Be careful! People with a weak psyche are better off not reading this post!
These are the same soldiers, Russian dear boys, about whom Shevchenko's abomination said that they were not Russian, but Yeltsin's.

Original taken from uglich_jj to Tukhcharskaya massacre (18+).

1 forgotten platoon

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

They dug in on the dominant skyscraper above the village. In addition to the soldiers, there were 18 more Dagestani policemen in Tukhchara. They were dispersed throughout the village: at two checkpoints at the entrances and at the local police station.

One of the Dagestani checkpoints was right next to Tashkin, at the foot of the skyscraper. True, the Russians and Dagestanis hardly communicated and did not interact. Everyone is on his own. Muslim Dakhkhaev, the head of the local ROVD recalled:

“Above, at the height, are the positions of the internal troops, and below is our militia post. They - two posts - seemed to exist separately. For some reason, the military was not very keen on contact with the local population and with the local police. They were suspicious of our attempts to establish contacts ... There was no interaction between the police and the military. They buried themselves in the ground and guarded themselves. ".

They buried themselves in the ground and guarded themselves ...

Umar had about 50 people in the gang, all the Wahabbits are fanatics leading the jihad. By fighting for the faith, they hope to go to heaven. Unlike Christianity in Islam, paradise has an erotic meaning. A man in paradise will have 72 wives: 70 earthly women and 2 houris (special virgins for afterlife sex). In the Quran and Sunnah, descriptions of these wives are given many times with all the details. For example, here:

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

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

Umar's gang enters Dagestan. The hike to the heavenly vaginas has begun.

One of the militants walked with a video camera and filmed everything that happened. The tape, of course, is terrible ... Already three life sentences have been passed on it.

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

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

The post was the last hotbed of resistance. The Chechens attacked him, but could not take it. It was well fortified and allowed to defend itself for some time. Until help arrives or ammunition runs out. But with this there were problems. No help was foreseen that day. The militants crossed the border in several places, the Lipetsk OMON was surrounded in the village of Novolakskoye, all forces were thrown into his rescue. The command had no time for Tukhchar.

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

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

Having listened to the ultimatum of the Chechens, Magomedov invites everyone to leave the checkpoint and take refuge in the village. Local residents are ready to help - to provide civilian clothes, hide them, take them outside. Tashkin is against it. Magomedov is a junior sergeant, Tashkin is an officer of the Interior Ministry troops. Tashkin is much older in rank. A conflict arises that turns into a fight ...

In the end, Tashkin agreed to leave the checkpoint. A tough decision. At this, the organized defense of the village ceased. The defenders broke up into small groups, hiding in attics, basements, and corn fields. Then everything depended on luck, some were lucky to leave, some were not ...

Most of the Dagestani policemen were unable to leave Tukhchar. They were captured. According to some sources: 14 people out of 18. They were herded to the village store:

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

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

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

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

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

This is such a "people's memorial", created at the initiative of the villagers, primarily teachers from the local secondary school. Neither the RF Ministry of Defense nor the federal authorities took part in the creation of the monument. The relatives of the victims did not answer the letters and did not come here even once. The information was collected bit by bit by local residents.

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

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

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

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

There were no special forces in Tukhchar, there were ordinary motorized riflemen. One of them, Lesha Paranin, the gunner of the very same BMP at the high-rise, was outwardly similar to Anisimov.

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

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

Well, what is on the monument instead of Anisimov is not so scary for a national memorial. There is no monument at the height of "Televyshka", and Private Anisimov from the "Vyatich" detachment is also a hero of that war. Let him be remembered at least so.

By the way, since May 9th ... Here is the emblem of the "Vyatich" detachment, where Anisimov served. The emblem was invented in the 2000s.

The motto of the detachment: "My honor is loyalty!" A familiar phrase. It was once the motto of the SS troops (Meine Ehre heißt Treue!), Which was a quote from one of Hitler's sayings. On May 9 in Armavir (as well as in Moscow) there is probably a lot of talk about how we keep traditions, etc. Whose traditions?

2. The bright holiday of Eid al-Adha.

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

Muslims have a holiday of Kurban-Bayram ... This is when, according to custom, they slaughter rams, as well as cows, camels, etc. This is done publicly, in the presence (and with the participation) of children who from childhood get used to such pictures. Cattle are slaughtered according to special rules. The animal's throat is first cut with a knife and the blood is waited for.

Tabuk, Saudi Arabia. October 2013

While the blood is being drained, the animal is still alive for some time. With the trachea, esophagus and arteries cut, it wheezes, chokes with blood, tries to breathe. At the same time, it is very important that during the incision the neck of the animal is directed towards Mecca, and above it, "Bismillah, Allahu Akbar" (in the name of Allah, Allah is great) is pronounced.

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

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

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

The rules for preparing "halal" (pure) meat in Islam do not allow stunning an animal during slaughter. It must bleed to death while awake. Otherwise, the meat will be considered "unclean".

Tver, November 2010. Kurban-Bayram in the area of ​​the cathedral mosque on Sovetskaya street, 66.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Finally, the butcher has a particularly successful knife strike. Bismillah, Allahu Akbar!

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

Ibid, 2012. A rare shot. The cow, doomed to slaughter, broke free and planted its tormentors on the horns.

3.Paranin Alexey.

Tukhchar, 1999. Russian prisoners are gathered at the checkpoint, then taken out into the street. Lay on the ground. Some have their hands tied behind their backs, some don't.

The first to be executed is Alexei Paranin, the BMP gunner. His throat is cut and left to lie down.

Blood fills everything around.

Alexei was seriously wounded when an infantry fighting vehicle was blown up and burned. He does not offer resistance, the impression is that he is unconscious. This militant in black and with a beard cut him (who he is still not known).

Starting to cut, the killer leaves somewhere, but soon comes again

And begins to cut the throat of the victim already thoroughly

Almost beheading Alexei.

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

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

4. Tashkin Vasily.

After Paranin, the second militants executed starley Tashkin. The killer sat astride him, there is visible some kind of struggle ...

But soon the lieutenant's throat is also cut.

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

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

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

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

The court gave him a life sentence.

Officer Tashkin, who was stabbed to death by Arbi, was later criticized by some Internet analysts. For stupidity and cowardice type. Why did he surrender, lay down under the knife and put people ...

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

In 1991 he entered the military school in Novosibirsk, since 1995 - in the army. In those years, officers were dismissed in batches from the army, penny salaries, everyday life, housing. Tashkin remained to serve. Roly platoon of our days ...

Sworn in at the school

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

Beautiful places.

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

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

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

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

“I crawled ashore ... A horseman appeared on the other side of the railway, called out to me and waved his hand. He was less than forty yards away ... I held out my hand with my Mauser. But I left him in the locomotive booth. There was a wire fence between the rider and me. Run again? But I was stopped by the thought of another shot from such a close distance. Before me stood death, gloomy and sullen, death without its carefree companion - a chance. So I raised my hands and, like Mr. Jorrox's foxes, shouted, "I give up."

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

Was Winston Churchill a coward?

5. Lipatov Alexey.

After killing Anisimov and Tashkin, the Chechens ordered Private Lipatov to stand up. Lipatov looks around. To the right of him is Tashkin's corpse, to the left is Paranin wheezing, bleeding. Lipatov understands what awaits him.

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

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

A fight ensues

And suddenly the bleeding Lipatov was able to get up, broke free and started to run.

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

The regional authorities allocated material aid to the parents of the soldier, 10 thousand rubles.

The date of death is indicated on September 6, 1999, a day later. On that day, the militants handed over the bodies to the head of the village council, Tukhchar, and he took them by truck to the nearest federal checkpoint (Gerzelsky bridge). In reality, Lipatov and his comrades were killed on September 5.

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

Tamerlan Khasaev.

Khasaev at the trial dodged as best he could. He said that he had just started killing Lipatov, but he didn’t cut it. I couldn't psychologically. " I couldn't kill a soldier. He also asked: “Don't kill me. I want to live. " My heart began to beat fast and it became a little bad».

In addition, Khasayev said that during the investigation he was beaten with threats. But what they threatened, he is ashamed to speak.

“And when they cut, did you not hesitate?"- asked the prosecutor.
“They threatened me to do what they do to a woman", - answered Khasaev.
“That is, you claim that they wanted to extinguish you?- the judge perked up. - Do not be shy, we are all doctors here ".

Of course, the criminal jargon from the lips of a judge does not adorn the Russian court, but Khasayev got his. He was also given a life sentence. He died in prison shortly after the verdict. His heart began to beat and felt a little bad.

6.Kaufman Vladimir.

After Lipatov came the turn of private Vladimir Kaufman. One of the militants, named Rasul, drags Kaufman into a clearing and demands that he lay face down. It is more convenient to cut this way.

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

The proposal does not arouse interest among the militants. They just stabbed the BMP gunner. The almost decapitated corpse of Alexei Paranin (the head rests on one spine) lies nearby. Then Kaufman promises to show where "the weapon is hidden." Somewhere in the mountains.

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

A struggle ensues. Two other militants pounce on Kaufman, trying to wring their hands.

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

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

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

The guy was 19 years old.

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

But they caught two Rasul's assistants, who were holding Kaufman before the murder.

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

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

Mukayev received 25 years, Vagapov - 18.

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

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

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

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

7.Erdneev Boris.

After stabbing Kaufman, the militants took on Boris Erdneev, a Kalmyk who was a sniper in Tashkin's platoon. Boris had no chance, his hands were tied in advance. The video shows one of the Chechens holding Erdneev by the chest with one hand.

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

He tries to speak to the executioner:

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

The victim is thrown to the ground.

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

In 2012, he received a life sentence.

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

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

It was here in the forest near Bamut.

There, three more prisoners were killed with him

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

Boris Erdneev sworn in

A photo from the stand about him in his native school in the village of Artezian in Kalmykia (270 km from the capital of the republic of Elista).

8.Polagaev Alexey.

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

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

Why does it begin to swing the half-cut head up and down, so that it can barely hold onto the torso

Then he lets go of the victim. The soldier begins rolling on the ground in agony.

He soon bled out. The militants shout in chorus "Allahu Akbar!"

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

The only city guy out of six killed. The rest are from the villages. The army in the Russian Federation is a workers 'and peasants' army, they say correctly. They go to serve who have no money.

As for the killer of Alexei, the leader of the gang Umar Karpinsky, he did not appear before the court. Did not live. He was killed in January 2000 when the militants left the encirclement in Grozny.

9. Epilogue.

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

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

Everything is fine in Chechnya.

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

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

A. Unfastens him% of income;
B. Puts his private army against his enemies when necessary.

This is what we are seeing in Chechnya.

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

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

But who will go to fight for the third time in Chechnya when Kadyrov's despotism officially announces its secession from Russia? But this will happen on the second day, when Putin leaves and Kadyrov feels a threat to his power. In Moscow, he has a lot of "well-wishers" in the power structures. And he's hooked. A lot has accumulated there.

For example, this monkey:

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

Or this character:

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

Who will believe it? Before that, he lived in Moscow for 11 years, on a grand scale, littered with money, and suddenly he was overwhelmed. Budanov was released in January 2009. He was convicted of war crimes, stripped of awards, titles and served 9 years out of a 10-year term. However, already in February 2009, Kadyrov publicly threatened him, stating that:

“… His life-long place in prison. And this is not enough for him. But a life sentence will ease our suffering a little. We do not tolerate insult. If the decision is not taken, the consequences will be bad. "

This is Kadyrov's Chechnya. And what about Dagestan? - Everything is fine there, too. Chechen fighters were driven out of there in 1999. But with the local Wahhabis it turned out to be more difficult. They shoot and blow up to this day. Otherwise, life in Dagestan goes on as usual: a mess, mafia clans, sawing subsidies. As elsewhere in the Russian Federation. Constitutional order, cho.

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

Or like this:

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

However, the Russians can not only be put cancer. You can sit astride:

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

Interestingly, in most cases it is not so difficult to find participants in this lawlessness. They are not actually hiding. Here are pictures of "riding" in 2012 posted on the Internet by a certain Ali Ragimov to the group "Dagi in the Army" in Odnoklassniki.

Now he lives in Petersburg quietly, respects Sharia.

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

These are the Internal Troops, the Urals District. The same VVs who died in Tukhchar. I wonder if the guys he is sitting on will go to defend Tukhchar next time? Or let Ali Rahimov himself somehow?

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

Together with Abdulkhalimov, a whole company of his Dagestani comrades frolicked in Krasnoe Selo.

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

On the other hand, the Dagestanis were not drafted into the army in 1941-45. (due to mass desertion). There were only small formations of volunteers. The Dagestanis did not serve in the tsarist army either. There was one volunteer cavalry regiment, which in 1914 became part of the Caucasian native division. This "wild division" of the Highlanders in the First World War actually numbered no more than 7,000 people. So many volunteers were recruited. Of these, Dagestanis - about 1000. And that's all for the 5 millionth army. Both in the Second and in the First World War, the conscripts of Chechnya and Dagestan, for the most part, sat at home.

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

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An old topic and a long history, BUT maybe someone does not know the details or does not know at all ...

Dagestan, Tukhchar 1999 Execution of 6 soldiers of the 22nd VV Brigade.

The murder of Russian servicemen in the village of Tukhchar was committed by members of a gang of Chechen fighters in the village of Tukhchar, Novolaksky district of Dagestan on September 5, 1999.

Background.
Having suffered defeat in Tsumadinsky and Botlikhsky districts in August, the Wahhabis of Khattab and Basayev made a new attempt to invade Dagestan, this time in the Novolaksky district. Operations were named Imam Gamzat-bek by the Wahhabis. In planning this operation, Basayev and Khattab hoped that the main forces of Russian troops would be drawn into hostilities on the territory of the Kadar zone. According to Basayev, the operation Imam Gamzat-bek was undertaken by the Chechen militants in order to weaken the pressure of the Russian army on their Dagestani "co-religionists" - the Wahhabi rebels of the Kadar zone.

The village of Tukhchar is located in the Novolaksky district, on the very border with Chechnya. Behind the shallow river Aksai, on the Chechen side, is the village of Ishkhoy-Yurt, to the south of it is another Chechen village, Galayty. The road from the Chechen border to Tukhchara was covered by a checkpoint where Dagestani militiamen served. In the village itself there was a small detachment of local Dagestan militias. Height 444.3, above the village was occupied by a detachment of 22 separate special-purpose brigades of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, military unit 3642, Kalach-on-Don, consisting of 12 soldiers and 1 officer with the support of 1 BMP-2. At an altitude of 444, 3 Russian soldiers dug full-length trenches and a caponier for an infantry fighting vehicle.

Fight at a height of 444.3
On the morning of September 5, a detachment of militants led by Umar Edilsultanov, Amir of the Karpinsky Jamaat (Grozny region), crossed the border with Dagestan. Edilsultanov, Amir Karpinsky was personally subordinate to Brigadier General Abdul-Malik Mezhidov, commander of the Shariat Guard of Ichkeria. One group of militants, numbering 20 people, crossed the border river Aksai south of height 444.3 and, having entered the village of Tukhchar from the rear, was able to immediately take the village department Meanwhile, the second group, led personally by Edilsultanov - also twenty to twenty-five people - attacked a police checkpoint near the outskirts of Tukhchar. With a short blow, the Chechens occupied the checkpoint, where there were 18 Dagestani policemen, and, hiding behind the gravestones of a Muslim cemetery, began to approach the positions of the motorized riflemen. At the same time, the first group of militants also began shelling height 444.3 from small arms and grenade launchers from the rear, from the direction of the village of Tukhchar.

The surviving participant of the battle, Private Andrei Padiakov, recalls:

“On the hill opposite us, on the Chechen side, first four appeared, then about 20 more militants. Then our senior lieutenant Tashkin ordered the sniper to open fire to kill ... I clearly saw how one militant fell after the sniper's shot ... Then they opened massive fire on us from machine guns and grenade launchers ... Then the Dagestani militias surrendered their positions, and the militants bypassed the village and took us into the ring. We noticed how about 30 militants ran behind the village behind us ”.

From the side of the village, the BMP caponier had no protection and the lieutenant ordered the driver-mechanic to bring the car to the ridge and maneuver, firing at the militants. Despite this, after half an hour of the battle, at 7:30, the BMP was knocked out by a shot from a grenade launcher. The gunner-operator was killed on the spot, and the driver-mechanic was severely shell-shocked. Tamerlan Khasaev, a militant who participated in the battle for height 444.3, tells:

“They were the first to start - the BMP opened fire, and Umar ordered the grenade launchers to take positions. And when I said that there was no such agreement, he assigned three militants to me. Since then, I myself have been with them as a hostage. "

In the third hour of the battle, the Russian soldiers began to run out of ammunition. On requests for help Art. Lieutenant Tashkin was ordered to hold on on his own. The fact is that at the same time the militants attacked the regional center with. Novolakskoye, where the employees of the Novolakskiy ROVD and a detachment of the Lipetsk OMON were blocked (see “The seizure of Novolakskiy by militants”) and all forces were thrown into their release. After that, the platoon commander Tashkin decided to withdraw from a height of 444.3. Russian fighters, taking with them their weapons, the wounded and the deceased, were able to break through to the Dagestani militiamen, who took up a perimeter defense at the second checkpoint, on the outskirts of Tukhchar. Seeing the soldiers running towards them, the militiamen covered them with fire from the checkpoint. After a short skirmish, a lull set in. By this time, up to 200 militants had already entered the village and began looting and pogroms. The militants sent the elders of the village of Tukhchar to the defenders with a proposal to surrender, but were refused. It was decided to break out of the encirclement through the village. Lieutenant of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Akhmed Davdiev, the commander of a detachment of Dagestani militiamen, while conducting reconnaissance, was ambushed by militants. During the battle, Davdiev destroyed two militants, but he himself was killed by a machine-gun burst. After that, the soldiers and militiamen dispersed throughout the village and began to scatter the way out of the encirclement, but all the streets of the village were tightly blocked by the militants.

Execution of servicemen by militants
By order of Amir Karpinsky, the gang members began to search the village and the surrounding area. Having come under heavy fire from the militants, Senior Lieutenant Tashkin and four more fighters jumped into the nearest building. A few seconds before that, police sergeant Abdulkasim Magomedov was killed here. The building was surrounded by militants, who sent a parliamentarian to the soldiers with a proposal to surrender. Those who surrendered, the Chechens promised to save their lives, otherwise they threatened to burn everyone. “Decide, commander! Why die in vain? We do not need your lives - we will feed them, then we will exchange them for our own! Give up!" After a warning shot from a grenade launcher, the soldiers, led by senior lieutenant Tashkin, were forced to leave the structure and surrender.
A shell-shocked and badly burned BMP mechanic Aleksey Polagaev went to the house of G. Dzhaparova. Resident of Tukhchara Gurum Dzhaparova says:

“He came - only the shooting died down. How did you come? I went out into the yard - I saw, standing, staggering, holding on to the gate. He was covered in blood and was badly burned - no hair, no ears, the skin on his face burst. Chest, shoulder, arm - everything is cut by splinters. I'll get him to the house as soon as possible. The militants, I say, are all around. You should go to yours. But will you get there like this? She sent her eldest Ramadan, he is 9 years old, for a doctor ... His clothes are covered in blood, burnt. My grandmother Atikat and I cut it off, rather into a sack and threw it into a ravine. We washed it somehow. Our village doctor Hasan came, removed the fragments, smeared the wounds. Did you still get an injection - diphenhydramine, or what? He began to fall asleep from the injection. I put it with the children in the room. "

Alexei Polagayev was handed over to the militants by local Chechen residents. Gurum Dzhaparova tried in vain to defend him. Polagayev was taken away, surrounded by a dozen Wahhabis, towards the outskirts of the village. From the testimony of the defendant Tamerlan Khasaev:

“Umar (Edilsultanov) ordered to check all the buildings. We dispersed and two people began to go around the house. I was an ordinary soldier and carried out orders, especially a new person among them, not everyone trusted me. And as I understand it, the operation was prepared in advance and clearly organized. I learned from the radio that a soldier had been found in the barn. We were told by radio the order to gather at the police post outside the village of Tukhchar. When everyone gathered, these 6 soldiers were already there. "

By order of Umar Karpinsky, the prisoners were taken to a clearing next to the checkpoint. The prisoners were first kept in the destroyed checkpoint. Then the field commander ordered the "execution of the Rusaks." "You took our blood - we will take yours!" - said Umar to the prisoners. Further reprisals were meticulously recorded on camera by the militants' operator. The prisoners were taken out to the concrete parapet one by one. Four "bloodlines" in turn cut the throats of the Russian officer and three soldiers. Another escaped, tried to escape - the militant Tamerlan Khasaev "blundered". Having slashed the victim with a blade, Khasaev straightened up over the wounded soldier - the sight of the blood made him uneasy, and handed the knife to another militant. The bleeding soldier broke free and ran. One of the militants began to shoot after him with a pistol, but the bullets passed by. And only when the fugitive, stumbling, fell into the pit, he was cold-bloodedly finished off from a machine gun. The sixth was killed by Umar Edilsultanov personally.

Together with senior lieutenant Tashkin Vasily Vasilievich (08/29/1974 - 09/05/1999) were killed:

Anisimov Konstantin Viktorovich (14.01.1980 - 05.09.1999)
Lipatov Alexey Anatolyevich (06/14/1980 - 09/05/1999)
Kaufman Vladimir Egorovich (06/07/1980 - 09/05/1999)
Erdneev Boris Ozinovich (06.07.1980 - 05.09.1999)
Polagaev Alexey Sergeevich (01/05/1980 - 09/05/1999)
The next morning, September 6, the head of the village administration, Magomed-Sultan Hasanov, received permission from the militants to take the bodies. On a school truck, the bodies of senior lieutenant Vasily Tashkin and privates Vladimir Kaufman, Alexei Lipatov, Boris Erdneev, Alexei Polagaev and Konstantin Anisimov were delivered to the Gerzelsky checkpoint.

The rest of the soldiers of military unit 3642 managed to sit out in their hiding places in the village until the bandits left.

Video footage of the murder
A few days later, a video of the killing of soldiers of the 22nd Brigade was shown on Grozny television. Later, in 2000, a video of the murder of Russian servicemen, made by one of the gang members, was found by officers of the operational services of Dagestan. Based on the materials of the video cassette, a criminal case was initiated against 9 people.

The trial of the participants in the murder
Umar Edilsultanov (Amir Karpinsky)
The first to be punished for the Tukhcharsk crime was the leader of the assassins Umar Edilsultanov (Amir Karpinsky). He was the executor of the murder of Private Alexei Polagayev and the leader of the murder of all other servicemen. Edilsultanov was destroyed 5 months later, in February 2000, during an attempt to break through from Grozny (see Operation "Wolf Hunt")

Tamerlan Khasaev
The first of the thugs to fall into the hands of law enforcement agencies was Tamerlan Khasaev. He is the executor of the attempted murder of Private Alexei Lipatov. After which Lipatov tried to escape, but they caught up with him and shot him. In the Basayev detachment, T. Khasaev ended up in early September 1999 - one of his friends tempted him with the opportunity to get a trophy weapon on a campaign to Dagestan, which could then be sold profitably. So Khasaev ended up in the gang of Amir Karpinsky.

He was sentenced to eight and a half years for kidnapping in December 2001, was serving time in a strict regime colony on the territory of the Kirov region, when the investigation, thanks to a video tape seized during a special operation, was able to establish that he was one of those who participated in bloody massacre on the outskirts of Tukhchar. Khasaev did not deny it. Moreover, the case already contained testimonies from the residents of Tukhchar, who confidently identified Khasayev. Khasaev stood out among the militants dressed in camouflage with a white T-shirt.

On October 25, 2002, the judicial collegium for criminal cases of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Dagestan, 32-year-old resident of the village of Dachu-Borzoy, Grozny district of Chechnya, T. Khasaev, was found guilty of committing this crime. He admitted his guilt in part: “I admit participation in illegal armed groups, weapons and invasion. And I didn't cut the soldier ... I just went up to him with a knife. Before that, they killed two. When I saw this picture, I refused to cut, gave the knife to another. "

Militant Khasayev received 15 years for participation in an armed mutiny, 10 years for stealing weapons, and five for participation in illegal armed groups and illegal carrying of weapons. For encroachment on the life of a serviceman, Khasayev, according to the court, deserved the death penalty, but due to the moratorium on its application, an alternative punishment was chosen - life imprisonment. Tamerlan Khasaev was sentenced to life imprisonment. He died shortly thereafter in the colony.

Arbi Dandaev
Arbi Dandaev, born in 1974, is the executor of the assassination of Senior Lieutenant Vasily Tashkin. On April 3, 2008, he was detained by police officers in the city of Grozny. According to the materials of the investigation, the militant Dandaev confessed to the crimes committed and confirmed his testimony when he was taken to the place of execution. In the Supreme Court of Dagestan, however, he pleaded not guilty, stating that the appearance took place under duress, and refused to testify. Nevertheless, the court found his previous testimony admissible and reliable, since they were given with the participation of a lawyer and no complaints were received from him about the investigation. The court examined the video recording of the execution, and although it was difficult to recognize the defendant Dandaev as the bearded executioner, the court took into account that the voice of Arbi was clearly pronounced on the recording. The residents of the village of Tukhchar were also interrogated. One of them recognized the defendant Dandaev. Dandaev was charged under Art. 279 "Armed mutiny" and Art. 317 "Encroachment on the life of a law enforcement officer."

In March 2009, the Supreme Court of Dagestan sentenced the defendant Dandaev to life in prison, despite the fact that the state prosecutor requested 22 years in prison for the defendant. In addition, the court satisfied the civil claims of the parents of four dead servicemen for compensation for moral damage, the amounts of which ranged from 200 thousand to 2 million rubles. Later, Dandaev tried to appeal the verdict. The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the verdict.

Islan Mukayev
He is an accomplice in the murder of private Vladimir Kaufman, holding him by the hands. Islan Mukayev was detained in early June 2005 during a joint operation by officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya and Ingushetia. The operation was carried out in the Ingush regional center Sleptsovskaya, where Mukayev lived. He fully admitted his guilt, repented of what he had done at the trial, as a result of which the court did not appoint a life sentence for him, as the state prosecutor demanded.

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

Mansur Razhaev
He is the executor of the murder of Private Boris Erdneev. He did not admit his guilt, he said that he just approached him with a knife. The video shows that Razhaev approaches Erdneev with a knife, the murder of Erdneev itself is not shown, further footage is shown after the murder. On January 31, 2012, the Supreme Court of Dagestan found guilty and sentenced Mansur Razhaev to life imprisonment.

Rizvan Vagapov
Vagapov was detained on March 19, 2007 in the village of Borzoi, Shatoy district of Chechnya. In 2013, his case was sent to the Supreme Court of Dagestan. On November 12, 2013, he was sentenced to 18 years in prison.

1 forgotten platoon

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

They dug in on the dominant skyscraper above the village. In addition to the soldiers, there were 18 more Dagestani policemen in Tukhchara. They were dispersed throughout the village: at two checkpoints at the entrances and at the local police station.

One of the Dagestani checkpoints was right next to Tashkin, at the foot of the skyscraper. True, the Russians and Dagestanis hardly communicated and did not interact. Everyone is on his own. Muslim Dakhkhaev, the head of the local ROVD recalled:

“Above, at the height, are the positions of the internal troops, and below is our militia post. They - two posts - seemed to exist separately. For some reason, the military was not very keen on contact with the local population and with the local police. They were suspicious of our attempts to establish contacts ... There was no interaction between the police and the military. They buried themselves in the ground and guarded themselves. ".

They buried themselves in the ground and guarded themselves ...

Umar had about 50 people in the gang, all the Wahabbits are fanatics leading the jihad. By fighting for the faith, they hope to go to heaven. Unlike Christianity in Islam, paradise has an erotic meaning. A man in paradise will have 72 wives: 70 earthly women and 2 houris (special virgins for afterlife sex). In the Quran and Sunnah, descriptions of these wives are given many times with all the details. For example, here:

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

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

Umar's gang enters Dagestan. The hike to the heavenly vaginas has begun.

One of the militants walked with a video camera and filmed everything that happened. The tape, of course, is terrible ... Already three life sentences have been passed on it.

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

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

The post was the last hotbed of resistance. The Chechens attacked him, but could not take it. It was well fortified and allowed to defend itself for some time. Until help arrives or ammunition runs out. But with this there were problems. No help was foreseen that day. The militants crossed the border in several places, the Lipetsk OMON was surrounded in the village of Novolakskoye, all forces were thrown into his rescue. The command had no time for Tukhchar.

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

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

Having listened to the ultimatum of the Chechens, Magomedov invites everyone to leave the checkpoint and take refuge in the village. Local residents are ready to help - to provide civilian clothes, hide them, take them outside. Tashkin is against it. Magomedov is a junior sergeant, Tashkin is an officer of the Interior Ministry troops. Tashkin is much older in rank. A conflict arises that turns into a fight ...

In the end, Tashkin agreed to leave the checkpoint. A tough decision. At this, the organized defense of the village ceased. The defenders broke up into small groups, hiding in attics, basements, and corn fields. Then everything depended on luck, some were lucky to leave, some were not ...

Most of the Dagestani policemen were unable to leave Tukhchar. They were captured. According to some sources: 14 people out of 18. They were herded to the village store:

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

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

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

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

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

This is such a "people's memorial", created at the initiative of the villagers, primarily teachers from the local secondary school. Neither the RF Ministry of Defense nor the federal authorities took part in the creation of the monument. The relatives of the victims did not answer the letters and did not come here even once. The information was collected bit by bit by local residents.

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

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

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

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

There were no special forces in Tukhchar, there were ordinary motorized riflemen. One of them, Lesha Paranin, the gunner of the very same BMP at the high-rise, was outwardly similar to Anisimov.

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

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

Well, what is on the monument instead of Anisimov is not so scary for a national memorial. There is no monument at the height of "Televyshka", and Private Anisimov from the "Vyatich" detachment is also a hero of that war. Let him be remembered at least so.

By the way, since May 9th ... Here is the emblem of the "Vyatich" detachment, where Anisimov served. The emblem was invented in the 2000s.

The motto of the detachment: "My honor is loyalty!" A familiar phrase. It was once the motto of the SS troops (Meine Ehre heißt Treue!), Which was a quote from one of Hitler's sayings. On May 9 in Armavir (as well as in Moscow) there is probably a lot of talk about how we keep traditions, etc. Whose traditions?

2. The bright holiday of Eid al-Adha.

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

Muslims have a holiday of Kurban-Bayram ... This is when, according to custom, they slaughter rams, as well as cows, camels, etc. This is done publicly, in the presence (and with the participation) of children who from childhood get used to such pictures. Cattle are slaughtered according to special rules. The animal's throat is first cut with a knife and the blood is waited for.

Tabuk, Saudi Arabia. October 2013

While the blood is being drained, the animal is still alive for some time. With the trachea, esophagus and arteries cut, it wheezes, chokes with blood, tries to breathe. At the same time, it is very important that during the incision the neck of the animal is directed towards Mecca, and above it, "Bismillah, Allahu Akbar" (in the name of Allah, Allah is great) is pronounced.

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

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

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

The rules for preparing "halal" (pure) meat in Islam do not allow stunning an animal during slaughter. It must bleed to death while awake. Otherwise, the meat will be considered "unclean".

Tver, November 2010. Kurban-Bayram in the area of ​​the cathedral mosque on Sovetskaya street, 66.

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

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

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

In memory of the temptation of Abraham in Islam (and also in Judaism), a ritual slaughter of animals is performed every year. Since in both cases they are slaughtered without stunning, in full consciousness, in a number of countries (Scandinavia, Switzerland, Poland) it was banned as cruelty to animals.

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

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

Finally, the butcher has a particularly successful knife strike. Bismillah, Allahu Akbar!

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

Ibid, 2012. A rare shot. The cow, doomed to slaughter, broke free and planted its tormentors on the horns.

3.Paranin Alexey.

Tukhchar, 1999. Russian prisoners are gathered at the checkpoint, then taken out into the street. Lay on the ground. Some have their hands tied behind their backs, some don't.

The first to be executed is Alexei Paranin, the BMP gunner. His throat is cut and left to lie down.

Blood fills everything around.

Alexei was seriously wounded when an infantry fighting vehicle was blown up and burned. He does not offer resistance, the impression is that he is unconscious. This militant in black and with a beard cut him (who he is still not known).

Starting to cut, the killer leaves somewhere, but soon comes again

And begins to cut the throat of the victim already thoroughly

Almost beheading Alexei.

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

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

4. Tashkin Vasily.

After Paranin, the second militants executed starley Tashkin. The killer sat astride him, there is visible some kind of struggle ...

But soon the lieutenant's throat is also cut.

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

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

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

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

The court gave him a life sentence.

Officer Tashkin, who was stabbed to death by Arbi, was later criticized by some Internet analysts. For stupidity and cowardice type. Why did he surrender, lay down under the knife and put people ...

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

In 1991 he entered the military school in Novosibirsk, since 1995 - in the army. In those years, officers were dismissed in batches from the army, penny salaries, everyday life, housing. Tashkin remained to serve. Roly platoon of our days ...

Sworn in at the school

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

Beautiful places.

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

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

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

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

“I crawled ashore ... A horseman appeared on the other side of the railway, called out to me and waved his hand. He was less than forty yards away ... I held out my hand with my Mauser. But I left him in the locomotive booth. There was a wire fence between the rider and me. Run again? But I was stopped by the thought of another shot from such a close distance. Before me stood death, gloomy and sullen, death without its carefree companion - a chance. So I raised my hands and, like Mr. Jorrox's foxes, shouted, "I give up."

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

Was Winston Churchill a coward?

5. Lipatov Alexey.

After killing Anisimov and Tashkin, the Chechens ordered Private Lipatov to stand up. Lipatov looks around. To the right of him is Tashkin's corpse, to the left is Paranin wheezing, bleeding. Lipatov understands what awaits him.

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

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

A fight ensues

And suddenly the bleeding Lipatov was able to get up, broke free and started to run.

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

The regional authorities allocated material aid to the parents of the soldier, 10 thousand rubles.

The date of death is indicated on September 6, 1999, a day later. On that day, the militants handed over the bodies to the head of the village council, Tukhchar, and he took them by truck to the nearest federal checkpoint (Gerzelsky bridge). In reality, Lipatov and his comrades were killed on September 5.

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

Tamerlan Khasaev.

Khasaev at the trial dodged as best he could. He said that he had just started killing Lipatov, but he didn’t cut it. I couldn't psychologically. " I couldn't kill a soldier. He also asked: “Don't kill me. I want to live. " My heart began to beat fast and it became a little bad».

In addition, Khasayev said that during the investigation he was beaten with threats. But what they threatened, he is ashamed to speak.

“And when they cut, did you not hesitate?"- asked the prosecutor.
“They threatened me to do what they do to a woman", - answered Khasaev.
“That is, you claim that they wanted to extinguish you?- the judge perked up. - Do not be shy, we are all doctors here ".

Of course, the criminal jargon from the lips of a judge does not adorn the Russian court, but Khasayev got his. He was also given a life sentence. He died in prison shortly after the verdict. His heart began to beat and felt a little bad.

6.Kaufman Vladimir.

After Lipatov came the turn of private Vladimir Kaufman. One of the militants, named Rasul, drags Kaufman into a clearing and demands that he lay face down. It is more convenient to cut this way.

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

The proposal does not arouse interest among the militants. They just stabbed the BMP gunner. The almost decapitated corpse of Alexei Paranin (the head rests on one spine) lies nearby. Then Kaufman promises to show where "the weapon is hidden." Somewhere in the mountains.

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

A struggle ensues. Two other militants pounce on Kaufman, trying to wring their hands.

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

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

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

The guy was 19 years old.

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

But they caught two Rasul's assistants, who were holding Kaufman before the murder.

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

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

Mukayev received 25 years, Vagapov - 18.

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

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

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

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

7.Erdneev Boris.

After stabbing Kaufman, the militants took on Boris Erdneev, a Kalmyk who was a sniper in Tashkin's platoon. Boris had no chance, his hands were tied in advance. The video shows one of the Chechens holding Erdneev by the chest with one hand.

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

He tries to speak to the executioner:

"You respect the Kalmyks, don't you?" He asks.
“Very respectable, ha ha, - the Chechen speaks gloatingly behind the scenes, - lie down ".

The victim is thrown to the ground.

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

In 2012, he received a life sentence.

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

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

It was here in the forest near Bamut.

There, three more prisoners were killed with him

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

Boris Erdneev sworn in

A photo from the stand about him in his native school in the village of Artezian in Kalmykia (270 km from the capital of the republic of Elista).

8.Polagaev Alexey.

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

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

Why does it begin to swing the half-cut head up and down, so that it can barely hold onto the torso

Then he lets go of the victim. The soldier begins rolling on the ground in agony.

He soon bled out. The militants shout in chorus "Allahu Akbar!"

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

The only city guy out of six killed. The rest are from the villages. The army in the Russian Federation is a workers 'and peasants' army, they say correctly. They go to serve who have no money.

As for the killer of Alexei, the leader of the gang Umar Karpinsky, he did not appear before the court. Did not live. He was killed in January 2000 when the militants left the encirclement in Grozny.

9. Epilogue.

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

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

Everything is fine in Chechnya.

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

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

A. Unfastens him% of income;
B. Puts his private army against his enemies when necessary.

This is what we are seeing in Chechnya.

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

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

But who will go to fight for the third time in Chechnya when Kadyrov's despotism officially announces its secession from Russia? But this will happen on the second day, when Putin leaves and Kadyrov feels a threat to his power. In Moscow, he has a lot of "well-wishers" in the power structures. And he's hooked. A lot has accumulated there.

For example, this monkey:

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

Or this character:

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

Who will believe it? Before that, he lived in Moscow for 11 years, on a grand scale, littered with money, and suddenly he was overwhelmed. Budanov was released in January 2009. He was convicted of war crimes, stripped of awards, titles and served 9 years out of a 10-year term. However, already in February 2009, Kadyrov publicly threatened him, stating that:

“… His life-long place in prison. And this is not enough for him. But a life sentence will ease our suffering a little. We do not tolerate insult. If the decision is not taken, the consequences will be bad. "

This is Kadyrov's Chechnya. And what about Dagestan? - Everything is fine there, too. Chechen fighters were driven out of there in 1999. But with the local Wahhabis it turned out to be more difficult. They shoot and blow up to this day. Otherwise, life in Dagestan goes on as usual: a mess, mafia clans, sawing subsidies. As elsewhere in the Russian Federation. Constitutional order, cho.

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

Or like this:

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

However, the Russians can not only be put cancer. You can sit astride:

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

Interestingly, in most cases it is not so difficult to find participants in this lawlessness. They are not actually hiding. Here are pictures of "riding" in 2012 posted on the Internet by a certain Ali Ragimov to the group "Dagi in the Army" in Odnoklassniki.

Now he lives in Petersburg quietly, respects Sharia.

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

These are the Internal Troops, the Urals District. The same VVs who died in Tukhchar. I wonder if the guys he is sitting on will go to defend Tukhchar next time? Or let Ali Rahimov himself somehow?

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

Together with Abdulkhalimov, a whole company of his Dagestani comrades frolicked in Krasnoe Selo.

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

On the other hand, the Dagestanis were not drafted into the army in 1941-45. (due to mass desertion). There were only small formations of volunteers. The Dagestanis did not serve in the tsarist army either. There was one volunteer cavalry regiment, which in 1914 became part of the Caucasian native division. This "wild division" of the Highlanders in the First World War actually numbered no more than 7,000 people. So many volunteers were recruited. Of these, Dagestanis - about 1000. And that's all for the 5 millionth army. Both in the Second and in the First World War, the conscripts of Chechnya and Dagestan, for the most part, sat at home.

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

September 1999. Dagestan. For a month now, the flames of the "liberation" war unleashed in the mountains of the Botlikh, Tsumadinsky and Buinaksky regions have been blazing. She came unexpectedly and treacherously from neighboring Chechnya.

There is a war going on in the mountains, but here, to the north, in the Novolaksky district, it is relatively calm. The day before, however, the militia commander shared information that several thousand militants had accumulated on the other side, but somehow it was hard to believe that such forces had been gathered behind the green peaceful hills. The militants are already having a hard time. Most likely, a detachment of some local field commander just became active.

The head of the small outpost, which occupied only five days ago the dominant height on the southwestern outskirts of the village of Tukhchar, Senior Lieutenant Vasily Tashkin did not guess and, having contacted Vershina, reported the situation to his command, adding that the parties are being monitored.

In response, he was instructed to triple his vigilance and set up additional observation posts. Beyond the Aksai River - Chechnya, the large village of Ishkhoy-Yurt is a bandit's nest. The outpost is ready for battle. The position for the bempash is good. The trenches are equipped, the sectors of firing are shot. And the outpost garrison is not green youth, but twelve proven fighters. Plus, the neighbors are militias on the left and two posts of the Dagestan militia below, to reinforce which the Kalachevites arrived - servicemen of the operational brigade of the internal troops. Only ammunition would be enough: in addition to the BMP-2 with full ammunition, there is also a PC with seven hundred rounds of ammunition, an SVD and 120 rounds for it, an old Kalashnikov handbrake with three hundred and sixty rounds and four magazines for machine gunners. He also has an underbarrel grenade launcher and four grenades each - ergadeshki - from the platoon lock. Not a lot, but if something happens they promised to send help: the battalion is in Duchi, it's not far.

However, the war is like a war.

“Tyulenev,” Tashkin called the sergeant, “Vershina again asks to be more vigilant. I'll check the posts myself tonight!
- The night was stifling and moonlit. Two kilometers away, the ominous lights of a Chechen village shone, it smelled strongly of mint, and restless grasshoppers chirped in the grass until morning, making it difficult to listen to the silence of the night.

Barely dawn, Tashkin raised the resting fighters and with a sniper moved to the next hill, from where, from the positions of the militia, what was happening on the adjacent side could be seen much better even without optics. From here it was clearly seen how the Chechens, almost without hiding, ford a shallow rivulet. The last doubts were dispelled, this is a war. When the militants, marching in a thick line, became visible to the naked eye, Tashkin gave the command to open fire. The silence was broken by a machine-gun burst, two militants walking in front fell, and then other barrels rumbled and hit. The outpost took a fight when the sun barely appeared from behind the mountains. The day promised to be hot.

As it turned out, the militants still outwitted the Kalachevites. For the same reasons that the outpost could not be taken head-on, they hit it with the main forces from the rear, from the direction of the Dagestan village of Gamiyakh. Immediately I had to forget about all the carefully calibrated firing sectors and leave the equipped position for the bempashka. She turned into a nomadic "shaitan-arba" that inflicts effective damage on the enemy.

The militants realized that it was not possible to shoot down the fighters from a height, and without this it was risky to enter the village. Having established themselves on its outskirts, in the area of ​​the village cemetery, they tried to get the soldiers out of there. But it was not easy for them to do it. Dagestani militiamen fought no less steadfastly, supported by fire from a high-rise building. But the poorly armed militias were forced to leave their positions, which were immediately taken by the militants.

Field commander Umar, who was in charge of operations from neighboring Ishkhoi-Yurt, was visibly nervous. For the second hour, his detachment, which was part of the so-called Islamic Special Purpose Regiment, was actually marking time.

But the unequal battle could not last forever. The ammunition ran out, forces were melting, the number of wounded increased. The militants have already seized one checkpoint, and then the village police department. Now they broke into the village and almost surrounded the hill. And soon the BMP was also knocked out, which lingered only for a minute more in the enemy's field of view, targeting the ZIL crossing the river with the bearded men. The crew of the heroic "kopeck piece" managed to get out, but the fire severely burned the gunner of the car, a Siberian, Private Alexei Polagaev.

The sight of the burning equipment with exploding ammunition caused the militants to rejoice, distracting their attention for some time from the servicemen who continued to hold the height. But the commander, realizing that now it was not only dangerous, but also impossible, and most importantly, inexpedient, decided to leave. There was only one way - down to the defensive militiamen of the second checkpoint. Under the cover of a smoking car, they were able to go down the hill, taking all the wounded with them. Thirteen more people were added to the eighteen defenders of the now only point of resistance in the village of Tukhchar.

The Russian officer managed to save the lives of all his subordinates, taking them off the hill. At 7.30 am on September 5, the connection between "Vershina" and the "Tukhchar" outpost was interrupted. Realizing that it was not possible to destroy the feds, and during the next assault there will be losses to the last defenders who sat behind the concrete blocks
villages militants sent elders:

The militants were told to go out without weapons, to guarantee life.
- We will not give up, - was the answer.

There is still a chance to get out of the battle, they thought, saving life, weapons and honor. After counting and dividing the cartridges, finally embracing as a brother, the soldiers and militiamen, covering each other with fire, rushed to the nearest houses. The wounded were dragged on themselves. Having come under heavy fire from the militants, Senior Lieutenant Tashkin and four more fighters jumped into the nearest building.

A few seconds before that, police sergeant Abdulkasim Magomedov was killed here. At the same moment, the half-collapsed building was surrounded, it was not possible to leave. The ammunition was running out. The militants are again offering to surrender. However, they themselves do not risk going to storm the temporary huts, where only a handful of armed people have settled down. They put pressure on the psyche. They promise to burn them alive in case of refusal. Gasoline was prepared. They give you time to think. In the end, the envoy is sent in, who turned gray in one day, the owner of the temporary house. Did our guys have any hesitations at that moment?

Everyone wants to live always. This is especially acutely felt in a calm moment, when you realize that life is so beautiful! And the sun, so affectionate, now standing at its zenith, was so bright, so life-affirming. The day was really hot.

Vasily Tashkin did not believe the sweet speeches of the militants. A prophetic heart and some experience told the officer that these inhumans would not leave them alive. But looking at his boys, in whose eyes HOPE was read, the officer nevertheless made up his mind and left the hiding place ...

Having instantly disarmed the soldiers, roughly pushing them in the backs with rifle butts, the militants drove the soldiers towards the smoking ruins of the checkpoint. A burnt and wounded BMP gunner, Private Alexei Polagaev, was soon brought here. Gurum Dzhaparova hid the soldier, dressed in civilian dress, in her house. Did not help. Local Chechen boys told the militants about the guy's whereabouts.

The meeting about the fate of the servicemen was short-lived. Amir Umar on the radio ordered the "execution of Russian dogs", they put too many of his soldiers in battle.

- Private Boris Erdneev from Kalmykia was the first to be brought to execution. They slit his throat with a blade. The inhabitants of Tukhchar, numb with horror, watched the massacre. The fighters were defenseless, but not broken. They passed away undefeated.

They died in Tukhchar

The execution of Russian soldiers by Chechen fighters was filmed on a video camera, which dispassionately recorded the last minutes of the soldiers' lives.

Someone accepts death in silence, someone breaks out of the hands of the executioners.

Now, not far from the place of execution, the Dagestan police checkpoint is again located, covering the road to the Chechen village of Galayty. Five years have passed, and much has changed in relations between neighboring republics. But the inhabitants of Tukhchar also look with apprehension and distrust in the direction of their restless and unpredictable neighbor.

There is no more military outpost on the high-rise. Instead, an Orthodox cross rises, a symbol of the eternal victory of life over death. There were thirteen of them, six died by ascending to Golgotha. Let's remember their names:

"Cargo - 200" has also arrived at the Kiznerskaya land. In the battles for the liberation of Dagestan from bandit formations, a native of the village of Ishek of the Zvezda collective farm and a graduate of our school, Aleksey Ivanovich Paranin, died. Alexey was born on January 25, 1980. Graduated from the Verkhnetyzhma basic school. He was a very curious, lively, brave boy. Then he studied at the Mozhginsky GPTU No. 12, where he received the profession of a bricklayer. True, he did not have time to work, he was drafted into the army. He served in the North Caucasus for over a year. And so - .

Several battles took place. On the night of September 5-6, the infantry fighting vehicle, on which Alexei served as the gunner, was transferred to the Lipetsk OMON, and guarded the checkpoint near the village. The militants who attacked at night set fire to the BMP. The soldiers left the car and fought, but it was too unequal. All the wounded were brutally finished off. We all grieve over the death of Alexei. Words of comfort are hard to find. On November 26, 2007, a memorial plaque was installed on the school building.

The opening of the memorial plaque was attended by Aleksey's mother, Lyudmila Alekseevna, and representatives from the youth department from the district. Now we are starting to design an album about him, there is a stand at the school dedicated to Alexei.

In addition to Alexei, four more students of our school took part in the Chechen campaign: Edward Kadrov, Alexander Ivanov, Alexey Anisimov and Alexey Kiselev, who was awarded the Order of Courage. It is very scary and bitter when young children die. The Paranin family had three children, but the son was the only one. Ivan Alekseevich, Aleksei's father, works as a tractor driver on the Zvezda collective farm; his mother, Lyudmila Alekseevna, is a school employee.

Erdneev Boris Ozinovich (a few seconds before his death)

(The essay "Defending Tukhchar" is used)

Of the Chechen murderers, only three fell into the hands of justice: Tamerlan Khasaev, Islam Mukayev, Arbi Dandaev

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

Khasaev ended up in the detachment in early September 1999 - one of his friends seduced him with the opportunity to get captured weapons on a campaign to Dagestan, which could then be sold profitably. So Khasayev ended up in the gang of Emir Umar, subordinate to the notorious commander of the ‘Islamic Special Purpose Regiment’ Abdulmalik Mezhidov, Shamil Basayev’s deputy ...

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

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

“They were the first to start,” Khasaev said about the battle in Tukhchar. - BMP opened fire, and Umar ordered the grenade launchers to take positions. And when I said that there was no such agreement, he assigned three militants to me. Since then, I myself have been with them as a hostage. "

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

Islam Mukayev (25 years in prison - in 2005)

It is known that in July 1999 Mukayev entered the Karpinsky Jamaat (named after the Karpinka microdistrict in Grozny), headed by Emir Umar, and in September he took part in a raid on Dagestan. After the battle, the bandits seized the post, losing four people. Among them was Mukayev's cousin.

He, like other relatives of the killed militants, was offered to take part in the execution of the soldiers in order to “take blood feud”. Mukayev said that he would not be able to cut his throat. However, during the execution he helped to kill the platoon commander Vasily Tashkin. The officer struggled, and then Mukayev hit him and held his hands until another militant finally finished off the senior lieutenant.

Arbi Dandaev (life in 2009). The rest of the participants in the massacre are still on the "federal wanted list." April 2009

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

Former employee of the national security service of Ichkeria, Arbi Dandaev, according to the investigation, took part in Shamil Basayev's gangs and in Dagestan in 1999. In early September, he joined a detachment led by Emir Umar Karpinsky, who on September 5 of the same year invaded the territory of the Novolaksky district of the republic.

From the Chechen village of Galayty, the militants headed to the Dagestani village of Tukhchar - the road was guarded by a checkpoint where Dagestani policemen were on duty. On the hill, they were covered by an infantry fighting vehicle and 13 soldiers from the brigade of the internal troops. But the militants entered the village from the rear and, after a short battle, seized the village police department, began shelling the hill.

The BMP buried in the ground inflicted considerable damage on the attackers, but when the encirclement ring began to shrink, Senior Lieutenant Vasily Tashkin ordered to drive the armored vehicle out of the trench and open fire across the river at the car that was bringing the militants.

The ten-minute hitch turned out to be fatal for the soldiers: a shot from a grenade launcher at the BMP demolished the tower. The gunner died on the spot, and the driver Aleksey Polagaev was shell-shocked. The surviving defenders of the checkpoint reached the village and began to hide - some in basements and attics, and some in corn thickets.

Half an hour later, on the orders of Emir Umar, the militants began to search the village, and after a short skirmish, five servicemen, hiding in the basement of one of the houses, had to surrender - in response to an automatic fire, a grenade launcher was fired. After a while, Aleksey Polagaev joined the prisoners - the militants "figured out" him in one of the neighboring houses, where the hostess was hiding him.

By order of Emir Umar, the prisoners were taken to a clearing next to the checkpoint. The further was meticulously recorded on camera by the operator of the militants. Four executioners appointed by the commander of the militants took turns obeying the order, cutting the throat of the officer and three soldiers (one of the servicemen tried to escape, but he was shot). Emir Umar dealt with the sixth victim personally.

Umar Karpinsky (Edilsultanov) in the center. Amir of the Karpinsky Jamaat. He personally cracked down on Alexei Polagaev - he died 5 months later while trying to break through from Grozny.

Arbi Dandaev has been hiding from justice for more than eight years, but on April 3, 2008, Chechen policemen detained him in Grozny. He was charged with participation in a stable criminal group (gang) and its attacks, an armed rebellion aimed at changing the territorial integrity of Russia, as well as encroachment on the life of law enforcement officers and illegal arms trafficking.

According to the materials of the investigation, the militant Dandaev confessed to the crimes committed and confirmed his testimony when he was taken to the place of execution. In the Supreme Court of Dagestan, however, he pleaded not guilty, stating that the appearance took place under duress, and refused to testify.

Nevertheless, the court found his previous testimony admissible and reliable, since they were given with the participation of a lawyer and no complaints were received from him about the investigation. The court examined the video recording of the execution, and although it was difficult to recognize the defendant Dandaev as the bearded executioner, the court took into account that the voice of Arbi was clearly pronounced on the recording.

The residents of the village of Tukhchar were also interrogated. One of them recognized the defendant Dandaev, but the court was critical of his words, given the witness's advanced age and confusion in his testimony.

Speaking in the debate, lawyers Konstantin Sukhachev and Konstantin Mudunov asked the court to either resume the judicial investigation by conducting expert examinations and calling new witnesses, or to acquit the defendant. The accused Dandaev said in his last word that he knew who was in charge of the execution, that this man is at large, and he could give his name if the court resumes the investigation. The judicial investigation was resumed, but only in order to interrogate the defendant.

As a result, the evidence examined did not leave the court in doubt that the defendant Dandaev was guilty. Meanwhile, the defense believes that the court was in a hurry and did not investigate many circumstances important for the case.

For example, he did not interrogate Islan Mukayev, who had already been convicted in 2005 in the execution in Tukhchara (another of the executioners, Tamerlan Khasaev, was sentenced to life imprisonment in October 2002 and died shortly after in the colony).

“Practically all petitions significant for the defense were rejected by the court,” lawyer Konstantin Mudunov told Kommersant. The court rejected this request. He was not objective enough, and we will appeal the verdict. "

According to the relatives of the defendant, mental abnormalities appeared in Arbi Dandaev in 1995, after Russian servicemen wounded his younger brother Alvi in ​​Grozny, and after a while they returned the corpse of a boy from a military hospital, from which internal organs were removed (relatives associate this with the trade in human organs that flourished in Chechnya in those years).

As the defense stated during the debate, their father, Khamzat Dandaev, achieved the initiation of a criminal case on this fact, but it is not being investigated. According to lawyers, the case against Arbi Dandaev was instituted to prevent his father from seeking punishment for those responsible for the death of his youngest son. These arguments were reflected in the verdict, however, the court considered that the defendant was sane, and on the fact of the death of his brother, the case had been initiated long ago and had nothing to do with the one under consideration.

As a result, the court re-qualified two articles concerning weapons and gang membership. According to Judge Shikhali Magomedov, the defendant Dandaev acquired the weapon alone, and not as part of a group, and participated in illegal armed groups, and not in a gang.

However, these two articles did not affect the verdict, since their statute of limitations expired. But Art. 279 "Armed mutiny" and Art. 317 "Encroachment on the life of a law enforcement officer" was pulled for 25 years and life imprisonment.

At the same time, the court took into account both mitigating circumstances (the presence of young children and a confession) and aggravating (the onset of grave consequences and the particular cruelty with which the crime was committed).

Thus, despite the fact that the state prosecutor asked for only 22 years, the court sentenced the defendant Dandaev to life in prison.

In addition, the court satisfied the civil claims of the parents of four dead servicemen for compensation for moral damage, the amounts for which ranged from 200 thousand to 2 million rubles.

New details of the Tukhcharskaya tragedy

... The battles of 1999 in the Novolaksky district were tragic events in the Orenburg region, and in the Topchikhinsky district of the Altai Territory, and in other Russian villages. As the Lak proverb says, "War does not give birth to sons, war takes away sons who are born." An enemy bullet that kills a son also wounds the mother's heart.

On September 1, 1999, the platoon commander, senior lieutenant Vasily Tashkin, received an order to move to the Chechen-Dagestan border on the outskirts of the village of Tukhchar, Novolaksky district. Not far from the village, at a height, the soldiers dug trenches, prepared a place for an infantry fighting vehicle. It is two kilometers from the nearest Chechen village Ishkhoyurt to Tukhchar. The border river is not an obstacle for the militants. Behind the next hill is another Chechen village of Galayty, where it was full of militants armed to the teeth.

Taking a perimeter defense and observing the village of Ishkhoyurt through binoculars, Senior Lieutenant Vasily Tashkin, a graduate of the Novosibirsk School of Internal Troops, recorded the movement of militants, the presence of fire weapons, and surveillance of his post. The commander's heart was uneasy. Its task is to provide fire cover for two police checkpoints: at the entrance to Tukhchar and at the exit from it in the direction of Galayty.

Tashkin knew that the policemen, armed only with small arms, happily accepted the appearance of his BMP-2 with soldiers on armor. But he also understood what kind of danger they, the servicemen and policemen, were in. For some reason, the Novolaksky district was poorly covered by troops. It was possible to count only on ourselves, on the military cooperation of the outposts of the internal troops and the Dagestan militia. But thirteen servicemen on one BMP - is this an outpost?

The BMP cannon was aimed at a height beyond which was the Chechen village of Galayty, but the militants struck in the wrong place early on September 5, where they had been expected: they opened fire from the rear. The forces were unequal. With the very first shots, the BMP effectively hit the militants who were trying to knock out the soldiers of the internal troops from a height, but the radio frequencies were blocked by the Chechens, and it was not possible to contact anyone. Policemen at the checkpoint also fought in the ring. Poorly equipped with firepower, reinforced by only thirty servicemen of the internal troops, they were doomed to death.

Senior Lieutenant Tashkin, fighting at the height, did not expect help. The Dagestani policemen were running out of ammunition. The checkpoint at the entrance to Tukhchar and the village police department have already been seized. The onslaught of the militants on the encircled height is becoming more and more violent. In the third hour of the battle, the BMP was hit, caught fire and exploded. “The metal burned like a haystack. They would never have thought that iron could burn with such a bright flame, ”- said eyewitnesses of that unequal battle.

The enemy was jubilant. And it distracted attention. Covered by the fire of the defenders of the police checkpoint, senior lieutenant Tashkin and his guys, dragging the wounded on themselves, managed to escape from the height. BMP mechanic Aleksey Polagaev, all burnt, ran into the first house he came across ...

Today we are in Tukhchar visiting a woman who ten years ago tried to save the life of the wounded driver-mechanic of the BMP Aleksey Polagaev. This story struck us to the core. Several times we had to turn off the recorder: ten years later, Atikat Maksudovna Tabieva says, bursting into bitter tears:

“I remember this day as yesterday. September 5, 1999. When the militants entered the area, I firmly declared: "I will not go anywhere, let those who came to our land with bad intentions leave." We sat at home, waiting for what will happen to us next.

I went out into the yard - I saw a guy standing, a wounded soldier, staggering, holding on to the gate. Covered in blood, burned very badly: no hair, the skin burst on his face. Chest, shoulder, arm - everything is cut by splinters. I sent my eldest grandson Ramadan for the doctor, brought Alexei into the house. All his clothes were covered in blood. My daughter and I burned his already burnt military uniform, and so that the militants would not interrogate, they burned, the remains of the fire were collected in a bag and thrown into the river.

A doctor, an Avar Mutalim, lived next door to us, he came, washed and bandaged Alexei's wounds. The guy groaned terribly, it was clear that the pain was unbearable, because the wounds were deep. The doctor somehow removed the fragments, smeared the wounds. We gave Alexey diphenhydramine to fall asleep and calm down at least a little. The wounds oozed with blood, the sheets had to be changed often and hidden somewhere. Knowing that the militants could come in and search the house, I nevertheless, without hesitation, rushed to help the wounded Alexei.

After all, not just a bleeding wounded soldier got into our house, for me he was just a son, someone's son. Somewhere his mother is waiting for him, and it does not matter what nationality she is and what religion. She is also a mother, like me. The only thing I asked Allah for was that the Almighty would give me the opportunity to save him. The wounded guy asked for help, and I only thought that I had to save him. "

Atikat leads us through the rooms to the most distant one. Here in this far room she hid Alyosha from Siberia, closing the door with a lock. As expected, militants soon appeared. There were sixteen of them. A local Chechen showed the militants the house of Atikat. In addition to her daughter, her young sons were at home. The militants searched the basement, ransacked the cellar, the shed.

Then one of the militants pointed a machine gun towards the children and yelled: "Show me where you hide the Russians!" The bandit grabbed Ramadan's nine-year-old grandson by the collar and lifted him slightly: “Where did the mother and grandmother hide the Russian soldier? Tell!" They pointed weapons at Ramadan. I shielded the children with my body and said: "Don't touch the children." Tears welling up in the boy's eyes from pain, but he shook his head to all the questions and stubbornly answered: "There is no one in the house." The children knew that they could be shot, but they did not betray Alexey.

When the bandits pointed their submachine gun at me and their command sounded: "Show me where the Russian is!" I just shook my head. The bandits threatened to blow up the house. And I thought: next to me, there, in the next room, lies a Russian guy, bleeding. His mother and loved ones are waiting. Even if we are all killed, I will not betray him. Let's all die together. Realizing the futility of the threats, the bandits continued their search. They probably heard Alexei's groans, started shooting at the locks, broke down the door. The bandits shouted with joy "Allahu Akbar!", Jumped on the bed where the wounded Alexei lay.

Daughter Gurun ran to their room, she, sobbing, looked at Alexei. And I didn’t go into the room, I couldn’t look into his eyes ... When they took the guy out, I started asking, begging, not to take him away. One of the bandits pushed me away and said: "Grandma, do not defend the Russians, if you defend, you will die the same death."

I tell them: this is a wounded and burnt soldier, the wounded are not divided into friends and foes. Help should always be given to the wounded! I am a mother, how can I not protect him, the wounded, trouble will come to you, and you will be protected.

I clung to their hands, begged, begged to let Alexei go. A frightened nineteen-year-old boy looks at me and asks: "What will they do to me?" My heart was breaking. I told them that I do not consider Russians to be enemies, and I never distinguish between people based on their ethnicity. According to Sharia, it is a great sin to distinguish people by ethnicity. We are all humans.

“Go away, grandmother, and don't teach us,” the bandits said, took Alexei away, left the yard. And I followed on his heels. It was very hard for me that I could not save him. I cried bitterly and followed them. Even a Chechen who lived next door told the bandits: "Leave him guys, he is not a tenant!"

Several Russian soldiers remained in one of the nearby houses, they opened fire, and the militants entered the battle, and Alexei was thrown near the wall under the supervision of one of their own. I ran to Alyosha, hugged him. We both cried bitterly ...

Again and again he stands before his eyes: just about with difficulty he gets to his feet, swaying, holds on to the wall and looks directly at the militants. Then he turns to me and asks: "What will they do to me, mother?"

Atikat Tabieva closes her eyes in pain: “The bandits said they would exchange him for their prisoners. How could you believe their words? Even if they shot me, I would not let Alyosha go. And I shouldn't have let go. "

Atikat shows us the route that Alexei was taken. When she reaches the gate, she falls to the ground and sobs. As then, 10 years ago. In the same way, she fell on her back at the gate and sobbed, and Alexei, surrounded by two dozen bandits, was taken away for reprisal.

Atikat's daughter, Gurun, says: “Not far from Tukhchar, at a checkpoint, I worked as a cook and fed the police. Although this was not part of my duties, I also took care of the Russian guys who served on the border with Chechnya. The company was headed by senior lieutenant Vasily Tashkin, there were 13 Russian guys in total. When the wounded Alexey entered our house, the first question was: "Gulya, do you live here?"

I didn’t have time to warn my sons that Alexei should not be extradited, and was amazed at how courageously my boys behaved. When the militants, pointing a machine gun at them, asked the guys: "Where are you hiding the Russian?", The boys stubbornly answered: "We don't know."

Alexey, when he came to, asked me to bring a mirror. There was no living space on his face, continuous traces of burns, but I began to console him: “You are beautiful, as before, most importantly, you got out of trouble, did not burn out, everything will be fine with you”. He looked in the mirror and said: "The most important thing is that he is alive."

When the bandits broke down the door and entered the room, sleepy Alexei at first did not understand what was happening. I told him that he was being taken to the hospital. When he woke up, he quietly said to me: "Gulya, quietly remove the badge from me, if anything happens to me, take it to the military registration and enlistment office."

The militants shouted: "Come up quickly!" He was unable to get up. There was a courageous guy who told me: "Gulya, so that I don't fall in front of them, hold me and put a shirt on me."

In the courtyard my mother ran up to him, it was impossible to look at her, she cried, asked the bandits to let him go. “We must cure him,” the Chechens said. “I'll cure him here myself,” I asked.
“Whoever hides a Russian will face the same fate,” the militant said. And in his own language, one says to the other (I understand the Chechen language a little): "To stab him, or what, here it is?" ...

Not far from Tukhchar, on the way to the Chechen village of Galayty, the militants brutally killed six Russian children. Among them was the driver-mechanic of the BMP Aleksey Polagaev. Aunt Atikat never looks in the direction where the soldiers were executed. She always mentally asks for forgiveness from Alexei's relatives, who live in distant Siberia. She is tormented that she was unable to save the wounded soldier. For Alexei came not people, but animals. However, sometimes it is even easier to save human life from animals.

Later, when one of the local militants' accomplices is brought to trial, he admits that Atikat's courageous behavior amazed even the militants themselves. This short, thin woman, risking her life and the lives of her loved ones, tried to save a wounded soldier in that brutal war.

“In a cruel time, it is necessary to save the wounded, show mercy, instill good in the hearts and souls of Russians and Caucasians,” Aunt Atikat says simply and wisely and grieves that she could not save the Soldier Alyosha. “I’m not a hero, not a brave woman,” she laments. "Heroes are those who save lives."

Let me object to you, Aunt Atikat! You have accomplished a feat, and we want to bow deeply to you, mother, whose heart does not divide children into ours and strangers.

… On the outskirts of the village, at the place of execution of six Kalachyovites, riot police from Sergiev Posad erected a solid metal cross. Stones piled at its base symbolize Golgotha. Residents of the village of Tukhchar do everything possible to perpetuate the memory of the Russian soldiers who died defending the Dagestan land.

AT A NAMELESS HEIGHT
They - twelve soldiers and one officer of the Kalachevskaya brigade - were thrown to the border village of Tukhchar to reinforce local militiamen. There were rumors that the Chechens were about to cross the river and hit the rear of the Kadar group. The senior lieutenant tried not to think about it. He had an order, and he had to carry it out.

We occupied a height of 444.3 on the very border, dug full-length trenches and a caponier for the BMP. Below are the roofs of Tukhchar, a Muslim cemetery and a checkpoint. Behind a shallow stream is the Chechen village of Ishkhoyurt. They say a robber's nest. And one more - Galayty - hid in the south behind a ridge of hills. A blow can be expected from both sides. The position is like the edge of a sword, at the very front. You can stay at a height, but the flanks are not secured. 18 cops with machine guns and a wild motley militia are not the most reliable cover.

On the morning of September 5, Tashkin was awakened by a sentinel: "Comrade senior lieutenant, there seems to be ..." spirits. "Tashkin immediately became serious.

From the explanatory of private Andrey Padyakov:

On the hill opposite us, in the Chechen Republic, first four, then about 20 more militants appeared. Then our senior lieutenant Tashkin ordered the sniper to open fire to kill ... I clearly saw how one militant fell after the sniper's shot ... Then they opened massive fire on us from machine guns and under-barrel grenade launchers ... Then the militias surrendered their positions, and the militants walked around the village and took us into the ring. We noticed how about 30 militants ran behind the village behind us. "

The militants did not go where they were expected. They crossed the river south of the height 444 and went deeper into the territory of Dagestan. Several bursts were enough to disperse the militias. Meanwhile, the second group - also twenty to twenty-five people - attacked a police checkpoint near the outskirts of Tukhchar. This detachment was headed by a certain Umar Karpinsky, the leader of the Karpinsky Jamaat (an area in Grozny), who was personally subordinate to Abdul-Malik Mezhidov, the commander of the Sharia Guard. * The Chechens with a short blow knocked out the militiamen from the checkpoint ** and, hiding behind the gravestones of the cemetery, began to approach the positions of the motorized riflemen ... Simultaneously, the first group attacked the height from the rear. From this side, the BMP caponier had no protection and the lieutenant ordered the driver-mechanic to bring the car to the ridge and maneuver.

"Height", we are under attack! - shouted Tashkin, holding his headset to his ear, - They are attacking with superior forces! What?! I ask for support with fire! "But" Vysota "was occupied by the Lipetsk riot police and demanded to hold on. Tashkin swore and jumped off the armor." How the fuck ... hold on ?! Four horns per brother ... "***

The denouement was near. A minute later, a cumulative grenade that had flown in from nowhere broke the side of the "box". The gunner, together with the tower, was thrown about ten meters; the driver died instantly.

Tashkin glanced at his watch. It was 7:30 in the morning. Half an hour of battle - and he has already lost his main trump card: a 30-mm BMP machine gun, which kept the "Czechs" at a respectful distance. In addition, and the connection was closed, the ammunition ran out. We must leave while there is an opportunity. It will be late in five minutes.

Picking up the shell-shocked and badly burned gunner Aleskei Polagaev, the soldiers rushed down to the second checkpoint. The wounded man was dragged on his shoulders by his friend Ruslan Shindin, then Alexei woke up and ran himself. Seeing the soldiers running towards them, the militiamen covered them with fire from the checkpoint. After a short skirmish, there was a lull. After some time, local residents came to the post and reported that the militants had given half an hour to leave Tukhchar. The villagers took civilian clothes with them to the post - this was the only chance of salvation for the police and soldiers. The senior lieutenant did not agree to leave the checkpoint, and then the militiamen, as one of the soldiers later said, “got into a fight with him.” ****

The argument of strength was compelling. In the crowd of local residents, the defenders of the checkpoint reached the village and began to hide - some in basements and attics, and some in corn thickets.

Resident of Tukhchara Gurum Dzhaparova says:
He came - only the shooting died down. How did you come? I went out into the yard - I saw, standing, staggering, holding on to the gate. He was covered in blood and was badly burned - no hair, no ears, the skin on his face burst. Chest, shoulder, arm - everything is cut by splinters. I'll get him to the house as soon as possible. The militants, I say, are all around. You should go to yours. Will you get there like this? She sent her eldest Ramadan, he is 9 years old, for a doctor ... His clothes are covered in blood, burnt. My grandmother Atikat and I cut it off, rather into a sack and threw it into a ravine. We washed it somehow. Our village doctor Hasan came, removed the fragments, smeared the wounds. Did you still get an injection - diphenhydramine, or what? He began to fall asleep from the injection. I put it with the children in the room.

Half an hour later, on Umar's order, the militants began to "wool" the village - a hunt for soldiers and policemen began. Tashkin, four soldiers and a Dagestani policeman hid in a shed. The barn was surrounded. They brought in cans of gasoline and doused the walls. "Give up, or we'll burn you alive!" In response, silence. The militants looked at each other. "Who is your senior there? Decide, commander! Why die in vain? We don't need your lives - we'll feed them, we'll exchange them for ours later! Surrender!"

The soldiers and the policeman believed and left. And only when militia lieutenant Akhmed Davdiev was cut off by a machine-gun burst did they understand that they had been cruelly deceived. "And we have prepared something else for you!" - the Chechens laughed.

From the testimony of the defendant Tamerlan Khasaev:

Umar ordered to check all the buildings. We dispersed and two people began to go around the house. I was an ordinary soldier and carried out orders, especially a new person among them, not everyone trusted me. And as I understand it, the operation was prepared in advance and clearly organized. I learned from the radio that a soldier had been found in the barn. We were told by radio the order to gather at the police post outside the village of Tukhchar. When everyone gathered, these 6 soldiers were already there. "

The burnt gunner was betrayed by one of the locals. Gurum Dzhaparova tried to defend him - it was useless. He left, surrounded by a dozen bearded guys - to his death.

The further was meticulously recorded on camera by the operator of the militants. Umar, apparently, decided to "educate the cubs." In the battle at Tukhchar, his company lost four, each of the killed had relatives and friends, they had a blood debt on them. "You have taken our blood - we will take yours!" - said Umar to the prisoners. The soldiers were taken to the outskirts. Four "bloodlines" in turn cut the throat of the officer and three soldiers. Another escaped, tried to escape - he was shot from a machine gun. Umar killed the sixth personally.

Only the next morning, the head of the administration of the village, Magomed-Sultan Hasanov, received permission from the militants to take the bodies. On a school truck, the bodies of senior lieutenant Vasily Tashkin and privates Vladimir Kaufman, Alexei Lipatov, Boris Erdneev, Alexei Polagaev and Konstantin Anisimov were delivered to the Gerzelsky checkpoint. The rest managed to sit out. Some of the locals were taken to the Gerzel Bridge the very next morning. On the way, they learned about the execution of their colleagues. Aleksey Ivanov, after spending two days in the attic, left the village when he was bombed by Russian aviation. Fyodor Chernavin sat in the basement for five whole days - the owner of the house helped him to get to his own.

The story doesn't end there. In a few days, the recording of the murder of soldiers of the 22nd Brigade will be shown on Grozny television. Then, already in 2000, it will fall into the hands of investigators. Based on the materials of the videotape, a criminal case against 9 people will be initiated. Of these, justice will overtake only two. Tamerlan Khasaev will receive a life sentence, Islam Mukayev - 25 years. Material taken from the forum "BROTHER"

About the same events from the press:

"I just approached him with a knife."

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

Soldier hunting

In the early morning of September 5, 1999, Basayev's detachments invaded the territory of the Novolaksky district. Emir Umar was responsible for the Tukhchar direction. The road to the Chechen village of Galayty, leading from Tukhchar, was guarded by a checkpoint at which Dagestani militiamen were on duty. On the hill, they were covered by an infantry fighting vehicle and 13 soldiers of a brigade of internal troops, sent to strengthen the checkpoint from the neighboring village of Duchi. But the militants entered the village from the rear, and, after a short battle, seized the village police department, began shelling the hill. The BMP buried in the ground caused considerable damage to the attackers, but when the encirclement ring began to shrink, Senior Lieutenant Vasily Tashkin ordered the BMP to be driven out of the trench and opened fire across the river at the car that was bringing the militants. The ten-minute hitch turned out to be fatal for the soldiers. A shot from a grenade launcher to a combat vehicle demolished the tower. The gunner died on the spot, and the driver Aleksey Polagaev was shell-shocked. Tashkin ordered the others to retreat to the checkpoint located a few hundred meters away. The unconscious Polagaev was first carried on his shoulders by his colleague Ruslan Shindin; then Alexey, who had received a through wound in the head, woke up and ran himself. Seeing the soldiers running towards them, the militiamen covered them with fire from the checkpoint. After a short skirmish, there was a lull. After some time, local residents came to the post and reported that the militants had given half an hour for the soldiers to leave Tukhchar. The villagers took civilian clothes with them - this was the only chance of salvation for the police and soldiers. The senior lieutenant refused to leave, and then the police, as one of the soldiers later said, "got into a fight with him." half an hour later, on Umar's orders, the militants began to sweep the village. Now it is difficult to establish whether the local residents turned over the military or the militants' reconnaissance worked, but six soldiers fell into the hands of the bandits.

"Your son died because of the negligence of our officers"

By order of Umar, the prisoners were taken to a clearing next to the checkpoint. The further was meticulously recorded on camera by the operator of the militants. The four executioners appointed by Umar took turns carrying out the order, cutting the throat of the officer and four soldiers. Umar dealt with the sixth victim personally. “Only Tamerlan Khasaev made a mistake. Having slashed the victim with a blade, he straightened up over the wounded soldier - the sight of the blood made him uneasy, and he passed the knife to another militant. The bleeding soldier broke free and ran. the bullets passed by, and only when the fugitive stumbled into the pit was he cold-bloodedly finished off from a machine gun.

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

At the end of September, six zinc coffins were lowered into the ground in different parts of Russia - in Krasnodar and Novosibirsk, in Altai and Kalmykia, in the Tomsk region and in the Orenburg region. For a long time, the parents did not know the terrible details of the death of their sons. The father of one of the soldiers, having learned the terrible truth, asked to include in the death certificate of his son a miserly wording - “a gunshot wound.” Otherwise, he explained, his wife would not survive it.

Someone, having learned about the death of their son from the television news, protected themselves from details - the heart would not withstand the exorbitant burden. Someone tried to get to the bottom of the truth and looked around the country for his son's colleagues. It was important for Sergei Mikhailovich Polagaev to know that his son did not flinch in battle. He learned how everything really happened from a letter from Ruslan Shindin: “Your son died not because of cowardice, but because of the negligence of our officers. The company commander came to us three times, but never brought ammunition. He only brought night binoculars with batteries in. And we defended there, each had 4 shops ... '

Hostage executioner

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

Khasaev ended up in Basayev's detachment in early September 1999 - one of his friends seduced him with the opportunity to get a trophy weapon on a campaign to Dagestan, which could then be sold profitably. So Khasayev ended up in the gang of Emir Umar, subordinate to the notorious commander of the "Islamic special purpose regiment" Abdulmalik Mezhidov, deputy of Shamil Basayev ...

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

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

“They were the first to start,” Khasaev said about the battle in Tukhchar. “The BMP opened fire, and Umar ordered the grenade launchers to take positions. them as a hostage. '

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

Seven other participants in the execution in Tukhchar, including four of its direct perpetrators, are still on the wanted list. However, as Arsen Israilov, investigator for especially important cases of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation in the North Caucasus, who was investigating the Khasayev case, told the GAZETA correspondent, Islam Mukayev was not on this list until recently: “In the near future, the investigation will find out what specific crimes he is involved in. And if his participation in the execution in Tukhchar is confirmed, he may become our "client" and be transferred to the Makhachkala SIZO.

And this is about one of the guys brutally killed by Chechen thugs in September 1999 in Tukhchar.
"Cargo - 200" has also arrived at the Kiznerskaya land. In the battles for the liberation of Dagestan from bandit formations, Aleksey Ivanovich Paranin, a native of the village of Ishek of the collective farm "Zvezda" and a graduate of our school, died. Aleksey was born on January 25, 1980. Graduated from the Verkhnetyzhma basic school. He was a very curious, lively, brave boy. Then he studied at the Mozhginsky GPTU No. 12, where he received the profession of a bricklayer. True, he did not have time to work, he was drafted into the army. He served in the North Caucasus for over a year. And now - the Dagestan war. Several battles took place. On the night of September 5-6, the infantry fighting vehicle, on which Alexei served as the gunner, was transferred to the Lipetsk OMON, and guarded the checkpoint near the village of Novolakskoye. The militants who attacked at night set fire to the BMP. The soldiers left the car and fought, but it was too unequal. All the wounded were brutally finished off. We all grieve over the death of Alexei. Words of comfort are hard to find. On November 26, 2007, a memorial plaque was installed on the school building. The opening of the memorial plaque was attended by Aleksey's mother, Lyudmila Alekseevna, and representatives from the youth department from the region. Now we are starting to design an album about him, there is a stand at the school dedicated to Alexei. In addition to Alexei, four more students of our school took part in the Chechen campaign: Edward Kadrov, Alexander Ivanov, Alexey Anisimov and Alexey Kiselev, who was awarded the Order of Courage. It is very scary and bitter when young children die. The Paranin family had three children, but the son was the only one. Ivan Alekseevich, Aleksei's father, works as a tractor driver on the Zvezda collective farm; his mother, Lyudmila Alekseevna, is a school employee.
Together with you we grieve over the death of Alexei. Words of comfort are hard to find.

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

Former employee of the national security service of Ichkeria, Arbi Dandaev, according to the investigation, took part in the attack of Shamil Basayev and Khattab's gangs on Dagestan in 1999. In early September, he joined a detachment led by Emir Umar Karpinsky, who on September 5 of the same year invaded the territory of the Novolaksky district of the republic. From the Chechen village of Galayty, the militants headed to the Dagestani village of Tukhchar - the road was guarded by a checkpoint where Dagestani policemen were on duty. On the hill, they were covered by an infantry fighting vehicle and 13 soldiers from the brigade of the internal troops. But the militants entered the village from the rear and, after a short battle, seized the village police department, began shelling the hill. The BMP buried in the ground inflicted considerable damage on the attackers, but when the encirclement ring began to shrink, Senior Lieutenant Vasily Tashkin ordered to drive the armored vehicle out of the trench and open fire across the river at the car that was bringing the militants. The ten-minute hitch turned out to be fatal for the soldiers: a shot from a grenade launcher at the BMP demolished the tower. The gunner died on the spot, and the driver Aleksey Polagaev was shell-shocked. The surviving defenders of the checkpoint reached the village and began to hide - some in basements and attics, and some in corn thickets. Half an hour later, on the orders of Emir Umar, the militants began to search the village, and after a short skirmish, five servicemen, hiding in the basement of one of the houses, had to surrender - in response to an automatic fire, a grenade launcher was fired. After a while, Aleksey Polagaev joined the prisoners - the militants "figured out" him in one of the neighboring houses, where the hostess was hiding him.

By order of Emir Umar, the prisoners were taken to a clearing next to the checkpoint. The further was meticulously recorded on camera by the operator of the militants. Four executioners appointed by the commander of the militants took turns obeying the order, cutting the throat of the officer and three soldiers (one of the servicemen tried to escape, but he was shot). Emir Umar dealt with the sixth victim personally.

Arbi Dandaev has been hiding from justice for more than eight years, but on April 3, 2008, Chechen policemen detained him in Grozny. He was charged with participation in a stable criminal group (gang) and its attacks, an armed rebellion aimed at changing the territorial integrity of Russia, as well as encroachment on the life of law enforcement officers and illegal arms trafficking.

According to the materials of the investigation, the militant Dandaev confessed to the crimes committed and confirmed his testimony when he was taken to the place of execution. In the Supreme Court of Dagestan, however, he pleaded not guilty, stating that the appearance took place under duress, and refused to testify. Nevertheless, the court found his previous testimony admissible and reliable, since they were given with the participation of a lawyer and no complaints were received from him about the investigation. The court examined the video recording of the execution, and although it was difficult to recognize the defendant Dandaev as the bearded executioner, the court took into account that the voice of Arbi was clearly pronounced on the recording. The residents of the village of Tukhchar were also interrogated. One of them recognized the defendant Dandaev, but the court was critical of his words, given the witness's advanced age and confusion in his testimony.

Speaking in the debate, lawyers Konstantin Sukhachev and Konstantin Mudunov asked the court to either resume the judicial investigation by conducting expert examinations and calling new witnesses, or to acquit the defendant. The accused Dandaev said in his last word that he knew who was in charge of the execution, that this man is at large, and he could give his name if the court resumes the investigation. The judicial investigation was resumed, but only in order to interrogate the defendant.

As a result, the evidence examined did not leave the court in doubt that the defendant Dandaev was guilty. Meanwhile, the defense believes that the court was in a hurry and did not investigate many circumstances important for the case. For example, he did not interrogate Islan Mukayev, who had already been convicted in 2005 in the execution in Tukhchara (another of the executioners, Tamerlan Khasaev, was sentenced to life imprisonment in October 2002 and died shortly after in the colony). “Practically all petitions significant for the defense were rejected by the court,” lawyer Konstantin Mudunov told Kommersant. was sufficiently objective, and we will appeal the verdict. "

According to the relatives of the defendant, mental abnormalities appeared in Arbi Dandaev in 1995, after Russian servicemen wounded his younger brother Alvi in ​​Grozny, and after a while they returned the corpse of a boy from a military hospital, from which internal organs were removed (relatives associate this with the trade in human organs that flourished in Chechnya in those years). As the defense stated during the debate, their father, Khamzat Dandaev, achieved the initiation of a criminal case on this fact, but it is not being investigated. According to lawyers, the case against Arbi Dandaev was instituted to prevent his father from seeking punishment for those responsible for the death of his youngest son. These arguments were reflected in the verdict, however, the court considered that the defendant was sane, and on the fact of the death of his brother, the case had been initiated long ago and had nothing to do with the one under consideration.

As a result, the court re-qualified two articles concerning weapons and gang membership. According to Judge Shikhali Magomedov, the defendant Dandaev acquired the weapon alone, and not as part of a group, and participated in illegal armed groups, and not in a gang. However, these two articles did not affect the verdict, since their statute of limitations expired. But Art. 279 "Armed mutiny" and Art. 317 "Encroachment on the life of a law enforcement officer" was pulled for 25 years and life imprisonment. At the same time, the court took into account both mitigating circumstances (the presence of young children and a confession) and aggravating (the onset of grave consequences and the particular cruelty with which the crime was committed). Thus, despite the fact that the state prosecutor asked for only 22 years, the court sentenced the defendant Dandaev to life in prison. In addition, the court satisfied the civil claims of the parents of four dead servicemen for compensation for moral damage, the amounts for which ranged from 200 thousand to 2 million rubles.
Photo of one of the thugs at the time of the trial.
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This is a photo of Art. Lieutenant Vasily Tashkin

Confident in his impunity A. Dandaev

Alexey Lipatov

Kaufman Vladimir Egorovich

Polagaev Alexey Sergeevich

Erdneev Boris Ozinovich (a few seconds before his death)

Of the known participants in the massacre of captured Russian soldiers and an officer, three are in the hands of justice, two of them are rumored to have died behind bars, others say that someone died in the subsequent clashes, and someone is hiding in France.

In addition, according to the events in Tukhchar, it is known that no one was in a hurry to help the detachment of Vasily Tashkin on that terrible day, not the next and not even the next! Although the main battalion was stationed just a few kilometers not far from Tukhchar. Betrayal? Negligence? A deliberate conspiracy with the militants? Much later, aviation came and bombed the village ... And as a summary of this tragedy and in general about the fate of many and many Russian guys in the shameful war unleashed by the Kremlin clique and subsidized by certain figures from Moscow and directly by the fugitive Mr. A.B. ... Berezovsky (on the Internet there are his public confessions that he personally financed Basayev).

Serf children of war

The film includes the famous video of cutting off the heads of our fighters in Chechnya - details in this article.
Official reports are always stingy and often lie. On the 5th and 8th of September last year, judging by the press releases of the law enforcement agencies, ordinary battles were going on in Dagestan. Everything's under control. As usual, losses were reported in passing. They are minimal - a few wounded and killed. In fact, it was during these days that whole platoons and assault groups lost their lives. But on the evening of September 12, the news spread through many agencies in an instant: the 22nd brigade of internal troops occupied the village of Karamakhi. General Gennady Troshev noted the subordinates of Colonel Vladimir Kersky. So they learned about another Caucasian victory of Russia. It's time to receive awards. "Behind the scenes" the main thing remained - how, at what terrible cost yesterday's boys survived in a leaden hell. However, for the soldiers it was one of many episodes of bloody work in which they survived by chance. Three months later, the brigade fighters were again thrown into the thick of it. They attacked the ruins of a cannery in Grozny.

Karamakhin blues

September 8, 1999. I will remember this day for the rest of my life, because it was then that I saw death.

The command post above the village of Kadar was lively. I counted a dozen generals alone. The gunners scurried about, receiving target designation. The officers on duty chased the journalists away from the camouflage net behind which the radio rattled and the telephone operators shouted.

The Rooks emerged from behind the clouds. The bombs slide down in tiny dots and, after a few seconds, turn into columns of black smoke. An officer from the press service explains to reporters that the aviation works with jewelry at the enemy's firing points. A direct bomb hit the house shatters like a walnut.

Generals have repeatedly stated that the operation in Dagestan is strikingly different from the previous Chechen campaign. There is definitely a difference. Every war is different from its bad sisters. But there are analogies. They don't just catch the eye, they scream. One such example is the "jewelry" work of aviation. Pilots and artillerymen, as in the last war, work not only against the enemy. Soldiers are killed by their own raids.

When a unit of the 22nd brigade was preparing for the next assault, about twenty soldiers gathered in a circle at the foot of the Wolf Mountain, waiting for the command to go forward. The bomb flew in, hitting right in the midst of people, and ... did not explode. The whole platoon was then born in shirts. One soldier was cut off the ankle with a cursed bomb, like a guillotine. The guy, crippled in a split second, was sent to the hospital.

Too many soldiers and officers are aware of such examples. Too many to understand: popular victory pictures and reality are as different as the sun and the moon. While the troops were desperately storming Karamakhi, in the Novolaksky district of Dagestan, a special forces detachment was thrown to the border height. During the attack, something was confused by the "allies" - helicopters of fire support began to work in height. As a result, having lost dozens of killed and wounded soldiers, the detachment withdrew. The officers threatened to deal with those who shot at their ...