August 11, 2001

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At noon in the city of Grozny, between the villages of Khankala and the village of Michurin, a bus with passengers was blown up on the road. Two people died on the spot, three were taken in serious condition to the city hospital No. 9.

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In one of the buildings of the destroyed Press House in Grozny, Ruslan Yakubovich Tutaev was blown up by a trip mine. He was a local resident, lived in the city at the address: Novgorodskaya st., 39. He entered the building out of necessity. The Russian military is constantly stationed there, and a sniper post is equipped on the roof to control the surrounding area. But no one stopped Ruslan Tutaev and warned him of the danger that threatened him. He was taken to the city hospital No. 9 by the OMON Chechnya.

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At about 4.30 pm, near the village of Starye Atagi, unknown armed men attacked a GAZ-2410 car and took S.G. Gakaev away in an unknown direction. On the same day, the prosecutor's office of the Grozny (rural) district opened criminal case No. 19133 on the fact of his abduction. On October 18, 2001, under the pretext of the impossibility of "... identifying the persons to be brought in as defendants" (Article 195 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the RSFSR), on October 18, 2001, it was suspended. The further fate of this man is not known to the employees of Memorial Human Rights Center.

On the same evening, civilians were killed and wounded on the outskirts of the settlement. According to eyewitnesses, from a Russian military convoy heading towards the regional center of Shatoy, someone fired from an underbarrel grenade launcher towards a bus stop. A resident of the Shatoisky district and a teenage boy, a local resident, who was swimming nearby in the canal, died. Kheda Taipova, 25 years old, resident of the village of Chiri-Yurt, Tabarik Yangulbayeva, 45 years old, mother of four children, Zina Baskhanova, resident of the village of Novye Atagi, and two more women, whose names could not be identified, received injuries of varying severity.

The soldiers left without even stopping. Assistance to the wounded women was rendered in the Staro-Ataginsky district hospital.

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In the vicinity of the village of Staraya Sunzha, Turpal Lemaevich Khadzhikhanov, born in 1962, living at 18 Batukaev St., was blown up on a booby trap. His left foot was torn off. The tragedy occurred at the moment when he, along with his sons - Ruslan, 12 years old and Khamid, 9 years old, were grazing cattle. Local residents said that, in agreement with the local commandant's office, this area was specially allocated for pasture.

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At dawn from the apartment at the address: Grozny, Zavodskoy district, pos. Chernorechye, Mogilevskaya st., 24, apt. 6, Umar Daudovich Baisaev, born in 1977, and Musa Shirvanovich Bakharchiev, born in 1978, were taken away. From the words of Elena Aleksandrovna Annikova, it became known that among the armed people who came to them in UAZ-452 (“tablet”) cars (they introduced themselves as employees of the commandant's office of the Zavodskoy district) were both Russians and Chechens. One of them, showing the cartridge, said: "We found it in your house." After these words, they took away her husband, Umar Baisaev. A few minutes later they returned and, declaring that they were “taking them into the load,” they took Musa Bakharchiev out onto the street. Before that, they blindfolded the detainees with their own T-shirts.

On the same day, with a statement addressed to Mikhail Vladimirovich Chertovich, the relatives of the detainees turned to the prosecutor's office. On the fourth day, Musa Bakharchiev's brother, Badrudi, learned through intermediaries that they were "on the territory of the RUBOP". He even managed to meet and talk with them. The young people said that at first they were kept in the building of the railway hospital in the Oktyabrsky district, where the Russian military unit is stationed. On the second day they were transferred to another place, presumably in the village of Khankala. And here, until August 16 or 17, they were kept in a cage located in a pit. They were handcuffed in the “swallow” position, severely beaten, their ears and elbows burned with a lighter, and they were forced to admit that Umar Baisaev was supposedly an amir and a friend of Khattab, and all the bombings and sabotage in Chernorechye, respectively, were committed by him or his subordinates. They demanded from Musa Bakharchiev that he slandered his friend, saying: “We will kill him anyway, if you want to live, sign that he is a friend of Khattab.”

When they took you out of the cage, they threatened: “Now we will let you go to waste.” But they were transferred to another place - to the temporary detention facility at the Leninsky District Department of Internal Affairs in Grozny. Apparently, the complaints of relatives had an effect, as well as the fact that they quickly managed to determine who participated in the detention of young people and where they are now. A lawyer was hired to protect the rights of Musa Bakharchiev. And Umar Baisaev was charged with blowing up a UAZ military vehicle and under Art. 207 and 208 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. He was sentenced to 13 years in prison. In 2007, he was serving a sentence in the city of Dimitrovgrad (Ulyanovsk region) in the facility YUN-78/T.

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On August 11 and 12, the Russian military carried out “cleansing operations” in the villages of Prigorodnoye, the city of Urus-Martan and in the nearby village of Goity.

From the book "People Live Here", Usam Baisaev, Dmitry Grushkin, 2006