The 2001 Grozny Mil Mi-8 crash in Chechnya killed 13 Russian military personnel, mostly senior military officers including two generals. On September 17...
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2001, a Mil Mi-8 helicopter was shotdown by a Chechen group in Grozny, Chechnya, Russia, killing all 13 people on board. On 27 January 2002, a Mil Mi-8...
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List of Russian aircraft losses in the Second Chechen War (redirect from 2005 Urus-Martan Mi-8 crash)
they prepared to land at Grozny Khankala airfield; the helicopter crash-landed by the flight technician. January 22, one Mi-8 helicopter suffered mechanical...
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five-story apartment blocks on the outskirts of Grozny. The Russian military responded to the loss of the Mi-26 by demolishing several blocks in the already...
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The 1999–2000 battle of Grozny or Operation Wolf Hunt was the siege and assault of the Chechen capital Grozny by Russian forces, lasting from late 1999...
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of Russia, eight colonels, and three crewmembers. (see 2001 Grozny Mi-8 crash) September 20, 2001 - Seven policemen, including local police chief, were...
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The First Battle of Grozny was the Russian Army's invasion and subsequent conquest of the Chechen capital, Grozny, during the early months of the First...
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September: Mi-8 crash. 2002 18 April: 2002 Grozny OMON ambush. 30 June: Peace rally at Teatralnaya Square. 19 August: 2002 Khankala Mi-26 crash near city...
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Eismont Amelia Gentleman in (October 23, 1999). "Russians in disarray over Grozny strike" – via www.theguardian.com. "Взрыв в доме Архангельска 20 лет назад:...
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Anatoly Pozdnyakov (category 2001 deaths)
killed on 17 September 2001 when a surface-to-air-missile downed his Mil Mi-8 helicopter in Chechnya (see 2001 Grozny Mi-8 crash). Official reports concluded...
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at their car. October 17, 2001 - A surface-to-air missile shot down a VIP Mi-8 helicopter over the Chechen capital Grozny, killing all aboard. The helicopter...
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the bomb, which went off during the conference of 40 Grozny police commanders. October 29 - A Mi-8 shot down by the rebels explodes during attempted emergency...
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Second Chechen War (section Siege of Grozny)
faced Chechen separatists in open combat and seized the Chechen capital Grozny after a winter siege that lasted from December 1999 until February 2000...
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The November 1994 Battle of Grozny was a covert attempt by Russian Intelligence services to oust the Chechen government of Dzhokhar Dudayev, by seizing...
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since July 2000. On 9 May 2004, he was assassinated by Chechen Islamists in Grozny, by a bomb blast during a Victory Day memorial parade. His son, Ramzan Kadyrov...
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Union. On 8 June 1991, at the initiative of Dzhokhar Dudayev, a part of the delegates of the First Chechen National Congress gathered in Grozny, which proclaimed...
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Chechen civilians were killed in aerial bombings and urban warfare before Grozny was captured in March 1995, but a Russian victory was denied as efforts...
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September – A Mil Mi-8 of the Russian Armed Forces is shot down at Grozny, Chechnya. All 13 people on board are killed. 27 January – A Mil Mi-8 of the Russian...
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found that the bombs were triggered by two female Chechen suicide bombers, Grozny residents Satsita Dzhebirkhanova (Siberia Airlines Flight 1047) and Amanta...
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Sukhoi Su-25 (redirect from Sukhoi T-8)
Unconfirmed reports suggest that a Russian Mi-8 helicopter that may have arrived on the scene of the crash to assist was in turn brought down by Ukrainian...
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operation: Russian forces carry out a zachistka operation in Alkhan-Kala, Grozny, Chechnya, during the Second Chechen War. Chechen warlord Arbi Barayev is...
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in 1999. In 2008, the largest mass grave found to date was uncovered in Grozny, containing some 800 bodies from the First Chechen War in 1995. Russia's...
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participant in the Russo-Chechen wars, Zakayev took part in the battles for Grozny and the defense of Goyskoye, along with other military operations, as well...
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Chechen capital during the Battle of Grozny. Maskhadov commanded the city from the Presidential Palace in Grozny, where on one occasion a Russian bunker...
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the vigilance of the inhabitants of Ryazan and ordered the air bombing of Grozny, which marked the beginning of the Second Chechen War. Three Russian Federal...
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on the plains of central Chechnya to the east of Grozny. After growing up in Argun, he entered Grozny's university to study Chechen and Russian philology...
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Ramzan Kadyrov (category FC Akhmat Grozny)
society.[citation needed] On 8 March, he captained a Chechen football team which included current players of FC Terek Grozny, former players of Soviet Union...
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against Russian forces before he was assassinated by a Russian airstrike. Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, was renamed Dzhokhar-Ghala in Dudayev's honor...
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Chechen War of 1994–1996, notably as a senior commander in the Battle of Grozny, for which he became one of the first to be awarded the Chechnya's highest...
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Grozny. They warned Zavgayev not to use force to resolve the political crisis. According to professor Matthew Evangelista, demonstrations in Grozny and...
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