The new century was remembered by many people on the planet by a series of major tragedies.
In August 2000, the Kursk submarine was in distress.
September 2001 - the largest tragedy in the history of the United States occurs, which the whole world sees live. Undermining terrorists largest shopping center in New York.
In July 2002, the largest catastrophe in the history of the airshow - the Sknilovskaya tragedy - took place. Su-27 fighter crashes into the crowd of spectators.
From 23.10 to 26. 10.2002 - in Moscow, the tragedy in the Moscow Theater Center on Dubrovka. Militants are taking hostage visitors to the Nord-Ost musical and theater workers. And now everyone understands under the word "Nord-Ost" what tragedy and grief are for the whole country.
The terrorist attack on Dubrovka - as it were
About all the events that occurred during the musical "Nord-Ost", the banned film "Moscow siege" tells with the accuracy of front-line newsreels.
For carrying out the attack militants consideredseveral objects on which as many citizens as possible could attend. The choice was of three goals - the Moscow State Variety Theater, the Palace of Youth and the Theater Center on Dubrovka. To do this, several women terrorist attacked the city and took photographs of selected objects.
As a result, the criminals chose the theater on Dubrovka because of the large capacity of the auditorium and a small number of outbuildings.
And already in the beginning of October beganpreparation for the seizure of the building. Weapons and explosives were delivered from Chechnya to Moscow by cars. Also in small groups, militants arrived. Housing was selected in different parts of the city, in rented apartments.
The chronicle of the events at the show of the musical play "Nord-Ost" documentary film "Moscow Siege" reproduces both from the words of eyewitnesses and the stories of the participants of the events themselves.
The size of the group was approximately40 people. In addition, half of them were female suicide bombers. Armed people in camouflage came to the building of the Theater Center on three minibuses. At 21.15 began the capture of the shopping center, where at that time was a performance. 916 people turned out to be hostages - spectators and actors of the theater.
The first shots in the audience from the audience no one seriouslydid not take. The shots sounded loud, but everyone was wondering what will happen next, since no one believed the seriousness of the situation during the performance (Nord-Ost).
Women Suicide
But the gangsters arrived, filling the hall, and suicide girls appeared. But at that moment there were no shahid belts on them - they were put on later.
Unlike men, who looked like they were between 20 and 30 years old, the suicide bombers were clearly young. Sixteen to twenty years. They all had explosive belts, grenades and pistols.
Причем сразу бросалось в глаза, что suicide girls obviously did not understand the weapon. The young invaders of the audience of the show "Nord-Ost", that such a gun, had a very distant idea. And so weapons skills were taught on the spot.
Negotiations with terrorists, as it happened
The fact that the attack was carefully thought out, saysThe fact that on October 24, 2002, at 7 o'clock in the evening, the Al-Jazeera TV channel demonstrates a previously prepared appeal by the head of the militants Movsar Barayev, in which he declared the entire group as suicide bombers and demanded the withdrawal of Russian troops from Chechnya. Otherwise, the audience of the play "Nord-Ost", which means death, will experience for themselves.
AT 5.30 a young woman Olga Romanova, a saleswoman of a perfume center, freely enters the building, and at 8:15 a lieutenant colonel Konstantin Vasilyev. But the terrorists did not believe the negotiators and both were shot.
After Aslambek Aslakhanov, the representative of the State Duma from Chechnya, entered the negotiations, the negotiations took an active phase, and several dozens of hostages were released during the talks.
Russian politicians also took an active part in the negotiations. Public figures, journalists, the former president of Ingushetia took part in the negotiation process.
Special forces assault
However, all the efforts made to release all the hostages, were unsuccessful. Militants began to behave extremely aggressively and kill people.
Чтобы предотвратить массовые жертвы, была начата a special operation by a special-purpose unit of the FSB, which carefully studied the theater, where the Nord-Ost musical took place, what the building as a whole and the layout of the individual premises were.
10.26.2002, at 5.30 am, three explosions and automatic bursts thundered near the shopping center, and at 6.00 am the special forces launched an assault. To prevent explosions, the FSB group used military nerve gas.
The sad results of victory
At about 8 am, Deputy Interior Minister V. Vasilyev reported on the results of the operation:
- killed - 36 gangsters;
- more than 750 hostages released;
- 67 people died.
What are the results of the operation to free the audience?the show "Nord-Ost", the film shows with merciless precision. In the hospital for several days killed a few dozen people. So the number of victims increased to 130 people (10 of them were children).
Among those killed were more than twenty people who worked in the theater.
Now, in front of the Theater on Dubrovka, there is a memorial "In memory of the victims of terrorism", opened on October 23, 2003.
