Exploded bridgehead. Requiem for the 245th Regiment Kiselev Valery Pavlovich
Chapter 1 Hours and days
Minute. Hours and days
The most intense days of the operation to capture Grozny were coming. Both sides were preparing for decisive battles ...
From the diary of Alexei Gorshkov:
01/22/2000
The inevitability of the assault on Grozny is becoming ever clearer. The Czechs are not going to surrender the city. Every day, more and more clearly and thoroughly, preparations are being made for the upcoming assault.
01/23/2000
An order was received to march from the Old Fisheries to the southern outskirts of Grozny, where the 506th regiment had already taken the private sector, but could not advance further, strong resistance from the spirits.
01/25/2000
From Khankala we went to Grozny and settled in the area occupied by the 506th regiment.
From the Journal of Combat Actions of the 245th Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment
At 6.00 the regiment began to march to the area of concentration. The march was made along the route: the command post of the regiment - Oktyabrskoye - Alkhan-Kala - Alkhan-Yurt - Prigorodnoye - Khankala. The regiment made a 50-kilometer march and at 13.00 concentrated 1 km northeast of Khankala. The units of the regiment occupied their indicated areas, organized security and began to prepare for the upcoming task. At 15.00, the regiment commander left for the OSH OR of Grozny to clarify the task and organize interaction. In the course of clarifying the task, Major General Troshev reported that Major General Malofeev had been found and taken to the OH of the Grozny group. Major General Malofeev died on January 17, but his body was not found. Today, after a long search, the body of Major General Malofeev and his signalman soldier was found with the help of a search dog near the battlefield, covered with snow. Headquarters officers said goodbye to the deceased.
At 18.30 at the command post, the regiment commander set tasks for the battalion commanders to prepare for the upcoming task.
"We are moving forward..."
Sergei Yudin, regiment commander, guard colonel:
- What mood can be before the battle - excitement, anxiety for subordinates ... The main blow of our troops in Grozny was delivered by the adjacent flanks of the 506th and our regiments. We understood that we were operating in the main direction, that the regiment would have to bear the brunt of the fighting. But the 506th regiment was not in a secondary direction either. We do not share merits, the 506th regiment fought no worse than the 245th and no weaker. The officers and soldiers of both the 506th and 245th regiments fought and behaved with dignity, especially since the 506th regiment suffered most of the losses. And the main burden of the fighting in Grozny fell on the 506th regiment. For operations in the city, assault detachments were created in this regiment. Conducted demonstrations first. The assault detachments of the 506th Regiment went into battle a few days before our arrival and suffered heavy losses. As a result, this regiment was demoralized and abandoned the offensive for several days until the losses of personnel were replenished.
- San Sanych Frolov called me, and we left with him and with the task force for Khankala.
We stood in the field, part of it was mined. Where? What? - difficult to understand. We chose a place for the regiment, our columns soon began to approach. During the day, everyone came up, for daylight hours. We were given two or three days to "sloppiness".
We knew that the spirits could take our bearings, and so that they would not figure us out, during the night at the headquarters of the regiment they redrawn maps of the city on tracing paper.
“Unsuccessfully, the Chechens joked ...”
- When the regiment was transferred from near Katayama around Grozny to Khankala, our platoon covered the column. We got up on the "behe" on the road and waited for the convoy to pass, and due to breakdowns, and until the last cars arrived, it dragged on for a day.
Peaceful Chechens traveled along the roads. We stop the "Volga", and from there the Chechens show us "fuck!". A bus with riot police was just passing by, and they rounded up everyone from this Volga and took them somewhere. Unsuccessfully Chechens joked. In the morning, passing through the village, we saw an aggressive crowd. Chechens yelled at us. It turns out that the tank crushed the car with people.
Vyacheslav Lesin, deputy technical officer of the 2nd motorized rifle battalion, senior lieutenant of the guard:
– Not a tank crushed a car with people. The village was at the entrance to Khankala. There was a column of equipment of the regiment. Almost behind me, at some distance, a BTS-4 repair tractor was towing a faulty infantry fighting vehicle. A Chechen car, like a white Volga, was moving towards. They did not part, the tractor hooked her. Moreover, the Volga was moving brazenly. And, of course, the locals, screaming and screaming, began to gather in a crowd. Having reached his own people, he asked them to convey upstairs that there was a bucha in the village, the column was stopped. An infantry fighting vehicle from a reconnaissance company went there for a showdown.
Vitaly Zavraysky, commander of the 4th motorized rifle company, guard captain:
- I received a task to move to the Oktyabrskoye settlement. They stood there overnight as part of the battalion, replenished all supplies. In the morning we marched through the Northern airport to Khankala. For two or three days they prepared for the upcoming assault on the city. We went on reconnaissance, but it did not work out due to the high density of militant fire.
Alexey Gorshkov:
- Grozny is the key point of the bandits' defense. Everyone understood that if you take it quickly, it will be easier to fight further. We were told that the commander of the unit that would take Minutka Square would receive the title of Hero of Russia.
Not far away, in the depot area and in several private houses, a battalion of the 506th motorized rifle regiment was defending. I then understood the task of our regiment as follows: enter Grozny and squeeze out the bandits in the direction of the Aldy microdistrict. We were standing on Vozdvizhenskaya Street, in front - panel five-story buildings, to the left of Minutka Square, through the viaduct, we could see a three-story red brick shopping center, without windows and doors, and a consumer service building. There were three “candles” on Minutka - nine-story buildings, a school, behind it with “candles” nine-story panel houses, they ended at the Romanov Bridge, and then a hospital complex where Nevzorov filmed his film “Purgatory”.
“Only sparks from the armor…”
Igor Druzhinin, 3rd motorized rifle company, contract soldier:
- Once, even before the assault on Grozny, a couple of boys and I went to the private sector to look for food, and when we went upstairs, it turned out that the general, the head of intelligence in our direction, had come, and the guys complained to him that the foreman and technician of the company were not giving us dry ration. They were given an incomplete service, and I, as a ringleader (although I was not there when talking with the general), as well as Vovan Tkachenko and Diman, at the insistence of a technician and foreman, were transferred from intelligence to infantry.
So I ended up in the second platoon of the third company, Vovan - like in the first company, where his left arm was soon torn off by a shot from the "Chekhov" "AGS".
In the infantry, normal guys crept up. The platoon commander was Lieutenant Vanya Tsykin, like my age, since 1976. I begged myself again "RMB".
We stood in front of the private sector of Katayama, three hundred meters away, lived in wagons, only the windows were sealed from snipers. Snipers worked there all the time, mostly to the sound of artillery. In silence, they did not shoot, so as not to light up. We laid out a small post of concrete blocks on the roof of the building, and watched from there. The tank had just arrived to shoot from us, so the crew couldn’t lean out of it, the snipers fired at it so hard, only sparks from the armor. And I somehow decided there, in a concrete garage, to go in for sports, hit a pear and, forgetting, went out of the garage gate, immediately two shots and holes from a large-caliber rifle appeared in the iron door near my head (often they shot at us from " anti-sniper" caliber 12.7 mm).
My platoon was quite famous in the regiment. At the height, which they took for three days, the boys managed to steal a Niva from the "Czechs" with a mortar installed in the car, and even a couple of "Czechs" to roll. And once half of the platoon went to look for something to eat at home, they stumbled upon the "Czechs". Our boy opens the door to the house, and there is a “Czech” standing there, a machine gun is lowered in his hands, but he manages to fire a burst in our stomach. The battle began, a platoon infantry fighting vehicle jumped to the rescue, covered the machine gunner on the roof. In general, our dumped with losses. Of course, they didn’t stroke the head later, because if they hadn’t gone to the houses, nothing would have happened.
“Fatigue and apathy accumulated ...”
Artur Sataev, Chief of Staff of the 1st Battalion, Major:
- On the twenty-third of January - the march of the regiment near Khankala. Almost immediately, units began to move to Grozny. Fighting began in the city. At first, fighting in the city was scary. Then fatigue and apathy accumulated: I managed to sleep only two or three hours a day.
There was interaction between the troops, but what kind is another question. To say that it was good or bad… No comment… There were enough problems. At the level of the regiment, the interaction was normal. But I can’t say that everything was wonderful and good.
The militants had their own intelligence, their own management, I would not say that it was clear, but not chaotic. Feelings of doom and hopelessness, as someone thinks, they did not have, it was felt that they would leave the city at the right time. But the moral superiority of the militants over us was not.
The battalion headquarters, mortar battery, communications platoon and support platoon were located in the depot in front of the private sector. The battalion commander assigned me the task of deploying the KNP and being with a mortar battery.
"He died before my very eyes..."
Sergey Girin, deputy commander of the 2nd motorized rifle company for educational work, lieutenant:
- On January 24, we entered Grozny and began to move through the private sector in the direction of Minutka Square.
This is where the most difficult stage of the war began ... When moving through the private sector, we changed units of the 506th regiment. One flyer from this unit told me: “I have twelve people left from the platoon, the rest were mowed down ...”
We occupied the area assigned to us. Here, before my eyes, a contract soldier, a young guy from Nizhny Novgorod, died. There were many deaths, but this one was remembered because he died from his own ... Our gunners began shelling the positions of the "Czechs", the so-called separation came from a series of shells fired, and the soldier's head was torn off by shrapnel ... At that time he was standing guard on the street ... It's ridiculous ... It was a painful sight ... The guys put him on the “behu”, I took him to the medical platoon ...
Dmitry Usikov, Senior Assistant Chief of Artillery Regiment:
- We went to Grozny on the twenty-fourth of January, and it started to spin ...
The stress of these days was such that Colonel Yudin ordered special pills to keep him awake. On the edge of Khankala there were two five-story buildings, in one of the panels was the NP of the 506th regiment, they already stood here. We got up, went into another house, the builders lived there, on the third floor - the regiment's first-aid post. We sat there for three days while Bulavintsev took Minutka. At night, a tank shot was fired at this building, the shell hit the corner of the building and went to the third floor, to the first-aid post. Then our ATGM battery driver was wounded in the leg.
In the battles for Grozny, we were given a battery of self-propelled guns of the 752nd regiment. When Bulavintsev's battalion went on the offensive and reached Minutka Square, it was night. Ours went to the area of the cinema, part of the infantry was locked up by the spirits, and then at one in the morning our battery began to fire on Minutka so that the spirits would not sleep. They woke up. It turned out that in the building where our spirits are sitting. The first house is clean, empty, ours report, and the spirits are on the second and third floors. I had to bring the self-propelled guns to direct fire. They completely destroyed the twelve-story building ...
The documents
Combat Order No. 015 for the offensive.
09.00 January 24, 2000
1. The enemy holds the occupied lines along the streets of Filatov, Magistralnaya, Khankalskaya. He tries to defeat our troops with counterattacks and pulls up reserves from the depths of the city. Approximately in the offensive zone of the regiment, up to 400 militants are defending themselves, armed with small arms, 82- and 120-mm mortars, grenade launchers and memory devices, having an advantage in position, because they occupy defenses in multi-storey buildings and, using this, conduct aimed sniper fire at the entire depth of the battle formations of the battalions of the regiment. With the help of the senior commander, in the interests of the regiment, aircraft and artillery are used to destroy enemy manpower and firepower in high-rise buildings in the area of \u200b\u200bthe square. Minute.
2. 245 SMEs and a tank company with two assault detachments No. 4 and 5 attack the corner of Kolbus Street, the corner of Ul. Brothers Nosov in the direction of the street. Chernoglaza - cinema, excl. Minutka square and, in cooperation with the 506th MRR, defeat the enemy in the area of ul. Colbus, pl. Minute, st. Nosov brothers. By the morning of January 25, 2000, take possession of high-rise buildings northeast of the outskirts of the square. Minute. From the left, the 506th MRR is advancing, in the direction of mark 138.0, with the task of defeating the enemy in the area around the corner of Brothers Nosovyh Street, the L-shaped building, and Leonov Ave., the dividing line. On the right, the 33rd OBRON advances, sets up roadblocks in the area of the intersection with the street. Komarov.
3. I decided: to deliver the main blow in the direction of the street. Kolbusa - garages - a cinema - high-rise buildings northeast of Sq. Minute. Inflict fire defeats on the enemy in two periods: fire preparation for the attack and storming of the city and fire support for the attack during the storming of the city. Fire training to be carried out by the forces and means of the senior commander and the fire of the artillery battalion of the regiment, three fire raids within 38 minutes. In the first fire raid lasting 4 minutes, defeat the enemy’s manpower and firepower in the area of Filatov streets - garages - a cinema.
"Capture and hold..."
Sergey Bulavintsev, commander of the 2nd motorized rifle battalion, Major of the Guards:
- My battalion first blocked the Katayama region (this is the northwestern outskirts of Grozny). On the morning of January 23, two columns of our regiment, having circled the city from the north and south, four hours later reached Khankala, the western outskirts, where the reconnaissance group was already located. Here the regiment commander set me a combat mission: the battalion, as an assault detachment, was to capture and hold three high-rise buildings on Minutka Square, which were of key importance in the defense of the militants in this area.
As is often the case in real war conditions, the limited time for preparing for an offensive did not allow us to work out in detail all the issues of organizing a battle, primarily interaction between units and neighbors on the ground.
In addition, the activity of the militants greatly interfered with a thorough reconnaissance. Using, as a rule, houses in the private sector, they fired from sniper rifles, AGS-17 automatic grenade launchers and GP-25 grenade launchers at our troops, often changing their positions. Suffice it to say that during the advancement of the reconnaissance group, the commander of the sapper platoon and two servicemen who provided security were mortally wounded.
I had to limit myself to a visit to the command post of the neighboring regiment and, having agreed there only some questions on the map, return to the area of concentration. The planned tactical-combat exercise in the order of actions of the assault detachment in the city failed to be carried out.
Based on the current situation, an assessment of the strength and nature of the enemy’s actions, as well as the capabilities of our own, attached and supporting units, it was decided to create three assault groups, the basis of which was reinforced motorized rifle companies. Each assault group, in turn, was divided into subgroups: light, medium and heavy. The task of the light one was to capture the object of attack, and it was equipped with small arms, had only the necessary supply of ammunition. The middle subgroup, following the light one, was supposed to provide its actions with fire. This subgroup was armed with eight Shmel-type flamethrowers, eight thermobaric and 16 fragmentation grenades. A heavy subgroup (an 82-mm mortar "Tray" with 30 mines, a heavy machine gun with 300 rounds, four grenade launchers with 24 rounds) supported the actions of light and medium subgroups with its fire, covering the flanks from sudden enemy attacks. Her arrows and machine gunners carried three rounds of ammunition. In the heavy subgroup, in addition, there was an additional supply of ammunition and food rations for the entire assault group.
Our snipers worked according to a special plan (eight people in each company). All of them were paired up to conduct counter-sniper combat, destroy commanders, machine gunners, grenade launchers and mortar crews of militants. Snipers were a separate element of the battle order of the assault squad and reported directly to the commanders of the assault groups.
At 12 o'clock on January 24, the battalion advanced to the starting area for the offensive, which was located in the area of the railway depot. In the interests of increasing survivability and inflicting surprise attacks on the enemy, all the battalion's equipment was hidden in the depot building in readiness to support the actions of the groups. Here are also located: a motorized rifle platoon - a reserve of an assault detachment, a medical platoon and rear units. A mortar battery set up firing positions nearby.
The operation started badly. The battalion from the regiment operating in front was unable to capture the line from which our regiment was to be brought into battle.
The commander of the group, Lieutenant General Bulgakov, sent the first battalion of our regiment to the rescue, which was also soon stopped by enemy fire.
At 13.00, the combat mission was clarified for me, and the battalion rushed forward. Without getting involved in fire duels with militants, bypassing open spaces, through gaps in fences and houses, by the end of the day the companies reached the starting line for the offensive, where they received orders to stop moving, organize all-round defense, watch and night rest.
“I’ll walk along Apricot…”
- Our neighbors, the 506th regiment, on the outskirts of Grozny, were preparing to storm the city for a month. We had to go into battle without careful preparation. Our first assault detachments went into battle at night, the 3rd motorized rifle company approached only by the morning of the next day. At first, there was no good interaction with the 506th regiment.
Since the enemy was listening to all our radio communications, I suggested that the command post change the names of the streets. We renamed all the streets in the regiment's combat zone, drew a diagram, brought it to each company, and changed their names every night. Spirits get used to street names on the air in a day, so the next day we come up with others. This cunning of ours helped us confuse the enemy and reduce losses. I know that since then Bulavintsev loves to sing: “I’ll walk along Abrikosovaya, turn onto Vinogradnaya ...”
Major Bulavintsev reported on the radio: “Bars, I’m Granite, we went to Minutka, welcome ...” At three o’clock in the morning, the assault groups of Bulavintsev’s battalion entered the five-story building on Minutka, but during the battle there turned out to be a layer cake: on some floors ours, on others spirits . Deputy The regiment commander, lieutenant colonel Frolov, was in the first battalion at that time, I lost him altogether for these three days. He was supposed to be in the most dangerous direction, but the units of the battalion sat down so that neither forward nor backward.
On the first day of the assault, we lost twenty people killed and wounded, and in three days - about fifty.
The tension during the assault on Grozny was such that for three days I did not go to sleep at all.
"Take it, clean it up and hold on..."
Andrey Kuzmenko, commander of the 3rd platoon of the 5th motorized rifle company, senior lieutenant of the guard:
- On the twenty-fourth of January, we concentrated in the starting area for the offensive in Khankala. Each company was an assault group, which consisted of three subgroups. Light, it is also a capture group (automatic machines "AK", "AKS", "GP-25", "RPG", "RPO" "Bumblebee"), heavy, it is also a fire support group ("PKM", "AK", "RPG-7", "RPO" - "Bumblebee"), the calculation of the mortar "Vasilek" with a small margin of min. Grenades for "RPG-7" were mostly fragmentation and thermobaric. And the support group is all who remained in the company. Each group commander had a map of the city and a radio station R-148.
The commander of the first platoon, Lieutenant Maltsev, was appointed commander of the capture group, which consisted of 10-12 people, I commanded the fire support group, which already included 18 people. The company commander refused my request to change our positions. It was a shame, because my friend senior lieutenant Kononov from the sixth company was assigned to the first group. The third group in the fifth company was commanded by a contract soldier senior sergeant Cherdakov, it consisted of ten people.
Two people refused to storm the city, this is the conscript Vavilov from Yaroslavl and the contract soldier Tereshin from Shuya. The first gave up fear, and the second came to Chechnya in general for financial reasons. They began to incite the people against the assault, but they were quickly isolated (closed in a freight car). And they were punished in a peculiar way: they were sent in an echelon along with those demobilized soldiers who survived after the storming of the city. Then they told me how they were driving ... And to the deputy. there was no point in contacting the educational company about this. It's better not to talk about him at all.
The first battalion was the first to enter the private sector. After some time, they gave the command to us ...
The further we went, the more destruction became visible on the streets. In one of the yards we came across a platoon of the first company. When I asked what they were doing here, they answered me that there were spirits ahead. I checked my position on the map and we moved forward. A hundred meters later we were fired upon from the attic of one of the houses. We riddled the whole attic and moved on.
It was getting dark fast. We stopped on the outskirts of the private sector, set up secrets and ambushes. Prepared for the night. Although what kind of overnight stay is there ... Senior Lieutenant Kononov (we called him Horse) was sent by the battalion commander to reconnoiter the garage complex. When he returned from reconnaissance, I checked the secrets. “I don’t understand anything,” he says, “I didn’t find these garages. Let's go and see together." - "Let's go to". Indeed, a foundation pit was dug in place of the garages. And that's it.
Then senior lieutenant Kononov with his group went to the cinema, occupied it and entrenched himself there without a fight. He reported to the battalion commander, the battalion commander, in turn, to the regiment commander. The question may arise: why did all my reports go to the battalion commander? The answer is very simple: he was directly at the forefront, along with company commanders. Yes, we were on the same frequency.
They took over the cinema. We started looking around. And then their own artillery slashed through the cinema. The feeling, frankly, was terrible. The battalion commander in a raised voice explained to the regiment commander that we were under fire. The firing stopped.
In front of us was Minutka Square. The battalion commander began to set tasks for the commanders of the assault groups. The first group of the sixth company of senior lieutenant Kononov left and occupied the far wing of a long five-story building, cut in the middle by an explosion. The second group of senior lieutenant Arishin of the sixth company left and occupied the near wing of this five-story building. All this happened without a fight.
The battalion commander began to call the commander of the first group of our company, senior lieutenant Maltsev, to his place - they could not find him. Requested for a call, no response. Neither him nor the group. I didn’t see him again, but then they told me that he became scared, he found a bunch of women’s underwear and left with this underwear. Why he did it is unclear.
The battalion commander called me: “Do you see a nine-story candle in the alignment between the five- and four-story buildings?” - "I see." “Take it, clean it up and hang in there. Only faster, soon it will start to get light. I moved out with my group, and when I passed the passage between the five- and four-story buildings, I was surprised to see that the four-story building had the shape of the letter “G”, although on the city map it was just straight. The courtyard of the house was closed on all sides. We had already passed half of the five-story building, and at that moment machine guns and grenade launchers hit my group from almost three sides. The situation became critical. I noticed that there were also firing points in the "candle" house, and got in touch with the battalion commander. Briefly reported to him the situation, asked permission to take the group to the first and second groups of the sixth company. He allowed, at the same time setting them the task of supporting me with fire and smoke. Although Kononov and Arishin without his team were already crushing enemy firing points with the fire of their groups. Our group, firing back, crawled to the five-story building. When the smoke screen was put up, the spirits began to hit the smoke with such frenzy that at some point I doubted that we would get out alive. And then I noticed that it was starting to get light. So, we must hurry: both we became visible, and the spirits had an aiming bar and a front sight. The last meters - in the smoke - we overcame with a jerk. Half of the group went to Kononov, the other half, together with me, to Arishin.
As it turned out, they left just in time. Reinforcements approached the spirits. The fire became so dense that it became impossible to move around the house. The first wounded appeared. It was lucky that the floor in the corridor fell into the basement and a semi-basement room was formed. It saved us. My platoon commander, senior sergeant Zhenya Petrunkin, crawled up to me and said in a broken voice: “Comrade senior lieutenant, Nyukh (Private Plahotniuk) was killed here.” Immediately a voice from the darkness: "I'm alive!"
The denser the enemy fire was, the larger the window openings in the rooms became, and because of this, there were more wounded. Senior Lieutenant Arishin was wounded in the head by shrapnel. Blood poured down the collar, they stopped her, made a bandage. I made a decision: in order to avoid unnecessary losses, leave fire weapons on duty at the windows, and remove the rest of the soldiers into the basement corridor. I reported the decision to the battalion commander, he approved it.
The radio station went down at Senior Lieutenant Arishin's. By evening, communication with senior lieutenant Kononov, who was in the other wing of the five-story building with part of my group, was lost.
I did not know that Cherdakov's group was sent right behind us, and even without a walkie-talkie. It was then that a messenger crawled from him. And so everyone fired at his group: both the enemy and their own.
In the evening, as it got dark, he sent a volunteer soldier to Kononov. Day pass - there were no options. He returned with people from my group led by Sergeant Kozorezov and the news that Kononov's radio was broken.
How this day was reflected in the documents of the headquarters of the regiment ...
From the war diary
The regiment had the task of changing the units of the 506th regiment, occupying defense in the private sector along Filatov Street, by the end of the day, then storming garages, a cinema and seizing an L-shaped 5-story building and two 5-story buildings located on the northern outskirts of Minutka Square . At 9.40 the regimental commander left for the 506th regiment's OP to organize interaction and determine the procedure for changing units. Then the regimental commander departed to the front line of the 2nd battalion of the 506th regiment to conduct reconnaissance on the ground. The battalion commanders also left with the regimental commander. On the ground, the boundary for the entry of assault detachments into battle was determined. During the reconnaissance of the armored personnel carrier of the regiment commander and the motorized rifle company, they were fired upon by the enemy from the AGS-17. A number of servicemen received injuries of varying degrees.
At 13.30, assault detachments of the 1st and 2nd battalions advanced to their starting lines: st. Michael Kolbus, st. Black-eyed. Prior to this, the regiment commander once again personally specified to the battalion commanders the tasks of the assault on Grozny's facilities on Minutka Square, as well as the facilities adjacent to it from the south. Solved the problems that the commanders had on the spot and gave instructions on resolving other issues that required time.
At 14.40, the 1st Battalion began to advance to change units of the 506th Regiment, the 2nd Battalion was preparing to storm the garage sector and the cinema through the combat formations of the 1st Battalion.
At 1500, the 2nd Battalion began advancing behind the 1st Battalion. At 15.40, the 1st battalion began to change units of the 506th regiment on the street. Kolbus, the 2nd battalion went to the street. Komarov. ISR conducted engineering reconnaissance.
At 16.20, the change of units of the 506th regiment by units of the 1st battalion was completed. At 16.30, the assault group of the 1st assault detachment launched an offensive in the direction of the 1st quarter on the street. Filatova and by 17.00 completely mastered it. The 2nd and 3rd assault groups began the assault. During the offensive, assault groups identified enemy strongholds in the area of the 124.4 mark and the bridge over the railway.
At 17.45 on the NP regiment, equipped in a 5-storey building on the street. Topolev, the head of the Grozny OSH OR, Lieutenant-General Bulgakov, arrived to get acquainted with the situation.
By 19.00, the 2nd battalion had fully completed the assigned task for this time and was fixed at the turn along the street. Filatov between st. Kolbus and Vozdvizhenskaya.
The 1st battalion met the resistance of the enemy from the mark of 124.4, did not enter the battle, entrenched itself at the turn at the intersection of st. Kolbus and Komarov. The artillery battalion opened fire on enemy strongholds at the call of the commander of the 1st battalion.
At 22.00, the reconnaissance group of the 2nd battalion began to conduct reconnaissance of the garage area.
Everyone who survived those battles kept in their memory details that you will never forget ...
“Tears mixed with blood roll down the cheeks ...”
“On the twenty-fourth of January we moved forward. We ran into guys from the 506th regiment. Their losses were very heavy. The private sector ended, high-rise buildings went on. It was here, at the crossroads, that the first losses began. Spirit snipers crisscrossed the road. They wounded Kuzya the machine gunner from the first platoon. A sniper shot him in both legs. Platoon Lieutenant Mamenko tried to pull him out, so the sniper almost shot off his middle finger. Then the guys said that the finger was sewn on to him.
Then the company gathered in the outermost houses along the road. I remember the company commander standing in the doorway and shouting to our platoon: “Run across here one at a time!” The first one ran, I followed him. I turn around and there is no one behind me. The boys standing nearby smile: “I was born in a shirt!” It turns out that while I was running across, the sniper shot at me three times. I ask: “Did you even shoot at the body?” - "Twice in the body, one - in the head."
Then the platoon walked around the non-shootable areas and joined us. The commander gave the command: throw smoke bombs on the road and run across to the other side. Fled. Received new introductory and dashes moved on. We run into a large two-story garage. There is no one in it, behind it is a concrete fence, and behind the fence are the positions of the duh calculation "AGS". The platoon commander contacted the company commander by radio and outlined the situation. The first platoon with snipers pulled up to us. While they were running across, one boy was wounded in the side. And so he lay in the area being shot through ... The company commander calls the “box”, shouts: “I have a “two hundredth”! We need to evacuate immediately!" The guy lies, does not move. We thought everything was dead.
At the same time, our snipers began to shoot the spirits. One of them said: “I can’t aim properly, PSO (optical sniper sight. - Auth.) interferes. The distance is thirty meters. I shoot, I see that I hit, shreds of clothes and meat are pulled out, and he goes on in any way, under drugs. In response, the spirits opened fire from the AGS. Ricochet fragments from the ceiling wounded a contractor from our platoon. He was a cool guy, his name was Kostya. He was 25 years old, but development, to be honest, at 15. He joked all the time, telling jokes for children. But well done, he turned out to be a man, he didn’t put his pants on. He stands, they bandage his head, and tears mixed with blood roll down his cheeks.
Our snipers suppressed the calculation of the "AGS" spirits, but ahead, in a log house, a spiritual sniper sat down. The second platoon was stationed in the next house, they were commanded by the political officer of the company. He was wounded there. In general, the second platoon had no luck with officers. Then he was commanded by a sergeant-conscript.
At dusk, an infantry fighting vehicle drove up to us, apparently from the second company, to pick up the "200th". They approach him, and he himself rises. The guys are shocked: it’s necessary to lie motionless in such a cold for so long - five hours!
The night has come. Spirits came to collect their dead. They light up "candles" - such dim lighting rockets, and yell so drawn out - "Allah Akbar!". Everything is on track. The company commander commands: "Prepare to repel a possible attack!" He takes his "AKMS" and with the words "Glory to the CPSU!" releases a long burst into the opening. Rzhach stood for five minutes. So at least a little bit, but the nervous tension was thrown off ...
“We advanced without armor…”
Igor Druzhinin, 3rd motorized rifle company, contract soldier:
We spent the night in hastily pitched tents. In the morning we were given as many BCs as you can take. They received new camouflage robes, white ones, to replace the old ones, and began to advance on Grozny on foot. Then "behi" with "two hundredths" drove up. The boys were well torn: the shell of our SAUshka turned out to be undershot. The battalion commander yelled to get the "behi" out of sight, otherwise we would go into battle, and some already had eyes wide with fear.
They advanced without armor towards Minutka Square. The entire private sector, through which they passed, was destroyed, not to say completely, there were a lot of places where there were just heaps of bricks instead of houses. Before us, the 506th regiment stormed here, which we seemed to be changing, since it was defeated. We found a place where ours were soaked by a shell. The iron gates at the house are covered in blood and holes.
We moved by dashes to the end of the private sector and settled in the first more or less whole private houses. Some of them contained dead militants. Immediately they began to lay bricks on the windows, climbed around the house. Whether there were ours ahead, it was not clear, from the nearest high-rise buildings they were shooting in our direction. In the evening, they lit a fire behind the house, began to cook food. The "Czechs" shot a little at the reflections of the fire, but they thrashed from the "border", but they could not get us.
From somewhere a tank of the 506th regiment drove up to us, the peasants sat down with us, we fed them. And they are making plans for how they will take the five-story building in the morning - it seems that their boys stayed there, but the “Czechs” captured almost all of it. The most interesting thing is that they gathered five of them to fight. Here are the men!
“The task of the day was completed…”
Alexander Frolov, Deputy regiment commander, guard lieutenant colonel:
- In the new direction of operation, we had to replace the 506th motorized rifle regiment. The units of the regiment passed the streets of the private sector of Grozny, almost one and a half kilometers, with very heavy losses - there were 12-20 people left in the companies. They almost passed the private sector, there was one block left to the multi-storey buildings in the center of Grozny. According to the plan, the 506th regiment should reduce its sector of the offensive, three streets are cut into us, we go between the 1st and 506th motorized rifle regiments. But it turns out that the 1st regiment, the Tamanians, is behind us, but they had no combat experience, although they were armed to the teeth, they were our second echelon. We, next to the 276th regiment, and then some more units. We entered the streets, I am in the center with the 2nd battalion, on the right is the 1st battalion. They quickly got involved, very quickly, so that the spirits did not have time to figure out the situation. At night, along one street, they approached the shopping center, as it turned out later, and the garages in front of it, in fact, these were not garages, as on the map, but a foundation pit, it was impossible to go along the second street right away, but then they went in, expanded the front of the offensive. There, the 1st battalion ran into reinforced firing points and got stuck. And when we came to them from the side, the spirits there threw everything and rushed. We have completed the task of the day. We decide with a battalion commander or two: we sleep for three hours, have a quick bite and at three in the morning in groups of 3-5 people - forward until the soul rises and prays. Bulavintsev's battalion quickly went to the cinema and to the shopping center. I was behind him about 200 meters. The morning came, the spirits saw that we had no support on the right and on the left. The 506th regiment does not move. General Bulgakov, it was heard on the air, swears, removes the regiment commander from his post: “Why haven’t they taken Minutka Square yet!”
“A military tribunal arrives with fighters ...”
Alexander Likhachev, chief of staff of the regiment, lieutenant colonel:
- In the midst of the fighting on Minutka, a representative of the military prosecutor's office from the group with a group of soldiers raided the headquarters of the regiment. It turned out - for the battalion commander Major Bulavintsev, arrested for leaving the bridge over the railway. They began to figure it out ... Bulavintsev went to Minutka not in the lane allocated to his battalion, but on the right (there was no neighbor there), rounding this bridge. He passed it and returned to his offensive zone. The report that Bulavintsev had crossed the bridge left the regiment for the headquarters of the group. General Bulgakov tears and mosques: "I left the bridge!" A bridge was needed. Bulavintsev did not defend it, because the bridge was not in its offensive zone, and went to Minutka, where he had a combat mission. He is surrounded for three days, he fails to deliver anything, but a military tribunal arrives with fighters: “Give Major Bulavintsev here!” I say - go to Minutka and try to take it. Then he showed the combat order of the regiment, where it was clearly written that this bridge was excluded from the offensive zone of the Bulavintsev battalion. “Give me this order…” asked the representative of the military tribunal. “I won’t give it, it was issued on the basis of the combat order of the group; it is at the headquarters of the group. This is where it all ended...
“Four days left until the demobilization…”
Alexey Gorshkov, commander of the 3rd platoon of the 3rd motorized rifle company, senior lieutenant:
- Bulavintsev's battalion, in my opinion, without reconnaissance, entered Minutka Square through the garages at night, sat down in the basements of a five-story building and for two days the "Czechs" threshed them. On the evening of January 25, Bulavintsev, according to the words of the battalion commander and company commander, went to the regiment via communication: “We won’t go out ourselves, we need help.” They call me to the company commander - we were just going to sleep. At 0.30, the command to the platoon is “Rise!”.
On January 24 and 25, our company stood on Vozdvizhenskaya Street, on Khankalskaya Street there was a cinema - without walls, only the wall from where the cameraman showed films survived. Our task was to break through the corridor to Bulavintsev's battalion. We went with the whole company, platoons. My platoon was called "ranger" - I had a grenade launcher, machine guns - two "PKM", three "RPK" and a sniper, a normal guy.
The conscripts rushed into battle, how much it cost me the strength to keep them out: “You have four days left before demobilization ...” They usually advanced like this: me, Vova the radio operator followed me - Pager Jan, machine gunner Seryozha Petropavlovsky - Trachacha and one contract soldier. First they let out smoke, and only then did the conscripts go, five or six, accompanied by one or two contract soldiers. The machine gunner Kolya Krasnov, we called him Kranov Klya, was at the rear, after his story, how he signed his notebook in the first grade - and the “double basses”, the sniper and the RPK machine gunner. They left the battle in the same sequence. I was the last to leave, I never left ahead of my soldiers, there was no such thing. According to my tactics, other platoons acted.
We entered at one in the morning through a cut-down garden of the private sector, 20-25 meters wide, to the right were the viaduct and Minutka Square, to the left - the House of Life. The second platoon goes first, the first one follows, and the company commander suddenly says to me: “You will stay with me, you need to cover the command post of the company.” I was very offended: “I’ll go myself!” - "You will go to the tribunal!"
At one in the morning, the first and second platoons began to advance, and at two or three hours the battle began ...
"Stuck in a traffic jam..."
Artur Sataev, chief of staff of the 1st motorized rifle battalion, major:
- After the first battles, at night the regiment commander pointed out my shortcomings in the organization of communications and demanded my presence in the private sector of Grozny, where there were units, a battalion commander and an assistant battalion commander for artillery.
Taking a BMP-1KSh with him, he went to the units at night. There was fog that night, and it was difficult to navigate the unfamiliar terrain at night in the city. In the private sector, everything was ruined, and in some places you can’t understand whether this is a former street, or whether a tank drove through the yards. I got stuck in a traffic jam, there are infantry fighting vehicles, both ours and neighboring units, and they don’t know whether to go forward: the lead vehicle came under fire. Tears from the BMP, the officers say: "There is an ambush ahead, militants." To my knowledge, it should be clean. Just in case, I asked for the name of the street we were on. He sent his soldier to find a sign with the name of the street, he came after 10 minutes, found nothing.
I decided to rely on my location data, and I was not mistaken. I contacted the battalion commander, described the situation and location to him. He replied that it was possible to go there directly to the militants, began to explain that it was necessary to go through yards, to explain which yards did not work, said that he would send a person to guide the combat vehicle. After 20 minutes, a soldier from the grenade launcher platoon of our battalion came to me, he led the car to the house where the battalion commander was. I remember the battalion commander Major Ilyukhin at that moment ... The man did not sleep at all for several days. I don't know what he did to stay awake: eating coffee beans, or taking sleep medication, or just holding on. But didn't fall. He said: "Arthur, communication is the business of the chief of staff, take the battalion's communications chief, Lieutenant Neikshin, and make it normal."
Communication problems were due to the fact that during the battle they were not charged, and for the most part the batteries of the radio stations were lost. That same night, I went to the regimental command post in the hope of finding batteries. The signalmen managed to beg for only a few charged batteries. It was necessary to find charged batteries to get out now and tomorrow. Everything worked out for us, but one unit remained without communication. The exit has been found. I ordered the commander of the mortar battery, which at that time was not moving and was in the depot, to break up the passenger cars and get the car batteries, connect them to the radio stations using wires, creating the necessary voltage, excluding the battery banks of large car batteries. Everything worked.
Having eliminated the shortcomings, I decided to stay in the city, closer to the units.
At dawn, with Lieutenant Neikshin, they went around the houses where the units were, all the companies of the battalion collected enough batteries, handed them over to the communications company for charging. I remember: when I went to the supply platoon at the depot, the soldiers were sitting there, drinking tea, playing a two-cassette player, powered by station batteries, and about five of them lying nearby ... I was ready to shoot them, but I gave the soldiers a dressing down, calmed down and took the batteries.
During the hostilities, I often had to travel around Grozny at night. Always at the forefront, among the units, it was much more comfortable than driving around the city at night, even though you were going to the regimental command post. It was real to run into the underdogs or "friendly fire" at night. But that first time, in an unfamiliar city, on a command vehicle, navigating the fog on a map, among the ruins - the feeling was not pleasant ...
"The sniper didn't bother us anymore..."
Andrei Aktaev, machine gunner of the 3rd platoon of the 1st motorized rifle company, contract soldier:
We spent the whole night in the garage. In the morning the dukhovskiy sniper began to play pranks again. I remember a grenade launcher, a contract soldier from the first platoon - like a crazy guy - shouting: “Boys! Cover!" Everything in that direction is a flurry of fire. He runs out with a “border”, takes aim and, with some sort of scream, releases a vacuum grenade. And so three times.
Somewhere closer to dinner, three soldiers and an officer from the 506th regiment ran across to us. Each brought a pair of Bumblebees with him. They asked: "Cover!" They ran out and how they blew from three flamethrowers - even crumbs fell from the windowsills. And that's it, the sniper didn't bother us anymore. After lunch we moved on. The platoon was located in a house. They spent the night there. The next day, the assault on Grozny ended for my platoon: they sent an artillery battalion to guard it.
“Everything was shot through by militants…”
Vitaly Zavraysky, commander of the 4th motorized rifle company, captain:
It's the twenty-fifth of January. My company had already received the task and was all on armor, lined up in a column, when the regimental psychologist approached and congratulated me on the birth of my daughter. And that thought never crossed my mind...
He went with a company to carry out the assigned task. Vehicles with crews were left on the outskirts of the private sector near the railway depot. They broke up into three platoons, each was indicated the street along which they were to advance. Each company was an assault group. Thus, our entire battalion was divided into groups: light, medium and heavy.
With the beginning of the assault, one company went forward, followed by the second, my company was the last one. The supply of ammunition, medicines and food was minimal. The assault began at 16-17 hours. We had to advance in the private sector, making passages in the fences, walls of houses, since it was impossible to move along the road: everything was shot through by militants. They made their way until dark.
The battalion commander gathered the company commanders and once again clarified the task. Half an hour later, the first company left the private sector. After some time, they reported from there that they had occupied the Rodina cinema and another house. It was followed by the next company with the battalion commander. Then the artillery of the regiment began its work. The militants discovered our middle group and opened fire on it. It was clarified to me that I and my company were on the outskirts of the private sector. He entrenched himself, took up all-round defense and stayed here until the morning. In the morning, the militants opened fire on me, and at that time two companies were fighting in the cinema - it was heard over the connection. Regimental artillery fire was constantly adjusted. I ordered the mortar crew attached to me to process the area in front of us, from where the militants were firing. So we fired back until lunch the next day. Two companies in the cinema were running out of ammunition.
“It was possible to light a cigarette from the trunk ...”
Igor Druzhinin, 3rd motorized rifle company, contract soldier:
- At night, at two or three o'clock, the company was assembled and told that we had to go forward, take the shopping center. Ahead was a small park about twenty meters wide, a cinema to the left of it, a shopping center to the right, and a five-story building looked directly at us. We lay down near the park, and then the commander of our third company said to my former reconnaissance commander: “Well, reconnaissance, let's go ahead, and we are behind you,” and the reconnaissance company, Senior Lieutenant Katunkin excused himself: “We were not given such a task to lead you forward ... ”, in general - scared.
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Lyudmila Simonova (Shcherbakova) school teacher tells about him: "I taught Andryushka from the 7th grade,was their class teacher from 7th to 11th grade, taught Russian language and literature. There were 43 people in the class then. At the parent meeting, his mother, Lyudmila Ivanovna, always took with her - this is an educational moment: he listened to complaints about himself from teachers. And they complained about inattention, could not sit for a long time, something had to be done. In the class, he enjoyed authority from classmates, did not offend anyone, was polite with teachers, respected adults. He was the ringleader in the class: he organized all the trips: he took us to nature at any time of the year. We had a favorite place - not far from the Holy Spring: the boys from the class made a table, and around the bench: we made a fire, played, sang songs. Until now, each of us remembers these events. He honestly served in the army. When he came on vacation, all the graduates in the town gathered at Andrey's. saw off from vacation together, went to the station. But when the news came, the guys and I again gathered at Andrei's mother. They waited for confirmation of death and .... They did not believe ... But then they brought a zinc coffin. Colleagues arrived, who talked about our HERO: he never complained about anything, he was such a "quickie". We watch a film where he stands with his colleagues on the mountain and says: "There is not much left. Wait. I will arrive soon." And a heavy exhalation .... DID NOT ARRIVE. They also buried the whole town. We try not to forget about our graduates: we go to the cemetery, introduce younger schoolchildren to boys who have not yet had time to start a family, but have steadfastly endured all the hardships of military service. About them it is written to the book "The Black Tulip".
Andrey served in military service in the missile forces. After the deadline, he went on a contract to reconnaissance in the division of his military camp.
He left for Chechnya on October 25, 1999. Andrei was a wonderful friend and person. He respected his parents. LudmilaSelezneva (Plotnikova) Mother,Andreyloves and misses today.Natalya Borodaenko. Nina Bulgakova. Marina Revina nurses who treated the wounded of the 506th infantry regiment in 1999. They remember him as cheerful, he came to the medical unit, showed his body armor, which his mother had perfected for him.
On December 17, 1999, a reconnaissance group of seven people under the command of Senior Lieutenant Alexei Kichkasov conducted reconnaissance in a dacha village near the settlement. Suburban. From here, the militants conducted a harassing shelling of the units of the second battalion of the regiment from sniper rifles, grenade launchers and ATGMs. Having found several firing points, bunkers and dugouts on the slopes, they received an order to withdraw. In the afternoon we returned to the point of temporary deployment. battle for height 382.1 near Grozny. Two hours later, the company was given a new task: to capture the strategically important height 382.1, as well as two skyscrapers on the outskirts of it and hold them until the units of the second battalion approached. A powerful artillery preparation was promised, including the use of volume explosion projectiles, as well as support by all available forces and means.
This hill towered over the Chechen capital. It opened up an excellent view of Prigorodnoye, Gikalovsky, the 53rd section of Grozny, Chernorechye. The psychiatric hospital was also clearly visible - a strong cruciform building made of red brick, in which, as it turned out later, there was a powerful stronghold of the militants. Rocket men once stood at the very height, and powerful concrete fortifications and deep bunkers have survived to this day.
December 18, 1999
at 7.15 they rushed forward in a long chain along a narrow path. Twenty minutes later the head patrol and the first group reached the outskirts of the plateau. There were no more than 150 meters to the tower. At the bottom of the circular trench, they found a large-caliber machine gun, carefully covered with a blanket. After ten or fifteen steps, the patrol stumbled upon a “spirit” that had grown up as if from under the ground. Private Yu. Kurgankov, going first, reacted faster - a line at point-blank range and a dash into the trench.And immediately the plateau came to life, machine guns and machine guns started working. The head patrol and the first group dispersed to the right of the direction of movement and occupied a shallow trench along the edge of the height.
The battle is already going on all over the high-rise. To the right, slightly ahead, were Sergeant N. Meleshkin, Senior Sergeant Seleznev, Company Sergeant Edik, Sergeant E. Khmelevsky, Junior Sergeant A. Arshinov, Corporal A. Shurkin. Having run to the roof of the bunker, senior sergeant Andrey Seleznev throws a grenade down.
At this time, the "spiritual" snipers opened fire. In the second group, Corporal A. Shurkin was the first to die. The bullet hit him in the eye. Without a cry, he silently sank down. Senior Sergeant Seleznev died next - a sniper's bullet pierced his arm and entered his chest. Andrei was turned around before our eyes, the “unloading” on him was smoking. Sergeant E. Khmelevsky also died. He almost ran to the entrance to the hangar. The first bullet hit him in the chest, the second in the chin.
On the right flank, in the first group, an ordinary S. Kenzhibaev died from a sniper bullet, and a big man from Penza, junior sergeant S. Nedoshivin, was hit in the neck, breaking an artery. Private A. Zashikhin on the radio transmits to the regiment that there is a battle, there are dead and wounded. In the next moment, he himself is wounded by a grenade fragment.
On the radio comes the order to withdraw. The company commander, Lieutenant I. Ostroumov, is trying to bring it to everyone, but this is not easy to do. Fighters in groups of several people are in different trenches. The radio station of the first group was smashed by an explosion, the signalmen were injured, and the roar was such that you couldn’t shout. And Ostroumov with seven soldiers who were nearby, including an artillery gunner and a signalman, goes down. He returned to the regiment at about nine in the morning.
And the high-altitude battle continued. A machine gun burst was seriously wounded in the stomach by Lieutenant V. Vlasov. Sapper Bulatov, who rushed to his aid, was killed by a sniper.
A week later, Major Ilyukhin, the chief of intelligence of the regiment, led the fighters to a height of 382.1. The height was occupied at night, without shots. For a week, aviation and artillery plowed it beyond recognition.
In the morning at the height we found three of our comrades. The bodies of Senior Sergeant Seleznev and Sergeant Khmelevsky were mutilated.
Foreman V. Pavlov died in Mozdok on December 25, on the very day when the height will become ours. Junior Sergeant S. Nedoshivin will be found by the Ministry of Emergency Situations in three months, he will be buried at home in Penza. Private Kenzhibaev and sapper Bulatov are still considered missing. I and several of my comrades were the last to see and carried them from that height. That they still could not endure is our pain for life, and that they died heroically is a fact.
The head of intelligence, Major N. Ilyukhin, will die from a sniper's bullet on January 21 in Grozny, on Minutka Square. Senior Lieutenant A. Kichkasov has already retired. Aleksey is not a regular military man (he graduated from Saransk University, a teacher and trainer in martial arts). Kichkasov has more than thirty military reconnaissance missions to his credit, he is an excellent officer and a fearless commander. On January 23, Aleksei will be seriously shell-shocked in Grozny and, after being cured in a Rostov hospital, will retire to the reserve. For the battle at an altitude of 382.1, for Grozny, Kichkasov will be presented with the title of Hero of Russia. Thank you, Alexey, that you did not leave us at that height, brought us to your own ..
On the right Ilyukhin Nikolay Major of reconnaissance company. Andrew's friendwill die from a sniper's bullet on January 21 in Grozny, on Minutka Square.
Blagov Sergei Alexandrovich, born on April 15, 1980, the city of Kirzhach, Vladimir Region. In 1986, Seryozha went to study in the 1st grade, school No. 6, and in 1995 he graduated from school and entered vocational school No. 8, Kirzhach, as a milling turner, but Seryozha did not like the profession and after studying for 1 year, due to a difficult financial situation, he went work at the Avtosvet plant, and continued to study at night school. Finished 11 classes. I dreamed of being a truck driver. Ros Seryozha was a kind and sympathetic boy, he always helped his elders, his friends, and he had a lot of them, loved and respected him very much, for his frankness, he loved his little sister Sveta very much. From the first salary, I bought her good boots, which she dreamed of, and a jacket, and said that now she would always take care of her, and, of course, mother about you. Serezha was drafted into the army on June 25, 1998, he had just had his cast removed, he had a fracture of his collarbone, I wanted to go to the military enlistment office and, on the basis of the law, demand that he be given a deferment for 6 months, but he told me, don’t worry mom , and you don’t have to go anywhere, I’ll leave half a year earlier, I’ll return half a year earlier. His words came true exactly for half a year Seryozha returned, but only in a zinc coffin. First, he ended up serving in Samara, where he served a little more than 3 months, and then he was transferred to serve in Orenburg, the village of Totskoye, military unit 21716. Seryozha sent letters home every week, but since July 1999, there has not been a single letters. Wherever I just didn’t apply, wherever I didn’t write, I went to Moscow several times in minutes. defense, but nowhere could I find an answer to my question, where is my son? The guys who went through the first Chechen were advised to write to the field post office Moscow 400, they wrote every day, but there was no answer. The only letter came from Seryozha on January 26, 2000, but by that time my son was no longer alive, he died. The letter was written on January 4, in which he described how they celebrated the New Year, that they were standing near Khankala, waiting for a replacement, that their wanderings will probably end soon and he will return home, and Svetka himself will take him to graduation in a beautiful white dress. But his dream never came true. For a very long time I did not know how Seryozha died, for almost 15 years I was looking for his friends and colleagues, and when I went to the site 506 SMEs, those with whom he served responded to me. Kostya Bondar wrote to me that he and Serezha started from Dagestan, and then Chechnya. He wrote to me, Natalya, your son Sergei and I served together in Totsk in 506 SMEs, Although he was half a year younger than me, but with us he had good friendly relations, he was a good fighter in his service, a gunner operator of the BMP-2, and just as a person, cheerful, cheerful, sociable. After the collapse of the union, our regiment participated in all wars and local conflicts, and the second Chechen war did not bypass us, damn it. Khankala in December 99, then went to Grozny. Officially, the assault began on January 17, these days the regiment suffered heavy losses, then advanced to Minutka. According to the boys, Serezhin’s infantry fighting vehicle was knocked out, he could not have gone further on the assault, but he put on a civilian jacket and went on the assault with the infantry, and the next day he had an order to go home, and just a week later they would take Grozny. In general, they have this BMP from the Terbsky ridge, they ran into a mine, it’s good that nothing terrible happened, everyone remained alive, then on the 20th of December they were shot down, there is even a video about it, but also all remained intact. And you also asked why there were no letters, he, like most of us, did not want to upset you, because you were the most sacred thing in this life for him, and he loved you very much. Seryoga was brave and courageous, always ready to help others. His deeds and actions prove this. Thank you very much for your son, that he was raised and brought up like that. Alexey Abrosimov, Serezha's colleague. I remember when his BMP was knocked out, everything that was in it, together with Seryozha, we unloaded ammunition from it. And then this wrecked car was burned. In January 2000, before the next assault on the 22nd, I talked with Serezha, he said that after his BMP was burned, he would go in the assault group, most likely in the capture group. Then on January 23, I saw him at 4 in the morning at the formation in the capture group. The capture group began to move, after a while, I saw that two contractors were carrying a soldier in their arms, I ran up to them and saw Sergey, he did not show signs of life, and his face was white when I took off his bulletproof vest to make it easier to carry it, I saw a bullet wound on the left side in the area of the ribs. The contractors said that he didn’t even have anywhere to hide, when they carried him, his last words were, mom right in the heart. "Sergey died in battle as a real hero. Dmitry Khudyakov. I don’t remember all the details for sure, but their BMP , they shot down on the 5th quarter in Grozny, they burned their car with a mechanic and retreated. Before the assault, I called him to my crew, but he said that he did not leave his own and remained with the infantry and went on the assault on foot, I shot back and went to the rear for exercises, from the medical point they reported that ours was brought without documents, we need to identify it. I remember he was wearing a leather jacket, and his full name was carved on the back of his "suicide bomber", I personally checked it myself. Asked the guys how it turned out? They said they shot from the fly, pulled out the wounded, and he himself went into battle again, he did not have time to hide. Then the contractor dragged him away, told me, Dimon right in the heart. And "he had 24 orders to go home. Seryozha was awarded the Order of Courage, posthumously.
captain
KOZHANOV Yury Anatolievich
01.02.1968 -10.08.1996
military unit 21617 506 msp
Awarded the Order of Courage (posthumously)
I will return to you, relatives, from the war ...
He dreamed of being a soldier. Dedicate your life to serving the Motherland.
Yuri Anatolyevich Kozhanov was born on February 1, 1968. His childhood passed in the village of Raksha. Beautiful places, beautiful nature! What can you tell about his childhood? Perhaps it was the same as that of all rural children. He was fond of photography, loved sports. The letters alone speak for themselves. And there are a lot of them in the Kozhanov family! The parents were very proud of their son.
One day, Yuri found an advertisement in a newspaper about the recruitment of cadets to the Chelyabinsk Tank School.
“I will gnaw the earth, crawl, but I will not return to Raksha,” Yuri said when he left to enter Chelyabinsk. And he did. In August 1985, Yuri Kozhanov was enrolled in the list of cadets of the Chelyabinsk Higher Tank Command School. The joy of the parents knew no bounds.
Anna Andreevna, holding back her tears, leafs through her son's cadet album. Here he is with friends, here at the field exit, and here at a friend's wedding. On the first page there is an inscription: “About my life, about the years in the Chelyabinsk Higher Tank School. 1985 - 1989". And then photos and poems, playful inscriptions.
Cadet life is not easy. And only those who have walked this path can judge it. Many people falsely think that military schools are "separate" from the army. Believe me, those who put on shoulder straps with the letter “K” connected their lives with her.
Yesterday's boys quickly became men. The values of friendship and mutual assistance, respect for elders - this is, perhaps, an incomplete list of the qualities that they acquired there.
This was only the beginning of the military path. What a difficult road! But more on that later.
Yura missed his home, parents, friends. But he never forgot why he was here. I didn't let myself relax. But when the vacation came, pride overwhelmed him! And not only him, but also his parents. Everything here again resembled childhood: fishing, swimming in the pond and, of course, friends.
So flew four years of study. On the shoulders - brand new lieutenant's shoulder straps. After graduating from college, the young lieutenant was sent to serve in Ukraine, in the city of Rava-Russkaya. The first time was hard. But he did not complain about fate. In those years, he married a beautiful girl Tatyana, whom he met while still at school. Soon a son was born in a young family. Four years later, Yuri was transferred to the service in Perm. I had to travel around the country. In the mid-90s, it was especially difficult to serve. Monetary non-payments, the indifference of the military leaders - this is a characteristic feature of that time.
Suddenly, Yuri tells his family that he is leaving for Chechnya. He rode, as they say, for a young guy. Whether he took pity on him or there were other circumstances - we will never know. At that time, Yuri was the captain. The trip was supposed to last six months. For relatives, days stretched, and then months of waiting. From the frames on television, the heart contracted. In the memory of many citizens of our country, there was still Afghanistan, and now Russia has fallen ill with a new disease called Chechnya.
From that moment on, the myths about the war were debunked. Everyone knew perfectly well what was happening in the Caucasus. And only in letters Yura, with childish naivety, calmed his relatives, not giving them a reason to worry.
"Greetings from the Caucasus!" - Yuri wrote in a letter home. - Hello, mom, dad, Vasya, Anyutka and niece! With great regards and a lot of best wishes to you, I. In the first lines of my letter, I hasten to inform you that I am alive and well, and I wish you all the same. Things are going well for me.
The Caucasus, it turns out, is a very good place to relax. In fact, there is amazing nature here, clean air, no radiation for you, after a while you can already harvest, the land is fertile. We laugh, they say why not a resort?! There is no alcohol, only juices, compote and tea, the body is cleansed. In 9 days it will be 3 months since I am here. The business trip is for 6 months, so half of it is over! I got an apartment, however, a 2-room one, and that's okay. Now there is a clearing of settlements from "spirits" as we call them, the Ministry of Internal Affairs is engaged in this. Maybe soon it will all end here. As for the withdrawal, nothing has been specifically decided yet.
Well, in a nutshell, that's all I have. Write how things are going for you, what's new in the Tambov region, like a niece? Probably big, because 6 months already. Greetings to everyone from Ichkeria. Waiting for an answer.
07/16/96"
Yuri was a kind and sociable person. Could feel sorry for others. For an officer, this is a very valuable feature. And what he experienced and saw, he preferred to keep in himself. And he wrote warm letters to his wife - in Orsk, to his mother - in Raksha: “Everything is fine with me. The business trip ends soon, and I'll be back." The parents received the last letter on July 29, and August 10, 1996 will forever remain a black day in the life of the Kozhanov family.
Yuri could not turn away from someone else's misfortune. The war did not tolerate this doubly. The shoulder of a comrade and mutual assistance is a special thing at the front.
On August 10, 1996, according to military correspondents of Komsomolskaya Pravda, armored columns of the army came to the aid of the surrounded soldiers of the internal troops, making their way through the streets of Grozny. A fierce battle ensued. The militants shouted in rage: "Allah Akbar!" Yuri fell, slashed by shrapnel. The Chechen bullet hit the officer one of the first. The militants knew whom to kill.
Yuri was buried with full military honors in the city of Orsk, Orenburg Region. And the government, with its farewell memorial gift, awarded Captain Yuri Kozhanov the Order of Courage (posthumously). Three years later, a letter will come to the Kozhanovs' house:
"Hello Yura!
I don’t know if you still remember us, but we often remember you!
We are the Rumyantsevs. Don't fall off your chair, it's really us. We have been looking for you for a year, but for some reason everything is in vain. We decided to write to the parent's address. Where are you currently serving? Rumyanez entered the academy and has been living in Moscow since September of this year, while I still live in Kamyshin with my children, work in our regiment, and go to Moscow every month. We are going to Moscow for the New Year with the children. Come to visit my place. If you still remember, then on New Year's we have a double occasion to drink. In general, I really want to see you, because we haven’t seen you for 10 years.
If possible, please call. Will wait. Or write about yourself, where you are, how and what.
Yurka, write or call and come. Sergei would be glad to meet. We will be waiting. I think we will have something to talk about when we meet!
Rumyantsev. 7.12.99"
But Yuri will never be able to come to visit. Will die the death of the brave on the fiery land of Chechnya.
The branches of the trees are still swaying in the wind near the father's house. But Anna Andreevna and Anatoly Grigorievich grew old from trouble and tears - there is nothing to make up for the loss of their son. And his sons are already big. The eldest is likely to follow in his father's footsteps.
Today, December 9, Russia celebrates a memorable date - the Day of Heroes of the Fatherland. More than 27,000 servicemen of the division based in the region passed through the "hot spots". For courage and heroism in carrying out the tasks set by the command, more than 2.5 thousand soldiers and officers were awarded combat awards of the Motherland. Three streets of the military town - Sinelnik, Kobin, Petrikov - bear the names of the fallen heroes. The title of Hero of Russia was awarded to 12 servicemen of the Totsk division, seven - posthumously.
On the eve of Heroes of the Fatherland Day, I would like to remind readers of the exploits of those who continued the glorious traditions of the Russian army, beat the enemy without mercy, defending peace and tranquility in the homes of compatriots at the cost of their own lives.
In the battle during the capture of the mountain village of Shali, one of the largest centers of Dudayev's formations, on March 28, 1995, a difficult situation developed. One of the advancing companies was ambushed.
Chief of Staff of the Motorized Rifle Battalion of the 506th Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment of the Ural Military District, Guards Major Igor Anatolyevich PETRIKOV replaced the wounded company commander. The militants, local residents, chose a very convenient position, practically not allowing the Russian fighters to raise their heads and even move away. Under these conditions, Petrikov made an unexpected decision for the enemy: to attack! With a swift throw, the company knocked out the enemy from fortified positions, which not only saved itself from destruction or humiliation in captivity, but also allowed other units to move forward. This daring victorious spurt saved others, but cost the life of the commander himself - Igor Petrikov died a heroic death. For courage and heroism shown in the performance of military duty, he was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation (posthumously), the Gold Star medal was awarded to his relatives. Hero of Russia I.A. Petrikov is forever enrolled in the lists of the commandant's company of the 27th MSD.
In February 1995, the motorized rifle battalion of the 506th Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment, with the support of tanks of the 3rd Tank Company, commanded by Guards Captain Alexander Vladimirovich SINELMIK, captured the dominant height in the Novye Promysl area, which led to the final encirclement of Grozny. For 15 hours, the militants made furious attempts to knock out motorized riflemen and tankers from a height. At the critical moment of the battle, Sinelnik led an armored group consisting of a tank and two infantry fighting vehicles, reached an advantageous position and struck at the enemy. Having called fire on himself, the commander gave the motorized riflemen the opportunity to gain a foothold on their lines. Six shots from a grenade launcher were fired at his tank, but, skillfully maneuvering, the captain continued to fight. And even being mortally wounded by a shot from an ATGM, he brought the tank to a safe place, ordered the crew to leave the burning car, and he himself died. Posthumously received the title of Hero of Russia, forever enrolled in the lists of the 3rd tank company of the tank battalion of the 506th Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment.
A few months later, in October 1995, the head of the engineering service of the same regiment, Major Alexander Ivanovich KOBIN, also stepped into eternity. A column of fuel trucks, which he commanded, was ambushed. In a heavy battle under heavy enemy fire, the column commander covered the withdrawal of personnel, trying not to let the enemy get close to the vehicles. In this battle, 10 militants were destroyed, but one shot from an enemy grenade launcher turned out to be accurate - it hit a fuel truck. Burning fuel gushed over the officer. With a living torch, Kobin rushed to the river, knocked down the flame. Then, with a fight, he made his way to the fighters who took up all-round defense and commanded them until the aircraft arrived. Major Kobin was evacuated to the hospital, where he died from wounds and burns. The title of Hero of Russia was awarded posthumously. He was also awarded the Order of Courage, the medal "For Courage".
Another Hero of Russia from the 506th motorized rifle regiment, the commander of the guard squad, junior sergeant Alexei Nikolaevich MOROHOVETS, showed courage and military skill in the battles of the second Chechen war. Acting as part of a motorized rifle platoon of junior lieutenant Konstantin Sitkin, Alexei distinguished himself in battle on November 26, 1999. At night, the platoon secretly bypassed the bandits and began a battle from the rear. Seeing how one of the militants was aiming at the commander, Morokhovets covered the officer with himself. A street in his native village was named after the hero, a memorial plaque was installed on the house, and a bronze bust was opened in the center of the village.
The commander, who was saved from automatic fire by Aleksey Morokhovets, did not survive the junior sergeant for long. Konstantin Vasilyevich SITKIN fought in Chechnya during his military service. Then, under the contract, he went to Tajikistan to the 201st division. In 1999, he graduated from junior lieutenant courses at the Kazan Tank School, ended up in Chechnya again, commanded a platoon in the guards motorized rifle regiment, which smashed gangs as part of the Northern Group of Forces. After the capture of the Terk Range, Sitnik was presented for the title of Hero of Russia, but did not manage to receive it: he died a heroic death in another fierce battle.
The commander of the detachment of the 506th Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 27th MSD, Guards Private Alexei Viktorovich ZHAROV, also died heroically. When taking the fortified positions of the militants on the Terksky ridge at night, Alexei Zharov was the first to burst into positions, destroyed four militants with automatic fire, which caused confusion in the ranks of the enemy and contributed to the advancement of his comrades. After being wounded, he continued to fight. He covered the battalion commander from machine-gun fire.
Zharov was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of Russia. In the village of Lysva, Perm Territory, one of the streets is named after him. On the building of the school where Zharov studied, there is a memorial plaque in his honor.
The senior technician of the 1st company of the 81st Guards SME of the 2nd Guards Tank Army of the Volga Military District, Senior Ensign Grigory Sergeevich KIRICHENKO was lucky to receive a high well-deserved award from the hands of President B.N. Yeltsin in the winter of 1996 in the Kremlin. And he was awarded the title of Hero of Russia for the courage shown on New Year's Eve 1995 during the storming of Grozny. Under the fire of bandits, he took out wounded soldiers and officers on his BMP, including the seriously wounded regiment commander Colonel Yaroslavtsev. A total of 68 people were rescued.
In October 1999, the 506th SME carried out a sweep on the slopes of the Terk Range. The deputy platoon commander, sergeant Sergei Anatolyevich OZHEGOV, together with his platoon commander Sitkin, approached the enemy from the rear and hit the main unit - this decided the victorious outcome of the battle. Examining the territory later, they found a whole well-arranged defensive system, with underground passages, bunkers on two floors. The terrorists could resist there for a long time. In June 2000, in the Kremlin, Hero of Russia Ozhegov also received a special distinction - the Gold Star medal.
Three months earlier, the same state honors had been given to Andrey Igorevich MOROZOV, Colonel of the Guards, Commander of the SME of the 506th Guards Regiment. From October 1999 - in the battles of the second Chechen campaign. Morozov's battalion climbed the mountain range without heavy weapons, in complete radio silence, and under the cover of night, completed a combat mission - destroyed the last center of resistance of the bandits, completely liberated the village of Khankala. The militants had 70 killed, 8 mortars were captured and destroyed; Morozov's battalion had six wounded, no one was killed.
Thanks to the competent actions of the assistant commander of the 81st Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment for educational work, Guards Colonel Igor Valentinovich STANKEVICH, who took command, since the regiment commander and chief of staff were seriously wounded in battle, it was possible to avoid the complete defeat of the regiment. Under the leadership of Stankevich, the units that had previously fought from the administrative border of Chechnya to Grozny, defended themselves in complete isolation in the center of the Chechen capital for two days, then the colonel of the guard organized a breakthrough from the encirclement. Yes, the units suffered significant losses, but if it were not for the decision to break through, there would be nothing left of the military unit except for the name and number. The fighters who left the encirclement, together with Stankevich, continued to fight near Shali and Gudermes. In October 1995, the valiant colonel was awarded the title of Hero of Russia with the Gold Star medal, and earlier he was awarded the Order of the Red Star, Order of the Motherland in the USSR Armed Forces, III degree, and medals.
In the zone of armed conflict in Abkhazia in the summer of 1998, the life of Roman Genrikhovich BERSENEV, senior lieutenant, deputy commander for educational work, was cut short. His demining group, which was part of the peacekeeping force, was entrusted with the reconnaissance and demining of patrol routes of military units in the security zone. Once, during a check, there was an explosion of a controlled mine, installed five meters from the road. The explosion was followed by ambush fire. Being seriously wounded, Bersenev organized a repulse of the attack of the bandit group, covering the retreat of the wounded fighters. As a result of a long battle, the ambush was dispersed, but the senior lieutenant himself and four of his subordinates died on the spot and on the way to the hospital from numerous shrapnel wounds and heavy blood loss. The title of Hero of Russia was awarded to him posthumously.
The 506th regiment, which included a motorized rifle battalion under the command of Major Hasan Rajab oglu NADZHAFOV, took part in the offensive of the Russian troops on Grozny. The battalion was ordered to drive the militants out of the fortified area. Having made a swift forced march, Najafov led the unit into the gap between the enemy positions, and, having divided into two groups, the fighters began to clean up. In December 1999, the major's battalion was one of the first to reach the approaches to Grozny as part of the Sever group. In battle, the officer received a severe concussion, but after treatment he returned to duty. At the end of June 2000, Nadzhafov was awarded the title of Hero of Russia, with the Gold Star medal.
On the memorial stele of the Heroes, installed near the House of Officers of the Volga-Ural Military District in Samara, the names of many of those whom we told our readers about are also engraved. To the dead - eternal peace, to the living - health and success, and to all the Heroes of Russia - glory and great gratitude to the native Fatherland!
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