Tamerlan Khasaev died. Memory

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 full-length trenches and a caponier for infantry fighting vehicles. Below - the roofs of Tukhchar, a Muslim cemetery and a checkpoint. Behind a shallow 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 awakened by a sentinel: "Comrade senior lieutenant, there seems to be ..." spirits ". Tashkin immediately became serious. He ordered:" Wake up the boys, but 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 one militant fell after the sniper's shot ... Then massive fire was opened 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 the 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 attack 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 assault rifle, 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 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 are covered in blood, burnt. Grandma Atikat and I cut it off, rather into a bag and threw it into a ravine. Somehow washed. Our rural doctor Hassan came, took out the fragments, smeared the wounds. He also made an injection - diphenhydramine, or what? He began to fall asleep from the injection. I put it with the children in the room.

Half an hour later, on the orders of Umar, the militants began to "wool" the village - a hunt for soldiers and policemen began. Tashkin, four soldiers and a Dagestani policeman hid in a shed. The barn was surrounded. They dragged cans of gasoline, doused the walls. "Surrender, or we'll burn you alive!" In response, silence. The fighters looked at each other. “Who is your senior there? Decide, commander! Why die in vain?

The soldiers and the policeman believed and left. And only when police lieutenant Akhmed Davdiev was cut by machine-gun fire, 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 "bring up 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 in turn cut the throats of an officer and three soldiers. 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 "BROTHER"

About the same events from the press:

"I just approached him with a knife"

In the Ingush regional center of Sleptsovsk, employees of the Urus-Martan and Sunzha district police departments detained Islam Mukaev, suspected of involvement in the brutal execution of six Russian servicemen in the Dagestan village of Tukhchar in September 1999, when Basayev's gang occupied several villages in the Novolaksky district of Dagestan. A video cassette was confiscated from Mukaev, confirming the fact of his involvement in the massacre, as well as weapons and ammunition. Now law enforcement officers are checking the detainee for his possible involvement in other crimes, since it is known that he was a member of illegal armed groups. Before Mukaev's arrest, the only participant in the execution who fell into the hands of justice was Tamerlan Khasaev, who was sentenced in October 2002 to life imprisonment.

Hunting for soldiers

In the early morning of September 5, 1999, the Basayev detachments invaded the territory of the Novolaksky district. Emir Umar was responsible for the Tukhchar direction. The road to the Chechen village of Galayty, leading from Tukhchar, was guarded by a checkpoint where Dagestani policemen served. On the hill, they were covered by an infantry fighting vehicle and 13 soldiers of a brigade of internal troops sent to strengthen 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 police, as one of the soldiers later said, “got into a fight with him.” The argument of force turned out to be more convincing. and who is in the corn thickets. Half an hour later, the militants, on the orders of Umar, began cleaning up the village. Now it is already difficult to establish whether the locals betrayed the military or the reconnaissance of the militants worked, but six soldiers fell into the hands of the bandits.

“Your son died because of 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 escaped and ran. One of the militants began to shoot after him with a pistol, but the bullets passed by, and only when the fugitive stumbled into the pit did they finish him off in cold blood with a machine gun.

The next morning, the head of the village administration, Magomed-Sultan Gasanov, received permission from the militants to take the bodies. On a school truck, the corpses of senior lieutenant Vasily Tashkin and privates Vladimir Kaufman, Alexei Lipatov, Boris Erdneev, Alexei Polagaev and Konstantin Anisimov were delivered to the Gerzelsky checkpoint. The rest of the soldiers of military unit 3642 managed to sit out in their shelters until the bandits left.

At the end of September, six zinc coffins were lowered into the ground in different parts of Russia - in Krasnodar and Novosibirsk, in Altai and Kalmykia, in the Tomsk region and in the Orenburg region. Parents for a long time did not know the terrible details of the death of their sons. The father of one of the soldiers, having learned terrible truth, asked to enter in the death certificate of his son a mean wording - “gunshot wound.” Otherwise, he explained, his 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 magazines…'

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 Special Purpose Regiment" Abdulmalik Mezhidov, Shamil Basaev's deputy...

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

The Khasaev trial took place in the Supreme Court of Dagestan in October 2002. He pleaded guilty only partially: “I admit participation in illegal armed groups, weapons and invasion. But I didn’t cut the soldier ... I just approached him with a knife. Before that, two were stabbed. When I saw this picture, I refused to cut, gave the knife to another'.

“They were the first to start,” Khasaev said of the battle in Tukhchar. “The infantry fighting vehicle opened fire, and Umar ordered the grenade launchers to take up positions. them as a hostage.

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

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.

And this is about one of the guys brutally murdered by Chechen thugs in September 1999 in Tukhchar.
"Cargo - 200" arrived on the Kizner land. In the battles for the liberation of Dagestan from bandit formations, a native of the village of Ishek of the Zvezda collective farm and a graduate of our school Alexei Ivanovich Paranin died. Alexei was born on January 25, 1980. Graduated from Verkhnetyzhminsk basic school. He was a very inquisitive, lively, courageous boy. Then he studied at the Mozhginsky GPTU No. 12, where he received the profession of a bricklayer. True, he did not have time to work, he was drafted into the army. He served in the North Caucasus for more than a year. And now - the Dagestan war. Went through several fights. On the night of September 5-6, the infantry fighting vehicle, on which Alexey served as a gunner, was transferred to the Lipetsk OMON, and guarded a checkpoint near the village of Novolakskoye. The militants who attacked at night set fire to the BMP. The soldiers left the car and fought, but it was too unequal. All the wounded were brutally finished off. We all mourn the death of Alexei. Words of consolation are hard to find. On November 26, 2007, a memorial plaque was installed on the school building. The opening of the memorial plaque was attended by Alexei's mother, Lyudmila Alekseevna, and representatives from the youth department from the district. Now we are starting to make an album about him, there is a stand at 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.

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

Former member of the national security service of Ichkeria, Arbi Dandaev, according to the investigation, took part in the 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 in order to change the territorial integrity of Russia, as well as an 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. was 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, whose internal organs were removed (relatives attribute this to with 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.
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This is a photo of the deceased at the hands of Arbi Dandaev Art. Lieutenant Vasily Tashkin

Confident in his impunity A. Dandaev

Lipatov Alexey Anatolievich

Kaufman Vladimir Egorovich

Polagaev Alexey Sergeevich

Erdneev Boris Ozinovich (a few seconds before death)

Of the known participants in the massacre of captured Russian soldiers and an officer, three are in the hands of justice, two of them are rumored to have died behind bars, others are said to have died during 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. Here are the 5th and 8th of September last year, judging by the press releases law enforcement agencies, in Dagestan there were ordinary battles. 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: lubok 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...

September 1999 Dagestan.
The militants surrounded the outpost of Vasily Tashkin.
The battle began to boil, Dagestani policemen were firing nearby.
Chechen fighters seized the police department and the checkpoint at the entrance to Tukhchar.
Some of the locals marked the houses where the policemen lived with the letter "M".
The robbery has begun...

A few hours later, when the ammunition began to run out and the BMP was burned,
the officer ordered the soldiers to retreat to the village and hide among the buildings.
And then the worst began.
The first to be killed was the lieutenant of the Dagestan police Akhmed Davdiev
- machine-gun burst cut him in half.
18 policemen scattered around the village, where hundreds of militants were already prowling.
They were primarily interested in soldiers and officers of the internal troops.
Seven conscripts were sheltered by local residents.
Vasily Tashkin and four soldiers were surrounded by militants in a barn, offering to surrender.
The seconds dragged on forever.
Yes, those surrounded had the right to die with weapons in their hands,
but the machine guns turned into helpless clubs - there were no cartridges left.
There was not even a grenade to blow himself up along with the enemy.
The officer wanted to save the lives of the soldiers, and made a choice.
They were still hoping for help.
Vasily Tashkin and four of his subordinates went out to the militants.
Another soldier was brought to them, who was betrayed by local Chechens.

Hot September day.

Summer has not yet lost ground, green foliage rustles under a light breeze.
A fallen reinforced concrete pillar is on the ground.
Six soldiers in camouflage lie head to him on the lush grass.
All hands are folded behind their backs.
Around them are armed to the teeth bearded men in NATO uniforms.
They laugh, talk about something among themselves in the Chechen language.
In the hands of one of the militants is a huge sharp knife.
He, grinning, knowingly bends down to one of the soldiers, grabs his head with his hand, sharply throws it back and slowly cuts the throat of the victim.
The boy starts wheezing.
The gunman makes another deep cut and watches as the soldier, in terrible agony,
wheezing, dying. Blood floods the ground.
The prisoners lying nearby look on in horror at what is happening.
Someone starts to twitch, someone shouts: "Don't, mommy, I want to live!".
But all this only provokes the tormentors, who, grinning, continue their bloody work.

The throat is slit to the second soldier.
Then the executioner gives the knife to another militant and orders him something in Chechen.
He takes the bloody handle, bends over another victim.
But the militant's hand trembled, he slightly cut the soldier and recoiled.
The wounded prisoner, unexpectedly for everyone, jumped to his feet and ran to the barn,
standing alone among the trees.
The bearded men followed.
The desire to live made the guy run even faster, but the animals did not want to let go of the victim.
Realizing that he might not catch up with the fugitive, the militant fired an automatic burst into his back.
The soldier collapsed into the grass as if he had been cut down.
He was more fortunate than others - he died immediately.

The execution was filmed on a video camera,
which dispassionately recorded the last minutes of the life of the soldiers.
Someone accepts death silently, someone escapes from the hands of the executioners.
The commander courageously met death.
No one asked for mercy...

Now, not far from the place of execution, there is again a checkpoint of the Dagestan police,
covering the road to the Chechen village of Galayty.
It's been almost eleven years now
much has changed in relations between neighboring republics.
But the inhabitants of Tukhchar also look with fear and distrust
towards a restless and unpredictable neighbor.

There is no more military outpost on the high-rise.
Instead, a monument rises, a symbol of the eternal victory of life over death.
There were thirteen of them, six died, ascending to Golgotha.

Let's remember their names:
Tashkin Vasily Vasilievich
Paranin Alexey Ivanovich
Lipatov Alexey Anatolievich
Polagaev Alexey Sergeevich
Erdneev Boris Ozinovich
Kaufman Vladimir Egorovich

Eternal memory to the tortured soldiers.

Polagaev Alexey Sergeevich

Kaufman Vladimir Egorovich

Lipatov Alexey Anatolievich

Paranin Alexey Ivanovich

Tashkin Vasily Vasilievich

Erdniev Boris Ozinovich- a few seconds before death

Executioners punished.

Islan Mukaev was detained at the beginning of June 2005
during a joint operation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya and Ingushetia.
The operation was carried out in the Ingush regional center Sleptsovskaya, where Mukaev lived.

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

Tamerlan Khasaev October 25, 2002
Judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Dagestan
32-year-old resident of the village of Dachu-Borzoy, Grozny district of Chechnya, Tamerlan Khasaev
sentenced to life imprisonment.
Shortly thereafter, he died in prison.

Arbi Dandaev is the executor of the murder of Senior Lieutenant Vasily Tashkin.
On April 3, 2008 he was detained by police officers in the city of Grozny.

In March 2009, the Supreme Court of Dagestan sentenced the defendant
Dandaev to life imprisonment, despite the fact that the public prosecutor
asked for the defendant 22 years in prison.
In addition, the court granted civil
lawsuits of the parents of four dead soldiers
for moral damages,
amounts for which ranged from 200 thousand to 2 million rubles.

Umar Karpinsky Killed 5 months later while trying to break out of Grozny.

Mansur Razhaev January 31, 2012
The Supreme Court of Dagestan sentenced Mansur Razhaev to life imprisonment.

Well hello, proud son of Chechnya, Vainakh,
Eagle of unconquered blue mountains.
Well, why are you lying at my feet,
And tears of fear cloud your eyes?

Well, where is your bravado, mountain leopard,
With which you are in the crowd of the same dogs
With his dagger cut many times
Helpless, snotty boys?

You won't touch me with your tears.
I just remember the light of Ryazan eyes
Youngster, him in the circle of his friends
You cut your throat, laughing happily.

But I won't dirty my hands
The law will determine your miserable age.
Do you think your mother is a she-wolf
I was born a woman, I am a man!

Caution! People with a weak psyche should not read this post!
These are the same soldiers, dear Russian boys, about whom the abomination Shevchenko said that they were not Russian, but Yeltsin's.

Original taken from uglich_jj in the Tukhchar massacre (18+).

1. Forgotten platoon

It was September 5, 1999. Early in the morning a gang of Chechens attacked the village of Tukhchar in Dagestan. The militants were commanded by Umar Edilsultanov, aka Umar Karpinsky (from the Karpinka district in Grozny). Against them was a platoon of senior lieutenant Tashkin from the 22nd brigade of internal troops: an officer, 12 conscripts and one infantry fighting vehicle.

They dug in on the dominating high-rise above the village. In addition to the soldiers, there were 18 more Dagestani policemen in Tukhchar. They were dispersed throughout the village: at two checkpoints at the entrances and at the local police department.

One of the checkpoints of the Dagestanis was right next to Tashkin, at the foot of the high-rise. True, Russians and Dagestanis almost did not communicate and did not interact. Everyone on their own. Muslim Dakhkhaev, the head of the local police department, recalled:

“Upstairs, on a height, are the positions of internal troops, and below is our police post. They - two posts - as if separately existed. For some reason, the military did not really make contact with the local population and with the local police. They were suspicious of our attempts to establish contacts ... There was no interaction between the police and the military. They dug into the ground and guarded themselves.".

They dug into the ground and guarded themselves ...

Umar had about 50 people in the gang, all Wahhabis were fanatics leading jihad. Fighting "for the faith", they hope to get to heaven. Unlike Christianity, in Islam, paradise has an erotic meaning. A man in paradise will have 72 wives: 70 earthly women and 2 houris (special virgins for afterlife sex). In the Qur'an and the Sunnah, descriptions of these wives are repeatedly given with all the details. For example, here:

“Allah will not let anyone into Paradise without marrying him to 72 wives, two will be virgins (houris) with big eyes, and 70 will be inherited from the inhabitants of the Fire. Each of them will have a pleasurable vagina, and he (the man) will have a sexual organ that will not fall during intercourse.(Sunan Ibn Maja, 4337).

But a Muslim still needs to get to heaven to the vaginas. It is not easy, but there is a sure way - to become a martyr. Shahid goes to heaven with a guarantee. All sins are forgiven him. The funeral of a martyr often takes place like a wedding, with an expression of joy. After all, the deceased, consider married. He now has 72 vaginas and an eternal erection. The cult of death and afterlife sex in the untouched brains of a savage is a serious matter. It's already a zombie. He goes to kill and he is ready to die.

Banda Umar enters Dagestan. The trip to heavenly vaginas has begun.

One of the militants walked with a video camera and filmed everything that was happening. The film, of course, is terrible ... Already three life sentences have been issued on it.

On the left is the leader (Umar), on the right is one Arab from his gang:

At 6:40 am, the militants attacked the village. First, a distant (from the high-rise) checkpoint, then - the village police department. They quickly occupied them, and went to the height where Tashkin's platoon was. The battle here was hot, but also short-lived. Already at 7-30 the BMP was hit by a grenade launcher. And without its 30-mm automatic cannon, the Russians lost their main trump card. The platoon left their positions. Carrying the wounded on themselves, they went down to the checkpoint to the Dagestanis.

The post was the last center of resistance. The Chechens attacked him, but could not take him. It was well fortified and allowed to defend for some time. Until help arrives or ammo runs out. But with this there were problems. Help was not forthcoming that day. The militants crossed the border in several places, the Lipetsk OMON was surrounded in the village of Novolakskoye, all forces were thrown to save him. The command was not up to Tukhchar.

The defenders of the village were abandoned. There was also no ammunition for a long battle in Tukhchar. Soon, parliamentarians from among the local residents came from the Chechens. Let the Russians leave the checkpoint, otherwise we will start a new assault and kill everyone. Time for reflection - half an hour. The commander of the Dagestanis, Lieutenant Akhmed Davdiev, had already died in a street battle in the village at that time, junior sergeant Magomedov remained in charge.

Dagestani commanders: Akhmed Davdiev and Abdulkasim Magomedov. Both died that day.

After listening to the Chechens' ultimatum, Magomedov invites everyone to leave the checkpoint and take refuge in the village. Local residents are ready to help - give civilian clothes, hide them at home, take them outside. Tashkin - against. Magomedov - junior sergeant, Tashkin - officer of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Tashkin is much older in rank. A conflict escalates into a fight...

In the end, Tashkin agreed to leave the checkpoint. Tough decision. At this, the organized defense of the village ceased. The defenders broke into small groups, hiding in attics, cellars, and in corn fields. Then everything depended on luck, someone was lucky to leave, someone was not ...

Most of the Dagestani policemen were unable to leave Tukhchar. They were taken prisoner. According to some reports: 14 people out of 18. They were herded into a village shop:

And then they took me to Chechnya. From there, from the zindans, they were already bought out by relatives and intermediaries months later.

Police commander Abdulkasim Magomedov, who insisted on leaving the checkpoint, died. He did not want to surrender and was killed in battle. In Tashkin's platoon, out of 13 people, 7 survived. They were sheltered by local residents and helped to get out to their own. Tashkin himself and four soldiers with him were blocked in the shed of a local resident Chelavi Gamzatov. They were asked to surrender. Guaranteed life or throw grenades. They believed. Leaving, Tashkin gave Gamzatov a photograph of his wife and daughter, which he carried with him ...

Photo from the local school museum. The same barn (with a burnt roof) is in the background.

Another (sixth) prisoner was taken by the Chechens in the house of a local resident, Attikat Tabiyeva. It was a shell-shocked and burnt BMP driver Aleksey Polagaev. Finally, Alexei gave the Dagestan woman a soldier's token and said: "What will they do to me now, mother?..."

This monument stands today on the outskirts of the village of Tukhchar in memory of six dead Russian soldiers. Stella, cross, barbed wire instead of a fence.

This is a kind of "people's memorial", created on the initiative of the villagers, primarily teachers from the local secondary school. Neither the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation nor the federal authorities participated in the creation of the monument. Relatives of the victims did not respond to letters and never came here. Information was collected bit by bit by local residents.

There are errors on the monument: grammatical (from the point of view of the Russian language) and factual. Tashkin's place of birth is indicated as the village of "Valyadarka":

In fact, this is Volodarka near Barnaul. There, the future commander went to school. And he was originally from the neighboring village of Krasnoyarka.

Also, one of the dead is incorrectly indicated on the monument:

Anisimov is a guy from the Armavir special forces (Vyatich detachment), he also died in Dagestan in those days, but in a different place. They fought at the height of the TV tower, 10 kilometers from Tukhchar. The notorious height, where, due to the mistakes of the generals at the headquarters, a whole detachment of special forces was killed (including from strikes by their own aircraft).

There were no special forces in Tukhchar, there were ordinary motorized rifles. One of them, Lesha Paranin, the gunner of the same BMP on a high-rise, looked like Anisimov in appearance.

Both took a terrible death, the militants abused the bodies here and there. They earned money for their vaginas. Well, then, with the light hand of one journalist, confusion arose, which migrated to monuments and memorial plaques. The mother of special forces soldier Anisimov even came to the trial of one of the militants from Umar's gang. I watched the video of the massacre. Naturally, she did not find her son there. The gunmen killed another guy.

This guy, Aleksey Paranin, shot well from an infantry fighting vehicle in that battle. The militants had losses. A 30 mm automatic cannon projectile is not a bullet. These are severed limbs, or even cut in half. Paranin was the first to be executed by the Chechens during the massacre of prisoners.

Well, what about Anisimov on the monument instead of him is not so scary for a people's memorial. There is no monument at the height of the TV tower, and Private Anisimov from the Vyatich detachment is also a hero of that war. Let him be remembered that way.

By the way, since we are talking about May 9... Here is the emblem of the Vyatich detachment, where Anisimov served. The emblem was invented in the 2000s.

The unit's motto is "Loyalty is my honor!". Familiar phrase. Once it was the motto of the SS troops (Meine Ehre heißt Treue!), Which was a quote from one of Hitler's sayings. On May 9, in Armavir (as well as in Moscow), they are probably talking a lot about how we keep traditions, etc. Whose traditions?

2. The bright holiday of Eid al-Adha.

After the Chechens took six Russian prisoners in the village, they were taken to a former checkpoint on the outskirts of the village. Umar radioed the militants to gather there. A public execution began, filmed in full detail on video.

Muslims have a holiday of Eid al-Adha... This is when, according to custom, rams are slaughtered, as well as cows, camels, etc. This is done publicly, in the presence (and with the participation) of children who get used to such pictures from childhood. The slaughter of cattle is carried out according to special rules. The animal is first slit in the throat with a knife and wait for the blood to drain.

Tabuk, Saudi Arabia. October 2013

While the blood is draining, the animal is still alive for some time. With cut trachea, esophagus and arteries, it wheezes, chokes on blood, tries to breathe. It is very important at the same time that when making an incision, the neck of the animal should be directed towards Mecca, and “Bismillahi, Allahu Akbar” (in the name of Allah, Allah is great) should be said over it.

Kedah, Malaysia. October 2013. The agony does not last long, 5-10 minutes.

Faisalabad, Pakistan. Eid al-Adha 2012. This is a photo from the holiday, if anything.

After the blood has drained, the head is cut off and the cutting of the carcass begins. A reasonable question: how does this differ from what happens every day at any meat processing plant? - The fact that there the animal is first stunned with electric current. Further (cutting the throat, draining the blood) occurs when it is already unconscious.

The rules for preparing "halal" (clean) meat in Islam do not allow the animal to be stunned during slaughter. It must bleed while conscious. Otherwise, the meat will be considered "unclean".

Tver, November 2010. Eid al-Adha in the area of ​​the cathedral mosque on Sovetskaya st.

Conveyor. While they are slaughtering there, other participants of the holiday with their rams are pulled up to the mosque.

Eid al-Adha comes from the biblical story about the temptation of Abraham (Ibrahim in Islam). God commanded Abraham to sacrifice his son, specifically, to cut his throat and burn him at the stake. And all to test his (Abraham's) love for himself. Abraham tied his son, put him on top of the wood and was already preparing to slaughter, but at the last moment God changed his mind - he said (through an angel) to sacrifice an animal, not a person.

Michelangelo de Caravaggio. Abraham's Sacrifice. 1601-1602
It is he who cuts his son, if that.

To commemorate the temptation of Abraham in Islam (as well as in Judaism), a ritual slaughter of animals is performed every year. Since in both cases they are cut without stunning, in full consciousness, in a number of countries (in Scandinavia, Switzerland, Poland) this was banned as cruelty to animals.

Lahore, Pakistan, November 2009 If you think this is a slaughterhouse, you are wrong. This is the courtyard of the local mosque on the day of the holiday.

Peshawar, Pakistan, November 2009 And cutting a camel's throat is not easy.

Finally, the butcher gets a particularly successful blow with a knife. Bismillahi, Allahu Akbar!

Rafah, Gaza Strip. 2015 Public observation of a slowly bleeding animal.

Ibid, 2012. A rare shot. The cow, doomed to be slaughtered, escaped and impaled its tormentors on the horns.

3. Alexey Paranin.

Tukhchar, 1999. Russian prisoners are collected at a checkpoint, then taken out into the street. They lay on the ground. Some have their hands tied behind their backs, some do not.

The first to be executed is Alexei Paranin, the BMP gunner. They cut his throat and leave him to lie down.

Blood fills all around.

Aleksey was seriously wounded when the BMP was blown up, burned. He does not resist, it seems that he is unconscious. This militant in black and with a beard cut him (who he is still not known).

Starting to cut, the killer moves away somewhere, but soon comes back

And he begins to cut the throat of the victim already thoroughly

Almost beheading Alexei.

Alexey Paranin, 19-year-old boy from Udmurtia. Graduated from vocational school as a bricklayer, was supposed to become a builder

This is his native village of Vernyaya Tyzhma, 100 km from Izhevsk. This is not the 19th century. This is a black and white photo taken by contemporary Izhevsk photographer Nikolai Glukhov while in these places.

4. Tashkin Vasily.

After Paranin, the militants executed Starley Tashkin second. The killer mounted him, there is some kind of struggle visible there ...

But soon the lieutenant's throat is also cut.

A Chechen cameraman filming the death of an officer with sadistic pleasure.

The face of the killer, who cut the lieutenant's throat, is not very clearly visible on the film, but you can hear that those around him are addressing him by the name of Arbi, in the process they give him a bigger knife ... Here he is in the crowd of spectators after the execution of Tashkin.

This Chechen was later found. This is a certain Arbi Dandaev from Grozny. Here he is in court (in a cage):

In court, his lawyers, by the way, tried very hard. They said that the defendant repented of his deed, he realized everything, understood. They asked him to take into account his severe "mental trauma" in the past, the presence of young children.

The court gave him a life sentence.

Officer Tashkin, who was stabbed to death by Arbi, was later criticized by some Internet analysts. For stupidity and cowardice type. Why surrendered, went under the knife and put people ...

Vasily Tashkin is a simple guy from the village of Krasnoyarka in Altai.

In 1991 he entered the VV school in Novosibirsk, since 1995 - in the army. In those years, officers quit the army in batches, penny salaries, life, housing. Tashkin remained to serve. Vanka-platoon of our days ...

On the oath at the school

The village of Krasnoyarka, Topchikhinsky District, is about 100 km from Barnaul along a good (by local standards) road.

Beautiful places.

An ordinary village, huts, carts (the photos below were taken in this village in the summer)

Dagestan Tukhchar, where solid stone houses are all over, looks richer ...

In the fall of 1999, Tashkin was sent to Tukhchar to guard a dangerous section of the border with Chechnya. And he had to do it with extremely small forces. However, they accepted the fight and fought for 2 hours until the situation began to run out of ammunition. Where is the cowardice here?

And as for captivity ... One Englishman, a participant in the Anglo-Boer War of the early 20th century, wrote:

“I crawled out onto the shore… A rider appeared on the other side of the railway, called out to me and waved his hand. He was less than forty yards... I held out my hand with my Mauser. But I left it in the booth of the locomotive. There was a wire fence between me and the rider. Run again? But I was stopped by the thought of another shot at such close range. Before me stood death, gloomy and gloomy, death without its careless companion - a chance. So I raised my hands and, like Mr. Jorrox's foxes, I called out, "Surrender."

Fortunately for the Englishman (and that was Winston Churchill), the Boers are civilized people and did not cut the throats of prisoners. Later, Churchill escaped from captivity and, after many days of wandering, managed to make his way to his own.

Was Winston Churchill a coward?

5. Lipatov Alexey.

After killing Anisimov and Tashkin, the Chechens ordered Private Lipatov to stand up. Lipatov looks around. To the right of him is the corpse of Tashkin, to the left - Paranin wheezes, drenched in blood. Lipatov understands what awaits him.

On the orders of Umar, a certain Tamerlan Khasaev from the village of Dachu-Borzoy (with a knife in a blue T-shirt) was supposed to slaughter the prisoner.

But Lipatov began to actively resist and Khasaev only wounded him. Then a militant in black, already familiar to us, who killed Paranin, came to the aid of Khasaev. Together they try to finish off the victim.

A fight ensues

And suddenly, bleeding Lipatov was able to get up, escaped and rushed to run.

Aleksey Lipatov is the only one of the prisoners who did not have his throat cut. The Chechens chased him, firing after him. He was finished off in some ditch, riddled with machine guns. According to Lipatov's mother, when her son was brought to his native village of Aleksandrovka near Orenburg, the military forbade opening the coffin: "There is no face." So they buried it without opening it.

The regional authorities allocated financial assistance to the soldier's parents, 10 thousand rubles.

Date of death is 09/06/1999, one day later. On that day, the militants handed over the corpses to the head of the village council of Tukhchar, and he took them by truck to the nearest checkpoint of the federal forces (Gerzelsky bridge). In reality, Lipatov and his comrades were killed on September 5th.

What happened to their son - the soldier's parents were not told then. They found out everything only in 2002, when the militant Khasaev was caught and his parents were summoned to court. In complete silence, a video of the execution of prisoners was shown in the hall. "Here's my son!" Lipatov's father cried out at some point.

Tamerlan Khasaev.

Khasaev in court dodged as best he could. He said that he had just begun to kill Lipatov, but did not undercut, because. I couldn't mentally. " I couldn't kill the soldier. He also asked: “Don’t kill me. I want to live." My heart started beating fast and I got a little sick».

In addition, Khasaev said that during the investigation he was forced to testify by threats. But he is embarrassed to say what they threatened.

“And when they cut, weren’t you shy?' asked the prosecutor.
"They threatened to do to me what they do to a woman", - answered Khasaev.
“So you are saying that they wanted to kick you? the judge perked up. — Don't be shy, we're all doctors here.".

Of course, the criminal jargon from the lips of the judge does not decorate the Russian court, but Khasaev got his way. He was also given a life sentence. Shortly after the verdict, he died in prison. His heart began to beat and he felt a little sick.

6. Kaufman Vladimir.

After Lipatov came the turn of Private Vladimir Kaufman. One of the militants, named Rasool, drags Kaufman into a clearing and demands that he lie face down. This makes it easier to cut.

Kaufman begs Rasool not to kill him. He says that he is ready to hand over the wounded BMP gunner, who is "hiding in that white house over there."

The offer does not arouse interest among the militants. They had just killed the BMP gunner. The nearly decapitated corpse of Alexei Paranin (the head rests on one spine) lies nearby. Then Kaufman promises to show where "weapons are hidden." Somewhere in the mountains.

The delay of time bothers Rasul. Kaufman is ordered to remove his belt and put his hands behind his back. He understands that the end. “I don’t want to die, don’t kill, good people!” he shouts. “Good, kind. Dobryashi! ”, - the camera operator says maliciously with a strong Chechen accent.

A fight ensues. Two other militants pile on Kaufman, trying to wring their hands.

They can't do it. Then one of them hits the victim with a butt on the head with a swing.

Kaufman is stunned and Rasool starts stabbing him in the back of the head.

In the end, when the prisoner has already lost consciousness, his throat is cut.

The guy was 19 years old.

The militant Rasul, who cut Vladimir's throat, was not found. According to one version, he died later during some kind of special operation, as reported by the websites of the Chechen separatists. Here is his photo:

But they caught two assistants of Rasul, who held Kaufman before the murder.

This is Islan Mukaev. He was wringing Kaufman's hands.

And Rezvan Vagapov. He held his head when Rasul cut his throat.

Mukaev received 25 years, Vagapov - 18.

The soldier killed by them was buried thousands of kilometers from Tukhchar, in his native village of Aleksandrovskoye in the Tomsk region. A large old village on the banks of the Ob…

Everything is like everywhere else (photo of the village - 2011).

Vladimir Kaufman was born and raised here. He received his surname from his grandfather, a Volga German who was exiled here under Stalin.

Vladimir's mother Maria Andreevna at her son's grave.

7. Erdneev Boris.

After slaughtering Kaufman, the militants took on Boris Erdneev, a Kalmyk who was in Tashkin's platoon as a sniper. Boris had no chance, his hands were tied beforehand. The video shows how one of the Chechens holds Erdneev with one hand on the breasts.

Erdneev looks in horror at the other hand of the Chechen. It contains a large knife with traces of blood.

He tries to speak to the executioner:

"You respect the Kalmyks, don't you?" he asks.
“Very much respect, ha ha, - the Chechen says gloatingly behind the scenes, - lie down".

The victim is thrown to the ground.

The Chechen who killed Boris Erdneev was later found. This is a certain Mansur Razhaev from Grozny.

In 2012, he received a life sentence.

During the execution, Razhaev was not at all embarrassed by the camera. But at the trial, he really did not want to be filmed.

According to Razhaev, before his death, they offered Boris Erdneev to convert to Islam (Kalmyks are Buddhists). But he refused. That is, Erdneev repeated the feat of Yevgeny Rodionov, who also refused to convert to Islam in May 1996, during the first Chechen war. He refused and they cut off his head.

It was here, in the forest near Bamut.

There, three more prisoners were killed with him.

The feat of Yevgeny Rodionov received quite wide publicity, in many churches in Russia there are icons in his honor. The feat of Boris Erdneev is much less known.

Boris Erdneev on oath

Photo from a stand about him in his native school in the village of Artezian in Kalmykia (270 km from the capital of the Republic of Elista).

8.Polagaev Alexey.

He was the last to be killed. This was done personally by the leader of the gang, Umar. Here he approaches Alexei with a knife, rolls up his sleeves

The prisoner's hands are tied, besides he is shell-shocked, so Umar can be afraid of nothing. He sits astride the prisoner and begins to cut

Why does the half-severed head begin to shake up and down, so that it barely rests on the body

Then he releases the victim. The soldier begins to roll on the ground in his death throes.

He soon bled out. The militants shouted "Allahu Akbar!" in unison.

Alexey Polagaev, 19 years old, from the city of Kashira, Moscow Region.

The only city boy out of the six dead. The rest are from the villages. The army in the Russian Federation is a worker-peasant one, they say correctly. Those who have no money go to serve.

As for the murderer of Aleksey - the leader of the gang Umar Karpinsky, he did not appear before the court. Didn't live. He was killed in January 2000 when militants were leaving the encirclement in Grozny.

9. Epilogue.

Russian-Chechen war 1999-2000 was for the preservation of Chechnya and Dagestan as part of Russia. The militants wanted to separate them, but Tashkin, Lipatov, Kaufman, Paranin and others stood in their way. And they gave their lives. Officially, it was then called the operation to restore constitutional order.

It's been 17 years since then. Big time. What's new with us? How is it with the independence of Chechnya, with the constitutional order in Dagestan?

Everything is good in Chechnya.

By the way, what's on his head? Maroon beret, but the cockade is somehow strange. Where did he even get it?

After the victory over the militants in 2000, the dictatorship of the father and son of the Kadyrovs was organized in Chechnya. What is it, you can read in any history textbook in the section "Feudalism". The appanage prince has complete independence in his appanage (ulus), but is in vassal relations with the superior prince. Namely:

A. Unfastens him% of income;
B. Exposes his private army against his enemies if necessary.

What we are seeing in Chechnya.

Also, if you still read the history textbook, it will be written there that the specific system is unreliable, because of it it collapsed Kievan Rus, Arab Caliphate and many others. Everything is built on the personal loyalty of the vassal, and it is changeable. Today he is for some, tomorrow - for others.

It is clear that they will soon kiss passionately in front of the camera ...

But who will go to war for the third time in Chechnya, when Kadyrov's despotism officially announces its secession from Russia? But this will happen on the second day after Putin leaves and Kadyrov feels a threat to his power. In Moscow, he has a lot of "well-wishers" in law enforcement agencies. And he's on the hook. There's a lot of stuff in there.

For example, this monkey:

Who will believe that Nemtsov was ordered by the driver of one of Kadyrov's close associates for 5 million rubles? Himself personally, directly on their money. And drivers make good money in Chechnya.

Or this character:

He killed Colonel Budanov in 2011. Before that, I found out the address, followed for half a year, got myself fake documents for a different surname, so that later I could hide in Chechnya. And also a gun and a stolen foreign car with left numbers. Allegedly, he acted alone out of hatred for all Russian servicemen who killed his father in Chechnya in the 90s.

Who will believe it? Prior to that, he lived in Moscow for 11 years, in a big way, wasted money, and suddenly he was overwhelmed. Budanov was released in January 2009. He was convicted of war crimes, stripped of awards, titles, and served 9 years out of a 10-year sentence. However, already in February 2009, Kadyrov publicly threatened him, stating that:

“…His place in prison for life. Yes, and this is not enough for him. But a life sentence will ease our suffering a little. We do not tolerate insult. If the decision is not made, the consequences will be bad.”

This is Kadyrov's Chechnya. And what about Dagestan? - Everything is good there too. Chechen fighters they were kicked out of there in 1999. But it turned out to be more difficult with local Wahhabis. Shooting, blowing up so far. Otherwise, life in Dagestan goes on as usual: a mess, mafia clans, cutting subsidies. As elsewhere in the Russian Federation. Constitutional order, cho.

Something has also changed in interethnic relations in 17 years. With all due respect to the residents of the village of Tukhchar, who hid Tashkin's soldiers and honor the memory of the dead, general attitude things got worse for the Dagestanis in the country. A striking example: since 2012, conscription into the army has been discontinued in Dagestan. They do not call, because they cannot cope with them. And it starts like this:

Or this:

These, by the way, are the defenders of the Motherland (which are cancer). Polite people. And which with a raised finger - this means "There is no god but Allah." Favorite gesture of Islamists, incl. Wahhabis. Serves them to express their superiority.

However, Russians can not only put cancer. You can ride:

And you can put a living inscription on the parade ground. 05th region, i.e. Dagestan.

Interestingly, in most cases, finding participants in this lawlessness is not so difficult. They don't actually hide. Here are pictures of “riding” in 2012 posted on the Internet by a certain Ali Rahimov to the “Dagi in the Army” group in Odnoklassniki.

Now he lives quietly in St. Petersburg, he respects Sharia.

By the way, he has chevrons with a lizard in his photo from the army.

it Internal troops, Ural district. The same VV-shniks that died in Tukhchar. I wonder if the guys he sits on will go to protect Tukhchar next time? Or let Ali Ragimov somehow himself?

But the living inscription 05 DAG on the parade ground in military unit No. 42581 in Krasnoye Selo was laid out by a certain Abdul Abdulkhalimov. He is now in Novorossiysk:

Together with Abdulkhalimov, a whole company of his Dagestan comrades frolicked in Krasnoye Selo.

Since 2012, the Abdulkhalimovs are no longer called up. Russians do not want to serve with the Dagestanis in the same army, because then they have to crawl like cancer through the barracks in front of the Caucasians. At the same time, both those and those are citizens of one state (so far), where rights and obligations are the same for everyone. This is the constitutional order.

On the other hand, Dagestanis were not drafted into the army in 1941-45. (due to mass desertion). There were only small formations of volunteers. Dagestanis did not serve in the tsarist army either. There was one volunteer cavalry regiment, which in 1914 became part of the Caucasian native division. This "wild division" of the highlanders in the First World War was actually no more than 7,000 people. So many volunteers have been recruited. Of these, there are about 1000 Dagestanis. And that's all, for a 5-million-strong army. In both World War II and World War I, conscripts from Chechnya and Dagestan mostly stayed at home.

Why does this happen with the highlanders, all the time, for more than 100 years, and under any authorities? - And this not them army. And not them state. They are kept in it by force. If they want to live (and serve) in it, then according to some of their own rules. Therefore, funerals come to the poor in Krasnoyarsk, Aleksandrovka. And apparently, they will continue to come.

September 1999 Dagestan.
The militants surrounded the outpost of Vasily Tashkin.
The battle began to boil, Dagestani policemen were firing nearby.
Chechen fighters seized the police department and the checkpoint at the entrance to Tukhchar.
Some of the locals marked the houses where the policemen lived with the letter "M".
The robbery has begun...

A few hours later, when the ammunition began to run out and the BMP was burned,
the officer ordered the soldiers to retreat to the village and hide among the buildings.
And then the worst began.
The first to be killed was the lieutenant of the Dagestan police Akhmed Davdiev
- machine-gun burst cut him in half.
18 policemen scattered around the village, where hundreds of militants were already prowling.
They were primarily interested in soldiers and officers of the internal troops.
Seven conscripts were sheltered by local residents.
Vasily Tashkin and four soldiers were surrounded by militants in a barn, offering to surrender.
The seconds dragged on forever.
Yes, those surrounded had the right to die with weapons in their hands,
but the machine guns turned into helpless clubs - there were no cartridges left.
There was not even a grenade to blow himself up along with the enemy.
The officer wanted to save the lives of the soldiers, and made a choice.
They were still hoping for help.
Vasily Tashkin and four of his subordinates went out to the militants.
Another soldier was brought to them, who was betrayed by local Chechens.

Hot September day.

Summer has not yet lost ground, green foliage rustles under a light breeze.
A fallen reinforced concrete pillar is on the ground.
Six soldiers in camouflage lie head to him on the lush grass.
All hands are folded behind their backs.
Around them are armed to the teeth bearded men in NATO uniforms.
They laugh, talk about something among themselves in the Chechen language.
In the hands of one of the militants is a huge sharp knife.
He, grinning, knowingly bends down to one of the soldiers, grabs his head with his hand, sharply throws it back and slowly cuts the throat of the victim.
The boy starts wheezing.
The gunman makes another deep cut and watches as the soldier, in terrible agony,
wheezing, dying. Blood floods the ground.
The prisoners lying nearby look on in horror at what is happening.
Someone starts to twitch, someone shouts: "Don't, mommy, I want to live!".
But all this only provokes the tormentors, who, grinning, continue their bloody work.

The throat is slit to the second soldier.
Then the executioner gives the knife to another militant and orders him something in Chechen.
He takes the bloody handle, bends over another victim.
But the militant's hand trembled, he slightly cut the soldier and recoiled.
The wounded prisoner, unexpectedly for everyone, jumped to his feet and ran to the barn,
standing alone among the trees.
The bearded men followed.
The desire to live made the guy run even faster, but the animals did not want to let go of the victim.
Realizing that he might not catch up with the fugitive, the militant fired an automatic burst into his back.
The soldier collapsed into the grass as if he had been cut down.
He was more fortunate than others - he died immediately.

The execution was filmed on a video camera,
which dispassionately recorded the last minutes of the life of the soldiers.
Someone accepts death silently, someone escapes from the hands of the executioners.
The commander courageously met death.
No one asked for mercy...

Now, not far from the place of execution, there is again a checkpoint of the Dagestan police,
covering the road to the Chechen village of Galayty.
It's been almost eleven years now
much has changed in relations between neighboring republics.
But the inhabitants of Tukhchar also look with fear and distrust
towards a restless and unpredictable neighbor.

There is no more military outpost on the high-rise.
Instead, a monument rises, a symbol of the eternal victory of life over death.
There were thirteen of them, six died, ascending to Golgotha.

Let's remember their names:
Tashkin Vasily Vasilievich
Paranin Alexey Ivanovich
Lipatov Alexey Anatolievich
Polagaev Alexey Sergeevich
Erdneev Boris Ozinovich
Kaufman Vladimir Egorovich

Eternal memory to the tortured soldiers.

Polagaev Alexey Sergeevich

Kaufman Vladimir Egorovich

Lipatov Alexey Anatolievich

Paranin Alexey Ivanovich

Tashkin Vasily Vasilievich

Erdniev Boris Ozinovich- a few seconds before death

Executioners punished.

Islan Mukaev was detained at the beginning of June 2005
during a joint operation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya and Ingushetia.
The operation was carried out in the Ingush regional center Sleptsovskaya, where Mukaev lived.

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

Tamerlan Khasaev October 25, 2002
Judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Dagestan
32-year-old resident of the village of Dachu-Borzoy, Grozny district of Chechnya, Tamerlan Khasaev
sentenced to life imprisonment.
Shortly thereafter, he died in prison.

Arbi Dandaev is the executor of the murder of Senior Lieutenant Vasily Tashkin.
On April 3, 2008 he was detained by police officers in the city of Grozny.

In March 2009, the Supreme Court of Dagestan sentenced the defendant
Dandaev to life imprisonment, despite the fact that the public prosecutor
asked for the defendant 22 years in prison.
In addition, the court granted civil
lawsuits of the parents of four dead soldiers
for moral damages,
amounts for which ranged from 200 thousand to 2 million rubles.

Umar Karpinsky Killed 5 months later while trying to break out of Grozny.

Mansur Razhaev January 31, 2012
The Supreme Court of Dagestan sentenced Mansur Razhaev to life imprisonment.

Well hello, proud son of Chechnya, Vainakh,
Eagle of unconquered blue mountains.
Well, why are you lying at my feet,
And tears of fear cloud your eyes?

Well, where is your bravado, mountain leopard,
With which you are in the crowd of the same dogs
With his dagger cut many times
Helpless, snotty boys?

You won't touch me with your tears.
I just remember the light of Ryazan eyes
Youngster, him in the circle of his friends
You cut your throat, laughing happily.

But I won't dirty my hands
The law will determine your miserable age.
Do you think your mother is a she-wolf
I was born a woman, I am a man!