History of the village of Aldy, written by Aldin residents. New Aldas History of Aldas

The small surviving part of the troops of Prince Aldy-Girey, who did not have time to cross the Sunzha, went into the forest and settled seven miles south of the river crossing, near two Sarmatian mounds. These warriors named their settlement Aldy. Somewhere towards the end of the 17th century, the princely family of the Turlovs, who came from the Avar principality, took possession of the village of Aldy. While in the service of the royal administration on the Terek, the princes enjoyed many privileges. Initially, the Turlovs lived in an aul with their bridles and dependent people. But by the end of the 17th century, here, under an agreement with the Turlov princes, the first settlers appeared - families from the mountains of Chechnya. Gradually their number grew: the princes allocated them lands, promised protection from the raids of Kabardian, Kumyk, Kalmyk princes and khans, as well as from repression from the Russian royal administration. For their part, the Chechen migrants promised their support to the princes and pledged to pay them a certain tax - yasak. The first settlers from the mountains in Aldy are considered to be representatives of the Chechen societies Dishniy, Gunoy and Benoy.

The population of Aldov grew, and soon the Chechens began to feel burdened by their dependence on the princes. In the 18th century, the political power of Chechnya, which was constantly experiencing social upheavals, increased sharply. There is also unrest in Aldy. Tension in the relationship between the Turlov princes and the Aldinians is growing. The village residents were personally free from the princes. Their dependence was expressed only in the tax paid to the prince - yasak for the land, the protection of residents and property from external enemies. If necessary, the residents of Aldov provided armed support to the owner or, at the request of the prince, arranged collective help with the household (belkhs). The princes had no right to force the peasants to do anything without the consent of the elders, as well as against the consent of the meeting of the aul society. In their reign, the princes relied on the elders - influential people of mature age, as well as on the bridle, which was the main armed force. The salaries of the bridlers, and the princes themselves, were paid by the tsarist administration.

In the 18th century, the strengthening and consolidation of the flat Chechens took place. The political strength and unity of villages is especially tested during times of threat of external invasion. In 1735, Aldin residents, together with militias from other Chechen villages, participated in the defeat of the superior forces of the 80,000-strong army of the Crimean Khan. About 10 thousand enemies remained forever in the Khankala Gorge. In the middle of the 18th century, Prince Turlov gradually lost his influence. His position became especially precarious after the uprising in Chechnya in 1757-1758. At that time, authority in the village was enjoyed by such influential people as Assak and Lulla (from the Dishni society), Ada, Bata and Biba (from the Benoy family) and others. In 1762, relations between Prince Chapan Turlov and the Aldinians became tense to the limit. The prince asks the royal authorities to allow him to move closer to the Sunzha River. The Aldinians, who considered these lands to be theirs, included within the borders of their territory, come into conflict with Turlov.

From 1785 to 1791 the village of Aldy is at the very center of the anti-feudal and anti-colonial movement in the North Caucasus, led by a resident of the village of Aldy, Ushurma (Sheikh Mansur).

On July 6, 1785, the Aldinians defeated the two-thousand-strong royal punitive detachment of Colonel de Pieri. His 20-year-old adjutant, Prince Peter Bagration, the future famous Russian commander, hero of the Patriotic War of 1812, was captured wounded and given to the Russians without ransom for his bravery. (By the way, another hero of the Patriotic War of 12, General Alexander Chechensky, as a five-year-old boy, was also captured by the tsarist troops in one of the punitive expeditions to the village of Aldy and was subsequently raised by N.N. Raevsky). After the suppression of the uprising in Chechnya and a number of repressive measures against the village of Aldy by the tsarist authorities, in 1787, under pressure from the tsarist administration, the Aldinians moved closer to the Sunzha River (near the village of Chernorechye), founding the village of New Aldy (BukhIan-Yurt).

In 1913, residents of the village of Novye Aldy leased a plot of land located in Novye Promyslye in the city of Grozny for a period of 20 years. The agreement was signed by the Aldin residents Bisultan Tagirov and his cousin Elamirza, having received a fairly large sum of money as an advance. In the future, they were supposed to receive a certain amount for each pood of oil pumped out. The agreement was kept in the Republican Museum of Local Lore. This opportunity probably arose after a proclamation to the Chechen people on behalf of Emperor Alexander II, who paid tribute to their desire for independence and love of freedom. The proclamation provided the mountaineers with a certain freedom and gave them the opportunity to live according to internal self-government. It was officially confirmed that “your lands are your inalienable possession.” Perhaps for this reason, the Aldinians did not participate in the revolutionary movement of 1917 and did not fight for Soviet power. For such stubbornness, the Grozny Military Revolutionary Council decided to burn Novye Aldy. Only the intervention of the Extraordinary Commissioner of the South of Russia Sergo Ordzhonikidze forced this decision to be reversed.

Makhmud Kuzaev

Geography

The village is located on the southwestern outskirts of Grozny, on the left bank of the Sunzha River, adjacent to the Chernorechensky reservoir.

Story

1787-1994

Founded in 1787 by residents of the village of Aldy from the Dishniy teip, Guna and Bena. . The village is also known as Bukhan-Yurt (BukhIan-Yurt).

Until August 1, 1934, Novye Aldy was part of the Urus-Martan district.

On August 1, 1934, the All-Russian Central Executive Committee decided to “form a new Grozny district in the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Region with its center in the city of Grozny, including within its borders the villages of Berdykel, Chechen-aul, Novye Aldy and Alkhan-Kala of the Urus-Martan district.”

New Aldy received the status of a village and grew after the return of Chechens from deportation in the late 1950s, when the returnees were allocated plots of land there. By the beginning of the 1990s. the village numbered up to 10 thousand people; there was a library, a clinic, a school for 1.5 thousand students. According to the Memorial Society, “the residents of the village worked in the factories of Grozny.”

1994-2000

In December 1999, Aldy came under heavy shelling.

On January 21, 2000, the Kommersant newspaper wrote that militants control the Zavodskoy district of Grozny from the village of Chernorechye to the Aldy microdistrict, and between these suburbs is the patrimony of the militants defending Grozny.

After 2000

In April 2009, the restoration of the Sheikh Mansour Mosque with a capacity of up to 500 people began.

In July 2009, a new branch building of the children's city clinic No. 4 was opened in Novy Aldy.

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- Yes, Savelich orders.
– Tell me, did you not know about the death of the Countess when you stayed in Moscow? - said Princess Marya and immediately blushed, noticing that by making this question after his words that he was free, she ascribed to his words a meaning that they, perhaps, did not have.
“No,” answered Pierre, obviously not finding the interpretation that Princess Marya gave to his mention of her freedom awkward. “I learned this in Orel, and you can’t imagine how it struck me.” We were not exemplary spouses,” he said quickly, looking at Natasha and noticing in her face the curiosity about how he would respond to his wife. “But this death struck me terribly.” When two people quarrel, both are always to blame. And one’s own guilt suddenly becomes terribly heavy in front of a person who no longer exists. And then such death... without friends, without consolation. “I’m very, very sorry for her,” he finished and was pleased to notice the joyful approval on Natasha’s face.
“Yes, here you are again, a bachelor and a groom,” said Princess Marya.
Pierre suddenly blushed crimson and tried for a long time not to look at Natasha. When he decided to look at her, her face was cold, stern and even contemptuous, as it seemed to him.
– But did you really see and talk with Napoleon, as we were told? - said Princess Marya.
Pierre laughed.
- Never, never. It always seems to everyone that being a prisoner means being a guest of Napoleon. Not only have I not seen him, but I have also not heard of him. I was in much worse company.
Dinner ended, and Pierre, who at first refused to talk about his captivity, gradually became involved in this story.
- But is it true that you stayed to kill Napoleon? – Natasha asked him, smiling slightly. “I guessed it when we met you at the Sukharev Tower; remember?
Pierre admitted that this was the truth, and from this question, gradually guided by the questions of Princess Marya and especially Natasha, he became involved in a detailed story about his adventures.
At first he spoke with that mocking, meek look that he now had at people and especially at himself; but then, when he came to the story of the horrors and suffering that he had seen, he, without noticing it, became carried away and began to speak with the restrained excitement of a person experiencing strong impressions in his memory.
Princess Marya looked at Pierre and Natasha with a gentle smile. In this whole story she saw only Pierre and his kindness. Natasha, leaning on her arm, with a constantly changing expression on her face, along with the story, watched, without looking away for a minute, Pierre, apparently experiencing with him what he was telling. Not only her look, but the exclamations and short questions she made showed Pierre that from what he was telling, she understood exactly what he wanted to convey. It was clear that she understood not only what he was saying, but also what he would like and could not express in words. Pierre told about his episode with the child and the woman for whose protection he was taken in the following way:
“It was a terrible sight, children were abandoned, some were on fire... In front of me they pulled out a child... women, from whom they pulled things off, tore out earrings...
Pierre blushed and hesitated.
“Then a patrol arrived, and all those who were not robbed, all the men were taken away. And me.
– You probably don’t tell everything; “You must have done something…” Natasha said and paused, “good.”
Pierre continued to talk further. When he talked about the execution, he wanted to avoid the terrible details; but Natasha demanded that he not miss anything.
Pierre started to talk about Karataev (he had already gotten up from the table and was walking around, Natasha was watching him with her eyes) and stopped.
- No, you cannot understand what I learned from this illiterate man - a fool.
“No, no, speak up,” said Natasha. - Where is he?
“He was killed almost in front of me.” - And Pierre began to tell the last time of their retreat, Karataev’s illness (his voice trembled incessantly) and his death.
Pierre told his adventures as he had never told them to anyone before, as he had never recalled them to himself. He now saw, as it were, a new meaning in everything that he had experienced. Now, when he was telling all this to Natasha, he was experiencing that rare pleasure that women give when listening to a man - not smart women who, while listening, try to either remember what they are told in order to enrich their minds and, on occasion, retell it or adapt what is being told to your own and quickly communicate your clever speeches, developed in your small mental economy; but the pleasure that real women give, gifted with the ability to select and absorb into themselves all the best that exists in the manifestations of a man. Natasha, without knowing it herself, was all attention: she did not miss a word, a hesitation in her voice, a glance, a twitch of a facial muscle, or a gesture from Pierre. She caught the unspoken word on the fly and brought it directly into her open heart, guessing the secret meaning of all Pierre’s spiritual work.

...On February 5, 2000, the village of Novye Aldy, located within the boundaries of Grozny, was subjected to cleansing operations, which were carried out by two units. The detachment that cleared the southern side of the village was engaged in robbery, but (according to eyewitness accounts).

The unit that cleared the northern side (there is indirect evidence of the involvement of the St. Petersburg riot police) killed 56 people (counting 10 people killed in the adjacent Chernorechye microdistrict), including 6 women, 11 old people from 60 years of age and older (the oldest was born in 1924) ; Among those killed were a one-year-old baby, Khasan Estamirov, and a woman who was 9 months pregnant (Toita Estamirova).

Novaya Gazeta describes witness testimony that 49-year-old Sultan Temirov had his head cut off alive and his body thrown to the dogs.

Those killed were Chechens, but among them there were two Russians, including Elena Kuznetsova, who was 70 years old!

For 13 years, there have been no results on this mass murder - the most insanity that can happen only in Russia is that on March 3, 2000, the criminal case opened by the military prosecutor's office was dismissed for lack of evidence of a crime, after which there were many appeals and lawsuits , complaints, but all in vain.

The survivors are left alone with their grief, while murderers, robbers and rapists receive veteran benefits, wear awards on holidays, work and live among ordinary people.

So, be damned! And you are, without a doubt, cursed and will burn in Hell insha-Allah, at least for the one-year-old baby Hassan Estamirov and a pregnant woman!

On July 26, the European Court of Human Rights considered the case “Musaev and others v. Russia” - about the mass execution of civilians in the village of Novye Aldy. The applicants' claims were supported by lawyers from the Memorial human rights center (Moscow) and the European Human Rights Center (EHRAC, London).

The Russian government presented its arguments to Strasbourg. It did not deny that on that day in Novy Aldy the St. Petersburg riot police carried out a “special operation,” but clarified that the participation of riot police in the murders had not been proven by the investigation. Yes, it turns out that there was an investigation - on March 5, 2000, the prosecutor's office of the Chechen Republic opened a criminal case into the mass death of people. The investigation led nowhere. The prosecutor's office was unable to identify the names of the killers from the army and riot police. The European Court has repeatedly asked for copies of the investigation materials. The Russian government invariably refused him this, citing secrecy.

Punitive operation of the Russian army in the village of Aldy
The film was prepared by employees of the Human Rights Center "Memorial"

On July 26, the European Court of Human Rights considered the case “Musaev and others v. Russia” - about the mass execution of civilians in the village of Novye Aldy. The applicants’ claims were supported by lawyers from the Memorial human rights center (Moscow) and...

On July 26, the European Court of Human Rights considered the case “Musaev and others v. Russia” - about the mass execution of civilians in the village of Novye Aldy. The applicants' claims were supported by lawyers from the Memorial human rights center (Moscow) and the European Human Rights Center (EHRAC, London).

All five applicants are relatives of those killed. On February 5, 2000, Yusup Musaev witnessed the murder of nine people, seven of whom were his relatives. Suleiman Magomadov lived in Ingushetia during the events and, having learned about the “cleansing”, came to Novye Aldy to bury the remains of his two brothers, who were burned on February 5, possibly alive. Tamara Magomadova was the wife of one of the murdered Magomadov brothers. Malika Labazanova, in the courtyard of her own house, witnessed the murder of three of her relatives by the feds: a 60-year-old woman, a 70-year-old old man and a 47-year-old disabled man. All of them were shot because they could not collect the amount demanded by the killers as a ransom for their lives. Khasan Abdulmezhidov, Labazanova’s husband, escaped execution due to the fact that he was in the neighbors’ house at the time.

The Russian government presented its arguments to Strasbourg. It did not deny that on that day in Novy Aldy the St. Petersburg riot police carried out a “special operation,” but clarified that the participation of riot police in the murders had not been proven by the investigation. Yes, it turns out that there was a consequence - on March 5, 2000, the prosecutor's office of the Chechen Republic opened a criminal case into the mass death of people. The investigation led nowhere. The prosecutor's office was unable to identify the names of the killers from the army and riot police. The European Court has repeatedly asked for copies of the investigation materials. The Russian government invariably refused him this, citing secrecy.

But as another argument, the government argued that not all domestic remedies had been exhausted in this case. Obviously, 7 years is too short a period for Russian justice to establish the truth and punish criminals.

On July 26, the court in Strasbourg unanimously rejected this argument of the Russian government. The court accepted that responsibility for the unlawful killings of the applicants' relatives lies with the Russian authorities. The court also found the investigation of the massacre by Russian justice ineffective.

According to the court's decision, Russia must pay compensation for moral damage to the applicants: Yusup Musaev - 35 thousand euros, Suleiman Magomadov - 30 thousand euros, Tamara Magomadova - 40 thousand euros, Malika Labazanova and Khasan Abdulmezhidov - 40 thousand euros. In addition, the government will pay Tamara Magomadova 8 thousand euros for material damage suffered, and will also pay the applicants' legal costs and expenses in the amount of 14,050 euros and 4,580 pounds sterling.

The 170 thousand euros that Russia will pay for a lost case is nothing for the Russian state, especially since the money will be paid from the state budget, and not from the pockets of those specific officials and judges who are responsible for the ineffectiveness of justice. 170 thousand euros is nothing for the relatives of the victims, because with what money can one value the life of loved ones?

The decision of the European Court is not a triumph of justice, but only an indication to the Russian authorities of the ineffectiveness of the national judicial system and an indirect accusation of bias in the investigation and the court.

The triumph of justice would take place if the killers of 56 civilians in the village of Novye Aldy were brought before a criminal court and received punishment commensurate with what they did in the suburbs of Grozny on February 5, 2000.

Special reports by Anna Politkovskaya

What became the subject of discussion in Strasbourg last week was known for a long time: in detail, with the designation of departments and units whose military personnel committed this monstrous crime in New Aldy. Novaya POLITKOVSKAYA columnist collected testimonies from survivors and published them at the same time - in February 2000. And then she continued the investigation, talking about how the investigation was inactive and who exactly was slowing down the investigation: no one wanted to look for the bastards who killed at point-blank range and burned alive women and old people. Even now, 7 years later, eyewitness testimonies are unbearable to read - and we did not dare print them in the newspaper, we posted them on our website. And the reaction of the authorities then was usual: Politkovskaya was accused of falsifying facts, whipping up passions and protecting “bandits.” Now the European Court of Human Rights has put everything in its place. Only murderers are at large, with shoulder straps and decorations, and there are no prerequisites that they are going to be brought to justice.

These are inhuman stories. They say that for reliability they must be divided by some number (10, 100, 200?). But no matter how much you do it, it will still turn out terrible.

<…>Reseda begins to draw a diagram of their street in Aldy and how the punitive forces moved. “Here is our house,” says Rezeda, “and here is Sultan Temirov, a retired neighbor. While still alive, the contract soldiers cut off his head and took him with them. And... the body was thrown to the dogs... Later, when the feds went to other houses, the neighbors took one left leg and groin from the feral dogs - and buried them...”

Witnesses believe that more than a hundred people died during the cleansing in Aldy - there is no more precise data yet. Those who remained on the streets of Voronezhskaya and named after Matashi Mazaev suffered especially.<…>This selection happened by chance: it’s just that the street named after Mazaev is the first one when you enter Aldy.

Reseda continues the imaginary walk home: “They passed us.<…>Next is the Khaidarovs' house. There they shot father and son - Gula and Vakha. The old man is over 80. Behind them lived the middle-aged Avalu Sugaipov; refugees stayed with him<…>two men, a woman and a 5-year-old girl. All the adults were burned with a flamethrower, including the mother, in front of her daughter. Before the execution, the soldiers gave the little one a can of condensed milk and said: “Go for a walk.” The girl must have gone crazy. The Musayevs lived at 120 Voronezhskaya Street. Of these, old Yakub, his son Umar and nephews Yusup, Abdrakhman and Suleiman were shot.<…>

The elder sister Larisa continues. She says things that are inaccessible to the fantasies of a mentally healthy person. About the fact that the trees on their street are now “decorated” with shapeless bloody spots - because they were brought to them for execution. “But the trunks cannot be washed! That’s why I, for example, will never be able to return there.”<…>.

<…>Malika Labazanova is a baker from the village of Novye Aldy on the outskirts of Grozny. She has been baking bread all her life.<…>Malika had only one break in her work - but it divided her life into two halves: BEFORE February 5 and AFTER February 5.<…>

Starting from February 6, Malika herself put the corpses in the basement. She herself protected them from hungry dogs and crows. She buried herself. And then I washed the basement tiles...

<…>For several weeks, families did not bury “their” corpses, contrary to all traditions - they waited for prosecutors to carry out the necessary investigative actions as required. Then, without waiting, they buried him. Later they began to wait for death certificates - few received them. However, soon the employee of the Grozny prosecutor’s office who issued documents indicating the cause of death* (stab wounds, gunshot and bullet wounds) was suddenly urgently transferred to another place of work, and everyone with “his” certificates was called to the administration of the Zavodsky district and ordered to hand over in order to receive in exchange “a new type of death certificate” (as they explained to people), in which there was no “cause of death” column at all...

<…>There are no results of the investigation. Over the past ten months, witnesses have not been questioned. No one dared to draw up sketches of the criminals, although some of the killers did not hide their faces.

It is now quite obvious that the Prosecutor General’s Office is successfully putting the brakes on the case regarding the tragedy. She officially responds to interested Novoaldin residents with unsubscribes: they say, under control<…>. To everyone who is interested - but not to the residents of Novoaldin - prosecutors lie without hesitation that the Chechens, true to their customs, simply do not allow the bodies of the dead to be exhumed and therefore the investigation does not have the physical ability to move forward...<…>.

However, it turned out: the residents of Novo-Aldin, no matter how hard it was for them, ASK, PLEAD, DEMAND to carry out all the necessary exhumation measures, insisting that the main material evidence - the bullets - be finally removed from the bodies.<…>But the answer to all these insistent demands was a mocking infamy: a team of military forensic experts arrived in the village to give people papers prepared in advance to sign... That relatives were refusing exhumations.<…>

Ordinary employees of the State Police, who were somehow involved at different times in the investigation of the Novoaldinsk tragedy, agree to “talk” only with guarantees of complete and eternal anonymity.<…>If the Novo Alda nightmare is allowed to unfold before specific epaulets are charged, the Prosecutor General's Office believes that other similar cases will certainly follow Novo Alda. The same Prosecutor General's employees also spoke about their own personal intimidation: they are allegedly also threatened by gentlemen officers<…>.

Anna Politkovskaya, Novaya columnist

* The investigator for particularly important cases of the Main Directorate of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation in the North Caucasus, T. Murdalov, gave people a document with the following content: “On February 5, 2000, in the morning in the village of Novye Aldy, Zavodsky district of the city of Grozny, Chechen Republic, by employees of units of the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation During the verification of the passport regime, a mass murder of civilians of the specified village was committed, including the murder of... (the name of the deceased followed. - A.P.). “The Main Directorate of the Prosecutor General’s Office in the North Caucasus is conducting an investigation into this fact.” The investigator managed to write out 33 similar documents.

The village of Novye Aldy is located on the southern outskirts of Grozny. Before the war, about 10 thousand people lived here. The village had a library and a clinic. One and a half thousand children studied at the local school. The village arose in the late 50s, when people returning after deportation received plots of land here - five acres per family. On this land they built houses for themselves and their children, for a future happy life.

Someday historians will write detailed studies about the recent war in Chechnya. What happened in the village of Novye Aldy on February 5, 2000 is told by eyewitnesses whose testimonies were collected by the Memorial Human Rights Center.

Aset Chadayeva:

“I lived in the village of Novye Aldy from the fall of 1999 to February 2000. Until February 3, people here were killed by bombs and died from shrapnel wounds. The “work” of Russian aviation led chronically ill and elderly people to heart attacks and strokes. People died from pneumonia - they sat in damp basements for months. In just two months, until February 5, we buried 75 people.

On February 5, at about 12 noon, I heard the first shots on the street. My father and I went out and saw soldiers setting houses on fire. Our neighbor was repairing the roof, and I heard the soldier say: “Look, Dim, the fool is fixing the roof,” and he responded: “Take him off.” The soldier raised his machine gun and wanted to shoot. I shouted: “Don’t shoot! He's deaf! The soldier turned and fired a burst over our heads.

Then my brother, born in 1975, followed us, and we went to meet these fascists. The first thing they shouted was: “Mark them, Gray, with green on their foreheads, so that it will be more convenient to shoot.” They immediately pointed a machine gun at my brother and asked: “Did you take part in the battles?” The brother replied that he had not, so they began to beat him.

In case they raped me, I tied a grenade to me in advance - it could be exchanged for four packs of Prima cigarettes.

We were ordered to gather at the crossroads. I gathered people from our street so that we could all be together. In our small alley alone, there were ten children under 15 years old, the youngest was only 2 years old. The soldiers again began checking passports, one said: “We will evict you. They gave you a corridor, you bastards!?” All this was accompanied by obscene language.

As soon as I moved away from the intersection, shots rang out again. The women shouted: “Asya, Ruslan is wounded, bandage him!” Ruslan Elsaev, 40 years old, after the check, stood near his house, smoking. Two soldiers shot at him for no reason, one bullet went right through his lung, two centimeters from his heart, the other hit his arm...

My brother and I went outside again and again heard wild screams: neighbor Rumisa was leading a girl. It was nine-year-old Leila, the daughter of a refugee from the village of Dzhalka. Leila fell in hysterics, rolled on the ground, laughed and screamed in Chechen and Russian: “They killed my mother!” My brother picked her up and carried her to our home. I ran into the [neighbors’] yard - Leila’s mother was lying there in a pool of blood, which was still steaming in the cold. I wanted to lift her, but she was falling apart, a piece of her skull was falling off - probably a burst from a light machine gun cut her... Nearby in the yard, two men were lying, both had huge holes in their heads, apparently they were shot at point-blank range. The house was already on fire, the back rooms, and in the first room the murdered Avalu was burning. Apparently some kind of flammable liquid was poured on him and set on fire. I dragged a forty-liter flask of water, I don’t know how I lifted it, and poured the water out. To be honest, I didn’t want to see Avalu’s body; it would be better if it remained alive in my memory - he was an exceptionally kind person. Neighbors came running and also began to put out the fire. Twelve-year-old Magomed walked around the yard, repeating: “Why did they do this?!” The smell of blood was simply unbearable...

I ran back along the main street, they could shoot there at any minute, I had to move through courtyards. I saw Magomed Gaitaev - he was disabled, he had an accident in his youth, he had no nose, he wore special glasses. He’s lying there, he’s been shot in the head and chest, and these glasses are hanging on the fence.

Russian soldiers finished off my sick, wounded civilians, old people and women.

Lema Akhtaev and Isa Akhmatova were burned. We then found the bones and collected them in a saucepan. And any commission, any examination can prove that these are human bones. But no one cares about these bones, about these dead.

Shamkhan Baigiraev was also burned and taken from his home. The Idigov brothers were forced to go down to the basement and bombarded with grenades - one survived, the other was torn to pieces. I saw Gulu Khaidaev, an old man who was killed. He was lying on the street in a pool of blood. The soldiers killed eighty-year-old Akhmatova Rakyat - first they wounded her, then they finished her off while she was lying down. She shouted: “Don’t shoot!”...

Marina Ismailova:

On February 5, in the morning, gunfire from machine guns, machine guns and grenade launchers began to be heard in the village... They killed and burned people without asking for documents. Those killed and burned had passports and other documents in their pockets or hands. The main demands were gold and money, then they only shot...

On Matasha Mazaev Street, in house No. 158, there remained two brothers of retirement age, the Magomadovs - Abdula and Salman. They were burned alive in their home. Only a few days later, after enormous efforts, we found their remains. They fit in a plastic bag...

Luiza Abulkhanova:

Everything happened very quickly. When the shots rang out, I felt bad. I only clearly remember that those who entered our yard first demanded money. The old man [Akhmed Abulkhanov] went somewhere and brought 300 rubles. The soldiers were unhappy and cursed... Then shots rang out. Together with my father-in-law, the Abdulmezhidovs’ brother and sister, our neighbors, died. Isa Akhmatova was found in the Tsanaevs’ house only a few days after the incident. He was apparently burned alive...

I don't know when or how this war will end. How many more victims will be sacrificed on the altar of Putin’s presidency. I only know that after all these horrors I will not be able to treat the Russians with respect. It is unlikely that we will get along in one state.

"Ruslan"(name changed at his request):

On the morning of February 5, I was repairing the roof and saw a house at the beginning of the village catch fire. A second and third flashed behind him, shots began, and people screamed. The feds were in headscarves and of mature age. They herded everyone to the intersection of Kamskaya Street and 4th Almazny Lane.

We started walking from the first street and went into the house of the Idigov brothers. The two brothers were driven into the basement and two grenades were thrown there. One remained alive because the second covered him with himself. Three people were shot in a neighboring house: one old man, 68 years old, and two young guys. They were not asked for documents. They shot strictly in the head.

Houses were burned. People heard shouts: “Where is the money!?” The Magomadov brothers were thrown into the basement, shot and set on fire. The fire spread to other houses...

The corpses that I buried were of different ages, from young to very old, but there were many that could not be identified.

Malika Labazanova:

... And then they started shooting. At the same time they shouted that they had orders to kill everyone. I ran to the neighbors, knocked on the gate - no one opened. Only Deniev Alu answered the knock and brought me three pieces of paper for a hundred rubles each. I carry this money, approach my gate and see: my cat is walking, her insides have fallen out. She walks and stops, walks and stops, and then dies. My legs began to give way, I thought that everyone in our yard had been killed...

When I handed this guy in a white camouflage coat 300 rubles, he just laughed. “Is this money? “You all have money and gold,” he said. “Your teeth are also gold.” Out of fright, I took off my earrings (my mother bought them for me for my sixteenth birthday), I give them away and ask them not to kill. And he shouts that everyone has been ordered to kill, calls the soldier and tells him: “Take her into the house and shake her there.”

In the house, I immediately rushed to the boiler room, there behind the stove and hid. It was the only thing I could do in that situation. And the one who accompanied me went back. He was looking for me. Not finding it, he returned to the house again. And then shooting started in the yard. I rushed to the soldier and began to ask and beg him not to kill me. “I won’t kill you, they will kill me,” he said. And such fear gripped me that the bombings and shelling - everything that happened before that day, I was ready to relive everything again, if only he, this soldier, would take the machine gun pointed at me.

He started shooting: at the ceiling, at the walls, and shot through the gas stove. And then I realized that he would not shoot me. I grabbed his legs and thanked him for not killing him. And he: “Be quiet, you’re already dead.”

Yusup Musaev:

Soldiers jumped into the yard and laid us face down on the ground. They swore obscenely: “Bitches, lie down, you brute!” Musayev’s cousin Khasan had a machine gun put to his ear, Andi Akhmadov was also lying there, he was held at gunpoint. Next lay the boy and I, they put a machine gun between my shoulder blades...

Then the soldiers moved further through the courtyards, shots were heard. I thought about the brothers, went to look on the street and immediately found them... And four more people - Ganaev Alvi, his two sons - Sulumbek and Aslanbek, the fourth - Khakimov. When we started dragging the corpses into the yard, the military started shooting from the corner... In the evening, my cousin came and said that he had found nine more corpses. Among them are two of my nephews.

Testimony of a woman who asked not to be named:

I ran to Matasha Mazaev Street and saw people lying there, shot. Only military men stood on the street. I ran back, and they shouted to me: “Stop!” I ran and they shot at me.

When I returned to my place, one soldier sat down and said: “How can I save you? I don't want you to be killed. You look like my mother." He called his guys and they sat with us...

At night we brought the corpses into the houses. I saw 28 corpses - all our neighbors. I washed the corpses. Mostly they shot in the head - in the eyes, in the mouth. Gadaeva had a bullet wound to the back of her head.

Markha Tataeva:

On February 5, we were sitting with our neighbor Anyuta. She looked outside. I ask: “What is there?” She said: “They shoot people there,” and began to cry.

I go out, and our neighbor Abdurakhman Musaev is standing there and shouting: “Well, bitch, why are you standing there - shoot!” The soldiers laugh, Musaev shouts: “Bitch, shoot, come on! Well, why are you standing there, creature, shoot!” He, it turns out, came across his grandson, who was lying there, shot.

These were contract soldiers. One had a tattoo and a fox tail on the back of his hat. He stood and laughed, then he saw me and fired a machine gun straight at me! Anyuta grabbed me and pushed me into the house, and he didn’t hit us. We ran through the courtyards to Anyuta’s house and sat there for two hours. Then I decided to go home, although she asked me not to leave.

I went into the house, and about five minutes later my dog ​​was flying, barking with all his might. Everyone, let's go. I read the prayer. Then she put on overalls to look more pitiful. I open the door, just turn around, he’s looking at me with a machine gun: “Come on, you creature, bitch, come here!” I come up, I want to show the documents - in general, I’m not at a loss. And he’s looking for a reason to make me confused: “Oh, you’re a sniper, you helped the militants, why did you stay at home? Why didn’t you leave, what were you doing here? Where are your parents, in the house, right?” I say: “No, they left.” - “Where did you go? What do you have?” I say: “Documents.” And he: “I don’t need your fucking documents!” - takes them and throws them. I had 35 rubles there. “You don’t need that either!” To the wall! Shoot her, and that’s it!” He’s loading a machine gun, pointing it at me... Then he waved his other hand at him: “Leave her, don’t! Let the girl hide. Otherwise these will find her, fuck her and kill her anyway. It’s better to save the girl, it’s a pity, she’s young!”

They left, and I told Anyuta: “I can’t do it anymore, I want to hide.” Where to hide? We sat down in the wardrobe. We hear the doors open and they are coming. Anyuta says: “That’s it, we have nowhere to go.” And they are shooting from a machine gun in the yard, shouting at the top of their lungs: “Bitches, come out!” When they discharged the horn, I thought - well, that’s it, I won’t see my mother again, I won’t see anyone. That's when I started crying.

I don’t know how they got past us, but they left. We survived.

Makka Jamaldaeva:

They put four of us: my husband, me, my son and my granddaughter, she stood next to me. They swore as much as they wanted, they said whatever they wanted, they didn’t speak human language, it was impossible to smell of vodka from them. Before that, they were drunk – they could barely stand on their feet. When they told my husband: “Grandfather, give me money, dollars, whatever you have,” he pulled out more than a thousand rubles and gave the money. When he was counting the money, he said: “Grandfather, if you don’t give it back, I’ll shoot you,” he used obscene language at him, the old man.

And so I pulled out my earrings, my granddaughter took out hers, I gave it to him: “Son, please take this, leave us alive.” He again says to his son: “I’ll shoot you in the eye now.” When he said this, the father said: “Son, he has six small children, don’t kill, he’s the only one I have.” And he: “If you don’t give me one more gram of gold, then we will shoot you all.” My son had teeth, crowns, he removed these teeth, we gave them to him. He just said obscenities, turned and left. He was drunk and barely left our yard...

Luiza Abulkhanova:

This is the result of this war. On February 5, we saw terrorists with our own eyes and experienced them ourselves. They announce to us that the war is over. How will it end for us if we can never forget this day?

Five of the survivors turned to Strasbourg.