The invasion of militants in Dagestan. Fighting in Novolaksky district

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The second Chechen campaign began with an attack by militants led by Basayev and Khattab on Dagestan. Initially, troops of Chechen militants entered the territory of the Botlikh district. Fighting continued in this direction from 7 to 23 in August 1999. In the course of these battles, militant detachments were forced into Chechnya. From 29 August to 13 September, Russian troops conducted an operation to capture and destroy the Wahhabi enclave, which was formed in the so-called Kadar zone. 5 September 1999, the Basayev and Khattab detachments enter Dagestan for the second time, this time a blow was delivered to the Novolaksky district of the republic. The strike was supposed to divert the forces of the Russian army and police from the rebellious villages of Karamakhi and Chabanmakhi in the Kadar zone.

The operation, which the militants called “Imam Gamzat-bey,” began on September 5 and lasted until September 14. During this time, government troops were able to completely regain control of the Kadar zone, in the military sense, the operation of Basayev and Khattab lost all meaning. They could not provide significant assistance to the Wahhabis in Karamakhi and Chabanmakhi, and the overwhelming majority of the population of Dagestan did not support the militants, and it was ready with weapons in the hands of defend your republic. On September 14, government forces regained control of the village of Novolakskoye, and on September 15, 1999, then Russian Defense Minister Igor Sergeyev, reported to Putin that the entire territory of Dagestan was completely liberated from Chechen gangs.



Fight for "TV tower"

By early September, 1999 had been ousted by militants from the territory of the Botlikh District. The only supporters of the gangsters of the village of Karamakhi and Chabanmakhi, who were also a stronghold of Wahhabis from among the local population, were surrounded by federal forces. The outcome of the fighting in this area was obvious. However, the leadership of the militants decided to strike a sudden blow in the Novolaksky district of Dagestan, which had not yet been involved in hostilities. When planning this operation, Basayev and Khattab relied on the fact that the main forces of the Russian troops were involved in hostilities on the territory of the Kadar zone. The calculation they did on the speed of action and surprise, at the first stage it bore them fruit.

The invasion of militants in Dagestan. Fighting in Novolaksky district


Detachments of militants numbering up to two thousand people, once again crossing the border with Dagestan, were able to occupy the border villages of Tukhchar, Gamiyah (Khasavyurt district), as well as Chapayevo and Akhar (Novolaksky district) and the regional center Novolakskoe. The militants managed to stop the breakthrough only 5 kilometers south-west of Khasavyurt, which was the second largest city in Dagestan. With this blow, the enemy not only tried to delay part of the Russian troops from the Kadar zone, but also still hoped to destabilize the situation in the republic itself. These plans of the militants failed, and even in the initial phase they faced certain difficulties.

Unexpectedly, the battle for the dominant height of the “TV tower” near the village of Novolakskoye turned out to be stubborn. From this height, not only the district center, but also a large part of the territory, districts and main roads, was well viewed. For this reason, in the morning of September 5 1999, the militants sent a few dozen of their fighters to a height. However, it did not work out at once, although the entire 6 man defended it - 5 Dagestan militiamen of the Novolaksky District Department of Internal Affairs headed by lieutenant Khalid Murachuev and one soldier of internal troops.

The group, which consisted of local policemen, was reinforced by one Russian machine gunner from the structure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. By the sounds of shooting, which was heard from the village, the police realized what was happening in Novolakskoye. Lieutenant Murachuev managed to organize a perimeter defense and distributed available ammunition. The first attack of militants garrison "Television lights" successfully repelled dagger fire from close range. The second and third attack of militants to a height also failed. As a result, the entire 6 fighters held more than 100 militants at a height for 24 hours.



Attacks of the enemy succeeded one another, between attacks the height was processed by the fighters from mortars. In total, the militants launched 7 attacks, which did not lead to success, filling up the approaches to the height of those killed. However, the forces of the defenders were also running out. In the course of one of the attacks, a policeman was killed, the next one was wounded by a machine gunner. Two police officers who carried him out were surrounded and taken prisoner when they were withdrawing from a height. At the height, Lieutenant Murachuev and Junior Sergeant Isaev were still resisting, both by then were also injured. They were able to hold out the night. The last report from a height was received early in the morning of 6 on April 1999 of the year: “The cartridges are gone, Mutey is wounded, he is delivering grenades, I throw”. In the end, the militants were able to break into the heights and perpetrated atrocities on her last seriously wounded defenders. Lieutenant Khalid Murachuev, militants cut off his head.

The captured militants told about the details of the feat of the defenders of the height and their death in September 2000, indicating the burial places of the heroes. In that battle, he was killed and wounded before 50 members of illegal gangs. At the same time, the militants lost the day to capture the height of the “TV Tower”, having lost the effect of surprise. The battle at the height has not yet subsided, but units of the Russian troops have already deployed around the village of Novolakskoye. For courage and heroism, which were manifested in the performance of official duty, Lieutenant Khalid Murachuev and junior sergeant Muteya Isaev 31 January 2002 was posthumously presented to the title of Hero of the Russian Federation.

The destruction of the roadblock and the execution of Russian troops in the village Tuhchar

5 September 1999 of the year with the re-invasion of militants in Dagestan, they were the brutal murder of Russian soldiers in the village Tukhchar. They shot the murder on videotape, which later fell into the hands of the federal forces, and the tragedy itself became widely known. A gang of Chechen militants led by Umar Karpinsky attacked Tukhchar. The road to the village was covered by a roadblock, on which Dagestani police officers served. Slightly higher on the mountain was the BMP and 13 soldiers from the 22-th separate special-purpose brigade of the MVD of Russia from Kalach-on-Don.



Having entered the village of Tukhchar from the rear, the gang members were able to take the village police department and began shelling the height at which the brigade soldiers were stationed. Quickly enough, a grenade launcher was disabled by the internal troops' BMP, while the gunner died on the spot, and the driver was contused. The soldiers who survived in the battle fled to the village, trying to hide from the militants. However, on the orders of Karpinsky, members of his gang conducted a search, examining both the village and the nearby territory. In one of the houses, the militants found the contused driver of an infantry fighting vehicle, and in the basement of the other 5 Russian troops. After a warning shot at the house from a grenade launcher, they had to surrender.

By order of Umar Karpinsky, the prisoners were taken to a clearing near the roadblock. Here the militants executed six prisoners - one senior lieutenant and five soldiers-conscripts. The militants cut the throat of five Russian soldiers, Karpinsky personally killed one of the victims, and shot another soldier while trying to escape. Later, the video of this terrible crime fell into the hands of officers of the operational services of Dagestan. Over time, all the participants in this murder were punished. The organizer of the murder and the leader of the militants, Umar Edilsultanov (Karpinsky), was destroyed in the 5 months in an attempt to break through the militants from Grozny. Another 5 people involved in the murder were sentenced to various prison terms, three of them to life imprisonment.

Fight in Novolakskiy

In the very center of Novolakskoye, militants blocked more than 60 employees of the local police department, as well as fighters stationed in the village of Lipetsk riot police. The fighters did not lay down their arms and fought with the enemy surrounded for about a day. An armored group from the 22-th separate special purpose brigade of the MVD of Russia was sent to help the village, but it could not make it to the encircled and was stopped by militants. According to the version of the commander-in-chief of the internal troops (at that time), General V. Ovchinnikov, he personally was engaged in coordinating mortar fire on enemy positions, in order to give the surrounded riot policemen and policemen the opportunity to break through from the environment.



At that time, another version was represented by the direct participants in those battles, it was published in the magazine “Soldier of Fortune” No. XXUMX for 2 a year. That article contained a version of the Lipetsk OMON fighters about the battle for Novolakskoye. According to them, after an unsuccessful attempt was made to unlock those surrounded by a formed armored group, they were essentially abandoned to the mercy of fate. They took the decision to break out of the encirclement on their own, with no distracting mortar strike from the federal forces, they said, carried out. According to official data, the fighters of the Lipetsk riot policemen were able to get out of Novolaksky with minimal casualties - 2001 killed and 2 injured. At the same time, the total losses of the Russian side during the battle in Novolaksky officially constituted 6 people killed and 15 wounded.

In total, during a month and a half fighting in Dagestan in August-September 1999, the loss of federal forces, according to official data, made 280 people killed and 987 wounded. The losses of militants were estimated at 1,5-2 thousands of dead. However, the federal forces were able to achieve a real result only in the Buinaksk district of Dagestan, where the Wahhabi grouping in the Kadar zone was completely defeated. At the same time, in the areas bordering on Chechnya, the troops failed to encircle and destroy all the militant troops that invaded Dagestan, who after the battles in Botlikhsky (August) and Novolaksky (September) were able to withdraw to Chechnya.

Having ousted the militants from the territory of Dagestan, the leadership in the Kremlin received a choice: to strengthen the border with Chechnya and continue to repel further attacks by Basayev, in parallel with this, trying to negotiate with the President of Chechnya Maskhadov or repeat the military operation in Chechnya, in order to break the militants on their territory, solving the problem of returning Chechnya to the Russian Federation. A second scenario was chosen, the second Chechen campaign began.

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Information sources:
http://www.warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=7082
http://www.vestnikmostok.ru/index.php?categoryid=17&id_item=154&action=view
http://terroristica.info/node/245
http://otvaga2004.ru/fotoreportazhi/voyny-i-goryachie-tochki/oborona-dagestana-1999
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  1. +24
    6 May 2015 07: 16
    The courage of the Dagestan militia and the federal forces that stopped the militants upset their plans. Then the Dagestanis showed that they are with Russia forever, that Dagestan is the same part of Russia as any other region. The enemy expected to raise Dagestan, but he did not succeed. Dagestan made its choice.
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    2. +1
      7 May 2015 23: 08
      sorry for the guys ..
  2. +8
    6 May 2015 08: 07
    How did it happen that, given the overall numerical superiority of the federal forces, our units — the size of which from detachment to platoon — were constantly surrounded and opposed by superior enemy forces?
    1. +7
      6 May 2015 08: 57
      We could have more strength, but after the severe decline of the 90s there was no co-ordination of units ... after all, it was from this 2nd Chechen army that our army could begin a new stage in its path.
    2. +6
      6 May 2015 09: 04
      Low level of interaction between units and arms. Apparently lame intelligence.

      I think it was not uncommon for one of the units to be surrounded, and the neighbors were waiting for orders to provide assistance.
      1. 0
        6 May 2015 22: 23
        Not intelligence - there was no communication and interaction.
      2. +1
        7 May 2015 00: 29
        Quote: ivanzu87
        Apparently lame intelligence.


        Нет!

        Not intelligence.
    3. 0
      6 May 2015 16: 31
      Sergey, this is all negligence and loss of control over the situation. Ineffective reconnaissance, poor coordination, having a numerical superiority, federal forces were scattered, separate units on their own, no interaction, lack of communication, plus poor training in the troops (not counting special forces)
      1. +1
        7 May 2015 14: 27
        Minuscule - I am writing this because I know that I didn’t watch all this on TV ...
      2. 0
        9 May 2015 22: 07
        Quote: Alexey-74
        Sergey, this is all negligence


        +

        Quote: Alexey-74
        Ineffective intelligence


        I don’t agree here ... intelligence did its job, but intelligence data was not always used. And the situation per day has changed more than once.

        Quote: Alexey-74
        Minuscule - I am writing this because I know that I didn’t watch all this on TV ...


        Not many will understand the military ... few are the war veterans.
  3. +4
    6 May 2015 08: 09
    This is our story and you cannot embellish it or hush it up.
  4. +7
    6 May 2015 09: 04
    Quote: Sergey7311
    How did it happen that, given the overall numerical superiority of the federal forces, our units — the size of which from detachment to platoon — were constantly surrounded and opposed by superior enemy forces?

    Traitors, bought for green papers, in the management of the army, were guilty. Remember how the first company ended.
  5. dmb
    +10
    6 May 2015 09: 06
    I absolutely do not understand the authors, who, if they describe what is happening more or less reliably, still "suffer from political correctness." Maskhadov is the same bandit as Basayev and Khattab, and not the President at all, "federal troops" is a term coined by our "human rights activists" Kovalevs, Mitkovs and the vile government they represented and represent. And this is not just a mistake in terms. Thanks to such "mistakes" we have Kadyrov's bandits, subordinate only to him and the "guard" of Gazprom and Lukoil.
    1. +1
      6 May 2015 10: 35
      Quote: dmb
      "federal troops" is a term coined by our "human rights activists" Kovalevs, Mitkovs and the vile government they represented and represent.

      I’ll correct you a little Dmitry, if not against ...
      Later, the term "federal troops" was used in everyday life to refer to the Armed Forces, since the Czechs were all in bulk: the Army, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Internal Troops, specialists of all stripes from various ministries.
      So it was easier to answer the question:
      - Who are you ?
      - Federal.
      Everything is clear - it means Armeec.
      1. dmb
        +1
        6 May 2015 11: 10
        I certainly do not mind, but which of the listed by you is not "feds"? They were also the commandant's offices and VOVDs and special forces of any of the departments, The only exception was the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya, and battalions. similar to "East". And even those actually formally were federals, until they were staffed with former bandits, who obeyed their "nasalnik" more than the law.
  6. +3
    6 May 2015 09: 32
    I wish you well.
    Short. The second Chechen campaign began long before the militants invaded Dagestan. Having come "de facto" to power, Putin and Co. understand that the problem in the Caucasus needs to be solved, but Russia's actions are bound by the Khasavyurt agreements. The idea is instilled in the militants' entourage that they can repeat the success in Dagestan, get access to oil and other bonuses. Militants who are not experienced in such matters "swallow the bait", thereby annulling the agreement.
    1. dmb
      +5
      6 May 2015 10: 22
      I think you are only partly right. At the time of the formal rise to power, the main task of Putin and Co. was to strengthen and even to stay in it. Everyone knew who brought him to power, and if the EBN members, including Putin, were sure that the people brought to extremes would not turn their neck in the near future, then Boryusik would continue to reign. And nothing, as the Strugatsky rightly wrote, strengthens the position of power like a small victorious war. It is clear that they did not push the bandits directly, and that they were not guided by love for Russia at all. They were led by a desire to stay in power. Which actually happened. The foregoing does not at all deny the need to destroy the gangster enclave, nor the heroism and courage of those who fought with the bandits.
      1. +2
        6 May 2015 10: 54
        As for the power, "will strengthen and hold on", "victorious war" - everything is correct. But I don’t think about "brought it myself". I believe that people (not civilians) came to Boris Nikolayevich, they said, "they say, so and so," you did everything you could, and your health is not the same. Go to rest and we will forget everything. Just leave our little man.
        1. dmb
          0
          6 May 2015 11: 21
          Based on your comment, those who came to EBN are no different from those who were with him in civilian clothes. And what did he do useful for the people, and not for the staff and non-staff? And how, then, does the "little man" of non-standard people differ from him? By the way, I did not say at all that drunk-Borya made these decisions personally.
          1. +1
            6 May 2015 11: 59
            With all your love or not love for V.V.P., Russia is much more useful than B.N. Another question is how this was done. But it is up to the citizens of the Russian Federation to evaluate his work.
            Now, the question is: And who, in your opinion, should or could lead Russia at that time, and lead it into a brighter future?
            1. dmb
              +2
              6 May 2015 13: 03
              And he is not a sausage, and not a girl to love him or not to love. Russia, and as such I consider the majority of its population, benefits from it exactly as much as from Yeltsin. And the benefits to Chubais and Sechinau worry me very little. I can’t answer your second question, because I prefer not to do fortune-telling. It seems to me the main mistake in such discussions that we represent the leader as God. And they are not gods. Even geniuses. They would not have created a single-handedly socialist state neither Lenin nor Stalin. Based on the inevitability of a return to the socialist idea, the Communist Party could be at the head. And even temporarily with Zyuganov. True, he would not exist for long, it’s too amoebiform.
              1. 0
                6 May 2015 16: 59
                After all, why did I ask when we disagree with something, we, at a minimum, should offer an alternative. The socialist idea is very viable, I agree, but not in the person of Zyuganov, he missed his chance when, in fact, having won the 1996 election, he went into a conspiracy with Yeltsin.
                Given that our discussion is beyond the scope of the topic under discussion, I propose to close it.
              2. 0
                6 May 2015 17: 18
                Quote: dmb
                And he is not a sausage, and not a girl to love him or not to love.

                History shows that the best ruler and patriot is gradually becoming unloved, at least part of the population. Take for example De Gaulle
          2. -4
            6 May 2015 12: 15
            Yeltsin did not let the Russian Federation fall apart after the USSR. In the conditions of the country that he inherited after its deliberate destruction during the period of perestroika and its continued destruction after the collapse of the USSR, to preserve at least its integrity and leave behind an adequate successor is already a merit to the people. Otherwise, I would now live in some sort of Ural republic and it is not known how I would live.

            It’s not necessary to think that they all sit there in the Kremlin and think only about how to get more power and keep power for as long as possible, although power and wealth are undoubtedly important for those involved in politics. But to see in them the headless temporary workers, as the all-protestors love to do, is wrong. These are leaders of buffer countries that can afford it, because behind them are superpowers that support these leaders financially and politically. Yanukovych, who fell to Russia, and Saakashvili, who fled to the United States, and many other similar examples. And behind the back of the GDP (as in due time behind the back of the EBN) no one stands and in which case he will have nowhere to dump.
            1. +5
              6 May 2015 12: 31
              Quote: Functional
              Yeltsin did not let the Russian Federation fall apart after the USSR. In the conditions of the country that he inherited after its deliberate destruction during the period of perestroika and its continued destruction after the collapse of the USSR

              Yeltsin and his entourage were the initiators of the destruction of the USSR. He also wanted the further disintegration of the Russian Federation, let us remember only his words addressed to the heads of republics and regions - take as much independence as you can. It was under him that the main campaign was launched to plunder and "destroy" everything that was left of the Land of the Soviets. Yeltsin and his associates such as Gaidar, Chubais, Berezovsky are the main enemies and "thieves" who literally "brought down" our country, so that we still cannot overcome the consequences of this.
      2. Barabulek
        +1
        6 May 2015 12: 00
        it seems that in general this war was organized under the premiere, so that he would be chosen unanimously and that the Family should remain intact. What did they do?
  7. +18
    6 May 2015 10: 23
    A gangster, he is also a gangster in Africa.
    After the Czechs-1, it was clear that the war would continue.
    Bearded tasted impunity. Nobody was going to work from them, why, if you can have fun with a gun.
    If they were fenced off and isolated, they would gobble up each other, all the same they would not be able to exist normally. This is the TRUTH. They didn’t need statehood — they just needed to rob.
    So they climbed to the unplanned Dagestan, where they themselves signed on their deaths ...
    There they cherish ...
    We were already embittered then, and we learned to snap as well.
    A big plus of the time:
    - finally there was ammunition in abundance and a snack. Plus "interfere" with work became less.
    YES, it was much appreciated.
    For this, there is still respect for Uncle Vova. It is what it is.


    Czechs are not ordinary people.
    They subtly, on the subconscious, feel weakness and ALWAYS take advantage of this.
    Czechs respect only power.
    Cech can only be stopped by rigidity (not to be confused with cruelty).
    The Czech will not change his mind if you just talk to him - empty chatter is not for them.
    And then they got such an opportunity of Makhnovism ...
    Wah.

    The decision was made correctly:
    1. They put things in order, without any snot.
    2. They put in power a strong teip.
    Все.
    BOTH items are crucial.
    ...

    Good luck, Caucasus - live and enjoy life. Better to raise children and enjoy the mountains than breathe war.
    Do not anger GOD.
    1. Barabulek
      -1
      6 May 2015 12: 01
      Live and enjoy, only at whose expense?
      1. +2
        7 May 2015 16: 18
        Quote: Drum
        Live and enjoy, only at whose expense?

        Obviously not for yours, and not for the American one. Here such a thing will either be part of the Russian Federation, or they will receive grants from the USA
    2. +1
      6 May 2015 12: 21
      Yes, no one should anger God! Not only the Caucasus, but the whole of Russia!
      1. +2
        6 May 2015 15: 30
        Salam, brother! Times were dashing. Himself after a demobilization with the FPS arrived there in the winter of 2000, but he was in the militia of the sorcerers. They didn’t get there, but I perfectly remember how good the attitude towards the federals was and how young guys were on duty at the porches in Kaspiysk.
        1. 0
          6 May 2015 19: 07
          Quote: Drednout
          Salam, brother!

          And you can't get sick, Rasul.
          smile
          drinks
        2. +1
          6 May 2015 19: 20
          Vaaleikum salam Rasul! Any rational person then understood where the republic was led by all this pseudo-Islamization. I believe that we have responded adequately.
  8. +6
    6 May 2015 10: 31
    1997 year. The checkpoint at the village Tukhchar. The road to Galayt and Zamay-Yurt (this is Chechnya). The place is not very successful for the block: behind the road, along the front there is an open area of ​​only 200-300 meters, with a slight increase turning into a ridge of a small hill in relative height, then green. Behind the crest of the hill, a ravine extending to the right flank, with access to the road. From the left flank there is also a hill at a distance of 400 meters, the northern extremity of which was the outskirts of the village. Along the road, the checkpoint itself in the form of a trailer and a network of trenches with three dugouts. When organizing the service, it was necessary to set a secret in the ravine area with control of the right flank of the post and on the hill a machine gun point with a sniper attached to control the left flank, front and clearing behind the road (rear), ending with a cliff to the Assa River floodplain (and on the other side of Ishkhoy -Yurt with the relatives of Khattab's next wife). Memory .... where to put it?
    1. +3
      6 May 2015 10: 42
      Quote: Slavs69
      Memory .... where to put it?

      Eheh ...
      Living with it, nothing else remains.
      Throw away, damn it ... it doesn’t work, radish ... here and come constantly to carry with you.
      Good luck, Dmitry.

      Break through)))
  9. +1
    6 May 2015 10: 31
    good article ............ memories ........
  10. +3
    6 May 2015 12: 37
    Quote from the article
    The only supporting bandits in the villages of Karamahi and Chabanmakhi, who were also a stronghold of the Wahhabis from the local population,

    And in no case should we forget from where Wahhabism came to us and who financed it - this is Saudi Arabia, in many respects thanks to which oil prices collapsed, which was one of the reasons for the collapse of the USSR.
    And you must always remember who is behind the back of Saudi Arabia - this is the United States and Israel.
  11. +2
    6 May 2015 15: 33
    Kara-mahs and Shepherd-mahs were very prosperous villages, but the Dagis themselves wet the Wahhabis specifically. I saw what was left of these villages after. A deserved sight.
  12. +2
    6 May 2015 15: 42
    The war in the North Caucasus will end only when parents begin to love their children more than they hate each other.
  13. +2
    6 May 2015 16: 24
    mother was looking for a son and only after a year wandering around the tower she herself found the body of her son Murachuev, and before that they did not know where he was
  14. +2
    6 May 2015 16: 27
    Mom was looking for a son and only after a year wandering around the tower she herself found the body of her son Murachuev, and before that they did not know where he was. in addition, the article says about the Lipetsk riot police and about the Dagestani cops from novolak and her boss who brought out of the environment is not written. His photo is on my nickname.
  15. s1н7т
    +2
    6 May 2015 19: 25
    Whenever I read this, I am horrified - how can the government give a shit about its soldiers, arctic fox! And the generals who stayed to serve in the Russian Federation after the USSR were worthless .... I remember the deputy chief commander of the Ground Forces - at one time in the USSR Armed Forces he was tried by our court of honor for stealing equipment from a battle group (the prosecutor’s office didn’t even scratch himself), but The Russian Armed Forces came in handy - why be surprised, damn it.
  16. vatihi
    +2
    6 May 2015 22: 17
    I will never forget how the military met us in Khasavyurt in September 1999, how the people liberated us. We were then only 19 years old, but even then in the wild youth I was very very pleased, and in spite of nothing I think that my colleagues died it’s not in vain, we alive need to live on and not forget these sacrifices. All the inhabitants of Dagestan thank you so much for believing in us, and we did not disappoint. Sincerely, the former fighter 15 DOS.
  17. +4
    6 May 2015 22: 56
    I will not go into political nuances, but I will give only personal observations. Winter is spring 1998 of the year. February arrival in Kizlyar as part of BON BB from Penza. almost all officers and contractors went through the first war. At the entrance to Kizlyar, I remembered the picture of how the boys standing near the roads massively make a characteristic gesture by tracing their thumbs with their thumb. I don’t know exactly who they were, but hardly from one nationality. I think there was more intimidation and hooliganism than hatred. But the feeling is not the best)). Overnight in Kizlyar - combat posts around the squad. The commanders correctly decided that it was not bad to play it safe. Nomination to the zone of responsibility Kargalinsky Dam and Grebenskaya bridge. I must say at the same time that my family friends are Avars from Makhachkala, so I also knew Dagestanis from the side of good neighborliness to the army. We changed Kazan Bon. three soldiers had poisoned them two weeks before us and they simply took away their weapons and didn’t kill them while they were unconscious. SVD Rpk and Kalashnikov as far as I remember but SVD for sure. On Kargalinskaya opposite, there was a post from Basayev’s first company. It was different and shot and scuffle was. And for example, a Czech comes in apparently pumped up by something to the 107 post on the dam itself and puts his hand in the window with a grenade and Dimon Bogachev rests his trunk on his chest like I will blow you up and we will cover him too. The situation was a minute but lasted so long and everything was thought. Five days after the change from tg, a message passed that the outpost would be attacked, the outpost in the gun. Expected 30-40 fighters. The battalion commander my and my commander called to his place - it was necessary to leave the patrol to mark the enemy’s fire in advance, my friend was on that day a group of three-minute readiness and he was not allowed to come with us. I had to choose a third to us myself. We went into the night and the faces showed that the outpost said goodbye to us. We were lucky. The militants did not come. This is about posting. An officer and two soldiers so that the outpost and distant posts would not be taken aback. Then it was 8 on March 98 when the Czechs strangers Basayevites stole a herd of cows from the Dagestanis. Basayevites gave us a guide who led us to ambush the retreating Czechs. And I followed the guide and kept him on the fly if he led us into an ambush. It was different. And in 2000 in a tavern in Lyubertsy I crossed paths with the Dagestanis who, after learning about what was in their 98, said thank you from the heart. young guys and we thumped midnight. Something inspired ...
  18. 0
    6 May 2015 22: 57
    I will not go into political nuances, but I will give only personal observations. Winter is spring 1998 of the year. February arrival in Kizlyar as part of BON BB from Penza. almost all officers and contractors went through the first war. At the entrance to Kizlyar, I remembered the picture of how the boys standing near the roads massively make a characteristic gesture by tracing their thumbs with their thumb. I don’t know exactly who they were, but hardly from one nationality. I think there was more intimidation and hooliganism than hatred. But the feeling is not the best)). Overnight in Kizlyar - combat posts around the squad. The commanders correctly decided that it was not bad to play it safe. Nomination to the zone of responsibility Kargalinsky Dam and Grebenskaya bridge. I must say at the same time that my family friends are Avars from Makhachkala, so I also knew Dagestanis from the side of good neighborliness to the army. We changed Kazan Bon. three soldiers had poisoned them two weeks before us and they simply took away their weapons and didn’t kill them while they were unconscious. SVD Rpk and Kalashnikov as far as I remember but SVD for sure. On Kargalinskaya opposite, there was a post from Basayev’s first company. It was different and shot and scuffle was. And for example, a Czech comes in apparently pumped up by something to the 107 post on the dam itself and puts his hand in the window with a grenade and Dimon Bogachev rests his trunk on his chest like I will blow you up and we will cover him too. The situation was a minute but lasted so long and everything was thought. Five days after the change from tg, a message passed that the outpost would be attacked, the outpost in the gun. Expected 30-40 fighters. The battalion commander my and my commander called to his place - it was necessary to leave the patrol to mark the enemy’s fire in advance, my friend was on that day a group of three-minute readiness and he was not allowed to come with us. I had to choose a third to us myself. We went into the night and the faces showed that the outpost said goodbye to us. We were lucky. The militants did not come. This is about posting. An officer and two soldiers so that the outpost and distant posts would not be taken aback. Then it was 8 on March 98 when the Czechs strangers Basayevites stole a herd of cows from the Dagestanis. Basayevites gave us a guide who led us to ambush the retreating Czechs. And I followed the guide and kept him on the fly if he led us into an ambush. It was different. And in 2000 in a tavern in Lyubertsy I crossed paths with the Dagestanis who, after learning about what was in their 98, said thank you from the heart. young guys and we thumped midnight. Something inspired ...
  19. +1
    6 May 2015 23: 15
    And why, when the militants stormed the TV tower for more than a day, was the defense not provided assistance? Landing force, but at least a helicopter strike on the positions of the attackers ...
    1. +1
      7 May 2015 06: 04
      I also wanted to ask such a question: what was the situation with the military aviation at that moment, all right, helicopters, the same rooks, there the flight time is scanty or the right hand did not know what the left is doing?

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