Eternal memory to the Pskov paratroopers
On the night of March 1, near the settlement of Ulus-Kert, at the exit of the Argun gorge, 2000, the paratrooper company 6 of the Guards paratroopers' regiment, 104, the airborne division, took over the blow of the 76 militants.
The paratroopers did not retreat, at the cost of their lives blocked the path of the enemy. 84 guardsman died. For the perfect feat 13 officers, 9 soldiers and sergeants awarded the title Hero of the Russian Federation, the rest awarded the Order of Courage. Only six fighters survived.
After the fall of Grozny in early February, 2000, a large group of Chechen militants retreated to the Shatoy district of Chechnya, where February 9 was blocked by federal troops. Then, February 22-29 was followed by a ground battle for Shatoy. The militants managed to break out of the encirclement: the group of Ruslan Gelaev broke through in the north-west direction to the village of Komsomolskoye (Urus-Martan district), and the Khattab group - in the north-east direction through Ulus-Kert (Shatoi district), where the battle took place.
28 February 2000, the commander of the 6 Company of the battalion of lieutenant colonel Evtyukhin, Major Sergei Molodov, was ordered to occupy the dominant height of Ista Kord near Ulus-Kert. However, since Molodov had just arrived at the unit and did not even have time to familiarize himself with the personnel, Evtyukhin decided to personally participate in the operation. 29 February in 12: 30 reconnaissance patrol as part of 12 man entered the battle with a group of about 20 militants and was forced to retreat to the height of 776, where the commander of the company Molodov entered the battle. He was wounded and died later that day, and the command of the company was assumed by the guards lieutenant colonel Mark Evtyukhin.
At five in the morning of March 1, the militants began to attack from several directions at once. Regardless of the losses, they climbed and climbed the slopes. Taking the nearby height of Nameless and seeing how few Russians were left on 776,0, the bandits rushed there. The sapper of the guard wounded in the chest, senior lieutenant Alexander Kolgatin, under the fire of the militants, managed to install two guided mines and put them into action. The explosions laid dozens of criminals writhing in pain on the ground. But the brutal militants again went to the assault. The battalion commander ordered the group of guard senior lieutenant Andrei Panov to stop the militants bursting northward. For a full forty minutes, leading accurate fire, a brave officer with ten paratroopers kept the enemy in his direction. In the south, with his group stood to death Guard Lieutenant Dmitry Kozhemyakin. But there were so many bandits that the paratroopers could not stop them even at the cost of their lives. The surviving small group led by battalion commander Mark Evtyukhin concentrated at the triangular top.
In 6 hours 10 minutes Evtyukhin last went on the air and caused artillery fire on himself ... The scouts led by senior lieutenant Alexei Vorobiev and reconnaissance platoon Lieutenant Dmitry Kozhemyakin fought heroically against the gangsters. The surviving soldier, Aleksey Komarov, said that they even fought hand to hand with the bandits. Hacked with sapper blades, knives, butts. Until the last patron, he covered his subordinates, Senior Sergeant Suponinsky and Private Porshnev, Lieutenant Dmitry Kozhemyakin.
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