Destroyed leaders of the Chechen fighters. "Our Version" publishes a list of the most dangerous Chechen militants hunted by special services. Shamil Basaev. Big Bang

Including the leader of the gang Rustam Hasanov. Gasanov, born in 1981, a native and resident of the village of Serebryakovka, Kizlyar region, is also known by the call sign "Umaraskhab". In 2003, he was convicted and served a sentence for robbery, in September 2009 he went into hiding and was put on the federal wanted list. According to one version, in March 2010, Gasanov, as part of a criminal group, dealt with a teacher in the madrasah of the village of Yasnaya Polyana, Kizlyar district of Dagestan, in November 2010 he led the undermining of railway tracks near the settlement of Pervomayskoye at the time of the passage of a passenger train, and later fired at a police squad that arrived to the scene.

May 20, 2012 year in the village of Vinsovkhozny of the Republic of Dagestan, the leader of the "Khasavyurt bandit group", the so-called amir of the northern sector, was destroyed Aslan Mammadov nicknamed Muas, who was on the federal wanted list.

April 19, 2012 years in Dagestan, three militants were destroyed, including the leader of a bandit group operating on the territory of the republic, Ramazan Saritov 1983 year of birth. The militants were natives of the village of Bammatyurt, Khasavyurt district. On account of the bandit group, in particular, extortion of money from entrepreneurs, shelling and explosions in stores, blowing up cars, attempts to kill law enforcement officers.

April 10, 2012 in the course of two special operations in the Stavropol Territory, three militants were killed, including Eldar Bitaev, born in 1978, leader of the "Neftekumsk bandit group". Bitaev was the direct organizer of the failed attempt to undermine the railway track in the Mineralnye Vody region at the time of the electric train in September 2010. All three were in an illegal position, received appropriate training in one of the bandit groups on the territory of Dagestan, and participated in bandit attacks in the Kizlyar region. In March, they returned to the Stavropol Territory to carry out sabotage and terrorist activities.

March 27, 2012 year, during a special operation, the leader of the bandit underground operating on the territory of Kabardino-Balkaria was destroyed - Alim Zankishiev, nicknamed "Ubayda". Zankishiev has been on the federal wanted list since 2006. Since 2011, after the neutralization of the former bandit leader Dzhappuev, Zankishiev coordinated the terrorist activities of bandits in Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia. Zankishiev was involved in the killings in early 2012 of military pilot Denis Nikolaev and investigator Kantemir Kyarov. He also became the organizer of the assassination attempt on the head of the administration of the Urvan district of the republic, Antemirkan Kanokov.

March 18, 2012 in the village of Novosasitli in Dagestan, the leader of the "Novosasitli" bandit group was liquidated Nutsalkhanov Shamil and its active participant, who were involved in extorting money from entrepreneurs, attacks on law enforcement officers and organizing bombings. According to the Operational Headquarters, Nutskhanov joined the "Novosasitli" bandit group in May 2011, and then headed it.

March 12, 2012 In the course of a special operation in Makhachkala, two militants were killed. One of them was identified as the leader of the Makhachkala sabotage and terrorist group. Eldos Zulfukarov.

March 6, 2012 of the year, during a special operation in Dagestan, the leader of the "Kizilyurt bandit group" was destroyed Alibek Omarov, born in 1985. Omarov was on the federal wanted list, is a defendant in eight criminal cases of a terrorist nature. He was involved in the shelling on March 11, 2011 of the Kizilyurt Internal Affairs Directorate, in laying six improvised explosive devices on the path of a military convoy on January 11, 2012, during the demining of which an employee of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs was killed and eight servicemen were injured.

March 3, 2012 year in Malgobek of the Republic of Ingushetia, during a special operation, the leader of the bandit underground of Ingushetia was destroyed Adam Tsyzdoev. The special operation was carried out after receiving information about the preparation of a terrorist act by a group of bandits.

February 16, 2012 years during a special operation in Dagestan was eliminated Magomed Kasumov, the leader of the so-called "Mutsalaul bandit group and his accomplice, involved in the murders of policemen and religious figures of the republic. Kasumov was involved in the shelling of a car with police officers in 2010. In addition, he was involved in a number of other terrorist crimes, extorting money from entrepreneurs, arson of shops.

February 14, 2012 year in Dagestan, the leader of the Dagestan gang underground, 51-year-old, was destroyed Ibrahimkhalil Daudov, who led the gangster underground after the liquidation of Magomedali Vagabov in August 2010.

January 27, 2012 year in Ingushetia, the leader of the bandit underground of Ingushetia was destroyed Jamaleil Mutaliev(nickname "Adam"), who was on the federal wanted list. Mutaliev joined illegal armed groups during the second Chechen campaign, was a close associate of Shamil Basayev. In 2010, after the detention of Ali Taziev, nicknamed "Magas", Mutaliev was appointed the so-called military amir "Imarat Kavkaz" and the leader of the gang underground of Ingushetia. The leader of the "Imarat Kavkaz" Doku Umarov charged Mutaliyev with the responsibility for carrying out the most resonant sabotage and terrorist actions. Among them, the terrorist attack on the Vladikavkaz market in September 2010 and the suicide bombing in August of the same year on the Rostov highway - Baku" in Chechnya.

December 12, 2011 year, near the village of Karlanyurt, Khasavyurt district, the leader of a bandit group was destroyed Yusup Magomedov and his accomplices. Yusup Magomedov was the leader of the so-called Khasavyurt sabotage and terrorist group.

December 7, 2011 in the area of ​​the village of Kumysh, Karachay district of the Republic of Karachay-Cherkessia, the leader of the militants of Karachay-Cherkessia was killed Biaslan Gochiyaev and three of his accomplices. The militants planned a series of terrorist attacks, in particular with the participation of a suicide bomber. The murdered 27-year-old Biaslan Gochiyaev was appointed the so-called Amir of Karachay-Cherkessia about a year ago.

August 10-11, 2011 In the course of a special operation in Makhachkala, six bandits were killed, including one woman. One of the militants is identified as Abdulla Magomedaliev, born in 1977, nicknamed "Daud". In 2010, Magomedaliyev was appointed by Magomedali Vagabov (neutralized in August 2010) as the leader of the so-called "special battalion", which specializes in high-profile terrorist attacks against law enforcement officers and government officials. Magomedaliev was involved in extortion on an especially large scale and kidnappings for ransom.

On the night of May 3rd in 2011 years in a special operation in a mountainous wooded area on the border of the Shatoi and Vedeno regions of the Chechen Republic, 2 members of the bandit underground were killed. One of the killed militants was identified as a certain Salauddin, who had the call signs "Kurd" and "Abdullah Kurd". Abdullah Kurd was an emissary of Al Qaeda, after the neutralization of Moganned, he became the main coordinator of international terrorists in the North Caucasus.

April 29, 2011 of the year, during a special operation on the border of Stavropol and Kabardino Balkaria, the leader of the republic’s bandit underground, who is on the federal wanted list, was killed Asker Dzhappuev. According to intelligence agencies, Dzhappuev nicknamed "Abdullah" headed the so-called "United Vilayat of Kabarda, Balkaria and Karachay" in May 2010 after the destruction of the leader of the bandit underground of Kabardino Balkaria, Anzor Astemirov.

April 21, 2011 in Chechnya, the main representative of Al Qaeda in the North Caucasus was destroyed Khaled Yousef Mohammed Al Emirate nicknamed "Moganned" Arab by origin. According to the NAC, Moganned, along with Doku Umarov, was the most famous figure among the bandits, was perceived as an indisputable "religious authority" and as an influential "field commander." The terrorist is involved in a number of crimes against military personnel and civilians.

On the night of April 18, 2011 2009, four active members of the gangster underground were destroyed in Dagestan, incl. leader of the Dagestan bandits Israpil Validzhanov(nickname Amirhasan). According to intelligence agencies, in October 2010, Doku Umarov appointed Validzhanov "the first person in the gangster hierarchy of Dagestan."

March 28, 2011 2009, near the village of Verkhniy Alkun, Sunzhensky district of Ingushetia, during a special operation, 19 militants were killed. The militant base was destroyed as a result of a pinpoint air strike by the Russian Air Force and a ground operation. After the operation, one of the leaders of the terrorist organization "Emarat Kavkaz" Supyan Abdullayev was identified, who, according to operational data, was considered the main ideologue of the militants in the North Caucasus.

January 27, 2011 of the year, during a special operation in the village of Severny near the Dagestan Khasavyurt, one of the leaders of the militants was destroyed Adam Huseynov. He was the second most important in the hierarchy of leaders of the gang underground of Dagestan after Israpil Validzhanov.

December 6, 2010 of the year during the clash in the Tsumadinsky district of Dagestan was eliminated Ahmed Abdulkerimov nicknamed "Shadow". The exterminated militant was an "amir of the mountain sector", he was involved in terrorist attacks in the republic, he was actively involved in recruiting young people into the ranks of the gang underground, organizing their training. Suspected of a terrorist attack against the head of the FSB in the Tsumadinsky district, which occurred on September 2, 2010 in Dagestan.

On the night of August 25, 2010 of the year, during a shootout with law enforcement officers that took place near the Dagestan Khasavyurt, the "emir" of the Khasavyurt region was destroyed Hasan Daniyalov and "Emir" of the Kazbek jamaat Yusup Suleymanov, nicknamed "Shoip".

August 23, 2010 year in Ingushetia, the leader of the bandit underground was destroyed Ilez Gardanov involved in a number of high-profile terrorist attacks. Gardanov was the leader of the Pliyev bandit group and, more recently, he headed the bandit underground on the territory of the republic and was the coordinator.

August 21, 2010 of the year, during a special operation in Dagestan, the leader of the Dagestan gang underground was destroyed Magomedali Vagabov. Having declared himself "Emir Abdullah of Gubden" back in 2005, he was the head of the so-called Gubden sabotage terrorist group, the second person in the hierarchy of the "Caucasus Emirate", a "Sharia judge" appointed by Doku Umarov. According to the NAC, the Vagabov gang is involved in numerous terrorist attacks on the territory of Dagestan and beyond, including explosions in the Kizil yurt and in the Moscow metro, which killed dozens of people.

August 12, 2010 Ingush law enforcement officers during a special operation eliminated the deputy leader of the so-called Pliyev bandit group Haruna Plieva involved in a series of armed attacks on policemen and military personnel.

June 26, 2010 of the year during a special operation in the Karabudakhkent region of Dagestan was destroyed Jamalutdin Javatov, leader of the Karamakhinskaya sabotage terrorist group. He was on the federal wanted list for terrorist crimes.

June 10, 2010 year, as a result of a special operation carried out by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya, an Arab mercenary was destroyed in the Vedeno region Yasser Amarat.

March 24, 2010 in Nalchik, in a shootout with law enforcement officers, a man was eliminated, identified as the leader of the Wahhabi gang underground of Kabardino Balkaria Anzor Astemirov. Astemirov has been on the international wanted list since 2006. He was considered one of the main organizers of the attack on the administration of the State Drug Control Service of the Russian Federation in Kabardino Balkaria in December 2004, as well as the militant attack on Nalchik in October 2005.

March 22, 2010 year in Makhachkala (Dagestan), law enforcement agencies eliminated the so-called "Emir of Grozny" Salambek (Magomed) Akhmadov.

March 17-18, 2010 In the course of a special operation in the Vedeno district of Chechnya, six militants were killed, including one of the most famous terrorist leaders Abu Khaled. An Arab by nationality, Abu Khaled, according to operational data, arrived in the Chechen Republic 13 years earlier. He was engaged in the technical and psychological training of terrorists.

One of the militant leaders in the North Caucasus Alexander Tikhomirov, also known as Said Buryatsky, was destroyed March 2, 2010 year as a result of a special operation carried out by employees of the Special Forces Center of the FSB of Russia, in the village of Ekazhevo, Nazranovsky district of Ingushetia. Investigators believe that Tikhomirov, who is called the main ideologue of the militants in southern Russia, was the organizer of a number of major terrorist attacks, including the attack on the building of the police department in Nazran, which killed dozens of policemen, the assassination attempt on the President of Ingushetia, Yunus Bek Yevkurov, as well as undermining "Nevsky Express" in November 2009.

In the evening February 2, 2010 one of the founders of the Al Qaeda network in the North Caucasus, a native of Egypt, was destroyed in the mountains of Dagestan Mohmad Mohamad Shabaan Nicknamed "Safe Islam". "Safe Islam" at the request of the Egyptian authorities was on the international wanted list for carrying out terrorist activities.

January 10, 2010 in the capital of Dagestan, the leader of the Makhachkala-Shamkhal sabotage terrorist group was liquidated Madrid Begov. A day earlier, in the vicinity of Makhachkala, on the Makhachkala Khasavyurt highway, an operation was carried out to destroy three militants, among whom was the "Emir" of Makhachkala Marat Kurbanov.

December 31, 2009 year, police officers killed four militants in the city of Khasavyurt, including the leader of the Dagestan gang underground Umalata Magomedova nicknamed Albaro.

December 18, 2009 President of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov said that a well-known militant leader was killed during a special operation Aslan Israilov nicknamed Sawab, who for a long time was the leader of the remnants of bandit groups in several settlements at the junction of the Vedensky and Nozhai Yurtovsky regions of Chechnya.

the 13th of November during a special operation in the vicinity of Shalazhi, up to 20 militants were destroyed, among them the closest ally of Doku Umarov Islam Uspakhadzhiev, who has been on the federal wanted list since 2004 for killing law enforcement officers and acts of terrorism. The liquidation of Umarov himself was reported several times during 2009. However, this information has not been officially confirmed.

October 31, 2009 year, during a special operation in Grozny, the leader of a bandit group, close to one of the separatist leaders Dok Umarov, the so-called emir of the plains of Chechnya, who had the call sign "Iban".

October 22, 2009 year, as a result of a special operation, policemen destroyed the so-called emir of the city of Gudermes in Grozny Saida Amy Khizrieva, who, according to operational data, planned to carry out a terrorist attack against Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov.

September 19, 2009 of the year, employees of the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan destroyed three militants in the Kizlyar district of Dagestan, among the dead was one of the leaders of the gang underground Abdulla Saadullayev, known among the militants as the Sharia judge Daoud. He was the right hand of the so-called "Emir" of Dagestan, Umalat Magomedov.

12-th of September the leader of the Makhachkala sabotage terrorist group was destroyed Bagautdin Kamalutdinov. He was also the nephew of the ideologist of the Dagestan extremists Bagautdin Magomedov, who has been on the federal and international wanted list since 1999.

September 5, 2009 of the year during a special operation in the Ingush village of Barsuki was destroyed Rustam Dzortov, who was the head of the entire gang underground in the republic and was one of the organizers of the assassination attempt on the President of Ingushetia, Yunus Bek Yevkurov. Dzortov was known by the nickname Abdul Aziz and was on the All-Russian wanted list.

August 30, 2009 In the course of a special operation in the Khasavyurt district of Dagestan, a foreign mercenary was killed, who turned out to be the coordinator of the international terrorist network "Al Qaeda" in Dagestan, known among militants as Dr. Muhammad.

July 25, 2009 of the year, during a special operation in Chechnya, the head of a bandit group was killed Isa Izerkhanov, also known as "Isa the Black". Izerkhanov was on the federal wanted list for participating in terrorist activities and escaping from places of detention.

July 11, 2009 year, during a special operation, the leader of the bandits was destroyed Azamat Mahauri nicknamed "Yasir", who called himself the Emir of Ingushetia. Together with him, three more members of the gang were destroyed.

June 12, 2009 of the year in Makhachkala, the leader of the "Makhachkala jamaat" was destroyed Omar Ramazanov.

September 18, 2007 year, as a result of a counter-terrorist operation in the village of Novy Sulak, "Amir Rabbani" was destroyed - Rappani Khalilov.

April 4, 2007 one of the most influential leaders of the militants, the commander of the Eastern Front of the CRI Suleiman Ilmurzaev involved in the assassination of Chechen President Akhmat Kadyrov.

November 26, 2006 leader of foreign mercenaries in Chechnya killed in Khasavyurt Abu Hafs al Urdani, who, according to the intelligence services, was the actual leader and one of the financiers of the militants in Chechnya and neighboring regions.

July 10, 2006 year in Ingushetia, a terrorist was killed as a result of a special operation Shamil Basaev.

June 17, 2006 Maskhadov's successor was destroyed in Argun Abdul Khalim Sadulaev.

March 8, 2005 of the year, during a special operation of the FSB in the village of Tolstoy Yurt, the president of the CRI was liquidated Aslan Maskhadov.

February 16, 2005 of the year, during a special operation in Ingushetia, a field commander was destroyed Abu Dzeit- a native of Kuwait, engaged in the coordination of terrorist activities in the North Caucasus.

September 17, 2004 a native of Algeria was detained in Chechnya Kamal Burakhlya, known among militants under the nickname "Abu Muskhab". According to the FSB, Buryakhlya was a bomber in Basayev's gang.

April 16, 2004 of the year, during the shelling of the mountain ranges of Chechnya, the leader of foreign mercenaries in Chechnya was killed Abu al Waleed al Ghamidi.

February 28, 2004 of the year, during a shootout with border guards, a well-known field commander was mortally wounded Ruslan Gelaev.

November 3, 2000 year, during a special operation, an influential field commander was destroyed Shamil Iriskhanov, who was part of Basayev's inner circle.

August 25, 2000 of the year in the city of Argun, during a special operation by the FSB, a field commander was killed Movsan Suleimenov, nephew of Arbi Baraev.

July 11, 2000 in the village of Mayrup, Shali district of Chechnya, an assistant to Khattab was killed during a special operation by the FSB and the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs Abu Umar.

June 23-24, 2000 in the village of Alkhan Kala, a special combined detachment of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB conducted a special operation to eliminate a detachment of militants of the field commander Arbi Baraeva. 16 militants were killed, including Barayev himself.

May 19, 2000 Deputy Minister of Sharia Security of the CRI was killed Abu Movsaev.

January 27, 2000 of the year, during the battles for Grozny, a field commander was killed Isa Astamirov, deputy commander of the southwestern militant front.

Vladimir Barinov

According to official figures, there are now up to a thousand militants in Chechnya who continue to actively resist the federal troops. As stated in the special services, the activity of the bandits depends on the amount of their funding from foreign extremist organizations - mainly the Muslim Brotherhood and Al-Haramain. It is in Chechnya that practically all the terrorist acts committed on the territory of Russia are planned with the money received from abroad.

Colonel Ilya Shabalkin, a representative of the regional headquarters for managing the counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus, told Gazeta about the situation in the Chechen Republic. According to him, now up to a thousand militants remain in Chechnya, who continue active military operations and sabotage against federal troops. A year ago, there were about 1,500 bandits in the republic, and in 2002 - up to 2.5 thousand.

However, Shabalkin noted that all these figures are rather conditional and directly depend on the financial support coming to gangs from abroad. “Their activity is manifested after receiving the next tranche from foreign sponsors. Every day, no more than 200 bandits are ready to attack the federals, while the remaining 800 are holed up in a mountainous and wooded area, waiting for money, ”said a representative of the ROSH. The number of separate bandit groups on the territory of Chechnya, according to Shabalkin, now ranges from 3 to 7 people. The last operation to liquidate a really large gang was carried out in the republic in the spring of 2002. Now the federals are limited to reconnaissance and sentinel operations by FSB and MVD operatives, who operate under the cover of special forces groups. Such operations are carried out mainly in hard-to-reach mountainous regions of the republic. In populated areas, the local police are engaged in identifying and detaining bandits, which conducts pinpoint "targeted special events." At the same time, the operational groups, together with members of the security service of Akhmat Kadyrov, headed by his son Ramzan, are negotiating surrender with some field commanders. “It requires both the availability of operational information from the special services and excellent knowledge of internal customs,” Ilya Shabalkin told GAZETA. "That's why we work together." It should be noted that sometimes the negotiations do give results: not so long ago, the "Minister of Defense of Ichkeria" and Maskhadov's closest associate Magomed Khambiev surrendered to the legitimate authorities, and a few days later - "the head of the special department of state security of Ichkeria" Colonel Boris Aidamirov. The next day after the surrender of Aydamirov, about 10 ordinary militants subordinate to him voluntarily laid down their arms.

The main funds, according to Russian special services, are received by Chechen fighters from the international organization "Muslim Brotherhood", which has existed for about 40 years and has unofficial representations in various Muslim and European countries.

The "brothers", in turn, are actively cooperating with other terrorists, in particular with the Palestinian Hamas (its annual budget is estimated by Russian special services at no less than $30 million). The "subsidiary" of the "Muslim Brotherhood" is the organization "Al-Haramain", which is also actively "investing" money in the North Caucasian extremists.

The volume of injections into the "Chechen jihad" is rather difficult to estimate. However, representatives of the Russian special services believe that at a time when communication with their foreign sponsors was maintained through the Jordanian Khattab, the bandits received from 200 thousand to a million dollars a month.

However, according to some reports, after the liquidation of Khattab and the transfer of leadership functions to his deputy Abu al-Walid, this amount was significantly reduced. This is due, firstly, to the fact that now Chechen bandits are trapped in mountainous areas and do not have a real opportunity to carry out large-scale actions on the territory of the republic. Secondly, their foreign Islamist partners are now forced to spend considerable sums on other "fronts" - in Palestine, Afghanistan and Iraq.

Leaders of Chechen terrorists liquidated by federal forces

1) "Black Arab" Khattab, Jordanian by origin, leader of Arab mercenaries in Chechnya. Destroyed in March 2002 as a result of an "intelligence-combat operation" of Russian special services. Someone close to the extremist leader gave him a poisoned letter. It was distinguished by rare rigidity. He was one of the key figures among the leaders of the militants. Appeared in Chechnya after the first campaign and was able to take control of most of the gangs. Creator of a number of terrorist training camps. It was through him that most of the money from foreign "sponsors" came to Chechnya.

2) Ruslan Gelaev. Born in 1964 in the village of Komsomolskoye, Urus-Martan district of Chechnya. Education - three classes. Tried three times - for robbery and rape. In 1992-1993 he fought in Abkhazia. In 1994-1996, he gained fame as one of the most influential Chechen field commanders. In March and August 1996, he led the capture of Grozny. In January 1998 he was appointed Minister of Defense in Maskhadov's government. In early 2000, after federal forces took Grozny, Gelayev's detachment went to Georgia, from where it made regular sorties to neighboring territories. In March 2000, the Gelaev gang took part in the battles near Ulus-Kert, during which 84 Pskov paratroopers were killed. A few days later, 1000 militants under the command of Gelayev captured the village of Komsomolskoye. In October 2001 Gelaev's detachment invaded Abkhazia. According to some reports, he was going to capture Sochi, however, having met fierce resistance from the local armed forces, he returned to Georgia. He was killed in Dagestan by border guards in March of this year.

3) Arbi Baraev, nickname "Tarzan". Killed by special forces in June 2001. Born in 1973 to a poor family in the village of Alkhan-Kala, not far from Grozny. Worked in the traffic police. Under the militants, Baraev was helped to rise by his maternal uncle Vakha Arsanov, the future vice-president of Ichkeria and Aslan Maskhadov's closest assistant. Baraev was Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev's bodyguard and participated in Basayev's raid on Budennovsk. He commanded the "Islamic Special Purpose Regiment". He became famous for taking hostages and exceptional cruelty - on his personal account more than 100 were killed.

4) Khunkar-Pasha Israpilov, head of the antiterrorist center of Ichkeria. He was killed on February 5, 2000 in the village of Alkhan-Kala. A detachment of militants broke through from the city towards the mountains, but died in a minefield.

5) Salman Raduev. He died in December 2002 in the White Swan prison in Perm from an internal hemorrhage. He became widely known in January 1996 after his gang captured the Dagestan city of Kizlyar. The organizer of the terrorist attacks in Pyatigorsk, Essentuki, Armavir and a number of other Russian cities. He was captured in Chechnya by the FSB in March 2000, and on December 25, 2001, the Supreme Court of Dagestan sentenced him to life imprisonment.

6) Turpal-Ali Atgeriev. He died on August 8, 2002 in a general regime colony in Yekaterinburg. He was one of the key figures in the government of Ichkeria. He held the positions of Deputy Prime Minister, who oversaw the law enforcement agencies, and the post of Minister of State Security. He was detained in October 2000 by the FSB. An accomplice of Raduev, who commanded one of the detachments during the attack on Kizlyar in 1996. He was sentenced together with Raduev to 15 years in prison.

Leaders of Chechen terrorists who continue to fight federal forces

1) Abu al-Walid, Arab by nationality. He became widely known only after the death in 2002 of his boss, the "black Arab" Khattab. Now he is in charge of the overall leadership of the Arab mercenaries fighting in Chechnya. According to the Russian intelligence services, it is al-Walid who receives and distributes the funds coming to Chechnya from foreign extremist organizations.

2) Aslan Maskhadov, "president of Ichkeria". A former colonel in the Soviet army, during the "first Chechen war" he headed the headquarters of the armed forces of Ichkeria. Despite the fact that the feds have repeatedly talked about the loss of control over the militants, he is still considered a very influential figure.

3) Shamil Basaev. Former student of the Moscow Institute of Land Management Engineers. Fought in Abkhazia. In 1995, at the head of a detachment of 200 militants, he raided the city of Budyonnovsk (Stavropol Territory), killing 143 of its inhabitants and taking about 2,000 hostages in a local hospital. In 1999, together with Khattab, he organized the invasion of militants into Dagestan. After the elimination of the main forces of the militants during the "second Chechen" campaign, he concentrated entirely on terrorist activities, forming a battalion of female suicide bombers "Riyadus Salihin". Basayev claimed responsibility for the hostage-taking in the theater center on Dubrovka and the latest explosions of power lines and a gas pipeline in the Moscow region.

4) Doku Umarov, "Vice-President of Ichkeria", "Commander of the South-Western Front". He is the commander of a fairly large group of militants. According to some reports, after the death of Ruslan Gelaev, he took command of the remnants of his detachment.

5) Rappani Khalilov, commander of the "Dagestan Mujahideen Battalion". Responsible for carrying out more than 10 major terrorist attacks in Dagestan and for many attacks on the federals in Chechnya. The bloodiest crime attributed to Khalilov's militants was the explosion in Kaspiysk during the May 9, 2002 parade, which killed 43 people, including 14 children.

6) Movladi Udugov, chief propagandist for Chechen fighters, Minister of Information in Maskhadov's government. In recent years, he has been living abroad, creating websites reflecting the position of extremists.

The largest terrorist attacks in Russia

March 19, 1999. Explosion at the Central Market of Vladikavkaz. 50 people died, about 100 were injured.

September 9, 1999 Explosion of a residential building on Guryanov Street in Moscow. 106 people died, more than 300 were injured.

September 13, 1999. Explosion of a residential building on Kashirskoye Highway in Moscow. 124 people were killed and more than 200 injured.

September 16, 1999. A truck was blown up in the courtyard of a residential building in Volgodonsk. 18 people died, more than 65 were injured.

October 23-26, 2002. Chechen terrorists seized the theater center on Dubrovka (Moscow). During the operation of the special services, all the bandits were destroyed, 129 hostages were killed.

December 27, 2002. A truck filled with explosives drove into the courtyard of the Government House in Grozny. 70 people died, more than 200 were injured.

June 5, 2003. A bus with service personnel from the air base in Mozdok was blown up. 18 people were killed and 15 injured.

July 5, 2003 An explosion during a rock festival in Tushino (Moscow). 16 people were killed and 50 injured.

September 3 and December 5, 2003. Attacks on commuter trains in the Essentuki area. 48 people died, more than 150 were injured.

February 6, 2004. Explosion in the Moscow metro. According to official data available today, 39 people were killed and 134 injured.

March 16, 2004. Explosion of a residential building in Arkhangelsk. 58 people died. This incident has not been officially declared a terrorist attack. Although the investigation is inclined to conclude that the damage to the gas pipeline at the entrance of the collapsed house was "intentional". This is also evidenced by the fact that on the night when the explosion thundered, gas pipelines were damaged in three more houses in Arkhangelsk.

The first big success in decapitating Chechen separatism after the assassination of Dzhokhar Dudayev was the capture of terrorist No. 2 Salman Raduev, who was arrested by the FSB in Chechnya in March 2000. Raduev became widely known in 1996, after on January 9, under his leadership, militants attacked the Dagestan city of Kizlyar. True, "laurels of fame" in Kizlyar went to Raduev "accidentally". At the last stage, he replaced the wounded field commander Khunkarpasha Israpilov, who was the head of the operation.

The capture of Raduev was masterfully carried out by counterintelligence agents and in such a top-secret regime that the bandit "did not expect anything and was shocked," said FSB director Nikolai Patrushev. According to some reports, Raduev was "tied up" at the moment when he left his shelter "out of need." There is a version that Raduev was handed over by an agent who promised him to sell a large batch of weapons cheaply.

On December 25, 2001, the Supreme Court of Dagestan found Raduev guilty on all counts, except for "organizing illegal armed groups." The demands of the public prosecutor - Vladimir Ustinov - were met, and Salman Raduev was sentenced to life imprisonment. Raduev served his term in the Solikamsk UIN, in the famous colony "White Swan".

In December 2002, Raduev began to complain about his health. On December 6, he developed bruises under his left eye and abdominal pain. A few days later, Raduev became worse, and on December 10, the GUIN doctors decided to place him in a prison hospital in a separate ward. In the hospital, Raduev died on December 14 at 5.30 in the morning. The following is written in the forensic medical conclusion about death: "DIC, multiple hemorrhages, abdominal hematoma, hemorrhage in the brain and left eye."

Raduev's body was buried at the Solikamsk common cemetery.

In April 2002, it became known that field commander Khattab, who was known as an ideologist and organizer of terrorist activities, was killed in Chechnya. It was liquidated as a result of an "intelligence-combat operation" by the FSB back in March 2002. The top-secret operation to destroy Khattab had been in preparation for almost a year. According to the FSB, Khattab was poisoned by one of his confidants. The death of a terrorist was one of the most serious blows for the militants, since after the liquidation of Khattab, the entire system of financing gangs in Chechnya was disrupted.

In June 2001, in Chechnya, as a result of a special operation, the leader of one of the most combat-ready units of Chechen militants, Arbi Baraev, was killed. Together with him, 17 people from his inner circle were killed. A large number of militants were taken prisoner. Baraev was identified by his relatives. The special operation was carried out in the area of ​​​​the native village of Baraev Yermolovka for six days - from June 19 to 24. During the operation, which was carried out by the regional operational headquarters with the involvement of special forces of the FSB and the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, in particular, the Vityaz group, one Russian serviceman was killed and six were injured. After Baraev was mortally wounded, the militants carried his body into one of the houses and covered it with bricks in the hope that the federal forces would not find him. However, with the help of a search dog, Baraev's body was discovered.

In November 2003, representatives of the FSB officially admitted that one of the leaders of the Chechen fighters, the Arab terrorist Abu al-Walid, was killed on April 14th. According to the intelligence services, on April 13, information appeared about a detachment of militants who, together with several Arab mercenaries, stopped in the forest between Ishkha-Yurt and Alleroy. This area was immediately attacked from helicopters, and the special forces shot the camp of bandits from grenade launchers and flamethrowers. On April 17, soldiers combed the area between Ishkhoy-Yurt and Meskets, and about 3-4 kilometers from these villages, six dead militants were found in the forest. We managed to identify everyone - they turned out to be Chechens. A kilometer away from those six corpses, a dead Arab was found. With him, in particular, they found a map of the area made from a satellite and a satellite navigator for moving around the area. The body was badly burned. In April, al-Walid's body could not be identified. The special services did not have the terrorist's fingerprints, his relatives did not respond to investigators' requests, and the detained militants who met with him could not say with certainty that the body was his. All doubts disappeared only in November.

On February 13, 2004, Zelimkhan Yandarbiev was killed in Qatar, whom the Chechen separatists, after the death of Dzhokhar Dudayev, declared the president of Ichkeria. Yandarbiev's car was blown up in the Qatari capital Doha. At the same time, two people from his escort were killed. The separatist leader himself was seriously injured and died in the hospital some time later. Yandarbiev has lived in Qatar for the past three years and has been on the international wanted list all this time as the organizer of the attack on Dagestan. The Russian Prosecutor General's Office demanded that Qatar extradite him.

The Qatari special services immediately started talking about the Russian trace in the murder of Yandarbiyev, and already on February 19, three employees of the Russian embassy were arrested on suspicion of committing a terrorist attack. One of them, who is the first secretary of the embassy and has diplomatic status, was released and expelled from the country, while the other two were sentenced by a Qatari court to life imprisonment, while the court concluded that the order to liquidate Yandarbiev was given by the first persons of the Russian leadership. Moscow denied the accusations in every possible way, and Russian diplomats did everything possible to bring the unfortunate bombers back to their homeland as soon as possible.

They were sentenced to life in prison, which under Qatari law means a 25-year prison term, which can later be reduced to 10 years. A month after the trial, an agreement was reached that the convicted Russians would be taken to their homeland, where they would serve their term. The return of the Russian scouts really took place, Anatoly Yablochkov and Vasily Pugachev flew to Russia on a special flight of the Rossiya State Customs Committee in December 2004.

In March 2004, it became known about the death of a no less odious leader of the militants - Ruslan Gelaev, who in May 2002 was newly appointed commander-in-chief of the armed forces of Ichkeria by Aslan Maskhadov and reinstated in the rank of "brigadier general". True, he was killed not as a result of a special operation by special services, but in a banal shootout with border guards. Gelaev was destroyed by a border detachment consisting of only two people in the mountains of Dagestan on the Avaro-Kakheti road leading to Georgia. At the same time, the border guards themselves were killed in the shootout. The corpse of the field commander was found in the snow a hundred meters from the bodies of the border guards. It happened, apparently, on Sunday (February 28, 2004). A day later, Gelaev's body was taken to Makhachkala and identified by the previously arrested militants.

Thus, only one "odious militant" remains alive among the major Chechen leaders - Shamil Basayev.

Alexander Alyabiev

On the night of April 22, 1996, the first president of the Republic of Ichkeria, Dzhokhar Dudayev, was killed near the village of Gekhi-Chu. It was destroyed by a missile guided by a satellite phone signal. His place was taken by Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, and after the 1996 elections. - Aslan Maskhadov.

On May 24, 2001, one of the Chechen field commanders, Magomed Kariev, was found dead in Baku. According to police, Kariev was shot and killed at the door of an apartment he rented in Baku. The killer used a TT pistol, he made a control shot in the back of the head of his victim.

June 24, 2001 in the Chechen village of Alkhan-Kala, as a result of a week-long operation by federal troops, one of the most odious field commanders, Arbi Baraev, was wounded. He managed to escape, but later died of his wounds.

November 1, 2001 in Chechnya, one of the most famous spiritual leaders of the militants, Magomed Dolkaev, was killed.

April 25, 2002 the federals reported the death of Khattab, a representative of Al-Qaeda in the North Caucasus. A video of his body was later shown. According to one version, he was poisoned by a secret agent who managed to infiltrate the field commander's entourage.

On August 8, 2002, Turpal-Ali Atgeriev died of leukemia in the Sverdlovsk colony. In the government of Ichkeria, he served as Deputy Prime Minister. An accomplice of Raduev, who commanded one of the detachments during the attack on Kizlyar in 1996. HE was detained by the FSB in October 2000 and sentenced to 15 years in prison.

On October 26, 2002, Movsar Baraev, Arbi Baraev's brother, was killed during an assault by the Nord-Ost special forces.

On the night of December 12-13, 2002 Salman Raduev died in the special regime colony "White Swan" (Solikamsk, Perm region), who was found guilty of organizing the deliberate killings of civilians and police officers, organizing hostage-taking in Kizlyar and Pervomaisky in Dagestan in January 1996, and also in organizing an explosion at the Pyatigorsk railway station in the summer of 1995.

On February 13, 2004, the car of Zelimkhan Yandarbiev, the former president of the self-proclaimed Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, was blown up in Qatar, after which he died in the hospital. It is assumed that the explosion was prepared by FSB officers, who were subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment by a Qatari court, but they were soon extradited to Russia.

February 28, 2004 in the mountains of Dagestan, field commander Ruslan Gelaev, known for his campaign against Abkhazia, was shot almost by accident by two border guards.

On April 16, 2004, during a rocket attack on one of the mountainous regions of Chechnya, Abu al-Walid, who replaced Khattab as the curator of the separatists, was killed.

On June 2, 2004, as a result of a special operation in the city of Malgobek, law enforcement agencies managed to eliminate the well-known Arab mercenary Abu Kuteiba, who was responsible for numerous terrorist attacks in Chechnya.

And finally, on February 16, 2005, a citizen of Saudi Arabia, Abu Dzeit, was killed in Ingushetia, who was involved in almost all the latest terrorist attacks: Beslan, the attack on Ingushetia, the explosion of a hospital in Mozdok. During the investigation, it was established that Abu Dzeit was the so-called "amir" of the Caliphate bandit group and was an emissary of the Al-Qaeda international terrorist organization.

The list includes the most notable and significant operations of the FSB in the entire history of its existence. It does not contain cases of catching spies and other little-known operations, due to the fact that from the mid-1990s to our time, the main focus of the FSB is the North Caucasus. It is the elimination and capture of key opponents in this region that has a decisive influence on the development of the situation in the entire direction. Places are distributed according to the significance of the object of the operation or the situation as a whole.

10. Detention of Magas Ali Musaevich Taziev (formerly known as Akhmed Evloev; call sign and nickname - "Magas") - - a terrorist, an active participant in the separatist movement in the North Caucasus in the 1990s - 2000s, an Ingush field commander, since 2007 of the year - the commander (supreme amir) of the armed formations of the self-proclaimed "Caucasian Emirate". He was the second in the leadership hierarchy of the Caucasus Emirate after Doku Umarov. It turned out that since 2007, Ali Taziev, under the surname Gorbakov, lived in one of the private houses in the suburbs of the Ingush city of Malgobek. He introduced himself to his neighbors as a migrant from Chechnya. He behaved quietly and inconspicuously and did not arouse any suspicions. The operation to capture Magas began six months before his arrest. Three times he fell into the sights of snipers, but the order was to take him alive. On the night of June 9, 2010, the house was surrounded by the FSB special forces. At the moment of detention, Taziev did not have time to resist (according to Kavkaz-Center, due to the fact that he was poisoned), the FSB officers did not suffer any losses

9. Elimination of Abu Hafs al-Urdani Abu Hafs al-Urdani - Jordanian terrorist, commander of a detachment of foreign volunteers in Chechnya, took part in the battles on the side of the separatists during the First and Second Russian-Chechen wars. After the death of Abu al-Walid, Abu Hafs replaced him as Amir of foreign fighters and coordinator of financial flows from abroad. Led the attack of militants on the village. Avtury of the Shali region in the summer of 2004, as well as many smaller attacks by militants. Abu Khafs was valued as a military strategist by Aslan Maskhadov, who jointly planned operations with him. On November 26, 2006, Abu Khafs and four other militants were blocked in one of the private houses in the city of Khasavyurt (Dagestan). As a result of the storming of the house by the special forces of the FSB, all the militants were killed.

8. Elimination of Abu Dzeit Abu Dzeit (known as Little Omar, Abu Omar of Kuwait, Hussein, Moor) is an international terrorist, an emissary of the Al-Qaeda organization in the North Caucasus, an organizer of terrorist acts in Bosnia and the Caucasus, including in Beslan. According to some reports, he personally met with Osama bin Laden. In 2002, he was invited to Chechnya by one of the emissaries of Al-Qaeda, Abu Haws. He was a demolition instructor in one of the terrorist camps. Then he was sent by the representative of Abu Khavs in Georgia, to Ingushetia. In 2004, Mavr became the head of an al-Qaeda cell in Ingushetia. He died during an operation to eliminate militants on February 16, 2005 in the Nazran district of Ingushetia.

7. Elimination of Abu-Kuteib Abu-Kuteib is a terrorist, one of Khattab's close associates. He was a member of the "Majlisul Shura of Ichkeria" and was responsible for the propaganda support of the activities of gangs, and was also endowed with the exclusive right to post on the Internet information transmitted by groups of Arab mercenaries from Chechnya. It was he who, in March 2000 in Zhani-Vedeno, organized an attack on a convoy, as a result of which 42 riot policemen from Perm were killed. He was one of the organizers of the militants' invasion of Ingushetia. On July 1, 2004, he was blockaded in the city of Malgobek and, after many hours of fighting, blew up the "shahid's belt" on himself.

6. Liquidation of Aslan Maskhadov Aslan Maskhadov is a military and statesman of the unrecognized Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (ChRI). In the early 1990s, he participated in the creation of the armed forces of the CRI and led the military operations of the separatists against the federal forces. one of the distant relatives. During the assault, Maskhadov resisted, and the special forces blew up the device, from the shock wave of which the house was dilapidated.

5. Liquidation of Arbi Baraev Arbi Baraev, a member of the separatist movement in Chechnya in the 1990s, supported the creation of a "Sharia" state in Chechnya. After the end of the first Chechen war, in 1997-1999, he gained fame as a terrorist and a bandit, a murderer and leader of a gang of slave traders and kidnappers, at the hands of which more than a hundred people suffered in Chechnya and neighboring regions. The liquidation of the Chechen field commander Arbi Baraev was the result of special operation of the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, which took place from June 19 to 24 in the village of Alkhan-Kala. During the operation, Arbi Baraev and 17 militants from his inner circle were killed, many were taken prisoner, the federal forces lost one person killed during the operation.

4. The liquidation of Dzhokhar Dudayev Dzhokhar Dudayev is a Chechen military and political figure, the leader of the Chechen national liberation movement of the 1990s, the first president of the unrecognized Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. In the past - Major General of Aviation, the only Chechen general in the Soviet Army. According to Russian sources, by the beginning of the first Chechen campaign under the command of Dudayev there were about 15 thousand fighters, 42 tanks, 66 infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers, 123 guns, 40 anti-aircraft systems, 260 training aircraft, so the advance of the federal forces was accompanied by serious resistance from the Chechen militias and guardsmen Dudayev. On the evening of April 21, 1996, Russian special services located the signal from Dudayev's satellite phone near the village of Gekhi-Chu, 30 km from Grozny. 2 Su-25 attack aircraft with homing missiles were lifted into the air. Dzhokhar Dudayev died from a rocket explosion while talking on the phone with Russian MP Konstantin Borov.

3. Elimination of Khattab Amir ibn al-Khattab - a field commander, a terrorist originally from Saudi Arabia, one of the leaders of the armed formations of the self-proclaimed Chechen Republic of Ichkeria on the territory of the Russian Federation in 1995-2002. He was an experienced and well-trained terrorist, owned all types of small arms. Understood in mine-subversive business. He personally trained suicide bombers subordinate to him. He organized foreign financing for the purchase of ammunition and the arrangement of militant training camps in Chechnya. Khattab was destroyed in an unconventional way: a messenger delivered a message to the Arab, which contained a horse dose of potent poison. Khattab opened the envelope and died very quickly after that. His bodyguards could not understand what was really happening.

2. Elimination of Shamilya Basaev Shamil Basaev - an active participant in the hostilities in Chechnya, one of the leaders of the self-proclaimed Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (ChRI) in 1995-2006. He organized a number of terrorist acts on the territory of the Russian Federation. He was included in the lists of terrorists of the UN, the US State Department and the European Union. According to official data from the FSB, Basayev and his accomplices were destroyed during the explosion of a KamAZ truck filled with explosives in the Nazran district of Ingushetia. This explosion was the result of a carefully planned special operation, which became possible thanks to the operational work of the Russian special services carried out abroad. “Operational positions were set up abroad, primarily in those countries where weapons were collected and subsequently delivered to Russia to carry out terrorist attacks,” Mr. Patrushev said, specifying that Basayev and his accomplices were going to carry out a major terrorist attack in order to exert political pressure. on the leadership of Russia during the G8 summit.

1. Capture of "Nord-Ost" The terrorist attack on Dubrovka, also referred to as "Nord-Ost" - a terrorist attack on Dubrovka in Moscow, which lasted from October 23 to 26, 2002, during which a group of armed militants led by Movsar Baraev captured and held hostages from among the audience of the musical "Nord-Ost". The assault began at 05.17, when the special forces began to launch a special nerve-paralytic substance through the ventilation shafts. At that moment, several hostages called their acquaintances and said that some kind of gas was coming to the recreation center, but their speech quickly became incoherent, and then they could not utter anything at all. The gas suppressed the will of all those present in the hall, and most importantly, the terrorists. If even one of them managed to press a few toggle switches on her belt or connect the wires, the bombs would explode one after another, and the building could simply collapse. A few seconds after the gas began to act, the snipers killed all the female suicide bombers with accurate shots to the head, and then the fighters in gas masks moved on to destroy the other bandits who were in the auditorium. One of them was armed with a Kalashnikov machine gun, but he did not have time to use it, making only one aimless burst. At the same time, part of the special forces who entered the building through the roof dealt with the terrorists in the utility rooms on the second floor, using noise and light grenades. Most of the bandits at the same time were already in an unconscious state, since the gas acted primarily on those.