Exactly five years ago, a mournful obituary about the death of Hero of Russia German Alekseevich Ugryumov (1948-2001) appeared in Moscow newspapers. He died suddenly on the territory of the Chechen Republic while performing his military duty. Literally the day before, in the Kremlin, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree assigning G.A. Ugryumov's rank of admiral. Deputy Director of the Federal Security Service, Head of the Department for the Protection of the Constitutional System and the Fight against Terrorism, he, so to speak, was born a counterintelligence officer. He was feared and hated by those who are usually called terrorists, both in Russia and abroad. He was highly respected by special services around the world. At one of the meetings, when they announced: "Ugryumov German Alekseevich ...", Putin stopped: "Known. That is, personally known. " The writer, front-line soldier Semyon Shurtakov noted in a review of this book: "How good and fair it would be if a wonderful person Hero of Russia German Ugryumov was personally known ... to all citizens of Russia!"
Prologue
Ugryumov German Alekseevich
On June 1, 2001, a mournful obituary about the death of Hero of Russia German Alekseevich Ugryumov appeared in Moscow newspapers. Most of his fellow citizens of Russia, whom and whom he honestly served, his name did not mean anything. True, someone could remember that the surname "Ugryumov" was mentioned in connection with the capture of Salman Raduyev, and even earlier - in connection with the "case" of Pasko. For the admiral's colleagues from the Federal Security Service, the name of German Ugryumov was and will remain sacred.
“On May 31, 2001, while performing military duty on the territory of the Chechen Republic, the Deputy Director - Head of the Department for the Protection of the Constitutional System and the Fight Against Terrorism of the Federal Security Service died suddenly Russian Federation vice admiral
German Alekseevich.
G. A. Ugryumov was born in 1948 in Astrakhan. Since 1967, he is a cadet of the S.M. Kirov Caspian Higher Naval School. Upon completion of training, he was sent to serve in the Caspian Flotilla.
Since 1975, G.A.Ugryumov has been serving in the security agencies in the troops, where his organizational skills and talent as a leader have been fully manifested. In 1999, he was appointed First Deputy Head of the Department for the Protection of the Constitutional System and the Fight against Terrorism, and since November 1999, Deputy Director - Head of the Department.
G. A. Ugryumov made a great contribution to ensuring the security of the state and preserving its sovereignty. In January 2001, by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, he was appointed head of the Regional Operational Headquarters in the North Caucasus. With his direct participation, special measures were developed and carried out within the framework of the counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus region, as a result of which the leaders and active members of the bandit formations were rendered harmless, and hundreds of lives were saved.
PART 1. Formation of personality
Chapter 1
Parents. childhood
Alexandra Alekseevna Ugryumova, mother:
I was born in Astrakhan on August 5, 1927. The brightest and most terrible memories are war. We went through the war very hard. The elder brother died near Voronezh, and is buried there. The front was already approaching Astrakhan when I finished eight classes and was about to enter the technical school. In 1942, his father died. Mom immediately noticeably aged, her strength left her - grief in the country, grief in the family, grief all around: dad was buried - and immediately we received a notice of the death of his brother. Whoever you want will knock down ...
Mom worked in a sewing workshop, where they sewed sweatshirts for the front, and she took work to my house - to sew three-fingered mittens, also for the front. I couldn't leave her at a time like this. My sister worked throughout the war in the hospital at the operating table, always complaining that her legs were swollen. On May 15, 1945, after the Victory, I officially went to work. She began to work in the railway department of mail transportation at the Astrakhan station.
And in 1946, a train came to the city - for some reason our soldiers were being driven to the Iranian border. The train stopped at the railway station, in the city of hype: so many victorious soldiers arrived! .. We met Alyosha under unusual circumstances: my jacket was stolen, and he helped to find it. In the morning he comes to my house - with a loaf of bread and a huge smoked bream. The sister was indignant: what a liberty! We had strict orders at home. “Did you give him the address? Have you made a date? And you, young man, by what right did you come here? " - etc. Alexei managed to explain himself in such a way that they accepted both him and his precious gift (for those times!). Somehow I managed to persuade my boss to give the address where I live, and came. Senior sergeant, chest in "gold": orders, medals. Height - under two meters. He began to come to me, courted me. We ended up getting married in 1947. At the beginning of the year he was demobilized (in February, I think), and in May he came for me: "Shurochka, let's go down the aisle!" How was the refusal? I myself fell in love with him while we met. Handsome, hero! Two medals "For Courage", for Warsaw, Koenigsberg, Berlin ... One medal "For Courage" for knocking out a tank with direct fire - he was the commander of a 76-mm gun, the second - when he went behind the front line and brought a valuable "language" ...
Chapter 2
School. Service
The S. M. Kirov Higher Naval School in the Caspian Sea is one of the eleven higher naval military schools in the USSR. And ... one of the four that Russia missed after the collapse of the great power - the Soviet Union.
The suitability of a naval officer for service, perhaps, can be determined by five military educational standards, which can be called fundamental, general, fundamental:
High level training an officer as the head of a subunit, ship, unit in peacetime and wartime;
The ability to organize training and education of personnel, maintaining the required level of training and discipline;
Chapter 3
KGB of the USSR. Head of the Special Department
“Personal security is the highest law in politics,” wrote our great historian Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, referring to the security of the Russian state. In Russian literature, the term "state security" is already encountered in the 19th century in the work of Professor I. Tarasov, who noted that danger can have a general meaning and a particular one, as well as an example of the merging of these concepts: a traitor-defector inflicts both general and private damage.
Military counterintelligence, according to the historians of the special services, was born in Russia on January 21, 1903, when Emperor Nicholas II approved the report of the Minister of War, an honorary member of the Academy General Staff, Artillery, Engineering, Military Legal and Military Medical Academies of Adjutant General Alexei Kuropatkin. General Kuropatkin defined the task of the new body, which he proposed to be called the "Intelligence Department of the General Staff": it should consist in "establishing covert supervision over the secret military intelligence routes, which have the starting point of foreign military agents and the end points of persons who are on public service inside the country".
In the Soviet period, the term "state security" was introduced in April 1934 when the Main Directorate of State Security was formed within the NKVD, to which the functions of the OGPU were transferred. In 1936, this term was officially included in the text of the Stalinist Constitution of the USSR.
Any doctor and more or less educated pharmacist knows perfectly well that the antidote in the structure of its components must certainly reflect the components of the poison. If this rule is projected onto the problem of state security, then it turns out that any threat requires adequate, most often mirror-like actions.
Official documents and memoirs of friends-associates indicate that German Alekseevich began his service in the state security bodies in 1976, after studying at the Novosibirsk Higher School of the KGB. There is also other evidence. I do not consider it important for myself and for the reader to get to the bottom of the "truth" that no one needs, I will give only various evidences, since the special services have their secrets and there is a golden rule for their reliable preservation: to know only what you are supposed to.
PART 2. Confronting evil
Chapter 4
Between two fires
German Ugryumov was primarily a creator - this is noted by everyone who has ever known him. The Creator is courageous by nature, because according to God's plan he was born to resist evil. Without overcoming it, he has no opportunity to create. Destroyers throw off their masks and roll up their sleeves in two cases: when there is an opportunity to stray into a flock, or when they temporarily come to power. More often this happens at the same time, or one follows from the other.
But the grander the greatness of the former, the more prominent and noticeable the insignificance of the latter.
The announced glasnost began with a political, literary, newspaper and public demarcation, the "winners" spitting on their own history, age-old spiritual values, humiliation of the Russian people - "the slave people" (the October magazine, for example, wrote that history Russia is so opposed to freedom that the Russians even (!) Did not accept the freedom that "the boots of Napoleon's soldiers ...") * brought them, the crafty "rush" on the army, navy and special services, the overthrow of "idols". "The country is in a state of a raging garbage dump," stated the philosopher A. A. Zinoviev, who was then living in exile.
Georgy Vasilievich Sviridov
The great composer and no less great philosopher made an entry in his diary, making perhaps the most accurate diagnosis of the sick country: “The demarcation is going along the most important, fundamental line of human existence - along the spiritual and moral line. Here is the beginning of everything, the meaning of life! " His reasoning at that time was by no means the old man's acrimonious, as sometimes some liberal critics say, but wise and armor-piercing accurate - I consider it simply necessary to bring it here. “The so-called exposure of evil /… / long ago turned into savoring, hardening the soul of the artist himself and in the surest way killing his talent, if he has one. In the business of savoring, extraordinary results have been achieved, striking in their own way with ingenuity and inspiration, imagination, in collecting all kinds of dirt, perversions, vice, showing shameful things, etc. speculative invention, not devoid of some kind of remarkableness. But all this is too much, it has become monotonous.
Blackening, caricatures of the Motherland, man, life, all that is holy, all that is pure. It seems that one might think that such artists - sufferers and martyrs, never happened. Most often they are successful and sometimes very business people, dexterously, thoughtlessly and enterprisingly trading their artistic skill. By proclaiming the fight against evil, they ultimately serve it! "
Chapter 5
Shooting region
Captain 1st Rank Ya. Ya.:
By the beginning of the events in Baku, we had excellent positions within all the destructive forces. We have infiltrated all their organizations, including the Popular Front. They knew everything about them: where the militants' bases were located, their weapons, apartments, where they lived, attendances, participants, leaders. The KGB of Azerbaijan also knew about it.
When, after the introduction of troops in Baku, a meeting was held in the KGB of Azerbaijan, which was attended by the deputy chairman of the KGB of the USSR Pirozhkov, the employees were indignant: why was not a sanction given to isolate the provocateurs, leaders of the collapse, but resorted to the introduction of troops and military equipment? After all, even without troops, we could disarm their entire top as a result of one operation! In principle, this is the business of the special services. And most importantly, we would have acted within the framework of the existing legislation: detention, indictment, arrest - right up to trial. We had a rich evidence base.
Battle structures The Popular Front practically occupied the city, blocked all highways, occupied all state institutions, the seaport. They blocked the airport and tried to occupy a military airfield. They were armed and had their own arsenal.
Power from the leadership of the city, the republic was leaking not by the clock, but by the minute ... And we were not allowed to arrest the instigators of this bloody turmoil. We had a complete dossier on Elchibey, and on Nimat Panahov, and on other activists. They knew who was behind them: Turkish and Iranian intelligence. By the way, Panahov then fled to Iran. True, he was arrested after the entry of troops, but released.
Part 3
From the Black Sea to the Pacific Ocean
Chapter 6
South Sea Frontier
Victor Alekseevich Smirnov:
By that time, we had practically lost Sevastopol, the partition began and Black Sea Fleet... The KGB leadership decided to create a Special Department in Novorossiysk. It was planned to relocate part of our Black Sea Fleet to Novorossiysk. The question arose about the head of the department, and this is already an admiral's position. The choice fell on Ugryumov.
I must say, chance helped here. Even before the introduction of this position, he was summoned to the Center and offered to go to the Northern Fleet. He came to me, sat down. Is talking:
The situation is such that, as an officer, I cannot refuse, on the other hand, my wife is sick, the children were born and have lived in Baku all their life. From the south directly to the Far North - it will be difficult for them. To be honest, I don't know what to do. You can, of course, ditch your wife ...
I went to see Zhardetsky, asked not to spoil the person's life. Of course, he will go, but is it necessary? Let's send him to Novorossiysk.
Chapter 7
Pacific Ocean
Future admiral, and then captain of the 2nd rank,
Alexander Vasilievich Kolchak
wrote in December 1907 after an unsuccessful russo-Japanese Warreflecting on the naval building program: “ World significance the sea as a set of the most convenient and most profitable means of communication acquires exceptional importance in times of war. From this point of view, the sea water space can be considered as a network developed to the limits railways (
let's not forget that before the war the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway was completed - for several years it was the "topic of the day". -
receiving from the moment of declaration of war the desired strategic importance... ... The meaning of the message and transport is too clear to be worth talking about further. "
Defeat in a war is a bitter grief, but not a problem yet. Trouble - when in the country of Troubles! .. A man with a strong will, great personal courage, endlessly devoted to the Navy and Russia, Kolchak believed that the glory of the Russian fleet would be revived and more than once would echo over the World Ocean. Moreover, he said: “I take the liberty of examining as impartially as possible the main questions: why does Russia need sea \u200b\u200bpower and what is this force, or more precisely, what is this force expressed in ”. Then he was only 34 years old.
Another talented Russian military leader, also with a tragic fate, is the Supreme Commander of the Russian Army, from simple Cossacks, General
Lavr Georgievich Kornilov
Ten years later, speaking at the State Conference in Moscow, he was not yet betrayed by Masons and politicians and - God knows how deeply and sincerely - believed in the ideals of the February bourgeois revolution, spoke of the most urgent needs of the army: “As a legacy from the old regime, free Russia received an army, in the organization of which, of course, there were major shortcomings. But nevertheless, this army was combat-ready, persistent and ready for self-sacrifice. A whole series of legislative measures carried out after the coup by people alien to the spirit and understanding of the army, this army was turned into a maddening crowd, treasured exclusively by its own life.
... It is necessary to raise the prestige of the officers. The officer corps, who fought valiantly throughout the war, in the vast majority immediately sided with the revolution and remained faithful to its cause, and now must be rewarded morally for all the humiliations and systematic humiliations they have suffered, through no fault of theirs.
Chapter 8
"Case" Pasko
Military journalist Pavel Evdokimov:
According to the logic of our glorious "human rights activists" and the so-called "democratic media", if German Alekseevich had not raised the case against Grigory Pasko, he would have done the right thing. But because he acted like a professional, he did badly.
The editors of many print media, television and radio programs provided space and time only to those who spoke in defense of Pasko - and apologetically, based on speculation, on “ personal opinion", Not particularly bothering himself with arguments, or, as it were, neutral, but precisely" as it were. " Example: “Olga Zhurman from Vladivostok reports. The trial resumed in the case of the military journalist Pasko, who is accused of transferring classified materials to the Japanese. Pasko told reporters that he still does not understand what he is accused of, and said that the FSB is putting pressure on him and on the court by all available means. In what ways - Pasko did not specify. The lawyer is confident that Pasko will be acquitted. " Here, the entire "neutral" message is structured in such a way that the man in the street will be fully confident that Pasko is innocent, and the damned FSB men do whatever they want. The only critical phrase "hidden" in the middle of the information is that Pasko did not specify how the "authorities" would put pressure on the court. But it is almost invisible to the listener.
Pavel Evdokimov quoted information from the morning news of Radio Russia on December 3, 2001. On the same day, the NTV news program at 2 pm gave the floor to Grigory Pasko, who told TV viewers that he did not believe in either the first or the second court hearings. Further comment: 50 witnesses interviewed; some of the documents, according to the experts, transferred by the military journalist Grigory Pasko to the Japanese media, are not secret.
(And the other part? .. -
The court decided to close the case and it will presumably deliver its verdict on December 25, 2001. Lawyers prophesy that on this day "the bankruptcy of the journalist's trial will be demonstrated." (Reminds the Russian proverb: the prophet got wet on the stove, but dried up in a puddle! ..) The commentary of the TV journalist Grigoriev also says that, in Pasko's opinion, the FSB has an influence on the court - and again without specifying what this influence is ... The TV presenter's commentary on all of the above was also not heard.
PART 4. ANTI-TERROR
Chapter 9
At the head of military counterintelligence
Alexey Alekseevich Molyakov:
In the Pacific Fleet, despite the enormous scale of work, Ugryumov did not have unsolvable questions. That is why, four years later, his candidacy was proposed for the post of deputy head of the Department. military counterintelligence FSB of Russia. A leader was required with his approach, acumen and knowledge, who could properly organize the work and lead other departments.
At that time, I was invited to the post of Deputy Secretary of the Security Council. Lieutenant-General Vladimir Ivanovich Petrishchev was appointed head of the 3rd Directorate, and Ugryumov became his deputy. I did not lose contact with the Office, I was glad that German Alekseevich immediately joined the team of the Office of the WRC.
Vladimir Ivanovich Petrishchev:
Chapter 10
Hero of Russia
According to the All-Union Population Census, in 1989 over 293,700 Russians (23.1% of the republic's population) lived in the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
The systematic resettlement of Chechens from mountainous areas to territories bordering on the Stavropol Territory and Dagestan has been carried out by the leadership of the republic (D. Zavgayev) since about the mid-1980s, and its consequence was a violation of the historically established "ethnic balance" in Shelkovsky, Naursky, Groznensky , Sunzha and other flat regions of Checheno-Ingushetia, where the Russian population predominated numerically. In fact, even then, the foundation was laid for future ethnic "cleansing", which were systematically carried out in the 90s in the "Republic of Ichkeria".
A pronounced anti-Russian policy, leading to systematic violations of human rights, moral and physical terror directed against the Russian population, has become a nightmarish reality in the self-proclaimed Ichkeria since August 1991, when, with the connivance, and often with the direct assistance of the central government, Chechen separatists seized power in Grozny.
Numerous evidence of the terror against the non-Chechen population of the republic, which was carried out on the personal instructions of President D. Dudayev and his entourage, are in the law enforcement agencies of Russia, in the administration of the President of the Russian Federation, in the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, in other departments that have a bearing on the situation in the Chechen Republic ...
According to various sources, from 1991 to 1999 on the territory of Chechnya, more than 21 thousand Russians were killed (not counting those killed during the hostilities), more than 100 thousand apartments and houses belonging to "non-indigenous" residents of Chechnya (including Ingush), more than 46 thousand people were enslaved or used for forced labor (from collecting wild garlic to the construction of a road to Georgia through Itum-Kale and Tazbichi), only for the period from 1991 to December 1994 (i.e. before the introduction of federal troops) more than 200 thousand Russians left Chechnya.
Chapter 11
ENEMIES OF GERMAN UGRYUMOV
William Sofire
published an article with the eloquent title "The Baltic countries belong to NATO." There is a remarkable phrase in the article concerning our "subject":
“The United States needs Chechnya. The war in Chechnya makes Russia weak, and everything that makes Russia weak is in the USA's favor. "
Here, as they say, there is no time for diplomacy, when, in full view of everyone, a glove is casually thrown at your feet - as if they are spitting ... Let's raise. We will answer. Not to notice - not to respect yourself.
Director of the FSB of Russia Nikolai Platonovich Patrushev:
Recently, the Federal Security Service made public the data at its disposal about the subversive nature of the activities on the territory of the Russian Federation and the CIS countries of organizations created by the extremist wing of the Muslim Brotherhood International Islamic Association. It should be noted that the extremist divisions of the Muslim Brotherhood operate in more than 50 countries of the world under the leadership of centers located on the territory of the Middle East and European states. The structures created by their emissaries have been identified in 49 regions of Russia. Extremist leaders coordinate their activities with the terrorist groups Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, Al-Jihad al-Islami, the famous international terrorist Osama bin Laden, Bosnian fighters and use charity as a cover to spread the ideas of militant Islam.
Chapter 12
Admiral's heart
At one time, something was shaken in the Danish kingdom, and in democratic Russia - worse than that ... Various media responded to the death of the Hero in different ways. The newspaper "Spetsnaz of Russia", having removed another prepared material, put an essay in the issue
Pavel Evdokimov
"The Destiny of a Hero". We will present it in an abbreviated form, without fear of some repetitions.
“German Ugryumov became the second senior officer whose heart could not stand it in this war. The first was the commander of the Marine Corps group in Chechnya, 53-year-old Major General Alexander Otrakovsky, who died in Vedeno in March 2000.
Now a new death ... For the last two or three months there were rumors that German Ugryumov could become the first deputy director of the FSB.
German Alekseevich was born three years after the end of the war in the family of a front-line soldier. After school he worked at a shipyard. In 1972 he graduated from the Caspian Higher Naval School. He served in the Caspian Sea, was the commander of a ship.
Already in a different capacity, "on the shore", he still remained a seaman - and not only by rank, which testified to his naval "origin"; he literally suffered from the sea. His office on the Lubyanka was decorated with flags, ship models and photographs. The captain's cabin, in a word.
Admiral Ugryumov was buried yesterday
Yesterday at the Troyekurovsky cemetery, the deputy director of the FSB, head of the department for the protection of the constitutional order and the fight against terrorism of the FSB of Russia, German Ugryumov, was buried, who was promoted to admiral the day before his death.
German Ugryumov was born in 1948 in Astrakhan. Since 1972, after graduating from the Higher Naval School, he served on the ships of the Caspian Naval Flotilla, where he received his first award - the Medal For Courage in a Fire. In 1975 he moved to work in the state security agencies. By 1999, he had gone from a simple detective to deputy director of the FSB - head of the department for the protection of the constitutional order and the fight against terrorism. In December 2000, Chekist Ugryumov was awarded the title "Hero of Russia" for leading the operations to detain Salman Raduev and neutralize terrorists in the village of Lazarevskoye. A month later, he headed the regional operational headquarters for the counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus. He died on May 31 of a heart attack in his office in Khankala.
They began to say goodbye to Admiral Ugryumov in the FSB building on Lubyanka. In the street and indoors there were many people in black and dark gray suits with red carnations in their hands. People did not enter the hall where the coffin stood, they were waiting for President Putin and the ministers. “But I can't let you in, girl,” a young man in civilian clothes told me. “The president’s press service ordered that there were no journalists.” It was useless to argue, no one argued. The journalists were allowed to stand in the foyer, only further from the entrance, so that no one could accidentally see the president and take a photo. At first, some general ordered that the journalists be taken out of the building to the street altogether, but since the president could also be seen on the street, the general allowed him to stay: "Just go to that corner."
Vladimir Putin, with a mournful and friendly expression on his face, appeared, accompanied by the director of the FSB Nikolai Patrushev, and immediately went into the hall. Ten minutes later, the president came out and began to discuss something right in the foyer with Patrushev, Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov, Secretary of the Security Council Vladimir Rushailo and Chairman of the Accounts Chamber Sergei Stepashin. While the president was talking to officials, everyone else in the lobby stood at attention. The backs of the FSB officers holding back the journalists only weakened when the president disappeared behind the door.
The farewell ceremony with Admiral Ugryumov ended three hours later, after which a funeral service took place in the Yelokhovskaya church and a funeral meeting at the Troekurovsky cemetery. At the cemetery that day, there were many people in black uniforms with FSB insignia. They walked along paths, stood in the bushes and behind trees, two snipers surveyed the surroundings from the roof of the ritual center. “You don’t go here,” a guy in black uniform told us. “There is a separate place for journalists. Otherwise, the ministers will come now, then catch you.”
The first to arrive was Nikolai Koshman, who led the Chechen Republic during the hostilities. Then Nikolai Patrushev and the commander of the joint group of forces in the North Caucasus, General Valery Baranov. Friends and colleagues of German Ugryumov arrived. They were all in uniforms or formal suits. There was no room left in the ritual hall, and people kept walking. The first words at the memorial meeting were that Admiral Ugryumov died "like a real soldier - in the war, fighting terrorists and protecting the integrity of our country." Nikolai Patrushev told why General Ugryumov became an admiral: "He was born in Astrakhan, all his life he loved the sea and was connected with the sea. He served in Novorossiysk and Pacific, and even when he became an FSB officer, he was still connected to the sea. "General Patrushev called German Ugryumov a talented military leader, and the operations he carried out brilliant. Among them was the detention of terrorist Salman Raduev. German Ugryumov's merit was also called" bloodless release cities and villages of the republic "and the release of hostages." I think the president had no doubts when he signed the decree on conferring the title of Hero of Russia on German Ugryumov, "the FSB director said. And then Mr. Patrushev wanted to say something about poetry, which General Ugryumov wrote, but his voice trembled and the Chekist did not finish the sentence. Afterwards, generals and captains of the first rank, who knew the deceased closely, spoke. They recalled his "kind and bright character", love for art and nature. "You loved flowers, but I never thought that there would be so many flowers in your life, "one of the general's colleagues said a paradoxical phrase." You, German Alekseevich, loved to remember the wooden ships, on which the iron people once sailed, - said another. - But you yourself were from a cohort of such iron people. "
Everyone who spoke at the grave assured that they would continue Ugryumov's work, "so that there was peace on Chechen soil," and that "Chechen international terrorists who finished off the heart of this big man, they will answer for this. "And then the little woman in black said that although Gloomov did not die under the bullets, he was betrayed and killed by time. This phrase somewhat violated the pathos of everything that was said, and the meeting was declared closed. The coffin was closed right in the hall and already While the nails were being hammered in, there was an oppressive silence in the huge room. "Look, no one is crying," someone said behind. "It's just that everyone who is here has long been accustomed," sounded in response. Only the mother of the deceased cried loudly when the last nail entered the tree.
There are no fewer people at Ugryumov's grave. With difficulty, FSB director Patrushev squeezed into the coffin, and prominent Chechen figures stood here - Bislan Gantamirov, the former mayor of Grozny Supyan Makhchaev, and the heads of the Chechen administrations who had come from Chechnya to say goodbye to Ugryumov. The first handful of earth was poured from a white bag. "Chechenskaya", - ran among the mourners. When the coffin was lowered into the ground under gunfire, it began to rain. "The loss of this person will come back to haunt the whole country," Bislan Gantamirov told me. "And especially for Chechnya." "Chechnya has already lost many," said Supyan Makhchaev, who knew General Ugryumov from the first days of the fighting for Grozny. "And these are heavy losses. Ugryumov knew the republic better than many Chechens and did everything possible for it."
OLGA B-ALLENOVA
FSB General Ugryumov said in the spring of 2000 after Putin's election - "WE HAD TO BLOW UP HOUSES IN ORDER TO PLANT HIM IN THE KREMLIN, HOW MUCH WILL WE HAVE TO SPILL BLOOD IN ORDER TO REMOVE IT?" After this maxim, Ugryumov did not live even two months. Facts: General Lebed, presidential candidate - plane crash. General Troshev, commander in the Caucasus - a plane crash. General Baranov is seriously wounded. General Romanov - seriously wounded in an attempt on his life during the preparation of a peace treaty. General Rokhlin - killed, his wife was convicted of the murder. General Shamanov - wounded in a car accident. General Dubrov - died under a train on the platform. General Debashvili - the body was found on a Moscow street. General Gusev - died in a car accident. General Barannikov - died suddenly after receiving the package. Major General Viktor Chevrizov, former head of the intelligence directorate of the High Command of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Horde, was killed in Moscow. According to the official version, he allegedly shot himself in the head with an award pistol in the entrance of his own house. The list is endless ... that is, until the end is in sight. Who is next? https://informnapalm.org/18682-generals/ The shortest history of modern Russia: 1999 - the murder of V. Chernovol, the beginning of the second chechen war (in total, about 25 thousand people were killed), explosions of houses in Buinaksk, Volgodonsk, Moscow (307 people were killed), the detention of FSB officers who laid sacks of hexogen in Ryazan. 2000 - the murders of A. Sobchak, A. Borovik, Z. Bazhaev, I. Domnikov, the death of the Kursk submarine (130 people were killed). 2002 - murders of A. Lebed, V. Golovlev, storming of the theater on Dubrovka (Nord-Ost, 130/174 people were killed), attempt on V. Rushailo. 2003 - the murders of S. Yushenkov, Y. Shchekochikhin, the conflict on the Tuzla spit, the defeat of YUKOS, the arrests of P. Lebedev and M. Khodorkovsky. 2004 - murder of hostages in Beslan (333 people were killed), murders of R. Tsepov, N. Girenko, P. Khlebnikov, Z. Yandarbiev, poisoning of V. Yushchenko, attempt on E. Tregubova, poisoning of Y. Arafat, mass beating in Blagoveshchensk (Bashkortostan), gas war against Belarus. 2005 - Murders of A. Maskhadov, A. Trofimov, O. Latsis, ethnic cleansing in the village of Borozdinovskaya (12 people were killed). 2006 - gas war against Ukraine, murders of A. Politkovskaya, A. Litvinenko, hybrid war against Georgia, ethnic cleansing of Georgians in Russia, arrest and torture in custody of the terminally ill V. Aleksanyan (died in 2011). 2007 - the murders of I. Safronov, Ch. Gutsiriev, Y. Chervochkin, cyber war against Estonia. 2008 - an attack on Georgia (about 1000 people were killed), the murders of M. Evloev, R. Yamadaev, and the beating of M. Beketov (died in 2013). 2009 - gas war against Ukraine, murder of U. Israilov, S. Markelov, A. Baburova, S. Yamadaev, N. Estemirova, M. Aushev, S. Magnitsky. 2010 - murders in the village of Kushchevskaya (12 people were killed), the crash of a Polish plane near Smolensk (96 people were killed), due to the failure to provide timely assistance during the heat wave and smog in Moscow alone, the excess estimate was about 12 thousand people ., attempt on V. Shamanov, beating of O. Kashin. 2011 - disaster of "Bulgaria", aircraft in Yaroslavl and Karelia (213 people died), so-called. parliamentary elections, during which at least 17 million votes were stolen. 2012 - flooding in Krymsk (171 people died), beatings, arrest, imprisonment of participants in the march on May 6 on Bolotnaya Square, members of the Pussy Riot group. 2013 - the beginning of a hybrid war against Ukraine. 2014 - the beginning of the conventional war against Ukraine (already in tens of thousands), a terrorist attack against MH-17 (298 people were killed). 2015 - the assassination of B. Nemtsov, the beginning of the conventional war in Syria (1.5 thousand people were killed), the terrorist attack against the Metrojet liner over Sinai (224 people were killed), the beginning of a hybrid war against Turkey. 2016 - terrorist attacks in the EEC and Turkey, cluster and phosphorus bombs in Syria (hundreds of children, tens of thousands of civilians). War in Ukraine. Are there any doubts about what - if the current regime is maintained - 2017 and subsequent years will be?
At the end of August 1998, four Dagestanis - 19-year-old Raidin Bugaev, Shamil Shamkhalov, Gusein Sharipov and Temerlan Malsagov, who were doing military service at a nuclear test site on Novaya Zemlya, were arrested for hazing and sent to the village of Belushya Guba, in which there was another "lip" - the guardhouse. There was already a sailor Dmitry Khozyainov, who got on the "lip" for being AWOL. There was no smell of any "interethnic conflict": on the contrary, the five quickly found common interests and developed a plan. In the prison, the arrested conspired to attack the sentry, pick up the weapon and fly to Chechnya - to perform new "feats". They had two days for reflection and preparation. When they were taken to work, they attacked the guard, broke his head and took the machine gun. They disarmed the lieutenant colonel of the medical service, took him and the driver of the ZIL-131 hostage. They got into the car and ordered the driver to go to the military airfield. On the way to the airfield, the officer managed to jump out of the car and raise the alarm. The sailors, who suddenly became bandits, decided to go all-in: now they had nothing to lose. We turned to the local school, where they took 65 people hostage - teachers and children. In exchange they demanded weapons, a bus to the airport and a plane to fly to Chechnya.
Rear Admiral Viktor Shevchenko, the head of the local garrison, who entered into negotiations with the bandits, offered them hostage in exchange for teachers and schoolchildren. As if we agreed. But the scoundrels, taking the admiral hostage, still did not release the children. Having driven into the bus about fifty people, we left for the airfield. Here Shamkhalov's nerves could not stand, and he surrendered to the authorities.
The rest were not going to give up. They understood that Moscow had already been notified of the tragedy on Novaya Zemlya and that urgent measures were being taken to neutralize them. It was smart enough to guess that the fighters of the group "A" would fly by their black souls, but they encouraged themselves that, they say, "Alpha" did not have two heads either.
Lubyanka really reacted with lightning speed. The deputy head of the UVKR Rear Admiral Ugryumov was on the plane in a couple of hours, and from Murmansk to New earth the capture group immediately flew Regional office special operations of the FSB Directorate.
In the meantime, an An-12 military transport aircraft, a regular scheduled aircraft, landed at the airfield controlled by terrorists. The emboldened terrorists seized the crew and took the prisoners inside. While the plane was being refueled at gunpoint and being prepared for departure, Rear Admiral Shevchenko managed to convince the bandits to release the hostages, with the exception of the crew and himself: they say, why would you bring such a horde of northerners to the Wahhabis, one garrison chief would be enough with a serviceable and equipped aircraft to boot. The terrorists considered this a reasonable argument and, leaving Khozyainov to guard the flight crew, decided to hit the road to the village for documents and personal belongings - under the cover of the rear admiral taken hostage. "Alpha" appeared, as always, at the most unfortunate moment for the terrorists. During their capture at the headquarters of the test site, Sharipov was seriously wounded (died in the hospital on April 1, 1999), the rest were rendered harmless. Meanwhile, the second group of special forces took Khozyainov.
The new head of the FSB V.V. Putin (only a month in office) on the same day received an encrypted message about the successful completion of the operation, the overall leadership of which was entrusted to G.A.Ugryumov.
The next emergency was not long in coming. On the night of September 10-11, a torpedo operator of a nuclear submarine (nuclear submarine), sailor Kuzminykh climbed onto the navigating bridge, stunned the sailor on duty with a blow to the head, and took possession of his machine gun. Then he went down into the second compartment, shot at close range the personnel who were there, went into the first (torpedo) compartment and barricaded himself there. Before that, he shot two more sailors who were in the first compartment. He did not put forward any demands on the internal intercom (which immediately baffled the leadership of the operation to neutralize it!), He only cursed everyone and everything, cried and threatened to blow up the onboard weapons systems. This is the first time that sailors, counterintelligence officers, and special forces encountered such a terribly unpredictable (and if predictable, then even worse!) Situation. Nothing like this had happened in the atomic fleet before. Specialists reported to the commander of the Northern Fleet that if the nuclear submarine's ammunition was detonated, the nuclear reactor would be destroyed, and this would lead to a catastrophe equal to Chernobyl, nuclear-powered ships moored nearby (or their ammunition could also be detonated!), And the mooring structures of the nearby garrison. What will happen to people is clear and so ...
After an urgent report to Moscow on the current situation, a group of the General Staff of the Navy was created, approved by the Commander-in-Chief Admiral Vladimir Kuroyedov, she flew to the scene, and together with her flew a group of the operational-investigative directorate of military counterintelligence, headed by G. A. Ugryumov.
On September 11, German Ugryumov with a special forces group was already next to the submarine captured by the terrorist. The Alfovtsy, who had flown in again from Murmansk, blocked all approaches to the pier, the command of the Northern Fleet evacuated people to a safe zone.
The head of the FSB DSP, Major General AA Zdanovich, assured the journalists that the anti-terror special forces "do not eat the state bread in vain and are capable of firing at any moment without misfiring."
Victor Alekseevich Smirnov:
The command of the Northern Fleet, led by the highly respected commander of the Northern Fleet, Admiral Vyacheslav Alekseevich Popov, acted very professionally from the point of view of the commander, but from the point of view of the anti-terrorist operation, a professional was also obliged to lead. Herman was a professional high class - probably, many have already told you about this. He said that he was taking over the leadership of the operation, which probably angered the honored admirals. They can be understood - a natural human reaction to such a statement by a little-known or almost unknown "Varangian". But the situation was heating up literally by the minute, and, according to the classical expression, delay was like death.
Ugryumov reported on the situation to the Minister of Defense Marshal I. Sergeev and the FSB leadership (I don’t know who he called first) that he was taking full responsibility for the operation. I know that Vladimir Putin gave the go-ahead. Meanwhile, the relatives of the distraught sailor were delivered from St. Petersburg by a special plane. They arranged negotiations with his mother and, it seems, with his brother. But neither his mother nor his brother could persuade him to surrender: he insisted that life was over anyway, that no one would take his guilt into account, he was responsible for six ruined lives of his comrades, and that he would certainly accomplish his plans. To the next world - so at least not alone! ..
As a military journalist later wrote A. Vitkovsky, "The decision made by Gloomov was so stunning and unconventional that even the professionals marveled. The technology of that operation is still kept with seven seals, and no ticks can pull out at least two words from the Chekists about its implementation. As a result, the criminal was destroyed, and the country was delivered from a tragedy, which in scale would be slightly inferior to the Chernobyl one. "
It can be added from the words of one of the officers who participated in the operation that Ugryumov's command sounded at the right time: when the first compartment of the nuclear submarine was unlocked and the terrorist was dead, it was discovered that under one of the torpedoes a bunch of oiled "ends" - rags were burning. Burn it a little more! .. "There would be a nice bowling alley", as the poet Nikolai Tikhonov wrote.
The release of the hostages in Lazarevskoye took place in September 2000. The bandits seized the bus with hostages, placing it on the bridge, from where there was an excellent view of all approaches - you cannot approach unnoticed. They demanded a gigantic sum for the "green", a helicopter and a safe air corridor to Chechnya. The general leadership of the operation to rescue the hostages and neutralize the terrorists was entrusted to German Alekseevich Ugryumov.
Colonel A. V. Duganov, officer of group "A":
We were raised on alert and reported that the terrorists had seized several people in a hotel complex in the village of Lazarevskoye, not far from Sochi. Nothing more. While we were preparing for the flight, television showed a small plot from which we at least saw what this complex looks like.
The situation was unlike the others: the hostages were handcuffed to heating pipes; what the terrorists wanted - we did not know. That is, we flew into the unknown. In principle, we had everything worked out, it was required to look at the place itself, to study the object, approaches to it, to understand the situation on the spot.
We knew German Alekseevich from Chechnya and knew that he was an intelligent and decisive officer who always bribed with the novelty of the development of combat operations. A brainstorming session was held on the plane: how many people to use, what special equipment would be needed, and so on. With us is our leader, Lieutenant General AE T-ov, German Alekseevich. For Ugryumov, such an operation is new, but he is calm, like Buddha: if the decision is to be made on the spot, then why be nervous and fuss in advance. By God, I saw such calmness of a new leader for the first time. He only asked general questions.
Even before our arrival in Lazarevskoye, an operational headquarters was created from officers of the local FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Having received the initial information from them, I with three soldiers of the group departed under the hotel building in order to inspect the object before dark, the approaches to it - speaking "in a scientific way", for reconnaissance. We found out that we were to storm the third floor of the building: hostages and terrorists were there. They secretly entered the second floor, listened to what they were talking about on the third floor, assessed the state of the hostages and the behavior of the terrorists.
German Alekseevich Ugryumov
Date of birth October 10, 1948 Place of birth Astrakhan, USSR Date of death May 31, 2001 (52 years old) Place of death Khankala, Chechen Republic, Russia Affiliation Flag of the Soviet Union.svg USSR, Flag of Russia.svg Russia Branch of the Soviet Navy, KGB USSR , FSB RF Years of service 1967 - 2001 Title Admiral Battles / wars Second Chechen war Awards and prizes Hero of the Russian Federation Order "For Military Merit" Order "Badge of Honor" Medal "For Courage in a Fire"
German Alekseevich Ugryumov (October 10, 1948, Astrakhan - May 31, 2001, Khankala, Chechen Republic) - a figure in the state security agencies of Russia, Admiral (2001), Hero of the Russian Federation.
Young years and service in the navy Born into a family of a worker, a participant in the Great Patriotic War... Russian. Grew up and studied at the Bishkil station of the Chebarkul region Chelyabinsk region... After graduation high school again left for Astrakhan, where he entered a ship repair vocational school.
In the USSR Navy since 1967: cadet of the chemical faculty of the Caspian Higher Naval School named after S. M. Kirov in Baku. He graduated from college in 1972. He served in the Caspian Naval Flotilla since 1972 as a senior assistant commander, and since 1973 as a commander of a large fire boat. Distinguished himself in extinguishing a large fire in the Baku oil fields, for which he was awarded the medal "For courage in a fire."
In the KGB of the USSR Since 1975 - in the counterintelligence bodies of the USSR State Security Committee for Navy... Graduated in 1976 High school KGB of the USSR in Novosibirsk with the rank of lieutenant commander, sent to a special department of the KGB at the S.M. Kirov Caspian Naval School, where he conducted operational work at the faculty of foreign students. In 1979 he became the head of the special department of the KGB at this school.
1985 - 1992 - Head of the Special Department of the KGB of the Caspian Naval Flotilla. Distinguished in activities to ensure the safety of the flotilla in the context of aggravated interethnic relations in the Transcaucasus and interethnic clashes, numerous armed attempts to seize weapons and military property of the flotilla. One of the leading participants in the operation to withdraw the Caspian Flotilla and the Caspian Naval School from Baku to Astrakhan.
In the state security agencies of Russia Since 1993 - Head of the Special Department of the Federal Grid Company of Russia of the Novorossiysk Naval Base, at the same time he was awarded the title of Captain of the 1st Rank. Since 1994 - Head of the Pacific Fleet Directorate of the Federal Counterintelligence Service of the Russian Federation. In this position, one of the initiators of criminal proceedings against journalist G. Pasko for espionage.
Since 1998 - in the central apparatus of the FSB of the Russian Federation, First Deputy Head of the Directorate of Military Counterintelligence of the FSB of the Russian Federation, headed the counterintelligence bodies in the Navy. In 1999 - the first deputy head of the 2nd Department of the FSB (protection of the constitutional order and the fight against terrorism), in November of the same year he became the head of this Department - deputy director of the FSB. The Center was subordinate to him. special purpose FSB of the Russian Federation, which included the groups "Alfa" and "Vympel". With the direct participation of Ugryumov, special measures were developed and carried out as part of the counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus region, as a result of which many leaders and active members of the bandit formations were neutralized. His name is associated, for example, with the bloodless capture of Gudermes in December 1999, the capture of Salman Raduev in March 2000, and the release of hostages in the village of Lazarevskoye near Sochi in November 2000.
On January 21, 2001, Vice Admiral Ugryumov, simultaneously with his earlier position, was approved as the head of the Regional Operational Headquarters in the North Caucasus. According to a number of publications in the media, on May 30, 2001, he was awarded military rank admiral.
The next day, May 31, Admiral Ugryumov died of a heart attack in his office on the territory of the headquarters of the Russian military group in the village of Khankala, Chechen Republic. According to media reports, the autopsy revealed traces of 7 microinfarctions. He was buried in Moscow at the Troekurovsky cemetery.
Awards Hero of the Russian Federation (the title was awarded by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of December 20, 2000 for courage and heroism shown in the performance of military duty) Order of the Badge of Honor Order of Military Merit, Medals, including those for courage in the fire, Badge "Honorary Counterintelligence Officer" (1997), Badge "For Service in Counterintelligence" III and II degrees. Memory By order of the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy battleship The Caspian flotilla - the BT-244 base minesweeper was named German Ugryumov. In the city of Astrakhan, streets and squares bear his name, in Astrakhan on September 14, 2006, a monument was unveiled. A bas-relief monument has been erected in Novorossiysk. Streets in Vladivostok, Grozny, Novorossiysk Notes A street in Grozny is named after Admiral German Ugryumov))