December 31, 2001

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At 3 o'clock in the morning in the village of Gekhi, on Kirova Street, opposite secondary school No. 1, a powerful explosion occurred in the Ismailovs' yard. Neighbors who came running to the scene found two corpses in the yard. Next to the Volga car lay the body of Irslan (according to other sources - Rizvan) Izvanovich Ismailov, born in 1976, torn apart by the explosion, and nearby lay the corpse of his mother Nura Ismailova, born in 1951. Ten meters from the car lay a two-meter TNT sleeve, folded in half.

The Ismailovs' neighbors claim that before the explosion they heard someone calling Irslan out onto the street in Russian. No one could provide any other information regarding the circumstances of this murder. On the afternoon of December 31, law enforcement officers from the Urus Martanovsky district arrived at the crime scene. After examining the crime scene, they stated that “it was done by militants.”

It is known that two sons of Nura Ismailova were members of the VF of the ChRI and took part in hostilities against the Russian military in the village of Komsomolskoye in March 2000. One of them was killed, and the second surrendered in the same locality. Russian television showed how he surrendered to the military. Nura also saw these images. However, the son disappeared after surrender. This fact casts doubt on the version that Nura Ismailova and her third son Irslan were killed by militants. The house in which the dead lived was blown up by the military. Ismailov was married and had three children. On the night of his murder, his wife was in the maternity hospital with her newborn.

From the book “People Live Here”, Usam Baysaev, Dmitry Grushkin, 2006.