Razumovsky Dmitry Aleksandrovich - head of the department of Directorate "B" ("Vympel") of the Special Purpose Center of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, lieutenant colonel.
Born on March 16, 1968 in Ulyanovsk. Russian. After graduating from secondary school No. 1 in the city of Ulyanovsk, he tried to enter a military school, but did not pass the competition. For a year he worked as a laboratory assistant at the Ulyanovsk Higher Military Command School of Communications.
Since 1986 - in the Armed Forces of the USSR. Graduated from the Moscow Higher Command Border School in 1990. Upon completion, he was assigned for further service to the Central Asian Border District, deputy head of the border post. Since 1991, he took part in hostilities on the Tajik-Afghan border. He was deputy commander and later commander of the air assault maneuver group of the Moscow border detachment. Participant in many military operations. Under his command, the group inflicted heavy losses on gangs and groups of drug dealers - in one of the ambushes, a shipment of hundreds of kilograms of heroin was captured. The bandits promised tens of thousands of dollars for the officer's head. In one of the battles he received a severe concussion. He was forced to resign from the military in 1994 after publishing his letter in a number of central newspapers about facts of corruption among the command and senseless death due to the fault of senior commanders of Russian border guards and military personnel in Tajikistan.
Served in the special forces of the Airborne Forces. In October 1996, as a combat officer and master of sports in hand-to-hand combat, he was invited to serve in the state security agencies of the Russian Federation. He served as part of the legendary Directorate "B", better known as the Vympel group.
He took part in hostilities during the first and second Chechen wars, in repelling the invasion of Chechen militants into Dagestan in 1999. At the head of the group, he conducted several successful raids on the rear of Chechen militants, destroying their bases, warehouses, and field commanders. In October 2002, he took part in the storming of the building of the theater center on Dubrovka in Moscow (Nord-Ost), seized by terrorists.
Together with the Vympel group, he immediately arrived in the city of Beslan in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, where on September 1, 2004, a group of 32 terrorists captured over a thousand children and adults in school building No. 1.
When, on the third day of this barbaric action, explosions occurred at the school, causing a fire and the collapse of part of the walls through which the hostages began to scatter, the head of the assault group received an order to spontaneously storm the building. Even on the approaches to the school building, under enemy fire, Razumovsky identified and destroyed two terrorists who were shooting fleeing hostages in the back.
Then he broke into the school building. Fighting his way through the premises, he discovered a terrorist firing point and was the first to break into the room where it was located. He diverted the attention of the bandits to himself and died a brave death in this battle. Through his actions, he ensured the destruction of all the bandits who were in the room by the fighters of his group who followed him.
For the courage and heroism shown during the performance of a special task, by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of September 6, 2004, Lieutenant Colonel Dmitry Aleksandrovich Razumovsky was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation.
He was awarded the orders "For Personal Courage", "For Military Merit", many medals, including "For Courage", medals of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" 1st and 2nd class with swords.
He was buried at the Nikolo-Arkhangelsk Cemetery of the Hero City of Moscow.
In Ulyanovsk, a monument was erected to the Hero, and a memorial plaque was installed on the building of gymnasium No. 1.
“To die in battle is happiness”
Dmitry Razumovsky is one of the ten special forces of the Vympel detachment who died in Beslan. Section commander, lieutenant colonel, holder of six military awards. For his feat in freeing hostages - mostly children and women captured by a group of non-humans in Beslan school No. 1 - he was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of Russia.
Dmitry Razumovsky is an amazing person. When you listen to people who knew him closely - his wife (it’s so difficult to call Erica a widow), father and mother, colleagues and classmates - you get the impression of extraordinary integrity, an alloy of the highest human values: patriotism, love for family, loyalty in friendship. There is no point in rewriting their words: it is better to present the stories about Dmitry as they are.
“He died almost immediately. Two bullets pierced the chest and apparently hit an artery. If it were just a lung, even right through, they would live with it... Before his death, Dmitry managed to say: “It struck... Pull it out...” And pointed to the school.”
Maxim, a fighter from the Vympel squad, commanded by Dmitry:
The algorithm for such operations is developed in advance, and only refined on site, taking into account specific features. There was no exactly the same building on which the details could be worked out - we had to find something similar. They determined what kind of brick the school was built from, what glass was in the gym, and began to prepare for the operation. While doing this, we were caught by the order to storm - this is when the bandits started shooting the fleeing women and children in the back... We had to go on the assault straight from the bus.
There were 9 of us on our side of the building. We concentrated before the attack behind some shed. The territory was very tightly targeted by the militants - I later looked at the corner of this shed: it was just crumbling, riddled with bullets.
We had to run about 60 meters across open ground. It was impossible to get closer to the armored personnel carrier: the terrorists mined not only the entrances and the school building, but also the approaches to it. The sectors were distributed: I was responsible for “my” two windows and controlled my comrades on the left and right, and they controlled me. Dmitry walked next to me - he received commands from headquarters. He died in the attack...
Erica, Dmitry's wife:
We had several videotapes that he watched over and over again. One of the films is the same one: “State Border”. Back then, boys were brought up on such films... But he himself wanted to go to Tajikistan - he graduated from college well, and he had the right to choose.
Igor Anishchenko, Dmitry’s colleague in the Moscow border detachment (Tajikistan):
Dmitry came to our squad in 1991. He passed through a bright streak in the lives of each of us. This man was a fire, a torch of some kind, constantly burning for justice. He was born a soldier and died one. Served as deputy head of the outpost, chief, and leader of the airborne assault maneuver group (ASMG).
He was our hand-to-hand combat instructor. Demanding - he “didn’t get off” with the soldiers. Constantly either in the sports town with them or on the tatami... In a peaceful situation such a commander is tolerated, but in a combat situation they are adored. Such a commander is called “Batya” in the army environment.
The situation was difficult: if at the very beginning of the 90s there were isolated violations of the state border, isolated cases of smuggling and drug trafficking, then in 1993 there was already talk of an armed invasion. The civil war began. Robberies, rapes, thefts of women for resale became common... Refugee camps appeared. We reported to headquarters the number of mine and shell explosions in the outpost area: today 120, yesterday 60...
Alexey Olenev, Dmitry’s colleague in the Moscow border detachment:
Our detachment's section of the border was about 200 kilometers. It is covered by 16 outposts. And DShMG - a plug for every barrel. Where the border was broken through, where the fighting began, a group of 15–20 people boarded helicopters and went there.
Valentina Alexandrovna, Dmitry's mother:
We constantly asked him - why are you standing there? You don’t understand, he answered: as soon as we leave, all this drugs will move from there to Russia. That’s what happened later... They fought hard. Dima told me: when they go on a mission, they will definitely fall into an ambush. He didn’t rule out betrayal either - he just didn’t know where. And he wrote an article in Komsomolskaya Pravda: “The Kremlin forbids me to take revenge for my dead comrades, but I do not follow the order” - he did not have such a phrase, that’s what the editors called the article. But in essence it was true.
He wrote an article when we were on vacation in Ulyanovsk. I learned from television news that his guys from the border detachment were killed - it was August 18, 1994, 6 or 7 people. And he poured out his pain in the article.
Alexander Alekseevich, Dmitry’s father, civil engineer:
When Dima was watching this program, I was in the next room. And suddenly I heard a wild roar - the roar of a wounded animal. "What's happened?" - “I have to go back there, my comrades died, I’m leaving now.”
He, he said, had three sacred things: parents, family and friendship. When he returned from Tajikistan, he brought with him a parachute from a signal flare. On it, his colleagues wrote: “Commander, thank you for saving their sons for our mothers.”
After this article was published, he had to resign - persecution began, they even wanted to give him an officer's court of honor. But his colleagues - the heads of the border posts of the Moscow border detachment - threatened: if you try to bring Dima to justice, we will open the border.
In Tajikistan, he began writing a book, mostly autobiographical. The manuscript has been preserved.
From the manuscript of Dmitry's book:
“Lieutenant Kuznetsov was on his way to his first duty station. He was happy because he managed to get assigned to the airborne assault maneuver group - DS, as the border guards called it for short... The unit was combat, and this especially pleased Dmitry. After all, what young officer does not dream of being in a place where bullets whistle, mines howl and he shows miracles of courage and valor. Romance boiled in him like iron in a smelting furnace.”
Andrey Zvyagintsev, Dmitry’s colleague in the Moscow border detachment:
When Dmitry retired from the border troops, he joined the special forces of the Airborne Forces. Then he left the Airborne Forces. No special forces suited him - only Alpha or Vympel could satisfy his high demands on himself. And he suited them - in terms of business, professional, and moral qualities. Several stars converged at one point...
Igor Kogun, Dmitry’s former colleague at Vympel:
Dima has already become famous in Tajikistan. The Basmachi promised a reward of $300 thousand for his head.
Alexey Olenev:
Many did not understand him. His age and length of service allowed him to retire. There was already a family, a child was born. But how could he, a professional, leave? There is so much more menial work, so much disgrace... Each lieutenant comes to the troops with some kind of youthful fervor. For one person this fuse goes away after a year, for another - after two or three. This fuse never went away for him.
Valentina Alexandrovna:
He already had a wife and son by then. He met Erica as he could not say goodbye to his deceased close friend, commander of the 12th outpost Misha Mayboroda. Dima then, in July 1993, was in the hospital. And as soon as he left, he went to Alma-Ata, where Misha was from.
That's where we met - I lived next to Misha. And after 4 days we decided to get married... We got married in Alma-Ata, and then - so that none of our relatives would be offended - we got married in Ulyanovsk. It was my idea. Dima was baptized, but not a believer—he didn’t even know how to be baptized—but he didn’t mind. They signed on October 23, got married on the 29th, and left for Tajikistan on November 1.
He made all decisions this way - quickly and finally. And I always agreed with him. I knew he was always right. Maybe sometimes he was too categorical, then changed his point of view, but - himself. No one could convince him.
The evening before the battle, he told a friend: you know, I’ll probably die. Usually, when he and the boys were faced with a combat mission, if someone had a bad feeling or confusion, he did not take them with him. And he himself could not help but go.
He went on vacation on August 16 and was planning to go to his parents in Ulyanovsk. At first he wanted the 30th, then he said: “Misha will go to school, and I’ll go...” And in the morning he was called to work. He left, I turned on the TV and found out everything.
Valentina Alexandrovna:
He didn't tell us anything either. He generally cared about us a lot. If something is broadcast on TV about some incident in Chechnya or another hot spot, he immediately calls: “Mom, dad, don’t worry, I’m fine.” Only when they reported from Beslan that a special forces officer had saved two girls, my heart skipped a beat and I ran to call: “Erika, where is he?” - "I don't know". And then I realized that he was there. She says - he called, everything is fine, “we are intensified,” she says...
Alexander Alekseevich:
We were waiting for his arrival. I went to the plot and picked some apples. And at midnight the head of the regional FSB department came to our house and said that Dmitry had died.
Valentina Alexandrovna:
We were always worried about him. My father, like a man, kept quiet more, and I expressed my concern to Dima. He answered me: “Mom, what’s special? After all, dying in battle is happiness. If you asked me, I would really want to die. And don't cry for me if this happens. After all, you are crying for yourself - you should stay. But life doesn’t end, it just transforms into a different quality.” In this sense, he followed Eastern philosophy. And so he was a completely atheist.
He told me: you and I don’t talk about religion. He had his own faith, as he said: family, friends and parents. True, lately he has become less categorical...
Olga Bulatova, Dmitry’s classmate:
We studied together since 7th grade. At school, Dima was not very sociable, and when he entered the border school, we began to correspond and meet during his visits to Ulyanovsk. We were bound by pure and faithful friendship.
We often talked about fate. Even in the first years of his service, he mentioned one prediction made to him: everything in his life will depend on his hands - fate will not interfere in his life. “It made me feel so good,” he said, “everything I have depends on me.”
But then his idea of fate changed. Returning from “hot spots,” he said that sometimes accidents that did not depend on his will saved his life. One day he and the soldiers found themselves on the defensive in a small house - they were preparing to repel an assault and stood at the door. And suddenly a rat ran by, and one of the fighters screamed. This made everyone recoil from the door, and it was at that moment that it was blown out by an explosion. If they had remained where they were, they would probably have died.
And during our last meeting, he said that he understood that everything in his life depends on fate: “For 15 years, fate has saved me and my fighters - one had a superficial wound, another had a tooth chipped off - that’s all.” I tell him - probably because your mother is praying for you. No, he says, they pray for everyone - for our enemies, including, perhaps even more frantically than for us - but not everyone survives: “No, this is fate. How much longer will she take care of me?..”
At our last meeting, he told me: “You know, I accepted a simple truth for myself: the result of life should be death. I am not afraid of death - and it retreats from me.”
After that article and dismissal, he became disappointed. He lost a lot of friends there. But I still dreamed about “Alpha”. But they only took me there with Moscow registration. And he was advised: first serve in Ulyanovsk (in the special forces of the Airborne Forces). And in 1996 he was invited to Vympel - he was known from Tajikistan - and he gladly went.
You went into battle as part of a mixed unit - but you were pulled out of vacation. Maybe if you “worked” with the usual composition, something would have turned out differently? - I don’t think so. We all have high coherence, including with Alpha. "Alpha" worked on the first floor, and we, "Vympel", on the second. Then a lot of things got mixed up in the building, but we still worked in “our” departments, trying not to interfere with each other. We know almost everyone, we are all comrades. This is where we have competition at competitions: we need to “make” “ashek”, but they are trying to “make” us. And during the operation, although we act as different teams, we act as one. The tactics are the same, the training is the same...
Igor Kogun:
We met him eight years ago. We already served together, but in different departments. I crashed into his car in the parking lot. The service counted 12 thousand rubles. At that time we received 1200–1500 rubles, I don’t remember exactly. Well, I say, it’s my fault, I’ll pay. And he tells me - I don’t take it from my own money.
Then he came to us as a squad commander. And a year ago, when I had already decided to quit, he helped me a lot with my work. The kind of person who managed to be in exactly the place and at the moment when help was needed from him. And he solved his problems himself, trying to disturb others as little as possible. Although he had enough problems.
His attitude to life, death, and duty was like in “The Last Samurai.” Friend means friend, enemy - so until the end. No compromises.
He had regular business trips. He didn’t say where, he simply said: “I’m leaving, I’ll come back then.” For training or a combat mission - I didn’t even ask, but I felt everything perfectly. He was definitely not at home for six months this year. He had training in different places: in the mountains, and diving exercises. He worked constantly, even on vacation. For several years now they have been going to train in the Elbrus region. In June, I went there with him for training - they allowed me to take our wives, because we are very little together. For the second time in 11 years, he and I went somewhere together. The bosses agreed, “to reduce the number of divorces, go together.” After all, divorces happen - “I’m tired of waiting, worrying, either finish your activities or get a divorce.” Some finished serving, some got divorced.
Have you ever had such a thought?
Never. It was he who rashly wrote his resignation letter a couple of times. He comes and tells. I say to myself: thank God. And he asks me: well, should I give it to management? I say - I won’t say, you have to make this decision yourself. If you give me your report, I will be very glad. If you don't give it back, I won't say anything against it. He was surprised: when will you start demanding that I leave?! But I understood that this was his job, his life - he couldn’t live without it. Even when I got married, I knew what kind of person he was and what awaited me. And she didn’t hesitate for a minute. Now, if only you could go on business trips with him...
Valentina Alexandrovna:
It was I who tried to influence him through her so that he would leave. And she is my mother, I won’t say that. We should be proud of him. They are such guys. Do you know what the guys call her? "My man."
Alexander Alekseevich:
Their friendship is not like that of civilians. Because always in battle, it makes people so drunk that civilians cannot understand it.
He had good friends - they helped me rent an apartment in Moscow, they helped me with money... Then someone left and offered to live in the vacant apartment. That's how we still live - with his friends. But this was never a sore subject - we were not afraid to be left without a corner.
Olga Bulatova:
He was absolutely tough towards his enemies. I think he forbade himself to seek sympathy for them. While studying at the border guard school, he once saw a guy on the street with a swastika bandage on his sleeve and beat him up. “My grandfathers fought with the Nazis,” Dima later said, “we lost so many people in the war, but this one - does he understand what he got into?”
Igor Kogun:
He rarely came home before 10–11 pm. Got up at 5 am. An hour and a half of mandatory stretching and loading. Then I went to work - and there were already training sessions and classes in my specialty. His classes were terribly difficult. It is very rare when a commander demands from his subordinates what he himself can do perfectly. Another shows the rise with a flip “on his fingers,” and Dmitry does it himself. Our standards are strict. It’s not enough to be in good physical shape, you also need to be mentally prepared.
I'll tell you about one episode. We landed in the winter of 2000 in the Itum-Kalinsky region of Chechnya together with an airborne assault regiment. Altitude 3 thousand, snow, cold, wind. The group was commanded by one general - then, according to our report, he was removed. He made an agreement with the field commanders: I won’t touch you and you don’t touch me. We didn’t know about this, and even if we had known, we wouldn’t have listened.
We went out to the road. Columns of militants moved along it every night: they were transporting ammunition. It was impossible to reach this road from ATGMs; from mortars, it was difficult to aim due to the steep slopes. Well, we decided to mine it. The three of us went - Dmitry, me and another friend of ours. We descended easily - the elevation difference there was about 1000 m. We went out onto the road, and “darlings” noticed us from the neighboring hill. They aimed a mortar and started firing at us. This was my first combat encounter. At first I didn’t even understand: first there was a gap about a hundred meters behind, then in front - about 50 meters. Dmitry immediately saw through it - back in Tajikistan: he said we were caught in a “fork”, we had to run. And so we ran along this road for a kilometer and a half with mines - we took large mines, anti-personnel mines, 12 kg each, plus a full 25 kg of ammunition. Our guys couldn't cover us: the top was in the way. Well, they mined the road, left, and somehow got up. We were so tired that our legs were cramping. And at night there the convoy was blown up - two lead vehicles - by our mines. They were afraid to go any further. And in the morning the helicopters arrived and shot the rest. About 24 militants were killed there. When they were able to approach us two weeks later, they found five Igla MANPADS scattered by the explosion. For this operation he received the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, second degree.
The next morning we went to an ambush. Dimka saved me there. The ambush was successful and 4 cars were set on fire. But we didn’t notice that “spirits” came out onto the hill opposite and started shooting at us. And we were in white camouflage suits, because we were descending from above, from the snow, and when it began to get light, we could be seen like flies on glass. We started throwing them off. I undress and hear: Whack-Whack. Dima pushed me and said: what are you doing, idiot, undressing on your knees, you should at least lie down and tear it on yourself. It’s a pity - when they bring new ones... And when we made our way, he was transformed - he became like an animal. Running, zigzags, somersaults... Beautiful. I ran after him, was angry with him and at the same time admired him. He was a man of war - I would not want to meet him either in the ring or in battle.
I owe him an enormous debt. Whatever I touch, he has a hand in everything. He was fair. Take the awards, for example. It’s the same with us: an officer is entitled to a higher reward than a warrant officer, even if he has done more. In the first Chechen campaign, it happened - I went on a business trip, which means they drilled a hole. And in the second they tried the same. But he advocated a different approach. “I,” he says, “are writing a proposal for an award for you, for you and for you. But I’m not writing about you. Do you want to ask why? And if a person had the nerve to ask...
So he didn't work with him anymore?
Have worked. But if Dima didn’t trust someone, then he didn’t take them with him.
On the ninth anniversary of the Beslan tragedy and the death of Dmitry Razumovsky, we invite you to remember once again what kind of person he was. The article was first published in the spring issue of Monomakh magazine
Heroes are not born, heroes are made. These winged words reflect the short but bright life of the Hero of Russia, our fellow countryman, Lieutenant Colonel of the Federal Security Service Dmitry Aleksandrovich Razumovsky. His life was cut short by a terrorist's bullet on September 3, 2004, when he was in full bloom. An encryption message from Moscow about the tragic death of 36-year-old Dmitry came to our Department late in the evening, but the deputy head of the FSB, Colonel A.I. Tronin immediately decided to meet with Dmitry’s parents and tell them the sad news.
Many articles have been written about the heroic exploits of Dmitry Razumovsky, two films “The Last Business Trip” and “Quiet Outpost” have been created, memories of his relatives, friends, colleagues and employees of the Federal Security Service of Russia in the Ulyanovsk region have been recorded, there are materials about him in the museums of Gymnasium No. 1 and Pedagogical College No. 4 Ulyanovsk.
On March 16, 2013, this brave warrior from the elite FSB unit “Vympel” would have turned 45 years old.
Dima was born in Ulyanovsk in 1968. He began his studies at school No. 9, then continued at gymnasium No. 1 named after. IN AND. Lenin, then known throughout the Soviet Union. At school he was an excellent student, an activist, and an athlete. Having dreamed of becoming a military man since childhood, Dima took sports seriously and excelled in boxing, becoming the champion among USSR youths. And this was very useful to him when he became a special forces officer. The film “State Border” helped him finally choose a military profession, which, according to his mother Valentina Alexandrovna and wife Erica, he especially loved.
Border service
In 1986, Dmitry entered the Moscow Border School. Then he dreamed of a promising and in some ways even romantic service on the border. Cadet Razumovsky, strong-willed and intolerant of injustice and hypocrisy, enjoyed authority among his fellow students for his ability to defend his point of view and his strong character. But among the officers he was considered an “inconvenient cadet.”
While studying at the border guard school, he once saw a guy on the street with a swastika on his sleeve. The “discussion” ended in a fight and the defeat of this “fashionist.” “My grandfathers fought with the Nazis,” Dima later said. —
We lost so many people in the war, but this one - does he understand what he’s got himself into?” “I think he forbade himself to seek sympathy for such persons,” recalls Dmitry’s classmate at school Olga Bulatova.
Dima saw one goal in his studies - to best prepare himself for officer service. In those years, there was a war in Afghanistan, and Dmitry prepared himself to go to one of the “hot spots”, practiced hand-to-hand combat, and tried to master all military sciences to perfection. He had a thirst for knowledge and wanted to get more and more of it. He paid a lot of attention to both practice and theory, and read constantly.
In 1990, cadet Razumovsky graduated from the border school (now the Moscow Border Institute of the FSB of Russia) with good and excellent grades and had the right to choose his place of service.
Dmitry chose the most troubled region of the Union - Tajikistan. Although the war in Afghanistan had officially ended for Soviet troops, clashes with dushmans on the border still continued. Lieutenant Razumovsky began his service as deputy head of the outpost of the Pyanj border detachment, and continued as the head of the airborne assault maneuver group of the Moscow border detachment. It so happened that from the first days of his stay in Tajikistan he was given to understand that the region here was very turbulent. One day a young lieutenant went to the local market to buy groceries. And there they tried to kidnap him. Obviously, ill-wishers hoped that the inexperienced officer would become an easy prey. However, they were very wrong. Dima alone dealt with three attackers, and the rest were afraid to contact him. This incident played a big role in his life. He was once again convinced that it is necessary to constantly be on the alert. Local residents gained respect for this man in camouflage, who single-handedly dealt with several strong men. It must be said that while still a cadet at the border school, Dmitry somehow dealt with five hooligans! Soon the dushmans also learned about Dima. From his first operations, he began to return with impressive results. If his group went out to search, then it would definitely find either a caravan of drug dealers or a group of “dushmans” and engage in battle with the bandits. In one of the ambushes, Razumovsky’s group captured a shipment of hundreds of kilograms of heroin. The bandits promised 300 thousand dollars for the officer's head. Service in the DShMG brought the young officer's expectations to life. After all, in fact, it was border special forces that performed the most difficult tasks.
“A 200-kilometer section of the border,” says Alexey Olenev, “was covered by 16 outposts and DShMG. Where the border was broken through, where the fighting began, Razumovsky’s group of 15-20 people boarded helicopters and went there.
In 1993, the “spirits” began to walk here as if at home. A civil war began in Tajikistan, people began to kidnap and rob the local population more and more often. Border outposts came under fire almost every day. And not only from small arms, but also from mortars.”
DShMG worked tirelessly. Almost every day there are clashes, caravans, endless flows of weapons and drugs. Dmitry's group acted as a single unit. Everyone knew: if Razumovsky goes to the mountains, he will definitely complete his task and will not lose a single fighter. Some attributed this to luck, and those who knew Razumovsky closely knew that these results were the fruits of his great work. After all, combat work is not so much the direct execution of a task, but to a greater extent its planning, competent management of the course of combat. Dima spent nights all night calculating various situations when fighting as a group, and, in fact, he had a way out of any trouble. If the dushmans heard from interceptions that “203rd” (Dima’s call sign) was working, they tried to hide.
One day, 18 border guards led by Razumovsky were surrounded by two hundred dushmans with the goal of destroying “203rd”. The battle went on for 11 hours, the outpost could not help its comrades, since all approaches were shot at by mortars. Only the mortar battery helped - it “pounded” the positions of the bandits according to a tip carried out by the commander himself. It would seem that the group had no chance, but it escaped the encirclement and, moreover, did not lose a single person, and the Mujahideen were missing 24. During the entire time that Dmitry Razumovsky served in Tajikistan, he did not lose a single subordinate. Although many of his comrades died at the outposts.
And the dushmans acted more and more boldly. Early in the morning of July 13, 1993, the 12th outpost of the Moscow border detachment was attacked by about three hundred bandits. The border guards were surrounded, and heavy fire was fired at them from all types of weapons. The border outpost, staffed by only 80% of personnel and reinforced by one infantry fighting vehicle crew from the 149th motorized rifle regiment of the 201st division, was unable to withstand such an enemy onslaught.
The outpost fought until the cartridges and grenades ran out. When it became clear that there was nowhere to expect help in the near future, and remaining at the outpost was tantamount to inevitable death, they began to break through to the rear.
During that battle, 25 people died at the outpost; wounded and shell-shocked border guards managed to escape from the encirclement. For Dmitry, this became a great personal tragedy: he knew almost all the victims personally, and the head of the outpost, Mikhail Mayboroda, was his close friend. Most of all, Razumovsky was irritated by the indecisiveness and inaction of the higher command.
A year later, history practically repeated itself. A daring attack was again made on the 12th outpost, this time seven border guards were killed. At that moment, Dmitry was on vacation in his native Ulyanovsk, and learned about the news from the border on TV. He knew that he had to do something to protect his comrades from death, to avenge the dead. And then he decided to write to the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper. In a letter
everything that had become painful during the four years of service in Tajikistan was outlined. Dmitry worried about his comrades who died through no fault of their own.
Upon returning from vacation, Captain Razumovsky again joined the fight against the Mujahideen. In one of the battles he received a severe concussion. Because of the article written by journalists based on his letter to Komsomolskaya Pravda, his relationship with the leadership of the border detachment became complicated, and Dmitry made a difficult decision for him - to resign from military service and return to his native Ulyanovsk.
"Pennant"
After four years of service on the Tajik-Afghan border, a quiet civilian life turned out to be a burden for Dmitry. Time passed in painful thoughts and worries. Razumovsky understood that he could not remain inactive. He went to Moscow and tried to get into the famous Alpha, but the attempt was unsuccessful. But he was accepted into the special forces of the airborne troops. In 1996, on the recommendation of the leadership of the FSB of Russia in the Ulyanovsk region, Razumovsky as a combat officer, a hand-to-hand combat master, was accepted into service in the elite special forces unit of the FSB "Vympel" (Department "B").
His combat experience interested this FSB service. All of Razumovsky’s work was carefully studied, and methodological recommendations were issued on their basis. And then Dmitry worked a lot to create teaching aids. Usually, when returning from business trips, military personnel try to rest more, and the restless major drew diagrams and studied specialized literature. He infected everyone else with his energy and ideas. Gradually, a coherent, combat-ready team formed in his department, and this yielded results - during all the business trips, not a single one of Razumovsky’s subordinates died. Dmitry was quickly noticed at the top as a person capable of not only fighting well, but also generalizing experience and giving specific recommendations. However, he refused tempting offers and believed that he was in the right place.
Dmitry Razumovsky - participant in the first and second wars in the North Caucasus. Participated in repelling the invasion of Chechen militants in Dagestan in 1999. At the head of the group, he conducted several successful raids on the rear of Chechen militants, destroying their bases, warehouses, and field commanders. In the winter of 2000 D.A. Razumovsky, as part of a special forces unit, together with an airborne assault regiment, fought in the Itum-Kalinsky region of Chechnya. For the successful operation to destroy ammunition columns, he was awarded the medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree.
Igor Kogun, Dmitry’s colleague, said in an interview: “We landed in the winter of 2000 in the Itum-Kalinsky region of Chechnya together with an airborne assault regiment. Altitude 3 thousand, snow, cold, wind.
We went out to the road. Columns of militants moved along it every night: they were transporting ammunition. It was impossible to reach this road from ATGMs; from mortars, it was difficult to aim due to the steep slopes. Well, we decided to mine it. The three of us went - Dmitry, me and another friend of ours. We descended easily - the elevation difference there was about 1000 m. We went out onto the road, and “darlings” noticed us from the neighboring hill. They aimed a mortar and started firing at us.
And so we ran along this road for a kilometer and a half with mines weighing 12 kilograms plus a full 25 kg of ammunition. But the road was mined, they left, and somehow got up. We were so tired that our legs were cramping. And at night there the convoy was blown up - two lead vehicles - by our mines. They were afraid to go any further. And in the morning the helicopters arrived and shot the rest. About 24 militants were killed there. When they were able to approach us two weeks later, they found five Igla MANPADS scattered by the explosion. For this operation he received the medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, second degree.”
This is how Kogun characterized Razumovsky: “He rarely came home before 10-11 o’clock in the evening. Got up at 5 am. An hour and a half of mandatory stretching and loading. Then I went to work - and there were already training sessions and classes in my specialty. His classes were terribly difficult. It is very rare when a commander demands from his subordinates what he himself can do perfectly. Another shows the rise with a flip “on his fingers,” and Dmitry does it himself. Our standards are strict. It’s not enough to be in good physical shape, you also need to be mentally prepared.”
Igor Anishchenko, Dmitry’s colleague in the Moscow border detachment, remembers his boss with great warmth: “Dmitry came to our detachment in 1991. He passed through a bright streak in the lives of each of us. This man was a fire, some kind of torch, constantly burning for justice. He was born a soldier and died as one... He was our instructor in hand-to-hand combat. Demanding - he “didn’t get off” with the soldiers. Constantly either in the sports town with them or on the tatami... In a peaceful situation such a commander is tolerated, but in a combat situation they are adored. Such a commander is called “Batya” in the army environment.
Only his superiors know how many Vympel combat operations in the North Caucasus directly involved Lieutenant Colonel Razumovsky. But we all know for sure that his last battle with Chechen militants was in Beslan during the liberation of hostages at school No. 1.
“To die in battle is happiness”
The tragedy began on September 1, 2004, when a group of 32 terrorists seized a school in the city of Beslan (Republic of North Ossetia-Alania). 1,128 people were taken hostage (mostly children, as well as their parents and school staff). On the same day D.A. Razumovsky, together with the Vympel group, arrived in Beslan and immediately became involved in studying the situation and preparing the operation. After explosions occurred at the school on the third day, causing a fire and the collapse of part of the walls through which the hostages began to scatter, D.A. Razumovsky, at the head of the assault group, received an order to storm the building. Even on the approaches to the school building, under enemy fire, he identified and destroyed two terrorists who were shooting fleeing hostages in the back. He and his group ensured that the hostages left the school building. During the attack, it was necessary to destroy the sniper-bandit points on the top floor and move from one shelter to another. A hail of bullets and a barrage of machine gun fire rained down on the fighters. The commander walked ahead. One of the bullets, hitting above the body armor, inflicted a mortal wound on Dmitry. He only managed to say: “It’s broken... Pull it out...” and pointed to the school. Dmitry's brother Maxim, who went into the attack next to him. in an interview with journalists he said the following: “The algorithm for such operations is developed in advance, and is only refined on the spot, taking into account specific features. There was no exactly the same building on which to work out the details - we had to find something similar. They determined what kind of brick the school was built from and what glass was used in the gym. and began to prepare for the operation. While doing this, we were caught by the order to storm - this is when the bandits started shooting the fleeing women and children in the back... We had to go for the assault straight from the bus. There were 9 of us on our side of the building. We concentrated before the attack behind some shed. The territory was heavily targeted by militants. I then looked at the corner of this shed: it was just crumbling, riddled with bullets.
We had to run about 60 meters across open ground. It was impossible to get closer to the armored personnel carrier: the terrorists mined not only the entrances and the school building, but also the approaches to it. The sectors were distributed: I was responsible for “my” two windows and controlled my comrades on the left and right, and they controlled me. Dmitry walked next to me - he received commands from headquarters. He died in the attack...”
From what has been said, it is clear that Razumovsky’s group on the first and second days in Beslan, while the Vympel headquarters was negotiating with the terrorists, was working out options for the release of the hostages. But events took an unexpected, dangerous turn. It was necessary to immediately save people, go on the attack on the move, and this led to the death of soldiers and hostages. The bandits became brutal and lost all human form, killing children.
Dmitry loved life and was not afraid of death. He once said: “To die in battle is happiness. Life doesn’t end, it transforms into a different quality.” This was a real person. Dmitry Razumovsky believed that the main thing was the Motherland, honor, friendship and family. And thanks to his parents, who raised a glorious patriotic son.
By decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated September 6, 2004, Lieutenant Colonel Dmitry Aleksandrovich Razumovsky was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation (posthumously) for the courage and heroism shown during the performance of a special task. His relatives were awarded the special distinction of the Hero of the Russian Federation - the Gold Star medal (No. 829).
Dmitry is buried at the Nikolo-Arkhangelskoye cemetery in Moscow.
For military exploits during his service, Lieutenant Colonel Razumovsky was awarded the orders “For Military Merit”, “For Personal Courage”, medals, including the medal of the Order
“For services to the Fatherland” 1st and 2nd degree with swords, medals “For courage”, “For participation in a counter-terrorist operation”.
In honor of the hero in Ulyanovsk, a monument was erected on the most beautiful square of the city, the square named after the 100th anniversary of the birth of V.I. Lenin, as well as memorial plaques on house No. 14 on the street. Liebknecht's map. where Dmitry was born, and in gymnasium No. 1.
I had to participate in events at their opening, at requiem rallies, in competitions dedicated to the memory of the hero, where there were always a lot of young people, students. And this means that Dmitry
will live in the hearts of Ulyanovsk residents. Employees of the Ulyanovsk FSB Directorate are proud of their countryman hero. He is for them a worthy example of service to the Motherland. Dmitry visited the FSB Directorate several times and shared his combat experience.
We, veteran security officers, see that there was, is and will be continuity of generations in the security agencies, and this makes us happy.
Anatoly Likharev,
Chairman of the Council of Veterans of the Federal Security Service of Russia for the Ulyanovsk Region
"Monomakh" No. 2, 2013
Wouldn’t it be more appropriate to write an article for a birthday or the anniversary of the Beslan events and death?
or for FSB Day?
Today is 4.05, Holy Saturday... tomorrow is Easter
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At least today, on the holy holiday of Easter, there is no need to talk about “Orthodox security officers.”
And so they screwed it up.
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In addition to a screaming article in Komsomolskaya Pravda, and dismissal due to complicated relations with management. Dmitry, in his homeland, in the Ulyanovsk Komsomol member, with his characteristic truthfulness and uncompromisingness, gives an interview about those events in Tajikistan in an article entitled “We were forbidden to shoot.” The article was preserved in a newspaper file from those years. This is also his real biography. And the article about this truly courageous man should have been posted on May 28, Border Guard Day, and not on Easter. But in Ulyanovsk, a monument to Kochetkov, a soldier of all the wars of the century before last, is unveiled on May 9, and not on Victory Day near Borodino. In general, thanks to Anatoly Ivanovich Likharev for the article about my fellow countryman.
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The latter is also true, especially for those who laid down their lives for the Fatherland. But it’s not much easier for the survivors (as you would write the combat ones). In civilian life, with their biography, it is often more difficult sometimes than in modern wars. I don’t agree about Likharev; the current Ministry of Culture, if they have the means, could republish his two books about fellow countrymen, published one in 2002 and the other last year. To this day I don’t have one. It's a pity. So, as a matter of principle, I don’t read reading material in paperbacks, which are littered with bookshelves like prison, Special Forces of the GRU, Ministry of Internal Affairs, FSB, Federal Penitentiary Service, etc. It is difficult to classify all this fiction as real literature or an educational subject. But Likharev, on the contrary, does not write tales about dushmans, in the series of books - reading for the road, but he writes about real people - Ulyanovsk residents and events about which they are sometimes silent for 50 years. And about my fellow countrymen not only in my own department (FSB) but also to others, and thanks for that too. After all, where, who and when will they remember these people now? Literary blacks and their bosses, who have put the last two decades into a stream of writing and publishing exciting adventure and nameless mukalatures like little books for the road? As for Dmitry, people like him should be erected a monument during their lifetime, and not sign a report on early dismissal from service. He fulfilled his human and soldier's duty to the end. Not everyone can do this.
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It was on guys like the Razumovskys that Russia kept itself from final collapse in 2000.
Sincere thanks to them. I won't forget this.
Honestly, knowing what is behind the events in Beslan, tears well up in my eyes from emotional distress for this tragedy and the tragedies of those years. But these are the lives of hundreds of children.
Why not write about this before Easter?
Without wanting to be branded a blasphemer, I will say that I never understand why young people, and even older generations, on this holiday consider it possible to drink alcohol while celebrating this holiday. Everyone is somehow tactfully silent about this.
I watched the film “Quiet Outpost” and really liked it. I will watch the film The Last Business Trip in the near future.
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We bow our heads low before the hero, eternal memory to him. after all, he was so young and dreamed of many things in this life. Thank you for the article!
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Thank you so much for the memory! And some commentators are going to Auschwitz for a week (preferably straight to the shower)
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Eternal memory to all those who left on their last business trip...
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Afghanistan did not end for me like it did for everyone else on February 15, 1989; I had to spend a couple more years as deputy head of the operational group of one of the border detachments on the Afghan border to strengthen difficult relations with the neighboring country, which, after the withdrawal of our troops, was bursting with tribal feuds and civil strife. According to intergovernmental agreements, it was specifically necessary to transfer columns (on trucks) through Soviet territory, bypassing areas occupied by the opposition, civilians and food supplied through the UN, to a depth of 80-100 km deep into Afghan territory, as a rule to the nearest Afghan regional centers not controlled by the opposition In the fall of 1991, after the disbandment of the last operational group on the Turkmen section of the border, he arrived for further service in the Tajik section of the Moscow border detachment, where he met fellow countryman Dmitry Razumovsky and his comrades, who were then also seconded for further service in the special forces of the central apparatus FSB of Russia. (* Dmitry’s path was very thorny). The only thing I can say about him is that he was a real soldier, in the highest sense of the word, a defender of his people and his country. Dima did not have to get into group “A” then, “VIMPEL” became his family. As if for him, I, his fellow countryman, then with the rank of lieutenant, by the will of fate, had to take part in certain special events for three years (1984-87) of this group (“Alpha”) on the territory of another state. Many years have passed since then, but the memory preserves everything that has passed. I will transfer everything that is now available and printed (books, photography magazines, etc.) to the Mainsky Museum of Local Lore to my school history teacher and now Ulyanovsk local historian Vladimir Kuzmich Vorobyov. Dmitry Razumovsky, in terms of his position in life and his human qualities in real life, I have no one to compare with. But let his short life serve as an example for those who truly love their Motherland and Fatherland. With respect to fellow countrymen Kalininsky. Thanks to Colonel Anatoly Likharev for the publication.
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Eh, guys, even in this article you manage to call each other names (08:10 a certain brute).
A REAL MAN, A HERO OF RUSSIA LIVED AMONG US! HE IS WORTHY TO BE A LEGEND, HONOR AND DIGNITY, COURAGE AND HEROISM! THANKS TO PARENTS! EVERLASTING MEMORY!
Good article. There’s a lump in my throat.
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It’s a pity that you only learn about people like Dmitry Razumovsky after their death! Nowadays, for some reason, it’s not customary to talk about heroes... It’s more interesting to talk about some creatures from various television projects.
Eternal memory to the hero!
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A low bow to the real soldiers - the living and those who are no longer with us... Thank you very much to those who remember, and to those who want to remember, to everyone who needs it...
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One can only marvel at such a rapid change in the morals and preferences of today's Russians. In fact: for days on end you can fall in love with the topic “how the “Diva” lost weight, what kind of car the next thieving “horseradish from the mountain” drives, who a certain slut from the town of Prolupinsk married for the hundredth time ...it's just excitement. But about the meaning of life, “... about Schiller, about fame, about love...” (as the classic wrote) - here it’s “unscientific.” With such an arrow “on the compass” we will be wandering in the dark for a long time... And where are our writers, why is there no support for the creation of literature about human virtues, honor, conscience? In my soul, let’s say, such vital literary characters as border guard Korobitsyn, Karatsupa - and other people (not only border guards) who managed to make their lives not only a race for pleasure and “money” are still alive... That’s what we should talk about we should all think about it (of course, without enthusiastic and thoughtless nostalgia for the past...)
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As for literature. Do you know what kind of soil the grain will fall into? Using my own example, I will distort the following. I am familiar with the works of many classics. But in my memory there was always a place for one described episode of everyday life on the border. And the book looked so-so, small-format, the kind that are sold out at bus stations on the road, filled with apparently lovingly emotional passions. In the 70s, there were books of this format at outposts, from the border guard’s library series. One episode described in such a book remained in my memory for a long time. Describes the method of transferring the position of head of a border outpost. 70s border. An old major, over fifty kopecks in age, transfers the position to a new chief, a senior lieutenant, a former deputy from a neighboring outpost. A general was supposed to arrive for the transfer of affairs, so the old chief went to great lengths and sent his foreman to the rear of the flock to a familiar shepherd for the sheep and sent another lieutenant fifty kilometers away Slowly he sent from the authorities to the fishermen (the section of the border was land) to meet the general (his peer) in a very dignified manner, not according to the outpost rations. The young deputy. the current new chief knew all about these preparations, since he served at a neighboring outpost. So they had a frank conversation in the bathhouse, after the selection committee had left the outpost. How to live and serve in the old way or in the new way. (Don’t please, but show only business). It was a difficult and frank conversation. The old boss was convinced. Regardless of various violations and tricks, where and servility you will still have to go. This is inevitable. The new young man stood his ground. And so we said goodbye. A couple of days later, the chairman of the border collective farm sent a truck of striped ripe watermelons with melons for the outpost as patronage. When the wife of the head of the outpost asked why they didn’t bring watermelons home to them, after all, they brought a whole car of them, the new chief answered his wife - don’t open your mouth to the soldier’s rations! Thus began his new service as head of the border outpost. The words of his dispute were confirmed by deeds. The episode described by Pyotr Lebedyansky has been remembered for 40 years. And those books were intended specifically for border guard soldiers, young guys, conscripts, who were entrusted with the protection of their country. Lieutenant Colonel Lebedyansky suggested with a literary device not only to me, but apparently to many others, one of the strengthening foundations of life, no worse than Sholokhov or Tolstoy. Let the sighted one see, as they say. And prima donnas and who married whom - this is the very “negative component” that obviously must exist. Although I personally do not agree with this. It is for everyone in our state, as in any other, and of course it cannot be canceled by an order from above. But those who pass through it without getting dirty, and who emerge, will turn out to be a strong person. But the whirlpool of “false real values of life” is so strong and omnipresent that not everyone can overcome it. You correctly emphasized Korobitsin and Karatsup, or Dmitry Razumovsky. For example, only in military school, in my last year, did I learn from a book I bought that my fellow countryman, Hero of the Soviet Union, border guard Vasily Ivanovich Matronin, who died in 1944 at the front, colonel, was born and lived in my village. Its fate was studied in most detail by local historian V. Vorobiev. It was with this book that I came to the distribution commission and ended up serving in the Karakum Sands. This is literature, for some it is just reading, for others it is fate. And my heart was relieved when warrant officer Sergei Vasilyev, a native of neighboring Chuvashia, arrived at my outpost for further service. Where did you serve before, I asked? In the Far Eastern Border District, and the outpost named after Hero of the Soviet Union, Colonel Vasily Matronin, there was a response. It’s good that they remembered Dmitry today. A huge wish for strength and health to his parents. To my wife Erica and her children. And son Misha will apparently also become a defender of the Motherland, like his already legendary father. Our fellow countryman with you.
“You are forever in the very heart of Beslan - the guys who covered the children with your heart.” This is the inscription on the monument to special forces soldiers in . The terrorists covered themselves with a “human shield” of children and women. The members of the assault group had to sacrifice themselves to save the hostages. As a result of the operation, ten special forces soldiers were killed. This is an interview with Valentina Aleksandrovna Razumovskaya - the mother of the Hero of Russia Dmitry Aleksandrovich Razumovsky - head of the department of Directorate "B". Dmitry died during the operation to free the hostages on September 3, 2004.
About childhood, books and the dream of youth
Your son has wanted to become a military man since childhood. Where do you think he got such a love for military affairs? And such a desire to be where they shoot, where it’s really hard?
I think this is such a calling. It was his. Firstly, books about war. We read from childhood. When he could not yet speak, his favorite song was “Where the Motherland Begins.” The adults remembered the war very well and went to lay flowers on May 9 at the monument. Our grandfather died at the front. It was a general patriotic education.
- What books has your son read?
His favorite book was The Living and the Dead. He knew “Vasily Terkin” by heart. Fully. "In August '44." There, in one of the episodes, a pendulum swings. And Dima developed his own technique for dodging bullets. And he applied it in his practice when he worked with subordinates. Tennis balls were thrown at a person from close range, and he had to dodge. This was one of the training sessions.
After studying at the Moscow Border School, Dmitry went to the most turbulent region of the Soviet Union - Tajikistan.
He was still calm then. He had the right to choose. And he said: I’m still young, I’ll go to the border. And then he had a dream to get into Alpha. This has been a dream since my youth. And in order to get there, you had to serve somewhere.
About war, “blooming gardens” and maternal prayer
- Has your family’s life changed in any way after you learned that your son would serve in a “hot spot”?
My husband and I were fine with this. There was no military action there then. For a long time we did not know what was really happening there. Dima was very attentive and always reassured us. He said: “Our gardens are blooming here, it’s beautiful here. Don't believe what the newspapers write. I am in a business trip". We didn’t know what “on a business trip” meant. They just thought he was really on a business trip. Just like we go on business trips, civilians. Actually, there are no military people in our family. And we found out by chance. We saw him on TV.
- Did you see your son on Central Television?
I look up and see: my son, overgrown, in camouflage, tells how they just got out of encirclement
My father and I were minding our own business. The TV worked as a background. I look up and see my son on the screen: overgrown, in camouflage. And he tells how they just came out of encirclement in the mountains and took trophies. And that not a single person was lost. That’s when we realized what kind of business trips these were. We sat with our father and cried...
According to recollections, during his service in Tajikistan, almost every day your son’s group took part in military clashes, and the absolute “record” for it was six military clashes per day. And a very important detail: during the entire time that your son served in Tajikistan, he did not lose a single subordinate. There is a saying: a mother’s prayer reaches from the bottom of the sea.
As soon as I found out, I prayed for him all the time. Although she didn’t even know how to be baptized properly, because she was once a Komsomol member. And when I found out that he was fighting there, I felt the need to go to church. I’ll stand in the corner and stand. I'll cry and pray as best I can. My mother was a believer, she always copied the psalm “Alive in Help” for me by hand. And I, remembering my mother, also copied the psalm “Alive in Help” to him. And he wore it... He didn’t offend me, he took it. A handwritten prayer. Yes, I prayed. I think the Lord kept him.
- This is how your coming to faith began.
About heroism and determination
Your son once said: “Heroism and daring are not the same thing at all. You don't have to be very smart to die. Heroism must be meaningful." From a student at the border school, your son became an officer who, according to the recollections of his colleagues, worked constantly, got up at five in the morning, wrote manuals on hand-to-hand combat... How, in your opinion, are such heroes who are ready to give their lives for other people formed?
They were taught to love their homeland. Do you understand? It was considered honorable to serve in the army back then.
You know, I think it was the environment that shaped it. He studied at the school named after V.I. Lenin in the city of Ulyanovsk. Then people from all over the world came to this school. She was the only one in our Union. Patriotic education was very well organized there. There were such teachers there! The teachers are simply from God. Writer Lyudmila Anatolyevna Tolstykh. Historian Valentina Mikhailovna Puchkova. They had a very good military commander. They were taught to love their homeland. Do you understand? It was then considered honorable to serve in the army. And they all strived for this. The girls ran to this military task themselves. With great desire and enthusiasm. The school was very good and the teachers were very good. And what films! "State border". Dima first wanted to become a paratrooper. But he strained his back and was told that he wouldn’t be able to join the airborne forces. And he started boxing. Within a year he became a candidate for master of sports in boxing. And then he said: “I’m going to enter the border school.”
- To Moscow?
To Moscow. He didn't get in the first year. Didn't get one point. He always believed that all this talk, like they help someone in exams and there is some kind of injustice, is nonsense. But here he was faced with obvious injustice. The teacher asked how he knew history so well. Dima replied: “I love history, and the teacher was very good.” And he was given a four - this was the point he was missing. Dima asked: “Why four, if you yourself say that I know history well?” The teacher replied: “Yes, you know the story, but you didn’t answer five.” And when he arrived home, he didn’t talk to anyone for a week. So it was loaded. And then he said: “I will enroll next year.”
- There, to the border school?
There again, yes.
- And I did...
And he did.
About sacrifice, family and army
For all mothers, the time when their sons serve under contract or are sent to “hot spots” is a time of great worry. Did you have any anxiety? How did you overcome them?
There were concerns, of course. That's why I went to the temple. And she prayed. We didn’t know about many things then, because it was kept silent that there was a war there, military operations were taking place. We even went to see him with our youngest son. When Dima was in Pyanj. And a year later there was no stone left of this Pyanj, everything was bombed. But the newspapers didn’t write about it.
Valentina Aleksandrovna, the most difficult question. Not everyone like you comes to church and finds such support. Share your experience of coping with loss.
The Lord took him at the most favorable moment for him: when he gave his life for his friends. And it gives me strength
You know, I think that this is exclusively the help of the Lord! Because, having come to faith, I realized that my son had the opportunity to die unknown: in a car accident, and in the mountains he went alone - he could simply not return from there. But the Lord so decreed that He took him away at the most favorable moment for him. When he gave his life for his friends. And this gives me strength.
- Dmitry was married. What role did family play in his life?
He loved his family very much. Erica was with him in Tajikistan. When hostilities began there, she slept with a pistol and a grenade under her pillow. He was the commander of the air assault group, they secured the entire border. He had to leave home. She never asked him unnecessary questions. When he comes, then he will come: if Dima said so, then he knows. He had a back.
- What could you say to those guys who have yet to join the army?
Dima's eldest son Mikhail returned from the army this year. I was in the army for a year. I usually tell guys who are just growing up: it doesn’t matter who you are: military or not. Every person should have a feeling of patriotism. Wherever you work. We didn’t think about this before: it was necessary - and the children joined the army. Without an army there cannot be a strong state. People must serve in the army.
About his brother Maxim Razumovsky
Western journalists will later name this wounded officer. He will return to school several times with injuries. Beslan, 2004. The soldier has a video camera in his hand. Few people know that he is the brother of Dmitry Razumovsky.
On September 3, 2004, in Beslan, your son commanded an assault group. Already on the approaches to the school, he managed to destroy two terrorists who were shooting fleeing hostages in the back. In that battle, next to him was his brother - your youngest son.
Maxim served in Dima’s unit.
About children's heroism
- 11 years have passed since that tragedy in our country.
This is not only a tragedy for the country - it is, in my opinion, a global tragedy. This is the first time that so many children have been held hostage. And we communicate with everyone who has lost loved ones. Every September 1st we go to and we all spend these days there together. We light the candles.
I will not give a political assessment to this. But for humanity this is the greatest tragedy. It's simply impossible to forget. When you come to the cemetery in the “City of Angels” in Beslan... So many beautiful eyes look at you from the monuments. Goosebumps run across your skin. Do you understand? Kill so many people... Make children suffer. Children performed such heroic miracles. They sometimes behaved more worthy than adults. In this situation! Such a test... We must not forget about this, and we must make every effort to ensure that this does not happen again.
- Do you know examples of how children behaved in that situation?
And these children, what did they suffer for, poor things? And they showed such miracles of courage!..
Yes. Do you know what children did when they were told not to drink? They were allowed to go to the source. Water was flowing from the tap pipe. They wet their shirts and hid them in their bosoms as best they could. They brought it into the hall and squeezed it out for people who needed water... One little girl, having forgotten that she had a brother there, had already jumped out of the window, but remembered him and returned to this hell. And I found my brother. They both remained alive. God bless! You see, this is not only a memory of those who died, but also a tribute to the courage of the people who were there. Namely hostages. Because our guys were doing their duty there. And these children, what did they suffer for, poor things? And they showed such miracles of courage!..
- How to prevent such a nightmare from happening again?
Be vigilant. Again, we need our country to be strong. So that our Orthodox faith is strong. Only with God's help can we overcome this.
The happy days of family life were overshadowed by the unrest happening in the service. Dmitry clearly understood that borders that were not properly protected became a passageway for a huge amount of drugs. He repeatedly reported to his...
The happy days of family life were overshadowed by the unrest happening in the service. Dmitry clearly understood that borders that were not properly protected became a passageway for a huge amount of drugs. He repeatedly reported to his leadership about the need to take urgent measures to strengthen the border territory. But no orders concerning this issue were adopted: in Moscow there was a redistribution of power between President Boris Yeltsin and Ruslanov Khasbulatov, who headed the Supreme Council at that time. The political leadership of the country did not need the borders of their country.
All. He left the army
1994 became a black year for Dmitry: persecution began in the central newspapers, organized by high-ranking officials who, for a number of reasons, did not like the active military operations carried out on the territory of Tajikistan by special units, one of which was headed by Razumovsky. The officer could not understand why journalists who do not know the real state of affairs, who have not been on the ground, in the soot and gunpowder smoke, in the heat, undertake to judge the war. He wrote an open letter full of pain and anxiety for his comrades. But this letter was drowned in heated persecution from the press, which accused the leadership of the border guards of the senseless death of the soldiers. Reading such articles, Andrei Razumovsky’s chest began to sway with indignation, but no one heard him. All. He did what he could do for the country on the battlefield, but a real Russian officer could not participate in the incomprehensible political struggle organized by Yeltsin’s press. And so Dmitry resigned.
Razumovsky took Vympel
But two years later, the Motherland remembered its faithful soldier. With the outbreak of the first war in Chechnya, Dmitry was invited to serve in the state security agencies of the Russian Federation. He served as part of Directorate B, better known as the Vympel group, one of the elite units specializing in lightning-fast retaliatory strikes, which had just come under the jurisdiction of the FSB. Fighters like Razumovsky have always been worth their weight in gold.
Dmitry not only fought, he analyzed his experience and his actions, wrote them down and published books and methodological recommendations on this basis, which were extremely popular among the military. He talked about the feat like this: anyone can die in war, standing up to their full height, it doesn’t take much intelligence, the main thing is to understand how to fight correctly, how to destroy the enemy and survive yourself. And if you die in such a way that chains will then rise behind you, and not just throw yourself at the embrasure, the machine gun will cut your body with a burst and they will shoot at the soldiers again. But if all the soldiers rise up behind you, then your death will not be in vain. These words became prophetic for Dmitry Razumovsky.
For the first and second Chechen wars, he received well-deserved awards, but the main battle of his life was still ahead.
September 1 in Beslan
The tragic autumn in Beslan began on September 3, when brutal bandits took several dozen children, parents and teachers hostage at a school assembly. These were terrible days for the entire country. But people, learning from television news about the unfolding tragedy, could not fully understand the horror that peaceful people experienced. They could not know what atrocities the militants were capable of. Throughout their previous lives, Razumovsky and his comrades were clearly aware that bandits were capable of the most monstrous acts.
His wife recalled the last days of Andrei’s life with great sadness and said that he was tormented by difficult premonitions: and he told one of his close friends that he would be killed. Usually, when Andrei’s subordinates had such premonitions or behaved extremely restlessly before the battle, Razumovsky did not take such people into battle. Then, when a person passed this dangerous peak of fate, Andrei again took his comrade with him into business. This was one of the reasons that there were no combat losses in Razumovsky’s unit for six years.
Brother next to brother
Razumovsky participated in all Vympel operations, many of them can only be found out many years later, but the results of the most high-profile ones nevertheless became known to the general public: the capture of Raduev, battles with bandits in Dagestan, repelled militant attacks for 10 hours near the village of Sleptsovskaya , took part in the operation to free the hostages in Nord-Ost. And he was not wounded anywhere. It was as if fate was saving him for the main, decisive battle.
And so he himself felt uneasy in the September days of 2004. But he could not stay at home and not go on a mission for one simple reason: his knowledge and experience were needed there, in the most difficult point of the country, and he went there, throwing away all premonitions and confusion. He acted like a real soldier.
He was used to facing militants in open battle, one on one. But this time the brutal bandits put little children, their parents, and teachers in front of them. Like the Nazis in years. These were terrible minutes of waiting. Imagine for a moment that there is your child inside, and nearby, in the back, distraught fathers and mothers are asking and begging to save their children. And all this weighs down with a terrible burden. But Razumovsky was able to overcome himself. Few people know, but next to Dmitry was his younger brother, who also enlisted in Vympel.
There were long hours of waiting. The bandits dragged the hostages into the gym, did not give them anything to drink or food. They hung bombs over people's heads. Poor kids!
“I was hooked. Take it"
On the third day, the bandits did the worst thing - they blew up the gym, and the ceiling collapsed. After this, Razumovsky’s group, hiding near the school fence, received the order to launch an assault. And then Dmitry, disregarding all laws of war, stood up first, dragged his soldiers along with him, and entered the schoolyard, which was being shot at from all sides.
An experienced officer, he clearly saw where the snipers were firing from. Dmitry held out for several minutes, this was enough to detect and destroy several sniper points. And then the special forces soldiers pulled the children out from under the fire. As many as we could.
- I was hooked. Take it away,” these were the last words of Major Dmitry Razumovsky, which he spoke clearly and clearly. His comrades thought that the bullet that entered a place unprotected by body armor was not fatal, that their commander would come out of this battle alive. Did not happen.
Only later will they find in the hands of the militant the camera on which they filmed their atrocities in order to earn money for themselves with a bloody report in front of their superior masters. The camera was taken by a Vympel fighter.
His memory will always be eternal on the streets of his beloved city, where he returned with his soldier’s soul years later.
"He is fine"
Maxim Aleksandrovich Razumovsky (who became known in the blogosphere under the nickname “Russian Tank”), Dmitry’s younger brother, recalled:
“Beslan is generally mystical. I saw the Beslan school in my dreams several times while still in college. There was a fight in the dream and I was wounded. I remembered this dream very well, because I dreamed about it several times in a row, but I didn’t know what kind of place it was. When we first crawled up to the school on September 1, I was speechless by what I saw. I recognized this place from a dream. I dreamed about Dima for a very long time; during our lifetime, we never spoke as much as in a dream. Everything is fine with him there.
For almost 10 years now I have been learning to live without my older brother. He has always been an example for me. He is seven years older than me, so I rarely had the opportunity to play with him as a child. Rather, he was my mentor in everything. I blindly accepted everything he did and said. I followed him to the border school in 1992, and then to Vympel. He persecuted me, like all the older brothers of the younger ones, but he was always a mountain for me, just as I was for him. What did I lose when he was gone? Yes, everything. Everything from scratch. Now myself. After Beslan, my father became seriously ill and died on October 11, 2009. He was buried in the same cemetery as his brother. Mom is alive and well."
Especially for AesliB, Polina Efimova
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| Monument in Beslan | ||
| Monument in Ulyanovsk (view 1) | ||
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| Memorial plaque in Ulyanovsk | ||
| At the scene of death |
R Azumovsky Dmitry Aleksandrovich – head of the department of Directorate “B” (“Vympel”) of the Special Purpose Center of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, lieutenant colonel.
Born on March 16, 1968 in Ulyanovsk. Russian. After graduating from secondary school No. 1 in the city of Ulyanovsk, he tried to enter a military school, but did not pass the competition. For a year he worked as a laboratory assistant at the Ulyanovsk Higher Military Command School of Communications.
In the Armed Forces of the USSR since 1986. In 1990 he graduated from the Moscow Higher Command Border School (now the Moscow Border Institute of the FSB of Russia). After graduating from college, he was assigned for further service to the Central Asian Border District, deputy head of the border outpost. Since 1991, he participated in hostilities on the Tajik-Afghan border. He was deputy commander and later commander of the air assault maneuver group of the Moscow border detachment.
Participant in many military operations. Under his command, the group inflicted heavy losses on gangs and groups of drug dealers - in one of the ambushes, a shipment of hundreds of kilograms of heroin was captured. The bandits promised tens of thousands of dollars for the officer's head. In one of the battles he received a severe concussion. He was forced to resign from the military in 1994 after publishing his letter in a number of central newspapers about facts of corruption among the command and senseless death due to the fault of senior commanders of Russian border guards and military personnel in Tajikistan.
Served in the special forces of the Airborne Forces. In October 1996, as a combat officer and master of sports in hand-to-hand combat, he was invited to serve in the Russian state security agencies. He served as part of Directorate “B” (“Vympel”) of the Special Purpose Center of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation. Participant of the First and Second Chechen Wars. Participated in repelling the invasion of Chechen militants in Dagestan in 1999. At the head of the group, he conducted several successful raids on the rear of Chechen militants, destroying their bases, warehouses, and field commanders.
On September 1, 2004, school No. 1 in the city of Beslan (Republic of North Ossetia-Alania) was captured by terrorists; 1,128 people (mainly children, as well as their parents and school staff) were taken hostage. On the same day, D.A. Razumovsky and the Vympel group arrived in Beslan. After explosions occurred at the school on the third day, causing a fire and the collapse of part of the walls through which the hostages began to scatter, D.A. Razumovsky, at the head of the assault group, received an order to storm the building. Even on the approaches to the school building, under enemy fire, he identified and destroyed two terrorists who were shooting fleeing hostages in the back. Then he broke into the school building. Fighting his way through the premises, he discovered a terrorist firing point and was the first to break into the room where it was located. He diverted the attention of the bandits to himself and died a brave death in this battle.
By his actions, he ensured the destruction of all the bandits who were in the premises by the fighters of his group who followed him. As a result, most of the hostages were freed during the assault, however, the total loss count as a result of the terrorist attack was more than 330 people killed (of which 186 were children, 17 were teachers and school staff, 118 were relatives, guests and friends of students) and over 700 people injured. The number of special forces soldiers who died during the storming of the building is not known for certain and, according to different versions, varies from 10 to 16. According to some estimates, over 20 soldiers died. On the monument to special forces members (who died during the storming of the school), installed at the City of Angels memorial cemetery in Beslan, 10 names are carved.
U Order of the President of the Russian Federation dated September 6, 2004 for courage and heroism shown during a special task, to Lieutenant Colonel Razumovsky Dmitry Alexandrovich awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation (posthumously). His relatives were awarded the special distinction of the Hero of the Russian Federation - the Gold Star medal (No. 829).
He was buried at the Nikolo-Arkhangelskoye cemetery in Moscow.
Lieutenant colonel. He was awarded the orders “For Military Merit”, “For Personal Courage”, medals, including the medal of the Order “For Merit to the Fatherland” 1st and 2nd class with swords, and the medal “For Courage”.
In Ulyanovsk, a monument was erected in his honor; a memorial plaque was installed on the building of gymnasium No. 1, where he studied.
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