video cassettes seized by the FSB special forces in one of the villages of the Shatoi region of Chechnya. There are 400 cassettes in total: 150 from the archive of an unknown Chechen television studio and 250 from the personal archive of Aslan Maskhadov. 1200 hours of video footage: torture and execution of Russian soldiers, interrogations with prejudice, attacks on columns of federal forces. This is a view from the inside, through the eyes of militants.

We have deliberately declined to comment on what you are about to see. It is impossible to comment on this. The films speak for themselves. We will supplement with words what from a certain moment cannot be watched, neither for ethical nor for moral reasons: after seeing the excerpts, you will understand why.

Footage from three years ago: this execution went around the television screens around the world. Execution of the judgment of the Sharia court. After Sharia security investigation. Public shooting. This is just what hit the screens.

And now let's go back: This man is the accused. The investigator asks him a series of questions. What he is accused of is unknown, we show the system itself. The interrogation system that foreign mercenaries brought with them.

Personnel: interrogation with special predilection.

Everything is captured on camera. Detailed. The investigation did not last long. The same cassette. By the dates on the screen you can see: from the investigation to the verdict exactly 10 days. The verdict is a public execution.

Frames: execution. Autumn 1999. It is impossible to say exactly where the action takes place. According to some signs, this is near the village of Tukhchar in Dagestan. Under the feet of the militants are 6 soldiers of the federal forces. In a few minutes everyone will be killed: the murder weapon is in the hands of this bearded man in camouflage. Only one tries to escape. They chase and shoot.

Frames: resists, runs away, catch up, shots are heard.

For us, these shots are medieval savagery. But for those who kill Russian soldiers, this is a routine, everyday life. For 2 Chechen companies, this has become the rule of law for them. The Russian investigation and trial will not be so cruel. The maximum that threatens executioners is life imprisonment. The court can sentence a sadist, a murderer and a war criminal to death. But in Russian Federation there is a moratorium on its implementation, this was one of the main conditions for Russia's admission to the Council of Europe.

Viewing this material is contraindicated: for minors, people with a weak and unstable mentality, pregnant women, people with nervous disorders, mentally ill.

This video is recommended for viewing by persons from the Human Rights Society "Memorial", in particular S.A. Kovalev, foreign citizens who are interested in the Chechen war, as well as Western journalists covering the topic of the war in Chechnya.

02.11.2011. Found details on this case:

The Supreme Court of the Chechen Republic sentenced a certain Ilyas Dashaev to 25 years in prison. The verdict contains only one episode of the criminal activity of this young man 1982 year of birth. This case nevertheless goes beyond all limits both in its savagery and in its cruelty.

The court found that Dashaev, a native of the village of Gekhi, as part of an armed gang commanded by the infamous thug Islam Chalaev, kidnapped three people in early October 2001 - two women and a man. The bandits took them to the village of Alkhan-Kala. At first they were interrogated and beaten. Then one woman's head was cut off, the second was shot, and the man was released. The crime of bandits, which later became the starting point for the investigators of the republican prosecutor's office.

At one time, many shocking records circulated around Chechnya. But then the investigators were faced with the fact that the bandits abducted a family in which the husband Khasan Edilgireev was a Chechen, and his wife Tatyana Usmanova was Russian. Her friend Lena Gaevskaya was also Russian. Later, at the trial, the only defendant Dashaev - the rest of the gang members, along with the leader, had been destroyed by that time - tried to imagine that the family had been kidnapped, allegedly for cooperation with the federal authorities.

But the prosecutor thought otherwise. The footage of the terrible video captures the last moments of the life of unfortunate women, and those who can stand the nerve to watch the recording to the end will understand that the murders were committed only because, according to the bandits, the Russian woman should not have lived with a Chechen in peace and one family .

By the early 2000s, the situation in Chechnya had changed a lot compared to the mid-nineties. If in the first Chechen campaign Chechens did not have to be persuaded to fight the federals, then after the attack of the Basayev and Khattab gangs on Dagestan, people began to look at the role of the so-called field commanders in a completely different way. Many Chechens realized that their real enemies were not in Russia at all, and began to help the federal government to establish a peaceful life in the ruined republic.

It was the bandits of Chalaev who did not give rest. Therefore, after killing his wife and her friend, they released the Chechen. The prosecutor's office is sure that the Chechen Edilgireev was left alive not because he cooperated with the authorities less than his wife. The bandits had to defiantly pit the Russian population against the Chechens. Therefore, they filmed everything, for this they later replicated terrible footage of Chechnya.

In front of the husband, his wife was laid on the ground and a hole was dug to drain the blood. Dashaev held the unfortunate hands and feet. Arbi Khaskhanov was the first to approach the victim with a knife. He made several incisions on the woman's neck. Then Adlan Baraev took up the knife, who also slashed the throat with a real butcher's movement. The work was completed by Dashaev, who separated the woman's head from the body, and then stood up and, holding her by the hair, began to pose for the camera with a satisfied look. The cameraman, another of the bandits, the notorious Khamzat Tazabayev, nicknamed Basin, was satisfied with the terrible action.

Edilgireev still cannot remember without a shudder the cruelty with which they killed his wife. The video shows that the executioners like their "work".

The prosecutor's office at the trial demanded a life sentence for Dashaev, but the court did not agree with the arguments of the state prosecutor. The judge, although he considered Dashaev's guilt proven, gave the defendant 25 years. The prosecutor's office did not agree with the verdict and one of these days is going to file a cassation submission.

She believes that a demonstrative terrible murder requires the maximum punishment. The bandits who are trying to kindle the flames of ethnic hatred with such bloody acts should know that only one prospect awaits them - to sit behind bars for the rest of their days.