Raduev Salman: biography, photos and interesting facts

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20 years ago his name thundered throughout the country. This man was hated, they wished him the most terrible and painful death. Who was Salman Raduev and why did he end up in one of the worst prisons in Russia? Let's find out!

Short biography

Raduev Salman Betyrovich was born on February 13, 1967 in the city of Gudermes. He graduated with honors from school No. 3 and from March 1985 began working as a plasterer in his native city. In 1987, while in military service, he joined the CPSU. Later, in his interviews, he repeatedly said that he had a higher economic education and even graduated from graduate school, but so far it has not been possible to confirm these data. After the army, he worked as a gas welding foreman, and from the beginning of the 1990s he went into private business. His firm was engaged in the sale of light industry goods.

Dudaev regime

In 1992 he became the prefect of Gudermes. At this time, he steps on the path of crime. His militias begin to engage in train attacks, theft of government property and racketeering. He gives his gang a loud name "Presidential berets". The formation becomes the guard of President Dzhokhar Dudayev. with headhe was connected not only by common affairs, but also by kinship - he married the daughter of his second cousin. By the beginning of the first Chechen campaign, the guard becomes a special forces unit called "Borz". In 1994, at the initiative of the local population, he was removed from the post of prefect.

The first Chechen campaign

After being appointed and becoming commander of the North-Eastern Front of the Armed Forces of Ichkeria, he begins active hostilities. Together with his detachment, he captures Gudermes and runs for the post of head of the administration. Within 9 days they successfully hold the city.

Raid on Kizlyar

It was at this time that the name of Raduev became known throughout the country. It happened by chance, because dubious merit went to him at the last moment. 350 militants went to Dagestan. They went there not only for reconnaissance - in Kizlyar there was a helicopter base of Russian troops and a military camp of the Ministry of Internal Affairs troops. After an unsuccessful attack (the militants destroyed two helicopters), they decide to leave the city. Their path lay in Chechnya. But in order to freely leave Kizlyar, they had to take hostage more than three thousand people. As they moved towards safety, they released most of the prisoners, leaving 100 people to cover.

On the border with Chechnya, Russian troops fired warning fire at the group. Together with the hostages, Raduev's detachment fortified itself in the village of Pervomaiskoye. A week later, the assault began, but some of the terrorists managed to escape. By this time, the combat commander Ismailov had been killed, and the operation was taking placeunder the leadership of Raduev. In total, 70 militants were killed during the assault. Losses among the civilian population and hostages - more than 200 people. After this operation, Raduev received the rank of brigadier general.

Terrorist 2

During the period between the two wars, Raduev managed not only to carry out intimidation operations in the Caucasus, but also to take responsibility for all terrorist attacks on Russian territory. The authorities put him on the international wanted list, and in the meantime he entered into an open confrontation with Aslan Maskhadov. He rejected all possibilities of resolving the military conflict and called on field commanders to carry out as many terrorist attacks as possible in Russia. Sharia court sentenced him to 4 years in prison, but he refused to comply. Among other things, he also credited the attempt on the life of Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze to his merits.

Unkillable

Between 1996 and 2000 in the press several times there were reports of the death of Raduev. But each time they turned out to be false, and the militant continued his bloody marches. In 1996, he was lucky - the whole family died in the explosion of his house at the beginning of the year, but he himself was absent at that moment. Then in March, an explosive bullet hit him in the head. He survived, but the plastic surgeon was forced to piece his face back together. He lost an eye, and German doctors restored his nose.

After that, he received the nickname Titanic, because of the titanium plate implanted during the operation. Three years later, his nose was replaced with a fakeplastic. After the arrest, photos of Salman Raduev appeared on the front pages of printed publications. Looking at a man with a disfigured appearance, it was hard to believe that he could do so many terrible things. Many were interested in what happened to Salman Raduev's face. Now we know how his appearance was so mutilated. In 1997, several attempts were made on him at once, as a result of which he received serious injuries. During the second Chechen campaign, he was again recognized as dead several times, but his arrest in 2000 swept away all speculation once and for all.

Sentence

The investigation of all the crimes of the field commander and one of the most wanted terrorists lasted almost two years. 129 volumes of a criminal case and a long list of charges ended in a sentence of life imprisonment. He was supposed to serve his term in the Perm region in a penal colony of strict regime No. 14, better known as the "White Swan". Salman Raduev admitted that he was pleasantly surprised by the verdict, but nevertheless filed a cassation appeal. He did not want to plead guilty to all the crimes incriminated to him. The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation considered the complaint and upheld the verdict. The only thing that Raduev and two other terrorists achieved was that they significantly reduced the amount of the claim. Instead of 268 million rubles, they had to pay only 222 thousand.

In prison

Salman Raduev did not stay long in prison. On December 6, 2002, he had a hemorrhage in his eye. ThroughSalman was transferred to the regional Perm hospital for a week, where he died a day later. In order to exclude all rumors of a violent death, doctors performed an autopsy of the militant on camera. The final diagnosis was hemorrhagic vasculitis of unknown origin. No criminal case has been opened into his death. However, this did not convince everyone who wanted to make a sensation out of his death. Reports began to surface that he was regularly beaten, starved and harassed. The dead terrorist no longer looked so dangerous, and he even had fans. The people quickly forgot about the hundreds or even thousands of people whose blood was on the hands of this dangerous militant.

After a couple of years, the rumors reached their climax, and the Federal Penitentiary Service was ready to exhume the body to refute all accusations of violent death. Validov Bislan, a convict from the city of Grozny, said that he had witnessed Raduev being repeatedly beaten in the exercise yard under his windows. There were other people who were ready to confirm that the appearance of the militant left no doubt that he was regularly subjected to executions. Soon the exhumation was abandoned. The body of a terrorist rests in a cemetery in the Perm region. He was buried according to the general rules. None of the relatives wanted to take his body.