MASKHADOV Aslan (Khalid) Alievich President elected in 1997 Chechen Republic 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 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 regiment artillery installations, chief of staff of the missile forces and artillery 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 - chief Civil Defense Chechen Republic, Deputy Chief of the General Staff Supreme Council CR.
In 1992, Colonel Maskhadov retired from Russian army and took the post of first deputy chief of the General 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 offered Maskhadov unilaterally break off relations with Russia. However, the court did not find sufficient grounds to remove the President of the Chechen Republic from office, although he was found guilty of 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. Suspected of organizing the kidnappings of FSB officers Gribov and Lebedinsky, authorized representative Russian President in Chechnya Vlasov, Red Cross employees, as well as the murder of four British and New Zealand citizens (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 as 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 employees of the Russian FSB Directorate for Chechnya. The operation was carried out to establish exact location and the 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 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 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 in railways, she is 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.
December 25, 2002 Supreme Court Dagestan sentenced Atgeriev to 15 years in prison for participating in an 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 regiment commander special purpose"BORZ" AF CRI, 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 Russian troops 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 southeastern front 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 Russian Service Security in 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).
Died on September 8, 1999 in district hospital 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 the representative hostage international organization Doctors Without Borders by 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 locality Komsomolskoe. (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).
On April 21, 1996, during a special operation, the first “president” of the so-called Republic of Ichkeria, Dzhokhar Dudayev, was eliminated. A rebel Soviet general seized power in Chechnya in 1991 and introduced the right to freely purchase and store firearms. With a separatist for a long time they tried to come to an agreement, hoping that he would give up his ambitions.
Dudayev skillfully played on the contradictions of the Russian elite. During the First Chechen War, he repeatedly managed to stop the advance of Russian troops and expose agents working for the Russian intelligence services. Apparently, at some point, reasonable forces prevailed in Moscow, insisting on the elimination of the “president of Ichkeria.”
Dudayeva was let down by the need for lengthy conversations via satellite communication outside of Grozny. As part of a special order, a secret military institute produced a device that allowed an A50 spy plane to transmit the exact coordinates of the rebel general's location. After several minutes of communication between Dudayev and deputy Konstantin Borov, two Su-25 attack aircraft attacked the general’s motorcade.
According to unconfirmed reports, one of the bombs (or missiles) did not explode. The operation to eliminate Dudayev was considered successful, and the pilots were awarded the stars of Heroes of Russia by a closed decree of the President of the Russian Federation. Six years later, video footage dated April 23, 1996 was published. The footage allegedly showed the deceased Dudayev. The body of the “President of Ichkeria” was mutilated and bandaged. This indicated that the commander of the gang lived for some time after the Su-25 strike.
Place of death of Dzhokhar Dudayev. Photo: Musa Sadulayev/TASS
The first after Dudayev
The decision to liquidate Dudayev was most likely a “happy exception” to the prevailing establishment ideas of the 1990s about what Chechnya and Russian statehood should be like. The rebel general's closest associates lived happily until the 2000s. The situation changed radically with the coming to power of Vladimir Putin, who in 1999 began a genuine “cleansing” of Chechnya.
As Putin promised, terrorists began to be pursued wherever they were. On March 13, 2000, in the village of Novogroznensky, Salman Raduev, one of the organizers of the attack on a group of federal troops in Kizlyar (January 1996), was detained in the toilet. He became, perhaps, the only major Chechen field commander who ended up in the dock and was not destroyed. Four months after being transferred to the colony (December 2002), Raduev died of hemorrhage in the internal organs.
The most skillful and complex operation was the destruction of the Jordanian mercenary Amir ibn al-Khattab (real name Samer Saleh al-Suwailem) in March 2002. The Black Arab’s “track record” includes training thousands of jihadists, organizing numerous attacks on federal troops and civilian settlements. Khattab was also a key figure through whom foreign financing of terrorists was carried out.
The security forces had been preparing an operation to eliminate the odious Jordanian for about a year, trying to introduce an agent into his circle. As a result, the intelligence services intercepted a top-secret letter from Saudi Arabia, which Khattab was supposed to receive personally. As the head of the FSB anti-terrorist center in 1992–1997, Alexander Gusak, previously said, the paper was treated with a poison that only affected Khattab. It is believed that the terrorist, after reading the letter, slowly died in terrible agony.
Destruction of Gelayev and Maskhadov
At the beginning of 2004, retribution overtook the founder of the first special forces of “independent Ichkeria”, the 6th battalion “Borz” (“Wolf”), Ruslan Gelayev. The field commander, nicknamed Black Angel, was considered one of the most dangerous militants. In the early 1990s, he, together with Shamil Basayev, received military training and combat experience in Abkhazia.
In 2003, Gelayev’s detachment, constantly exposed to shelling by Russian troops, was practically destroyed. In February 2004, he attempted to enter Georgia alone into the Pankisi Gorge, which was then a lair for Chechen separatists. The militant’s path was blocked by two Dagestan border guards (Abdulkhalik Kurbanov and Mukhtar Suleymanov). The servicemen were killed, but Gelayev received a fatal wound in the arm and died from loss of blood.
About a year later, during an operation by the FSB Special Purpose Center in the village of Tolstoy-Yurt, Dudayev’s successor, Aslan Maskhadov, was killed. The ex-president of Ichkeria hid in a bunker for several months, from where he tried to lead the surviving separatists. The security forces “figured out” Maskhadov by intercepting an SMS message.
Due to the design, an assault on the bunker was impossible without loss of life, and therefore the FSB officers decided to blow it up. Ballistic examination showed that before the explosion, Maskhadov was killed with a Makarov pistol, which belonged to Maskhadov’s nephew and bodyguard Viskhan Khadzhimuratov. Documents and computer equipment seized from the bunker made it possible to obtain information that helped neutralize other gang leaders.
Elimination of Basayev and Umarov
In 2006, it was the turn of Shamil Basayev, who had the blood of hundreds of Russian soldiers on his hands. The field commander was one of the leaders of the liquidation of the 6th company of Pskov paratroopers, who took part in an unequal battle near Argun on March 1, 2000. Over the past two years, the terrorist has been extremely cautious, did not go on air and addressed militants mainly through repeaters.
Basayev was distinguished by incredible vitality; he survived fierce clashes and escaped several assassination attempts. The most serious damage was caused to it during the liberation of Grozny in early 2000. The field commander was blown up by a mine, losing half of his right leg. On June 10, 2006, Basayev was killed in the explosion of a truck with weapons next to which he was located.
One of the last large leaders of gangs to be liquidated was the head of the Caucasus Emirate group, Doku Umarov. The former “Terrorist No. 1” is responsible for the bombing of the Nevsky Express train (2009), explosions in the Moscow metro (2010), and the terrorist attack at Domodedovo Airport (2011). The security forces set traps for the field commander several times, but he somehow incredibly survived.
According to media reports, at the end of 2009, Umarov ate food poisoned by the special services. The military launched a missile strike at the place where the “emir” was poisoned, but the terrorist’s body was not found after combing the forest. During 2013–2014, reports of Umarov's death appeared regularly. On July 19, 2014, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, posted a photo of the dead Umarov on Instagram. It is believed that he died as a result of poisoning.
Chechen fighters. Photo: Gennady Khamelyanin/TASS
"Fifth Column" of the 1990s
The internecine struggle of the Russian elite in the first half of the 1990s led to the formation of a hotbed of extremism in Chechnya. Part of the military-political establishment of the Russian Federation supported Dudayev, giving orders to transfer weapons to him and to retreat federal troops. Stupidity, and then betrayal, contributed to the development of the hydra of Islamic radicalism, which firmly took root in the North Caucasus. The consequences of the mistakes of the Gorbachev-Yeltsin era are still making themselves felt. The war on terror continues today, spreading from Chechnya to neighboring republics: Ingushetia and Dagestan.
But the entire gang of bandits could have been destroyed in the mid-1990s during the First Chechen Campaign. It is difficult to forget the words of the deputy head of the delegation for the peaceful resolution of the conflict in the Chechen Republic, Arkady Volsky: “He (Dudaev) handed me a paper that came here with a special stamp. A paper that he should never have had... Pass it on to Boris Nikolaevich, whom I sincerely respect... Pass it on - who is next to him? Tell me I get it before he does.”
In addition to successes, the history of the fight against terrorism has had many disappointing failures. Most likely, the failures were caused by the activities of individuals who are now commonly called the “fifth column”. The terrorists were supplied with money and weapons, warned of assassination attempts, and allowed to receive treatment in Russian and foreign clinics. The traitors who made up the lion's share of Yeltsin's entourage got away with a lot.
Further in the section Among the founders of domestic bookmakers you can find not only foreign, but also offshore companiesMASKHADOV 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 as 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).
Dossier on terrorists
Oleg Petrovsky
Since the beginning of the counter-terrorism campaign in Chechnya, dozens of militant field commanders have been killed by federal forces. But for now, the vast majority of those involved remain at large. Moreover, new names and nicknames of “emirs”, “front commanders” and “ministers of defense of Ichkeria” who live on robbery and violence are appearing in Chechnya. Most of them have a criminal background, solid combat experience and, as a result, a certain amount of capital acquired in the war. Ytra has received fresh data from the Russian special services on those field commanders who are still alive and continue to resist our military.
Leaders of illegal armed groups
(as a rule, “ministers” of Dudayev and Maskhadov, “brigade and division generals”, “commanders of regiments and separate brigades”, etc.)
1. Abdul-Malik Mezhidov is Gelayev’s closest associate, former deputy minister of Sharia security. Participated in Basayev's raid on Budennovsk in 1995. He led the kidnapping of General Gennady Shpigun on March 5, 1999 at Grozny airport. Took part in the invasion of Dagestan in August 1999. According to operational data, in the fall of this year he went out with his gang to the territory of Ingushetia several times.
2. Abdulkhadzhiev Aslambek, nickname “Big”. Longtime friend of Basayev. He took part in the war in Abkhazia in the early 90s as part of Shamil Basayev’s “separate battalion”. He broke out of blockaded Grozny with his squad in February 2000. In spring and autumn he was in the mountains near Shatoy. According to operational data, he may be in Georgia.
3. Abu Abdullah Jafar – citizen of Pakistan, Pashtun, member of the terrorist group “Al-Badr” (“Full Month”). Known as one of Khattab’s sponsors, he sent several tens of thousands of counterfeit dollars to Chechnya. He fought under the leadership of Khattab in Dagestan, commanding a detachment of 200 Arab mercenaries. According to some reports, he is still in Chechnya.
4. Abu Dar (Darr) is a citizen of Saudi Arabia. A representative of the extremist organization Al-Haramain, which sponsors militants. He is considered a close friend of Arbi Barayev. At the end of June 2000, with a detachment of Arabs, he was surrounded near the village of Serzhen-Yurt in the Shali region of Chechnya. After a week of fighting with a group of militants, he broke into the mountains. Presumably he is in one of Khattab’s detachments.
5. Abu Umar is one of the bloodiest personalities around Khattab. Instructor-miner of the highest qualification. He mined roads in Grozny back in 1995. Participated in the attack on military unit in Buinaksk in 1998, he was blown up by a mine and was wounded. Personally instructs terrorist groups heading to Russia. According to intelligence services, this man’s people staged a terrorist attack in Volgograd on May 31, 2000, when two military construction workers were killed and 12 people were injured. Almost all the bombers who carry out sabotage in Chechnya and the North Caucasus went through this man.
6. Arsanov Vakha – former policeman, until 1991 – traffic police officer. It has been fighting since 1994. In 1996 he became "commander of the North-Western Front". Vice President of Ichkeria. Commands a small detachment of militants. The bases are located in the center of the Argun Gorge. Does not have an influential role among field commanders. According to operational data, he traveled to Afghanistan and Georgia. Until recently, he was subordinate to the Borz detachment, whose fighters joined the detachments of Basayev and other field commanders. Involved in many high-profile kidnappings in Chechnya.
7. Atgeriev Turapl-Ali (detained and placed in the FSB Lefortovo pre-trial detention center). Former traffic police officer, 31 years old. In 1996, together with Salman Raduev, he participated in the attack on Kizlyar and Pervomaiskoye. Former minister State Security of Ichkeria. IN last war did not take an active part in the hostilities. Apart from his personal guard, he had no armed supporters.
6. Akhmadov Rizvan. A gang of six Akhmadov brothers specializes exclusively in kidnappings. According to the latest information, one of the brothers was captured by the special services. Kidnappers are the Akhmadov brothers: Abu, Rizvan, Ramzan, Uvays, Ruslan, Apti. Three British citizens and a New Zealander were executed with particular cruelty - the heads of foreigners were cut off. In 1999, near the Dagestan village of Gunib, Polish citizens Sofia Fischer-Malanovskaya and Eva Markhvinskaya-Wirval were kidnapped. They specialize in kidnapping the mothers of missing soldiers in Chechnya. Valentina Erokhina from Perm and Antonina Borschova from Rostov-on-Don were captured by the Akhmadovs. ITAR-TASS photojournalist Vladimir Yatsina was kidnapped and shot. According to the latest information, they are hiding in the Pankisi Gorge in Georgia.
7. Baraev Arbi Alaudinovich – a native of the village of Alkhan-Kala. An ardent Wahhabi. During the first Chechen campaign he commanded the Jamaat unit. Nowadays he is the commander of the Islamic Regiment special purpose". In January 1996, he took 29 Rostov power engineers hostage. Organized more than 70 (!) kidnappings of foreign citizens, plenipotentiary representative of the Russian President Valentin Vlasov, FSB employees, NTV and ORT journalists, businessmen and clergy. Organizes attacks on military personnel and police officers. According According to operational data, he is located in Grozny and uses the documents of an employee of the Russian special services.
8. Basaev Shamil Salmanovich - the one-legged head of the Shura. Leader of irreconcilable militants. Recently I got married for the third time. A field commander who has been fighting since the early 90s. He was Deputy Minister of Defense of Abkhazia. He studied guerrilla warfare tactics in Afghanistan. Wounded eight times, shell-shocked seven times. Leader of irreconcilable militants. Located in the Vedeno district of Chechnya. Supporter of "war to the bitter end."
9. Basnukaev Akhmed – “brigadier general”, “commander of the Urus-Martan Front”. He “lit up” in the story with Andrei Babitsky. Participated in the battles for Grozny.
10. Gelayev Ruslan (Khamzat) is a repeat offender with three convictions. "Division General". During the fighting in the village of Komsomolskoye in March 2000, he lost about 1,200 people killed. With a small detachment he went to the mountains. Gelayev moves around the border of Georgia and Ingushetia. According to operational data, it has its base in the Pankisi Gorge of Georgia. Recruits militants among Chechen refugees in the Akhmetovsky region of Georgia. Has disagreements with Basayev and Khattab.
11. Gelikhanov Sultan – former head of the state security department of Ichkeria. Came under the complete influence of Basayev. During the first Chechen campaign he was considered an influential field commander. Participated in negotiations with federal representatives.
12. Ismailov Aslanbek Abdullaevich - “general”, “deputy commander of the armed forces of Ichkeria”. Developed a plan for the defense of the Chechen capital. Supporter of Yandarbiev. He was responsible for the defense of one of the sectors of Grozny. According to representatives of the militants, he commanded the defense of the city. As Maskhadov’s press service reported, he died while escaping from encirclement. There is no other evidence of his death.
13. Koriev Magomed – former “head of the department for combating organized crime” of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ichkeria. Personally executed the hostages. In November 1999 he was wounded near Argun.
14. Maskhadov Aslan Alievich - president of caves and dugouts. Located in Chechnya. A few days ago he was wounded again and miraculously escaped capture.
15. Saikhan Zaurbekov
16. Suleymanov Ruslan
17. Udugov Movladi Saidarbievich – failed journalist. "Vice Prime Minister" of the government of Ichkeria. Married three times. Awarded the Order of "Honor of the Nation". The main ideologist of Chechen militants. One of the richest people in Chechnya. According to some reports, he is hiding in Turkey. Sponsors the publication of the newspaper "Ichkeria" and other printed organs of Chechen militants.
18. Khambiev Magomed (Makhmad) Ilmanovich – “Minister of Defense of Ichkeria”. According to some reports, in mid-November he was wounded near the village of Benoy. Does not play a significant role among field commanders. In fact, he retired. Known for his "duel" with Basayev. Accuses the latter of the invasion of Dagestan in 1999.
19. Khasuev Abubakar Yakubovich – head of the “Military-Patriotic Union of Chechnya”. Had a conflict with influential field commanders.
20. Khasukhanov Islam Sheikh-Akhmedovich – “chief operational headquarters under the President of Ichkeria." "Lost" with the start of the counter-terrorism campaign in Chechnya.
21. Khattab is a Chechen of Jordanian origin. Nicknames “Black Arab”, “One-armed Ahmed”. Fought in Afghanistan. It is particularly cruel. Personally cut the throats of captured soldiers. Moves in the Nozhai-Yurtovsky and Vedeno regions of Chechnya.
22. Yusupov Ramzan
23. Yandarbiev Zelimkhan Abdulmuslimovich - militant poet. "Vice President of Ichkeria." In mid-1995, he commanded the defense of Grozny. On this moment is abroad organizing financial assistance militants. According to operational data, he visited Pakistan. Has real estate in Turkey and Azerbaijan. One of the "Ichkerian" millionaires.
Mid-level field commanders
(simply "generals", "ministers" without portfolio, "colonels" and "lieutenant colonels")
Abalaev Aidamir is the “Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ichkeria”, a supporter of Maskhadov. With a detachment of about 250 people, he is located in the village of Alleroy, Nozhai-Yurtovsky district of Chechnya.
Abu Al-Walid is an Arab field commander, Khattab’s “right hand”. According to radio interception data, he was killed during an operation near Serzhen-Yurt in the summer of 2000. There is no other information about death.
Ampukaev Shirvani
Asludinov Magomed
Akhmadov Daud Dabaevich - field commander. Former special representative of Dzhokhar Dudayev, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Fuel and Energy of Ichkeria. Supporter of last year's invasion of Dagestan.
Basayev Shirvani - In 1995, commandant of the village of Bamut. "Prefect" of the Vedeno district. According to the latest reports, he was wounded as a result of a special operation by the FSB Directorate in the Chechen Republic on October 27, 2000. He died from his wounds and was buried in the Vedeno region of Chechnya. The Russian Prosecutor's Office does not have evidence of death. The search for the body is underway.
Bataev Zelimkhan Murtselovitch
Beysamirov Ibrahim
Bimurzaev Saleh
Dalaev Ali
Dataev Islam
Dzhabrailov Apti
Dimaev Ali is a “brigadier general”, one of those close to Aslan Maskhadov. Moves across the Chechen-Dagestan border.
Zakaev Akhmed – field commander. During the first Chechen campaign he commanded the “front”. Former actor of the Grozny Theater, “Minister of Culture” of Ichkeria, Deputy Prime Minister. To spite Udugov, Maskhadov appointed him “Minister of Information.” In mid-August 2000, he was wounded during a special operation in the village of Gekhi, Urus-Martan region. According to operational data, it is located in the Pankisi Gorge in Georgia.
Ismailov Sharpudin – former director of the state television company of Ichkeria
Kilay Bibulatov
Magomedov Khalid
Madaev M.
Markaev Hussein
Movsaev Turpal is a relative (brother) of the “chief counterintelligence officer” of Ichkeria, executioner Abu Movsev, who was killed last summer.
Murtazaev Akhmed
Ozniev Umar Amarbekovich
Patsaev Sultan – “general”, commander of the “special purpose regiment No. 007 “Borz” of the “Ministry of Sharia Security” of Ichkeria.
Pashayev Zhabir
Saidaev Mikhail (Mumadi, Umadi) Minkailovich - “Chief of the Main Staff of the Armed Forces of Ichkeria”, former major of the Soviet Army. Right hand Maskhadova. Arrested on September 27 by FSB officers in Urus-Martan. He is in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center.
Suleymanov Arbi
Takaev Said-Husein Lechaevich
Khalilov Rabbani is one of the field commanders of the Jordanian Khattab. The Rabbani detachment operates in the Nozhai-Yurtovsky and Vedeno regions of Chechnya, near the border with Dagestan.
Khachukaev Khizir – “brigadier general”, deputy of Ruslan Gelayev. Field commander who defended the village of Samashki back in March 1996. During the current campaign, he commanded the “southeastern sector” of defense in Grozny. He personally shot the militant truce who was negotiating surrender with Bislan Gantamirov. Demoted to private by Maskhadov for participating in negotiations with Akhmad Kadyrov and Vladimir Bokovikov in Nazran.
Husain Movladi
Tsagaraev Magomed Magomed-Salievich is one of Baraev’s deputies. His militants operate in Grozny and Urus-Martan. According to operational data, he personally shot and killed Imam Urus-Martan Idrisov. The organizer of all the latest terrorist attacks in Grozny.
Eldarov Sulima Shirvanovich is the former head of the Nozhai-Yurtovsky District Department of Internal Affairs, reporting to Maskhadov. He is located with a gang near the regional center of Nozhai-Yurt. Eldarov's militants make solo attacks. So, in December in Nozhai-Yurt they shot two military men.
Emir Adam
Commanders of groups and individual militant detachments
Abduldzhan Dolguev - “general”, Basayev’s deputy, led the actions of militants during the invasion of the Novolaksky region of Dagestan. According to some reports, he was killed in the fall of 1999 near Argun.
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 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 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 - military and statesman 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 finishing the first Chechen war, in 1997-1999, gained fame as a terrorist and bandit, murderer and 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 the result of a special operation by the FSB and the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs , 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 - Chechen military and political figure, leader of the Chechen national liberation movement of the 1990s, first president of the unrecognized Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. In the past - major general of aviation, the only Chechen general in 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 in the territory 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. Organized foreign financing for the purchase of ammunition and the construction of camps for training militants on the territory of Chechnya. Khattab was destroyed in an unconventional way: The messenger delivered a message to the Arab, which contained a horse dose of potent poison. Khattab opened the envelope and died very quickly after that. His bodyguards could not understand what was really happening.
2. Elimination of Shamilya 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 loaded 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.