The Russians shot the Chechen fighters. Baraevs: the most brutal militants of the Chechen war

In December 1991, the former General of the Soviet Army D. Dudayev, elected President of the Chechen-Ingush Republic, announced the creation of the Republic of Ichkeria and its secession from Russia. Since the summer of 1994, fighting has returned in Chechnya between the "produdayev" militants and opposition forces. December 9 President of the Russian Federation B.N. Yeltsin signed the Decree "On Measures to Suppress the Activities of Illegal Armed Groups on the Territory of the Chechen Republic."

Photographer V. Podlegaev. Commander of the Joint Grouping of Federal Forces of the Russian Federation in Chechnya, Lieutenant General A.A. Romanov (center) and Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Chechen Republic A. Maskhadov (left) during negotiations. Chechen Republic. June 16, 1995. RIA Novosti

Two days later, units of the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia entered the territory of Chechnya, and on December 31, bloody battles began for Grozny. Using aviation and heavy weapons, the United Group of Forces (OGV) gradually expanded the controlled territories, squeezing the militants into the mountains. In June 1995, a detachment of militants took hundreds of people hostage in a hospital in the city of Budyonnovsk (Stavropol Territory). In order to save the lives of citizens, the Russian government agreed to start peace negotiations with representatives of Ichkeria.

However, negotiations broke down in October 1995, and hostilities continued. The conflict has become a difficult test for Russia and its power structures. In the eyes of the world community, Russia's authority has suffered serious damage. Anti-war sentiment intensified within the country. In August 1996, taking advantage of the lack of clear political instructions to the UGA command from the Russian leadership, the militants captured Grozny. Under these conditions, the President of the Russian Federation B.N. Yeltsin decided to hold peace talks. On August 30, an agreement was signed in the city of Khasavyurt on the withdrawal of troops and the “freezing” of the status of Chechnya for five years.

Photographer V. Vyatkin. Paratroopers of a separate artillery battalion of the 247th Stavropol Regiment of the Russian Airborne Forces at the forefront. Chechen Republic. November 1, 1999. RIA Novosti

Incessant terrorist attacks, attacks, kidnappings have turned the south of Russia into a front zone. In August 1999, Chechen fighters invaded Dagestan and captured several villages in the border areas. As a result of the military operation of the North Caucasian Military District in August-September 1999, the bulk of the militants were eliminated.

Photographer I. Mikhalev. Russian soldier before the start of hostilities. Chechen Republic. May 12, 1996. RIA Novosti

In retaliation for the losses in September, the militants carried out a series of terrorist attacks with hundreds of casualties, blowing up residential buildings in Buynaksk, Moscow and Volgodonsk. In October 1999, a counter-terrorist operation began in Chechnya. During the winter-spring period of 1999/2000, the troops of the United Group of Troops (Forces) (OGV(s)) created by decree of the President of the Russian Federation drove Chechen extremists to the south, cutting off the mountainous regions of Chechnya from the flat part of the republic.

Photographer H. Bradner. The movement of militants towards the presidential palace under artillery fire. Grozny. Chechen Republic. January 1995. Photo courtesy of J. Butler (UK)

On February 7, 2000, Grozny was liberated. The Russian troops were faced with the task of eliminating numerous groups of militants in mountainous areas. The enemy introduced the tactics of guerrilla warfare, operating on the territories of both Chechnya and neighboring republics. As a result of the operation, illegal armed formations of Ichkeria were defeated. However, fighting with gangs continued for another eight long years.

Photographer Y. Pirogov. Russian servicemen who died in battle. The area of the airport "Severny", the Chechen Republic. January 10, 1995. RIA Novosti

The regime of the counter-terrorist operation in Chechnya was canceled only on April 16, 2009. According to the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces, during the entire period of hostilities in 1992-2009, without return losses of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and other law enforcement agencies in Chechnya, more than 8,500 people were killed and died, captured and missing - 510 people, wounded - over 70,000 people.

Dzhokhar Dudayev congratulates his guards on Independence Day. Chechen Republic, Grozny. 1994

A column of armored vehicles enters Grozny. Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. (otherwise the Chechen Republic). RF. December 12, 1994.

Chechen women during an anti-Russian rally in front of the parliament building. Grozny. Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. (otherwise the Chechen Republic). RF. December 15, 1994.

Photographer Eric Bouvet. Russian soldiers say goodbye to their dead comrade. Chechen Republic. The Russian Federation. 1995

The separatist rests during the fighting. Grozny, Chechen Republic. The Russian Federation. January 1995

Photographer Y. Tutov. Russian soldiers during a break between battles. Chechen Republic. January 12, 1995. RIA Novosti

Photographer N. Ignatiev. Engineering reconnaissance of the railway track on the bridge over the river. Terek. Chechen Republic. January 1995. Photo courtesy of J. Butler (UK)

Photographer Christopher Morris. Chechen fighters in the basement of a residential building. Grozny. Chechen Republic. RF. January 1995

A soldier of the federal forces in between battles. Grozny. Chechen Republic. The Russian Federation. January 1995

Russian soldiers during the assault on Grozny. Chechen Republic. RF. January-February 1995.

Crossing parts of the Russian army across the Sunzha River. Grozny. Chechen Republic. The Russian Federation. February 7, 1995

Photographer Y. Tutov. Presidential palace. Grozny. Chechen Republic. February 17, 1995. RIA Novosti

A combined detachment of fighters from the Tyumen OMON, SOBR, and the Urals RUBOP conducts a counter-terrorist operation in the combat zone. Grozny. Chechen Republic. RF. April 1995

Sergeant Misunov. 7th Guards Airborne Division. Neighborhood of Shatoy. Chechen Republic. The Russian Federation. 1995

Tankman Alexei Stepanov. 7th Guards Airborne Division. Under Shatoi. Chechen Republic. The Russian Federation. 1995

Photographer Oleg Klimov. Checkpoint of the Federal Forces. Grozny. Chechen Republic. May 1995

Photographer Eric Bouvet. Russian soldiers. Chechen Republic. The Russian Federation. May 1995

Life on the streets of the city. Grozny, Chechen Republic, Russian Federation. May 1995

Photographer I. Mikhalev. Soldiers of the Joint Group of Federal Forces of the Russian Federation on a halt. Chechen Republic. May 25, 1996. RIA Novosti

Photographer V. Podlegaev. Surrender of weapons by illegal armed groups. S. Zandag. Chechen Republic. August 16, 1995. RIA Novosti

Photographer I. Mikhalev. Russian soldiers before the start of hostilities. Chechen Republic. May 12, 1996. RIA Novosti

Photographer S. Gutsiev. View of Minutka Square in Grozny. Chechen Republic. May 15, 1996. RIA Novosti

The commander of the Chechen fighters, terrorist Shamil Basayev during the seizure of the hospital in Budyonnovsk. Budennovsky district. Stavropol Territory, RF. June 19, 1995.

Photographer Alexander Nemenov. Russian soldier. Chechen Republic. RF. 1996

Photographer D. Donskoy. Meeting of the President of the Russian Federation B.N. Yeltsin with soldiers and officers of the 205th motorized rifle brigade of the federal forces of the Russian Federation in the North Caucasus. Chechen Republic. May 28, 1996. RIA Novosti

Child on Mira street. Grozny. Chechen Republic. RF. August 1996

Photographer - Thomas Dworzak. Punishment for drunkenness according to Sharia law. Grozny. Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. (otherwise the Chechen Republic). RF. August 1996

Photographer I. Mikhalev. Member of illegal armed groups during the battle. Staropromyslovsky district of Grozny, Chechen Republic, August 14, 1996, RIA Novosti

Chairman of the CRI government Shamil Basayev presents a personalized pistol to Iosif Kobzon "For support of the CRI". Grozny. Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (otherwise the Chechen Republic). RF. Summer 1997.

Pupils of the Military College of the Armed Forces of the CRI. The unrecognized republic of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (otherwise the Chechen Republic). RF. 1999

Photographer: Vladimir Vyatkin. During the entry into the city of federal forces. Gudermes. Chechen Republic. The Russian Federation. January 1999

Photographer: Oleg Lastochkin. Residents of the village of Znamenskoye, Nadterechny district, located in the war zone, are leaving their homes. Chechen Republic. RF. October 1999

Photographer O. Lastochkin. Mi-24 combat helicopter loitering over the location of Russian troops. Chechen Republic, October 16, 1999. RIA Novosti

The crew of the BMP-2 on the road to Grozny. Samashki village. Chechen Republic. The Russian Federation. December 1999

Photographer Y. Kozyrev. Russian paratroopers repulse an attack by Chechen fighters, falling into an ambush near Tsentoroy. Chechen Republic. December 16, 1999. Photo courtesy of Y. Kozyrev

Photographer Y. Kozyrev. Removal of the wounded from the battle. District of Tsentoroi. Chechen Republic. December 16, 1999. Photo courtesy of Y. Kozyrev

Photographer Y. Kozyrev. Removal of the wounded from the battle. District of Tsentoroy, Chechen Republic. December 16, 1999. Photo courtesy of Y. Kozyrev

Photographer Y. Kozyrev. Paratroopers after the battle. District of Tsentoroy, Chechen Republic. December 16, 1999. Photo courtesy of Y. Kozyrev

Photographer A. Kondratiev. And about. President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin among the fighters of the federal forces of the Russian Federation in the North Caucasus. Chechen Republic. December 31, 1999, RIA Novosti

Photographer Yuri Kozyrev. Russian soldiers during a break between battles. Grozny. Chechen Republic. The Russian Federation. January 2000

Photographer Natalya Medvedeva. Consolidated detachment of the 2nd separate brigade of the GRU special purpose. Shatoi region. Chechen Republic. RF. February 2000

Soldiers of the 101st Special Operative Brigade of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. The inscription on the BMP - "Let her be wrong - she is my Motherland!" Grozny. Chechen Republic. February 9, 2000

Scouts of the platoon of the Guard Lieutenant Kozhemyakin D.S. shortly before the battle at Height 776. Shatoisky district. Chechen Republic. The Russian Federation. February 29, 2000.

Photographer Sergey Maksimishin. A child plays with a cat at one of the checkpoints. Grozny. Chechen Republic. RF. year 2000.

The 45th Separate Special Purpose Guards Regiment patrols in the mountain gorge of the Bass River. Chechen Republic. The Russian Federation. March-April 2000.

Photographer V. Vyatkin. The death of Sergei Timoshin, a soldier of the 6th company of the 10th regiment of the Russian Airborne Forces. Chechen Republic. April 1, 2000. RIA Novosti

Photographer V. Vyatkin. Rest after a military operation. Chechen Republic. April 1, 2000. RIA Novosti

After the assault on the village of Komsomolskoye. Chechen Republic. The Russian Federation. year 2000.

Photographer V. Vyatkin. Special operation of the Airborne Forces of the Russian Federation to identify and destroy the base camps of Chechen gangs in the mountain gorge of the river. Bass, Chechen Republic. April 1, 2000. RIA Novosti

Photographer V. Vyatkin. The operation of the special reconnaissance detachment of the 45th regiment of the Airborne Forces of the Russian Federation to identify and destroy bandit formations in the mountain gorge of the river. Bass, Chechen Republic. April 1, 2000, RIA Novosti

Militias from among local residents at a parade in memory of the dead Dagestan soldiers and local residents during the invasion of Chechen fighters. Agvali village. Tsumadinsky district. The Republic of Dagestan. RF. October 2000

The raid of the special forces reconnaissance group of the airborne troops in the vicinity of the Baath River. Surroundings of the villages of Khatuni, Kirov-Yurt and Makhkety. Vedeno region. Chechen Republic. The Russian Federation. October 5, 2000

Some of the photos are taken from the book: Military Chronicle of Russia in Photographs. 1850s - 2000s: Album. - M.: Golden Bee, 2009.

The list includes the most notable and significant operations of the FSB in the entire history of its existence. It does not contain cases of catching spies and other little-known operations, due to the fact that from the mid-1990s to our time, the main focus of the FSB is the North Caucasus. It is the elimination and capture of key opponents in this region that has a decisive influence on the development of the situation in the entire direction. Places are distributed according to the significance of the object of the operation or the situation as a whole.

10. Detention of Magas Ali Musaevich Taziev (formerly known as Akhmed Evloev; call sign and nickname - "Magas") - - a terrorist, an active participant in the separatist movement in the North Caucasus in the 1990s - 2000s, an Ingush field commander, since 2007 of the year - the commander (supreme amir) of the armed formations of the self-proclaimed "Caucasian Emirate". He was the second in the leadership hierarchy of the Caucasus Emirate after Doku Umarov. It turned out that since 2007, Ali Taziev, under the surname Gorbakov, lived in one of the private houses in the suburbs of the Ingush city of Malgobek. He introduced himself to his neighbors as a migrant from Chechnya. He behaved quietly and inconspicuously and did not arouse any suspicions. The operation to capture Magas began six months before his arrest. Three times he fell into the sights of snipers, but the order was to take him alive. On the night of June 9, 2010, the house was surrounded by the FSB special forces. At the moment of detention, Taziev did not have time to resist (according to Kavkaz-Center, due to the fact that he was poisoned), the FSB officers did not suffer any losses

9. Elimination of Abu Hafs al-Urdani Abu Hafs al-Urdani - Jordanian terrorist, commander of a detachment of foreign volunteers in Chechnya, took part in the battles on the side of the separatists during the First and Second Russian-Chechen wars. After the death of Abu al-Walid, Abu Hafs replaced him as Amir of foreign fighters and coordinator of financial flows from abroad. Led the attack of militants on the village. Avtury of the Shali region in the summer of 2004, as well as many smaller attacks by militants. Abu Khafs was valued as a military strategist by Aslan Maskhadov, who jointly planned operations with him. On November 26, 2006, Abu Khafs and four other militants were blocked in one of the private houses in the city of Khasavyurt (Dagestan). As a result of the storming of the house by the special forces of the FSB, all the militants were killed.

8. Elimination of Abu Dzeit Abu Dzeit (known as Little Omar, Abu Omar of Kuwait, Hussein, Moor) is an international terrorist, an emissary of the Al-Qaeda organization in the North Caucasus, an organizer of terrorist acts in Bosnia and the Caucasus, including in Beslan. According to some reports, he personally met with Osama bin Laden. In 2002, he was invited to Chechnya by one of the emissaries of Al-Qaeda, Abu Haws. He was a demolition instructor in one of the terrorist camps. Then he was sent by the representative of Abu Khavs in Georgia, to Ingushetia. In 2004, Mavr became the head of an al-Qaeda cell in Ingushetia. He died during an operation to eliminate militants on February 16, 2005 in the Nazran district of Ingushetia.

7. Elimination of Abu-Kuteib Abu-Kuteib is a terrorist, one of Khattab's close associates. He was a member of the "Majlisul Shura of Ichkeria" and was responsible for the propaganda support of the activities of gangs, and was also endowed with the exclusive right to post on the Internet information transmitted by groups of Arab mercenaries from Chechnya. It was he who, in March 2000 in Zhani-Vedeno, organized an attack on a convoy, as a result of which 42 riot policemen from Perm were killed. He was one of the organizers of the militants' invasion of Ingushetia. On July 1, 2004, he was blockaded in the city of Malgobek and, after many hours of fighting, blew up the "shahid's belt" on himself.

6. Liquidation of Aslan Maskhadov Aslan Maskhadov is a military and statesman of the unrecognized Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (ChRI). In the early 1990s, he participated in the creation of the armed forces of the CRI and led the military operations of the separatists against the federal forces. one of the distant relatives. During the assault, Maskhadov resisted, and the special forces blew up the device, from the shock wave of which the house was dilapidated.

5. Liquidation of Arbi Baraev Arbi Baraev, a member of the separatist movement in Chechnya in the 1990s, supported the creation of a "Sharia" state in Chechnya. After the end of the first Chechen war, in 1997-1999, he gained fame as a terrorist and a bandit, a murderer and leader of a gang of slave traders and kidnappers, at the hands of which more than a hundred people suffered in Chechnya and neighboring regions. The liquidation of the Chechen field commander Arbi Baraev was the result of special operation of the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, which took place from June 19 to 24 in the village of Alkhan-Kala. During the operation, Arbi Baraev and 17 militants from his inner circle were killed, many were taken prisoner, the federal forces lost one person killed during the operation.

4. The liquidation of Dzhokhar Dudayev Dzhokhar Dudayev is a Chechen military and political figure, the leader of the Chechen national liberation movement of the 1990s, the first president of the unrecognized Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. In the past - Major General of Aviation, the only Chechen general in the Soviet Army. According to Russian sources, by the beginning of the first Chechen campaign under the command of Dudayev there were about 15 thousand fighters, 42 tanks, 66 infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers, 123 guns, 40 anti-aircraft systems, 260 training aircraft, so the advance of the federal forces was accompanied by serious resistance from the Chechen militias and guardsmen Dudayev. On the evening of April 21, 1996, Russian special services located the signal from Dudayev's satellite phone near the village of Gekhi-Chu, 30 km from Grozny. 2 Su-25 attack aircraft with homing missiles were lifted into the air. Dzhokhar Dudayev died from a rocket explosion while talking on the phone with Russian MP Konstantin Borov.

3. Elimination of Khattab Amir ibn al-Khattab - a field commander, a terrorist originally from Saudi Arabia, one of the leaders of the armed formations of the self-proclaimed Chechen Republic of Ichkeria on the territory of the Russian Federation in 1995-2002. He was an experienced and well-trained terrorist, owned all types of small arms. Understood in mine-subversive business. He personally trained suicide bombers subordinate to him. He organized foreign financing for the purchase of ammunition and the arrangement of militant training camps in Chechnya. Khattab was destroyed in an unconventional way: a messenger delivered a message to the Arab, which contained a horse dose of potent poison. Khattab opened the envelope and died very quickly after that. His bodyguards could not understand what was really happening.

2. Elimination of Shamilya Basaev Shamil Basaev - an active participant in the hostilities in Chechnya, one of the leaders of the self-proclaimed Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (CRI) in 1995-2006. He organized a number of terrorist acts on the territory of the Russian Federation. He was included in the lists of terrorists of the UN, the US State Department and the European Union. According to official data from the FSB, Basayev and his accomplices were destroyed during the explosion of a KamAZ truck filled with explosives in the Nazran district of Ingushetia. This explosion was the result of a carefully planned special operation, which became possible thanks to the operational work of the Russian special services carried out abroad. “Operational positions were set up abroad, primarily in those countries where weapons were collected and subsequently delivered to Russia to carry out terrorist attacks,” Mr. Patrushev said, specifying that Basayev and his accomplices were going to carry out a major terrorist attack in order to exert political pressure. on the leadership of Russia during the G8 summit.

1. Capture of "Nord-Ost" The terrorist attack on Dubrovka, also referred to as "Nord-Ost" - a terrorist attack on Dubrovka in Moscow, which lasted from October 23 to 26, 2002, during which a group of armed militants led by Movsar Baraev captured and held hostages from among the audience of the musical "Nord-Ost". The assault began at 05.17, when the special forces began to launch a special nerve-paralytic substance through the ventilation shafts. At that moment, several hostages called their acquaintances and said that some kind of gas was coming to the recreation center, but their speech quickly became incoherent, and then they could not utter anything at all. The gas suppressed the will of all those present in the hall, and most importantly, the terrorists. If even one of them managed to press a few toggle switches on her belt or connect the wires, the bombs would explode one after another, and the building could simply collapse. A few seconds after the gas began to act, the snipers killed all the female suicide bombers with accurate shots to the head, and then the fighters in gas masks moved on to destroy the other bandits who were in the auditorium. One of them was armed with a Kalashnikov machine gun, but he did not have time to use it, making only one aimless burst. At the same time, part of the special forces who entered the building through the roof dealt with the terrorists in the utility rooms on the second floor, using noise and light grenades. Most of the bandits at the same time were already in an unconscious state, since the gas acted primarily on those.

MASKHADOV Aslan (Khalid) Alievich Elected in 1997 President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. Was born on September 21, 1951 in Kazakhstan. In 1957, together with his parents, he returned from Kazakhstan to his homeland, to the village of Zebir-Yurt, Nadterechny district of Chechnya. In 1972 he graduated from the Tbilisi Higher Artillery School and was sent to the Far East. He went through all the steps of the army hierarchical ladder from the platoon commander to the division chief of staff.

In 1981 he graduated from the Leningrad Artillery Academy. M.I. Kalinina. After graduating from the academy, he was sent to the Central Group of Forces in Hungary, where he served as a division commander, then as a regimental commander. Hungary is followed by Lithuania: the commander of a regiment of self-propelled artillery installations, the chief of staff of the missile forces and artillery of the garrison of the city of Vilnius in Lithuania, the deputy commander of the seventh division in the Baltic military district.

In January 1990, during the speeches of supporters of Lithuanian independence, Maskhadov was in Vilnius.

Since 1991 - Head of the Civil Defense of the Chechen Republic, Deputy Head of the General Staff of the Supreme Council of the Chechen Republic.

In 1992, Colonel Maskhadov retired from the Russian army and took up the post of First Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Chechen Republic.

Since March 1994 - Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Chechen Republic.

From December 1994 to January 1995 he led the defense of the presidential palace in Grozny.

In the spring of 1995, Aslan Maskhadov led the military operations of the armed formations from the headquarters in Nozhai-Yurt.

In June 1995, he headed the headquarters of the Dudayev formations in Dargo.

In August-October 1995, he headed a group of military representatives of the Dudayev delegation at the Russian-Chechen negotiations.

In August 1996, he represented Chechen separatists in negotiations with Alexander Lebed, Secretary of the Security Council

On October 17, 1996, he was appointed to the post of Prime Minister of the coalition government of Chechnya with the wording "for a transitional period."

In December 1996, in accordance with the election law, he resigned from official posts - Prime Minister of the coalition government, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, in order to have the right to run for the presidency of Chechnya.

From July 1998, he served as acting prime minister of Chechnya, combining this position with the post of president.

In December 1998, under the pretext of his "pro-Russian position", Maskhadov's constitutional powers were challenged by "field commanders" Shamil Basayev, Salman Raduyev and Khunkar Israpilov. The "Council of Commanders of Chechnya" headed by them demanded from the Supreme Sharia Court that Maskhadov be removed from office. The Sharia court suggested that Maskhadov unilaterally break off relations with Russia. However, the court did not find sufficient grounds to remove the president of the Chechen Republic from office, although he was found guilty of recruiting people who "collaborated with the occupation regime" for leadership positions.
It was destroyed on March 8, 2005 by the special forces of the FSB of Russia in the village of Tolstoy-Yurt, Grozny region.

Baraev Arbi. He was suspected of organizing the kidnappings of FSB officers Gribov and Lebedinsky, the plenipotentiary representative of the President of the Russian Federation in Chechnya Vlasov, employees of the Red Cross, as well as the murder of four citizens of Great Britain and New Zealand (Peter Kennedy, Darren Hickey, Rudolf Pestchi and Stanley Shaw). The Ministry of Internal Affairs put Barayev on the federal wanted list in connection with the kidnapping of NTV journalists Masyuk, Mordyukov, Olchev and OPT TV journalists Bogatyrev and Chernyaev in Chechnya. In total, on his personal account, the death of about two hundred Russians - military personnel and civilians.

On June 23-24, 2001, in the ancestral village of Alkhan-kala and Kulary, a special combined detachment of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB carried out a special operation to eliminate a detachment of Arbi Baraev's militants. Destroyed 15 militants and Barayev himself.

BARAEV Movsar, nephew of Arbi Baraev. Movsar received his first baptism of fire in the summer of 1998 in Gudermes, when the Barayevites, together with the Urus-Martan Wahhabis, clashed with fighters from the detachment of the Yamadayev brothers. Then Movsar was wounded.

After the introduction of federal troops into Chechnya, Arbi Baraev appointed his nephew the commander of a sabotage detachment and sent him to Argun. In the summer of 2001, when Arbi Baraev was killed in the village of Alkhan-Kala in the Grozny rural district, Movsar proclaimed himself the emir of the Alkhan-Kala jamaat instead of his uncle. He organized several attacks on federal convoys and a whole series of explosions in Grozny, Urus-Martan and Gudermes.

In October 2002, terrorists led by Movsar Barayev seized the building of the House of Culture of the State Bearing Plant on Melnikova Street (Dubrovka Theater Center) during the musical "Nord-Ost". Spectators and actors (up to 1000 people) were taken hostage. On October 26, the hostages were released, Movsar Baraev and 43 terrorists were killed.

Suleimenov Movsan. Nephew of Arbi Baraev. He was killed on August 25, 2001 in the city of Argun during a special operation by officers of the Russian FSB Directorate for Chechnya. The operation was carried out in order to establish the exact location and detention of Suleimenov. However, during the operation, Movsan Suleimenov and three other mid-level commanders offered armed resistance. As a result, they were destroyed.

Abu Umar. A native of Saudi Arabia. One of the most famous assistants of Khattab. Explosives expert. Mined the approaches to Grozny in 1995. Participated in the organization of explosions in Buynaksk in 1998, was wounded during the explosion. He organized an explosion in Volgograd on May 31, 2000, in which 2 people died and 12 were injured.

Abu Umar trained almost all the organizers of the explosions in Chechnya and the North Caucasus.

In addition to preparing terrorist attacks, Abu-Umar dealt with financing issues

militants, including the transfer of mercenaries to Chechnya through the channels of one of

international Islamic organizations.

Destroyed on July 11, 2001 in the village of Mayrup, Shali district, during a special operation by the FSB and the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Emir Ibn Al Khattab. A professional terrorist, one of the most implacable militants in Chechnya.

The most "famous" operations conducted under the leadership or with the direct participation of Khattab and his militants include:

The terrorist attack in the city of Budyonnovsk (70 people stood out from the Khattab detachment, there were no losses among them);

Providing a "corridor" for the gang of S. Raduev to leave the settlement. Pervomaiskoye - an operation prepared and personally carried out by Khattab to destroy the column of the 245th motorized rifle regiment near the settlement. Yaryshmardy;

Direct participation in the preparation and attack on Grozny in August 1996.

The terrorist attack in the city of Buynaksk on December 22, 1997. During an armed attack on a military unit in the town of Buynaksk, he was wounded in his right shoulder.

Raduev Salman. From April 1996 to June 1997, Raduev was the commander of the armed unit "Army of General Dudayev".

In 1996-1997, Salman Raduev repeatedly claimed responsibility for the terrorist attacks committed on the territory of Russia and made threats against Russia.

In 1998, he claimed responsibility for the assassination attempt on Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze. He also claimed responsibility for the explosions at railway stations in Armavir and Pyatigorsk. Raduev's gang was engaged in robbery on the railways, it is guilty of embezzlement of public funds in the amount of 600 - 700 thousand rubles, intended for the payment of salaries to teachers in the Chechen Republic.

On March 12, 2000, he was captured in the village of Novogroznensky during a special operation by the FSB.

The Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation charged Salman Raduev under 18 articles of the Russian Criminal Code (including "terrorism", "murder", "banditry"). The sentence is life imprisonment.

He died on December 14, 2002. Diagnosis: "hemorrhagic vasculitis" (blood incoagulability). He was buried on December 17 at the city cemetery of Solikamsk (Perm Region).

ATGERIEV Turpal-Ali. Former employee of the 21st company of the traffic police of Grozny. During the hostilities, he was the commander of the Novogroznensky regiment, which, together with Salman Raduev, participated in the Kizlyar and May Day events.

On this fact, the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation initiated a criminal case under Art. 77 (banditry), Art. 126 (hostage-taking) and Art. 213-3, part 3 (terrorism). Declared on the federal wanted list.

On December 25, 2002, the Supreme Court of Dagestan sentenced Atgeriev to 15 years in prison for participating in the attack on the Dagestani city of Kizlyar in January 1996. Atgeriev was found guilty of terrorism, organizing illegal armed groups, kidnapping and hostage-taking, and robbery.

Passed away August 18, 2002. The cause of death was leukemia. In addition, it was found that Atgeriev had a stroke.

GELAEV Ruslan (Khamzat). Former commander of the special purpose regiment "BORZ" of the Armed Forces of the CRI, lieutenant colonel of the army of Ichkeria.

During the conduct of hostilities - the commander of the Shatoevsky garrison, the commander of the "Abkhaz battalion". In Gelaev's formation there were eight hundred - nine hundred well-armed militants, they included about fifty snipers from Lithuania, ten - fifteen snipers from Estonia. The so-called special purpose regiment was stationed in the areas of Sharoy, Itum-Kale, Khalkina.

In 2002, he announced his intention to receive the post of president of Ichkeria; he was supported by the former head of Dudayev's foreign intelligence service, the well-known criminal oil businessman Khozhy Nukhaev.

On August 20, 2002, Ruslan Gelaev's gang attempted an armed crossing from the Pankisi Gorge in Georgia through the territory of North Ossetia and Ingushetia to Chechnya.

On March 1, 2004, the territorial department "Makhachkala" of the North Caucasian branch of the border service distributed reports about the destruction of Ruslan Gelaev in the mountains of Dagestan (reports about his death were heard repeatedly).

Munaev Isa. Chechen field commander. He led the detachments operating in the Chechen capital, was appointed at the beginning of 1999 by Aslan Maskhadov the military commandant of the city of Grozny.

He was killed on October 1, 2000 during a military clash in the Stapromyslovsky district of Grozny (according to the press center of the United Group of Russian Forces in Chechnya, 2000).

MOVSAEV Abu. Deputy Minister of Sharia Security of Ichkeria.

After the attack on Budennovsk (1995), they began to assert that Abu Movsaev was one of the organizers of the action. After Budennovsk, he received the rank of brigadier general. In 1996 - July 1997 - Head of the State Security Department of Ichkeria. During the armed conflict in Chechnya, for some time in 1996, he served as the chief of the main headquarters of the Chechen formations.

KARIEV (KORIEV) Magomed. Chechen field commander.

Until September 1998, Kariev was the deputy head of the Security Service of Ichkeria. Then he was appointed head of the 6th department of the Ministry of Sharia Security, responsible for combating organized crime.

Kariev was involved in kidnapping and taking hostages for ransom.

He was killed on May 22, 2001 by several shots at the door of the apartment, which he rented in Baku under the guise of a refugee.

Tsagarayev Magomad. One of the leaders of the Chechen gangs. Tsagaraev was Movzan Akhmadov's deputy and directly supervised military operations; was Khattab's closest confidant.

In March 2001, Tsagaraev was wounded, but managed to escape and penetrate the border. In early July 2001, he returned to Chechnya and organized gangs in Grozny to carry out terrorist attacks.

MALIK Abdul. Famous field commander. He was a member of the inner circle of the leaders of the illegal armed groups of Chechnya, Emir Khattab and Shamil Basayev. He was killed on August 13, 2001 during a special operation in the Vedensky district of the Chechen Republic.

KHAIKHAROEV Ruslan. Famous Chechen field commander. During the war in Chechnya (1994-1996) he commanded detachments of the defenders of the village of Bamut and the southeastern front of the Chechen army.

After 1996, Khaykharoev had extensive connections in the criminal world of the North Caucasus, controlled two types of criminal business: the transfer of hostages from Ingushetia and North Ossetia to the Chechen Republic, as well as the smuggling of oil products. Former member of Dudayev's personal bodyguard.

It is assumed that he was involved in the disappearance of the journalists of the Nevskoe Vremya newspaper Maxim Shablin and Felix Titov, and he also ordered two explosions in Moscow trolleybuses on July 11 and 12, 1996. Accused by the Russian Security Service of organizing an explosion of an intercity passenger bus in Nalchik.

The organizer of the abduction on May 1, 1998 of the plenipotentiary representative of the President of the Russian Federation in Chechnya, Valentin Vlasov (this fact was established by Russian law enforcement agencies).

He died on September 8, 1999 in the district hospital of the city of Urus-Martan, Chechen Republic. He died from wounds received on the night of August 23-24, 1999 during the fighting in the Botlikh region of Dagestan (he fought as part of the detachments of Arbi Baraev).

According to another version, Khaykharoev was mortally wounded by Bamut's fellow villagers. The news of his death was confirmed by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.

KHACHUKAEV Khizir. Brigadier General, Deputy Ruslan Gelaev. He commanded the South-Eastern Defense Sector in Grozny. Demoted by Maskhadov to the ranks for participating in negotiations with Akhmad Kadyrov and Vladimir Bokovikov in Nazran. Destroyed on February 15, 2002 during an operation in the Shali region of Chechnya.

Umalatov Adam. Nickname - "Tehran". One of the leaders of the Chechen fighters. He was a member of Khattab's gang. He was killed on November 5, 2001 as a result of an operation carried out by special forces.

IRISKHANOV Shamil. An influential field commander from Basayev's inner circle. Together with Basayev, he took part in the raid on Budenovsk and the capture of hostages there in the city hospital in 1995. He led a detachment of about 100 militants in the summer of 2001, after his elder brother, the so-called Brigadier General Khizir IRISKHANOV, Basayev's first deputy, was killed in a special operation. "For the operation" in Budenovsk, the Iriskhanov brothers, Dzhokhar Dudayev awarded the highest orders of "Ichkeria" - "Honor of the Nation".

SALTAMIRZAEV Adam. An influential member of illegal armed groups. He was the emir (spiritual leader) of the Wahhabis of the village of Mesker-Yurt. Nickname - "Black Adam". Destroyed on May 28, 2002 as a result of a special operation of the Federal forces in the Shali region of Chechnya. When trying to detain him in Mesker-Yurt, he resisted and was killed during a shootout.

AKHMADOV Rizvan. Field commander, nickname "Dadu". He was a member of the so-called "Majlis-ul-Shura of the Mujahideen of the Caucasus."

Akhmadov assumed command of his brother Ramzan's militant unit in February 2001 after his elimination. This detachment operated in Grozny, in the Grozny rural, Urus-Martan and Shali regions, relying on accomplices in the ranks of the Chechen OMON operating in Grozny. On January 10, 2001, it was a group of militants subordinate to Dadu who took hostage a representative of the international organization Doctors Without Borders, Kenneth Gluck.

ABDUKHAJIEV Aslanbek. One of the leaders of the Chechen fighters, Shamil Basayev's deputy for reconnaissance and sabotage work. Nickname - "Big Aslanbek". As part of the gangs of Basaev and Raduev, he took an active part in armed attacks on the cities of Budennovsk and Kizlyar. During the reign of Maskhadov, he was the military commandant of the Shali region of Chechnya. In the gang, Basayev personally developed plans for sabotage and terrorist activities.

From the day of the attack on Budyonnovsk, he was on the federal wanted list.

On August 26, 2002, employees of the task force of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation in the Shali region and one of the SOBR detachments, together with soldiers of the military commandant's office of the Shali region, conducted an operation to detain a militant in the regional center of Shali. During the arrest, he offered armed resistance and was destroyed.

DEMIEV Adlan. Leader of the gang. Involved in a series of sabotage and terrorist acts on the territory of Chechnya.

It was liquidated on February 18, 2003 by the federal forces of Chechnya as a result of a counter-terrorist operation carried out in the city of Argun.

After being blocked by a unit of federal forces, Demiyev resisted and tried to escape in a car. However, it was destroyed by return fire from federal forces. When examining the deceased, a PM pistol, grenades, radio stations and a fake passport were found.

BATAEV Khamzat. A well-known field commander, who was considered the "commander of the Bamut direction" of the resistance of Chechen fighters. He was killed in March 2000 in the village of Komsomolskoye. (This was announced by the commander of the grouping of internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation in Chechnya, General Mikhail Lagunets).

The first big success in decapitating Chechen separatism after the assassination of Dzhokhar Dudayev was the capture of terrorist No. 2 Salman Raduev, who was arrested by the FSB in Chechnya in March 2000. Raduev became widely known in 1996, after on January 9, under his leadership, militants attacked the Dagestan city of Kizlyar. True, "laurels of fame" in Kizlyar went to Raduev "accidentally". At the last stage, he replaced the wounded field commander Khunkarpasha Israpilov, who was the head of the operation.

The capture of Raduev was masterfully carried out by counterintelligence agents and in such a top-secret regime that the bandit "did not expect anything and was shocked," said FSB director Nikolai Patrushev. According to some reports, Raduev was "tied up" at the moment when he left his shelter "out of need." There is a version that Raduev was handed over by an agent who promised him to sell a large batch of weapons cheaply.

On December 25, 2001, the Supreme Court of Dagestan found Raduev guilty on all counts, except for "organizing illegal armed groups." The demands of the public prosecutor - Vladimir Ustinov - were met, and Salman Raduev was sentenced to life imprisonment. Raduev served his term in the Solikamsk UIN, in the famous colony "White Swan".

In December 2002, Raduev began to complain about his health. On December 6, he developed bruises under his left eye and abdominal pain. A few days later, Raduev became worse, and on December 10, the GUIN doctors decided to place him in a prison hospital in a separate ward. In the hospital, Raduev died on December 14 at 5.30 in the morning. The following is written in the forensic medical conclusion about death: "DIC, multiple hemorrhages, abdominal hematoma, hemorrhage in the brain and left eye."

Raduev's body was buried at the Solikamsk common cemetery.

In April 2002, it became known that field commander Khattab, who was known as an ideologist and organizer of terrorist activities, was killed in Chechnya. It was liquidated as a result of an "intelligence-combat operation" by the FSB back in March 2002. The top-secret operation to destroy Khattab had been in preparation for almost a year. According to the FSB, Khattab was poisoned by one of his confidants. The death of a terrorist was one of the most serious blows for the militants, since after the liquidation of Khattab, the entire system of financing gangs in Chechnya was disrupted.

In June 2001, in Chechnya, as a result of a special operation, the leader of one of the most combat-ready units of Chechen militants, Arbi Baraev, was killed. Together with him, 17 people from his inner circle were killed. A large number of militants were taken prisoner. Baraev was identified by his relatives. The special operation was carried out in the area of the native village of Baraev Yermolovka for six days - from June 19 to 24. During the operation, which was carried out by the regional operational headquarters with the involvement of special forces of the FSB and the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, in particular, the Vityaz group, one Russian serviceman was killed and six were injured. After Baraev was mortally wounded, the militants carried his body into one of the houses and covered it with bricks in the hope that the federal forces would not find him. However, with the help of a search dog, Baraev's body was discovered.

In November 2003, representatives of the FSB officially admitted that one of the leaders of the Chechen fighters, the Arab terrorist Abu al-Walid, was killed on April 14th. According to the intelligence services, on April 13, information appeared about a detachment of militants who, together with several Arab mercenaries, stopped in the forest between Ishkha-Yurt and Alleroy. This area was immediately attacked from helicopters, and the special forces shot the camp of bandits from grenade launchers and flamethrowers. On April 17, soldiers combed the area between Ishkhoy-Yurt and Meskets, and about 3-4 kilometers from these villages, six dead militants were found in the forest. We managed to identify everyone - they turned out to be Chechens. A kilometer away from those six corpses, a dead Arab was found. With him, in particular, they found a map of the area made from a satellite and a satellite navigator for moving around the area. The body was badly burned. In April, al-Walid's body could not be identified. The special services did not have the terrorist's fingerprints, his relatives did not respond to investigators' requests, and the detained militants who met with him could not say with certainty that the body was his. All doubts disappeared only in November.

On February 13, 2004, Zelimkhan Yandarbiev was killed in Qatar, whom the Chechen separatists, after the death of Dzhokhar Dudayev, declared the president of Ichkeria. Yandarbiev's car was blown up in the Qatari capital Doha. At the same time, two people from his escort were killed. The separatist leader himself was seriously injured and died in the hospital some time later. Yandarbiev has lived in Qatar for the past three years and has been on the international wanted list all this time as the organizer of the attack on Dagestan. The Russian Prosecutor General's Office demanded that Qatar extradite him.

The Qatari special services immediately started talking about the Russian trace in the murder of Yandarbiyev, and already on February 19, three employees of the Russian embassy were arrested on suspicion of committing a terrorist attack. One of them, who is the first secretary of the embassy and has diplomatic status, was released and expelled from the country, while the other two were sentenced by a Qatari court to life imprisonment, while the court concluded that the order to liquidate Yandarbiev was given by the first persons of the Russian leadership. Moscow denied the accusations in every possible way, and Russian diplomats did everything possible to bring the unfortunate bombers back to their homeland as soon as possible.

They were sentenced to life in prison, which under Qatari law means a 25-year prison term, which can later be reduced to 10 years. A month after the trial, an agreement was reached that the convicted Russians would be taken to their homeland, where they would serve their term. The return of the Russian scouts really took place, Anatoly Yablochkov and Vasily Pugachev flew to Russia on a special flight of the Rossiya State Customs Committee in December 2004.

In March 2004, it became known about the death of a no less odious leader of the militants - Ruslan Gelaev, who in May 2002 was newly appointed commander-in-chief of the armed forces of Ichkeria by Aslan Maskhadov and reinstated in the rank of "brigadier general". True, he was killed not as a result of a special operation by special services, but in a banal shootout with border guards. Gelaev was destroyed by a border detachment consisting of only two people in the mountains of Dagestan on the Avaro-Kakheti road leading to Georgia. At the same time, the border guards themselves were killed in the shootout. The corpse of the field commander was found in the snow a hundred meters from the bodies of the border guards. It happened, apparently, on Sunday (February 28, 2004). A day later, Gelaev's body was taken to Makhachkala and identified by the previously arrested militants.

Thus, only one "odious militant" remains alive among the major Chechen leaders - Shamil Basayev.

Alexander Alyabiev

The Baraev clan during the Chechen campaigns became widely known for trafficking in kidnapped and captured people. Some experts who have studied the acts of these criminals are inclined to believe that the Baraevs were even more active in this type of activity than directly in clashes with federal troops.

It is believed that militants of the Jamaad Islamic Regiment led by Arbi Baraev in Chechnya, among others, abducted Russian presidential envoy Vlasov, Major General Shpigun, many Russian officers and journalists, as well as four British citizens and one New Zealander. They did not stand on ceremony with the captives - when Barayev's militants were not satisfied with the results of the negotiations on the ransom of the hostages, they cut off the heads of four foreigners and threw them on the road.

Arbi Baraev was really a scumbag, because he always wanted to commit atrocities on his own, without control from the leadership of the self-proclaimed Ichkeria. In the late 90s, Aslan Maskhadov stripped him of the rank of brigadier general for arbitrariness, in response, Baraev tried to kill Maskhadov himself. Despised Arbi Baraev and field Ruslan Gelaev, whose people Baraev killed a relative.

This is how General Troshev, one of the leaders of the anti-terrorist operation in Chechnya, characterizes A. Baraev in his book “My War. Chechen diary of a trench general":

“... He was a unique person in his own way: in five years he climbed the career ladder from a foreman of the traffic police to a brigadier general (an analogue of our rank of lieutenant general)! It's time to enter the Guinness Book of Records. Moreover, the 27-year-old Chechen owes such a rapid ascent not to a brilliant mind, talents or valor of the heart, but to the human blood shed by him: since January 1995, he personally tortured more than two hundred people! Moreover, with the same sadistic sophistication, he mocked a Russian priest, and an Ingush policeman, and a Dagestan builder, and subjects of Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain ... ".

Arbi Barayev's nephew Movsar participated in both Chechen campaigns, at first on the sidelines. In the second war, on the orders of Shamil Basayev, Movsar Barayev led a sabotage and terrorist detachment, which in October 2002 seized the House of Culture of Moscow Bearing OJSC on Dubrovka, over 900 people were taken hostage. According to various sources, from 130 to 174 hostages died as a result of this terrorist attack, 37 terrorists, led by Movsar Barayev, were killed by the FSB special forces.

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