In his own office, Konstantin Morev, head of the FSB department for the Tver region, shot himself with a service weapon. On account of his investigation of many high-profile cases. Among the versions are Morev's professional activities, possible troubles in the family and health problems.

The head of the FSB department for the Tver region, Konstantin Morev, committed suicide on Friday, Interfax reported, citing a law enforcement source in the Central Federal District.

According to him, 53-year-old Morev shot himself with a service weapon.
The circumstances of the incident are being investigated, investigators are working on the spot. A RSN source in the administration of the Tver region said that Morev committed suicide in his office.

According to a RIA Novosti source in the law enforcement agencies of the region, investigators are now considering three versions of Morev's suicide: professional activities, family problems and health.
Last year, the head of the Tver department of the FSB married an employee of the protocol service of the then governor of the region, Dmitry Zelenin. After the wedding, the now ex-governor of the Tver region, Zelenin, appointed Maya Moreva as deputy head of his apparatus.

“I will not comment on this sad event,” Zelenin told Gazeta.Ru. “Yes, indeed, his wife still continues to work in the office of the head of the region.” (Now the governor of the Tver region is Andrey Shevelev).
It has not yet been possible to get comments from the regional administration and the FSB in the Tver region.

Major General Konstantin Morev was born in 1958 in the city of Abakan, Krasnoyarsk Territory. He received his higher education at the Krasnoyarsk Aerospace University. In the service in the state security bodies since 1982. He began his career working in the Federal Security Service of the Krasnoyarsk Territory: there he was deputy head of the department, successfully carried out an operation to catch red-handed employees of special services of foreign states who were trying to collect secret information on the territory of the region. Then he was transferred to the central office of the FSB of Russia, from where he was sent to Yakutia. Heading the department of the FSB of Russia in the Republic of Sakha, where he was engaged in the suppression of drug trafficking and the illegal sale of weapons, investigated cases of the theft of diamond ore, and conducted many cases classified as "secret".

Morev was transferred to the Tver region by decree of the President of Russia in 2007.
The FSB, under his leadership, dealt with the case of undermining the Nevsky Express. Also, employees of the department "developed" youth nationalist groups. In particular, in July 2010, 16 members of the local branch of the radical nationalist organization Russian National Unity (RNE) were convicted in Tver. The court found the nationalists guilty of committing crimes motivated by ethnic hatred, creating an extremist community, murders, robberies and robberies, causing grievous bodily harm, involving a minor in a crime, desecrating the bodies of the dead and their burial places. Rostislav Vertoprakhov and Igor Zolotarev, who participated in the murder of two people motivated by ethnic hatred as part of an organized group, were then sentenced to 15 years in prison. Daniel Ustavshchikov was sentenced to 17 years. The leader of the group Dmitry Orlov was sentenced to life imprisonment. The rest of the participants received various terms, from 3.6 to 12 years. Three convicts received two years of probation.

Major-General Konstantin Morev had the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" I and II degrees, and was also awarded the badge "Honorary Counterintelligence Officer".

This is the second suicide among high-ranking security officials this summer.
In July, Vyacheslav Sizov, head of the Department for Supervision of the Execution of Laws on Federal Security, Interethnic Relations and Countering Extremism of the Prosecutor General's Office, shot himself in the head in his own office. Doctors fought for his life, but five days later the official died in the intensive care unit of the Research Institute. Sklifosovsky.

The mysteries of the death of the FSB general are yet to be solved

Today, from 11:00 to 12:30, the Tver Regional Drama Theater hosted a farewell ceremony for General Konstantin Morev, head of the Federal Security Service for the Tver Region, who committed suicide on Friday afternoon, August 26. According to one of the former high-ranking employees of the department, on the morning of that day, nothing foreshadowed trouble: plans were being made for the weekend ...
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On Friday, August 26, in his office on the Afanasy Nikitin embankment, Konstantin Morev, head of the FSB in the Tver region, shot himself with a service pistol. About the reasons why the 53-year-old major general took his own life, nothing was exactly known at that time. It is said that he did not even leave any suicide note. The pre-investigation check was started by the military investigation department of the TFR.
Mr. Morev came to counterintelligence in 1982 after graduating from a technical college at the Krasnoyarsk Machine-Building Plant. His service began there - in Krasnoyarsk. He headed the Tver UFSB in 2007, having come to this post from the post of head of the UFSB of Russia for the Republic of Sakha-Yakutia. Among the most high-profile cases in which the Tver security officers under General Morev participated in the investigation was the explosion of the Nevsky Express train by militants in 2009.
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The farewell to the body of General Morev was scheduled for 11-00, but there were no official announcements about this. Perhaps that is why not a single representative of the media, starting from 10 o'clock until the end of the event near the Drama Theater, whose doors were wide open, was not observed. But an hour before it began, about three dozen young smart people in black robes fussed around there, some of whom, seeing the author of these lines, immediately tensed up and began to whisper in alarm.
An employee of the Department named Koven, who is considered there as “the head of the press” and to whom I turned for official comments on what happened, firmly stated that there were none and there would not be. And the ceremony itself will be held behind closed doors for the press. At 10:20 a.m., a hearse from the Tverritualservis funeral home drove into Theater Square, and when they began to unload the coffin with the body of the deceased, I managed to take a photograph. Immediately, two men in black, accompanied by a police major, jumped up to me, demanding to remove him.
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Fortunately, they did not strongly insist on their demand. And what's more, when they started letting people in to say goodbye to General Morev in the foyer of the theater where the coffin was placed, they started letting people in, I was allowed to go along with everyone. True, the case was not limited to a request to leave the camera at the entrance. Behind me was assigned an "escort" - a thin hook-nosed blond, dressed in all black, who kept pushing me forward so that I would not stop.
I saw confusion and horror on his face when I nevertheless stopped near the coffin to bow to the memory of the deceased and get a good look at the face of the general. He was lying in a dress uniform, his face, on which a thick, thick layer of make-up was applied, was open. During a cursory examination, which was possible in this situation, no traces of a gunshot wound could be found. The widow and someone else, apparently from the relatives of the deceased, were sitting on chairs with a mournful look. The young widow Maya Moreva did not look heartbroken at all.
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No speeches befitting the occasion were made. Having bypassed the coffin with the body, the participants of the ceremony went for the most part to the exit. Near the coffin for some time stood the ex-governor of the region Dmitry Zelenin and the ex-mayor of Tver Oleg Lebedev and several other men and women who looked like former employees of the KGB-FSK-FSB. But then they also went out to the square: part, as if they had come here in passing, and immediately went home, and part remained to wait for the removal of the body. According to one of the "men in black", the hearse with the body of General Morev was supposed to go by plane to his small homeland - to the city of Abakan.
In addition to the current FSB officers, the former leadership of the Tver FSB also took part in the event. For example, the former head of the FSB, General Gennady Vinogradov. The writer and teacher of TSU Vladimir Boinikov paid his debt to memory. Ex-deputy governor Alexander Miroshnichenko and Mikhail Zaitsev, ex-chairman of the Regional Electoral Committee Valery Pesenko came from Moscow to say goodbye to Morev. Andrey Yeprishin, chairman of the regional legislative assembly, arrived in a car with a flashing light, accompanied by his deputy Sergey Golubev.
One of the last to visit the Drama Theater, having finished, apparently with everyday affairs, was the head of Tver, Vladimir Babichev, and the head of the city administration, Vasily Toloko. Governor Andrey Shevelev was the last of the authorities to arrive. Coming out in 5-10 minutes from the premises of the drama theater, for a few more minutes, before leaving, he conspiratorially whispered something with Alexander Miroshnichenko. The removal of the body of Konstantin Anatolyevich Morev passed without much fanfare. About a dozen "men in black" quickly carried out the coffin and placed it in a hearse. Only about two dozen people witnessed this moment. Mostly from among those who have not gone about their business ...
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So why did General Morev shoot himself (if that is the case, of course)? But the fact that the investigation, represented by the Military Prosecutor's Office, is unlikely to ever tell people the truth about what happened - this is easy to believe. And since there is no official version of what happened, there will most likely be rumors and speculation. So said almost everyone with whom I had a chance to talk about the death of the general.
But literally all of them categorically dismissed the version where the cause of suicide was problems of personal life. Approximately from the "same opera" version about sudden health problems. Say, just on the morning of Friday, August 26, Morev received a second analysis, indicating that he had an oncological disease. Why is this hard to believe? Because - this is a generally accepted opinion: people from the FSB cannot afford this. Not in order, they say, they cook for so long. Most likely, they say, there may be completely different motives. For example, related to misses in the service ...
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But what then should they be if a person decides to do this? Moreover, nothing foreshadowed such an end so far. Morev's service in the Tver region was mostly quiet and smooth. Morev's asset is the investigation of last year's crash of the Nevsky Express, the cause of which is considered to be a terrorist attack. In the negative, the obviously immodest costs of holding a wedding celebration in the spring of this year, when Morev married his young wife. And at the same time, few people believe that before his death, the general did not leave any farewell note.
Most likely, they say, there was a note, but it was allegedly confiscated in time so that there would be no publicity. If so, then what could be contained there. And then there is a subversion, about some criminal cases. One, allegedly connected with the "protection" of some not entirely legal cases of the ex-governor Zelenin. The other is about the cases of “long gone days, when Morev served in the Republic of Sakha-Yakutia (we are talking about a large-scale theft of Yakut diamonds). By the way, the reason for such a conclusion was the presence of a delegation from Yakutia at the farewell ceremony.
It is difficult to say to what extent such a “criminal version” is justified. There is an opinion that today it is unlikely that anyone will raise a serious fuss about this. FSB generals "ours" are unlikely to be "surrendered". Rather, they will give an order and send them to a “well-deserved rest”. Although no one has yet denied the information that the Minister of Internal Affairs Rashid Nurgaliyev, when he arrived in Tver on Wednesday, August 24, allegedly had a long and impartial tête-à-tête conversation with General Morev. Say, after her, he left the office not himself ...
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Well, this - meaning the conversation between Nurgaliyev and Morev - is also possible. Because those who say that the police, they say, have nothing to do with it, let them remain unconvinced. Nurgaliev is a high-ranking FSB officer in the recent past and especially, as they say, a confidant of Vladimir Putin ... And here it is just appropriate to recall one (and, by the way, the only) commentary on the Saturday publication about the Death of General Morev in Kommersant. Here it is verbatim: “spacedi(Link) This is not suicide. 07:22, Saturday, 08/27/2011”…
The suicide of General Morev is clearly not an ordinary event. It seems that since the time of the GKChP, our generals, and even more so the FSB, have not shot: sentiment is out of fashion now. Therefore, the question of the causes of what happened will not leave the agenda for a long time. This has already happened in our history at its turning points. Maybe he's just getting close. And the current peace, tranquility and stability are just appearances. Behind them, serious changes are coming. So politics can be considered another version of what happened. In the meantime, it is very likely that in the next few days we will witness more revelations. We are waiting!

On August 26, 2011, Major General Konstantin Morev, head of the FSB Directorate for the Tver Region, shot himself with a service weapon in his office. He did not leave a suicide note, and the motive for suicide became a mystery to relatives, friends and work colleagues. A range of various rumors and assumptions about the reason that forced the general to take the fatal step was voiced by a variety of people literally the next day after the sad event: from turmoil in family life to smuggling of Yakut diamonds (before being appointed to the Tver region, K. Morev headed the FSB Directorate for Yakutia ). None of these versions received comment from the competent authorities. But among all sorts of informational husks, a curious plot began to peep through. At the beginning of October 2009, an imposing gentleman with a pronounced oriental appearance entered the office of K. Morev. He introduced himself as Solomon Alexandrovich Darsania, managing partner of Price Inform. Since Mr. Darsania's visit was preceded by a call from a very serious Moscow office, General Morev received him, as they say, with open arms and expressed an ardent desire to provide assistance within the limits of his competence. Solomon Alexandrovich needed a mere trifle - a license for his company to carry out work related to the use of information constituting a state secret. But there was a small problem: Mr. Darsania needed a license urgently, and the usual procedure for issuing one takes about three months. General Morev went to meet Mr. Darsania and on October 25, 2009 Price Inform received the required license. Now it is impossible to say what charmed General Mr. Darsania so much: maybe it was the traditional Georgian charm, or maybe something more material, but most likely, the Moscow call was of decisive importance. This call was not a bluff - Mr. Darsania really has serious metropolitan friends and patrons, and relatively recently he himself held a significant position in the Federal Agency for State Property Management. A former federal official who builds a successful business using connections gained in the civil service - what is unusual about this these days? A proven person with high patrons - how not to help? And General Morev did not become interested in the biography of the charming visitor, but he had such opportunities. And if he had used them, he would have learned a lot of juicy details from the life of the managing partner of Price Inform. He would have learned, for example, about a close relative of Solomon Aleksandrovich - Merab Darsania, an active staff member of the Special Foreign Intelligence Service of Georgia. Or about the Georgian passport P-GEO-0753249 received by Mr. Darsania back in 2001... But General Morev considered it unnecessary to be interested in such details, he simply authorized the admission of Mr. Darsania's company to information containing state secrets. And Mr. Darsania really needed this permission. Solomon Alexandrovich has a permanent partner - Vladimir Piskurev. And not just a partner, but in a sense even a boss: V. Piskurev heads a certain “Trade Union of Audit, Appraisal, Expert and Consulting Organizations Workers” and S. Darsania is his deputy in this trade union. In addition to labor in the trade union field, V. Piskurev is also engaged in business - he owns the Spetsotsenka company, which, in full accordance with its name, is engaged in the assessment and examination of defense enterprises of the Russian Federation. In particular, the clients of "Spetsotsenka" are: Arseniev Aviation Company PROGRESS OJSC (production of combat helicopters Ka-50 "Black Shark" and Ka-52 "Alligator"), OJSC "United Machine-Building Plants" (equipment for nuclear energy and special materials for the military-industrial complex), OJSC "Plant named after V. A. Degtyarev" (missiles for the complexes "Igla", "Strela", "Kornet", "Ataka", etc.), OJSC Shipbuilding Plant "Severnaya Verf" ( combat surface ships), Rosenergoatom Concern OJSC and a number of other equally reputable enterprises. Of course, to work with such clients, an FSB license for access to state secrets is necessary, without it it is simply impossible to conclude or extend a contract. , but its validity period ended in July 2010, and problems arose with the extension - V. Piskurev just received insider information about them in the fall of 2009. These problems were associated with some aspects of the biography of the owner of the Special Appraisal, which should be stopped Learn more. Vladimir Piskurev began his business career in the army, but did not wear officer epaulettes for long. In 1988 he graduated from the Kiev Higher Naval Political School (KVVMPU), and until 1993 he served in the Northern Fleet. However, having been demobilized, V. Piskurev did not break with the military fraternity - he became deputy chairman of the Central Committee of the Independent Trade Union of Military Personnel. It was in this capacity that he made acquaintance with a certain Viktor Umansky, then a cadet of the Military Space Academy. Mozhaisky. This attractive young man came to the union for protection - he got into serious trouble with the leadership of the academy thanks to military counterintelligence, which recorded an undercover approach to a cadet from a representative of the American diplomatic residency on the basis of non-traditional sexual relations. V. Piskurev could not help his new friend, Umansky was expelled from the academy, but the relationship between them was warm, one might say tender. In turn, Umansky, popular in the gay environment, enjoyed the favor of MEPhI student Solomon Darsania, who often appeared at the Academy. Mozhaisky, since his department was a co-executor of the contractual research work with one of the structural divisions of the academy. Umansky introduced Piskurev and Darsania, and then this kind of “love triangle” began to move through life together, without losing interest in the Russian army and defense industry. When the FSB Department for Moscow and the Moscow Region issued a license to Spetsotsenka in 2007 for work related to state secrets, the documents of the founders, including V. Piskurev, were subjected to verification. In the set of documents, V. Piskurev presented a Russian passport obtained in 2002, which stated that he was born on September 14, 1967 in the city of Severomorsk, Murmansk Region. But in 2009, almost by accident, his personal file surfaced from the archives of the KVVMPU, in which V. Piskurev's birthplace was ... Kyiv. This strange discrepancy contributed to a more careful check of the installation data for the nimble trade union leader, which showed that “the bulky Piskurev Volodymyr Volodymyrovich is effectively a place of nationality in the city of Kiev”, and the photo of the physiognomy of the “hulk of Ukraine Piskurev Volodymyr Volodymyrovich” was like two drops of water similar to the photo of a citizen RF Piskurev Vladimir Vladimirovich. In addition, it turned out that two fellow students of V. Piskurev at KVVMPU, namely G-ko and Sh-r, with whom he maintains constant contacts, are active employees of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine, and the company "SPETSOTSINKA - UKRAINE", registered by V. Piskurev in Kyiv , is a "business cover" for these contacts. It is also very curious that Sh-r accompanied the above-mentioned Merab Darsania during both of his visits to Sevastopol in 2010. Nostalgic meetings with classmates and the fact that V. Piskurev had a Ukrainian passport became a serious obstacle to the renewal of the FSB license for access to state secrets for the Russian Spetsotsenka. And the continuation of contracts with the leading enterprises of the Russian defense industry was necessary for V. Piskurev - there was a customer for the relevant information. To the rescue came a gentle friend, Solomon Darsania, who, for obvious reasons, was also very interested in these contracts. It was not difficult for V. Piskurev to provide a “call of support” to General Morev - it’s not for nothing that the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation is listed among the clients of Spetsotsenka. And then "Spetsotsenka" shared its client base with "Price Inform", since the staffing of these firms is half crossed and what did not pass through Moscow became possible through Tver. General Morev turned out to be a real godsend for S. Darsania and V. Piskurev. He not only provided de-facto access to state secrets to these friends of the Georgian and Ukrainian intelligence services. A graduate of the Krasnoyarsk Institute of Space Technology, he had a lot of high-ranking acquaintances in the Russian defense industry, to whom he recommended Price Inform as conscientious and picky appraisers, moreover, under his patronage. And they believed in the authority of the general. The flow of sensitive information received by Spetsotsenka and Price Inform is quite significant. But Georgian and Ukrainian colleagues are only transshipment links on his way. Who is the final recipient? Oddly enough, this question is easy to answer, real-life spy games are much more prosaic than Hollywood blockbuster scenarios. The main foreign customer (officially!) for the Russian "Spetsotsenka" and the Ukrainian "SPETSOTSINKA - UKRAINE" is Lockheed Martin, one of the giants of the US military-industrial complex, the leader of the world arms market, closely connected with the US intelligence services. Lockheed Martin has its own powerful corporate intelligence, and cooperates well with the special services of Ukraine and Georgia, where it creates an electronic intelligence center, the area of ​​responsibility of which should include the entire North Caucasus, primarily its Russian component. For obvious reasons, Russian defense companies that are Spetsotsenka's clients are of direct and clear interest to Lockheed Martin. Fascinated by S. Darsania, General Morev did not see or could not correctly and timely assess the chain “Price Inform” - “Special Appraisal” - “SPETSOTSINKA - UKRAINE” - Georgian Foreign Intelligence Service - Ukrainian Foreign Intelligence Service - Lockheed Martin. Maybe he thought it was just business. And when they explained to him that it was not easy, he had to make a choice, which an officer always has the right to make.

Marshal of the USSR, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR and First Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR (1984-88) Akhromeev, after the failure of the putsch of the State Emergency Committee, committed suicide in his Kremlin office on August 24, 1991 (at that time Akhromeev worked as an adviser to Mikhail Gorbachev on military issues ). However, the materials of the suicide case are full of inconsistencies and oddities. Firstly, the very method of suicide is striking: the military decides not to shoot himself, but to hang himself, also in a sitting position. Secondly, according to the notes left, there were two suicide attempts on the same day, but there are testimonies of witnesses who saw Akhromeev and received orders from him by phone in the interval between two attempts. Thirdly, one of the witnesses said that in the same interval someone entered and left Akhromeev's office. Fourthly, the investigator was not allowed to the scene for a very long time and was forbidden to take attesting witnesses. On September 1, 1991, Marshal Akhromeev was buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery without military honors.

Colonel-General Gusev died in a car accident on November 30, 1992 in Moscow. There were persistent rumors that in fact it was a planned murder, because seconds before the accident, Gusev's driver suddenly lost consciousness. The cause of the sudden malaise of the driver has not been established.

In February 1993, on the way to the airport near Vladivostok, Rear Admiral Egorkin, head of the military counterintelligence department of the Pacific Fleet, died as a result of a collision between a service Volga and a ZIL. He was on his way to Moscow for a meeting of the heads of Russia's special services and law enforcement agencies on the problems of combating organized crime and corruption.

Army General Barannikov, former Minister of Internal Affairs of the RSFSR (1990-1991), the last Minister of Internal Affairs of the USSR (1991) and Minister of Security of the Russian Federation (1992-1993). Engaged in the Karabakh conflict. He is also known for taking part in the arrest of the Minister of Defense of the USSR Yazov after the August 1991 putsch. G.

On May 22, 1996, a drunken police officer hit a pedestrian, as a result of which one of the leaders of the GRU of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces, Major General Lomanov, died.

On June 18, 1996, Major General of the Armored Forces Volkov committed suicide. He shot himself with a premium pistol, which Yeltsin awarded him. During his lifetime, Volkov was deputy head of the Main Directorate of the Cossack troops, a member of the temporary monitoring commission for the settlement of the military conflict in Chechnya, and also oversaw the exchange of prisoners.

On May 5, 1997, Major General of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Federation Shipilov committed suicide. He jumped out of the window of his apartment in the house on the street. Winged Hills. He did not leave a posthumous note, but according to investigators, the cause was Shipilov's mental disorder, which manifested itself after the general's return from Yugoslavia. Shipilov from the beginning of the 90s served as a military attache in Yugoslavia (he worked during hostilities), organized peace negotiations during the Yugoslav conflict.

Lieutenant General Rokhlin, led the capture of the presidential palace and a number of districts in Grozny. He was the contact person for negotiating a ceasefire with Chechen field commanders. He refused to be awarded the Hero of Russia for the successful capture of Grozny: “In a civil war, generals cannot gain glory. The war in Chechnya is not the glory of Russia, but its misfortune. In 1997, Rokhlin created his own political movement, all the time he was in opposition to the authorities, according to some rumors he was planning a military overthrow, according to others, Yeltsin's impeachment. On the night of July 3, 1998, he was found shot to death in his own dacha. His own wife was accused of killing the general.

In the same July 1998, Major General Baturin, Deputy Chief of the GUBOP of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, died in a car accident. Some Russian media linked his death to the investigation into the murder of journalist Dmitry Kholodov, who seriously developed the topic of corruption in the Russian Ministry of Defense. A group of servicemen from the 45th Special Forces Regiment of the Airborne Forces, headed by the head of intelligence of the Airborne Forces Popovskikh, is put on trial for the murder of Kholodov (the court will acquit them all). It turns out that the 45th Airborne Regiment participated in special operations to physically eliminate Russian and foreign citizens both inside Russia and abroad. In the course of the case, the investigation goes to the GUBOP of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and to Baturin himself, who personally signed cover documents for the soldiers of the 45th regiment. Shortly after this, Baturin dies.

On August 7, 1999, in the Stupinsky district of the Moscow region, Major General Shalaev, the head of the GRU department, dies after losing control of the car.

May 31, 2001 in the village. Khankala (Chechnya) on the territory of the headquarters of the Russian military group Admiral Ugryumov suddenly dies of a heart attack. The rank of admiral was awarded to him the day before - May 30. Ugryumov served as deputy director of the FSB and headed the Department for the Protection of the Constitutional System and the Fight against Terrorism. Since 2001, Ugryumov has been combining this work with the position of head of the Regional Operational Headquarters in the North Caucasus.

Lieutenant General Lebed died on April 28, 2002 in an MI-8 helicopter crash in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. General Lebed, along with General Rokhlin, was often called the most likely candidate to lead a military mutiny in the Russian Federation.

On September 11, 2002, Major General Gertsev, head of one of the departments of the Main Missile and Artillery Directorate of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, died in a car accident at the 45th kilometer of the Kyiv highway.

Major General of the Federal Border Service Platoshin was shot dead in the cabin of his Mercedes from his own pistol by a random fellow traveler near Cheboksary, whose name was changed "in the interests of the investigation." The incident occurred in September 2002. Platoshin was the aviation commander of the FPS group in Tajikistan, and was also involved in the fight against drugs on the Tajik-Afghan border.

June 4, 2002 Army General Ivashutin dies. Ivashutin was the 1st Deputy Chairman of the KGB of the USSR (1954-1963), acting. chairman of the KGB of the USSR (November 5-13, 1961), head of the GRU - deputy head of the General Staff of the USSR Armed Forces (1963-1986). In 2002, General Ivashutin reached a very advanced age, so that, most likely, he calmly rested in a bose without outside interference.

Major General Shevelev was found burnt to death in his own car in the Ramensky district of the Moscow region on September 19, 2002. Traces of breaking and robbery were found at his dacha. According to investigators, it was the robbers who burned Shevelev in his own car, having previously driven it to a neighboring settlement. Until 1997, Shevelev worked at the Federal Agency for Government Communications and Information (FAPSI), and after that he held the position of Deputy Director of OJSC Rostelecom.

On October 30, 2002, Major General Kolesnik, the main developer of the assault on Amin's palace in Afghanistan, dies. In 1979, Kolesnik led the formation and training of the 154th separate special forces detachment, which carried out special missions in Afghanistan. In 1982-92 Kolesnik served as head of the special intelligence department of the GRU of the General Staff of the USSR Armed Forces.

On November 5, 2002, Lieutenant General Shatokhin, the former commander of the aviation of the Federal Border Service of Russia, dies in a car accident. After being transferred to the reserve, Shatokhin worked as Deputy General Director of Aviazapchast OJSC.

On November 15, 2002, a car of the Federal Special Construction Service (FSSS) of the Russian Federation comes under fire in Grozny. It was Lieutenant General Shifrin, head of the FSSS Military Operational and Recovery Directorate of Communications. Shifrin died from his wounds.

November 17, 2002 Army General Maximov dies. In 1967-69 he was a military adviser in Yemen, in 1979 he was appointed commander of the Turkestan military district. Since 1984 Commander-in-Chief of the Southern Strategic Direction. Since 1985 Commander-in-Chief of the Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN), Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR. Since 1991 Commander-in-Chief of the USSR Strategic Deterrence Forces. 1992 - Commander of the Strategic Forces of the Joint Armed Forces of the CIS.

February 21, 2008 Colonel General Vlasov, acting head of the Construction and Quartering Service of the Moscow Region, shot himself in his office.

Colonel-General Troshev, commander of military operations in Chechnya and Dagestan (1995-2002), died on September 14, 2008 in a Boeing-737-500 plane crash near Perm.

On December 29, 2008, the deputy chief of staff of the North Caucasus Regional Command of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Major General Lipinsky, was killed in Makhachkala. Lipinsky's "Niva" was fired upon by unknown persons. The general was wounded in the chest, after which he was taken to the hospital, where he died from blood loss.

On February 22, 2009, the body of retired FSB Major General Rogachev was found in a Toyota Land Cruiser parked next to the Parisien restaurant on Leningradsky Prospekt with the engine running. At first, police officers assumed that Rogachev died naturally from an unidentified disease, but during a detailed examination in the morgue, experts removed a 9 mm bullet from the head of the deceased. Since Rogachev was reputed to be a very cautious person, and he was shot in his own car, it was assumed that the general was well acquainted with the killer and let him into the car himself.

On June 21, 2009, Major General Petrov, leader of the KPE party and leader of the opposition project "Concept of Public Security" (KOB), dies in Moscow. Petrov at one time participated in the development and testing of the Energia-Buran space system. Despite the official version of natural death, supporters of General Petrov to this day claim that he was poisoned.

Major General Ivanov, Deputy Chief of the GRU of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, dies under very mysterious circumstances. Ivanov's corpse was discovered on August 16, 2010 (this year will be fatal for many generals). The decomposed body was found on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea by the inhabitants of a coastal village in Turkey. The last time the general was seen alive was on the opposite coast - in Syria, when he visited a construction site in the notorious city of Tartus, where at that time the construction of new facilities for the Russian naval base of the Black Sea Fleet was underway. After visiting the base in Tartus, Ivanov went to meet with Syrian intelligence officers. Somewhere around this time, he disappeared. It should be noted that Ivanov was actually the second person in the Russian military intelligence department of the GRU. Allegedly, he was the organizer of a series of murders of Chechens living abroad. Yuri Ivanov is also associated with the Tu-154 car crash in Smolensk, which killed the President of Poland Lech Kaczynski, almost the entire military command of Poland, as well as a number of Polish politicians and public figures.

On October 4, 2010, Major General Chevrizov, the former head of the intelligence department of the main command of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, shot himself in the head with a premium pistol in his own entrance on Veernaya Street in Moscow. It is noteworthy that in the Chechen war, Chevrizov served as deputy head of the intelligence department for the command and use of special forces. A few days later, after Chevrizov, FSB Lieutenant Colonel Boris Smirnov shot himself in his garage in the north of Moscow.

Lieutenant General Dubrov died suddenly on October 28, 2010, falling from a platform under an electric train in the Balashikha district of the Moscow region. Dubrov served as chairman of the presidium of the Russian Anti-Fascist Committee and was a member of the coordinating council of military-patriotic public organizations in Russia. Earlier, in February 2010, under the chairmanship of General Dubrov, an All-Russian Officers' Conference was held, at which a decision was made to begin preparations for the removal of the Putin-Medvedev regime. On November 7, Dubrov was supposed to speak at the “Army against Serdyukov” rally (at that time Serdyukov was the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation). It is noteworthy that not only Dubrov could not attend this rally, but also Lieutenant General Debashvili, who will be found dead in the center of Moscow, and Lieutenant General Shamanov, who will have a car accident in Tula on October 30.

On October 30, 2010, the body of Lieutenant-General Debashvili was found at house number 28 on Komsomolsky Prospekt in the center of Moscow.

Colonel-General Achalov died "after a severe and prolonged illness" on June 23, 2011. Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR (1990-1991), Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation (September 22-October 4, 1993). Achalov was always known for his uncompromising attitude towards the regime. In the autumn of 1993, Achalov was among the leaders of the uprising that began in Moscow after the blockade of the deputies of the Supreme Soviet of Russia. After the uprising, he was arrested, but released under an amnesty in 1994. Later he demanded the dismissal of Serdyukov, was one of the main organizers of the November rally in 2010, before which Generals Dubrov, Chevrizov and Debashvili died under mysterious circumstances, and General Shamanov survived, but from - due to injuries received in a car accident, he ended up in the hospital and could not come.

On August 26, 2011, Major General Morev was found dead in his office with a bullet in his head. Morev served as head of the FSB department of the Tver region. Prior to that, Morev was the head of the FSB of Russia in the Republic of Sakha-Yakutia.

Lieutenant General Shebarshin, head of foreign intelligence of the USSR (from 02/06/1989 to 09/22/1991), and. about. Chairman of the KGB of the USSR (from August 22 to 23, 1991), on March 30, 2012, in his apartment on 2nd Tverskaya-Yamskaya, he committed suicide by shooting himself with a premium pistol. Shebarshin graduated from MGIMO, knew four languages, worked in India, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan. Shebarshin was Putin's boss during his tenure at the PGU KGB.

General of the Army Grachev, Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation (1992-1996), died on September 23, 2012 at the Central Military Clinical Hospital. Vishnevsky. The cause of death was either a stroke, or poisoning, or from an incurable disease that tormented the general for a long time. In the official report of the Ministry of Defense, it was said that Grachev died of acute meningoencephalitis. General Grachev was an epic personality, a man who prepared the State Emergency Committee, but at the last moment defected to Yeltsin, then shot the White House in 1993, led the withdrawal of troops from Eastern Europe, negotiated the reduction of the nuclear arsenal, led the entry of troops into the territory of Transnistria, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, as well as the transfer of Russian peacekeepers to Bosnia; under him was the First Chechen War. General Grachev, of course, knew a lot, and he took this knowledge with him to the grave, without writing a single line of memoirs after his resignation.

On April 19, 2013, Major General of the Strategic Missile Forces Bondarev, a teacher at the Academy of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces, committed suicide. Bondarev hanged himself in the bathroom of his own apartment.

On the night of January 3, 2014, Vice Admiral Ustimenko, the former deputy commander of the Northern Fleet of the Russian Navy, shot himself in his apartment in St. Petersburg.

On February 7, 2014, Navy Rear Admiral Apanasenko attempted suicide by shooting himself in the head with a premium pistol. He died in the hospital a few days later. Apanasenko's daughter said that the reason for the suicide was the lack of painkillers from her father, who had cancer.

On March 18, 2014, retired Major General of the USSR Armed Forces Saplin committed suicide by shooting himself with a premium pistol. It was reported that Saplin complained of terrible pain in his head caused by cancer of the last stage. There was also a suicide note about it.

GRU Major General Gudkov shot himself with an award pistol on June 8, 2014 in the south of Moscow. Gudkov "suffered from a serious illness and committed suicide from depression."

On June 16, 2014, Police Major General Kolesnikov (2012-1014 - Deputy Head of the Main Directorate for Economic Security and Anti-Corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia) committed suicide during interrogation, throwing himself from the 6th floor of the building of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. The causes and circumstances of his death have not been fully elucidated to this day.

On July 21, 2014, the body of Major General Mishanin was found in his office with a fatal gunshot wound to the head. Mishanin has served as military commissar of the Nizhny Novgorod Region since 2010. Prior to that, he commanded the 205th separate motorized rifle brigade and the 122nd motorized rifle division. The cause of death was listed as suicide.

On January 3, 2015, Major General Buchnev, Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Mari El, was found in his office with a mortal wound to the head. According to investigators, he committed suicide by shooting himself with a premium pistol.

On January 6, 2015, Lieutenant General of the Air Force Kudryavtsev hanged himself on a shoelace "from unbearable pain" due to cancer.

Major General Shushukin, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Russian Airborne Forces, died on December 27, 2015 "from cardiac arrest." It was General Shushukin who carried out combat planning and commanded the annexation of Crimea in 2014. He also has experience of participating in military operations in the North Caucasus and Yugoslavia.

Colonel General Sergun, Chief of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces, according to the official version of the Russian authorities, died suddenly of a massive heart attack on January 3, 2016.

Sergun's position speaks for itself, however, it should be noted that Sergun is directly involved not only in the annexation of Crimea, but also in planning the entire operation against Ukraine. On his account, both preparing the ground for the capture of cities throughout the south-east of the country, and the occupation by the Russian troops and their mercenaries of parts of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, which, under the strict leadership of Sergun, turned into the self-proclaimed pseudo-republics of the "DPR" and "LPR", where to this day violence, looting, looting and human trafficking flourish. Sergun's name also makes sense to associate with the crash of the Boeing-777 flight MH17, which was shot down by a surface-to-air missile in the Torez region on July 17, 2014. Contrary to the official statement of the Russian side that Sergun died of acute heart failure in the Moscow region, the American Stratfor, a private intelligence and analytics company, reported that according to its data, Sergun actually died in Lebanon on January 1, 2016.

The list is not complete and may be supplemented. There is every reason to believe that after each significant operation, the Kremlin conducts a series of sweeps in the apparatus of the top military leadership. The scale of Russia's war crimes in Syria and Ukraine suggests that another "general's starfall" is just beginning. Most Russian generals have two options: run away and seek political asylum, telling the details of war crimes during a military tribunal, or become another “parachutist” or die in a noose “from cancer.” There is always a choice...

PAVLOV Sergey Evgenievich

Colonel, commander of the peacekeeping battalion of Russian troops in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Yugoslavia). In 1999, his battalion, after a covert march through Yugoslavia, captured the Slatina airfield in Kosovo.
Awarded the Order of Courage, medals.

Before the throw

In those days when dramatic events unfolded in Kosovo, we, the soldiers of the Russian peacekeeping brigade in Bosnia and Herzegovina, closely followed what was happening in the neighborhood. Around the clock, the bombers of the countries of the alliance flew over the bombing of Serbia just above our base area. On June 10, at about 2 p.m., the brigade commander, Colonel Nikolai Ignatov, called me for a call and informed me about a possible long-distance march of the battalion. He ordered to arrive at the headquarters of the brigade by 18 o'clock to set the task.

“Arriving at the headquarters of the brigade, I received a combat order from the commander: the battalion, as an advanced detachment, was to make a 620-kilometer march and by the morning of June 12 capture the Slatina airfield, 12 kilometers southwest of Pristina. Thus, I had 8 hours for preparation, including 3 hours of daylight hours.

Arriving in Simin Khan, I was convinced that under the leadership of the chief of staff, Major Vadim Poloyan, people were preparing calmly, without fuss. Nobody had a chance to sleep that night, the ZAS device rang at 5.00. The time has come to act, and the whole military mechanism has started working.

The battalion went. Confident, beautiful, powerful.

throw

The march began at low speeds. Once again I was convinced of the serviceability of the equipment, the ability of drivers to maintain the established distances and speed, and conducted a radio training session. In the concentration area, Major General V. Rybkin, the senior task force, and Colonel N. Ignatov, the brigade commander, were waiting for us.

After conferring, we decided to leave some of the equipment in order to "lighten" the column. We already had credible information that advanced units of NATO troops had crossed the border of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. We had to hurry, because we had a much longer way to overcome than they did.

It was an early morning. The rare Serb passers-by, accustomed to our troops, did not particularly pay attention to us. The column calmly passed Bielina, went out into the open, and ... the race began. Soon they crossed the Drina River and ended up on the territory of Yugoslavia.

All sorts of thoughts were in my head, but the main one was to be in time. The column was moving at a speed of 80 kilometers per hour and higher along a difficult route, which is difficult to overcome even on a Zhiguli, let alone on military equipment. And all this in 36-degree heat.

The news of our appearance, apparently, instantly spread throughout the country. Cameramen began to appear, crowds of people applauded us on the streets of the cities. The men rejoiced, the women wept.

There was less and less time left. Belgrade flew by in one breath. It became more difficult to move: the roads were filled with columns of Yugoslav troops leaving Kosovo. The Serbian military almost got out of the cabins, greeting our soldiers.

Closer to noon we stopped for refueling. Major General V. Rybkin called me and led me to a short man with a tired face. It was Lieutenant General V. Zavarzin. He said that he was instructed to ensure the escort of the battalion to Kosovo.

Again, on the road, forward and only forward. I thought that now everyone in the world knows about our appearance in Yugoslavia. He imagined the panic going on in the NATO headquarters, how the face of "our" American commander in Bosnia Kevin Burns stretched out when the Russian battalion quietly left from under his nose.

Kosovo

We cross the administrative border of the province of Kosovo. We are almost there. The main thing ahead is the airfield. Succeed, just to be in time. We approach the capital of Kosovo, Pristina. Two o'clock in the morning, and the entire population of the city is on the streets. What started here! Shooting from small arms, explosions of firecrackers, flares take off, crowds on the sidewalks, screams, whistles, camera flashes everywhere, on the road people kneel in front of armored personnel carriers. My God! What to do? Because they won't let us through. I give the command to everyone to close the hatches, do not stop the movement.

After an hour and a half, we finally get out of Pristina. Ahead - Kosovo Field. A historical, holy place for Serbs, like Borodino or Kulikovo field for us. We are still not "let out" by the Serbs, accompanied by dozens of cars and motorcycles. We stop, once again clarify the task of capturing the airfield, listen to the scouts and forward. Here it is the long-awaited, most crucial moment. The battalion, like a spring removed from the stopper, breaks off and forward to the airfield. Reports from commanders are constantly coming in. I listen and give short instructions. I'm worried that someone will run into a minefield. We don’t have schemes of minefields, but they are apparently invisible here: the Serbs themselves, and everyone who is not lazy, tried their best. The sappers of Lieutenant Colonel A. Morev are trying their best: they are conducting engineering reconnaissance, making passages, but still the risk is great - the darkness is impenetrable.

Random shooting is periodically heard, explosions of mines are heard somewhere. The situation is confusing: the Serbs are withdrawing; now in one place, now in another, fighters of the Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army appear, the sky is lit up with flares, bullet tracks, the air is filled with reports from unit commanders. The scouts of Major S. Matvienko are doing a great job: I can’t imagine how this mess can be sorted out and give clear information! Indeed, without intelligence anywhere.

Soon the first success appeared: the platoon commander, senior lieutenant N. Yatsykov, reported on the capture of a road junction in the southeast of the airfield. An important success for us, since the Oakovites are pressing from this direction, because the British should come from there. Now Yatsykov needs to "burrow" into the ground and hold the roads while we, everyone else, will do our job. The company commander, Major A. Simakov, reports: two platoons of his company under the command of senior lieutenants P. Kachanov and A. Mushkaev made their way to the runway. Excellent! Now we need to build on our success and advance without delay: assertively, boldly ... and very carefully. The voice of the commander of the 4th company, Major V. Kovalev, breaks into the air: the company has reached the indicated line, capturing the airport building. Well done Kovalev! And then reports come one after another: Senior Lieutenant A. Kiyko captured the fuel and lubricants warehouse, Senior Lieutenant D. Rybentsev is fighting for a residential town, Captain S. Vakhrushev’s platoon blocked the tunnel, Senior Lieutenant D. Zamiralov captured the power supply point. So far, everything is going according to our scenario. The main thing is not to lose the initiative, to use surprise correctly - to stun everyone, capture the vital objects of the airfield, gain a foothold and hold out until the arrival of the main forces.

It starts to light up. With dawn, we realize how big the airfield is: a runway 2500 meters long, a lot of taxiways, hangars, defensive structures, and executed exceptionally sensibly and powerfully, a huge residential town. And almost everything is mined.

Only now do we realize how few we are. How to keep this colossus? After all, there are only two hundred of us, and to capture and hold such an airfield, you need at least a regiment, with artillery, air defense systems, and support units. This means that everyone gets the load of the whole department. Well, let's hold on.

I thought, what good fellows our soldiers are after all. Young guys, in their lives they haven’t really experienced anything yet, they haven’t got into trouble, but here in reality, in front of your eyes, they are making history. Times, priorities, values ​​change, but the essence of our people will never change - there is still some kind of core in our people. Yes, good warriors are the British, French, Italians, the American two-meter-tall Negroes-"rollers" look impressive. But they do not have what is in our sometimes plain-looking soldier from the Ryazan or Vologda outback. They do not understand what "must" is and how it is when "I can't through it."

Who came first, he takes away the prey

By five o'clock in the morning on June 12, the airfield was taken. Now the main task is to gain a foothold, create a security and defense system. The soldiers are falling on their feet, but we must hold on, we must "dig" into the ground, cover the equipment, and prepare reserve positions. At 7.30 in the morning, the first report was received from the observation post about the advance of the English column. Here we waited. A little later, the head of one of the posts, Senior Lieutenant N. Yatsykov, reported that the British outposts were trying to break through to the airfield, but Yatsykov was not like that to let someone through. I advance to the post and observe the picture: our BTR-80 is standing across the road, blocking the path of the British paratrooper battalion. Senior Lieutenant N. Yatsykov is standing aside and is explaining something to an English officer. He has amazement on his face: where are the Russians from and why are they, the British, not let through? And do not miss because they were late. As our people say: "He who gets up earlier, God gives to him." Or maybe, more precisely, the ancient once said: "Whoever came first, he takes away the prey." Now we will dictate the terms to you.

Later, an English brigadier general appears. Also amazed, although more calm. We get to know each other, we explain. I report to General V. Rybkin on the situation and accompany the British brigade commander to our headquarters for negotiations. That's how we met with NATO. And then the commander of the United Forces, English General Michael Jackson, and other commanders flew in for negotiations. And the negotiations never ended.

And we did our job: we studied the airfield, organized a security and defense system. During the first two or three days we had already thoroughly settled down, even equipped a bathhouse. The airport building was dilapidated, with huge holes gaping in the roof, wires sticking out everywhere, piles of broken glass and concrete underfoot. But over all this, two flags proudly fluttered - the Russian and the Airborne Forces. And it obliged us and gave us strength. And we worked. All day long. They were still waiting for reinforcements.

But it was not destined to wait soon, because our former "brothers in the socialist camp" did not give our aircraft from Russia a "corridor" for the flight. At night, the KLA fighters and local partisans haunted us, who provoked us, threatened us in every possible way and constantly kept them at gunpoint.

Soon we received good news - the transfer of the main forces from Russia to Kosovo begins, and in a combined way - by air and sea. The long-awaited day has come, and we are meeting our planes with troops from Russia...

The time has come to return to Bosnia. We were escorted solemnly, with great gratitude. Summing up, I will say: we had a great honor. We have completed the task and we are proud of it. If there were others in our place, I am sure that they would have completed this task, because it was necessary to do so.

The source of information:"Rossiyskaya Gazeta" - Federal issue No. 3265 of July 30, 2003