On April 21, 1996, on the outskirts of the village of Gekhi-Chu, Urus-Martan District, the President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, Dzhokhar Dudayev, was killed by a Russian missile.

On October 27, 1991, the general of the Soviet army, who headed the executive committee of the OKCHN (National Congress of the Chechen People) in the spring of that year, Dzhokhar Dudayev, was elected the first president of the Chechen Republic. His first decree was the declaration of independence of the republic from Russia, which was not recognized in Moscow.

In March 1992, Chechnya adopted its own Constitution, which declared the republic a sovereign state. In 1993, she did not take part in the Russian referendum on the adoption of the Constitution of the Russian Federation.

Based on the decree of Russian President Boris Yeltsin, on December 11, 1994, Russian troops entered the territory of Chechnya. Thus began the first Russian-Chechen war. From the very beginning, Dudayev was hunted by the Russian special services. Three attempts on his life failed.

On April 21, 1996, intelligence services detected a signal from Dudayev’s satellite phone in the area of the village of Gekhi-Chu, Urus-Martan district. Su-25 attack aircraft with homing missiles were launched into the air, one of which killed the Chechen leader.