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A selection of the most noisy and explosive special operations of Russian special forces in the Caucasus (Dagestan, Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkaria) in recent years. Over the past couple of years, our special forces have been increasingly using drones, robots and other electronic innovations. The militants are also not far behind: they are building strong bunkers and digging underground passages. Also watch the selections for 2009-2015 (44 videos, highly recommended if you haven’t seen or read them).

There are a lot of special operations, so the employees do not take unnecessary risks and in the event of particularly strong resistance, they simply methodically destroy the house together with the militants. Bulldozers are used to further clear the rubble. If the found IEDs cause concern, they explode on the spot.

In most of the videos, there is the liquidation of gang members or bandits who have “changed their shoes” into ISIS militants (an organization banned in the Russian Federation) or Vilayat Caucasus bandits, etc. extremist organizations.

During the assault, three bandits were killed - two militants and an accomplice, the owner of the household, who took an active part in the shootout.

Special operation in the village. Andi, March 24, 2018

Special forces of the FSB of Russia, with the support of the Russian Guard and internal affairs bodies, blocked the house where the bandit was hiding. The criminal, who refused to lay down his arms and surrender to the authorities, was neutralized during the clash. According to available operational data, this is Yunus Khabibov, who was on the federal wanted list, who swore allegiance to the international terrorist organization ISIS (an organization banned in the Russian Federation) and carried out its instructions as the leader of a bandit group that had previously operated in a mountainous and wooded area.

Special operation in the village of Talgi on December 3, 2016. + Drilling out a bunker with militants for demolition.

The Amir of the Caucasus Vilayat was destroyed.

Special forces of the FSB of Russia blocked the houses where the armed bandits were hiding, and the residents of nearby houses were evacuated. The militants were asked to lay down their arms and surrender to the authorities, to which they refused and opened fire on law enforcement officers. As a result of the clash, two bandits were neutralized. Their identities have been previously established. According to available data, they were members of a gang that committed terrorist crimes in the North Caucasus Federal District. During the inspection of the house, a cache with a large amount of weapons and ammunition was discovered. FSB officers removed from it two non-removable IEDs with a total capacity of about 20 kg of TNT.

WITH special operation of the FSB RD in Makhachkala 05/07/2015

ROSH in the Republic of Dagestan received information about being in one of the apartments of a multi-storey building on the street. Akhmedkhan Sultan in Makhachkala, several armed persons involved in the activities of the gangster underground. The head of the ROS decided to conduct a counter-terrorism operation from 6.00 and introduce the appropriate legal regime. The territory adjacent to the house was blocked by law enforcement forces. To prevent bloodshed, the bandits were asked to lay down their arms and surrender to the authorities. They managed to convince them to release the apartment owner's wife from the blocked premises. Civilians living in the house were evacuated. During the clash, three bandits were neutralized, weapons and ammunition were found at the scene.

Special operation of the FSB Directorate and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Dagestan in Makhachkala, Dagestan 09/07/2016

The building in which the bandits took refuge was blocked by law enforcement forces. Residents of nearby houses were evacuated. When the law enforcement officers asked them to surrender, the bandits opened fire with automatic weapons. Three militants were neutralized by special forces.

The special forces of the FSB and the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs blocked the private house in which the armed militants had taken refuge. The area adjacent to it has been cordoned off. The head of the ROSH introduced the legal regime of the CTO from 16.00. Residents of adjacent houses were evacuated. In response to the legitimate demands of law enforcement officers to lay down their arms and surrender to the authorities, the bandits opened fire from automatic weapons. The special forces of the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs were forced to begin to suppress the bandits by force. Three bandits were neutralized, including gang leader Kamil Magomedov, born in 1986. It was established that this bandit group committed numerous attacks on the lives of law enforcement officers and robbery attacks on the civilian population, including an explosion in March of this year. convoys with military personnel of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.

On January 15, in Nalchik, in connection with the discovery of an armed person in one of the private houses in the city of Nalchik, who refused to lay down his arms and opened fire on law enforcement officers, the legal regime of the CTO was introduced. On the morning of January 16, armed resistance to the forces of law and order continued, but by 15.00 it was broken. One of the members of the gangster underground operating on the territory of the republic was neutralized.

During operational activities by security authorities in cooperation with the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Ingushetia, on April 6, in the village of Ekazhevo, Nazran district, a bandit arsenal with a large number of weapons and means of destruction was discovered and neutralized on the territory of a private house. According to preliminary data, the cache found belonged to bandits of the Caucasus Emirate MTO, most of whose leaders and members had previously been killed during the CTO and special operations.

Special operation of the FSB, UFSVNG and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Dagestan in Khasavyurt, 01/29/2017.

During an active operational investigation, the security authorities received information about the presence in one of the private houses on Keldysh Street in the city of Khasavyurt of a group of armed persons involved in committing terrorist crimes. In response to the lawful demands of law enforcement officers to lay down their weapons and surrender to the authorities, the criminals opened fire. As a result of the ensuing combat contact, three bandits were neutralized.

Special operation of the FSB Directorate and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Dagestan in Gimry 10.10.2015

During the active operational investigation, information was received about the possible presence of members of the gang underground in one of the private houses in the village of Gimry, Untsukul district. The head of the ROSH in the Republic of Dagestan made a decision to conduct a CTO from 6:40 a.m. and introduce the appropriate legal regime. The area surrounding the house was blocked off and civilians were evacuated. After shooting was opened from the house in response to the offer to surrender, the CTO entered the active phase. As a result of the battle, three bandits who offered armed resistance were neutralized.

The list includes the most notable and significant FSB operations in the entire history of its existence. It does not contain cases about the capture of spies and other little-known operations, due to the fact that from the mid-90s to the present time, the main direction of the FSB is the North Caucasus. It is the elimination and capture of key opponents in this region that has a decisive influence on the development of the situation in the entire direction. Places are distributed according to the importance of the object of the operation or the situation as a whole.

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

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

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

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

6. Liquidation of Aslan Maskhadov Aslan Maskhadov is a military and statesman of the unrecognized Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (CRI). In the early 1990s, he participated in the creation of the armed forces of the ChRI and led the separatists’ military operations against federal forces. On March 8, 2005, Maskhadov was killed during a special operation by the FSB in the village of Tolstoy-Yurt (Grozny rural district), where he was hiding in an underground bunker under the house one of the distant relatives. During the assault, Maskhadov resisted, and the special forces detonated a device, the shock wave of which left the house dilapidated.

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

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

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

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

1. Capture of "Nord-Ost" Terrorist attack on Dubrovka, also referred to as "Nord-Ost" - a terrorist attack on Dubrovka in Moscow, which lasted from October 23 to 26, 2002, during which a group of armed militants led by Movsar Barayev captured and held hostages from among the spectators of the musical “Nord-Ost”. The assault began at 05.17, when special forces began to launch a special nerve agent through the ventilation shafts. At that moment, several hostages called their friends and said that some kind of gas was arriving at the cultural center, but their speech quickly became incoherent, and then they were unable to say anything at all. The gas suppressed the will of all those present in the hall, and most importantly, the terrorists. If even one of them had time to press several toggle switches on her belt or connect wires, the bombs would begin to explode one after another, and the building could simply collapse. Within just a few seconds after the gas began to take effect, the snipers destroyed all the female suicide bombers with precise shots to the head, and then the fighters in gas masks moved on to destroy the other bandits who were in the auditorium. One of them was armed with a Kalashnikov machine gun, but did not have time to use it, firing only one unaimed burst. At the same time, part of the special forces who entered the building through the roof dealt with the terrorists in the utility rooms of the second floor, using noise and flash grenades. Most of the bandits were already unconscious, since the gas affected those first of all.

The leader of the terrorist organization ISIS*, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, could have been destroyed in the vicinity of Raqqa as a result of an airstrike by aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS). The Russian Ministry of Defense announced this on June 16. According to representatives of the department, the strike was carried out on the night of May 28, after intelligence was able to establish the exact meeting place of the terrorist leaders. As the Ministry of Defense emphasized, this information is currently being verified through various channels.

Let us remember that Al-Baghdadi first appeared in public in July 2014, when from a mosque in the city of Mosul captured by IS* he proclaimed the creation of an “Islamic caliphate” in the Middle East. If information about his liquidation is confirmed, this will be a serious blow to the terrorists’ command structure. And for Russia - a serious image victory in the information war against the West, which accuses us of fighting exclusively with the “moderate” Syrian opposition. In addition, Russian intelligence services will once again prove that they are capable of tracking down any terrorist, no matter where he is. Fortunately, over the past two decades they have accumulated a wealth of experience.

Chief Demoman

In July 2001, the Special Purpose Center of the Russian FSB reported on the liquidation of Abu Umar Muhammad al-Sayyaf, one of the closest associates of the notorious Khattab. This militant from Saudi Arabia fought with federal troops from the very beginning of the first Chechen war. He led a small bandit group that used landmines to blow up columns of Russian troops and mine military units and checkpoints. Later, Abu Umar headed the sabotage and terrorist center "Caucasus", where he taught mine explosives. Among his “pupils” were militants who carried out bombings of residential buildings in Russian cities in September 1999, as well as terrorist attacks in Vladikavkaz, Mineralnye Vody, Pyatigorsk and Nevinnomyssk in 2000-2001.

They tracked him for a long time. In July 2001, the headquarters for the counter-terrorism operation received information that Abu Umar was hiding in the mountain village of Maitrup, Kurchaloevsky district of Chechnya. Units of the special forces "Rus" of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the combat group of the famous "Alpha" went to detain him. The exact location of the target was unknown, but by luck the fighters were dropped from helicopters literally a few meters from the house where Abu Umar was hiding. He no longer had time to run to the mountains, so he hid in the basement. The initial search of his home did not yield any results, but one of the Alpha officers at the last moment noticed a carefully camouflaged hatch in the floor. The soldier who opened it was immediately wounded by a machine gun burst, but others reacted instantly and threw grenades into the basement. The main bomber of the Chechen gang underground was killed on the spot.

"Black Arab"

His immediate superior, a native of Saudi Arabia, Samer Saleh al-Suwailem, better known as Khattab, was eliminated nine months later, in March 2001. This seasoned terrorist fought on the side of the Salafist Islamists back in Afghanistan in the 80s. In addition, he trained militants in Tajikistan and participated in the attack on the 12th outpost of the Moscow border detachment on July 13, 1993, during which 25 Russian border guards were killed. He moved to Chechnya together with 18 comrades in 1995. He took direct part in attacks on federal military targets. In 1999, together with Shamil Basayev, Khattab led the militants’ campaign against Dagestan. In March 2000, a Saudi terrorist led the escape of a large gang from encirclement in the Argun Gorge. The culmination of this breakthrough was the famous battle at height 776 near the village of Ulus-Kert, as a result of which almost the entire company of Pskov paratroopers of the 76th Guards Airborne Division heroically died.

It took a long time to get within sight of him - the “Black Arab,” as his accomplices called him, was too smart and devilishly lucky. Then the intelligence services decided to rely on cunning. The FSB managed to recruit one of the leader’s closest assistants, who ultimately poisoned his “boss.” There are several versions about who he was and how he did it. According to one of them, the special services managed to intercept a messenger who was supposed to convey a message from Saudi Arabia to Khattab. The messenger was recruited, and the letter was treated with a potent poison. The “Black Arab” who opened it died almost immediately. According to another version, Khattab was poisoned by his cook, also recruited by the intelligence services. He treated the dry rations intended for the commander with poison. There is also a more prosaic version, according to which Khattab was simply poisoned by expired beef stew.

Emissary

One of the main military and ideological leaders of the Chechen bandit underground, Zelimkhan Yandarbiev, was eliminated on February 13, 2004 in Doha. He actively participated in the first war, leading the defense of the central part of Grozny in January 1995. After the death of Dzhokhar Dudayev a year later, he served as acting president and supreme commander of the unrecognized republic until 1997, when Aslan Maskhadov was elected to this position. After this, Yandarbiev joined the national-radical wing of militants, led by Salman Raduev. At the same time, he served as an emissary in other countries, where he regularly traveled to seek financial support for the Chechen gang underground. He was one of the organizers of the hostage-taking in the capital's theater center on Dubrovka in October 2002.

Since 2003, Zelimkhan Yandarbiev has been permanently residing in Qatar, where he received refugee status: by that time he was wanted by Interpol, and the UN Security Council officially recognized his connections with international terrorism. He was killed on February 13, 2004 in Doha when his car was blown up by a landmine installed under the bottom. Qatari authorities soon arrested the two Russians and, after a short trial, found them guilty of organizing the successful assassination attempt and sentenced them to life imprisonment. It was alleged that they were operational employees of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces. This information has not received official confirmation. However, in 2004, the Russian Foreign Ministry managed to achieve the extradition of the convicts to their homeland, where they were greeted with military honors at Vnukovo airport.

Terrorist President

The next great success of the Russian special services was the liquidation of Aslan Maskhadov on March 8, 2005. During the first war, he led most of the major offensive, defensive and sabotage actions of terrorists. Under the leadership of Maskhadov, Operation Jihad was carried out in August 1996 - an attack by militants on Grozny, Argun and Gudermes. And on January 27, 1997, following the election results, he was elected president of the republic, gaining 59.3% of the votes. It was during his presidency in Chechnya that mass crime flourished: kidnapping, slave trade, drug trafficking, oil theft, banditry, counterfeiting, terrorist attacks in Russia. It was Maskhadov who was the ideologist of the spread of separatist ideas to Dagestan, Karachay-Cherkessia, and Kabardino-Balkaria. In addition, he was the main supporter of the introduction of Sharia rule in Chechnya.

Maskhadov was taken by soldiers of the Special Purpose Center of the FSB of Russia. According to human intelligence data, it was possible to establish that since the beginning of 2005 he had been hiding in the village of Tolstoy-Yurt, Grozny district, in a specially fortified bunker under the house of one of his distant relatives. According to official data, it was there that the militant leader developed a plan for a terrorist attack, which was supposed to surpass Beslan in its cruelty. The capture groups managed to secretly approach the house and blockade the shelter. During a short fire contact with Maskhadov's bodyguards, the special forces managed to break through to the bunker door and blow it up with an overhead explosive charge. The leader died from severe barotrauma. However, according to one version, one of his assistants finished off the wounded Maskhadov with a pistol so that he would not fall into the hands of the security forces.

Chief executioner

The special services managed to destroy the most odious Chechen terrorist, Shamil Basayev, only in 2006. By this time, he had earned himself such a reputation and “track record” that he was rightfully considered enemy of the state number one. On June 14, 1995, he led a raid of 200 militants into the territory of the Stavropol Territory, where he captured the city of Budennovsk and one and a half thousand civilians. In August 1996, he took an active part in the assault on Grozny. In August 1999, together with Khattab, he carried out an invasion of Dagestan. Took responsibility for the hostage-taking at the Dubrovka theater in the fall of 2002. Conducted a series of terrorist attacks across the country using suicide bombers in 2003. He blew up two passenger planes in Moscow on August 24, 2004, and a week later his militants seized a school in Beslan. And this is not a complete list of terrorist attacks in which Basayev participated or organized. He has the blood of hundreds, if not thousands, of people on his hands.

Reports of the death of Shamil Basayev have appeared with enviable regularity since 1995. However, the fact of its liquidation was officially confirmed by the Russian FSB only on July 10, when the head of the department, Nikolai Patrushev, reported this to the president of the country. A few hours earlier, the terrorist was eliminated in the Nazran region of Ingushetia. He accompanied a truck with weapons and ammunition, which he allegedly planned to use to carry out a series of terrorist attacks in the republic. Around two o'clock in the morning his KamAZ truck was blown up. The details of this operation are still kept secret. According to one version, the explosives were planted in the car by militants recruited by the FSB while loading ammunition; according to another, it was done by the intelligence officers themselves while the militants were sleeping. According to Patrushev, the implementation of this plan took a lot of time and required enormous preparatory work, including abroad.

*Terrorist organization banned in Russia.

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

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

In January 1990, during protests by supporters of Lithuanian independence, Maskhadov was in Vilnius.

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

In 1992, Colonel Maskhadov retired from the Russian army and took the post of first deputy chief of the Main Staff of the Chechen Republic.

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

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

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

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

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

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

On October 17, 1996, he was appointed to the post of Prime Minister of the coalition government of Chechnya with the wording “for the transition period.”

In December 1996, in accordance with the election law, he resigned from official posts - prime minister of the coalition government, chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, deputy commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, in order to have the right to run for the post of president of Chechnya.

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

In December 1998, “field commanders” Shamil Basayev, Salman Raduev and Khunkar Israpilov tried to challenge Maskhadov’s constitutional powers under the pretext of his “pro-Russian position.” The “Council of Commanders of Chechnya,” headed by them, demanded that the Supreme Sharia Court remove Maskhadov from office. The Sharia court suggested that Maskhadov unilaterally sever relations with Russia. However, the court did not find sufficient grounds to remove the President of the Chechen Republic from office, although he was found guilty of selecting persons “who collaborated with the occupation regime” for leadership positions.
Destroyed on March 8, 2005 by Russian FSB special forces in the village of Tolstoy-Yurt, Grozny district.

BARAEV Arbi. He was suspected of organizing the kidnappings of FSB officers Gribov and Lebedinsky, the plenipotentiary representative of the Russian President in Chechnya Vlasov, Red Cross employees, as well as the murder of four citizens of Great Britain and New Zealand (Peter Kennedy, Darren Hickey, Rudolf Pestchi and Stanley Shaw). The Ministry of Internal Affairs put Baraev on the federal wanted list in a criminal case regarding the abduction in Chechnya of NTV television journalists - Masyuk, Mordyukov, Olchev and OPT television journalists - Bogatyrev and Chernyaev. In total, he personally accounts for the death of about two hundred Russians - military personnel and civilians.

On June 23-24, 2001, in the ancestral village of Alkhan-Kala and Kulary, a special joint detachment of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB conducted a special operation to eliminate a detachment of militants from Arbi Barayev. 15 militants and Barayev himself were killed.

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

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

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

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

ABU Umar. Native of Saudi Arabia. One of Khattab's most famous assistants. Mine explosives expert. Mined the approaches to Grozny in 1995. Participated in organizing explosions in Buinaksk in 1998, and was wounded in the explosion. Organized an explosion in Volgograd on May 31, 2000, in which 2 people were killed and 12 were injured.

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

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

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

international Islamic organizations.

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

Emir Ibn Al Khattab. Professional terrorist, one of the most irreconcilable militants in Chechnya.

Some of the most “well-known” operations carried out under the leadership or with the direct participation of Khattab and his militants include:

Terrorist attack in the city of Budennovsk (70 people were allocated from Khattab’s detachment, there were no losses among them);

Providing a “corridor” for S. Raduev’s gang to exit the village. Pervomayskoye - an operation prepared and carried out personally by Khattab to destroy the column of the 245th motorized rifle regiment near the village. Yaryshmards;

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

Terrorist attack in Buinaksk on December 22, 1997. During an armed attack on a military unit in Buinaksk, he was wounded in his right shoulder.

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

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

In 1998, he took responsibility for the assassination attempt on Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze. He also took responsibility for the explosions at train stations in Armavir and Pyatigorsk. The Raduevskaya gang was engaged in robberies on the railways; it was guilty of theft of public funds in the amount of 600 - 700 thousand rubles, intended to pay salaries to teachers in the Chechen Republic.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Died on August 18, 2002. The cause of death was leukemia. In addition, it was established that Atgeriev had a stroke.

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

During combat operations - commander of the Shatoevsky garrison, commander of the "Abkhaz battalion". Gelayev’s formation consisted of eight hundred to nine hundred well-armed militants, including about fifty snipers from Lithuania and ten to fifteen snipers from Estonia. The so-called special-purpose regiment was stationed in the areas of Sharoy, Itum-Kale, and Khalkina.

In 2002, he announced his intention to obtain the post of President of Ichkeria; he was supported by the former head of Dudayev’s foreign intelligence service, the famous criminal oil businessman Khozhi Nukhaev.

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

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

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

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

MOVSAEV Abu. Deputy Minister of Sharia Security of Ichkeria.

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

KARIEV (KORIEV) Magomed. Chechen field commander.

Until September 1998, Kariev was deputy head of the Security Service of Ichkeria. He was then appointed head of the 6th Department of the Ministry of Sharia Security, responsible for the fight against organized crime.

Kariev was involved in kidnapping and hostage-taking for ransom.

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

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

In March 2001, Tsagaraev was wounded, but managed to escape and penetrate abroad. At the beginning of July 2001, he returned to Chechnya and organized gang groups in Grozny to carry out terrorist attacks.

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

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

After 1996, Khaikharoev had extensive connections in the criminal world of the North Caucasus, controlling two types of criminal business: transporting hostages from Ingushetia and North Ossetia to the Chechen Republic, as well as smuggling of petroleum products. Former employee of Dudayev's personal security.

It is assumed that he was involved in the disappearance without a trace of journalists of the Nevskoe Vremya newspaper Maxim Shablin and Felix Titov, and also ordered two explosions in Moscow trolleybuses on July 11 and 12, 1996. Accused by the Russian Security Service of organizing the explosion of an intercity passenger bus in Nalchik.

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

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

According to another version, Khaikharoev was mortally wounded by fellow villagers who were blood relatives of Bamut. The news of his death was confirmed by the press service of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Since the day of the attack on Budennovsk, he has been on the federal wanted list.

On August 26, 2002, employees of the operational group of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Shali region and one of the SOBR detachments, together with soldiers from the military commandant’s office of the Shali region, carried out an operation in the regional center of Shali to detain a militant. When detained, he offered armed resistance and was killed.

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

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

After being blocked by a unit of federal forces, Demiev resisted and tried to escape in a car. However, it was destroyed by retaliatory fire from federal forces. When examining the dead man, a PM pistol, grenades, radios and a fake passport were found.

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

During the Chechen campaigns, the Barayev clan became widely known for trafficking in kidnapped and captured people. Some experts who have studied the actions of these criminals are inclined to believe that the Barayevs were even more active in this type of activity than directly in military clashes with federal troops.

It is believed that the militants of the Islamic regiment "Jamaad", led by Arbi Barayev, in Chechnya, among others, kidnapped the special representative of the Russian President Vlasov, Major General Shpigun, many Russian officers and journalists, as well as four British citizens and one New Zealander. They did not stand on ceremony with the prisoners - when Barayev’s militants were not satisfied with the results of the hostage ransom negotiations, four foreigners’ heads were cut off and thrown onto the road.

Arbi Barayev was truly a scumbag, because he always wanted to commit atrocities on his own, uncontrolled by the leadership of the self-proclaimed Ichkeria. In the late 90s, Aslan Maskhadov stripped him of the rank of brigadier general for arbitrariness; in response, Barayev tried to kill Maskhadov himself. Arbi Barayev was also despised by field soldier Ruslan Gelayev, whose relatives were killed by Barayev’s people.

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

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

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