Family archive of Sasha Perov's family from alpha. Perov Alexander Valentinovich Hero of the Russian Federation (posthumously) Major Alexander Valentinovich Perov. Mikhail Borisovich Kuznetsov

Plan:

Introduction

• 1 Biography
  • 1.1 Childhood
  • 1.2 Military school
  • 1.3 Service at Alpha
  • 1.4 Nord-Ost
  • 1.5 Beslan
• 2 Memory
• 3 Personal life
• 4 Awards
Sources

Introduction

Alexander Valentinovich Perov(May 17, 1975 - September 3, 2004) - head of the operational group of the 1st department of Directorate "A" ("Alpha") of the Special Purpose Center of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, who died during the release of hostages during the terrorist attack in Beslan. He was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation.

1. Biography

1.1. Childhood

Alexander Perov was born on May 17, 1975 in the city of Viljandi, Estonian SSR, in the family of Colonel Valentin Antonovich Perov, a regular GRU special forces officer, and Zoya Ivanovna, an economist at the city state bank. Alexander, the second child in the Perov family after the eldest son Alexei, was born prematurely: at 7.5 months, and weighed 2400 g with a height of 45 cm.

In the summer of 1977, Valentin Antonovich was transferred to serve in the city of Cherepovets, Vologda region. It was there that Alexander's childhood passed, and the first year of schooling, after which Alexander's father was transferred to Moscow to the MV Frunze Military Academy. In the capital, Alexander entered secondary school No. 47. At the same time, his parents began to introduce him to sports, first sending their son to a table tennis school. After about a month, Alexander said that he would no longer go, as the coach swears. Then the father enrolled his son in a hand-to-hand combat school, but Alexander did not stay there for a long time either: the coach forced Perov, who had not yet mastered the techniques, to fight with more experienced guys.

The family moved again in 1985, since Valentin Antonovich was given an apartment from the academy, located on Kashirskoye Highway. Therefore, in the 4th grade, Alexander went to the new school No. 937 in Orekhovo-Borisovo: the third in three years of study, but, as it turned out in the end, the one he would finish. While studying there, Alexander became seriously interested in skiing: back in the 5th grade, he completed the standard of the 1st adult category, and, subsequently, repeatedly won prizes at the championships in Moscow and took part in the Russian Ski Track. In addition, following in the footsteps of his father, Alexander was fond of orienteering. Already being a military man, he did not leave sports and repeatedly became the winner of competitions at the FSB championships in cross-country skiing, orienteering and service biathlon.

1.2. military school

While still at school, Alexander firmly decided to become a military man. Zoya Ivanovna Perova urged her son to enter MEPhI, on the basis of which the school of the Olympic reserve was located, where Alexander studied. Her father even supported her, proving to his son that the prestige of the military in the country was falling. Nevertheless, Alexander was going to enter a military school, and, as a result, he was admitted to the Moscow Higher Combined Arms Command School, having passed the exams for courses for one five.

Perov studied with great interest and excellent marks. In the spring of 1994, Alexander began to engage in hand-to-hand combat, first enrolling in a club in a civilian institution closest to the school. Then the hand-to-hand combat section was created at the school, and Alexander began to study in it. The teacher, Captain Drevko, recalled that Sasha worked hard in the section and soon achieved good results, joining the school's national team and successfully performing at various competitions. In particular, in 1995, at the Moscow championship among clubs, Perov took an honorable 3rd place, losing only one fight.

In addition, he was still in the ski school's national team, defending the honor of the school in various championships, and also went in for running, orienteering, shooting and other sports. Thanks to comprehensive training, Alexander successfully defended the honor of the school in competitions in these sports, and at the championship of the Armed Forces in pentathlon (running 8 km, swimming 50 meters, shooting from a machine gun, gymnastics, obstacle course) he also won a prize.

1.3. Service at Alpha

In 1996, shortly before the final exams, a commission from department "A" arrived at the school, which needed qualified personnel. Of all the graduates, only 15 cadets expressed their desire to serve in Alpha, and Alexander was among them. All candidates had to go through the most careful selection, in particular, a difficult physical training exam, which included a three-kilometer cross with a standard of 10 minutes, more than 100 push-ups from the floor, more than 20 pull-ups on the bar and combat sparring with an experienced Alpha fighter. In addition, a test of 300 questions was conducted, 90% of which Alexander answered correctly with a passing score of 75%. As a result, he was the only one out of 15 candidates for Alpha. It should be noted that after the exam he was asked if he was ready to give his life in rescuing the hostages, to which Alexander answered in the affirmative. After successfully passing the state exams (all "five" and one "four", Alexander Perov was accepted into the prestigious special forces.

Service in "Alfa" for Alexander began with the position of a junior detective and consisted in carrying out combat duty with a frequency of 2-3 days and combat training. One of the main tasks was not only to learn a well-aimed shooter, who is well versed in hand-to-hand combat, but, above all, a competent tactician who can consciously act as part of a team and think quickly during a combat operation. Due to good military training and excellent physical development, in less than a year Alexander mastered the skill of storming buses, planes, individual apartments and buildings in order to free the hostages. For success in operational training, conscientious performance of official duties, a little over a year later, Perov was promoted to an operative officer and awarded the next military rank of "senior lieutenant". In his free time, Alexander worked as a bodyguard for large businessmen, because the state salary was not enough.

In the same period, Alexander married Zhanna Igorevna Timoshkina, having played a wedding on July 18, 1999. However, the young did not manage to enjoy the honeymoon to the end: from the same year, Alexander began to repeatedly go on business trips to the North Caucasus region, where he participated in complex operational and combat measures to suppress acts of terrorism, during which he mastered mine-blasting business. Colleagues gave him the nickname "Pukh", an indirect derivative of the surname, because outwardly this nickname was not associated with almost two-meter Alexander.

During one of the trips, a group of fighters went on a mission in an armored personnel carrier, which was blown up by a landmine. As a result of the explosion, Perov was severely shell-shocked and he began to hear poorly in one ear, although he told his parents that his ears hurt from training shooting. Subsequently, Perov was in dangerous situations more than once and was repeatedly under fire, but he received a second head injury in Moscow during a clash with Ossetian bandits, who first created an emergency on the road, and attacked the indignant Perov with baseball bats. Despite the fact that the bandits were found and convicted, Alexander had to be treated for a concussion for a long time.

After treatment, business trips to the North Caucasus resumed, during which Alexander was repeatedly awarded.

1.4. Nord-Ost

Alexander Perov took part in the release of hostages and the liquidation of terrorists during the terrorist act in Nord-Ost, during which 40 Chechen militants, led by Movsar Baraev, took hostage more than 800 spectators of the musical Nord-Ost in the building of the Theater Center on Dubrovka .

Early in the morning, October 26, the theater center was stormed, during which Perov and five other fighters acted in the most difficult and dangerous area, in the auditorium, where there were about 800 people, and under the threat of an explosion of a 50-kilogram bomb hanging from the ceiling . Perov was supposed to make a breach in the metal door, which led into the orchestra pit in the hall of the theater center on Dubrovka, by means of an explosion. But the situation changed during the battle, and Alexander made a decision: do not blow up the door, since the assault groups had already broken into the hall and there was a possibility of defeating their own. The militants, suicide bombers with explosive devices and spectators were in a semi-conscious state from the action of the gas, many had already died. Having destroyed the militants and suicide bombers, the fighters began to evacuate the hostages and six of them, within 40 minutes, carried people out, while being in full combat gear and gas masks. Alexander managed to take out about 50 hostages, until the employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations arrived.

For the operation in Nord-Ost, Major Perov was awarded the Order of Courage and a commemorative sign "For Nord-Ost".

1.5. Beslan

September 1, 2004 went down in history as the day on which a terrorist act unprecedented in its inhumanity was committed: a group of militants took hostage more than 1,128 people at school No. 1 in Beslan, North Ossetia.

Alexander Perov at that time was with his unit in Khankala, where he flew on August 16 to participate in the search for and liquidation of the militants who carried out the attack on the city of Nazran in June of the same year. Having received the news of the capture of the school, the Alpha task force immediately flew by helicopter to Beslan. Perov, as one of the commanders, was entrusted with the task of determining places around the school for machine gunners and snipers and equipping firing points for them.

On September 3, the operation to free the hostages began. Major Perov's group had to clear the corner room of the building on the 1st floor, which included a spacious dining room with utility rooms, a toilet and a washing room. When trying to enter the building, Alexander was injured: a metal grate flying off from the explosion hit him in the leg and crushed the bone. Despite the fact that the fighters wanted to take him to the ambulance, Perov categorically refused and continued to carry out the combat mission, which was complicated by the fiercest resistance of the bandits who fired from the windows of the classrooms on the second and first floors. Then Perov decided to enter the building from the other side, however, hostages were already jumping out of the windows, and the special forces, standing under the windows, began to pull the children from the windowsills to the ground, continuing to shoot back from the militants. Meanwhile, Perov received a new task: to continue clearing the entire right wing of the building.

During the cleaning of the assembly hall, Alexander's colleague, Oleg Loskov, was killed, struck down by machine gun fire. Perov dragged Oleg to the beginning of the corridor to the stairs, where, with Major Vyacheslav Malyarov and Vympel fighters, he tried to help Loskov. At that moment, a terrorist who ran out of the dust and darkness, severely wounded both Vympel fighters with heavy fire from a machine gun, and killed Major Malyarov on the spot. Perov tried to defend himself, but the machine ran out of bullets, and Alexander immediately received two bullets in the groin below the bulletproof vest. Another Alpha fighter wounded the fighter, but he threw a grenade into the dining room and disappeared into the corridor. With the last throw, Major Perov managed to jump back into the dining room and with his body cover a group of children from grenade fragments who had not yet been evacuated. The employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations who jumped up dragged Alexander to the window to transfer him to the ambulance, but Perov was already dead.

2. Memory

• By decree of the President of Russia of September 6, 2004, FSB Major Alexander Perov was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation (posthumously) for the courage and bravery shown during the release of the hostages.

• On May 19, 2006, a museum in memory of Alexander Perov was opened on the basis of the capital's comprehensive school No. 937 of the Southern Administrative District. Also, at school No. 937, the Alexander Perov Prize for the best creative work was established, and a festival of sports achievements named after him is held, in which all classes participate, starting from the 1st. . On August 3, 2007, by order of the government of the city of Moscow, this educational institution was officially named after the hero.

• On May 12, 2005, by decision of the leadership of Directorate "A" of the Special Purpose Center of the FSB of Russia and the Association of Veterans of the Alpha Anti-Terror Unit, the Voin Military-Patriotic Youth Association (Chelyabinsk) was named after the Hero of Russia, Major Alexander Perov.

• In the village of Mikhalenino, Nizhny Novgorod region, in the father's homeland, one of the streets was named after Alexander Perov. In this village he spent his childhood.

• In the regional center of Varnavino, in the Park of Glory, a memorial shield of Alexander Perov was installed next to the Heroes of the Soviet Union of the region during the Great Patriotic War.

• In memory of Alexander, an inter-district chess tournament is held annually in Varnavin, a skiing competition in Moscow, and a tree is planted in the Alley of Heroes at the 41st kilometer from Moscow along the Volokolamsk highway.

• In February 2011, it was reported that the Gorky Railway was preparing to launch the Hero of Russia Alexander Perov electric train. The electric train of increased comfort will run in the Nizhny Novgorod region.

3. Personal life

In 1999, Alexander got married. In 2001, his son Vyacheslav was born.

Alexander was buried at the Nikolo-Arkhangelsk cemetery in the Novokosino district of Moscow. .

4. Awards

• Gold Star Medal (posthumous)
• Order of Courage
• Medal of Honor"
• Suvorov medal
• Medal "For Distinction in Special Operations"
• Medal "For doing the impossible"
• Medal "For Distinction in Military Service, 3rd Class"
• Memorial sign "For Service in the Caucasus"
• Memorial sign "Nord-Ost"
• Badge of the Special Purpose Center (TsSN)
• Badge "For Distinction in Special Operations"

Sources

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2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Alexander Perov: pages of life.
3. 1 2 3 Hero of Russia Major Perov Alexander Valentinovich (05/17/1975-09/03/2004).
4. SWAT Angels (September 22, 2004).
5. A Saudi mercenary participated in the capture of the Beslan school // Lenta.Ru, September 1, 2005
6. Museum. Perov Alexander Valentinovich
7. State educational institution secondary school No. 937 named after the Hero of the Russian Federation A.V. Perov.
8. 1 2 3 4 Alexander Perov goes on the rails, City and citizens(February 2011), p. 4.

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It was a black page in our history, stained with blood. I was in Beslan.

What were they like - special forces who covered defenseless children with their bodies?

About four of them - those who posthumously became the Hero of Russia and other fallen soldiers.

Turkin Andrey Alekseevich

Born on October 21, 1975 in the city of Orsk, Orenburg region in a family of workers - a Russian soldier, an officer of Directorate "V" ("Vympel") of the Central Security Service of the FSB of the Russian Federation, a lieutenant who died during the release of hostages during a terrorist attack in the city of Beslan. He was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation.

After graduating from the 8th grade of the Dinsk secondary school No. 1 of the Krasnodar Territory, he entered the Dinsk secondary vocational school, which he graduated in 1993 with a degree in car repair.

In December 1993, A. Turkin was called up for military service in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. He served in the Border Troops in Tajikistan, where he took part in the fighting on the Tajik-Afghan border. In July 1995, A. Turkin was transferred to the reserve with the rank of "sergeant", after which he returned home to the Krasnodar Territory, where he worked and studied at the institute.

This man had a special, from God, talent. He knew how to connect with people instantly. As soon as you get to know each other, you won’t spill it with water.

Wherever he ended up, wherever fate threw him, comrades, friends, fellow countrymen appeared around him at once. Yes, how not to appear - if he was born in the Urals, grew up in the Krasnodar Territory, and served in Transbaikalia and Central Asia. The entire geography of the country is in one short fate.

A. Turkin had the nickname Circassian. He is always smiling in every photo. Even where he tries to be serious, a smile still hides in the corners of his lips.

You're not looking for SWAT. SWAT is looking for you. Andrei returned to his native village, and to meet him - a bosom, school friend. It was he who told Andrei how "buyers" from the "Vympel" group came to them in the 76th Guards Airborne Division (Pskov), what tempting prospects they drew for those being transferred to the reserve. They arrived in Moscow together and were enrolled almost on the same day - in April 1997.

The then commander of his Hero of Russia Sergei Shavrin admits that he liked A. Turkin from the very first day:

First, communicative.

Secondly, economic, which is especially valuable in a war (if you need to get something, Andrei will hurt himself, but he will do the impossible).

Thirdly, trouble-free.

“I knew,” recalls S. Shavrin, “if he asks “how are you?”, This is not an empty, ordinary formality. He cared about everything, and he perceived other people's problems as his own.”

A brief extract from the service record: in 2000 he was awarded the medals of Suvorov and "For saving the dead", in 2002 - the medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" 2nd degree with swords.

Anyone who was at war knows the value of these truly soldierly awards. And it is no coincidence that when one of the "Vympel" was blown up in a minefield - it was A. Turkin who went after him, although he knew that the "petals" were scattered everywhere - a cluster mine is a terrible and insidious thing ...

On September 3, 2004, a group that included A. Turkin broke into the building through the gym. It was true hell. The floor shook under their feet, and only after looking closely did they realize that they were running over corpses.

A. Turkin and his partner - Alexander B. - were cut off from the general group at once. Not militants, no: the hostages themselves. Crazed people rushed about, not understanding anything, and this bloody mass of people pushed the guys aside in a stormy stream.

The hall was already on fire, clouds of smoke obscured the view. But they managed to see how the terrorist jumped out from around the corner, how, after giving a short burst, he hid back.

Both of them - Andrey and Alexander - were already wounded. The bullet hit A. Turkin under the bulletproof vest, but for some reason he did not feel pain. And when the bandit jumped out again and waved a grenade, A. Turkin had no time to think. He rushed towards the enemy, tightly grabbed and collapsed on top of him. In the roar of firing, no one - including the hostages saved from certain death - heard the explosion of a grenade ...

At home, the Hero of Russia, Lieutenant A. Turkin, left a three-year-old son and wife ... No, not like that. There were not two, but three of them, because Andrei's wife, a Cossack from his own village, was in her fourth month of pregnancy.

A. Turkin will never know who will be born to him. How could the former paratrooper, major of the Vympel group A. Velko, who also left his pregnant wife a widow, not find out about this ...

Velko Andrey Vitalievich

Born on February 20, 1974 in the village of Dzhangi-Dzher, Sokuluk District, Kirghiz SSR, in a family of workers.

After graduation, he entered the Ryazan Higher Airborne School. He served as commander of the reconnaissance platoon of the airborne division.

In 1998 he joined Vympel.

Major Velko A.V. entered the school building as part of an advanced assault group. He was the first to burst into the doorway of the building and entered into battle with the bandits. Firing, he held back the fierce onslaught of terrorists, allowing the combat group to enter the premises and begin to evacuate people, during which one of the bandits suddenly appeared from the side doorway of the corridor and opened fire from a machine gun on the group’s employees and hostages. Andrey Velko, instantly assessing the situation and realizing the real threat to the lives of his colleagues and children, made fire contact with the terrorist and destroyed him, while being mortally wounded.

Dmitry Alexandrovich Razumovsky

Born March 16, 1968, Ulyanovsk - Russian serviceman, head of the department of Directorate "V" ("Vympel") of the Central Security Service of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, lieutenant colonel, died during the release of hostages during the terrorist attack in Beslan. He was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation.

In the Armed Forces of the USSR since 1986. Graduated from the Moscow Higher Border Command Order of the October Revolution Red Banner School of the KGB of the USSR. Moscow City Council (now the Moscow Border Institute of the FSB of Russia) in 1990. He was a school boxing champion. Upon graduation, he was assigned for further service to the Central Asian border district, to one of the most difficult areas - to the Pyanj border detachment. In 1990, when mass riots began in Dushanbe, which actually became a prelude to a civil war in Tajikistan, D. Razumovsky was in the position of deputy head of the frontier post.

Since 1991, he participated in hostilities on the Tajik-Afghan border. He was deputy commander, and later commander of the airborne assault maneuver group of the Moscow border detachment. Participated in many military operations, for which he was awarded the Order "For Personal Courage" and the medal "For Courage". Under his command, the group inflicted heavy losses on gangs and drug traffickers - in one of the ambush, a batch of three tons of heroin was captured. The bandits promised tens of thousands of US dollars for the officer's head.

In 1993, in one of the battles, D. Razumovsky received a severe concussion. While in the hospital, he learned about the death of friends from the 12th frontier post - the head of the outpost, Mikhail Mayboroda, was D. Razumovsky's best friend. Razumovsky met his wife, Erica, at the funeral of a friend and named his eldest son after him.

In 1994, D. Razumovsky was forced to resign from the army after the publication in a number of central newspapers of his letter about the facts of corruption among the command and senseless death through the fault of the superior chiefs of the Russian border guards and the military in Tajikistan.

This yellowed newspaper publication is ten years old. Exactly ten, but it is read, as if written now, about us today ...

An open letter from the head of the outpost of the Moscow border detachment appeared in October 1994 on the pages of one of the central newspapers: the editors gave an entire "cellar" for it.

“I am writing to you with pain in my heart, because on August 19 my comrades-in-arms died. I am also writing because I am tired of banging my head against the walls,” the letter began.

At present, the Tajik events of those years have somehow already been forgotten, receded into the past, overshadowed by new cataclysms and wars. But in the early 1990s, a rare month went by without disturbing news from the Afghan border, where Russian soldiers were fighting Afghan drug cartels.

Then the feat of the 12th outpost thundered throughout the country. For seven hours, under heavy fire, 45 border guards held a circular defense against 250 militants, among whom, by the way, was the still unknown terrorist Khattab. We ran out of ammo and grenades. The only BMP burned down. A direct hit destroyed the barracks. Still, the guards did not retreat. They believed that they would not be abandoned. But the generals pulled to the last, and when help arrived, it was too late ...

He wrote about cowardice and betrayal. About how serenely our tanks watched the execution of the 12th outpost. How commanders collude with militants, and how honest, incorruptible officers are ruthlessly driven away. As they betray - one after another - outposts, dooming people to certain death.

“The Kremlin forbade me to avenge my dead friends, but I don’t follow this order. We are ready to serve you as cannon fodder in the future, but we don’t know for what interests, for what our friends are dying?”

To this question - as well as to all the others, however, - no one, of course, answered Captain Razumovsky. There is no answer to it even today, because even after ten years, Russian soldiers and officers, sacrificed to politics, continue to die in inglorious wars.

And immediately after the publication, D. Razumovsky was fired. Ten years later - in September 2004 - he will become a Hero of Russia ...

He dreamed of being a border guard since childhood, since he watched the series "State Border".

The Razumovsky family was the most ordinary. Provincial city of Ulyanovsk. Father is a civil engineer. Mom is a music teacher. Nothing heroic. And he dreamed of exploits, of romance and chases, and sincerely regretted that there were no more wars in his lifetime. In his view, the border remained the only place where a real man can still prove himself.

D. Razumovsky entered the Moscow border guard school on the second attempt. It was in 1986. He was loved on the course. In addition to remarkable physical strength (boxer, champion of the school), Razumovsky inherited a heightened sense of justice from his parents. If he saw untruth or meanness, he could never stay away. I even argued with the foreman. (This quality will remain with him for the rest of his life - and oh, how many bumps and cuffs will fall on his head.)

Their release fell on the most, probably, the most difficult year - 1990. The Union was already bursting at the seams. Karabakh and Baku were already burning, Vilnius and Riga were seething. Only a few days remained before the collapse of the country.

He was assigned to the Tajik-Afghan border - to the Pyanj border detachment. This site has never been considered a resort. But then, not a single seer could have imagined what would begin here soon, what kind of porridge would be brewed ...

He met the beginning of the Tajik events as the deputy commander of the outpost. About how D. Razumovsky fought, his awards speak best of all: the order "For Personal Courage", the medal "For Courage". Be more accommodating, more accommodating, there would certainly be even more of them, because D. Razumovsky did not hide from bullets. He climbed into the thick of it, with his airborne assault maneuver group withstood dozens of battles. (It happened - several collisions a day.) But fate definitely kept him for future trials. During the four years of the war - not a scratch, only one shell shock received at a height with the sonorous name "Honor Board" ...

Dushmans hated D. Razumovsky with particular rage. Unlike other officers, no one could "agree" with him. (Once he detained a courier with a suitcase of US dollars - and handed over everything, to the cent, to the headquarters.) And after he intercepted 3 tons of heroin with his group - he would have taken it, it would have been enough until the end of his days, there would still be left for the children, - even announced a reward for the head of the captain ...

The news of the death of the 12th outpost found him in the hospital in Dushanbe. The head of the outpost, Mikhail Mayboroda, who died in the very first minutes of the battle, was his best friend, and this death literally tore time in half: "before" and "after". Here, in the hospital ward, D. Razumovsky realized that he did not want and could no longer serve.

He had seen before that something was wrong at the border. The outposts were not fortified. Contracted Tajiks refused to shoot at their Muslim brothers. Instead of giving a harsh rebuff to the militants, the Russian authorities remained bashfully silent, at best they dropped lighting bombs over the border.

I saw it, but I forced myself not to think about it, reassuring myself that he was honestly doing his job. But after the death of the 12th outpost, D. Razumovsky seemed to regain his sight, woke up from hibernation ...

At the funeral of M. Mayboroda - in Alma-Ata - Dmitry met his future wife. What name to call the first-born - did not even raise questions. Of course, by Mikhail: in honor of Maiboroda...

The command did not want to let D. Razumovsky go. Despite his obstinate disposition, he was considered one of the best officers: brave, enterprising, thoughtful. Therefore, when I wrote to the newspaper, I implicitly hoped that now they would certainly not be left at the border. And so it happened...

Professionals of this class do not roll on the road. He could easily get a job in any security company, head security in some bank, but he could not imagine himself without shoulder straps. The officer's service was not a job for him, but a way of life.

Guys I knew - those with whom I studied and served at the border - offered to go to the Vympel group, which had just returned to the FSB structure. D. Razumovsky agreed immediately, without hesitation, and never regretted it later.

Only now did he realize that he had dreamed of special forces all his life. He liked everything here: the constant change of places, the refinement of actions, the need for instant decisions.

Anyone who considers the special forces a mere machine for chopping off heads is severely mistaken. Behind each operation is a long, painstaking preparation, detailed development of plans, exhausting training. It is not enough for a commando to be only strong, dexterous and well-aimed. He must be able to think, predict, feel the enemy.

D. Razumovsky was endowed with these talents in full. For six years of service in the Vympel group, his group - and soon he became the head of the department - did not suffer a single loss, although there were many battles.

He went through almost all the Vympel operations. Released hostages in Nord-Ost. Captured S. Raduev in Novogroznensky. Thrashed militants in Dagestan. He blocked the Georgian border (in that battle, his group destroyed 25 bandits). At the village of Sleptsovskaya, he fought uninterrupted battles with terrorists for 10 hours.

For the events in Art. Sleptsovskaya Razumovsky was presented with the Order of Courage, but he did not manage to receive it. However, D. Razumovsky generally treated awards without any reverence: pieces of iron are pieces of iron. He had every right to do so. For service in "Vympel" to two combat awards received at the border, three more were added: the Order "For Military Merit", medals of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" of both degrees.

Life has not changed, has not bent him. He remained the same truth-seeker as he had been since his youth. His own conscience was the main authority for him. If he considered himself right, he was ready to stand to the end, prove, swear - even with the authorities. (There were many cases when the Major - that was his name in the group - went to both the head of the department and the head of the Central Security Service of the FSB, banged his fist on the table, demanded.)

Already after the events in Beslan, an interview with the Archbishop of Stavropol, I think Feofan, was shown on TV. "I myself saw, - said Vladyka, - how one officer - everyone called him Major - risking himself, saved the children. When he died, I closed his eyes."

The details of this terrible battle are now known to the smallest detail. D. Razumovsky's group was behind the fence, to the right of the school, he was supposed to lead the fire support. And when the command came to the start, he was the first to go forward. He stood up to his full height, on a patch that was being shot from all sides. Even on the outskirts of the school building, he destroyed two bandits. The terrorists fired at the backs of the fleeing children.

Was he scared? Probably it was. Only fools do not know fear. But this is what distinguishes the brave from the coward, that he knows how to control himself.

Dmitry revealed a new firing point and, diverting attention to himself, was the first to burst into the room from which the fire was fired. Bullets whistled overhead, the RPK rumbled. But D. Razumovsky did not even try to evade. Under heavy fire, he pointed out enemy firing points. A battle ensued, as a result of which the fire was suppressed, but Dmitry was mortally wounded.

And then a sniper hit him in the chest, right above his bulletproof vest. "I'm hooked. Take it," - that was all he had time to say ...

What is heroism? It seems to me that heroism and dashing are not at all the same thing. You don't have to be smart to die. Heroism must be meaningful, because it is not enough just to close the embrasure of the bunker: the machine gun will only cut you and scribble with renewed vigor. But if at that moment the chains rise from the trenches, it means that you did not die in vain ...

Lieutenant Colonel D. Razumovsky left two sons. The youngest - a three-year-old - was still too small to realize what had happened. But the eldest - Misha - understood everything at once. He stood in the cemetery without shedding a tear. Only when the coffin was lowered into the ground did Misha cry: silently, without sobs - like an officer ...

There, at the funeral, he decided for himself finally and firmly that he would also be a military man. As Father. As senior lieutenant M. Mayboroda, after whom it is named. Like thousands of those who died without hearing the answer to this terrible, difficult and eternal question - in the name of what? ..

Oleg Gennadievich Ilyin

Born December 21, 1967 in the village. Krasnooktyabrsky, Sokuluksky District, Kirghiz SSR - Russian serviceman, officer of Directorate "V" ("Vympel") of the Central Security Service of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, lieutenant colonel, died during the release of hostages during a terrorist attack in the city of Beslan. He was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation.

They were complete opposites of each other. D. Razumovsky - imperturbable, cold-blooded, calm ("dead lion" - they called him in the detachment). O. Ilyin - noisy, explosive, hot. He wanted, like Chapai, to be ahead all the time, and for this he was nicknamed affectionately and ironically - Beacon. Not a lighthouse, but a beacon ...

Oleg Ilyin joined Vympel in 1995. Behind him was the Ryazan School of Communications, service in the Airborne Forces.

His arrival coincided with the events in the city of Budennovsk, but O. Ilyin was not taken to the operation then. He was offended to tears. "Don't hurry, there will be enough exploits for your age," the "grandfathers" reassured him, only O. Ilyin did not want to wait, and he did not know how. He was in a hurry to get everywhere...

His baptism took place in Pervomaisk. The group did not even have time to reach the village, when a sniper's bullet struck right in front of O. Ilyin's feet. "Damn," he cursed, "too early to die." And he went forward as if nothing had happened ...

For s. Pervomaisky he received "courage" - probably the most honorable military award. (Then there will be many more - and the Order of Courage - this is after Botlikh. And "For Military Merit" is already "Nord-Ost". And two medals of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" with swords.)

O. Ilyin was an officer to the core. He didn’t even have any hobbies, not to mention part-time jobs on the side: only service.

Once in the special operations department, he perfectly studied mining, took peaks that were impregnable even for climbers with many years of experience. And when it was necessary to master the paraglider - he got up every day at dawn and flew over the base of the Central Security Service of the FSB, until a riot was raised in the hostel - with his rattling, he did not let anyone sleep.

The family was also a match for him. His wife Anya jumped with him with a parachute. Grisha's son went to the mountains...

How did he combine these two seemingly incompatible qualities? Stoicism, monotonous persistence, drill. And impetuosity, sharpness, desperate prowess. It was as if some kind of toggle switch clicked inside, and then O. Ilyin changed, changed right before our eyes ...

On September 3, 2004, O. Ilyin's group was at the forefront. One of the first he broke into the building, covering the retreat of the hostages. They and Denis Pudovkin - his subordinate - were wounded almost immediately. On the radio, they were offered to go back, but they did not want to retreat: they managed to take too advantageous a position.

The battle was almost hand-to-hand. At point-blank range, O. Ilyin shot two bandits, but the bullet overtook him as well. At the cost of his life, he saved the employees of the assault group and ensured the destruction of the rest of the criminals.

Ensign D. Pudovkin died next to him. He covered one of the women with his body...

Pudovkin Denis Evgenievich

Born on August 13, 1976 in Noginsk, Moscow Region, in a family of employees. Denis Pudovkin wanted to become a military man since childhood. In his native city of Noginsk, while still at school, he went to a military-patriotic club, and was engaged in hand-to-hand combat.

After finishing school, from September 1991 to December 1994 he studied at the Noginsk branch of the Tuchkov Motor Transport College.

From January 1995 to December 1996, he served in the Airborne Forces of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

From March 1997 to January 2000, he worked as a policeman in the Department of Private Security at the Department of Internal Affairs of the Administration of the Noginsk Department of Internal Affairs of the Main Department of Internal Affairs of the Moscow Region. From April 2000 to December 2002 he worked as a district inspector of the 1st City Police Department of the Noginsk Department of Internal Affairs.

Then he moved to the regional SOBR. Was a sniper. I went to Chechnya three times.

In January 2003, he moved to Vympel. (The medal "For Courage" found him already in "Vympel").

D. Pudovkin's group was matched by his hand-to-hand coach - he taught Denis from childhood, he trusted him immensely. This business trip was D. Pudovkin's third.

Ensign Pudovkin D.E. carried the children out of the shelling. Walking further through the school, he saw a cluster of hostages, whom he began to help find the right direction. When Denis made an attempt to get people out, one bandit jumped out from behind the shelter. There were children behind Denis at that moment. They fired almost simultaneously. The gunman died on the spot. Denis was mortally wounded. He was 28 years old.

He was posthumously awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 4th class.

Alexander Valentinovich Perov

Born on May 17, 1975, head of the operational group of the 1st department of Directorate "A" ("Alpha") of the Central Security Service of the FSB of the Russian Federation, died during the release of hostages during the terrorist attack in the city of Beslan. He was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation.

In the Alpha group, Sasha Perov was called Pooh. Down - not because of the lightness of weight, but a derivative of the surname: Perov, feather, down. (What kind of ease is there - under two meters tall, in all championships he invariably took first places.)

A. Perov became a member of the special forces by accident (although can fate be accidental?). In fact, he was going to be a military man - like a father, like an older brother. Following their example, he graduated from the Moscow Higher Command School - the forge of the Kremlin personnel. All further life was already scheduled for many years to come, but his closest friend, also a former "Kremlin man", knocked him off his pantalyka.

A friend got into Alfa, and his enthusiastic stories about the group painfully touched Alexander's ambition. They used to constantly compete with each other - who will run faster, who will shoot better. And then it turned out that he, A. Perov, would be marching along the parade ground, and in the meantime his eternal rival would go to war. The young lieutenant could not allow this.

So ambition led him to special forces. But A. Perov could not limit himself to this. He needed to be the best.

Just came - immediately won the FSB ski championship. As soon as he took up orienteering, he again turned out to be the first. And in service biathlon - the first, and in shooting.

He had a peculiar talent. If you really wanted something, it was sure to work out, although the hardest, exhausting work, exhausting workouts, invariably hid behind external lightness.

But A. Perov did not show this. As for any true officer, his external paraphernalia was in the first place. Even on business trips, he managed to look like he was going to a parade. The form is always ironed, everything shines and sparkles. Dirt and laxity did not tolerate organically.

He was also a very good leader. People's coast. He was ready to cling to the throat for each of his fighters. The group knew: if Pooh is appointed senior, then everything will be fine.

Special Forces is a single organism. This is no place for lone heroes. The strength of the special forces is in its unity, when you know that you will definitely be covered, not abandoned, supported. If you sleep under the same blanket, eat canned food from the same bowl, you can no longer exist on your own. You are part of one big family. Because, perhaps, it is not customary to talk about the dead here in the past tense ...

In September 2004, A. Perov was going to study at the Academy of the FSB of the Russian Federation. A business trip to Beslan was supposed to be one of his last (in special forces, as in aviation, there is no word "last") ...

From the introduction to the title of Hero of Russia: during the assault, Major A. Perov destroyed one terrorist who was firing at the hostages. Personally covered the evacuation of the hostages. Anticipating the explosion of a grenade, he covered three hostages with himself. Having received mortal wounds, he continued to lead the group ...

When, on September 3, 2004, at 3 pm, employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations drove up to the school in order to, in accordance with the agreement reached with the terrorists, pick up the bodies of the hostages shot and thrown out by bandits into the street (the execution was carried out in the Russian language room) - something terrible happened in the gym. The adhesive tape used to attach the explosive to the basketball basket could not withstand the intense heat. He pulled away, after which an explosion occurred from the impact. Deciding that the assault on the building had begun, the terrorists set off another powerful charge.

About a minute later, bloodied children and women began to appear in front of the school. The bandits tried to "get" the fleeing hostages, shot them in the back. A. Perov, being behind a concrete fence, did not see all this. I just realized that it was time to storm and conduct a fierce battle with the terrorists inside the building. His group was to clear a corner room on the ground floor.

The tension grew. It has not yet been possible to penetrate the school and destroy the enemy. The fighters in this wing offered fierce resistance. Having slipped to the side where the windows were, the commandos saw schoolchildren - leaning out of the open windows, they waved white rags and shouted: "Don't shoot, there are a lot of them here!" Then A. Perov, together with his comrades, standing under the windows, began to pull the children from the windowsills to the ground, while simultaneously firing back at the militants who had opened fire from inside the building.

We had to break into the dining room. Without hesitation, A. Perov flew into the window, managed to kill the militant at the back room. Hiding behind its wall, he did not allow the bandits to conduct aimed fire, ensuring the penetration of the rest of the group's fighters into the dining room.

A fierce battle broke out in the room. There were at least seventy exhausted children lying on the floor in the dining room. In such a difficult situation, the special forces cleared the entire space. A. Perov with two employees continued to be in front, cutting off the terrorists. Other "Alfa" people handed over children to the employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations through the windows.

It seemed that the task assigned to the group was completed, and without losses. And here is a new introduction - to continue cleaning the entire right wing of the building. One of the groups could not break through from the opposite end. In a short time, they managed to free four classes from the bandits on the right side of the corridor. We started cleaning up the theater. Ensign Oleg Loskov threw two grenades into the room. Following the explosions, firing from a machine gun, he rushed through the doorway and was hit by machine gun fire. A. Perov, limping because of a crushed leg, ran up to Oleg and dragged him to the beginning of the corridor to the stairs. Two Vympel employees ran to help. While they were trying to determine whether a comrade was alive, they did not notice how from a dusty corridor with a cry: “Allah Akbar!” A terrorist ran out and unloaded the entire automatic clip into the special forces.

Being seriously wounded, Alexander pulled the trigger, but there were no shots - the cartridges ran out. He received two bullets in the groin that hit below his body armor. Another commando, dodging bullets somersault, wounded a militant in a burst. He threw a grenade into the dining room and disappeared into the corridor.

Despite the terrible pain, A. Perov managed to jump back into the dining room and with his body covered a group of children from fragments who had not yet been evacuated by the EMERCOM.

Mikhail Borisovich Kuznetsov

Born on August 21, 1965 in the village. Safonovo Ramensky district of the Moscow region in a family of workers. From 1980 to 1983 he studied at SGPTU No. 62 in Moscow. In the period from June 1983 to April 1984 he worked at the Moscow locomotive repair plant.

In 1984 he was called up for military service in the Armed Forces. He served in Afghanistan.

In October 1986, he was enrolled in Vympel - a veteran of the group, he also took the White House - in general he should have remained in reserve. He, an extra-class miner, was protected more than the apple of his eye. But when the hostages began to jump out, he dug up a school desk from somewhere - it was not for nothing that they gave him the nickname Brownie for his housekeeping - he dragged him to the window, began to pull people out. He saved more than twenty human lives, but he did not save himself from a bullet. Covering the capture group, he entered into battle with two terrorists, destroyed them and died. On this day, September 3, his wife had a birthday ...

Cavalier of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree (posthumously).

Malyarov Vyacheslav Vladimirovich

Born in 1969. in the city of Balakovo, Saratov region. Grew up without a father. From 1976 to 1986 he studied at secondary school No. 10. He studied at the children's and youth sports school No. 1, where he showed himself to be a talented athlete, despite the lack of outstanding physical data.

After graduating from high school, Malyarov entered the Smolensk State Institute of Physical Education and Sports. In duels, he earned the title of candidate master of sports in athletics.

At the end of the 1st course, Vyacheslav voluntarily joined the ranks of the Soviet army, fulfilling his old dream of becoming a military man. In 1987 he asked to be sent to Afghanistan. While serving as part of a separate reconnaissance company of the 103rd Airborne Division, he directly participated in hostilities, at the age of twenty he was awarded a very honorable and beloved by the people medal "For Courage".

While in Afghanistan, Malyarov wrote home that he was in peaceful Mongolia. In 1989, he was demobilized and continued his studies at the institute, graduating in 1992. Deciding to link his future fate with the army, he entered the contract service in the 218th separate battalion of the Special Forces Airborne Forces, stationed in the Moscow region.

In 1994-1995 Malyarov "carried out the tasks of maintaining constitutional order on the territory of Russia." Received the rank of lieutenant. The second medal "For Courage" - for the assault on Grozny. There, in Chechnya, during joint special operations, he was taken into account by the employees of Group A.

In April 1996, Vyacheslav Malyarov was enlisted in the "A" division. In October 2002, he was one of the first who broke into the building of the Theater Center on Dubrovka and freed a large number of hostages. For this feat he was awarded the Order of Courage.

Vyacheslav always approached the task very carefully, thought through everything to the smallest detail. He even introduced a special memo in which he wrote down everything that could be useful when performing the next task: zeroing in weapons, orienting in a wooded area, etc. It is impossible to remember everything, and it is especially difficult to remember in an emergency, under the bullets of bandits, and in such a situation can be a good clue.

... Over the years of military service, Major V. Malyarov was awarded the Order of Courage, two medals "For Courage", medals of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" I and II degrees with the image of swords, Suvorov, "For Distinction in Military Service" and "Warrior internationalist from the grateful Afghan people”, badge “For Distinction in Combat Operations”. And these simple "cribs" really saved many from certain death.

At school No. 1 in Beslan, there was a moment when the group ran into four militants who, hiding behind children, were trying to get out of the cordon. Major Vyacheslav Malyarov saw them first. He, not at a loss, immediately opened fire on the enemy - covering at that moment with his body the children who were behind him. Major Malyarov V.V. practically blocked the direction of fire for the group. Having received a mortal wound, he continued to fight. Wounded two terrorists and forced them to retreat. He was 35 years old.

Cavalier of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree (posthumously). The native city has not forgotten its countryman. On November 15, 2004, by decision of the Council of Deputies, he was awarded the title "Honorary Citizen of the City of Balakovo".

On January 11, 2005, a memorial plaque appeared on the facade of secondary school No. 10, where the future employee of Alfa once studied. The second memorial plaque was solemnly opened in October 2008 on the building of children's and youth sports school No. 1.

The documentary Immortal about a native of Balakovo won an award from the Federal Security Service in January 2011. It was filmed by the Fatherland studio and submitted to the competition for the best work of literature and art about the activities of the FSB.

And there, in the city of Balakovo, a monument was unveiled to all members of the FSB special forces who died in Beslan.

Katasonov Roman Viktorovich

Born in June 1976 in the city of Serpukhov, Moscow Region, in the family of a military man. His father graduated from the Serpukhov military school of the Strategic Missile Forces. For a long time the family roamed the garrisons. In Belarus, Roman graduated from high school with a medal, was a junior taekwondo medalist.

Then - Minsk Suvorov. After graduating from the Minsk Suvorov Military School, Roman entered the Ryazan Higher Airborne School. A year later, the special purpose faculty, where cadet R. Katasonov studied, was transferred to Novosibirsk. In 1997, he graduated with honors from the Novosibirsk Higher Combined Arms School. Even then, Roman had 500 jumps behind him.

Then the officer served in the Volga Military District, was the commander of the reconnaissance group 509 of a separate detachment of Special Forces. In 2000, Senior Lieutenant R. Katasonov was transferred for further service to Directorate "B" of the Special Purpose Center of the FSB of Russia.

Roman studied Chinese, mastered the subversive business, information technology, and defended his diploma on the capture of airfields on low-flying vehicles.

The family returned to the Moscow region. And then - brilliant operations. The first is the discovery of Dudayev's archive. Roman continued to specialize in subversion. Destruction of Baraev's group. "Nord-Ost". On Dubrovka, he, along with the commander, walked from the other side of the main group. Roman was then awarded the Order of Courage.

Roman received all ranks ahead of schedule, senior lieutenant, captain, at 26 years old - major. He went through the whole of Chechnya, was awarded the medals "For Courage" and Suvorov. He was sent to the academy, from September 1, 2004 he was supposed to start studying. But he voluntarily went to Beslan.

No body armor that day, as colleagues said, was not on Roman. When there was an explosion and people poured into the street, the fighters of Directorate “B” of the Central Security Service of the FSB, on the contrary, rushed forward, throwing off everything “unnecessary”. The guys covered the hostages and members of the assault group: with extra weight on yourself, you can’t really jump over the desks. Bulletproof vests and helmets were dropped on the move.

Major Roman Katasonov during the assault entered the building and destroyed two terrorists, in one of the rooms he found two hidden children. Rescuing them and covering the employees of the assault group, he entered into battle with the machine-gun crew of the bandits. During this battle, he was mortally wounded. Cavalier of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree (posthumously).

He was buried at the Nikolo-Arkhangelsk cemetery together with the fighters of Alpha and Vympel, as if in a single formation, next to the graves of comrades who were killed earlier - in Budennovsk, Pervomaisky, Chechnya.

The memory of the graduate of the Minsk SVU is also immortalized in the museum of the school, where there is a stand dedicated to the Minsk "cadets" who died in the line of military duty.

Loskov Oleg Vyacheslavovich

Ensign Loskov O.V. (group "Alpha") was born in 1981 in the village. Vasilievka, Volovsky district, Lipetsk region. Oleg always treated children with trepidation, O. Loskov's fellow villagers recalled. - Life turned out so that he had to raise his little sister alone. He knew how to do everything: mend torn tights, and braid the girl's pigtails. But he did not like to fight, although God did not offend him by force.

For him, Beslan was the first and last business trip. Ensign O. Loskov, as part of an assault group, encountered four bandits. Hiding behind the backs of the hostages, they tried to escape from the school building, Oleg was mortally wounded. The last ones rescued by O. Loskov were two little girls. He carried them in his arms. He was awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree (posthumously).

A monument was erected to him in his native village. The bust was opened in the square opposite the village church. Here, a few weeks before his death, Oleg got married. The honeymoon was interrupted by a call from the authorities - the commando was sent on a business trip to the North Caucasus. The first operation for O. Loskov ended tragically...

At the school where he studied, they created a museum of Oleg Loskov. Fellow villagers named a street in the village after him. Vasilievka.

THEY ACTED AS A HUMAN SHIELD!

The tragedy in the city of Beslan is a tragedy for all of Russia. The terrorists started a war not only with the ordinary adult population, but a directed war against our children.

And each of these soldiers did their duty, their work. They did what they were trained to do. But do not forget that, saving children at school, they died and left their children without fathers, and their wives without husbands.

We must not forget about the Heroes of Russia with a capital letter. About the people who protect us and our children.

PEROV ALEXANDER VALENTINOVICH (05/17/1975 - 09/03/2004) Alexander Valentinovich Perov (May 17, 1975 - September 3, 2004) - Russian soldier, head of the operational group of the 1st department of Directorate "A" ("Alpha") of the Special Purpose Center of the Federal security services of the Russian Federation, who died during the release of the hostages during the terrorist attack in Beslan. He was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation. BESLAN Major Perov's group had to clear the corner of the building on the 1st floor. It was a spacious dining room with utility rooms, a toilet and a washing room. Having specified the task to the group, Alexander personally scattered the prepared charges from behind the fence and thus cleared the approach to the wall of the building. Powerful explosions were heard throughout the city. Following the explosions, 9 fighters of the group jumped to the school through a doorway in the fence and pressed against its wall. Immediately, a young officer was wounded by a grenade thrown by a militant from the 2nd floor, but remained in the ranks. The most difficult thing remained - to break into the building in order to destroy them in contact with terrorists and ensure the evacuation of children. Perov decided to enter the dining room through the door, of which there were two in the wall. Having planted explosives, he blew up one of them. It turned out that the inside of the door was littered with tables and desks. I had to blow up another one. The inner metal grille has not fallen off. The guys pulled it off with a rope, but Alexander did not have time to jump back, the door hit him in the leg and crushed the bone. The guys wanted to take him to the ambulance, but he categorically refused and continued to carry out the task assigned to the group. All actions of the group took place under the threat of being hit by militant fire from the windows of the 2nd floor. To exclude this, we ourselves had to conduct intense fire on the upper floor. The tension of the battle grew. It is not yet possible to get inside the school and destroy the terrorists, thereby delaying the implementation of the main task - rescuing the hostages. The militants in this wing of the building put up fierce resistance. They fire from the windows of classrooms on the second and first floors. The special forces responded with machine gun fire at window openings in order to prevent the bandits from leaning out and conducting aimed fire. They are assisted by a machine gunner, firing in long bursts from the balcony of the 4th floor of a neighboring residential building, hiding behind sandbags. The actions of terrorists are restrained by snipers located on the roofs of buildings. And the bullets near the special forces still whistle, click on the asphalt. They have to snuggle up against the wall. There are already two wounded in the group. Alexander, overcoming the pain in his leg, continues to control the group and orders to enter the dining room through the windows on the other side of the building. There was no other way. You can also blow up the wall and get inside the building into the resulting opening. This required a lot of explosives, which Perov no longer had. Moreover, children who were inside the premises could suffer from the explosion. Jumping to the side where the windows are, the guys saw schoolchildren leaning out of the open windows, they waved white rags and shouted: "Don't shoot, there are a lot of them here." Then Sasha and the guys, standing under the windows, began to pull the children from the windowsills to the ground. A short video of this moment was shown on TV. The windows overlooked the front side of the school, the square. A huge crowd of people was noisy to the side and followed the actions of the group. The militants opened aimed fire from inside the room at the windows. Shards of glass, chips, and plaster fell on the children. They fired back, sticking only machine guns through the windows, trying not to lower the barrels of their weapons down so as not to hit the children lying on the floor. It was six o'clock in the evening. Major Perov was in suspense for more than 10 hours, without food or even water, the fifth hour with the group in battle. He, Malyarov and Loskov stood at the stairs leading to the 2nd floor. Behind them was the wall of the dining room with a doorway, a corridor to the center of the school stretched to the left, in front of them began a long, dim corridor of the entire right wing of the building. The staircase was controlled by Malyarov, Perov and Loskov - the corridor space was straight ahead, Igor V. was watching from the left. The rest carried the children. The evacuation was slow. Each child had to be taken carefully, many were injured, moaning. All the commandos were terribly tired to such an extent that they even began to lose control over themselves, the sense of danger was dulled, and confidence in the correctness of actions decreased. According to calculations, fighters can act competently in battle for no more than an hour and a half. They would be taken out of the battle, replaced by a group from the reserve. However, the group commander Alexander Perov receives a new task to continue cleaning the entire right wing of the building. From the opposite end, one of the groups could not break in. Having specified the task to the comrades, outlining the procedure for each of them, the group began to carry out a new task. Alexander, with a shattered leg, continued to act in front of the three of his comrades, although, as a commander, he could entrust the most dangerous work to other fighters. Victor said that in the course of the further battle, they managed to clear the first class, destroy one terrorist, so as not to risk when cleaning the next classes, they destroyed an adjacent wall with a cumulative charge from a grenade launcher, killing another militant. Thus, in a short time, it was possible to free four classes from the bandits on the right side of the corridor. However, there was intense machine gun fire from everywhere, especially from the cinema hall, located on the left side of the corridor. The bullets hit the walls, the ceiling, the plaster fell off. From the destroyed walls and shooting in the corridor, dust hung, it became difficult to breathe, visibility was limited. His cleaning began at about 25 minutes past six in the evening. Loskov threw two hand grenades into the room. Following the explosions, firing from a machine gun, he stuck his head in the doorway and was immediately struck down by machine gun fire. Fell in the corridor next to the door. Sasha, limping heavily, ran up to him and dragged him to the beginning of the corridor to the stairs. Two pennants came to the aid of Sasha's group and stopped not far to the left, waiting for orders from him. Malyarov helped Alexander unbutton Loskov's jacket. The vest was pierced in several places. Their friend was dead. They didn’t notice how a terrorist runs out of a dusty corridor and darkness, shouting: “Allah Akbar!”, kills Major Velko with heavy fire from a machine gun and injures Major Kuznetsov from Vympel, immediately strikes Major Malyarov on the spot - a bullet from the side hit him in the heart. Sasha, having risen, pulls the trigger of the machine gun, no shots followed, there were no cartridges in the magazine, he himself receives two bullets at once in the groin below the bulletproof vest. Igor V., having dodged somersaults from bullets, wounds a militant in a burst, he throws a grenade into the dining room and hides in the corridor. Sasha manages to jump back into the dining room and with his body covers a group of children from grenade fragments, who have not yet been evacuated by the Ministry of Emergency Situations. It was approximately 17:30. Victor, being behind the wall in the dining room, saw how Perov fell in front of the children. He, still smiling, showed him with his hand that he was wounded. Victor thought, the guy is strong, he will survive. Soon he noticed how a pool of blood began to appear under a friend, and when the emergency workers who jumped up dragged Alexander to the window to transfer him to an ambulance, a trail of blood trailed behind him. Then Victor and other fighters realized that Sasha Perov had died. The wound turned out to be fatal, both arteries were broken in the groin. Major Kuznetsov also died in the hospital from a broken artery. The fight continued. In the course of it, the special forces managed to clear all the classrooms on the right side of the corridor. They did not break into the cinema hall through the doorway. As it turned out, the militants set up a firing point made of sandbags there. It was defended by six terrorists. Hiding behind the bags, they fired continuously at the windows and the doorway, preventing the Alpha fighters from entering the cinema hall. The guys decided to act from the outside of the room, destroying the wall with cumulative shells and grenades. The militants hid in the basement under the cinema hall. They were destroyed there by fire from grenade launchers. Only in the second hour of the night the fighting at the school ended. Six militants were found dead in the basement, two more were found in classrooms. In total, in this way, 20 terrorists were destroyed in the right wing of the building. Therefore, the most fierce battles took place here, the building itself in this place was most of all destroyed. By Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of September 6, 2004 No. 1198 for courage and heroism shown in the performance of a special assignment, Major Alexander Valentinovich Perov was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation (posthumously). He was buried in Moscow at the Nikolo-Arkhangelsk cemetery. . Nina Andreevna Kardashova wrote a poem: In a light cloud, slowly, The soul departed from the body ... And around is dust, and soot, and smoke. He was handsome, young. And his friends: “Sanya, how are you?” The hand pointed to the wounds. "Be patient, we are now, we are in battle!" he gave them his smile. Oblivion ... Sweet face of the son. He waves his hand: "Bye!" And the wife: “I would call me ...” “I will come to you, Zhanna, in a dream!” Mother passes, mourning: "My dear ...", Lips whisper: "You are my son ..." Next to her, her father is sad. "You don't cry! I am a special forces soldier. He himself taught us to live like this - To be the best and serve the Fatherland! The warrior's voice is firm and stern. - I could not do otherwise. I am Perov! Everything. Farewell!" The hero's soul flies slowly to the Throne.

September 1, a mournful date - in 2004, on this day, terrorists took hostages at a Beslan school in North Ossetia. Holding one thousand 200 hostages, most of whom were children, the terrorists put forward their demands. During the release of the hostages, ten Russian special forces, seven from Vympel and three from Alfa, were killed. So many have never died in the entire history of the existence of Russian special forces units. 31 terrorists killed, one taken alive

Among the dead liberators was a 29-year-old major of the Alpha special forces Alexander Perov. Hero of Russia Alexander Perov was born in 1975 in a military family. The love for military affairs was laid down in the genes by numerous ancestors, who for the most part served the motherland over a three-hundred-year history. Father's uncles Matvey, Nikonor and Fyodor Andreevich, as well as his grandfather Anton Andreevich, fought in the First World War. Fedor Andreevich, having joined the Red Army, served in it for almost forty years, retired with the rank of colonel, having the Order of Lenin. Two Orders of the Red Banner, the Order of the Red Star and other numerous awards, participated in the Soviet - Chinese conflict in 1929, on Lake Khasan with the Japanese in 1938, in the Soviet - Finnish and Great Patriotic Wars.
Father's brothers Alexander and Nikolai also faithfully gave their military duty: Alexander served in the Air Force for more than seven years, Nikolai for almost five years in the radio engineering troops of the Navy in the Baltic. My father served in the special forces of the Main Intelligence Directorate, the elder brother graduated from the Leningrad Higher Military Combined Arms Command School named after s. M. Kirova. He strove to be where it was more difficult, he went where he could prove himself, recalls Alexander Perov's class teacher Natalya Kudryashova. Parents did not raise their sons in an atmosphere of endless love and tenderness, they understood that reckless love, universal adoration and pleasing in everything would develop selfishness and weak will in children. A student of the 11th grade, Alexander Perov, firmly decided to become a military man. The example of the father and brother affected. The mother tried to convince her son to enter MEPhI. Alexander was a good sportsman. While training at the school of the Olympic reserve at Mifi in cross-country skiing, he competed for him and won prizes. The father supported his mother, proving to his son that the prestige of the military in the country was declining. The persecution of the armed forces in the media went on. In addition, the father did not receive monetary allowance for several months. However, Alexander nevertheless decided to enter a military school, he only doubted which one. Then my father advised me to enter the Moscow Higher All-Russian Military Command School named after the Supreme Council of the RSFSR, which he graduated from in 1961. In May 1992, having passed the exams for courses for one five, he was enrolled in the school. He graduated from school already determined in later life. However, he prepared seriously for the exams for the matriculation certificate. He graduated from school with two fours: in Russian and physics. In December 1994, the war began in Chechnya, at that time the cadets were in their third year. However, they were not very alarmed, believing that it would not take much time for the federal troops to deal with the situation in the republic. As time went on, the war dragged on, becoming more and more violent. Even commanders died, and those who graduated from this school in previous years. The war acquired a terrorist character - everyone remembers the events in the winter of 1995 in Budennovsk, in Pervomaisk .... The Perov cadet was not afraid of the war. In a conversation with his father, he admitted that he would serve where he was needed and where it was more difficult. With the beginning of his studies in the last, fourth, course, Alexander began to learn more and more about the famous special unit of the FSB "Alpha" and began to think about serving in it. One desire was not enough. The candidate must have a good military education, excellent physical fitness, excellent health and high moral and strong-willed qualities. After all the tests, out of 15 candidates for Alpha, only Alexander Perov passed. In February 1999, Alexander Perov got married. It was not possible to enjoy the honeymoon - soon he left with the department on a business trip to the North Caucasus. Fighting began immediately with gangs. This time, Perov was simply saved by a miracle; for military operations in the Komsomol, he was awarded the medal "For Courage". Then more and more business trips followed… On October 23, 2002, terrorists seized the Nord-Ost theatrical center. Major Perov was not at home for three days. Early in the morning of October 26, a swift assault on the theater center was carried out. Only Perov and five other fighters acted in the most difficult and dangerous area - in the auditorium, where there were about seven hundred people, moreover, under the threat of an explosion of a fifty-kilogram bomb hanging from the ceiling. The group burst into the hall from the basement, making a passage through the explosion, which was carried out by Alexander Perov. The militants, suicide bombers with explosive devices and spectators were in a semi-conscious state from the action of the gas, many had already died. After destroying the militants and suicide bombers, the guys began to evacuate the hostages. Perov was the first to carry out a large man in the foyer. Then six of the fighters carried out women, men and children for forty minutes. When the threat of a bomb explosion had passed, employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and the police appeared and began to take out the hostages. Alexander managed to take out about fifty hostages. Alexander Perov was awarded the Order of Courage. For the fight on a November 2002 business trip, Alexander Perov was awarded the Suvorov medal. July and half of August 2004 were spent for Major Perov in intense study, duty and competitions. In July, he was promoted, appointed commander of the task force. The deadline for conferring the next military rank of lieutenant colonel was approaching. Alexander would have received it in September at the age of 29. At 33, he could have become a colonel. 16. August, the department flew away on another business trip to the North Caucasus. Alexander this time was not supposed to fly, from September 1, studies at the FSB Academy began. However, he was offered to fly south with everyone, as the commander of the task force. The guys were mostly young, not experienced enough. Perov, without hesitation, agreed to fly on the tenth business trip in the eight-year service in the Alpha special unit.
On August 16, 2004, Alexander Perov, together with the department, flew off on his last business trip, to Khankala, to the headquarters of the grouping of federal forces in the Chechen Republic. For ten days, Perov's task force operated in Ingushetia, catching the militants who attacked the capital of the republic, Nazran, on June 22. Returning to the khankala, Alexander came to grips with the training of his subordinates. And soon an event occurred that had no analogue in its tragedy in the history of mankind. On September 1, 2004, a group of terrorists numbering more than thirty people seized a school in the city of Beslan in North Ossetia with 1,200 hostages, most of whom were children. The seizure of the educational institution was carried out by militants from Basayev's elite special-purpose battalion. The action was planned in advance to the smallest detail. The actions of the terrorists were particularly brutal. They intended to destroy all the hostages if their demands were not met to withdraw federal troops from Chechnya. The task of freeing the hostages was to be solved by the special forces of the FSB "Alpha" and "Vympel". The operational group of Alexander Perov with the entire department arrived from Khankala to Beslan by the middle of the day. And immediately, Perov, as one of the commanders, was entrusted with the task of determining places around the school for machine gunners, snipers, and equipping firing points for them. He saw how the militants walked freely inside the school, mining the approaches to it. Fire was not allowed. For every militant killed, they threatened to kill 50 hostages. The operation to free the hostages was scheduled for 4 am on 3 September. Unexpectedly in the evening, after a visit by General Aushev, the militants released 26 hostages, mostly mothers with babies. However, since early morning, Alexander, alone behind a concrete fence that stretched along the right wing of the school, was preparing charges to clear the approaches to the wall of the building. As a commander and demolition worker, he took on this dangerous job so as not to endanger other guys.
It was about one o'clock. Suddenly, two powerful explosions sounded in the school, cars began to blare alarms, automatic and machine-gun fire began. About a minute later, naked, bloodied children and women began to appear in front of the school. It was a large, staggering line of shadows. The children couldn't even scream. One might think that the school was being stormed, but it was not. These were fan bursts from machine guns, with which the bandits tried to get the fleeing hostages. They were shot in the back. Alexander, being behind a concrete fence, did not see all this. I just realized that the time had come to storm and conduct a fierce battle with the terrorists inside the school building. Major Perov's group was to clear the corner of the building on the ground floor. The tension of the battle grew. It is not yet possible to penetrate the school and destroy the opponents. The militants in this wing are putting up fierce resistance ... slipping to the side where the windows are, the guys saw schoolchildren - leaning out of the open windows, they were waving white rags and shouting: "Don't shoot, there are a lot of them here." Then Alexander Perov, together with his comrades, standing under the windows, began to pull the children from the windowsills to the ground, while at the same time firing back at the militants who had opened fire from inside the building. It was necessary at all costs to break into the dining room. Alexander, without hesitation, flew into the window, managed to kill the militant at the utility room. Hiding behind its wall, heavy fire did not allow the bandits to conduct aimed fire, ensuring the penetration of the rest of the group's fighters into the dining room. A fierce battle in the room began. There were at least seventy children lying on the floor in the dining room. In such a difficult situation, the special forces cleared all the premises in the dining room. Major Perov, along with two fighters, continuing to act in front, did not allow the approach of new terrorists to the dining room. The rest of the fighters served the children to the employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations through the windows. It seemed that the task set before the group was completed, and without loss. It was six o'clock in the evening. Major Perov was in suspense for more than ten hours, without food or even water, the fifth hour with the group in battle. And then the commander of the Perov group receives a new task - to continue cleaning the entire right wing of the building. From the opposite end, one of the groups could not break in. In a short time, they managed to free four classes from the bandits on the right side of the corridor. The cinema hall has been cleaned up. One of the fighters threw two hand grenades into the room. Following the explosions, firing from a machine gun, he stuck his head in the doorway and was immediately struck down by machine gun fire. Perov, limping because of his crushed leg, ran up to him and dragged him to the beginning of the corridor to the stairs. Two fighters from Vympel came to the aid of Perov's group. While the guys were trying to determine if their comrade was alive, they did not notice how a terrorist runs out of a dusty corridor shouting: "Allah Akbar!" And with heavy fire from a machine gun, he kills two fighters and one. Alexander Perov, standing up, pulls the trigger of the machine gun, no shots were fired, there were no cartridges in the magazine, he himself receives two bullets in the groin below the bulletproof vest. Another fighter, having dodged somersaults from bullets, wounds the militant in a burst, he throws a grenade into the dining room and hides in the corridor. Major Perov manages to jump back into the dining room and with his body covers a group of children from fragments who have not yet been evacuated by the Ministry of Emergency Situations. So one of the best officers of the FSB "Alpha" major Alexander Perov died. He gave his life for faith and fatherland. The name of the hero of Russia, Major Alexander Perov, is honorably given to the Chelyabinsk military-patriotic youth association "Warrior" - the school of the reserve of the special forces "alpha".

Turkin Andrey Alekseevich. dream come true

Also, Andrei Turkin, whose photo can be seen in this article, served under a contract in Tajikistan, where he took part in military operations. After the army, he entered the Krasnodar Institute of Marketing and ITS in the correspondence department, but still continued to dream of military service. Therefore, having abandoned his studies, he went to work in the FSB of Russia. He was accepted into the Vympel management. Having been trained by special forces, he began to take part in various operations, including the release of hostages at Dubrovka. I went on a business trip to Chechnya.

Andrey was warmly spoken of by his first commander, Sergei Shavrin, who also bears the title of Hero of Russia. He noted such qualities of Turkin as sociability, thriftiness and reliability. Sociable and generous Andrei always gathered around him many friends who sincerely loved him. He was interested in other people's problems in detail, he always tried to help. Turkin was ready to risk his life for the sake of others, once he carried a comrade in his arms who was blown up in a minefield.

Over the years of work, he received the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 2nd degree. Also, Andrey Turkin, whose biography is described in this article, was presented to the Order of Courage, but did not manage to receive it during his lifetime. His death left behind his mother, wife and two sons. The youngest was born just 5 months after his father completed his earthly journey, and was named after him.

Vyacheslav Alekseevich Bocharov (b., city,) - ​​Russian, officer of Directorate "B" (""), who took part in the release of the hostages during which he was seriously wounded. For courage and heroism he was awarded the title. Member of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation since 2014, 1st Deputy Secretary of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation, Secretary of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation of the 5th convocation. Member of the Executive Committee of the Russian Paralympic Committee.

Biography

Lived in the city of the Dnipropetrovsk region of the Ukrainian SSR. In 1973, after graduating from high school, he entered the Served in the Airborne Forces for 25 years.

In 1981-1983 he served in the composition of the. Later he served in In 1990 he graduated. Since 1990 - Chief of Staff of the Parachute Regiment. Since 1993, he served in the Office of the Commander of the Airborne Forces.

From 1998 to 2010 served in Directorate "B" ("") of the Special Purpose Center of the FSB of the Russian Federation.

In 2000 he graduated in absentia.

During the assault, he was the first of the employees of the Central Security Service of the FSB to enter the building. During the clash, he was seriously wounded in the head.

For courage and heroism shown during the performance of a special task, by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation on October 11, 2004, Colonel Vyacheslav Alekseevich Bocharov was awarded the title "Hero of the Russian Federation" with the Gold Star medal.

Retired since 2010.

He is a confidant of a candidate for the President of Russia.

Awards and titles

Soviet and Russian state awards:

• Hero of the Russian Federation (October 11, 2004)
• medals including:
  • Medal of Honor"
  • medals of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" I and II degrees with the image of swords

Foreign state awards:

• Order of the Star III degree ()

On February 14, 2007, by decision of the Regional Development Fund, V. A. Bocharov was awarded the Hero of Our Time award.

The International Children's Fund awarded Bocharov the honorary title of "Childhood Knight".

In 2013, the Foundation awarded him the Vysotsky Prize "Own Track".

Biography

By the end of the school he became a candidate for the master of sports in boxing. In 2000 he graduated, served in.

Was on business trips in the North Caucasus in 2000 and since February 2002.

In January 2003, during special operations in the settlements of Argun, the group of I. Shelokhvostov detained 6 people on suspicion of involvement in gangster groups, seized 12 firearms, more than 5 thousand ammunition for small arms, 12 hand grenades.

On February 4, 2003, during a special operation to destroy militants in Argun, the assault group of I. Shelokhvostov was fired upon by militants. The group attacked a house occupied by armed bandits, I. Shelokhvostov destroyed two militants with fire from his machine gun, was wounded by grenade fragments. Having ordered his subordinates to evacuate the wounded and retreat to the main forces of the detachment, he remained to cover the withdrawal of the group. During a firefight, a cylinder with domestic gas exploded from grenade explosions, a fire started. I. Shelokhvostov stopped the bandits' attempt to escape from the burning building with well-aimed fire. When the cartridges ran out, he pulled out the pin of the last grenade and died, destroying 14 militants.

By Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of July 8, 2003 No. 750, for courage and heroism shown in the performance of military duty, Senior Lieutenant Ivan Yurievich Shelokhvostov was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation (posthumously).

Buried in Novosibirsk. A few days after the funeral, an order came to the unit to award I. Shelokhvostov the military rank of "captain".

Alexander Valentinovich Perov
(May 17, 1975, Viljandi, Estonian SSR, USSR -
September 3, 2004, Beslan, North Ossetia - Alania, Russia)

Russian soldier,
head of the operational group of the 1st department of Directorate "A" of the Central Security Service of the FSB of the Russian Federation, major.

Alexander Perov was born on May 17, 1975 in the city of Viljandi, Estonian SSR, in the family of a career GRU special forces officer, Colonel Valentin Antonovich Perov and his wife Zoya Ivanovna, an economist at the city state bank.

In the summer of 1977, Valentin Antonovich was transferred to serve in the city of Cherepovets, Vologda Region. It was there that Alexander spent his childhood and the first year of schooling, after which Alexander's father was transferred to Moscow to the M.V. Frunze Military Academy.

While still at school, Alexander firmly decided to become a military man. Alexander was going to enter a military school, and as a result he was admitted to the Moscow Higher Military Command School, having passed the exams for courses for one five.

In 1996, shortly before the final exams, a commission from Department "A" arrived at the school, which needed qualified personnel. After successfully passing the state exams, Alexander Perov was accepted into the prestigious special unit.

For the operation in Nord-Ost, Major Perov was awarded the Order of Courage and a commemorative sign "For Nord-Ost".

September 1, 2004 went down in history as the day on which a terrorist act unprecedented in its inhumanity was committed: a detachment of militants took hostage 1,128 people at school No. 1 in Beslan, North Ossetia.

Alexander Perov at that time was with his unit in Khankala, where he flew on August 16 to participate in the search for and liquidation of the militants who carried out the attack on the city of Nazran in June of the same year. Having received the news of the seizure of the school, the Alpha task force immediately flew by helicopter to Beslan. Perov, as one of the commanders, was entrusted with the task of determining places around the school for machine gunners and snipers and equipping firing points for them.

On September 3, a forced operation to free the hostages began. Major Perov's group had to clear the corner of the building on the ground floor, which included a spacious dining room with utility rooms, a toilet and a washing room. When trying to enter the building, Alexander was injured: a metal grate flying off from the explosion hit him in the leg and crushed the bone. Despite the fact that the fighters wanted to take him to the ambulance, Perov categorically refused to leave his group and continued to carry out the combat mission, which was complicated by the fierce resistance of the bandits who fired from the windows of the classrooms on the second and first floors. Then Perov decided to enter the building from the other side, but hostages were already jumping out of the windows, and the special forces, standing under the windows, began to pull the children from the windowsills to the ground, continuing to shoot back from the militants. Meanwhile, Perov received a new task: to continue clearing the entire right wing of the building.

During the cleaning of the assembly hall, Alexander's colleague, Oleg Loskov, was killed, struck down by machine gun fire. Perov dragged Oleg to the beginning of the corridor to the stairs, where, with Major Vyacheslav Malyarov and Vympel fighters, Andrei Velko and Mikhail Kuznetsov, he tried to help Loskov. At that moment, a terrorist who ran out of dust and darkness with heavy fire from a machine gun seriously wounded both Vympel fighters and killed Major Malyarov on the spot. Perov tried to defend himself, but the machine ran out of bullets, and Alexander immediately received two bullets in the groin below the bulletproof vest. Another Alpha soldier wounded the militant, but he threw a grenade into the dining room and disappeared into the corridor. With the last throw, Major Perov managed to jump back into the dining room and covered with his body from grenade fragments a group of children who had not yet been evacuated. The approaching employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations dragged Alexander to the window to transfer him to the ambulance, but Perov was already dead.

By decree of the President of Russia of September 6, 2004, FSB Major Alexander Perov was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation (posthumously) for the courage and bravery shown during the release of the hostages.

Alexander Perov was buried at the Nikolo-Arkhangelsk cemetery in the Novokosino district of Moscow.