Attack on the Perm riot police. An attack on a column of Permian riot police near Zhani-Vedeno. Soldiers of the commandant's company who died in battle and were captured and executed

05.03.2020

On the evening of March 28, 2000, the temporary Vedensky District Department of Internal Affairs, staffed by police officers from the Perm Region, with the Perm combined OMON attached to it, received an order from the commander of the Eastern Group of Federal Forces, Major General S. A. Makarov, to clean up the village of Tsentaroy in the neighboring Nozhai-Yurtovsky district.

Early in the morning of March 29, a convoy of 50 people (42 riot police from Perm and Berezniki, 8 military personnel of the commandant's company of military unit 83590 of the Taman division) moved from Vedeno to their destination to conduct a special operation to check the passport regime and carry out other activities. The column consisted of three vehicles: BTR-70 (driver Gennady Obraztsov, commandant's company, was captured, executed), the Ural-4320 car (driver Vyacheslav Morozov, the Sverdlovsk District Internal Affairs Directorate, died in battle) and the ZiL-131 car "(driver Yuri Shishkin, the only surviving fighter of the commandant's company). Before reaching a few hundred meters to the village of Zhani-Vedeno, at a height of 813, ZIL began to boil and the column was forced to stop.

Shortly before that, a detachment of militants under the command of Abu-Kuteib entered the same village. In the gang, in addition to Chechens, there were also people from the republics of the North Caucasus and foreign mercenaries (Arabs). The bandits settled in holiday homes. The commander of the riot police, Major Simonov, decided to inspect the last house. Going inside, he found two armed militants there. In response to Simonov's order to drop his weapon, shots were fired, Major Simonov was killed. At the same time, shelling of the column from small arms and grenade launchers began.
Burnt Ural

RPG shots knocked out an armored personnel carrier (a cumulative projectile hit the engine compartment) and both vehicles. The gunner (presumably the gunner's place was taken by one of the policemen, who later died from burns on the battlefield) of the burning armored personnel carrier turned the tower and opened fire on the hill, allowing the riot police to take more convenient positions for defense. The riot police and the military commandant's company took the fight, fought back to the last bullet. As the bandits approached from different parts of the village, the fire on the column intensified. In the last radio message of the policemen there was a request to shoot single shots. In all likelihood, they were running out of ammunition.
Padded armored personnel carrier

At about 10:00 am, a detachment of servicemen from the commandant's company (contract soldiers) and Perm policemen was sent from Vedeno to help the ambushed riot police. The second column, headed by the commandant of Vedeno, Colonel V. Tonkoshkurov, the head of the Vedenskiy VOVD, Colonel Yu. Ganzhin, his deputy, the former riot police officer, Lieutenant Colonel K. Strict, the commander of the Perm OMON, Lieutenant Colonel S. Gaba, tried to break through to the surrounded policemen, but not reaching them several hundred meters, she herself was ambushed. Almost immediately, the head armored personnel carrier of the commandant's company (driver Roman Muranov, shooter Dmitry Zyablikov) was hit. Fearing being trapped in a trap, the command gave the order to retreat. After about 6 hours, the column returned to Vedeno. The losses of the second column were: the commandant's company - 15 people wounded, the consolidated detachment of the Perm OMON - one wounded.

Due to the fact that part of the militants was diverted to the second column, six people from the first column were able to escape from the encirclement. On March 30, a group of six people - five riot policemen and a fighter from the commandant's company - went out to their own.

Only on March 31, federal troops (according to some reports, a battalion of the 66th regiment of internal troops and three battalions of the 104th guards airborne regiment of the 76th guards airborne division of the Airborne Forces) were finally able to reach height 813 and take out the bodies of the dead policemen and soldiers of the commandant's company. The bodies of 31 dead and one riot policeman Alexander Prokopov, seriously wounded in both legs, were found (subsequently, Alexander's leg was amputated, but he remained in the riot police). The fate of the remaining fighters by that time remained unknown. Later it turned out that twelve people (seven Berezniki riot police, four seconded employees of the Perm police and a fighter of the commandant's company) were taken prisoner and executed the next day in response to a refusal to exchange them for Colonel Yu. D. Budanov, who was arrested for the murder of a Chechen woman. The burial of 10 fighters was discovered on April 30 (according to other sources - May 1) near the village of Dargo, and information about the burial place of 2 OMON fighters had to be bought from local residents. Almost all the bodies bore traces of abuse and torture. As it turned out later, the policemen were not captured immediately. In a small group, they tried to get out of the encirclement, constantly firing back, but they could only reach a small river, which they did not have time to cross. Here they apparently ran out of ammunition. A large number of shell casings and an unexploded grenade were found around. One riot policeman was hit by machine gun fire at the bridge across the river and finished off with blows from the butt. The rest were executed not far from this place.

In the following days, this area was combed and cleared of mines by internal troops, paratroopers and police officers.

On April 19, 2000, a large-scale special operation began in the Vedeno district to eliminate Basayev and Khattab's formations concentrated here. Russian artillery attacked enemy targets in the areas of the villages of Zone, Shalazhi, Grushevoye, Tsa-Vedeno. About 500 servicemen and military equipment were deployed additionally to participate in the operation. Su-25 attack aircraft made 22 sorties, Su-24M bombers - 4. Mi-24 fire support helicopters flew into the air more than 50 times.
Losses

36 Perm militiamen and 7 servicemen of the commandant's company were killed in battle, as well as captured and executed. The number of wounded - 2 and 15, respectively.

The losses of the militants are unknown. Several corpses of foreign mercenaries were removed from the battlefield and buried near the then location of the commandant's company (Shamil Basayev's mansion, later the house was destroyed by sappers of the federal forces) with the aim of subsequent exchange for the bodies of the missing policemen. The exchange did not take place.

On March 31, Minister of the Interior of the Russian Federation Vladimir Rushailo and First Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces, Colonel-General Yuri Baluyevsky, conducted an official investigation when they arrived at the scene. In February 2001, the materials were transferred to the main department of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation in the North Caucasus.

During the judicial investigation, it was found that there was no special ambush on the column. This was confirmed by the testimonies of the militants who participated in that battle (they were tried in Makhachkala in the spring and summer of 2001) and the map of the battlefield (sometimes the militants had to shoot up the slope, which would most likely have been excluded if the position had been chosen in advance). Also in favor of the absence of an ambush is the fact that the shelling of the column intensified over time, as groups of militants approached from other houses in the village. But a fatal combination of circumstances - a car breakdown, the discovery of a group of militants in a house on the outskirts of the village - led to tragic consequences. Perhaps, after a rest, the militants would have gone unnoticed into the mountains. Or perhaps their goal was an attack on the "heart of Ichkeria" - Vedeno. In this case, Perm militiamen and fighters of the commandant's company, by their death, prevented an attack on the regional center and destroyed all the plans of the militants.

There were six people in the dock, none of whom pleaded guilty. Four received 14, 16, 19 and 21 years of strict regime, and two were subsequently released (first they were sentenced to 2, 5 and 3 years in prison, and then amnestied).
Ratings and opinions

Attacks on checkpoints have become more frequent. Due to inconsistency and lack of necessary skills, he was ambushed and suffered losses by a detachment (40 people) from the Perm OMON. The column made a march without reconnaissance of the route and the organization of interaction with units of internal troops and artillery. Management was carried out through open channels of communication. These omissions led to disaster. And such examples, unfortunately, were not isolated.

Gennady Troshev. "My war. Chechen diary of a trench general, memoirs, book

A column of the Perm OMON was destroyed, prisoners were taken, and trophies were also captured.

Early in the morning of March 29, a convoy of 50 people (42 riot police from Perm and Berezniki, 8 military personnel of the commandant's company of military unit 83590 of the Taman division) moved from Vedeno to their destination to conduct a special operation to check the passport regime and carry out other activities. The column consisted of three vehicles: BTR-80 (driver Gennady Obraztsov, commandant's company, was captured, executed), the Ural-4320 car (driver Vyacheslav Morozov, the Sverdlovsk District Internal Affairs Directorate, died in battle) and the ZIL-131 car "(driver Yuri Shishkin, the only surviving fighter of the commandant's company). Having passed near Zhani-Vedeno, at a height of 813, ZIL began to boil and the column was forced to stop.

Shortly before this, a detachment of militants under the command of Abu-Kuteyb entered the same village. In the gang, in addition to the Chechens, there were also immigrants from the republics of the North Caucasus and foreign mercenaries (Arabs). The bandits settled in holiday homes. The commander of the riot police, Major Simonov, decided to inspect the house, located tens of meters from the column's stop. Going inside, he found two armed militants there. In response to Simonov's order to drop his weapon, shots were fired, Major Simonov was killed. At the same time, shelling of the column from small arms and grenade launchers began.

Initially, the militants fired only from small arms, but due to the fact that when the convoy stopped, the policemen did not disembark from the body of the car and did not disperse on the ground, in the very first minutes of the battle, fire was opened on the policemen landing from the body, which led to numerous injuries and casualties . RPG shots knocked out an armored personnel carrier (a cumulative projectile hit the engine compartment) and both vehicles. The gunner (presumably the gunner's place was taken by one of the policemen, who later died from burns on the battlefield) of the burning armored personnel carrier turned the tower and opened fire on the hill, allowing the riot police to take more convenient positions for defense. The riot police and the military commandant's company took the fight, fought back to the last bullet. As the bandits approached from different parts of the village, the fire on the column intensified. In the last radio message of the policemen there was a request to shoot single shots. In all likelihood, they were running out of ammunition.

At about 10:00 am, a detachment of servicemen from the commandant's company (contract servicemen), Perm militiamen and Perm OMON was sent to help the ambushed riot police from Vedeno. The second column, headed by the commandant of Vedeno, Colonel V. Tonkoshkurov, the head of the Vedeno VOVD, Colonel Yu. Ganzhin, his deputy, the former riot police officer, Lieutenant Colonel K. Strict, the commander of the Perm OMON, Lieutenant Colonel S. Gaba, tried to break through to the surrounded policemen, but not reaching them several hundred meters, she herself was ambushed. Almost immediately, the head armored personnel carrier of the commandant's company (driver Roman Muranov, shooter Dmitry Zyablikov) was hit. Fearing being trapped in a trap, and in view of the lack of combat experience in such situations, the command gave the order to retreat. After about 6 hours, the column returned to Vedeno. The losses of the second column were: the commandant's company - 15 people wounded, the consolidated detachment of the Perm OMON - one wounded.

Only on March 31, federal troops (according to some reports, the reconnaissance group of the 255th motorized rifle regiment) were finally able to reach height 813. The bodies of 31 dead and one riot policeman Alexander Prokopov, seriously wounded in both legs, were found (subsequently, Alexander's leg was amputated, but he remained to serve in the riot police) . The fate of the remaining fighters by that time remained unknown. Later it turned out that twelve people (seven Berezniki riot police, four seconded employees of the Perm police and a fighter of the commandant's company) were taken prisoner and executed the next day in response to a refusal to exchange them for Colonel Yu. D. Budanov, who was arrested for the murder of a Chechen woman. The burial of 10 fighters was discovered on April 30 (according to other sources - May 1) near the village of Dargo, and information about the burial place of 2 OMON fighters had to be bought from local residents. Practically on all bodies there were traces of bullying and torture. As it turned out later, the policemen were not captured immediately. In a small group, they tried to get out of the encirclement, constantly firing back, but they could only reach a small river, which they did not have time to cross. Here they apparently ran out of ammunition. A large number of shell casings and an unexploded grenade were found around. One riot policeman was hit by machine gun fire at the bridge across the river and finished off with blows from the butt. The rest were executed not far from this place.

On March 31, this area was combed and cleared of mines by internal troops, paratroopers and police officers.

On April 19, 2000, a large-scale special operation began in the Vedeno district to eliminate Basayev and Khattab's formations concentrated here. Russian artillery attacked enemy targets in the areas of the villages of Zona, Shalazhi, Grushevoye, Tsa-Vedeno. About 500 servicemen and military equipment were deployed additionally to participate in the operation. Su-25 attack aircraft made 22 sorties, Su-24M bombers - 4. Mi-24 fire support helicopters flew into the air more than 50 times.

36 Perm militiamen and 7 servicemen of the commandant's company were killed in battle, as well as captured and executed. The number of wounded - 2 and 15, respectively.

The losses of the militants are unknown. Two corpses of foreign mercenaries (presumably Arabs) were removed from the battlefield and buried near the then location of the commandant's company (Shamil Basayev's mansion, later the house was destroyed by sappers of the federal forces) with the aim of subsequent exchange for the bodies of the missing policemen. The exchange did not take place.

36 Perm policemen were killed in battle, and also captured and executed:

The soldiers of the commandant's company who died in battle and were captured and executed:

On March 31, Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Rushailo and First Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Colonel-General Yuri Baluyevsky, conducted an official investigation while visiting the scene. In February 2001, the materials were handed over to the main department of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation in the North Caucasus.

During the judicial investigation, it was found that there was no special ambush on the column. This was confirmed by the testimonies of the militants who participated in that battle (they were tried in Makhachkala in the spring and summer of 2001) and the map of the battlefield (sometimes the militants had to shoot up the slope, which would most likely have been excluded if the position had been chosen in advance). Also in favor of the absence of an ambush is the fact that the shelling of the column intensified over time, as groups of militants approached from other houses in the village. But a fatal combination of circumstances - a car breakdown, the discovery of a group of militants in a house on the outskirts of the village - led to tragic consequences. Perhaps, after a rest, the militants would have gone unnoticed into the mountains. Or perhaps their goal was an attack on the "heart of Ichkeria" - Vedeno. In this case, the Perm militiamen and fighters of the commandant's company, by their death, prevented an attack on the regional center and destroyed all the plans of the militants.

Every year on March 29, mourning events are held in the Perm Territory in honor of the fallen OMON fighters.

One of the riot police, Sergei Udachin, had a video camera with him that day, on which he filmed the movement of the column until the very beginning of the battle. As a result of the ensuing firefight, he was killed, but the video camera continued to work. The camera lay on the ground and continued to shoot for about fifteen more minutes.

According to press reports, when organizing the movement of the Perm OMON column, gross violations of the requirements of combined arms tactics were committed:

The route of movement was not agreed with the senior military commander in whose area of responsibility he was, there was also no reconnaissance of the route and cover. The cars of the riot police column followed without guards, not observing the distance due in such cases. The commanders of the group did not know the radio frequencies of the landing units covering this area, their call signs. Moreover, the riot police had only one radio station, through which it was possible to contact the troops and request reinforcements. She stood in an armored personnel carrier, after the destruction of which the detachment became deaf and completely voiceless.

Also, according to the military news agency, the command of the federal forces in Chechnya accidentally learned about the clash from the pilot of a helicopter flying over the road. At the same time, the deputy commander of the Eastern Group for Internal Troops could not answer the question of whether there were units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the battle area, since he was not aware

The shooting case revealed the killer facts
Yesterday in Makhachkala, at the trial of the shooting of the Perm OMON in March 2000, the sensational testimony of one of the accused, Eduard Valiakhmetov, was made public. He said that Andrei Babitsky was exchanged for soldiers captured by his detachment. The captured riot policemen, according to him, were executed even despite the fact that they asked to serve in the militants. With details - YURI Y-SAFRONOV.
Defendant Valiakhmetov said that he came to Chechnya in early February 2000 at the insistence of his parents: "My mother and father wanted me to study the Koran and the basics of Islam." This was confirmed to a Kommersant correspondent by Eduard's mother, Saniyat, who arrived in Makhachkala dressed according to all the rules prescribed by the Koran for a Muslim woman. "We really thought that only in Chechnya could our boy learn the purity of Islam," she lamented. In one of the camps, Valiakhmetov was given the name Abdulla, since the name Eduard, as he was told, was of non-Muslim origin. Even in a letter to his parents, he called himself Abdullah. After three weeks of training, Valiakhmetov, along with another accused, Shamil Kitov, ended up in the detachment of the Arab Abu Kuteib. But just a couple of days later, the militants suspected FSB agents of the recruits.
According to Valiakhmetov, under torture he was forced to admit that he was an FSB lieutenant. Together with Kitov, he was held with prisoners, among whom was one policeman from the Novolaksky district of Dagestan and several servicemen. According to Valiakhmetov, the policeman was released for a ransom, and two soldiers were exchanged for Andrei Babitsky, a correspondent for Radio Liberty. So, in any case, those who guarded him told Valiakhmetov. During this time, he recognized many militants, among whom were Tatars, Dargins from the Dagestan village of Karamakhi, and even Arabs who came from England.
A detachment of militants constantly moved and took prisoners everywhere with them. Valiakhmetov told in detail the route of movement, clearly named the settlements and even the regions of Chechnya that they crossed. At the end of March, the detachment in which he was located was near the village of Zhani-Vedeno.
“We were settled not far from the village in two abandoned houses. One morning I woke up from the noise of automatic bursts. Sleepy militants, dressing and loading weapons on the move, fled towards a small height (a column of Perm OMON was attacked near it. - Kommersant). Among them, I saw Shamil Kitov, who had a grenade launcher in his hands and three shots to him, ”Valiakhmetov said during interrogation, which was recorded on video and demonstrated at the trial. All the captured riot police, he said, were taken to a small gorge, where they were guarded by Arabs. The battle, meanwhile, continued for half a kilometer. The Karamakhins, who used to guard Valiakhmetov, were not there - they participated in that battle. Already in the evening, when the detachment united, Valiakhmetov witnessed the execution of one of the riot police. “On the ground, leaning on a shovel, an ensign stood. When the militants began to shout loudly “Allah Akbar!”, The policeman fell to his knees and began to ask not to kill him. He said that he would fight on their side. But the enraged Wahhabis did not hear anything They took off the shirt from the ensign, then one Chechen came up and hit him on the head with the butt of a machine gun and cut his throat, already lying on the ground. Thus, Valiakhmetov confirmed the data of the federals that Shamil Basayev was bluffing, offering to exchange the prisoners for Colonel Budanov, who was arrested for the murder of a Chechen girl. By the time the demands were made, the riot police had already been executed.
However, in his other testimony, Valiakhmetov excluded the episode with Kitov. Based on this, the investigator did not charge the latter with direct participation in the attack on the Perm OMON. At the video interrogation, Valiakhmetov, and then Kitov, listed in detail the names of the Karamakhins who participated in the raid, and their signs. Later, according to investigators, they identified them from photographs. However, at the trial, both unexpectedly declared that they were mistaken, since completely different people were sitting in the dock. One of the participants in that battle, a Perm riot policeman, could not stand it and said to the judge: "There they were all dirty, overgrown, with beards, and today they are trimmed and shaved. Naturally, in this situation, these are different people."
When asked by the judge and the public prosecutor about the reasons for the changes in their testimony, both defendants replied that they were subjected to physical pressure and acted according to the investigator's scenario even before they were interrogated during the video filming. According to them, the names of the defendants were suggested to them by police officers. Immediately, the lawyers began to raise their defendants one by one and arrange impromptu face-to-face confrontations, asking the same question: "Have you seen this man among the militants before?" In response, a languid denial was heard: "I only saw these people at the trial."
Today, the court will hear testimony from the other defendants.

36 Perm militiamen and 7 servicemen of the commandant's company were killed in battle, as well as captured and executed ...

Early in the morning of March 29, a convoy of 50 people (42 riot police from Perm and Berezniki, 8 military personnel of the commandant's company of military unit 83590 of the Taman division) moved from Vedeno to their destination to conduct a special operation to check the passport regime and carry out other activities. The column consisted of three vehicles: BTR-80 (driver Gennady Obraztsov, commandant's company, was captured, executed), the Ural-4320 car (driver Vyacheslav Morozov, the Sverdlovsk District Internal Affairs Directorate, died in battle) and the ZIL-131 car "(driver Yuri Shishkin, the only surviving fighter of the commandant's company). Having passed near Zhani-Vedeno, at a height of 813, ZIL began to boil and the column was forced to stop.

At about 10:00 am, a detachment of servicemen from the commandant's company (contract servicemen), Perm militiamen and Perm OMON was sent to help the ambushed riot police from Vedeno. The second column, headed by the commandant of Vedeno, Colonel V. Tonkoshkurov, the head of the Vedenskiy VOVD, Colonel Yu. Ganzhin, his deputy, the former riot police officer, Lieutenant Colonel K. Strict, the commander of the Perm OMON, Lieutenant Colonel S. Gaba, tried to break through to the surrounded policemen, but not reaching them several hundred meters, she herself was ambushed. Almost immediately, the head armored personnel carrier of the commandant's company (driver Roman Muranov, shooter Dmitry Zyablikov) was hit. Fearing being trapped in a trap, and in view of the lack of combat experience in such situations, the command gave the order to retreat. After about 6 hours, the column returned to Vedeno. The losses of the second column were: the commandant's company - 15 people wounded, the consolidated detachment of the Perm OMON - one wounded.

Only on March 31, federal troops (according to some reports, the reconnaissance group of the 255th motorized rifle regiment was finally able to reach height 813. The bodies of 31 dead and one riot policeman Alexander Prokopov, seriously wounded in both legs, were found (subsequently, Alexander's leg was amputated, but he remained to serve in the riot police). The fate of the rest of the fighters by that time remained unknown.It later turned out that twelve people (seven Berezniki riot police, four seconded employees of the Perm police and a fighter of the commandant's company) were taken prisoner and executed the next day in response to a refusal to exchange them for Colonel Yu. Budanov, who was arrested for the murder of a Chechen woman.The burial of 10 fighters was discovered on April 30 (according to other sources - May 1) in the area of the village of Dargo, and information about the burial place of 2 OMON fighters had to be bought from local residents. Almost all the bodies had traces of bullying and torture.

As it turned out later, the policemen were not captured immediately. In a small group, they tried to get out of the encirclement, constantly firing back, but they could only reach a small river, which they did not have time to cross. Here they apparently ran out of ammunition. A large number of shell casings and an unexploded grenade were found around. One riot policeman was hit by machine gun fire at the bridge across the river and finished off with blows from the butt. The rest were executed not far from this place.

One of the riot police, Sergei Udachin, had a video camera with him that day, on which he filmed the movement of the column until the very beginning of the battle. As a result of the ensuing firefight, he was killed, but the video camera continued to work. The camera lay in the grass and continued to record for another fifteen minutes.

Everlasting memory…

List of losses of federal forces
36 Perm policemen were killed in battle, and also captured and executed:

Police Major Simonov Valentin Dmitrievich (06/12/1965 - 03/29/2000, OMON at the Internal Affairs Directorate of Berezniki),
senior lieutenant of militia Konshin Vasily Anatolyevich (01/14/1967 - 03/29/2000, OMON at the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Perm Region),
senior lieutenant of militia Turovsky Evgeny Stanislavovich (09/09/1963 - 03/29/2000, OMON at the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Perm Region),
senior lieutenant of militia Metguliev Albert Gurbandurdyevich (07/18/1965 - 03/29/2000, OMON at the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Perm Region),
police lieutenant Zazdravnykh Alexander Viktorovich (01/24/1966 - 03/29/2000, OMON at the Internal Affairs Directorate of the city of Berezniki, Perm Region),
police lieutenant Kananovich Albert Vladimirovich (11/24/1972 - 03/29/2000, OMON at the Internal Affairs Directorate of the city of Berezniki, Perm Region),
police lieutenant Kuznetsov Yuri Anatolyevich (09/05/1966 - 03/29/2000, OMON at the Internal Affairs Directorate of the city of Berezniki, Perm Region),
senior warrant officer of militia Sobyanin Sergey Borisovich (04/19/1971 - 03/29/2000, OMON at the Internal Affairs Directorate of Berezniki),
senior warrant officer of militia Avetisov Yury Igorevich (08/2/1970 - 03/29/2000, OMON at the Internal Affairs Directorate of the city of Berezniki, Perm Region),
Ensign of militia Annenkov Andrey Vyacheslavovich (02/06/1969 - 03/29/2000, Department of Internal Affairs of the Okhansky district of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Perm Region),
militia ensign Zyryanov Andrey Vyacheslavovich (12/20/1970 - 03/29/2000, OMON at the Internal Affairs Directorate of the city of Berezniki, Perm Region),
militia ensign Lomakin Mikhail Valeryevich (10/26/1974 - 03/29/2000, OMON at the Internal Affairs Directorate of Berezniki),
Militia Ensign Muntyan Valery Vladimirovich (10/31/1975 - 03/29/2000, OMON at the Internal Affairs Directorate of the city of Berezniki, Perm Region),
police ensign Malyutin Sergey Viktorovich (01/24/1975 - 03/29/2000, OMON at the Internal Affairs Directorate of Berezniki),
Militia ensign Prosvirnev Evgeny Vladimirovich (05/14/1975 - 03/29/2000, Department of Internal Affairs of the Gornozavodsky district of the Perm region),
police ensign Shaikhraziev Marat Farsovich (01/08/1965 - 03/29/2000, OMON at the Internal Affairs Directorate of the city of Berezniki, Perm Region),
foreman of militia Kistanov Alexander Viktorovich (03/24/1970 - 03/29/2000, Department of Internal Affairs of the Perm district of the Perm region),
foreman of militia Permyakov Yuri Egorovich (03/21/1973 - 03/29/2000, OMON at the Internal Affairs Directorate of the city of Berezniki, Perm Region),
foreman of militia Ryzhikov Aleksey Nikolaevich (07/08/1978 - 03/29/2000, OMON at the Internal Affairs Directorate of Berezniki),
foreman of militia Sergeev Vitaly Yuryevich (08/12/1967 - 03/29/2000, OMON at the Internal Affairs Directorate of Berezniki),
foreman of militia Udachin Sergey Igorevich (05/24/1962 - 03/29/2000, OMON at the Internal Affairs Directorate of Berezniki),
senior police sergeant Alexander Borisovich Zyuzyukin (10/1/1977 - 03/29/2000, OMON at the Internal Affairs Directorate of the city of Berezniki, Perm Region),
senior police sergeant Morozov Vyacheslav Valerievich (12/17/1972 - 03/29/2000, Internal Affairs Directorate of the Sverdlovsk district of Perm),
senior police sergeant Okulov Vladimir Ivanovich (07/2/1974 - 03/29/2000, Tchaikovsky police department, Perm region),
senior police sergeant Pervushin Alexander Yuryevich (01/05/1976 - 03/29/2000, police department of the Cherdynsky district of the Perm region),
senior police sergeant Pushkarev Vadim Vyacheslavovich (12/7/1971 - 03/29/2000, OMON at the Internal Affairs Directorate of the city of Berezniki, Perm Region),
police sergeant Efanov Vitaly Anatolyevich (08/31/1977 - 03/29/2000, Department of Internal Affairs of the Krasnovishersky district of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Perm Region),
police sergeant Makarov Dmitry Viktorovich (01/03/1973 - 03/29/2000, OMON at the Internal Affairs Directorate of Berezniki),
police sergeant Tarasov Eduard Ivanovich (08/26/1974 - 03/29/2000, OMON at the Internal Affairs Directorate of Berezniki),
junior police sergeant Emshanov Vladimir Yuryevich (10/6/1978 - 03/29/2000, OMON at the Internal Affairs Directorate of Berezniki),
junior police sergeant Kireev Evgeny Ivanovich (02/28/1977 - 03/29/2000, OMON at the Internal Affairs Directorate of Berezniki),
junior police sergeant Tolstyakov Evgeny Vladimirovich (10/6/1978 - 03/29/2000, OMON at the Internal Affairs Directorate of Berezniki),
junior police sergeant Grigory Mikhailovich Uzhegov (09/12/1977 - 03/29/2000, OMON at the Internal Affairs Directorate of Berezniki),
junior police sergeant Davydov Oleg Anatolyevich (09/25/1965 - 03/29/2000, OMON at the Internal Affairs Directorate of the city of Berezniki of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Perm Region),
junior police sergeant Igitov Sergey Vitalievich (06/29/1977 - 03/29/2000, Department of Internal Affairs of the Motovilikha district of Perm),
private militia Rzhanov Evgeny Vyacheslavovich (06/10/1977 - 03/29/2000, Department of Internal Affairs of the city of Kungur, Perm Region).
The soldiers of the commandant's company who died in battle and were captured and executed:

Corporal Obraztsov Gennady,
private Nikolenko Sergey Anatolyevich,
Private Karpukhin Andrey Petrovich,
Private Sasin Sergey Viktorovich,
private Nizamov Zenur Adlyamovich,
Private Efimov Dmitry Yurievich,

Today the sun bakes almost like then, - the former commander of the Perm OMON Sergey Gaba squints his eyes from the blinding light. - Only in Vedeno even then the grass was green and the birds were singing. Somehow strange, unusual: between the shots one could hear the birds singing. The queues are distributed and immediately the birds chirp serenely. Even on the video you can see and hear: green sprouts, shots, the voices of birds. The camera is lying on the ground, it continues to shoot, and the cameraman is already dead ...

The former riot police commander grew a beard and now you don’t recognize him, especially in civilian clothes.

He says that when he left work, he parted with the past, and began to live from scratch - like a baby.

But in the eyes you can see - does not let go of the past.

March 29 is a sad mourning date in the calendar of the Perm police, especially the Perm OMON, especially the Berezniki OMON.

15 years ago, in the Chechen Republic near Dzhanya-Vedeno, a convoy of a combined police detachment was ambushed.

In a cruel unequal battle, 42 people died, including 36 employees of the Kama police.

Among them are 23 OMON fighters (Berezniki), 3 - OMON (Perm), 10 law enforcement officers of the territorial internal affairs bodies.

Today, like every year, a mourning event was held at the Southern Cemetery in Perm in memory of the Kama police officers who died in the North Caucasus region.

The participants honored their memory with a minute of silence and laid flowers at the stele of employees who died in the line of duty. Small tables - one hundred grams. And memories...

15 years have passed, parents and widows have grown old, children have grown up, but the memory does not let go.

Mourning events were also held in Berezniki, where most of the dead are buried.

The participants laid flowers at the memorial and on the graves of the fighters.

Also, the names of the dead comrades were remembered today by police officers serving today in Vedeno of the Chechen Republic.

Marina SIZOVA

BROTHERS, DON'T BE SILENT.

FROM AN OLD NOTEBOOK

"SPIRITS" DID NOT WAIT FOR WE TO EXIT. THEY THOUGHT WE ALL WERE GOING TO THERE. AND WE ARE OUT"

Perm journalist Andrei Nikitin was at the scene at that time on a business trip. These entries are from his notebooks.

In one of the most disturbing mountainous regions of Chechnya - Vedensky in 2000, the Provisional Department of Internal Affairs (VOVD), formed entirely from Perm policemen, began to operate. Plus a consolidated detachment of the Perm OMON, mostly formed from Berezniki. The main task of the VOVD is to restore peaceful life in the rebellious republic.

On March 28, 20 minutes before midnight, an order came to Vedeno from the commander of the Eastern Group, Major General Makarov: "On the morning of the 29th, 40 riot police were supposed to go to clean up the village of Tsentoroy, adjacent to Vedeno, Nozhay-Yurtovsky district."

We left at 8 am. At about 9 am, information was received at the location of the unit that the detachment had come under fire.

The course of the battle could be judged by the negotiations on the radio.

Let's get in touch with the mortar platoon commander...

Already talking to him...

Ivolga, I'm the Coast...

Raft, I'm an Island...

Tell the aviation: ours have designated themselves as missiles ...

I am ready to provide boxes, they ask for a landing party to help ...

Aviation pass: process on the left side, near Dargo. The enemy is marked by missiles...

Work the road urgently...

We are already starting...

Faster, bl@...

Anapa, Anapa - Azure. Are the mortars ready? Fire…

54, 84 are fighting, the spirits have pulled up mortars ...

To all unit commanders. Jasmine. Preparedness number one. Nobody goes anywhere...

Pa-achimu nowhere? Come on, Commander, get out...

Occasionally, one of the militants is wedged into the air. And with all possible fury, it is immediately sent to all permissible letters of the Russian alphabet.

Nokhcha, c @ th from the channel, we will kill you, do you hear? ..

Almost immediately after receiving news of the ambush that the OMON detachment fell into, a second column came to its aid, led by the commandant of Vedeno, Colonel V. Tonkoshkurov, the head of the Vedeno VOVD, Colonel Yu. lieutenant colonel S. Gaba.

She was never able to get through to the first column. However, almost half of the militants, about 200 people, were distracted from the battle with the riot police. Losses of the second column - 16 wounded.

After the departure of this column, units of the Airborne Forces made their way to height 813 for another two days, near which a detachment of the Perm OMON fought.

The last time the combined detachment got in touch at half past three in the afternoon.

The outcome of the battle was predetermined. Despite the belated support of aviation and artillery, the first column had almost no chance of surviving.

The sun was scorching on the spot near the headquarters. The walkie-talkies yelled in all voices. The men who were lucky not to get into the first column, and unlucky - in the second, gloomily pitched without stopping. Police Lieutenant Colonel Marina Maltseva, who is responsible for public relations at the Vedenskiy VOVD, sat vacantly in her chair, pointing her working video camera at the sky. There were tears in her eyes.

Returning to the "mainland", Marina will shoot the film "Brothers, do not be silent ...", which later won a bunch of all sorts of prizes, and write the book "Wounded Bird". It seems that there was no more poignant "female" prose about the Chechen war.

I do not believe that all of our riot police died. My heart tells me that they must break through, - Marina prophesies, contrary to the worst forecasts.

On the morning of March 30, a group of six people - five riot policemen and a fighter from the commandant's company - went out to their own. They managed to seep through the ring, lie down in a hollow, and then make their way to the checkpoint after dark.

The fighters were sent to Mozdok to escort the cargo "200", their former comrades.

The men were still in that battle, and could not escape from it in any way (and who knows if they returned from that battle to this day):

- At the headquarters they caught two intercepts on the radio: "There is a column. Standing. Take it."

- The commander (Valentin Simonov - author) went up to the shed, opened the door, shouted:

"Throw the knife, then I will not shoot ..." Then howl: "Allah Akbar!" - and the fight began.

- This guy from the commandant's office, who climbed onto a burning armored personnel carrier, he knew that he was going to his death. He covered us.

- The battle went on for eight hours, but it seemed that five minutes had flown by ...

- If it were not for the second column, we would have simply been soaked.

- When they escaped, they ran along the streams for half an hour. And we immediately agreed: we will not leave each other.

- "Spirits" wet, wet their own - you can't understand where they are shooting from.

- They lay under our NURSs, mortars, Sushki. Almost everyone was hooked with Sushkami. But I am so grateful to them.

- And exactly the day before the general came. He brought notebooks, promised wallpaper, linoleum... Why do we need linoleum?

Don't write about us. Write about those guys who died.

- They were introduced to "Courage". And they should be given a "Hero".

Why did we leave? Why weren't we killed? How can you look their mothers in the eyes now?

- "Spirits" did not expect us to come out. They thought we were all dead there. And we left.

On March 31, when the paratroopers finally reached Hill 813, 31 dead and one wounded were found. Alexander Prokopov from Berezniki survived by a miracle - the wounded were finished off with a control shot in the head.

A few days later, local residents handed over the body of another Permian, Alexander Kistanov. 11 OMON fighters were listed as missing at that time. Much later it became known that none of them had survived. Of these eleven, two seriously wounded bandits were shot almost immediately. The bodies of the remaining nine were not discovered until a month later.

Andrey NIKITIN

Attack on the Perm riot police. An attack on a column of Permian riot police near Zhani-Vedeno. Soldiers of the commandant's company who died in battle and were captured and executed

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