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Will it become more dangerous after the liquidation of the militants? The executioner Sashka Ardyshev tortured Russian soldiers so that even the militants shuddered. Bataev Zelimkhan Murtselovitch

Including the leader of the bandit group Rustam Gasanov. Gasanov, born in 1981, is a native and resident of the village of Serebryakovka, Kizlyar district, also known by the call sign “Umaraskhab”. In 2003, he was convicted and served a sentence for robbery; in September 2009, he went illegal and was put on the federal wanted list. According to one version, in March 2010, Hasanov, as part of a criminal group, dealt with a teacher at a madrasah in the village of Yasnaya Polyana, Kizlyar region of Dagestan, in November 2010, he led the explosion of railway tracks near the village of Pervomaiskoye as a passenger train was passing, and later fired at a police squad that arrived to the scene of the incident.

May 20, 2012 year, in the village of Vinsovkhozny of the Republic of Dagestan, the leader of the “Khasavyurt bandit group”, the so-called amir of the northern sector, was killed Aslan Mamedov nicknamed Muas, who was on the federal wanted list.

April 19, 2012 year, three militants were killed in Dagestan, including the leader of a bandit group operating on the territory of the republic, Ramazan Saritov Born in 1983. The militants were natives of the village of Bammatyurt, Khasavyurt district. The gang is responsible, in particular, for extorting money from entrepreneurs, shootings and explosions in stores, car bombings, and attempts to kill law enforcement officers.

April 10, 2012 During two special operations in the Stavropol Territory, three militants were killed, including Eldar Bitaev, born in 1978, leader of the “Neftekumsk bandit group”. Bitaev was the direct organizer of the failed attempt to blow up the railway track in the Mineralovodsk region during the passage of an electric train in September 2010. All three were in an illegal situation, underwent appropriate training in one of the gang groups on the territory of Dagestan, and participated in gangster attacks in the Kizlyar region. In March they returned to the Stavropol Territory to carry out sabotage and terrorist activities.

March 27, 2012 year, during a special operation, the leader of the bandit underground operating in the territory of Kabardino-Balkaria was destroyed - Alim Zankishiev, nicknamed "Ubaida". Zankishiev has been on the federal wanted list since 2006. Since 2011, after the neutralization of the former bandit leader Dzhappuev, Zankishiev coordinated the terrorist activities of gang groups in Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia. Zankishiev was involved in the murders of military pilot Denis Nikolaev and investigator Kantemir Kyarov in early 2012. He also became the organizer of the assassination attempt on the head of the administration of the Urvan district of the republic, Antemirkan Kanokov.

March 18, 2012 year, in the village of Novosasitli in Dagestan, the leader of the “Novosasitlinskaya” bandit group was eliminated Nutsalkhanov Shamil and its active participant, who were involved in extorting money from entrepreneurs, attacks on law enforcement officers and organizing explosions. According to the Operational Headquarters, Nutskhanov joined the “Novosasitlinskaya” bandit group in May 2011, and then headed it.

March 12, 2012 During a special operation in Makhachkala, two militants were killed. One of them was identified as the leader of the Makhachkala sabotage and terrorist group Eldos Zulfukarov.

March 6, 2012 During a special operation in Dagestan, the leader of the “Kizilyurt bandit group” was killed Alibek Omarov, born in 1985. Omarov was on the federal wanted list and is a defendant in eight criminal cases of a terrorist nature. Involved in the shelling of the Kizilyurt Internal Affairs Directorate on March 11, 2011, and in the planting of six improvised explosive devices on the path of a military convoy on January 11, 2012, during the demining of which a Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs employee was killed and eight servicemen were injured.

March 3, 2012 year in Malgobek of the Republic of Ingushetia, the leader of the Ingushetian bandit underground was killed during a special operation Adam Tsyzdoev. The special operation was carried out after receiving information about a group of bandits preparing a terrorist attack.

February 16, 2012 was liquidated during a special operation in Dagestan Magomed Kasumov, the leader of the so-called "Mutsalaul bandit group and his accomplice, involved in the murders of police officers and religious figures of the republic. Kasumov was involved in the shelling of a car with police officers in 2010. In addition, he was involved in a number of other terrorist crimes, extorting money from entrepreneurs, arson of shops.

February 14, 2012 year in Dagestan, the leader of the Dagestan bandit underground, 51 years old, was killed Ibragimkhalil Daudov, who led the gangster underground after the liquidation of Magomedali Vagabov in August 2010.

January 27, 2012 the leader of the Ingushetian bandit underground was killed in Ingushetia Dzhamaleil Mutaliev(nickname "Adam"), who was on the federal wanted list. Mutaliev joined illegal armed groups during the second Chechen campaign, was part of the close circle of Shamil Basayev. In 2010, after the detention of Ali Taziev, nicknamed "Magas", Mutaliev was appointed the so-called military amir "Caucasus Emirate" and the leader of the bandit underground of Ingushetia. The leader of the "Caucasus Emirate" Doku Umarov entrusted Mutaliev with the responsibility for carrying out the most resonant sabotage and terrorist actions. Among them, a terrorist attack on the Vladikavkaz market in September 2010 and a suicide bombing in August of the same year on the Rostov highway - Baku" in Chechnya.

December 12, 2011 near the village of Karlanyurt, Khasavyurt district, the leader of a bandit group was killed Yusup Magomedov and his accomplices. Yusup Magomedov was the leader of the so-called Khasavyurt sabotage and terrorist group.

December 7, 2011 year, in the area of the village of Kumysh, Karachaevsky district of the Republic of Karachay-Cherkessia, the leader of the militants of Karachay-Cherkessia was killed Biaslan Gochiyaev, as well as three of his accomplices. The militants were planning a series of terrorist attacks, in particular with the participation of a suicide bomber. The murdered 27-year-old Biaslan Gochiyaev was appointed the so-called Emir of Karachay-Cherkessia about a year ago.

August 10-11, 2011 year in Makhachkala, during a special operation, six bandits were killed, including one woman. One of the militants was identified as Abdulla Magomedaliev, born in 1977, nicknamed "Daoud". In 2010, Magomedaliev was appointed by Magomedali Vagabov (neutralized in August 2010) as the leader of the so-called “special battalion”, specializing in carrying out high-profile terrorist attacks against law enforcement officers and government officials. Magomedaliev was involved in extortion on an especially large scale and kidnappings for ransom.

On the night of May 3, 2011 year, in a special operation in a mountainous forested area on the border of the Shatoi and Vedeno regions of the Chechen Republic, 2 members of the bandit underground were killed. One of the killed militants was identified as a certain Salauddin, who had the call signs “Kurd” and “Abdullah Kurd.” Abdullah Kurd was an emissary of Al Qaeda; after the neutralization of Moganned, he became the main coordinator of international terrorists in the North Caucasus.

April 29, 2011 During a special operation on the border of Stavropol and Kabardino Balkaria, the leader of the republic’s gang underground, who was on the federal wanted list, was killed Asker Dzhappuev. According to intelligence services, Dzhappuev, nicknamed “Abdullah,” headed the so-called “United Vilayat of Kabarda, Balkaria and Karachay” in May 2010 after the destruction of the leader of the Kabardino-Balkaria bandit underground, Anzor Astemirov.

April 21, 2011 The main representative of Al Qaeda in the North Caucasus was killed in Chechnya Khaled Youssef Mohammed Al Emirate by nickname "Moganned", Arab by origin. According to NAC, Moganned, along with Doku Umarov, was the most famous figure among the bandits, perceived as an indisputable “religious authority” and as an influential “field commander.” The terrorist is involved in committing a number of crimes against military personnel and civilians.

On the night of April 18, 2011 year in Dagestan, four active participants in the bandit underground were killed, incl. leader of the Dagestan bandits Israpil Validzhanov(nickname Amirhasan). According to intelligence services, in October 2010, Doku Umarov appointed Validzhanov “the first person in the gangster hierarchy of Dagestan.”

March 28, 2011 year, near the village of Verkhniy Alkun, Sunzhensky district of Ingushetia, 19 militants were killed during a special operation. The militant base was destroyed as a result of a targeted airstrike by the Russian Air Force and a ground operation. After the operation, one of the leaders of the terrorist organization "Caucasus Emirate" Supyan Abdullayev was identified, who, according to operational data, was considered the main ideologist of militants in the North Caucasus.

January 27, 2011 year, during a special operation in the village of Severny near the Dagestan Khasavyurt, one of the militant leaders was killed Adam Huseynov. He was the second most important in the hierarchy of leaders of the Dagestan bandit underground after Israpil Validzhanov.

December 6, 2010 was liquidated during a clash in the Tsumadinsky region of Dagestan Akhmed Abdulkerimov nicknamed "Shatun". The killed militant was the “emir of the mountain sector,” he was involved in terrorist attacks in the republic, was actively involved in recruiting young people into the ranks of the underground gang, and organized their training. Suspected of a terrorist attack against the head of the FSB Directorate for the Tsumadinsky District, which occurred on September 2, 2010 in Dagestan.

On the night of August 25, 2010 During a shootout with law enforcement officers that occurred near the Dagestan Khasavyurt, the “emir” of the Khasavyurt region was killed Khasan Daniyalov and the “emir” of the Kazbek jamaat, Yusup Suleymanov, nicknamed “Shoip”.

August 23, 2010 year in Ingushetia, the leader of the bandit underground was killed Ilez Gardanov, involved in a number of high-profile terrorist attacks. Gardanov was the leader of the Pliev bandit group and had recently headed the bandit underground on the territory of the republic and was the coordinator.

August 21, 2010 During a special operation in Dagestan, the leader of the Dagestan gang underground was killed Magomedali Vagabov. Declaring himself back in 2005 as “Emir Abdullah Gubdensky,” he was the leader of the so-called Gubden sabotage terrorist group, the second person in the hierarchy of the “Caucasus Emirate,” a “Sharia judge” appointed by Doku Umarov. According to NAC, Vagabov’s gang is involved in numerous terrorist attacks on the territory of Dagestan and beyond, including explosions in the Kizil Yurt and in the Moscow metro, which killed dozens of people.

August 12, 2010 year, law enforcement officers of Ingushetia during a special operation eliminated the deputy leader of the so-called Pliev bandit group Haruna Plieva, involved in a series of armed attacks on police officers and military personnel.

June 26, 2010 during a special operation in the Karabudakhkent region of Dagestan was destroyed Jamalutdin Javatov, leader of the Karamakhi sabotage and terrorist group. He was on the federal wanted list for terrorist crimes.

June 10, 2010 year, as a result of a special operation carried out by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya, an Arab mercenary was killed in the Vedeno region Yasir Amarat.

March 24, 2010 year in Nalchik, in a shootout with law enforcement officers, a man identified as the leader of the Wahhabi gang underground of Kabardino Balkaria was eliminated Anzor Astemirov. Astemirov has been on the international wanted list since 2006. He was considered one of the main organizers of the attack on the Russian Federation State Drug Control Department in Kabardino Balkaria in December 2004, as well as the militant attack on Nalchik in October 2005.

March 22, 2010 year in Makhachkala (Dagestan), security forces liquidated the so-called “Emir of Grozny” Salambek (Magomed) Akhmadov.

March 17-18, 2010 During a special operation in the Vedeno region of Chechnya, six militants were killed, including one of the most famous terrorist leaders. Abu Khaled. An Arab by nationality, Abu Khaled, according to operational data, arrived in the Chechen Republic 13 years earlier. He was engaged in technical and psychological training of terrorists.

One of the militant leaders in the North Caucasus Alexander Tikhomirov, also known as Said Buryatsky, was destroyed March 2, 2010 year as a result of a special operation carried out by employees of the Special Purpose Center of the FSB of Russia in the village of Ekazhevo, Nazran district of Ingushetia. Investigators believe that Tikhomirov, who is called the main ideologist of militants in the south of Russia, was the organizer of a number of major terrorist actions, including an attack on the building of the police department in Nazran, which killed dozens of police officers, an attempt on the life of the President of Ingushetia Yunus Bek Evkurov, and an explosion "Nevsky Express" in November 2009.

In the evening February 2, 2010 year, one of the founders of the Al Qaeda network in the North Caucasus, a native of Egypt, was killed in the mountains of Dagestan Mohmad Mohamad Shabaan nicknamed "Safe Islam". "Saif Islam" was on the international wanted list at the request of the Egyptian authorities for carrying out terrorist activities.

January 10, 2010 in the capital of Dagestan, the leader of the Makhachkala Shamkhal sabotage terrorist group was eliminated Madrid Begov. A day earlier, in the vicinity of Makhachkala on the Makhachkala-Khasavyurt highway, an operation was carried out to kill three militants, among whom was the “emir” of Makhachkala Marat Kurbanov.

December 31, 2009 year, police killed four militants in the city of Khasavyurt, including the leader of the Dagestan bandit underground Umalata Magomedova nicknamed "Albaro".

December 18, 2009 President of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov announced that a well-known militant leader had been killed during a special operation. Aslan Izrailov by nickname Sawab, who for a long time was the leader of the remnants of gang groups in several settlements at the junction of the Vedensky and Nozhai Yurt districts of Chechnya.

the 13th of November During a special operation in the vicinity of Shalazhi, up to 20 militants were killed, among them a close associate of Doku Umarov Islam Uspakhadzhiev, who has been on the federal wanted list since 2004 for the murder of law enforcement officers and terrorist acts. The liquidation of Umarov himself was reported several times during 2009. However, this information was never officially confirmed.

October 31, 2009 year, during a special operation in Grozny, the leader of a bandit group, close to one of the separatist leaders Dok Umarov, the so-called emir of the lowland part of Chechnya, who had the call sign "Iban".

October 22, 2009 year, police, as a result of a special operation, killed the so-called emir of the city of Gudermes in Grozny Said Emi Khizrieva, who, according to operational data, was planning to carry out a terrorist attack against the President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov.

September 19, 2009 In 2018, employees of the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan killed three militants in the Kizlyar region of Dagestan, among those killed was one of the leaders of the gang underground. Abdulla Saadullaev, known among militants as Sharia judge Daoud. He was the right hand of the so-called “emir” of Dagestan Umalat Magomedov.

12-th of September The leader of the Makhachkala sabotage terrorist group was killed Bagautdin Kamalutdinov. He was also the nephew of the ideologist of Dagestani extremists Bagautdin Magomedov, who has been on the federal and international wanted list since 1999.

September 5, 2009 during a special operation in the Ingush village of Barsuki was destroyed Rustam Dzortov, who was the leader of the entire gang underground in the republic and was one of the organizers of the assassination attempt on the President of Ingushetia Yunus Bek Evkurov. Dzortov was known by the nickname Abdul Aziz and was on the All-Russian wanted list.

August 30, 2009 During a special operation in the Khasavyurt region of Dagestan, a foreign mercenary was killed, who turned out to be the coordinator of the international terrorist network Al Qaeda in Dagestan, known among militants as Dr. Muhammad.

July 25, 2009 During a special operation in Chechnya, the head of a bandit group was killed Isa Izerkhanov, also known as "Isa Black". Izerkhanov was on the federal wanted list for participation in terrorist activities and escaping from prison.

July 11, 2009 the leader of the bandits was killed during a special operation Azamat Makhauri nicknamed "Yasir", who called himself the Emir of Ingushetia. Three more gang members were killed along with him.

June 12, 2009 the leader of the "Makhachkala jamaat" was killed in Makhachkala Omar Ramazanov.

September 18, 2007 year, as a result of a counter-terrorist operation in the village of New Sulak, “Emir Rabbani” was killed - Rappani Khalilov.

April 4, 2007 year, in the vicinity of the village of Agish, one of the most influential militant leaders, the commander of the Eastern Front of the Chechen Republic of Chechnya, was killed by Batoy in the Vedeno district of Chechnya. Suleiman Ilmurzaev, involved in the murder of Chechen President Akhmat Kadyrov.

November 26, 2006 the leader of foreign mercenaries in Chechnya was killed in Khasavyurt Abu Hafs al Urdani, who, according to intelligence services, was the de facto leader and one of the financiers of militants in Chechnya and adjacent regions.

July 10, 2006 year in Ingushetia, a terrorist was killed as a result of a special operation Shamil Basayev.

June 17, 2006 Maskhadov's successor was killed in Argun Abdul Halim Sadulaev.

March 8, 2005 During a special operation by the FSB in the village of Tolstoy Yurt, the president of the Chechen Republic of Ichristia was eliminated Aslan Maskhadov.

February 16, 2005 during a special operation in Ingushetia, a field commander was killed Abu Zeit- a native of Kuwait who was involved in coordinating terrorist activities in the North Caucasus.

September 17, 2004 year, a native of Algeria was detained in Chechnya Kamal Burakhlya, known among militants under the nickname "Abu Mushab". According to the FSB, Buryakhlya was a bomber in Basayev’s gang.

April 16, 2004 During the shelling of the mountains of Chechnya, the leader of foreign mercenaries in Chechnya was killed Abu al Walid al Ghamidi.

February 28, 2004 During a shootout with border guards, a well-known field commander was fatally wounded Ruslan Gelayev.

November 3, 2000 An influential field commander was killed during a special operation Shamil Iriskhanov, who was part of Basayev’s inner circle.

August 25, 2000 year in the city of Argun, during a special operation by FSB officers, a field commander was killed Movsan Suleimenov, nephew of Arbi Barayev.

July 11, 2000 year in the village of Mayrup, Shalinsky district of Chechnya, during a special operation of the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Khattab’s assistant was killed Abu Umar.

June 23-24, 2000 year in the village of Alkhan Kala, a special joint detachment of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB conducted a special operation to eliminate a detachment of militants of a field commander Arbi Barayeva. 16 militants were killed, including Barayev himself.

May 19, 2000 Deputy Minister of Sharia Security of the ChRI was killed Abu Movsaev.

January 27, 2000 During the battle for Grozny, a field commander was killed Isa Astamirov, deputy commander of the southwestern front of the militants.

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.

Vladimir Barinov

According to official data, there are now up to a thousand militants in Chechnya who continue to actively oppose federal troops. As the intelligence services say, the activity of the bandits depends on the amount of their funding from foreign extremist organizations - mainly the Muslim Brotherhood and Al-Haramain. It is in Chechnya that almost all terrorist attacks committed on Russian territory are planned using money received from abroad.

Colonel Ilya Shabalkin, a representative of the regional headquarters for managing the counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus, reported some information about the situation in the Chechen Republic to GAZETA. According to him, there are now up to a thousand militants left in Chechnya who continue active hostilities and sabotage against federal troops. A year ago there were about 1,500 bandits in the republic, and in 2002 - up to 2.5 thousand.

However, Shabalkin noted that all these figures are quite conditional and directly depend on the financial support coming to gangs from abroad. “Their activity manifests itself after receiving the next tranche from foreign sponsors. Every day, no more than 200 bandits are ready to attack the feds, while the remaining 800 sit out in the mountainous and wooded areas, waiting for money,” said a representative of the Rosh. The number of individual gang groups in Chechnya, according to Shabalkin, now ranges from 3 to 7 people. The last operation to eliminate a truly large gang was carried out in the republic in the spring of 2002. Now the feds are limited to reconnaissance and patrol operations of operatives of the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who operate under the cover of special forces groups. Such operations are carried out mainly in remote mountainous areas of the republic. In populated areas, the identification and detention of bandits is carried out by the local police, who carry out targeted “targeted special measures”. At the same time, operational groups, together with members of Akhmat Kadyrov’s security service, headed by his son Ramzan, are negotiating surrender with some field commanders. “Here you need both the availability of operational information from the special services and excellent knowledge of internal customs,” Ilya Shabalkin told GAZETA. “So we act together.” It should be noted that sometimes negotiations actually produce results: not so long ago, the “Minister of Defense of Ichkeria” and Maskhadov’s closest associate, Magomed Khambiev, surrendered into the hands of the legitimate authorities, and a few days later, the “head of the special department of state security of Ichkeria,” Colonel Boris Aidamirov. The day after Aidamirov surrendered, about 10 ordinary militants subordinate to him voluntarily laid down their arms.

The main funds, according to Russian intelligence services, come to Chechen militants from the international organization “Muslim Brotherhood”, which has existed for about 40 years and has unofficial representatives in various Muslim and European countries.

The “Brothers,” in turn, actively cooperate with other terrorists, in particular with the Palestinian Hamas (Russian intelligence services estimate its annual budget at no less than $30 million). A “subsidiary” of the Muslim Brotherhood is the Al-Haramain organization, which also actively “invests” money in North Caucasian extremists.

The volume of investments into the “Chechen jihad” is quite difficult to estimate. However, representatives of the Russian special services believe that at a time when contact with their foreign sponsors was maintained through the Jordanian Khattab, the bandits received monthly from 200 thousand to a million dollars.

However, according to some reports, after the liquidation of Khattab and the transfer of leadership functions to his deputy Abu al-Walid, this amount decreased significantly. This is due, firstly, to the fact that now Chechen bandits are squeezed into mountainous regions and do not have a real opportunity to carry out large-scale actions on the territory of the republic. Secondly, their foreign Islamist partners are now forced to spend considerable sums on other “fronts” - in Palestine, Afghanistan and Iraq.

Leaders of Chechen terrorists liquidated by federal forces

1) “Black Arab” Khattab, Jordanian by origin, leader of the Arab mercenaries in Chechnya. Destroyed in March 2002 as a result of an “undercover combat operation” by Russian special services. Someone close to the extremist leader gave him a poisoned letter. He was distinguished by rare rigidity. He was one of the key figures among militant leaders. He appeared in Chechnya after the first campaign and was able to take control of most of the gang groups. Creator of a number of terrorist training camps. It was through him that most of the money from foreign “sponsors” came to Chechnya.

2) Ruslan Gelayev. Born in 1964 in the village of Komsomolskoye, Urus-Martan district of Chechnya. Education - three classes. We have been convicted three times - for robbery and rape. In 1992-1993 he fought in Abkhazia. In 1994-1996 he gained fame as one of the most influential Chechen field commanders. In March and August 1996, he led the capture of Grozny. In January 1998, he was appointed Minister of Defense in Maskhadov's government. At the beginning of 2000, after federal forces took Grozny, Gelayev’s detachment went to Georgia, from where it made regular forays into adjacent territories. In March 2000, Gelayev’s gang took part in the battles near Ulus-Kert, during which 84 Pskov paratroopers were killed. A few days later, 1,000 militants under the command of Gelayev captured the village of Komsomolskoye. In October 2001, Gelayev’s detachment invaded Abkhazia. According to some reports, he was going to capture Sochi, however, having met fierce resistance from the local armed forces, he returned to Georgia. Killed in Dagestan by border guards in March of this year.

3) Arbi Baraev, nickname "Tarzan". Killed by special forces in June 2001. Born in 1973 into a poor family in the village of Alkhan-Kala near Grozny. Worked in the traffic police. Barayev’s rise to the top under the militants was helped by his maternal uncle Vakha Arsanov, the future vice-president of Ichkeria and Aslan Maskhadov’s closest assistant. Baraev was Zelimkhan Yandarbiev’s bodyguard and took part in Basayev’s raid on Budennovsk. Commanded the "Islamic Special Purpose Regiment". He became famous for his hostage-taking and exceptional cruelty - on his personal account there were more than 100 killed.

4) Khunkar-Pasha Israpilov, head of the anti-terrorist center of Ichkeria. Killed on February 5, 2000 in the village of Alkhan-Kala. A detachment of militants broke out of the city towards the mountains, but died in a minefield.

5) Salman Raduev. He died in December 2002 in the Perm White Swan prison from internal hemorrhage. He became widely known in January 1996 after his gang captured the Dagestan city of Kizlyar. Organizer of terrorist attacks in Pyatigorsk, Essentuki, Armavir and a number of other Russian cities. He was captured in Chechnya by FSB officers in March 2000, and on December 25, 2001, the Supreme Court of Dagestan sentenced him to life imprisonment.

6) Turpal-Ali Atgeriev. He died on August 8, 2002 in the Yekaterinburg general regime colony. He was one of the key figures in the government of Ichkeria. He held the positions of Deputy Prime Minister, in charge of law enforcement agencies, and the post of Minister of State Security. He was detained in October 2000 by FSB officers. An accomplice of Raduev, who commanded one of the detachments during the attack on Kizlyar in 1996. He was sentenced together with Raduev to 15 years in prison.

Leaders of Chechen terrorists continuing the fight against federal forces

1) Abu al-Walid, Arab by nationality. He became widely known only after the death of his boss, the “black Arab” Khattab, in 2002. Now he is in charge of the overall leadership of the Arab mercenaries fighting in Chechnya. According to Russian intelligence services, it is al-Walid who receives and distributes funds coming to Chechnya from foreign extremist organizations.

2) Aslan Maskhadov, “President of Ichkeria”. A former colonel of the Soviet army, during the “first Chechen war” he headed the headquarters of the armed forces of Ichkeria. Despite the fact that the feds have repeatedly talked about his loss of control over the militants, he is still considered a very influential figure.

3) Shamil Basayev. Former student of the Moscow Institute of Land Management Engineers. He fought in Abkhazia. In 1995, at the head of a detachment of 200 militants, he raided the city of Budennovsk (Stavropol Territory), killing 143 of its residents and taking about 2 thousand hostages in a local hospital. In 1999, together with Khattab, he organized the militant invasion of Dagestan. After the elimination of the main forces of the militants during the “second Chechen” campaign, he focused entirely on terrorist activities, forming the Riyadus Salihin battalion of female suicide bombers. Basayev took responsibility for the hostage-taking in the theater center on Dubrovka and the latest explosions of power lines and gas pipelines in the Moscow region.

4) Doku Umarov, “vice-president of Ichkeria”, “commander of the southwestern front”. He is the commander of a fairly large group of militants. According to some reports, after the death of Ruslan, Gelayev took command of the remnants of his detachment.

5) Rappani Khalilov, commander of the “Dagestan Mujahideen battalion.” Responsible for carrying out more than 10 major terrorist attacks in Dagestan and for many attacks on the federals in Chechnya. The bloodiest crime attributed to Khalilov's militants was the explosion in Kaspiysk during the parade on May 9, 2002, which killed 43 people, including 14 children.

6) Movladi Udugov, the main propagandist of the Chechen militants, minister of information in the Maskhadov government. In recent years, he has been living abroad, creating Internet sites reflecting the position of extremists.

The largest terrorist attacks on Russian territory

March 19, 1999. Explosion at the Central Market of Vladikavkaz. 50 people were killed, about 100 were injured.

September 9, 1999. Explosion of a residential building on Guryanov Street in Moscow. 106 people were killed and more than 300 were injured.

September 13, 1999. Explosion of a residential building on Kashirskoye Highway in Moscow. 124 people were killed and more than 200 were injured.

September 16, 1999. A truck was blown up in the courtyard of a residential building in Volgodonsk. 18 people were killed and more than 65 were injured.

October 23-26, 2002. Chechen terrorists seized the theater center on Dubrovka (Moscow). During the operation of the special services, all the bandits were destroyed, 129 hostages were killed.

December 27, 2002. A truck loaded with explosives drove into the courtyard of the Government House in Grozny. 70 people were killed and more than 200 were injured.

June 5, 2003. A bus carrying service personnel from the airbase in Mozdok was blown up. 18 people were killed, 15 were injured.

July 5, 2003. Explosion during a rock festival in Tushino (Moscow). 16 people were killed, 50 were injured.

September 3 and December 5, 2003. Terrorist attacks on commuter trains in the Essentuki area. 48 people were killed and more than 150 were injured.

February 6, 2004. Explosion in the Moscow metro. According to official data available today, 39 people were killed and 134 were injured.

March 16, 2004. Explosion of a residential building in Arkhangelsk. 58 people died. This incident has not been officially declared a terrorist attack. Although the investigation is inclined to conclude that the damage to the gas pipeline in the entrance of the collapsed house was “intentional.” This is also evidenced by the fact that on the night when the explosion occurred, gas pipelines were damaged in three more houses in Arkhangelsk.

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).