My father’s heart sank with a sense of foreboding when he went out into the courtyard of the helicopter factory where he worked to take a smoke break. Suddenly he saw two white swans flying in the sky with a plaintive purr. He thought about Dima. I felt bad from a bad feeling. His son Dmitry Petrov at that moment, together with his comrades, repelled the attacks of bandits under the leadership of Khattab and Shamil Basayev near the foot of height 776 near Ulus-Kert.
White swans in the March sky are harbingers of the death of Pskov paratroopers
On the day when the detachment of paratroopers advanced to the combat mission area, wet sticky snow began to fall and the weather was unflyable. And the terrain - continuous gullies, ravines, the mountain river Abazulgol and beech forest - prevented the landing of helicopters. Therefore, the detachment moved on foot. They did not have time to reach the height when they were discovered by bandits. The battle has begun. The paratroopers died one after another. They didn't get help. The commanders of the troops, Shamanov, have already reported to Russian President Vladimir Putin that the war in Chechnya is over, all large gangs have been destroyed. The general hurried. The parents of the dead 84 Pskov paratroopers urgently demanded an independent investigation and punishment of those responsible who failed to come to the aid of the dying company during the three days of battle, from February 29 to March 1, 2000. 90 paratroopers fought against 2,500 thousand bandits.
For this battle, 21 paratroopers received the Hero Star posthumously. Dima Petrov is among them. The parents cherished the star like the apple of their eye. But they didn’t save it. Apartment thieves stole the relic. Local newspapers wrote about this. And a miracle happened. Even thieves, it turns out, have hearts. They tossed the reward around front door to the apartment.
A school in the city of Rostov-on-Don is named after the hero of Russia. In 2016, a memorial plaque was installed on the house where Dima studied at the Young Pilot club. There is no monument to the hero in the city.
Feat of the Orthodox spirit without official awards
In the narrow, dead gorge Khanchelak during the first Chechen war in 1995, Chechen militants staged an ambush. Time for rescue is only 25 minutes or less. Russian helicopter pilots succeeded. But after a short battle, the comrades were missing Alexander Voronov. He was sitting on an armored vehicle and was apparently hit by a shock wave. They were looking for him. To no avail. Only blood on the stones. Sasha was captured. They searched for him in the surrounding villages for another three days. Not found. Five years have passed. The second Chechen war began in 2000. After the assault on the village of Utam-Kala, local residents told the special forces that they had a special pit (zindan) in their backyard. There is a Russian man sitting there.
A miracle happened. When the fighters descended along a wooden ladder into a seven-meter hole, they hardly recognized the bearded man in decaying camouflage, dressed in burlap, as their lost friend. He was staggering. He was very weak. Special forces soldier Sasha Voronov was alive. He fell to his knees, cried and kissed the free ground. He was saved by his indestructible will to live and orthodox cross. He took it in his hands, kissed it, rolled pellets of clay and ate it. His hands were cut by bandits' knives. They practiced hand-to-hand combat techniques on it. Not everyone gets to experience such challenges. This is a real feat. Feat human spirit. Even without official awards.
Zhukov walked through a minefield
In the Argun Gorge, a reconnaissance group was ambushed while carrying out a mission. She could not tear herself away, having two seriously wounded people in her arms. Lieutenant Colonel of the North Caucasus Military Headquarters District Alexander Zhukov receives an order to rescue his comrades. It is not possible to land helicopters in dense forests. The soldiers are lifted up the winch. To help evacuate the remaining wounded, Zhukov winches down. Mi-24s, which are designed to provide fire support, cannot fire - a salvo can destroy their own.
Zhukov lowers the helicopter. It turns out. 100 meters away, militants surround him and the remaining two fighters on three sides. Heavy fire. And - captivity. The militants did not kill the fighters. After all, a captured district headquarters officer can be ransomed at a profit. The tractor driver, the leader of the militants, orders the prisoners not to be fed and to be methodically beaten. He sells Colonel Zhukov to field commander Gelayev. The gang of which is surrounded near the village of Komsomolskoye. The area is mined. Gelayev orders the prisoners to walk through the minefield. Alexander Zhukov was blown up by a mine, was seriously wounded and received the star of the Hero of Russia. Alive.
I didn’t attach the Hero’s Star to my ceremonial jacket.
In 1995, in the area of Minutka Square, Chechen militants dressed in airborne uniforms with short haircuts characteristic of paratroopers killed the local population. The alleged atrocities of Russian soldiers were filmed on camera. A report was received about this to Ivan Babichev, the general of the united group “West”. He gives the order to Colonel Vasily Nuzhny to neutralize the militants.
Nuzhny visited Afghanistan twice and had military decorations. A proposal to confer the title of Hero of Russia has already been sent to him.
He and the soldiers began clearing the ruins of houses. Four militants were found. Surrounded. They ordered to surrender. Suddenly, from the forks, shots were heard from other bandits sitting in ambush. Vasily Nuzhny was wounded. Blood instantly appeared in the place on the chest where the golden star should have hung. He died almost immediately.
Tanya and 17 children were rescued by scouts
In the village of Bamut, 18 children were rescued by a reconnaissance platoon under the command of Sergeant Danila Blarneysky. The militants held children hostage in order to use them as human shields. Our scouts suddenly burst into the house and began carrying out the children. The bandits went wild. They shot at their defenseless backs. The soldiers fell, but under heavy fire they grabbed the children and ran to hide them under saving stones. 27 soldiers died. The last girl rescued, Tanya Blank, was wounded in the leg. All other children survived. Danil was seriously wounded and did not receive the Hero of Russia star because he was discharged from the army. Instead of this well-deserved award, he puts the Order of Courage on his jacket.
HEROES OF THE SOVIET UNION. (9 people):
Five Chechens received the title of Hero Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic War. Four WWII participants were awarded the titles of Hero of the Soviet Union and Russia in the 80s and 90s.
During the Great Patriotic War (5 people):
Khanpasha Nuradilovich Nuradilov.Hero of the Soviet Union. Participant in the Battle of Stalingrad. He destroyed more than 900 German soldiers with a machine gun, destroyed 7 machine gun crews, and captured 14 opponents. By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated April 17, 1943, Nuradilov was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Idrisov Abukhadzhi (Abukhazhi). By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated June 3, 1944, for exemplary fulfillment of command assignments and demonstrated courage and heroism in battles with the Nazi invaders, Senior Sergeant Idrisov Abukhadzhi was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal (No. 4739) . Beybulatov Irbaikhan Adelkhanovich. Commanding a rifle battalion in the battles for the city of Melitopol, I. Beibulatov showed extraordinary ability as a tactician in difficult conditions of street combat. The battalion under his command repelled 19 enemy counterattacks and destroyed 7 tanks and more than 1,000 Nazis. Irbaikhan Beybulatov himself destroyed one tank and 18 enemy soldiers. His brothers Magomed, Mahmud and Beisalt fought with him in this battle. By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated November 1, 1943, Irbaikhan Beibulatov was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union Magomed-Mirzoev. For courage and heroism, by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of January 15, 1944, he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Dachiev Hansultan Chapaevich. Junior Lieutenant Soviet Army, participant in the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union (1944). By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated January 15, 1944, for “the exemplary execution of the command’s combat mission in the fight against the German invaders and the courage and heroism shown,” Red Army soldier Hansultan Dachiev was awarded the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal. "under number 3201. By the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated May 24, 1955, Hansultan Dachiev was deprived of the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, but on August 21, 1985 he was restored to this title.In the 80s - 90s (4 people):
Visaitov Mavlid (Movladi) Aleroevich. Commander of the 28th Guards Cavalry Regiment (6th Guards Cavalry Division, 2nd Belorussian Front) Guard Lieutenant Colonel. Hero of the Soviet Union (1986). Kanti Abdurakhmanov. Sergeant major of the Soviet Army, participant in the Great Patriotic War, Hero Russian Federation (1996). Uzuev Magomed Yakhyaevich. Sergeant, defender Brest Fortress, Hero of Russia (1996) Magomed Yakhyaevich Uzuev. Magomed Uzuev heroically during the defense of the Brest Fortress - tied himself with ammunition and with the words: “We will die, but we will not surrender!” - rushed into the thick of the advancing enemies. For courage and heroism shown in the fight against German-fascist invaders in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945, Uzuev Magomed was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation (posthumously) on February 19, 1996 by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation. The name of Uzuev is carved on the memorial of the Brest Fortress among its other defenders. Umarov Movldi Abdul-Vakhabovich. Hero of Russia. For the courage and heroism shown in the fight against the Nazi invaders, Umarov M. A-B by order command of troops Western Front was posthumously nominated for the title of Hero of the Soviet Union (02/18/43). However, he was never awarded the title. After 53 long years, by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of May 16, 1996. Movldi Abdul-Vakhabovich Umarov was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation posthumously.HEROES OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION.
Nineteen Chechens received the title of Hero of Russia during the first and second Chechen wars, ten of them (more than half) posthumously.
Heroes of Russia (9 people):
Ramzan Akhmatovich Kadyrov. Russian statesman and politician, head of the Chechen Republic, member of the bureau of the party's Supreme Council " United Russia", Son of the first president of the Chechen Republic. For the courage and heroism shown in the performance of official duty in conditions involving risk to life, Ramzan Akhmatovich Kadyrov was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation. (December 29, 2004) Kakiev Said-Magomed Shamaevich. Hero of Russia. Participant in the counter-terrorist operation in the Chechen Republic. In 2003-2007 - commander of the special forces battalion "West" of the Main intelligence agency General Staff Armed Forces Russia. Usamov Nurdin Danilbekovich. By Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 345 of March 21, 2003, Nurdin Danilbekovich Usamov was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation for courage and heroism shown in the performance of official duty in conditions involving risk to life. Yamadayev Ruslan Bekmirzaevich. By Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 1004 of August 2, 2004, Ruslan Bekmirzaevich Yamadayev was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation for courage and heroism shown in the performance of official duty in conditions involving risk to life. Suleiman Bekmirzaevich Yamadayev. On April 30, 2005, Sulim was awarded the title “Hero of Russia”, the awarding took place in July 2005 behind closed doors, the text of the decree was not published in the media Batsaev Ruslan Yurkievich. Police lieutenant colonel, Hero of the Russian Federation (2006). By decree of the President of the Russian Federation of August 1, 2006, for courage and heroism shown in the performance of official duty, police lieutenant colonel Ruslan Batsayev was posthumously awarded the high title of Hero of the Russian Federation. Daudov Magomed Khozhakhmedovich. Head of the Administration of the Head and Government of the Chechen Republic. By decree of the President of Russia in July 2007, Magomed Daudov was awarded the title of Hero of Russia for the courage and heroism shown in the performance of his official duty. Delimkhanov Alibek Sultanovich. Colonel, commander of a military unit. By decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated June 23, 2009, Alibek Sultanovich Delimkhanov was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation for the courage and heroism shown in the performance of his official duty. Vahit Abubakarovich Usmaev. Commander of Regiment No. 2 of the Special Purpose Police Patrol Service under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Chechen Republic, Colonel. By decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated July 7, 2010, Colonel Usmaev Vakhit Abubakarovich was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation for the courage and heroism shown in the performance of his official duty.Heroes of Russia - posthumously. (10 people):
Kadyrov Akhmad Abdulkhamidovich. On May 10, 2004, for the courage and heroism shown in the line of duty, the title of Hero of Russia was posthumously awarded to the President of Chechnya, Akhmat Kadyrov, who died the day before. Yusup Mutushevich Elmurzaev. Hero of the Russian Federation. For the courage and dedication shown in defending the constitutional system and establishing law and order in the Chechen Republic, by decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 856 dated June 11, 1996, Yusup Mutushevich Elmurzaev, head of the administration of the Urus-Martan district of the Chechen Republic, was awarded the title of Hero of Russia (posthumously). Dangireev Mikhail Sultanovich. Senior Sergeant. Hero of the Russian Federation. Chechen. Since November 1999, Dangireev, as part of a group of federal troops, took part in the second Chechen war. The order to award Mikhail Sultanovich Dangireev the title of Hero of the Russian Federation posthumously was signed on August 8, 2000. Tashukhadzhiev Magomed Saidievich. A Chechen 15-year-old teenager who died in battle with terrorists while defending his family. Hero of Russia. On June 31, 2001, he was awarded the title of Hero of Russia posthumously Baskhanov Rizvan Sharudievich. In September 2002, the title of hero was posthumously awarded to Grozny traffic police inspector junior sergeant Rizvan Baskhanov, who shielded his comrades from a grenade explosion in battle. Akhmed Gapurovich Zavgaev. Russian statesman. By decree of the President of the Russian Federation of November 11, 2002, for “courage and heroism shown in the performance of official duty,” Akhmed Zavgaev was posthumously awarded the high title of Hero of the Russian Federation Amir Zagaev. On May 8, 2003, the head of the Vedeno district administration, Amir Zagaev, who was killed by militants on August 5, 1996, was posthumously awarded the title of hero. Dzhabrail Yamadayev. Commander of a special purpose company. By Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 348 of March 22, 2003, for courage and heroism shown in the performance of military duty, Lieutenant Yamadayev Dzhabrail Bekmirzaevich was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation Gazimagomadov, Musa Denilbekovich. In 2003, the title of Hero of the Russian Federation was posthumously received by the commander of the riot police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya, Lieutenant Colonel Musa Gazimagomadov. Lorsanov Saypuddin Sharpudinovich. Police major. Head of the Department of Internal Affairs for the Oktyabrsky district of Grozny. For courage, heroism and selfless actions shown during combat operations with illegal armed groups on the territory of the Chechen Republic, for a significant contribution to the fight against crime, terrorism and extremism, police major Saipuddin Sharpudinovich Lorsanov was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation (posthumously) by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation. .Eternal glory to the heroes!!!
18-year-old Yakut Volodya from a distant deer camp was a sable hunter. It had to happen that I came to Yakutsk for salt and ammunition, and accidentally saw piles of corpses in the dining room on TV Russian soldiers on the streets of Grozny, smoking tanks and some words about “Dudaev’s snipers.” This got into Volodya’s head, so much so that the hunter returned to the camp, took his earned money, and sold the little gold he had found. He took his grandfather’s rifle and all the cartridges, put the icon of St. Nicholas the Saint in his bosom and went to fight.
It’s better not to remember how I was driving, how I sat in the bullpen, how many times my rifle was taken away. But, nevertheless, a month later the Yakut Volodya arrived in Grozny.
Volodya had only heard about one general fighting regularly in Chechnya, and he began to look for him in the February muddy roads. Finally, the Yakut was lucky and reached the headquarters of General Rokhlin.
The only document besides his passport was a handwritten certificate from the military commissar stating that Vladimir Kolotov, a hunter by profession, was heading to war, signed by the military commissar. The piece of paper, which had become frayed on the road, had saved his life more than once.
Rokhlin, surprised that someone had arrived at the war at will, ordered the Yakut to come to him.
- Excuse me, please, are you that General Rokhlya? - Volodya asked respectfully.
“Yes, I’m Rokhlin,” answered the tired general, peering inquisitively at the man. short, dressed in a frayed padded jacket, with a backpack and a rifle on his back.
- I was told that you came to the war on your own. For what purpose, Kolotov?
- I saw on TV how the Chechens were killing our people with snipers. I can't stand this, Comrade General. It's a shame, though. So I came to bring them down. You don't need money, you don't need anything. I, Comrade General Rokhlya, will go hunting at night myself. Let them show me the place where they will put the cartridges and food, and I will do the rest myself. If I get tired, I’ll come back in a week, sleep in the warmth for a day, and go again. You don't need a walkie-talkie or anything like that... it's hard.
Surprised, Rokhlin nodded his head.
- Take, Volodya, at least a new SVDashka. Give him a rifle!
- No need, Comrade General, I’m going out into the field with my scythe. Just give me some ammunition, I only have 30 left now...
So Volodya began his war, the sniper war.
He slept for a day in the headquarters cabins, despite the mine shelling and terrible artillery fire. I took ammunition, food, water and went on my first “hunt”. They forgot about him at headquarters. Only reconnaissance regularly brought cartridges, food and, most importantly, water to the appointed place every three days. Each time I was convinced that the parcel had disappeared.
The first person to remember Volodya at the headquarters meeting was the “interceptor” radio operator.
- Lev Yakovlevich, the “Czechs” are in panic on the radio. They say that the Russians, that is, we, have a certain black sniper who works at night, boldly walks through their territory and shamelessly cuts down their personnel. Maskhadov even put a price of 30 thousand dollars on his head. His handwriting is like this - this fellow hits Chechens right in the eye. Why only by sight - the dog knows him...
And then the staff remembered about the Yakut Volodya.
“He regularly takes food and ammunition from the cache,” the intelligence chief reported.
“And so we didn’t exchange a word with him, we didn’t even see him even once.” Well, how did he leave you on the other side...
One way or another, the report noted that our snipers also give their snipers a light. Because Volodin’s work gave such results - from 16 to 30 people were killed by the fisherman with a shot in the eye.
The Chechens figured out that the federals had a commercial hunter on Minutka Square. And since the main events of those terrible days took place in this square, a whole detachment of Chechen volunteers came out to catch the sniper.
Then, in February 1995, at Minutka, thanks to Rokhlin’s cunning plan, our troops had already reduced almost three quarters of the personnel of the so-called “Abkhaz” battalion of Shamil Basayev. Volodya’s Yakut carbine also played a significant role here. Basayev promised a golden Chechen star to anyone who brought the body of a Russian sniper. But the nights passed in unsuccessful searches. Five volunteers walked along the front line in search of Volodya’s “beds” and placed tripwires wherever he could appear in direct view of their positions. However, this was a time when groups from one and the other side broke through the enemy’s defenses and penetrated deeply into its territory. Sometimes it was so deep that there was no longer any chance to break out to our own people. But Volodya slept during the day under the roofs and in the basements of houses. The corpses of Chechens - the night "work" of a sniper - were buried the next day.
Then, tired of losing 20 people every night, Basayev called from the reserves in the mountains a master of his craft, a teacher from the training camp for young shooters, the Arab sniper Abubakar. Volodya and Abubakar could not help but meet in a night battle, such are the laws of sniper warfare.
And they met two weeks later. More precisely, Abubakar hit Volodya with a drill rifle. A powerful bullet, which once killed Soviet paratroopers right through in Afghanistan at a distance of one and a half kilometers, pierced the padded jacket and slightly caught the arm, just below the shoulder. Volodya, feeling the rush of a hot wave of oozing blood, realized that the hunt had finally begun for him.
The buildings on the opposite side of the square, or rather their ruins, merged into a single line in Volodya's optics. “What flashed, the optics?” thought the hunter, and he knew cases when a sable saw a sight glinting in the sun and went away. The place he chose was located under the roof of a five-story residential building. Snipers always like to be on top so they can see everything. And he lay under the roof - under a sheet of old tin, the wet snow rain, which kept coming and then stopping, did not wet it.
Abubakar tracked down Volodya only on the fifth night - he tracked him down by his pants. The fact is that the Yakuts had ordinary, cotton pants. This is an American camouflage, which was often worn by Chechens, impregnated with a special composition, in which the uniform was indistinctly visible in night vision devices, and the domestic uniform glowed with a bright light green light. So Abubakar “identified” the Yakut into the powerful night optics of his “Bur”, custom-made by English gunsmiths back in the 70s.
One bullet was enough, Volodya rolled out from under the roof and fell painfully with his back on the steps of the stairs. “The main thing is that I didn’t break the rifle,” thought the sniper.
- Well, that means a duel, yes, Mr. Chechen sniper! - the Yakut said to himself mentally without emotion.
Volodya specifically stopped shredding the “Chechen order.” The neat row of 200s with his sniper “autograph” on the eye stopped. “Let them believe that I was killed,” Volodya decided.
All he did was look out for where the enemy sniper got to him from.
Two days later, already in the afternoon, he found Abubakar’s “bed”. He also lay under the roof, under a half-bent roofing sheet on the other side of the square. Volodya would not have noticed him if the Arab sniper had not been betrayed by a bad habit - he was smoking marijuana. Once every two hours, Volodya caught a light bluish haze through his optics, rising above the roofing sheet and immediately being carried away by the wind.
“So I found you, abrek! You can’t live without drugs! Good...” the Yakut hunter thought triumphantly; he did not know that he was dealing with an Arab sniper who had passed through both Abkhazia and Karabakh. But Volodya did not want to kill him just like that, by shooting through the roofing sheet. This was not the case with snipers, and even less so with fur hunters.
“Okay, you smoke while lying down, but you’ll have to get up to go to the toilet,” Volodya decided calmly and began to wait.
Only three days later did he figure out that Abubakar was crawling out from under a leaf in right side, and not to the left, quickly gets the job done and returns to the “bed”. To “get” the enemy, Volodya had to change his position at night. He couldn't do anything anew, because any new roofing sheet would immediately give away his new location. But Volodya found two fallen logs from the rafters with a piece of tin a little to the right, about fifty meters from his point. The place was excellent for shooting, but very inconvenient for a “bed”. For two more days Volodya looked out for the sniper, but he did not show up. Volodya had already decided that the enemy had left for good, when the next morning he suddenly saw that he had “opened up.” Three seconds of aiming with a slight exhalation, and the bullet hit the target. Abubakar was struck on the spot in the right eye. For some reason, against the impact of the bullet, he fell flat from the roof onto the street. A large, greasy stain of blood spread across the mud in the square of Dudayev’s palace, where an Arab sniper was killed on the spot by one hunter’s bullet.
“Well, I got you,” Volodya thought without any enthusiasm or joy. He realized that he had to continue his fight, showing his characteristic style. To prove that he is alive and that the enemy did not kill him a few days ago.
Volodya peered through his optics at the motionless body of the slain enemy. Nearby he saw a “Bur”, which he did not recognize, since he had never seen such rifles before. In a word, a hunter from the deep taiga!
And then he was surprised: the Chechens began to crawl out into the open to take the sniper’s body. Volodya took aim. Three people came out and bent over the body. “Let them pick you up and carry you, then I’ll start shooting!” - Volodya triumphed.
The three of the Chechens actually lifted the body. Three shots were fired. Three bodies fell on top of the dead Abubakar.
Four more Chechen volunteers jumped out of the ruins and, throwing away the bodies of their comrades, tried to pull out the sniper. A Russian machine gun started working from the side, but the bursts fell a little higher, without causing harm to the hunched Chechens.
Four more shots rang out, almost merging into one. Four more corpses had already formed a pile.
Volodya killed 16 militants that morning. He did not know that Basayev had given the order to get the Arab’s body at all costs before it began to get dark. He had to be sent to the mountains to be buried there before sunrise, as an important and respectable Mujahid.
A day later, Volodya returned to Rokhlin’s headquarters. The general immediately received him as a dear guest. The news of the duel between two snipers had already spread throughout the army.
- Well, how are you, Volodya, tired? Do you want to go home?
Volodya warmed his hands at the stove.
“That’s it, Comrade General, I’ve done my job, it’s time to go home.” Spring work at the camp begins. The military commissar only released me for two months. My two younger brothers worked for me all this time. It's time to know...
Rokhlin nodded his head in understanding.
- Take a good rifle, my chief of staff will draw up the documents...
- Why, I have my grandfather’s. - Volodya lovingly hugged the old carbine.
The general did not dare to ask the question for a long time. But curiosity got the better of me.
- How many enemies did you defeat, did you count? They say more than a hundred... Chechens were talking to each other.
Volodya lowered his eyes.
- 362 militants, Comrade General.
- Well, go home, now we can handle it ourselves...
- Comrade General, if anything happens, call me again, I’ll sort out the work and come a second time!
Volodya’s face showed frank concern for the entire Russian Army.
- By God, I’ll come!
The Order of Courage found Volodya Kolotov six months later. On this occasion, the entire collective farm celebrated, and the military commissar allowed the sniper to go to Yakutsk to buy new boots - the old ones had become worn out in Chechnya. The hunter stepped on some pieces of iron.
On the day when the whole country learned about the death of General Lev Rokhlin, Volodya also heard about what happened on the radio. He drank alcohol on the premises for three days. He was found drunk in a temporary hut by other hunters returning from hunting. Volodya kept repeating drunk:
- It’s okay, Comrade General Rokhlya, if necessary we will come, just tell me...
After Vladimir Kolotov left for his homeland, scum in officer uniform sold his information to Chechen terrorists, who he was, where he came from, where he went, etc. The Yakut Sniper inflicted too many losses on the evil spirits.
Vladimir was killed by a shot from 9 mm. pistol in his yard while he was chopping wood. The criminal case was never solved.
The first Chechen war. How it all started.
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For the first time I heard the legend of Volodya the sniper, or as he was also called - Yakut (and the nickname is so textured that it even migrated to the famous television series about those days). They told it in different ways, along with legends about the Eternal Tank, the Death Girl and other army folklore. Moreover, the most amazing thing is that in the story about Volodya the sniper, an almost letter-by-word similarity was surprisingly traced with the story of the great Zaitsev, who killed Hans, a major, the head of the Berlin sniper school in Stalingrad. To be honest, I then perceived it as... well, let's say, like folklore - at a rest stop - and it was believed and not believed. Then there was a lot of things, as, indeed, in any war, which you won’t believe, but turns out to be TRUE. Life is generally more complex and unexpected than any fiction.
Later, in 2003-2004, one of my friends and comrades told me that he personally knew this guy, and that indeed HE WAS. Whether there was that same duel with Abubakar, and whether the Czechs actually had such a super sniper, to be honest, I don’t know, they had enough serious snipers, and especially during the Air Campaign. And there were serious weapons, including South African SSVs, and porridge (including prototypes of the B-94, which were just entering pre-series, the spirits already had, and with numbers in the first hundred - Pakhomych will not let you lie.
How they ended up with them is a separate story, but nevertheless, the Czechs had such trunks. And they themselves made semi-handicraft SCVs near Grozny.)
Volodya the Yakut really worked alone, he worked exactly as described - by eye. And the rifle he had was exactly the one described - an old Mosin three-line rifle of pre-revolutionary production, with a faceted breech and a long barrel - an infantry model of 1891.
The real name of Volodya-Yakut is Vladimir Maksimovich Kolotov, originally from the village of Iengra in Yakutia. However, he himself is not a Yakut, but an Evenk.
At the end of the First Campaign, he was patched up in the hospital, and since he was officially a nobody and there was no way to call him, he simply went home.
By the way, his combat score is most likely not exaggerated, but understated... Moreover, no one kept an accurate account, and the sniper himself did not particularly brag about it.
Dmitry Travin
Rokhlin, Lev Yakovlevich
From December 1, 1994 to February 1995, he headed the 8th Guards Army Corps in Chechnya. Under his leadership, a number of areas of Grozny were captured, including the presidential palace. On January 17, 1995, generals Lev Rokhlin and Ivan Babichev were appointed by the military command to contact the Chechen field commanders with the aim of a ceasefire.
Murder of a General
On the night of July 2-3, 1998, he was found murdered at his own dacha in the village of Klokovo, Naro-Fominsk district, Moscow region. According to the official version, his wife, Tamara Rokhlina, shot at the sleeping Rokhlin; the reason was given as a family quarrel.
In November 2000, the Naro-Fominsk City Court found Tamara Rokhlina guilty of the premeditated murder of her husband. In 2005, Tamara Rokhlina appealed to the ECHR, complaining about the long period of pre-trial detention and the delay in the trial. The complaint was upheld and monetary compensation was awarded (EUR 8,000). After a new consideration of the case, on November 29, 2005, the Naro-Fominsk City Court for the second time found Rokhlina guilty of murdering her husband and sentenced her to four years of suspended imprisonment, also assigning her probation at 2.5 years.
During the investigation of the murder, three charred corpses were found in a forested area near the crime scene. According to the official version, their death occurred shortly before the assassination of the general, and has nothing to do with him. However, many of Rokhlin’s associates believed that they were real murderers who were eliminated by the Kremlin’s special services, “covering their tracks”
For his participation in the Chechen campaign, he was nominated for the highest honorary title of Hero of the Russian Federation, but refused to accept this title, stating that he “has no moral right to receive this award for military operations on the territory of his own country.”
On August 31, 1996, the Khasavyurt Agreements were signed, ending the First Chechen War. Journalist Olesya Emelyanova found participants in the First Chechen Campaign and talked with them about the war, their life after the war, Akhmat Kadyrov and much more.
Dmitry Belousov, St. Petersburg, senior warrant officer of the riot police
In Chechnya there was always a feeling: “What am I doing here? Why is all this needed?”, but there was no other work in the 90s. My first wife told me after my first business trip: “It’s either me or the war.” Where will I go? We tried not to leave our business trips; at least we paid our salaries on time - 314 thousand. There were benefits, “combat” payments - they were pennies, I don’t remember exactly how much. And they gave me a bottle of vodka, without it I felt nauseous, in such situations it doesn’t make you drunk, but it helped me cope with stress. I fought for wages. We have a family at home, we had to feed them something. I didn’t know any background to the conflict, I didn’t read anything.
Young conscripts had to be slowly soldered off with alcohol. They are just after training, it is easier for them to die than to fight. Their eyes run wide, their heads are pulled out, they don’t understand anything. They see the blood, they see the dead - they cannot sleep.
Murder is unnatural for a person, although he gets used to everything. When the head doesn’t think, the body does everything on autopilot. It was not as scary to fight with the Chechens as with the Arab mercenaries. They are much more dangerous, they know how to fight very well.
We were prepared for the assault on Grozny for about a week. We - 80 riot police - were supposed to storm the village of Katayama. Later we learned that there were 240 militants there. Our tasks included reconnaissance in force, and then the internal troops were supposed to replace us. But nothing worked out. Ours also hit us. There was no connection. We have our own police radio, the tankers have their own wave, and the helicopter pilots have their own. We are passing the line, the artillery is hitting, the aviation is hitting. The Chechens were scared and thought they were some kind of fools. According to rumors, the Novosibirsk riot police were initially supposed to storm Katayama, but their commander refused. That's why they sent us from reserve to the assault.
I had friends among Chechens in opposition areas. In Shali, for example, in Urus-Martan.
After the fighting, some people drank themselves to death, others ended up in a mental hospital - some were taken straight from Chechnya to a psychiatric hospital. There was no adaptation. The wife left immediately. I can't remember anything good. Sometimes it seems that it is better to erase all this from memory in order to live on and move forward. And sometimes you want to speak out.
There seem to be benefits, but everything is only on paper. There are no levers on how to get them. I still live in the city, it’s easier for me, but for rural residents it’s completely impossible. There are arms and legs - and that’s good. The main trouble is that you rely on the state, which promises you everything, and then it turns out that no one needs you. I felt like a hero and received the Order of Courage. It was my pride. Now I look at everything differently.
If they offered to go and fight now, I would probably go. It's easier there. There is an enemy and there is a friend, black and white - you stop seeing the shades. And in peaceful life you have to twist and bend. It's tiring. When Ukraine began, I wanted to go, but my current wife dissuaded me.
Vladimir Bykov, Moscow, infantry sergeant
When I came to Chechnya, I was 20 years old. It was a conscious choice; I applied to the military registration and enlistment office and left as a contract soldier in May 1996. Before that, I studied at a military school for two years, and at school I studied bullet shooting.
In Mozdok we were loaded into a Mi-26 helicopter. It felt like you were seeing footage from an American movie. When we arrived in Khankala, the soldiers who had already served for some time offered me a drink. They gave me a glass of water. I took a sip, and my first thought was: “Where should I throw this out?” The taste of “war water” with bleach and pantocides is a kind of point of no return and the understanding that there is no turning back.
I didn’t and don’t feel like a hero. To become a hero in war, you must either die, commit an act that becomes public knowledge, or be close to the commander. And commanders, as a rule, are far away.
My goal in the war was minimal losses. I didn’t fight for the Reds or the Whites, I fought for my guys. In war, a reassessment of values occurs; you begin to look at life differently.
The feeling of fear begins to disappear after about a month, and this is very bad; indifference to everything appears. Each of them came out differently. Some smoked, some drank. I wrote letters. Described the mountains, the weather, local residents and their customs. Then he tore up these letters. It was still not possible to send.
It was psychologically difficult, because it is often not clear whether you are a friend or an enemy. It seems that during the day a person calmly goes to work, and at night he goes out with a machine gun and fires at checkpoints. During the day you are on normal terms with him, and in the evening he shoots at you.
For ourselves, we divided the Chechens into lowland and mountainous. Lowlanders are more intelligent people, more integrated into our society. But those living in the mountains have a completely different mentality; a woman is nothing to them. Ask a lady for documents for verification - and this may be perceived as a personal insult to her husband. We came across women from mountain villages who didn’t even have passports.
One day, at a checkpoint at the intersection with Serzhen-Yurt, we stopped a car. A man came out with a yellow ID card in English and Arabic. It turned out to be Mufti Akhmat Kadyrov. We talked quite peacefully about everyday topics. He asked if there was anything he could do to help. At that time we had difficulties with food; there was no bread. Then he brought us two trays of loaves of bread to the checkpoint. They wanted to give him money, but he didn’t take it.
I think that we could end the war in such a way that there would not be a second Chechen one. It was necessary to go to the end, and not conclude a peace agreement on shameful terms. Many soldiers and officers then felt that the state had betrayed them.
When I returned home, I threw myself into my studies. I studied at one institute, at the same time in another, and also worked to keep my brain occupied. Then he defended his Ph.D. dissertation.
When I was a student, I was sent to a course in psychosocial support for survivors of hot spots, organized by a Dutch university. I then thought that Holland didn’t fight with anyone in lately. But they answered me that Holland took part in the Indonesian war in the late 40s - as many as two thousand people. I offered to show them in quality educational material videotape from Chechnya. But their psychologists turned out to be morally unprepared and asked not to show the recording to the audience.
Andrey Amosov, St. Petersburg, SOBR major
I knew that I would be an officer from the third or fourth grade. My dad is a policeman, now retired, my grandfather is an officer, my brother is also an officer, my great-grandfather died in Finnish war. At the genetic level, this has borne fruit. At school I went in for sports, then I was in the army, a special forces group. I have always had a desire to give back to my homeland, and when I was offered to join a special rapid response unit, I agreed. There was no doubt whether to go or not, I took the oath. During conscript service I was in Ingushetia, it was clear to me what kind of mentality awaited me. I understood where I was going.
When you go to SOBR, it’s stupid not to think that you could lose your life. But my choice was conscious. I am ready to give my life for my homeland and for my friends. What doubts are there? Politics should be handled by politicians, and military structures should carry out orders. I believe that the introduction of troops into Chechnya both under Yeltsin and under Putin was correct, so that the radical theme would not spread further on Russian territory.
For me, the Chechens have never been enemies. My first friend at the technical school was a Chechen, his name was Khamzat. In Chechnya we gave them rice and buckwheat, in our country good food it was, but they needed it.
We worked on the leaders of gangs. We captured one of them in battle at four o'clock in the morning and destroyed it. For this I received a medal “For Courage”.
On special missions we acted coherently, as a single team. The tasks were set different, sometimes difficult to achieve. And these are not only combat missions. It was necessary to survive in the mountains, to freeze, to take turns sleeping near the stove and to warm each other with hugs when there was no firewood. All boys are heroes to me. The team helped overcome fear when the militants were 50 meters away and shouted “Surrender!” When I remember Chechnya, I more imagine the faces of my friends, how we joked, our unity. The humor was specific, on the verge of sarcasm. I think I underestimated this before.
It was easier for us to adapt because we worked in the same department and went on business trips together. Time passed, and we ourselves expressed a desire to go to North Caucasus. The physical factor worked. The feeling of fear that adrenaline gives had a strong influence. I regarded combat missions as both duty and relaxation.
It would be interesting to look at modern Grozny. When I saw it, it looked like Stalingrad. Nowadays I periodically dream about the war and have disturbing dreams.
Alexander Podskrebaev, Moscow, GRU special forces sergeant
I came to Chechnya in 1996. We didn’t have a single conscript, only officers and contract soldiers. I went because adults should defend the Motherland, not young puppies. In our battalion we had no travel allowances, only combat allowances; we received $100 a month. I didn’t go for money, but to fight for my country. “If the homeland is in danger, then everyone should go to the front,” Vysotsky also sang.
The war in Chechnya did not appear out of the blue; it was Yeltsin’s fault. He himself armed Dudayev - when our units were withdrawn from there, all the warehouses of the North Caucasus Military District were left to him. I talked to ordinary Chechens; they saw this war in their graves. They lived normally, everyone was satisfied with life. It was not the Chechens who started the war and not Dudayev, but Yeltsin. One complete setup.
The Chechens fought, some for money, some for their homeland. They had their own truth. I didn't have the feeling that they were completely evil. But there is no truth in war.
In war you are obliged to follow orders, there’s no escape, even criminal orders. Afterwards you have the right to appeal them, but first you must comply. And we carried out criminal orders. That's when, for example, they brought the Maikop brigade into Grozny under New Year. The scouts knew that this could not be done, but the order was from above. How many boys were driven to their deaths? This was betrayal in its purest form.
Take, for example, the cash-in-transit KamAZ with money, which was standing near the headquarters of the 205th brigade when the Khasavyurt agreements were signed. Bearded guys came and loaded bags of money. The FSB allegedly gave money to the militants for the restoration of Chechnya. But we didn’t pay wages, but Yeltsin gave us Zippo lighters.
For me, the real heroes are Budanov and Shamanov. My chief of staff is a hero. While in Chechnya, he managed to write scientific work about the rupture of an artillery barrel. This is a person through whom the power of Russian weapons will become stronger. The Chechens also had heroism. They were characterized by both fearlessness and self-sacrifice. They defended their land, they were told that they were attacked.
I believe that the occurrence of PTSD greatly depends on the attitude of society. If they constantly say to your face, “You’re a murderer!”, this can traumatize someone. There were no syndromes during the Great Patriotic War, because the homeland of the heroes greeted us.
We need to talk about the war from a certain angle so that people don’t do stupid things. There will still be peace, only part of the people will be killed. And not the worst part. This makes no sense.
Alexander Chernov, Moscow, retired colonel, internal troops
In Chechnya, I worked as the head of a computer center. We left on July 25, 1995. There were four of us traveling: me as the head of the computer center and three of my employees. We arrived in Mozdok and got off the plane. The first impression is wild heat. We were taken by helicopter to Khankala. By tradition, in all hot spots the first day is a non-working day. I brought with me two liter bottles of White Eagle vodka and two loaves of Finnish sausage. The men put out Kizlyar cognac and sturgeon.
The internal troops camp in Khankala was a quadrangle surrounded by barbed wire. At the entrance there was a rail in case of artillery attacks to raise the alarm. The four of us lived in a trailer. It was quite convenient, we even had a refrigerator. The freezer was filled with bottles of water because the heat was unbearable.
Our computer center was engaged in collecting and processing all information, primarily operational information. Previously, all information was transmitted via ZAS (classified communication equipment). And six months before Chechnya, we got a device called RAMS - I don’t know how it stands for. This device made it possible to connect a computer with the ZAS, and we could transmit secret information to Moscow. Besides internal work like all kinds of information, twice a day - at 6 am and 12 am - we transmitted operational reports to Moscow. Despite the fact that the volume of files was small, the connection was sometimes poor, and the process took a long time.
We had a video camera and filmed everything. The most important footage is the negotiations of Romanov (Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia, Commander of the Internal Troops Anatoly Romanov) with Maskhadov (one of the separatist leaders Aslan Maskhadov). There were two operators at the negotiations: from their side and from ours. The secretaries took the tape from us, and it future fate I don't know. Or, for example, a new howitzer appeared. Romanov told us: “Go and film how it works.” Our cameraman also filmed the story of how the heads of three foreign journalists were found. We sent the film to Moscow, they processed it there and showed the story on television.
May 1996, airfield of the military base in Khankala
The war was very unprepared. Drunk Grachev and Yegorov sent tankers to Grozny on New Year’s Eve, and they were all burned there. Sending tanks to the city is not quite the right decision. And the personnel were not prepared. It got to the point that the Marines were removed from Far East and they threw it there. People need to be trained, but here the boys were almost straight out of training and thrown into battle. The losses could have been avoided; in the second campaign there were an order of magnitude fewer of them. The truce provided a short respite.
I am sure that the first Chechen war could have been avoided. I believe that the main culprits of this war are Yeltsin, Grachev and Yegorov, they unleashed it. If Yeltsin had appointed Dudayev deputy minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and entrusted him with the North Caucasus, he would have restored order there. The civilian population suffered from the militants. But when we bombed their villages, they rose up against us. Intelligence during the first Chechen war worked very poorly. There were no agents, they lost all the agents. Whether there were militants in the destroyed villages or not, it is impossible to say for sure.
My friend, a military officer, with orders all over his chest, took off his shoulder straps and refused to go to Chechnya. He said that this is the wrong war. He even refused to apply for a pension. Proud.
My illnesses have worsened in Chechnya. It got to such a point that I couldn't work on the computer. Another mode of operation was that I slept only four hours plus a glass of cognac at night to fall asleep.
Ruslan Savitsky, St. Petersburg, private of internal troops
I came to Chechnya in December 1995 from Perm region, where I had training in an operational battalion. We studied for six months and went to Grozny by train. We all wrote petitions so that we would be sent to the combat area and not be forced. If there is only one child in the family, then he could easily refuse.
We were lucky with the officers. These were young guys, only two or three years older than us. They always ran ahead of us and felt responsible. Of the entire battalion, we only had one officer with combat experience who had served in Afghanistan. Only riot police were directly involved in the clean-up operations; we, as a rule, held the perimeter.
In Grozny, we lived in a school building for six months. Part of it was occupied by a riot police unit, about two floors were occupied by us. There were cars parked around and the windows were covered with bricks. In the classroom where we lived there were potbelly stoves and they were heated with wood. We washed ourselves once a month and lived with lice. It was undesirable to go beyond the perimeter. I was taken out of there two weeks earlier than the others for disciplinary violations.
It was boring hanging around at school, although the food was normal. Over time, out of boredom, we started drinking. There were no shops, we bought vodka from the Chechens. It was necessary to go outside the perimeter, walk about a kilometer around the city, come to the usual private house and say that you need alcohol. There was a high probability that you would not return. I walked around without a weapon. Just one machine gun could get you killed.
Destroyed Grozny, 1995
Local banditry is a strange thing. It seemed like a normal person during the day, but in the evening he dug out a machine gun and went to shoot. In the morning I buried the weapon and was back to normal.
The first contact with death was when our sniper was killed. He shot back, he wanted to take the weapon from the dead man, he stepped on a tripwire and blew himself up. In my opinion, this is a complete lack of brains. I had no sense of value own life. I wasn't afraid of death, I was afraid of stupidity. There were a lot of idiots around.
When I returned, I went to get a job in the police, but I did not have a secondary education. I passed the exams as an external student and came back again, but they gave me a ride again because I developed tuberculosis in Chechnya. Also because I drank a lot. I can’t say that the army is to blame for my alcoholism. Alcohol was present in my life before. When the second Chechen war began, I wanted to go. I came to the military registration and enlistment office, they gave me a bunch of documents, this discouraged me a little. Then a criminal record appeared for some bullshit, and my service in the army ended. I wanted courage and excitement, but it didn’t work out.
Daniil Gvozdev, Helsinki, special forces
I ended up in Chechnya by conscription. When the time came to join the army, I asked my coach to place me in good troops - we had a special purpose company in Petrozavodsk. But at the assembly point, my name was heard with those who are going to Sertolovo to become grenade launchers. It turned out that the day before, my coach had left for Chechnya as part of a combined special forces detachment. I, along with the whole “herd,” got up, went to the train, and was in the training unit for three months. Nearby there was part of the paratroopers in Pesochny, I wrote applications there several times to be accepted, and came. Then I realized that everything was useless, I passed the exams to become a radio operator of the 142nd command and staff vehicle. At night, our captain and officers raised us. One walked around in tears, saying how much he respects and loves us all, the second tried to warn. They said that we were all leaving tomorrow. The next night it was so interesting to look at this officer, I still didn’t understand why he shed tears in front of us, he was younger than I am now. He cried: “Guys, I’m going to worry about you so much!” One of the guys told him: “So get ready and come with us.”
We flew to Vladikavkaz via Mozdok. We had three months of active training, and they gave me the 159th radio station on my back. Then I was sent to Chechnya. I stayed there for nine months, I was the only signalman in our company who more or less understood something about communications. After six months, I managed to knock out an assistant - a guy from Stavropol who did not understand anything, but smoked a lot, and for him Chechnya was a paradise in general.
We performed different tasks there. One of the simple ones - they can dig up oil there with a shovel and they installed the following devices: a barrel, under it there is a gas or diesel heater, they drive the oil to a state where in the end gasoline is obtained. They sell gasoline. Huge convoys of trucks were driving. ISIS, banned in Russia, is doing the same thing in Syria. Some won't come to an agreement, they hand him over to their own people - and his barrels will burn, but some will calmly do what is needed. There was also constant work - we guarded the entire leadership of the North Caucasian Military District headquarters, we guarded Shamanov. Well, reconnaissance missions.
We had a task to capture a militant of some kind. We went out into the night to search on the outskirts of the village, and saw that cars were approaching there and draining gasoline. We noticed one comrade there, he was constantly walking around, changing the heating under the barrels, he had a machine gun, well, since a machine gun means an action movie. He had a bottle, he would come over, take a sip and hide it, well, we were lying there, watching with a friend, he said: “He has vodka, they are Muslims, you can’t drink it, so he comes here, drinks it and hides it.” The task of capturing the tongue has faded into the background; we must first grab the vodka. We crawled around, found a bottle, and there was water! This angered us and took him prisoner. This thin militant guy was sent back to us after interrogation by the intelligence department. He told me that he used to do Greco-Roman wrestling and did a handstand with a broken rib, and I respected him greatly for that. He turned out to be the field commander’s cousin, so he was exchanged for two of our soldiers. You should have seen these soldiers: 18-year-old boys, I don’t know, their psyche is clearly broken. We wrote to this guy on a green scarf: “Nothing personal, we don’t want war.”
He asks: “Why didn’t you kill me?” We explained that we were wondering what he was drinking. And he said that they had only one Russian left in the village, they didn’t touch her, because she was a witch, everyone went to her. Two months ago she gave him a bottle of water and said: “They can kill you, drink this water and you will live.”
We were permanently located in Khankala and worked everywhere. The last time we had a demobilization chord was when Bamut was liberated. Have you seen Nevzorov’s film “Mad Company”? So we walked with them, we were on one side along the pass, they were on the other. They had one conscript in the company and it was he who was killed, but all the contract soldiers are alive. One day I was looking through binoculars, and there were some bearded people running around. The company commander says: “Let’s give them a couple of cucumbers.” They asked on the radio station, they told me the coordinates, I looked - they were running around, waving their hands. Then they show a beluga whale - what they wore under camouflage. And we realized that they were ours. It turned out that their batteries did not work for transmission and he could not transmit, but he heard me, so they started waving.
You don't remember anything in battle. Someone says: “When I saw this man’s eyes...” But I don’t remember this. The battle is over, I see that everything is fine, everyone is alive. There was a situation when we got into the ring and caused fire on ourselves, it turns out that if I lie down, there is no connection, and I need to adjust so that we don’t get hit. I got up. The guys shout: “Good! Lie down." But I understand that if there is no connection, they will shut down their own people.
Who came up with the idea of giving children weapons at the age of 18, giving them the right to kill? If you give it, do it so that when people return they will be heroes, but now it’s Kadyrov’s bridges. I understand that they want to reconcile the two nations, everything will be erased in a few generations, but how can these generations live?
When I returned, it was the wild nineties, and almost all my friends were busy with something illegal. I found myself under investigation, a criminal record... At some point, when my head began to clear of the war fog, I waved my hand at this romance. We opened it with veteran guys public organization to support combat veterans. We work, help ourselves and others. I also paint icons.
HEROES OF THE SOVIET UNION. (9 people):
Five Chechens received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic War. Four WWII participants were awarded the titles of Hero of the Soviet Union and Russia in the 80s and 90s.
During the Great Patriotic War (5 people):
Khanpasha Nuradilovich Nuradilov. Hero of the Soviet Union. Participant in the Battle of Stalingrad. He destroyed more than 900 German soldiers with a machine gun, destroyed 7 machine gun crews, and captured 14 opponents. By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated April 17, 1943, Nuradilov was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
Idrisov Abukhadzhi (Abukhazhi). By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated June 3, 1944, for exemplary fulfillment of command assignments and demonstrated courage and heroism in battles with the Nazi invaders, Senior Sergeant Idrisov Abukhadzhi was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal (No. 4739) .
Beybulatov Irbaikhan Adelkhanovich. Commanding a rifle battalion in the battles for the city of Melitopol, I. Beibulatov showed extraordinary ability as a tactician in difficult conditions of street combat. The battalion under his command repelled 19 enemy counterattacks and destroyed 7 tanks and more than 1,000 Nazis. Irbaikhan Beybulatov himself destroyed one tank and 18 enemy soldiers. His brothers Magomed, Mahmud and Beisalt fought with him in this battle. By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated November 1, 1943, Irbaikhan Beibulatov was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union
Magomed-Mirzoev. For courage and heroism, by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of January 15, 1944, he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
Dachiev Hansultan Chapaevich. Junior lieutenant of the Soviet Army, participant in the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union (1944). By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated January 15, 1944, for “the exemplary execution of the command’s combat mission in the fight against the German invaders and the courage and heroism shown,” Red Army soldier Hansultan Dachiev was awarded the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal. "under number 3201. By the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated May 24, 1955, Hansultan Dachiev was deprived of the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, but on August 21, 1985 he was restored to this title.
In the 80s - 90s (4 people):
Visaitov Mavlid (Movladi) Aleroevich. Commander of the 28th Guards Cavalry Regiment (6th Guards Cavalry Division, 2nd Belorussian Front) Guard Lieutenant Colonel. Hero of the Soviet Union (1986).
Kanti Abdurakhmanov. Sergeant major of the Soviet Army, participant in the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Russian Federation (1996).
Uzuev Magomed Yakhyaevich. Sergeant, defender of the Brest Fortress, Hero of Russia (1996) Magomed Yakhyaevich Uzuev. Magomed Uzuev heroically in the defense of the Brest Fortress - tied himself with ammunition and with the words: “We will die, but we will not surrender!” - rushed into the thick of the advancing enemies. For the courage and heroism shown in the fight against the Nazi invaders in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, Uzuev Magomed was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation (posthumously) on February 19, 1996 by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation. The name of Uzuev is carved on the memorial of the Brest Fortress among its other defenders.
Umarov Movldi Abdul-Vakhabovich. Hero of Russia. For the courage and heroism shown in the fight against the Nazi invaders, Umarov M. A-V, by order of the command of the troops of the Western Front, was posthumously nominated for the title of Hero of the Soviet Union (02/18/43).
However, he was never awarded the title. After 53 long years, by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of May 16, 1996. Movldi Abdul-Vakhabovich Umarov was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation posthumously.
HEROES OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION:
Nineteen Chechens received the title of Hero of Russia during the first and second Chechen wars, ten of them (more than half) posthumously.
Heroes of Russia (9 people):
Ramzan Akhmatovich Kadyrov. Russian statesman and political figure, head of the Chechen Republic, member of the bureau of the Supreme Council of the United Russia party, son of the first president of the Chechen Republic. For the courage and heroism shown in the performance of official duty in conditions involving risk to life, Ramzan Akhmatovich Kadyrov was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation. (December 29, 2004)
Kakiev Said-Magomed Shamaevich. Hero of Russia. Participant in the counter-terrorist operation in the Chechen Republic. In 2003-2007 - commander of the special-purpose battalion "West" of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces.
Usamov Nurdin Danilbekovich. By Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 345 of March 21, 2003, Nurdin Danilbekovich Usamov was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation for courage and heroism shown in the performance of official duty in conditions involving risk to life.
Yamadayev Ruslan Bekmirzaevich. By Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 1004 of August 2, 2004, Ruslan Bekmirzaevich Yamadayev was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation for courage and heroism shown in the performance of official duty in conditions involving risk to life.
Suleiman Bekmirzaevich Yamadayev. On April 30, 2005, Sulim was awarded the title “Hero of Russia”, the awarding took place in July 2005 behind closed doors, the text of the decree was not published in the media
Batsaev Ruslan Yurkievich. Police lieutenant colonel, Hero of the Russian Federation (2006). By decree of the President of the Russian Federation of August 1, 2006, for courage and heroism shown in the performance of official duty, police lieutenant colonel Ruslan Batsayev was posthumously awarded the high title of Hero of the Russian Federation.
Daudov Magomed Khozhakhmedovich. Head of the Administration of the Head and Government of the Chechen Republic. By decree of the President of Russia in July 2007, Magomed Daudov was awarded the title of Hero of Russia for the courage and heroism shown in the performance of his official duty.
Delimkhanov Alibek Sultanovich. Colonel, commander of a military unit. By decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated June 23, 2009, Alibek Sultanovich Delimkhanov was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation for the courage and heroism shown in the performance of his official duty.
Vahit Abubakarovich Usmaev. Commander of Regiment No. 2 of the Special Purpose Police Patrol Service under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Chechen Republic, Colonel. By decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated July 7, 2010, Colonel Usmaev Vakhit Abubakarovich was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation for the courage and heroism shown in the performance of his official duty.
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Heroes of Russia - posthumously. (10 people):
Kadyrov Akhmad Abdulkhamidovich. On May 10, 2004, for the courage and heroism shown in the line of duty, the title of Hero of Russia was posthumously awarded to the President of Chechnya, Akhmat Kadyrov, who died the day before.
Yusup Mutushevich Elmurzaev. Hero of the Russian Federation. For the courage and dedication shown in defending the constitutional system and establishing law and order in the Chechen Republic, by decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 856 dated June 11, 1996, Yusup Mutushevich Elmurzaev, head of the administration of the Urus-Martan district of the Chechen Republic, was awarded the title of Hero of Russia (posthumously).
Dangireev Mikhail Sultanovich. Senior Sergeant. Hero of the Russian Federation. Chechen. Since November 1999, Dangireev, as part of a group of federal troops, took part in the second Chechen war. The order to award Mikhail Sultanovich Dangireev the title of Hero of the Russian Federation posthumously was signed on August 8, 2000.
Tashukhadzhiev Magomed Saidievich. A Chechen 15-year-old teenager who died in battle with terrorists while defending his family. Hero of Russia. On June 31, 2001, he was awarded the title of Hero of Russia posthumously
Baskhanov Rizvan Sharudievich. In September 2002, the title of hero was posthumously awarded to Grozny traffic police inspector junior sergeant Rizvan Baskhanov, who shielded his comrades from a grenade explosion in battle.
Akhmed Gapurovich Zavgaev. Russian statesman. By decree of the President of the Russian Federation of November 11, 2002, for “courage and heroism shown in the performance of official duty,” Akhmed Zavgaev was posthumously awarded the high title of Hero of the Russian Federation
Amir Zagaev. On May 8, 2003, the head of the Vedeno district administration, Amir Zagaev, who was killed by militants on August 5, 1996, was posthumously awarded the title of hero.
Dzhabrail Yamadayev. Commander of a special purpose company. By Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 348 of March 22, 2003, for courage and heroism shown in the performance of military duty, Lieutenant Yamadayev Dzhabrail Bekmirzaevich was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation
Gazimagomadov, Musa Denilbekovich. In 2003, the title of Hero of the Russian Federation was posthumously received by the commander of the riot police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya, Lieutenant Colonel Musa Gazimagomadov.
Lorsanov Saypuddin Sharpudinovich. Police major. Head of the Department of Internal Affairs for the Oktyabrsky district of Grozny. For courage, heroism and selfless actions shown during combat operations with illegal armed groups on the territory of the Chechen Republic, for a significant contribution to the fight against crime, terrorism and extremism, police major Saipuddin Sharpudinovich Lorsanov was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation (posthumously) by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation. .
Eternal glory to the heroes!!!