August 2, 2001

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At about midnight in the village of Kalinin, Grozny, in an armored personnel carrier, the Russian military arrived at the house of Zaman Markhiyev. At that time, Ruslan Khadzhiev (Zmankhadzhiev) and an unknown person were with him. In the morning, their corpses with bullet wounds to the head were found by local residents on the road near the house.

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The following people were taken to hospital No. 9 in Grozny with gunshot wounds and other injuries:
1. Ruslan Amagatovich Dzhabrailov, born in 1966, lives at the address: Grozny, 1st microdistrict, Kirov Avenue, 27a. He was wounded in the left shin during an explosion on Zhigulevskaya Street;
2. Ali Iriskhanov, born in 1975, lives at the address: Staraya Sunzha village, Vinogradnaya street, 1. According to him, he was beaten by the military, found in the 6th microdistrict;
3. Muslim Vakhaevich Tagaev, born in 1977, lives at the address: Grozny, Kosiora street, 24/31. He received a gunshot wound to the stomach in the 8th microdistrict.

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Tagir Usmanovich Movsarov, born in 1938, living in the village of Kulary at the address: Sunzhenskaya St., 63, being in the center of Urus-Martan, saw that in the courtyard of the former boarding school, where the district military commandant's office, the administration FSB and VOVD, an armored personnel carrier with tail number 493 drove in. He remembered him from the last “cleansing” of his settlement, on June 24, 2001.

On that day, the military, who were on this armored vehicle, ran into the fence and broke it. Tagir Movsarov noticed that he had a gate through which they could enter without problems. The military did not like the remark: they immediately pointed machine guns at the elderly man and demanded to show documents. He tried to shame them and said that they should "behave normally in someone else's yard." But these words had the opposite effect. The military lost their temper and, swearing and insulting him, began an unauthorized search. They examined the courtyard, the area around it, the attic of the house, and then entered the house itself. One of the rooms was locked. Tagir Movsarov said that his late wife lived in it, and he does not let anyone in here. In response, one of the soldiers hit him with the butt of a machine gun. Another blow landed on the back of the head.

After that, a pogrom was perpetrated in the house: the contents of suitcases and cabinets were dumped on the floor. All this was trampled and scattered by the military. They stole valuables. According to the owner of the house, they "took away everything that does not belong to them: a hunting rifle (although it had the necessary documentation), things, documents."

The next day, Tagir Movsarov wrote a statement addressed to the prosecutor of the Urus-Martan district, to which he attached the following documents: .U., born in 1938 DS: damage and abrasion of the left ear. First aid was provided and sent to a traumatologist”; medical examination dated June 25, 2001, issued by the polyclinic of the Urus-Martan district, in which the diagnosis was made: "The soft tissues of the left ear are edematous, painful, abrasions of the external auricle." The traumatologist V.S. Tagirov examined the victim.

And now Tagir Movsarov hurried to the prosecutor's office, believing that the necessary actions would certainly be taken now and the robbers would be detained. Moreover, there is no need to look for them, they themselves entered the territory, where, as mentioned above, the leadership of both the police and the special services, and the military stationed in the Urus-Martan district, are located. However, there, instead of detaining the criminals, they only handed him a copy of the letter from acting. Urus-Martan District Prosecutor Leonid Ilyushenko No. 11.01 dated June 28, 2001 the prosecutor of the Grozny (rural) district, with the following content: “The application of Movsarov T.U. is sent by territoriality. on the illegal seizure of hunting rifles from him and infliction of bodily harm. The victim was offered to go there orally.

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In the morning, Shedit Kamelivech Khangaraev, born in 1957, living at the address: Argun, Railway barracks, 2143 km, left home for the Khankala railway station, where he works as a train compiler. According to colleagues, it became known that at 15.50 during maneuvering, five people in camouflage uniforms approached him, two of them in masks. Without asking for documents, without explaining anything and beating him with truncheons, they seized him and took him away in a UAZ-452 car (the so-called tablet). Shedit Khangarayev's partner ran up to the locomotive and reported the incident to the station duty officer by radio. On a signal from the workers, the deputy commandant, senior lieutenant A.I. Morozov, and a military patrol gave chase, but could not catch up with the kidnappers, because There were two checkpoints along the way. However, they were able to establish that the car entered the territory of military unit 6748. After the abduction, the administration of the Khankala station, the military command and the military prosecutor's office, as well as the administration of the railway were informed. However, as of early 2003, the whereabouts of Shedit Khangaraev could not be established.

From the statement of Kh.Z. Khangaraeva, the wife of the abducted person (the text was subjected to minimal spelling corrections):
“... I applied to all instances of the Chechen Republic, knocked on all the doors of offices where they accept applications with a request to help me find the father of my children. First, this case was handled by the deputy military prosecutor of Khankala, then the case was handed over to the military investigator, then it was sent to the Chechen prosecutor's office and, finally, to the Grozny prosecutor's office. For the third month now, I have not received a response to any application, to any request, either in writing or orally. To this day, nothing is known about his fate or whereabouts. Everywhere they answer that they wrote, but we are looking for. If the FSB, then - "we do not know." If the GRU, then - "they are not subordinate to anyone." Is no one responsible for the actions of the FSB or the GRU? Surprisingly, he was not taken away somewhere, but from his workplace during working hours from the territory of the Khankala station, which is guarded by the military, where neither militants nor bandits can be. There are only peacekeepers who restore order and observe human rights and freedoms. This is a minus, or rather, a disgrace to the Russian Army and special services that they do not know who took a person from the territory protected by them, where and why he took him. What kind of order are they putting in place in Chechnya, if in such a small area (village) they cannot figure out who is doing what? They must obey someone and be held accountable for their illegal actions.

I understand if they had warned the head of the station or the commandant of the Khankala station or one of the workers that he (her husband. - HRC "Memorial") was being taken away on some suspicion, and where he would be until they figured it out. And then they took away a railway worker, who for his work does not have a single violation and remark, and how he fell through the ground, no one saw him and no one knows anything ...

In a place like Khankala station, if you throw your hat down, there is nowhere for it to fall, there are so many military and checkpoints. Of his 44 years, he worked on the railroad for 27 years. If you ask any manager and railway worker, everyone knows him as one only on the positive side, as a good, conscientious, sympathetic, hardworking, executive and law-abiding person and citizen of the Russian Federation, who is ready to help his comrades at any moment. He never participated in military, political or other “games”, he was engaged only in purely peaceful work.

Since 1995, our house (railway barracks) has been destroyed during the fighting by 50%, if not more. For several years we live in ruins and in ruins, without windows and doors, where everything is mended, there are drafts all around, and without any conveniences. My children are sick all year round. My husband returned to work no more than a month ago after a long treatment, and his detention in adverse conditions may affect his health.

Now there are rumors that allegedly my husband was taken away because of the beard that he wears from his youth, suspecting him of Wahhabism. The beard has no grounds for suspicion, since any person has the right to wear it, regardless of nationality and religion, and is not a violation of the laws of the Russian Federation. I am a wife, no one can know better than me what kind of person he is and what he did. He is a believer, strictly adheres to traditional Islam. His beard has nothing to do with Wahhabism. If there are suspicions, then why didn't they ask fellow villagers, the imam of the mosque, neighbors, employees and the leadership of the Grozny branch of the railway, where he worked for 27 years. Everyone will say what kind of person he is. He is the first worker who, on January 21, 2000, went on a military train to the Khankhala station and worked for a day, when people were still afraid to live in their homes. He took an active part in the restoration work at the Khankala station both in the first military campaign of 1995–1996 and in the second campaign in 2000. This can be confirmed by both the railway management and the military command stationed at Khankala station.

At work, my husband was twice taken 3x4 photographs, two each, allegedly for a pass, which should be issued to the FSB, but they did not give a pass, nor did they return the photos. If they want, they can prepare any material with a glued photo and attribute anything - you can’t prove anything to anyone. If he was doing something illegal, we would live a luxurious life, drive foreign cars, live in mansions. My husband didn't even have a bike. And our address is not a house or a street, but a dilapidated railway barracks, which rests on our word of honor, and this, without any comments, speaks of what income we live on and what we do. Furnishings and furnishings are out of the question, we don't even have a proper chair to sit on, let alone talk about.

I worked at the railway for 21 years (DOL-5), but due to the reorganization of the enterprise in 2000, I, like others, was laid off. At the moment I am not working. My husband is the sole breadwinner of our family. I asked our railway management to pay me financial assistance every month in the amount of my husband's monthly salary, given that he was taken away from his workplace while working. But I was told they couldn't pay until six months had passed. Thus, our family of three must starve, not to mention the misfortune that befell us, until six months have passed and my husband is either dead or missing. We are talking about some 300 or 500 rubles, but what will I take with this money? Although so far I have not received a single ruble of material assistance from anyone. To this day, children do not go to school, because. I have no material opportunity and we do not have a single ruble of income. Relatives and neighbors help with products, and others, who can do anything. How long will we be helped by kind people who live in military conditions and barely survive themselves? How can we continue to live and feed ourselves?.. October 15, 2001”.

On September 9, 2001, criminal case no. “In connection with the failure to identify the persons to be brought in as defendants” (Article 195 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the RSFSR), exactly two months later it was suspended. On November 30, 2002, he was resumed again and ten days later he was sent to the military prosecutor's office (military unit 20102). Nothing is known about the further investigation of Memorial Human Rights Center.

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In the village of Grebenskaya, during the check of the passport regime (“cleansing”), the Russian military detained a local resident (lives at 19 Mira Street) Khalil Musaevich Timaev, born in 1968. His further fate of HRC "Memorial" is unknown.

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On the way to Grozny, Mokhadi Shahidovich Bakraev, born in 1973, and Sharpudi Bashtaraevich Zakariev, born in 1976, went missing. According to the relatives of the first of them, who live at the address: Goity village, Shamov street, 59, the young people were on a white Volga (GAZ-31029), registration number: P775RA 95 / rus. The engine of the car had the number 0124749, and the body - 0486975.
Appeals to law enforcement agencies and public organizations did not yield any results. As of November 2007, the whereabouts of Mokhadi Bakraev and Sharpudi Zakariev have not been established.

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On August 2 and 3, the city of Grozny was closed by the Russian military. Movement between large settlements is also limited. However, for a small fee (50-100 rubles), it was still possible to pass.

From the book "People Live Here", Usam Baisaev, Dmitry Grushkin, 2006