All executions of six Russian soldiers. What militants did with captured Russian soldiers in the Chechen war

Bombardment of the village of Zakan-Yurt

Mass killings of civilians Throughout the war, in addition to indiscriminate bombardments and artillery shelling, the Russian invaders massacred the Chechen people. The so-called "cleansing" of cities from "terrorists" took place with the execution of women, children and the elderly. According to the report of the Commission on foreign affairs US Senate spokesman for "Human Right Watch", in December the Russians killed 17 civilians in the village of Alkhan-Yurt during a robbery, burned many houses and raped many women. More than 50 murders are known in the Staropromyslovsky district of Grozny. The invaders mocked people, burned alive and killed civilians in front of their relatives, and also mocked the bodies of the dead. It is known about a case that occurred in the village of Novye Aldy on February 5, 2000. - On the evening of February 4, the soldiers entered the village. They were 18-20 year old conscripts and several officers, they asked if there were any militants left. We gave them something to eat. They were friendly and warned that tomorrow they would "let the dogs down" on us. We didn't understand them. On February 5, in the morning, shots and automatic bursts were heard. When the houses caught fire and people started screaming, we realized that the "dogs" had entered the village. They destroyed everything, killed and burned people without asking for documents. They only asked for gold and money, and then they fired,” recalls Marina Izmailova, a resident of the village. - Two brothers, elderly people, Abdulla and Salam Magomadov, remained in the house 158 on Mazaev Street. They were burned alive in their house. Only a few days later, with difficulty, it was possible to collect their remains. They fit in a plastic bag. The same thing happened on Khoperskaya Street as on ours. Ali Khadzhimuradov, a pensioner, had his gold teeth knocked out with a rifle butt. Three members of the Ganaev family were killed on Voronezhskaya Street. Four members of the Mussaev family died." Indiscriminate detentions and torture a series of detentions among the civilian population.Men were often either killed on the spot or sent to filtration camps and prisons, where they were tortured.The Russians offered to release the detainees for a reward, and also sold the bodies of the dead to relatives.In addition, under suspicion of the blood-mad military, there were also women, as federal troops were "looking for snipers."

Bombardment of the village of Shaami-Yurt.

Another village, through which the combatants left for the mountains, came under fire for two days. Residents were not informed about the start of hostilities, and they were also not given the opportunity to leave the settlement. When trying to leave the village, many men were arrested by the Russians. Later they were found dead with signs of torture.

Bombardment of the village of Zakan-Yurt

After the shelling that took place in early November 1999, the rural community agreed to become a so-called "safe zone" controlled by federal troops. However, when on the night of February 2, the Russians opened a corridor for the Chechen soldiers to leave Grozny, they went through Zakan-Yurt. And the village was subjected to merciless shelling. Exactly at midnight on the night of the 2nd, the bombardment of the civilian population of the village began, where only a part of the combatants were located. Witnesses say that the Chechens wanted to quickly leave the village, but the invaders decided to raze them to the ground along with civilians. About 30 people died.

An ultimatum to the locals.

The leaders of the Russian troops put the residents of Grozny before the fact that everyone needs to leave the city, otherwise anyone who is not outside of it will be considered a terrorist and subject to destruction. We are talking about hundreds of thousands of people. The military promised to provide a humanitarian corridor to get out of the besieged city, but did not do it. All roads leading out of the capital were regularly bombed.

Airstrike on refugees

At the end of October, when it became clear to people that Russia was again starting a bloody war, local residents massively tried to leave the country. The columns of refugees were blocked by the Russians at the checkpoint in Ingushetia. Soldiers raped women, killed those who tried to stop them. Old people and children were dying from the cold, but the ruthless Russians did not let anyone out. On October 29, a column of refugees heading to Nazran from Grozny was bombed. Several hundred people died.

Bombardment of Grozny

In early August and September, detachments under the command of Basayev launched an operation in Dagestan. Russia reacted to this with a counter-terrorist operation, after which a full-scale and incredibly cruel war began on the territory of Chechnya. On October 21, 1999, the invaders launched a tactical missile at Grozny. The shell exploded over the market, the maternity hospital and the mosque. 150 people died. Five days later, the commander of the western front of the Russian Federation, General Shamanov, admitted that these deaths were on the conscience Russian army.

Pavel Felgenhauer, who was still friends with Russian generals during the first war, recalled how one of the top military leaders then shared his secrets with him: do this to their own city and their own citizens, what they will be ready to do in relation to the western cities and their inhabitants. Thousands of people were held in "filtration camps" where they were subjected to torture and ill-treatment, while at the same time, if possible, the detainees (dead or alive) were willingly sold to their relatives. According to Alexander Cherkasov, an employee of the Human Rights Center "Memorial", Russia did not keep records of the dead civilians. The estimates of the center's experts are frightening - up to 50,000 dead civilians.

April 1995

Targeted destruction of civilians

The Russian occupiers continue to shoot Chechens from all types of guns along the entire front line. Nozhay-Yurt, Ishkhoy-Yurt, Betty-Mokhk - villages whose population was shot in cold blood. From the memoirs of a resident of the village of Ishkhoy-Yurt Patimat: “The old people agreed that the Russian military would not kill people and not destroy the village. The Russian army said they were only planning to go through the village. They said they wanted to surround the forest. They came to the village and started shooting through us. Airplanes are bombing, helicopters are bombing, but they still end up in the village... Houses 10-15 have been demolished.” They worked with "Grads" and "Hurricanes". Incredible shelling continued until 1996 without a break. During the day, the main roads through which people could leave their cities and villages were bombed about once every 15-20 minutes, which forced the residents of Chechnya to stay in their homes under continuous air raids and artillery shelling. During the presidential elections in the Russian Federation for almost a week fighting were not carried out, but immediately after the second round, the Russians began to use heavy weapons again. "All last night, the village of Makhkety was under intense shelling from the Grad and Uragan multiple launch rocket launchers. The number of victims of the shelling is 18, several dozen residents were injured. They cannot be taken out of the village, since yesterday in the afternoon federal units blocked the only road leading out of this settlement.Some seriously injured people were tried to get out of Makhketa by mountain paths.Four of the 8 people taken to the hospital in the Shali district, four died of wounds, the condition of the rest is assessed as critical.The only nearest place where the injured can receive qualified assistance, Shali itself remains, but the city is again blocked. The soldiers at the checkpoints do not allow cars with the wounded to pass through the cordon, "an ITAR-TASS correspondent noted on July 11, 1996.

Use of civilians as human shields

In March 1996, in the village of Samashki, Russian soldiers were hiding behind civilians as a shield. After the shelling, the Chechens began to defend the village, and the attempts of the Russians to enter the settlement led to heavy losses. Then the feds resorted to the use of "human shields". The invaders deployed a column of refugees, lined up people near their armored vehicles and went to the village. From the memoirs of a resident of the village of Ishkhoy-Yurt Patimat: “The old people agreed that the Russian military would not kill people and not destroy the village. The Russian army said they were only planning to go through the village. They said they wanted to surround the forest. They came to the village and started shooting through us. Airplanes are bombing, helicopters are bombing, but they still end up in the village... Houses 10-15 have been demolished.” They worked with "Grads" and "Hurricanes". From April 7 to 8, Russian law enforcement officers entered the village of Samashki. More than 100 civilians were shot in cold blood.

The use of vacuum bombs

The Russian military continues their crimes, covering civilians with artillery and with the help of aircraft. Hundreds of people die every day throughout Chechnya. At the same time, shelling is carried out mainly in residential areas. Here is the story of Zazu Tsuraeva, a participant in the events: on March 11 or 12, 68 houses were bombed in Shali. The men said that vacuum bombs were used. Only land remained from the buildings. Many children died. For 4 days they tried to dismantle the rubble, they found either a child's hand or a head. There were no militants in Shali by that time. They left Argun around 15 March. After that, neither in Argun, nor in Shali, nor in Mesker-Yurt were there."

The bombing of the refugee camp.

In the area of ​​Lake Kezenoyam, the Russian military allegedly discovered a “militant base”, which was in fact a shelter for hundreds of refugees. An air strike fired at the building of the sports base, where people were accommodated. It is authentically known about five dead women and children, but witnesses speak of a much larger number of victims.

Death of 7 children.

The group of the Commissioner for Human Rights recorded the first case of the death of children at the hands of Russians on December 21. Near Grozny, in the village of Artemovskaya, there was artillery shelling. The Musaev and Selimkhanov families took refuge in the basement when a shell hit it. As a result of the explosion, five kids died immediately, five more were injured. In Grozny, they could not save the two Musaev sisters, five and six years old.

Destruction of 18 houses.

The Russian Air Force bombed Chechnya several times every day. At the same time, there were no targeted attacks, and the official Kremlin denied all the facts of the death of the civilian population. So, on the night of December 19-20, two bombs blew up a residential building, partially destroyed another 18. Witnesses speak of the death of a man, elderly woman and two children.

December 1994

First bombings

In December 1994, when the Russian occupiers began to trample on Chechen soil, the so-called "filtration camps" were created, where all the people who seemed suspicious to the Russian military fell. Illegal detention, torture, executions - all this has become a reality both for civilians and for the militias who have taken up arms. Already on December 12, in response to fire from the village of Assinovskaya, the entire settlement was fired from artillery. In mid-December, federal troops began shelling Grozny with artillery. On December 17, the first bombing attack was carried out on the capital. Within two days, aviation carried out air raids on 40 settlements. The death toll immediately exceeded 500 people.

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

The militants did not go where they were expected. They crossed the river south of height 444 and went deep into the territory of Dagestan. Several bursts were enough to disperse the militias. Meanwhile, the second group - also twenty or twenty-five people - attacked a police checkpoint near the outskirts of Tukhchar. This detachment was headed 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 barn. The barn was surrounded. They dragged cans of gasoline, doused the walls. "Surrender, or we'll burn you alive!" In response, silence. The fighters looked at each other. “Who is your senior there? Make up your mind, commander! Why die in vain? We don't need your lives - we'll feed you, then exchange them for our own! Give up!"

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

From the testimony of the defendant Tamerlan Khasaev:

Umar ordered to check all the buildings. We dispersed and two people began to go around the house. I was an ordinary soldier and followed orders, especially a new person among them, not everyone trusted me. And as I understand it, the operation was prepared in advance and clearly organized. I learned by radio that a soldier had been found in the shed. 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. Employees now law enforcement they check 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 long time did not know the terrible details of the death of their sons. The father of one of the soldiers, having learned the terrible truth, asked to be entered in the death certificate of his son with a mean wording - ‘gunshot wound’. Otherwise, he explained, the wife would not survive this.

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

Hostage Executioner

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

Khasaev ended up in the Basayev detachment in early September 1999 - one of his friends seduced him with the opportunity to get captured weapons on a campaign against Dagestan, which could then be sold at a profit. So Khasaev ended up in the gang of Emir Umar, who was subordinate to the notorious commander of the ‘Islamic 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 the death penalty, however, in connection with the moratorium on its use, an alternative measure of punishment was chosen - life imprisonment.

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

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

"Cargo - 200" arrived on the Kizner land. In the battles for the liberation of Dagestan from bandit formations, a native of the village of Ishek of the Zvezda collective farm and a graduate of our school Alexei Ivanovich Paranin died. Alexei was born on January 25, 1980. Graduated from Verkhnetyzhminsk basic school. He was a very inquisitive, lively, courageous boy. Then he studied at the Mozhginsky GPTU No. 12, where he received the profession of a bricklayer. True, he did not have time to work, he was drafted into the army. He served in the North Caucasus for more than a year. And now - the Dagestan war. Went through several fights. On the night of 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 of Novolakskoye. The militants who attacked at night set fire to the BMP. The soldiers left the car and fought, but it was too unequal. All the wounded were brutally finished off. We all mourn the death of Alexei. Words of consolation are hard to find. On November 26, 2007, a memorial plaque was installed on the school building. The opening of the memorial plaque was attended by Alexei's mother, Lyudmila Alekseevna, and representatives from the youth department from the district. Now we are starting to make an album about him, there is a stand at the school dedicated to Alexei. In addition to Alexei, four other students of our school participated in the Chechen campaign: Kadrov Eduard, Ivanov Alexander, Anisimov Alexei and Kiselev Alexei, 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.

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

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

Former member of the national security service of Ichkeria, Arbi Dandaev, according to the investigation, took part in the attack of the gangs of Shamil Basaev and Khattab on Dagestan in 1999. In early September, he joined a detachment led by Emir Umar Karpinsky, who on September 5 of the same year invaded the territory of the Novolaksky district of the republic. From the Chechen village of Galayty, the militants went to the Dagestan village of Tukhchar - the road was guarded by a checkpoint where Dagestani policemen were serving. On the hill, they were covered by an infantry fighting vehicle and 13 soldiers from the brigade of internal troops. But the militants entered the village from the rear and, having captured the village police department after a short battle, began to fire at the hill. An infantry fighting vehicle buried in the ground 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.

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. Photo of one of the thugs at the time of the trial.

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

Lipatov Alexey Anatolievich

Kaufman Vladimir Egorovich

Polagaev Alexey Sergeevich

Erdneev Boris Ozinovich (a few seconds before death)

Of the famous participants in the massacre of prisoners Russian soldiers and an officer three 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

The film includes the famous video of cutting off the heads of our fighters in Chechnya - details in this article. Official reports are always stingy and often lie. So on 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 in these days, entire platoons and assault groups lost their lives. But on the evening of September 12, the news instantly spread through many agencies: the 22nd brigade of internal troops occupied the village of Karamakhi. General Gennady Troshev noted the subordinates of Colonel Vladimir Kersky. So we learned about another Caucasian victory for Russia. It's time to get rewards. "Behind the scenes" the main thing remained - how, at what 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 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 Volchya Mountain, waiting for the command to go forward. The bomb flew in, hitting exactly in the midst of people, and ... did not explode. A whole platoon was then born in shirts. One soldier's ankle was cut off by a cursed bomb, like a guillotine. The guy, who became crippled in a split second, was sent to the hospital.

Too many soldiers and officers know about such examples. Too many - in order to understand: popular prints of victorious pictures and reality are different, like the sun and the moon. 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 ...

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Andrey Veselov
Russians were humiliated by all means in Grozny, a poster hung at the House of Press: Russians, do not leave, we need slaves
In 1991-1992, tens of thousands of Russians were slaughtered in Chechnya.
In Shelkovskaya in the spring of 1992, the "Chechen police" confiscated everything from the Russian population hunting weapon, and a week later militants came to the unarmed village. They were in the real estate business. And for this, a whole system of signs was developed. Human intestines wound on a fence meant: the owner is no more, there are only women in the house, ready for "love". Women's bodies, planted on the same fence: the house is free, you can move in ...
I saw columns of buses, which, because of the stench, could not be approached for a hundred meters, because they were packed with the bodies of slaughtered Russians. I saw women neatly sawn lengthwise with a chainsaw, children impaled on poles from road signs, guts artistically wound around a fence. We Russians have been cleaned from our own land like dirt from under fingernails. And it was 1992 - before the "first Chechen" there were still two and a half years left ...
During the first Chechen war, videos were captured of underage Vainakhs having fun with Russian women. They put women on all fours and threw knives as if at a target, trying to get into the vagina. All this was filmed and commented ...

Then came the "fun times". Russians began to be slaughtered in the streets in broad daylight. In front of my eyes, in line for bread, one Russian guy was surrounded by Vainakhs, one of whom spat on the floor and offered the Russian to lick the spit off the floor. When he refused, they cut open his stomach with a knife. Chechens burst into a parallel class right during the lesson, chose the three most attractive Russian high school girls and dragged them away. Then we learned that the girls were given as a birthday present to the local Chechen authority.
And then it got really fun. The militants came to the village and began to clean it from the Russians. At night, the screams of people who were being raped and slaughtered in own house. And no one came to their aid. Everyone was for himself, everyone was shaking with fear, and some managed to bring an ideological basis to this matter, they say, “my house is my fortress” (yes, dear Rodo, I heard this phrase right then. The person who uttered it was already not alive - his guts were wound by the Vainakhs on the fence of his own own house). This is how we, cowardly and stupid, were cut out one by one. Tens of thousands of Russians were killed, several thousand fell into slavery and Chechen harems, hundreds of thousands fled Chechnya in their shorts.
This is how the Vainakhs solved the "Russian question" in a single republic.
The video was filmed by militants in 1999 during the invasion of Basayev's group into Dagestan. On the way of the grouping was our checkpoint, the personnel of which, seeing the militants, crap from fear and surrendered. Our servicemen had the opportunity to die like a man, in battle. They did not want this, and as a result they were slaughtered like sheep. And if you watched the video carefully, you should have noticed that only the one who was stabbed last had his hands tied. For the rest, fate gave one more chance to die like a human being. Any of them could stand up and make the last sharp movement in their lives - if not to cling to the enemy with their teeth, then at least take a knife or an automatic burst on the chest while standing. But they, seeing, hearing, and feeling that their comrade was being slaughtered nearby, and knowing that they would be slaughtered too, still preferred sheep's death.
This is a one-on-one situation with Russians in Chechnya. There we behaved in exactly the same way. And we were cut out the same way.
By the way, I always showed trophy Chechen videos to every young recruit in my platoon, and then in the company, and even less glamorous than the one presented. My fighters looked at torture, and at ripping open the stomach, and at sawing off the head with a hacksaw. Looked carefully. After that, none of them could even think of surrendering.
In the same place, in the war, fate brought me together with another Jew - Lev Yakovlevich Rokhlin. Initially, our participation in the New Year's assault was not expected. But when communication was lost with the 131st Motorized Rifle Brigade and the 81st Motorized Rifle Regiment, we were sent to help. We broke through to the location of 8 AK, commanded by General Rokhlin, and arrived at his headquarters. That was the first time I saw him in person. And he somehow didn’t seem to me at first glance: hunched, with a cold, with cracked glasses ... Not a general, but some kind of tired agronomist. He set us the task of collecting the scattered remnants Maikop brigade and the 81st regiment and bring them to the air defense of the Rokhlin reconnaissance battalion. This is what we did - we collected meat that had pissed from fear in the cellars and took it to the location of the Rokhlin scouts. There were about two mouths in total. At first, Rokhlin did not want to use them, but when all the other groups retreated, 8 AK was left alone in the operational encirclement in the city center. Against all militants! And then Rokhlin built this "army" opposite the formation of his fighters and addressed them with a speech. I will never forget this speech. by the most affectionate expressions the general were: "fucking monkeys" and "p @ daras". In the end, he said: “The militants outnumber us fifteen times. And we have nowhere to wait for help. And if we are destined to lie down here, let each of us be found under a pile of enemy corpses. Let's show how Russian soldiers and Russian generals know how to die! Don't let me down, sons..."
Lev Yakovlevich has been dead for a long time - he was dealt with without you. One less Jew, isn't it?
And then there was a terrible, terrible battle, in which six of my platoon of 19 people survived. And when the Chechens broke into the location and it came to the grenades, and we realized that we all got p@zdets - I saw real Russian people. There was no more fear. There was some kind of cheerful anger, detachment from everything. There was one thought in my head: "dad" asked me not to let you down. The wounded bandaged themselves, themselves were chipped with promedol and continued the fight.
Then the Vainakhs and I got into hand-to-hand combat. And they ran. It was a turning point in the battle for Grozny. It was a confrontation between two characters - Caucasian and Russian, and ours turned out to be stronger. It was at that moment that I realized that we could do it. We have this solid core, it only needs to be cleaned of adhering shit. We took prisoners in hand-to-hand combat. Looking at us, they did not even whine - they howled in horror. And then they read the radio interception to us - Dudayev’s order went through the radio networks of the militants: “scouts from 8AK and special forces of the Airborne Forces do not take prisoner and do not torture, but immediately finish off and bury like warriors. We are very proud of this order.
Then comes the understanding that neither the Chechens, nor the Armenians, nor the Jews, in fact, are to blame. They only do to us what we allow ourselves to do to ourselves.
Think what you are doing and study history. And the excuse that you need to follow the order is complacency, there is always a way to refuse to follow the order, to resign, so to speak. And if everyone responsibly approached the decision of the fate of the Motherland and resigned, then there would be no Chechen massacre.
I am grateful to the Chechens as teachers for the lesson taught. They helped me see my true enemy - the cowardly ram and pi @ aras, who firmly settled in my own head.
And you continue to fight the Jews and other "untrue Aryans." I wish you success.
If the Russians were men, no troops would be needed. The population of Chechnya by 1990 was approximately 1.3-1.4 million people, of which 600-700 thousand were Russians. Grozny has about 470,000 inhabitants, of which at least 300,000 are Russians. In the original Cossack regions - Naursky, Shelkovsky and Nadterechny - Russians were about 70%. On our own soil, we have merged with the enemy, who is inferior to us in numbers two or three times.
And when the troops were brought in, there was practically no one to save.
Yeltsin - Aklash could not do this, but here is the Jew Berezovsky with the company completely. And the facts of his cooperation with the Chechens are well known. As the grandfather said, the generalissimo was captured.
This does not justify the performers. Weapons were handed out to the Vainakhs not by the Jew Berezovsky, but by the Russian Grachev (by the way, he was a paratrooper, a hero of Afghanistan). But when “human rights activists” dragged themselves to Rokhlin and offered to surrender to the Chechens under their guarantees, Rokhlin ordered to put them on cancer and kick them to the front lines. So it does not matter whether the generalissimo was captured or not - the country is alive as long as its last soldier is alive.
forecast for Russia for 2010 from Gaidar.
This schmuck is directly related to the processes that have affected each of us in particular, and our entire former Country as a whole. This is from an economic point of view.
But I also have non-economic questions for him. In January 1995, the aforementioned gentleman, as part of a large delegation of "human rights activists" (headed by S.A. Kovalev), came to Grozny to persuade our soldiers to surrender to the Chechens under their personal guarantees. Moreover, Gaidar shone in the tactical air, as if not more intense than Kovalev. Under Gaidar's "personal guarantees" 72 people surrendered. Subsequently, their mutilated, with traces of torture, corpses were found in the area of ​​the cannery, Katayama and Sq. Minute.
This Smart and beautiful hand in blood not to the elbow, but to the very ears.
He was lucky - he died on his own, without trial or execution.
But the moment will come when, according to Russian traditions, his rotten offal is taken out of the grave, loaded into a cannon and shot to the west - IT is unworthy to lie in Our Land.
PS: Dear Lieutenant, "the dead have no shame" - it is said about the fallen soldiers who lost the battle.
Our ancestors handed us a great country, and we pissed it off. And in fact, we are all not even sheep, but just fucking sheep. Because our country has perished, and we, who took an oath to defend it "to the last drop of blood", are still alive.
But. Awareness of this unpleasant fact helps us "squeeze a slave out of ourselves drop by drop", develop and temper character. http://www.facebook.com/groups/russian.region/permalink/482339108511015/
Further facts:
Chechnya Excerpts from testimonies of internally displaced persons who fled from Chechnya
Russians! Don't leave, we need slaves!
http://www.facebook.com/groups/russouz/p ermalink/438080026266711/
“Excerpts from the testimonies of forced migrants who fled from Chechnya in the period from 1991-1995. The vocabulary of the authors has been preserved. Some names have been changed. (Chechnya.ru)
A. Kochedykova, lived in 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. I left the apartment with all the furnishings, two cars, a cooperative garage and left with my husband.
In February 1993, 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 it was being repaired. They shot 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 of 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 the city of Grozny. A.F. Tarasov. 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, Dydayev's militants shot Russian soldiers."

M. Khrapova, lived in the city of Gudermes:
"In August 1992, our neighbor, R. S. Sargsyan, and his wife, Z. S. Sarkisyan, 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 was returning home in the evening. The Chechens dragged her into a car, beat her, cut her and raped her. We had 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 did not see these events, but O.K. told me about this (address K. 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:
"I lived in Grozny until the end of April 1994. I worked in the Kalinovskaya station of the Nayp district as the director of a music school. At the end of 1993, I was returning from work from the Kalinovskaya station to Grozny. There was no bus, and I went 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, there mocked me for a long time, raped and beat me.

Y. Yunysova:
"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 a day. The entire class and three teachers were gang-raped.
In 1993 my classmate M. was kidnapped.
In the summer of 1993, on the platform of the railway. 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’s guards, who brought victims in foreign cars.
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 perverted rape 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 the village of Chervlennaya.
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 o'clock 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 o'clock at a dacha near the 3rd city hospital in Grozny, four Chechens aged 15-16 demanded to have sexual intercourse with them. I was indignant. Then one of the Chechens hit me with brass knuckles and I was raped, taking advantage of my helpless state. After that, under the 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 killed their youngest son on 01/04/94."

E. Dziuba:
"Everyone was forced to take citizenship of the Chechen Republic, if you don't, you won't get food stamps."

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 valuables."

H. Kolesnikova, born in 1969, lived in Gudermes:
“On December 2, 1993, at the stop “plot 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 around the apartments, where they raped me and injected drugs. They released me only on December 5 ".

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:
"A 12-year-old girl was stolen from neighbors (in Grozny), then they 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). A week later, K. died.
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."

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 injuries.
In the spring of 1993, my mother-in-law and father-in-law were beaten on the street (Grozny).

V. Bochkarev:
"The Dydayevites took hostage the director of the school in the village of Kalinovskaya Belyaev V., his deputy Plotnikov V.I., the chairman of the Kalinovsky collective farm Erin. They demanded a ransom of 12 million rubles ... Having not received the 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, right down to the 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:
"On December 18-20, 1994, we were beaten by the Dudayevites for not fighting on their side."

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 permits for apartments from me and my neighbors and, threatening with machine guns, ordered me to move out. I left an apartment, a garage, a dacha in the city of 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 my wife and children out of the car. They beat everyone with their feet, broke their ribs. They raped my wife. They took away the GAZ-24 car, 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 me 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, they 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 husband. They took off my son’s watch.
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 (Gydermes), 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, threaten my life son, I sent my relatives to Stavropol region then she left on her own. My pursuers blew up my house on November 21, 1994."

V. Fedorova:
"In mid-April 1993, the daughter of my friend 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 dragged out of the car, kicked, and then one of the attacking Chechens kicked me in the face."

S. Grigoryants:
"During the reign of Dydaev, aunt Sarkis's husband was killed, the car was taken away, then my grandmother's sister and her granddaughter disappeared."

H. Zyuzina:
“On August 7, 1994, a work colleague Sh. Yu. Sh.'s body was found in the area of ​​the chemical plant."

M. Olev:
“In October 1993, our employee A.S. (1955, a train sender) was raped at about 18 hours right at the station and several people were beaten. At the same time, a dispatcher named Sveta (b. 1964) was raped. The police talked 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 up, robbed my apartment, smashed my car for refusing to take part in hostilities with the opposition on the side of the Dydayevites."

V. Osipova:
“She left because of harassment. She worked at a factory in Grozny. In 1991, armed Chechens arrived at the factory and forcibly expelled Russians to the elections. 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.
On November 22, 1992, Khusein Dydaev tried to rape my daughter, beat me, threatened to kill me."

A. Rodionova:
"In the beginning of 1993 in Grozny they destroyed weapons depots, armed themselves. 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 to 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. At his husband's work (local state farm), Russians were removed 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. Two hours later she returned home, said that she was raped.
Russians were humiliated in every way. In particular, in Grozny, near the Press House, there was a poster: “Russians, don’t leave, we need slaves.”
Image taken from: Anger of the People and Sergey Ovcharenko shared a photo of Andrey Afanasiev.

The exact number of prisoners of war captured by militants during both Chechen campaigns, perhaps, no one will name now - according to the joint grouping of federal forces, there were up to 2 thousand people captured, missing and deserters during these two wars. Human rights organizations cite other figures, upwards.

Why were they captured

The usual perception of prisoners in a war situation as deprived of the opportunity to resist (wounded, surrounded by superior enemy forces), in relation to Chechen campaigns false. In most cases, our servicemen were captured due to indiscretion and inexperience: they went “on their own”, for vodka or drugs, or lost their vigilance for another reason.

Boys often fought in the First Chechen War, having no idea where they ended up, not knowing the mentality of bandits and their accomplices. They were unprepared for the many-sided danger that lay in wait for them at every corner. Not to mention the lack of combat experience - both in mountainous areas and in urban areas. Many times in Chechnya, fighters were captured precisely because of their unpreparedness for a clash in a particular situation.

Why were prisoners needed?

AT in practical terms they were used for two purposes: ransom or exchange. For ransom, they were often purposefully captured - they caught or lured careless soldiers - at checkpoints, in the dispositions of troops ... Information about who and how much can pay for whom was quickly found out - Chechen diasporas are in any large Russian city. As a rule, they demanded about 2 million non-denominated rubles per head (data from 1995).

The prisoners were resold to other gangs or to Chechens whose relatives were under investigation or in custody. It was a very common and highly profitable business - the relatives of the captives sold their apartments and cars, in general, everything that was of value in order to rescue their sons. There were cases when the mothers themselves, who came to Chechnya to save captured children, were also captured.

The commercial component almost always came to the fore - if the militants knew that they could get a good deal from the prisoner's relatives for his rescue, they used it. The prisoners could be exchanged for the corpses of dead militants, especially if they were field commanders.

They say that during the First Chechen War, it happened that the command of the Russian armed forces gave the militants an ultimatum: do not release the prisoners, we will wipe the village into dust. And this threat worked - the captured servicemen were released.

Calls for surrender

The history of the Chechen war is a terrible mixture of various components and fatal circumstances. And one of the main ones was betrayal - first of all, the military personnel themselves, often thoughtlessly sent to the slaughter. Representatives of many organizations acted in Chechnya, each of which pursued its own interests. Captured Russian servicemen more than once became a bargaining chip in this game.

During the New Year's storming of Grozny (1994-1995), Sergei Kovalev, Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation, persuaded the fighters to surrender. General G. Troshev and deputy battalion commander of the 131st motorized rifle brigade Alexander Petrenko later noted in his memoirs what “guaranteed” “benefits” went to the prisoners in this battle - the prisoners were brutally tortured and killed.

Torture and torment

In most cases, according to the recollections of the surviving captives, they were treated worse than the most negligent peasant with his cattle - they were fed terribly, constantly mocked and beaten. Executions of prisoners in such mountain death camps were commonplace. Many died of hunger and torment. Posted on the Internet a large number of videos about what the militants were doing with the captured soldiers. Even a person with a strong psyche will not be able to watch all this without a shudder.

At the same time, one must pay tribute to the Russian captives, who in their absolute majority did not flinch in front of the menacing ultimatums of the bandits. There were, of course, traitorous servicemen who, out of animal fear, cooperated with the "separatists", but only a few, and their names are most often known.

And very many captured soldiers and officers were martyred (most often they were not just killed, but brutally tortured beforehand) - because they refused to change their religion, go to the service of militants. They knew what awaited them, but they did not bow their heads before the brutal creatures.

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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 involved in hostilities on the territory of the Kadar zone. According to Basayev, the operation "Imam Gamzat-bek" was undertaken Chechen fighters in order to ease the pressure of the 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 with the support of 1 BMP-2. At an altitude of 444.3, Russian soldiers dug full-length trenches and a caponier for BMP.

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 shed. 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.