Who is said Buryat. Chechen field commander Said Buryatsky (Alexander Tikhomirov)

About the destruction of the leader of the bandit underground Said Buryatsky, according to his passport - Alexander Tikhomirov. One of the militants found documents in that name. The body is severely damaged, so genetic testing will be needed to establish the identity. After all, Said Buryatsky, who was involved in the assassination attempt on the president of the republic, Yunus-bek Yevkurov, staged his own death more than once.

This is how a special operation took place in the village of Ekazhevo, during which Said Buryatsky is supposed to have been killed: FSB special forces move from house to house, covering each other; the militants tried to resist, to hide in the houses, but not everyone had time. Just after this battle, in the burnt clothes of one of the killed militants, they found a passport in the name of Alexander Tikhomirov. That is the real name, or now, probably, one can say - the name was, of one of the main ideologists of the militants.

The biography of Alexander Tikhomirov is completely atypical and differs markedly from other militant leaders. Tikhomirov was born in Buryatia, Buryat father, Russian mother. At first he studied at a Buddhist datsan, then, at the age of 15, he converted to Islam. According to one version, after reading some books on Islam, according to another, Ingush friends were introduced to the faith.

Then began new page in the life of Tikhomirov. He is a student of a madrasah in the Orenburg region, then he goes to study in Egypt, and later in Kuwait. Tikhomirov really was a strong theologian, and for the time being he not only lectured, but also worked in an Islamic publishing house, wrote works about Islamic movements.

And now it’s impossible to understand what happened, but, probably, already at that time there was some kind of internal rebirth of Alexander Tikhomirov into Said Buryatsky. From some point on, his lectures and articles begin to differ in a radical direction.

In 2008, he is said to have received a video letter from the Arab field commander Muhannad, left his family and left for North Caucasus where he joined the terrorists. He met with and took part in militant sorties. Said Buryatsky becomes a kind of symbol of the terrorist international - after all, he is not from the Caucasus, he is not a Muslim by birth, but he is a militant and a terrorist.

But perhaps his main work is ideological. Said Buryatsky writes video messages to the militants, to the Caucasian youth, where he calls on everyone to wage a holy war and join the terrorists. He speaks beautifully, cites lengthy quotations on Arabic, he knows how to convince, which is not strange, given his education.

According to some reports, it was Said Buryatsky who psychologically indoctrinated young people and trained them as suicide bombers. For example, he prepared Rustam Mukhadiev, who.

By the way, in his video messages, the terrorist himself admitted to being involved in the most high-profile crimes - attacks on policemen in Ingushetia, an explosion on Grozny's Theater Square and.

Information about the death of Said Buryatsky already passed in August 2009. After that, another video message of the terrorist appeared on the Internet resources of the militants and a message that, they say, it was Said Buryatsky who personally rammed the GOVD building on a mined GAZelle. But two days later, the terrorist Buryatsky, as if nothing had happened, personally said: I.

There is no final data on whether Said Buryatsky was destroyed this time. The security forces speak cautiously: yes, the documents have been found, yes, there will be an examination, and after that we’ll talk.

But in general, the leaders of the bandit underground in the Caucasus are destroyed regularly. Almost all major field commanders have been killed, most of the Arab terrorists and financiers have been killed, odious leaders like Basayev and Maskhadov have been killed. If it is true that Said Buryatsky was included in the list of the destroyed leaders of the bandit underground, then this is an undoubted success of the special services. Because the terrorists do not have another such strong propagandist.

On the evening of March 4, the security forces reported the destruction in Ingushetia of the ideologist of the militants, the closest associate of Doku Umarov, Said Buryatsky, known in the world as Alexander Tikhomirov. A simple guy from Ulan-Ude two recent years was a real headache for the secret services, who could not catch this talkative preacher of Islam. In the past, he has already cheated them several times, so the FSB will officially announce the elimination of Tikhomirov only after a molecular genetic examination.

Said Buryatsky was killed in general by accident. On the morning of March 2, the security forces received information that the militants who had settled in the village of Ekazhevo were preparing some kind of major terrorist attack, after which the special forces of the Ingush FSB and the fighters internal troops blocked several houses on the outskirts of the village. According to a RIA Novosti source in the power structures of the North Caucasus Federal District, before the operation, the special services had no information that Said Buryatsky was in Ekazhevo.

Blocked militants fired back at employees for several hours law enforcement but couldn't even hurt anyone. The security forces, in turn, hit the houses with dense fire and even used flamethrowers. In addition, they were supported by snipers who, according to Kommersant, managed to shoot two militants who tried to escape from the besieged building.

Those who nevertheless escaped settled on a nearby farm, where they continued to hold the line. In the end, the victory was won by the federal forces, who managed to kill six militants and capture 15 or 16 people alive. At the same time, the security forces found a whole arsenal on the farm: an RPG-7 grenade launcher, a Kalashnikov assault rifle, a Kedr submachine gun, a Makarov pistol, a shot for a grenade launcher, a hand-held anti-personnel grenade, five thousand rounds of ammunition and nine barrels with 450 kilograms of sodium nitrate.

Born in the city of Ulan-Ude, Buryat ASSR (now Buryatia, Russia). His father is Buryat, his mother is Russian. Raised by mother. According to the Trud newspaper, "from an early age he was brought up by his Chechen stepfather." As a teenager, he studied at a Buddhist datsan (the traditional religion of the Buryats is Buddhism). Converted to Islam at the age of 15. Independently (according to other sources, under the influence of Vainakh friends) he studied Islamic literature. He took the Islamic name Said.

Later he studied with various reputable sheikh scholars in Egypt and Kuwait. He attended lectures by Sheikh Mahmoud Misri and Sheikh Muhammad Yusri, and also studied with the famous sheikh and preacher Muhammad Hassan. According to the Guraba website, “among the students of that time, he was known for his sincerity towards religion and constant reading of Islamic books. Knows by heart 40 hadiths of Nawawi with Sharh, Akida Tahawi, Umdatul Ahkam.

He worked in the organization "Dar ul-Akram" and collaborated with the religious publishing house "Umma".

Since 2002, he began to record lectures on religious topics, which quickly spread among Islamic youth. Among his most famous lectures are the cycles "Righteous Predecessors", "Journey to eternal life”, “Talbis Iblis” (from Arabic “Veil of Satan”), “100 stories of the death of the unjust” and others. He also translated from Arabic into Russian religious documentaries("Crimes of the Shiites through the Ages", "Description of the Prophet's Prayer").

"Caucasian Emirate"

In early 2008, Said Buryatsky received a video letter from the well-known Arab field commander Mukhannad and decided to join the North Caucasian armed underground. A few months later, he secretly arrived in Chechnya, where he met with the leader of the underground, the so-called. "amir" terrorist organization"Caucasian Emirate" (Imarat Kavkaz) Dokka Umarov and gave him the Islamic oath (bayat).

Tikhomirov's joining the armed underground caused a mixed reaction among Russian-speaking Muslims. The publicist Heydar Dzhemal, who has repeatedly expressed sympathy for the terrorists, called Tikhomirov “a symbol of a new generation in the epic of the Caucasian struggle”, emphasizing that “we have seen preachers (bearers of da’wat) belonging to various ethnic groups before. We saw Avars, Laks, Karachays, Circassians, Arabs... But all these worthy people were either representatives of the Caucasian area, or, at least, belonged to one or another traditionally Muslim people. In this case, for the first time, on behalf of the Emirate, the Caucasus acts as an ideologist, as an authoritative representative of a person of Eurasian origin, in whose veins Russian and Buryat blood flows.

Echo of Moscow journalist Yulia Latynina said about Said Buryatsky: Such a Buryat Che Guevara, a Mujahideen internationalist...

In the following months, Said Buryatsky took part in sabotage operations and attacks by militants. While in the forest, he recorded several video messages, audio lectures and articles about jihad and the situation in the North Caucasus, which were published on the Kavkaz Center and other extremist websites.

Participation in terrorist activities

According to Russian law enforcement agencies, Said Buryatsky was involved in the attempt on the life of the President of Ingushetia, Yunus-bek Yevkurov, and in organizing a terrorist act in Nazran. Said Buryatsky also claimed responsibility for blowing up the Nevsky Express train.

former boss Khamzat Gairbekov, intelligence officer of the disbanded Vostok battalion, said: "Tikhomirov was one of the most dangerous figures in the leadership of the Caucasus Emirate - he was responsible for training suicide bombers and led a network of sabotage schools."

According to the President of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov, Alexander Tikhomirov - " chief ideologue bandit underground” and it was he who prepared the suicide bomber Rustam Mukhadiev, who blew up a bomb on Theater Square in Grozny on July 26, 2009. Said Buryatsky did not deny his involvement in such attacks, but, according to him, his help consisted in preparing "suicide belts", cutting reinforcement to create shrapnel damage, etc. Tikhomirov was negatively assessed information Agency"Chechnya Today", characterizing him as "an ignoramus who picked up the tops of religion", "a werewolf in a turban", who "needs blood Chechen people».

Investigation Department under the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Chechen Republic On July 30, 2009, a criminal case was initiated against Alexander Tikhomirov on the grounds of a crime under part 2 of article 208 of the Criminal Code of Russia: “participation in an armed formation not provided for federal law". The basis for the start of the check before the initiation of the case was the video recordings and photographs in which Tikhomirov appeared with the militants and which were posted on the Internet.

Ramzan Kadyrov, assessing Tikhomirov's calls, said: “This is being said by a person who has no idea about Islam. He is listened to by Dokka Umarov and bandits like him. These people call on Chechens to hate their history, traditions, culture.”

death reports

At the end of August 2009 on the Hunafa website ( information resource of the Ingush armed underground) there was a message that Said Buryatsky was personally behind the wheel of a mined GAZelle car, which on the morning of August 17, 2009 rammed the gates of the Nazran city police department and blew up the building. The power of the explosion, which, according to official data, killed 25 police officers and injured 260 people, according to various estimates, ranged from 400 to 1000 kg of TNT. The building of the Nazran GOVD was completely destroyed.

Two days later, this information was refuted by the command of the Ingush underground, and after a while a video appeared on the Khunafa website in which Said Buryatsky personally denied his death and said that another militant was driving the car.

Death

On March 4, 2010, Russian law enforcement agencies reported that Said Buryatsky was killed during a counter-terrorist operation in the Nazran district of Ingushetia near the village of Ekazhevo.

According to the FSB, on the morning of March 2, special forces units found and blocked a group of militants on the outskirts of the village. The militants spread out over several houses and on the territory of an abandoned farm. During the skirmish, which lasted several hours, several militants were killed, the survivors surrendered. After a special operation in Ekazhevo, law enforcement officers found a large number of weapons and explosives (several grenade launchers, a machine gun, machine guns and pistols, more than three thousand rounds of ammunition, nine 50-liter barrels of sodium nitrate, three powerful improvised explosive devices).

At the scene of the collision, a severely burned corpse was found, in which the head was almost missing and in which a passport was found in the name of Alexander Tikhomirov (real name of Said Buryatsky). A forensic examination in Rostov-on-Don also confirmed this information. RIA Novosti, citing a high-ranking source in the North Caucasus federal district reported that Tikhomirov's corpse would be buried in an unmarked grave, which is connected with the practice of not handing over the bodies of terrorists to relatives.

On March 6, 2010, the head of the FSB of Russia A. Bortnikov reported to the President of the Russian Federation D. Medvedev that Said Buryatsky and four Kartoev brothers were killed, and 10 more people were arrested and they were involved in the explosion of the Nevsky Express train in November 2009 . Bortnikov said that “genetic examinations of the bandits were carried out for involvement in the explosion of the Nevsky Express train, committed in November last year. All these materials give grounds to believe that it was they who took part in this crime.” According to him, material evidence was found at the place of the special operation, which is directly related to the train blowing up. In addition, components of explosive devices were found, “identical to those used in the explosion of the Nevsky Express train in 2007.”

According to the FSB CSO, “an underground workshop was discovered in one of the households (in Ekazhevo), which was used by bandits to make improvised explosive devices.” “During its inspection, material evidence was found indicating the involvement of T. Kartoev’s gang in undermining the Nevsky Express in 2009, as well as technical means identical to those seized from the scene of a similar terrorist attack in the Tver region in 2007.

Ramzan Kadyrov expressed satisfaction with the liquidation of Tikhomirov, noting that the same fate awaits Dokka Umarov. Kadyrov also called Tikhomirov a bandit who worked for Western intelligence agencies.

According to Vadim Rechkalov: “Tired of running through the mountains, starving and freezing, Said Buryatsky stuck with his old friends Kartoevs and with their home phone called my mother in Ulan-Ude. I missed you. And my mother's phone, of course, was tapped." It was thanks to this that the FSB managed to get on the trail of Said Buryatsky.

Religious and ideological position

A significant part of the activities of Said Buryatsky before he went underground was criticism of various Islamic movements - Shiites, Sufis, and others. In a generalized form, information about the existing 73 currents in Islam, Said Buryatsky presented in his lectures on the book of Abul Faraj al-Jawzi "Talbis Iblis".

According to the leaders of the special operation in Ingushetia, Sheikh Said Buryatsky was killed in the village of Ekazhevo. Destruction of one of the most known terrorists The Caucasus Emirate was confirmed by the President of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov. Doubts about his death...

According to the leaders of the special operation in Ingushetia, Sheikh Said Buryatsky was killed in the village of Ekazhevo. The destruction of one of the most famous terrorists of the Caucasus Emirate was confirmed by the President of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov. There can be no doubt about his death.

As part of the "How the Underground Works" project, we give curriculum vitae Said Buryatsky.

Buryatsky was a very intriguing figure in the underground. The undisputed leader of opinions among the youth of the Caucasian republics. A young, sober-minded theologian, whose appearance in the camp of militants played into the hands of the ideologists of the Caucasian Emirate.

Alexander Tikhomirov was born in Ulan-Ude. Buryat he only on his father. According to his mother, he is Russian, he has no Caucasian roots at all. Until the age of 15 he was a Buddhist, he even studied, they say, in a Buddhist datsan. Then something happened to him, and he converted to Islam, becoming from that time Said Abu Sad.

He has come a long way along the way.

Experts from the special services say that Tikhomirov's appeal was influenced by friendship either with the Chechens or with the Ingush. All this looks doubtful. Here is what a man who lived next door to Tikhomirov in Ulan-Ude says:

“I lived on Khakhalov, next to the seventh clinic, studied at the 51st school. So-so school, from simple ones ... I don’t remember many of them in person, they usually went in a crowd, both girls and guys. All the same, although we then ALL went the same way, everyone dressed in the same Chinese market. He was an inconspicuous boy, gray and quiet. I think they beat him mercilessly. I can understand him. Why shouldn't a gray kid from the gray backyards of the railway district of a gray city want something significant?

You can guess as much as you like, what were his motives to start studying Islam. I have little faith in the influence of Chechen friends. What are the Chechens in the city of Ulan-Ude in the mid-90s?

Having matured, Said went to study in Moscow, but soon dropped out of school: it seemed to him that the wrong Islam was taught in the Moscow madrasah. He continued his education at the Al-Furqan Madrasah (Buguruslan, Orenburg Region). This is a landmark page in his biography. The names of individual graduates of the Buguruslan Madrasah are known throughout the world. They were among the terrorists who attacked a school in Beslan.

The Buguruslan madrasah was very disliked by the prosecutor's office and the FSB. The local leadership was endlessly accused of extremist activities. In the end, in 2004, the madrasah was closed. But before that time, Said Abu Saad managed to finish it and leave with a group of graduates to continue their studies in Egypt. There he studied for about three years, mastered Arabic perfectly. Then he moved to continue his education in Kuwait.

Returning to Russia, he got a job at the Moscow publishing house "Umma" as a translator from Arabic. Then he began to give his first lectures, which instantly gained incredible popularity. The topics of the lectures were not disturbing. "The Dignity of Fasting", "Hell", "On Faith and Unbelief". And if colleagues and dared to argue with him at this stage, these disputes were exclusively theological in nature.

The history of his appearance in the Caucasus is very vague. Allegedly, Dokku Umarov himself called an angelic young man to carry the word of Allah to his soldiers. And by that time, Said had not only formed an integral point of view regarding the place of a real Muslim in this world - but also had problems with law enforcement officers in Moscow. And so he disappeared for a while, and then again made himself felt - already in the ranks of the Ingush front of the Caucasian Emirate.

His sermons - interspersed in Russian and Arabic - began to appear regularly on separatist websites. It was here, in the Caucasus, not restrained by any boundaries, that Sheikh Said Abu Saad unleashed his charisma to its full extent. He began to speak not only on theological topics (although such topics predominate), he also touched on the acute political issues of Russia's position in the Caucasus. One of the topics he often mentions is that the special services have nothing to do with the Caucasus Emirate.

Of course, there were those who considered the rise of Said Buryatsky artificial. He was often reproached for calling himself a "sheikh" in vain, that his knowledge was superficial. Ideological opponents (not numerous) reproached him for his adherence to the “low calm”. Said really very often builds his lectures on the retelling of plots gleaned from sacred books. Dissatisfied say: “What is the story? Someone jumped, another ran, the third was killed. It's like a movie. It's easy to listen!"

But, relying on simplicity of perception, Said Buryatsky, an excellent storyteller, achieved a goal that many and many preachers from the Emirate could not achieve before him. He showed young people that Islam is far from boring. This greatly contributed to the popularization of the ideas of terrorists - just read the forums on propaganda sites.

Said had already been declared dead once. Shortly after the bombing of the Nazran police department on August 17 last year, a video was circulated on the network in which he was sitting in a Gazelle with explosives and talking to the camera about what a "gift" awaits the Ingush police. The credits at the end of the video say the following: “Said personally, driving a Gazelle car, undermined the lair of infidels and apostates of the Nazran city police department.”

A few days later, Said, alive, in another video said that there was an error. That he was not driving that Gazelle, but only blessed the brothers to death.

This is Buryatsky's last video. The websites of the Caucasian Emirate continue to post audio messages from him, but those messages are again talking about the abstract. No signs allow us to conclude that these records are fresh.

Said disappeared, and disappeared ugly. Opponents often reproached him before: “Why do you praise the way of a martyr so much, and you yourself are only strong with talk?” Now they began to speak louder about something else: Said Buryatsky, as a phenomenon, was a creature of the special services - that's why he so vehemently denied them. They brought him to the Caucasus, they also brought him out.

Buryatsky's relatives, by the way, have not lived in Russia ever since he fell into extremism.

P.S.The next issue of the project "How the Underground Works" is in the next issues of Novaya.