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  The plot focuses on the battles for the city hospital complex in Grozny, occupied by Russian troops led by Colonel Vitaly Suvorov, who lost his eye during sniper fire, with the radio call sign "Sugrob" (Viktor Stepanov). On January 4, 1995, a group of militants led by field commander Dukuz Israpilov (Dmitry Nagiev) surround the hospital and begin to storm. Volunteers and mercenaries are fighting on the side of the Chechens: Afghan Mujahideen, Arabs, Negroes, nationalists from the UNA-UNSO, snipers from the Baltic states. The situation is further complicated by the fact that, due to the lack of communication with the headquarters and other units of the federal forces, the defenders are “processed” by their own artillery. A group of scouts ("Pitersky", "Cobra" and "Bachelor") from the GRU special forces on a truck with a load of 200 breaks through to help "Sugrob".

  After that, the special forces, having verified their identities, connect with their comrade (“Gyurza”), who is fighting as part of the federal forces fighting for the surgical complex of the aforementioned hospital. In the course of fierce battles, motorized rifles lose the surgical complex and at least one more corps, suffering heavy losses (“Cobra” mentions 40 dead soldiers in the surgical one alone). Suvorov and Israpilov are conducting a dialogue on the air. During one of the communication sessions, Dukuz “recommends” the colonel to “remove the dead”, since he will not be able to keep the Afghans from bullying the dead (previously it was shown how the Afghans cut off the heads of Russian prisoners of war and shot them with RPGs at the positions of the federals, demoralizing young soldiers; later there are scenes where the militants urinate on the corpses of dead soldiers). "Snowdrift" orders the only remaining tank to "bury the guys", that is, to destroy the corpses with the help of the tank's caterpillars. After explaining the reasons for such actions, the tank commander (call sign "Korobochka-2") agrees to carry out the order. The corpses are destroyed, and the GRU fighters give the soldiers a “salute” with a volley from their weapons.

  Further, "Snowdrift" demands to explain the lack of action on the part of the special forces (having some reason for this - the special forces until that time almost did not show themselves), explaining the need for action on their part by the fact that the colonel only they (special forces) and the tanker are combat-ready soldiers . The commandos find the tank commander and offer him to throw them up to the hospital building, where the Chechens are entrenched. The gunner protests, confident that the militants will burn them, but the commander, after some hesitation, agrees to the adventure. During the sortie, he manages to throw the special forces soldiers to the corps and divert the attention of the militants to his tank himself.

  Despite the constant maneuvering and use of car skeletons as shelters from RPG fire, the militants manage to immobilize the tank, damaging its undercarriage. The tank driver dies. Israpilov offers the tank commander Igor Grigorashchenko to go over to the side of Ichkeria, promising a good reward. The commander of the militants shows Igor a package with leaflets "Cargo 200" intercepted by the militants - the only thing that, according to him, the Russian command prepared for the war. Grigorashchenko succeeded in getting Dukuz to give him five minutes to think. Then Igor gets in touch with the "Cobra", explains to him his disposition and specifies the location of the enemy's machine-gun nests.

  Grigorashchenko, going to certain death, fires at the hospital building from a tank gun, killing a large number of militants. The surviving militants shoot the tank with grenade launchers, drag out Grigorashchenko, who lost his legs and part of his arm, and crucify him on a cross from wooden beams. At this time, "Sugrob", having received a radio message from "Cobra" about the destruction of Chechen snipers by special forces and heavy losses among the militants from the fire of "Korobochka-2", gathers all forces, including the wounded, and incurring heavy losses, knocks militants out of the hospital. The credits indicate that a few days later the hospital complex was again occupied by Chechen units.

  The picture is shot in a naturalistic manner - the film is replete with extremely violent scenes of violence. All screen time is occupied by intense fighting, filmed in a pseudo-documentary manner.

  Cast

  • Viktor Stepanov - Guards Colonel Vitaly Nikolayevich Suvorov, Chief of Staff of the 131st Omsbr
  • Ivan Ganzha - Captain Ivan, officer of the 131st brigade
  • Roman Zhilkin - lieutenant Igor Grigorashchenko, tanker, commander of the only surviving T-80 tank
  • Sergey Growth (appears in the credits under his real name Titivin) - tanker Bogdash, operator-gunner of the only surviving T-80 tank(Bogdash - either a surname, or a nickname, or a diminutive form of a name - it is not specifically specified in the film, according to the script by Bogdan Klets)
  • Alexey Gushchin - Kostya "Petersky", GRU commando
  • Vyacheslav Burlachko - "Cobra", GRU special forces
  • Alexander Baranov - "Bachelor", GRU commando
  • Georgy Antonov - sniper of the 131st brigade Pasha Naryshkin
  • Vladimir Belov - foreman of the federal troops
  • Dmitry Nagiev - Dukuz Israpilov, Chechen field commander, former surgeon at the Grozny city hospital
  • Konstantin Butaev - Shirvani, assistant field commander Israpilov, former chief physician of the Grozny city hospital
  • Irina Veselina (Sotskova) - the first Lithuanian sniper mercenary, former biathlete("White pantyhose")
  • Victoria Matveeva - second Lithuanian sniper mercenary, former biathlete("White Pantyhose")
  • Nikolai Alekseev - Aslan, fighter
  • Anatoly Fedorov
  • Vladimir Rymiga
  • Evgeny Rakov
  • Yuri Kuznetsov - foreman Ogoloviev(episodes not included in the film)
  • Vladimir Gostyukhin - Colonel Tyrtyshny, commander of an armored column(episodes not included in the film)

  film crew

  • Screenwriter - Alexander Nevzorov
  • Stage director - Alexander Nevzorov
  • Director - Mikhail Ermolov
  • Producer - Alexander Nevzorov
  • General Producer - Boris Berezovsky
  • Chief operator - Viktor Mikhalchenko
  • Artist - Yuri Pashigorev
  • Composer - Andrey Schepelev
  • Director's assistants - Y. Krasnov, Y. Ilarioshkina

  Filming a movie

  The film was shot in St. Petersburg (on Lagoda Street), in Sestroretsk (on the territory of the destroyed tuberculosis hospital) and in the location 63rd Guards Tank Division [clarify] refused Nevzorov on the set of his support. According to Nevzorov, “they billed me for everything I asked for, and there I had to pay for each spent cartridge case ... 5 or 6 thousand rubles! And I need millions of them, because everything in the places of warfare is covered with spent cartridges. Apparently, the army read the script and was dissatisfied. Therefore, we were assisted by the Internal Troops. Soldiers who passed through Chechnya were filmed in extras”

• The 131st separate motorized rifle brigade actually fought not for the hospital complex, but for the railway station. The battles for the hospital complex, northeast of the building of the Council of Ministers, on January 1-4, were led by the 1st motorized rifle battalion of the 255th Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 20th Guards Motorized Rifle Division. On January 2, a reinforced battalion from the 74th Separate Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade arrived to help the encircled battalion.

So much has already been written and said about the heroes of the first Chechen war that it is time to compile a large reference book with a complete list of the exploits of that war. However, the legendary special-purpose company of the 166th separate motorized rifle brigade entered the history of hostilities not by chance. The militants, who to the last resisted the onslaught of the Russian military, called this company "mad".
About delusions
It is customary, rightly or not, to attribute the most daring military operations during the first Chechen campaign to the GRU special forces. In part, the special forces of the GRU General Staff owe such glory to the film "Purgatory" about the events in Chechnya, where Russian soldiers are shown in the role of such ripped heads. By some strange coincidence, after the release of the scandalous feature film, the reconnaissance company of the 166th motorized rifle brigade began to be attributed precisely to the GRU special forces. However, the "mad" were never included in the special forces of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff and could not be included by definition. The Gyurza company often worked side by side with the GRU fighters, but was never included in this special unit.
Another subject of controversy among the townsfolk and everyone who was interested in military operations during the first Chechen war was the company commander himself - Major Alexei Efentiev with the call sign "Gyurza". In the heat of controversy and an abundance of information, he is called the “only” commander of an intelligence company, but in reality, Efentiev was the last to command the company until it was disbanded. The military, who have long retired, say that Efentiev's first acquaintance with the company was not easy. The nature of the hostilities, their severity and fierce resistance on the part of the militants, and the complex nature of the fighters also affected.
"Gyurza"

Efentiev himself, in numerous interviews that "covered" him on the wave of military glory, never spoke of himself as a special person and never considered himself a hero. However, Efentiev's colleagues, and just those who came across him, sometimes by accident, in Chechnya say that the major's uncompromising and rigidity caused discomfort only to those who did not understand why they were holding weapons in their hands. However, it was Gyurza, a graduate of the Baku Higher Combined Arms Command School, who was assigned not only a call sign recognizable by radio, but also another nickname that did not arise from scratch.
Until the moment he took command of a separate reconnaissance company of the 166th Motorized Rifle Brigade, Efentiev managed to serve in Afghanistan immediately after graduating from the school. From 1987 to 1988, Gyurza commanded an intelligence group. It was then, according to those who were familiar with Efentiev, that the playful nickname "Lesha - the golden hoof" was assigned to him. By some kind of almost animal instinct, Efentiev knew how to determine the direction of enemy fire by sound and “measured” the distance to the object by eye. The military says that rare commanders have such abilities - about one person in a hundred. What explains such a feeling and the unique army "chuyka" is hard for an ordinary person to understand, but where "Gyurza" led his group, there were never losses.

“You need to feel the war, to be in the center of the battle. Understand that the machine is not just a piece of iron, but your working tool, your best friend. It's like being a great race car driver and every part of the body to feel any, even the smallest change in the behavior of the car on the track," say the former scouts.
Another feature of the service under the command of "Gyurza" was the training of newly arrived contract soldiers in the company. Unfired, having served only military service, recruits often did not understand where the enemy was “working” from. Such miscalculations could cost the fighters their lives, so Gyurza and the squad leaders taught the “young” right on the spot, arranging short training sessions with live shooting. For such initiatives, Efentiev himself and his subordinates could easily go to court, but saving lives in that war was put above the established rules - delay could lead to irreparable consequences.
combat brigade
The basis of the Gyurza combat group was not youngsters who first took a machine gun in their hands, but seasoned, life-taught, and wise in their own way, simple Russian men. The backbone of the reconnaissance was made up of absolutely different people with completely different destinies. Former policeman, gravedigger at the cemetery, teacher, miner. However, all of them, gathered by fate in one place and arrived to fight for their homeland, voluntarily did their work like real professionals. Mature men showed boyish agility when the combat mission required it, and enormous human experience in short moments of calm. The main humorist in the company was “Mitrokha”, he is also “Dmitrich” - a sniper who was both a shooter, and a machine gunner, and a squad leader - a strong native of Ivanovo, and they considered the most experienced and judicious "Petrovich" - a former police captain. People of different ages many things connected in the battles in the Caucasus, but the main thing was a sense of duty, necessity, importance and the need to be close to comrades-in-arms and the desire to “crush” the enemy to the last. Some fighters of the Gyurza reconnaissance company did not have time to really recover from their wounds, as they immediately fled from the hospital, taking only pants and a shirt. This is how Kostantin Mosalev is remembered, whom the director awarded with the nickname “Kostya Pitersky” in the film “Purgatory”. In fact, Mosalev's nickname in the detachment was "Skull". Because of the characteristic black bandana with white skulls that stands out from the crowd. frenzied

The militants did not like to contact the reconnaissance company. They knew they would persecute to the last. It is not known who called Efentiev’s company “mad”, but the nickname was firmly “settled” not only among Chechen fighters, but also among tankers, special forces and even staff officers. As soon as they talked about the battle of the “madmen” over the radio, it immediately became clear that a real battle was going on somewhere. The “madmen” rushed into battle without thinking. Instincts worked and the ability to beat the enemy not with numbers, but with skill. Efentiev's company could fight in seven ways against forty militants and come out victorious, and always, according to those who caught the events in Bamut and Grozny, drove the enemy to the last. , or, more correctly, a rapid breakthrough through the surrounded Coordination Center in Grozny, completely occupied by militants. Thanks to this risky and, according to many experts, impossible from the point of view of the safety of the operation group, not only high-ranking officers, but also many Russian journalists were saved. However, the Grozny feat happened two months after another significant event.

The special professionalism of "Gyurza" and the entire "mad" company is noted by the majority of the military in the actions to free Bamut. It was the reconnaissance of the 166th brigade that bypassed the militants in the mountains and went to them "in the back." Faced with the advance detachment, the patrol of scouts entered the battle, "putting down" 12 bandits. The surviving militants rushed with all their might to Bamut, from where they began to report on the “reconnaissance brigade” in their rear by radio. Largely thanks to the reconnaissance of the 166th brigade and the actions of the 136th Motorized Rifle Brigade, which took a heavy battle on the slope of the gorge, Bamut himself managed to recapture relatively easily. The company itself, under the command of Major Efentiev, even after disbanding on the eve of the second Chechen, thanks to the personnel and personal qualities of each fighter , still remains one of the most combat-ready army units in the recent history of the Russian Armed Forces.

Efentiev Alexey Viktorovich (Gyurza)

I received from Nikolai "Communication" photographs of the "Mad Company" in Bamut, they had not been posted anywhere before.

Nikolai "Svyaz" is the radio operator of Sergei "Cobra". to him, in turn, they were provided by Vasily Prokhanov.


From left to right: Conscript (I specify the name), then Max, followed by Kostya "Petersky" aka "Skull" and Nikolai "Communication". photo adventure56 :


From the left, Vlad Shurygin (journalist), then Nikolai "Communication", followed by Max, And then the guys from the third platoon of the "Mad Company". photo adventure56 :


On the left, Lech "Schvets" died in August 96. in Grozny, from the right Nikolay "Communication". photo adventure56 :


Nikolay "Communication", the name of the guy in the background is not known to me yet. photo adventure56 :


Again Nikolai "Communication", followed by a scout from the third platoon of the "Mad Company" photo aventure56:

For soldiers and officers of the 90s, "Gyurza" is the same symbol of military honor and hero, as political instructor Klochkov or senior lieutenant Konstantin Olshansky once was for the front-line soldiers of the Great Patriotic War.

All the years of his service, Efentiev invariably refused staff positions, remaining a line officer, remaining faithful to his beloved "special forces" ...

He left the army against his will.

When bureaucrats from the GOMU disbanded a separate “special forces” company, to which Aleksey had devoted all his last years, creating it virtually from scratch, from scratch, and making it the best “special forces” company of the Ground Forces, he was once again offered an official chair at the headquarters, but Efentiev did not accept a “consoling” position and wrote a letter of resignation ...

What usually happens to ex-military? Some kind of quiet private security company or a gatehouse at garages - where, far from the hustle and bustle, retirees earn a small "welding" for retirement. But Alex was not like that. Well, it was impossible to imagine Efentiev guarding someone's warehouse, or dozing in a booth at the barrier. And thirty-eight years is not the age of a pensioner, even if you have long been an “old man” by length of service.

Probably, for many, six years ago, Alexei's decision to take up agriculture was almost a shock. Well, the image of a brilliant officer, a real "special forces" dog of war, did not fit in any way with peaceful digging in the ground, sowing, harvesting, traveling through the fields, haymaking and fertilizers.

It seemed that Efentiev simply blew it, got confused by an empty hobby that this would soon pass. But six months passed, spring passed, the time for the first harvest came, and mountains of selected grain suddenly grew up in the granaries of the Donskoye farm in the Ramonsky district of the Voronezh region, as if by magic. His, Efentevsky, grain, planted and grown by him on this earth.

And then suddenly, with piercing clarity, it became clear - the land for Efentiev is seriously and for a long time. And just as once in the ranks, in the war, he could not be “just a major”, but only the best, only the first, only the very best, so on earth he could not afford to be an accidental guest, a capricious hobby - only the best, only the first. And now his desktop is littered with books on agronomy, land use, economics. He wanders around exhibitions and elite seed farms. The lights on his MTS do not go out until late in the evening - mechanics sort out and restore equipment, repair tractors, combines, seeders, harvesters, mowers ...

In just two years, the devastated backward state farm turned into one of the best farms in the Voronezh region.

And yet, even for many of his friends, his choice of work came as a surprise.

Why land, why agriculture? Here is how he himself once answered this question: “I retired in 2000. And I think: what next, where? I began to figure out: my mother is an agronomist, my father-in-law was the chairman of the collective farm for many years. I didn't know anything about agriculture. But I love my land. The earth saved me many times during the war, I dug into it, pressed it. And how many times did I ask God to protect me? From somewhere in my soul I heard the call of my ancestors and made up my mind. Labor on earth is an interesting, creative work. There is an opportunity to earn money. You just need to plow on it properly. Life experience, including military, of course, came in handy. The situation is generally similar. What is an army? Get up early, go to bed late, you constantly work with people, you are in suspense. The same is true in agriculture. And all the time with people and in motion: one field, another. With technology, the same problems as in the army. The same caterpillars and wheels ... So I became the director of an agricultural enterprise.

Of course, one in the field is not a warrior. Here, in the former state farm, and now OOO Donskoye, Alexei did not come alone. He brought a whole team with him. His former colleagues, brothers in the war, with whom he passed the front roads of Chechnya, Kosovo, Karabakh. And it was with a team of like-minded friends that he was able to do the impossible - to revive the earth, raise the fields overgrown with shrubs and thistles, restore life to the actually dead villages.

But not everyone liked this enthusiasm of the former intelligence officer. For some, the poverty and hopelessness of the peasants, their degradation and savagery were too profitable.

Not everything worked out right away, not everything that he conceived succeeded. Here is how Aleksey says about this time and about himself: “The most valuable thing is my, or rather, our team, with which we came to the village all together, as we went to intelligence. As you can see, the reconnaissance was successful, even went over to a large-scale offensive! An offensive against drunkenness, unemployment, agrarian ignorance and ruin.

Of course, we came to the earth, not like an oil well - pump yourself money and shove it into your accounts until the oil runs out. And this is our main life position and moral principle. We always remember that the earth is a Home, not a Shop. The main thing is not what we get on earth: crops, figures, production indicators, but how we will live on it!”

Over the years, the economy has long since risen from its knees, from unprofitable, sitting up to its neck in debt, has turned into a growing profitable business, has gained strength. There are certain hopes in this regard in connection with the implementation of the national project in the field of agriculture.

But not only profit is in the head of the general director - this is how Efentiev's position is now called. While working on the land, Alexey does not forget about the people living on this land. In its central branch - the village of Bogdanovo, he built sports towns, two gyms, a dance floor. A building has been purchased and renovated for a first-aid post, which has not been here since 1992.

Efentiev Alexey Viktorovich, - General Director of the agricultural enterprise Donskoye LLC. Chairman of the Voronezh regional branch of the Agrarian Party.

Aleksey Efentiev belongs to that unique stratum of our society, which, without any doubt, can be called the “national elite”. Whatever he does, he can only do his job perfectly, only with superlative degrees of determination. He does not know how to be second, he does not know how to give in to difficulties. And his talent is not the talent of a destroyer, although he spent almost ten years of his life in wars and in "hot spots". Efentiev is a real harmonizer, creator. And his choice of peaceful labor is only proof of the huge positive potential that lies in it.

Also, Alexei real patriot of Russia. How many times he was made tempting offers to go abroad. To Europe, Israel, to Asia, where they were ready to take him as a leading instructor in large training centers for private security guards, in security firms, but he remained in Russia, chose, probably, the most difficult and thankless craft of a farmer and built his future with his own hands ...

He is a true hero of our time. Warrior, plowman, sage.

We are standing in a half-empty hangar, where the last year's crop was stored quite recently. Now, under the tarpaulin, there are only heaps of elite seed wheat. The one that will lie in the ground in the spring to become a new crop by the fall. Aleksey scoops it up with his palm, carefully, like the fingers of a child, kneads it in his fingers ...

Do you know that Russian grain feeds Afghanistan? It is purchased through the UN and exported to Afghanistan. Maybe my grain...

Why are we still respected in Afghanistan? Yes, because we have never fought against the people. We did not stage any "crusades" for the "modernization" of Islam, as the Americans do today. Yes, we fought with the dushmans, sometimes very cruelly, but we always saw people in the Afghans, we were always ready to sit down at the same table with them, share bread, and negotiate peace. We built schools, power plants, factories for them, imported bread, flour, and medicines. We tried to build a peaceful life. And the Afghans remember this...

I keep in my heart the names of all the excellent commanders, those with whom I was lucky to serve and whom I am proud to know. Generals Vasily Vasilievich Prizemlin, Vladimir Anatolyevich Shamanov, Vladimir Ilyich Moltenskoy, Valery Evgenievich Evtukhovich - people who greatly influenced me.

I remember all my soldiers. I was not a “kind” commander - I know that many soldiers were afraid of me and scolded me behind my back, but those who went through the war with me already assess my exactingness and rigidity in a completely different way. And I'm not ashamed to look into the eyes of any of my subordinates. And I truly love and respect many of them. In the Smolensk region lives an ordinary Afghan war Alexander Kiriyenko, awarded the Order of the Red Star, Courage, three medals "For Courage". He is disabled. Life is not easy for him. It would seem that such people should be a guide for society. However, it is often difficult for them to settle down in a peaceful life ...

I look at the golden stream of grain exuding through my fingers, and I remember how in Bamut his palm lay heavily and hard on the Kalashnikov steel, and it seemed that the machine gun was just an extension of his hand - hard, precise, ruthless. And now the grain, pouring down on a high pile, suddenly softened it, made it some kind of hard-working, peasant, solid, the one that is built and sown ...

- ... Russia is a great power. It is impossible to imagine it as a quiet provincial backyard of Europe. Those who see such a future for her are simply naive and do not understand either her energy or her place in world history. And no matter how today someone in Europe or overseas is writhing with hatred towards us, no matter how many “political scientists” and “experts” bury us, but Russia is rising, Russia is reborn. And it can only be a real Empire. There simply cannot be any other Russia.

What's in the future? What will I be doing?

What I can do is to benefit my Russia. She is my main personal matter!

And also raise children. I have three sons, and I want them to graduate from the special forces department, become Russian officers, real defenders of Russia. The place of a real man is in the army…

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Plot

The plot focuses on the battles for the complex of the city hospital in Grozny, occupied by Russian troops led by Colonel Vitaly Suvorov, who lost his eye during sniper fire, with the radio call sign "Sugrob" (Viktor Stepanov). On January 4, 1995, a group of militants led by field commander Dukuz Israpilov (Dmitry Nagiev) surround the hospital and begin to storm. Volunteers and mercenaries are fighting on the side of the Chechens: Afghan Mujahideen, Arabs, Negroes, nationalists from UNA-UNSO, snipers from the Baltic states. The situation is further complicated by the fact that due to the lack of communication with the headquarters and other units of the federal forces, the defenders are "processed" by their own artillery. A group of scouts ("Petersky", "Cobra" and "Bachelor") from the GRU special forces on a truck with a load of 200 breaks through to the aid of "Sugrob".

After that, the special forces, having verified their identities, connect with their comrade (“Gyurza”), who is fighting as part of the federal forces fighting for the surgical complex of the aforementioned hospital. In the course of fierce battles, motorized rifles lose the surgical complex and at least one more corps, suffering heavy losses (“Cobra” mentions 40 dead soldiers in the surgical one alone). Suvorov and Israpilov are conducting a dialogue on the air. During one of the communication sessions, Dukuz “recommends” the colonel to “remove the dead”, since he will not be able to keep the Afghans from bullying the dead (previously it was shown how the Afghans cut off the heads of Russian prisoners of war and shot them with RPGs at the positions of the federals, demoralizing young soldiers; later there are scenes where the militants urinate on the corpses of dead soldiers). "Snowdrift" orders the only remaining tank to "bury the guys", that is, to destroy the corpses with the help of the tank's caterpillars. After explaining the reasons for such actions, the tank commander (call sign "Korobochka-2") agrees to carry out the order. The corpses are destroyed, and the GRU fighters give the soldiers a “salute” with a volley from their weapons.

Further, "Snowdrift" demands to explain the lack of action on the part of the special forces (having some reason for this - the special forces until that time almost did not show themselves), explaining the need for action on their part by the fact that the colonel only they (special forces) and the tanker are combat-ready soldiers . The commandos find the tank commander and offer him to throw them up to the hospital building, where the Chechens are entrenched. The gunner protests, confident that the militants will burn them, but the commander, after some hesitation, agrees to the adventure. During the sortie, he manages to throw the special forces soldiers to the corps and divert the attention of the militants to his tank himself.

Despite the constant maneuvering and use of car skeletons as shelters from RPG fire, the militants manage to immobilize the tank, damaging its undercarriage. The tank driver dies. Israpilov offers the tank commander Igor Grigorashchenko to go over to the side of Ichkeria, promising a good reward. The commander of the militants shows Igor a package with leaflets "Cargo 200" intercepted by the militants - the only thing that, according to him, the Russian command prepared for the war. Grigorashchenko succeeded in getting Dukuz to give him five minutes to think. Then Igor gets in touch with the "Cobra", explains to him his disposition and specifies the location of the enemy's machine-gun nests.

Grigorashchenko, going to certain death, fires at the hospital building from a tank gun, killing a large number of militants. The surviving militants shoot the tank with grenade launchers, drag out Grigorashchenko, who lost his legs and part of his arm, and crucify him on a cross from wooden beams. At this time, "Sugrob", having received a radio message from "Cobra" about the destruction of Chechen snipers by special forces and heavy losses among the militants from the fire of "Korobochka-2", gathers all forces, including the wounded, and incurring heavy losses, knocks militants out of the hospital. The credits indicate that a few days later the hospital complex was again occupied by Chechen units.

The picture is shot in a naturalistic manner - the film is replete with extremely violent scenes of violence. All screen time is occupied by intense fighting, filmed in a pseudo-documentary manner.

Cast

• Viktor Stepanov - Guards Colonel Vitaly Nikolaevich Suvorov, Chief of Staff of the 131st Motorized Rifle Brigade
• Ivan Ganzha - Captain Ivan, officer of the 131st brigade
• Roman Zhilkin - lieutenant Igor Grigorashchenko, tanker, commander of the only surviving T-80 tank
• Sergey Rost (appears in the credits under his real name Titivin) - tanker Bogdash, operator-gunner of the only surviving T-80 tank(Bogdash is a surname, a nickname, or a diminutive form of a name, it is not specified in the film)
• Alexey Gushchin - Kostya "Petersky", GRU commando
• Vyacheslav Burlachko - "Cobra", GRU special forces
• Alexander Baranov - "Gyurza", GRU special forces
• Georgy Antonov - sniper of the 131st brigade Pasha Naryshkin
• Vladimir Belov - foreman of the federal troops
• Dmitry Nagiev - Dukuz Israpilov, Chechen field commander, former surgeon at the Grozny city hospital
• Konstantin Butaev - Shirvani, assistant field commander Israpilov, former chief physician of the Grozny city hospital
• Irina Veselina (Sotskova) - the first Lithuanian sniper mercenary, former biathlete("White tights")
• Victoria Matveeva - second Lithuanian sniper mercenary, former biathlete("White Pantyhose")
• Nikolay Alekseev - Aslan, fighter
• Yuri Kuznetsov - foreman Ogoloviev(episodes not included in the film)
• Vladimir Gostyukhin - Colonel Tyrtyshny, commander of an armored column(episodes not included in the film)

film crew

• Screenwriter - Alexander Nevzorov
• Stage director - Alexander Nevzorov
• Director - Mikhail Ermolov
• Producer - Alexander Nevzorov
• General Producer - Boris Berezovsky
• Chief operator - Viktor Mikhalchenko
• Artist - Yuri Pashigorev
• Composer - Andrey Schepelev
• Director's assistants - Y. Krasnov, Y. Ilarioshkina

Filming a movie

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• In the film, the soldiers more than once “go through” swearing at the mediocre actions of the command, and Colonel Suvorov once makes it clear who is responsible for what is happening: “A good fucking gift from the Russian military registration and enlistment offices to Dzhokhar Dudayev and personally from Pasha Grachev!” he will say when it comes to young soldiers.
• The words that Captain Ivan (the hero of Ivan Ganzha) says to the Chechen commander Israpilov before his death are the words from an interview with Nevzorov of a real soldier of the first Chechen campaign.
• The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation refused to support Nevzorov on the set. According to Nevzorov, “they billed me for everything I asked for, and there I had to pay for each spent cartridge case ... 5 or 6 thousand rubles! And I need millions of them, because everything in the places of warfare is covered with spent cartridges. Apparently, the army read the script and was dissatisfied. Therefore, we were assisted by the Internal Troops. Soldiers who passed through Chechnya were filmed in extras.
• The hero Vyacheslav Burlachko (call sign "Cobra") is voiced by the octavist of the St. Petersburg Chapel Alexander Ort, a man with one of the lowest voices in the world.
• Prototypes :
• In the film, on the Nagiyev assault rifle and on other assault rifles, and especially machine guns (for example, on the RPK of the Gyurza commando), a nozzle for firing blank cartridges is visible.
• Also, in the ribbons that are over Israpilov's shoulder, for some reason training machine-gun cartridges of 7.62 × 39 mm caliber are loaded.
• In the scene when the dead tanker is taken down from the cross (1:50:03), after the words of one of the soldiers “Bring it, carry it”, you can clearly see how the tankman blinks.
• The 131st separate motorized rifle brigade in reality fought not for the hospital complex, but for the railway station. The battles for the hospital complex, northeast of the building of the Council of Ministers, on January 1-4, were led by the 1st motorized rifle battalion of the 255th Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 20th Guards Motorized Rifle Division. On January 2, a reinforced battalion from the 74th Separate Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade arrived to help the encircled battalion.

see also

• "Hell" Documentary report by Alexander Nevzorov ("Channel One", 1995)
• Documentary films by Alexander Nevzorov from the series "Wild Field" - "God is with us", "The Last Soldiers of the Empire" ("Channel One", 1995)
• Documentary films by Alexander Nevzorov from the cycle "Days" - "Chechen War" ("Channel One", 1995)
• "Undeclared War" (GTRK "Pskov", 1995)

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An excerpt characterizing Purgatory (film, 1997)

- Well, well, well. O! what are you!
The governor's wife led him to a tall and very fat old woman in a blue leotard, who had just finished her game of cards with the most important persons in the city. It was Malvintseva, Princess Mary's maternal aunt, a wealthy childless widow who always lived in Voronezh. She was standing, paying off the cards, when Rostov approached her. She narrowed her eyes severely and importantly, glanced at him, and continued to scold the general who had won against her.
“Very glad, my dear,” she said, holding out her hand to him. - I beg your mercy.
After talking about Princess Mary and her dead father, whom Malvintseva apparently did not love, and asking what Nikolai knew about Prince Andrei, who, apparently, also did not enjoy her favors, the important old woman let him go, repeating the invitation to be with her.
Nikolai promised and blushed again when he bowed to Malvintseva. At the mention of Princess Marya, Rostov experienced a feeling of shyness, incomprehensible to himself, even fear.
Departing from Malvintseva, Rostov wanted to return to dancing, but the little governor’s wife put her plump hand on Nikolai’s sleeve and, saying that she needed to talk to him, led him to the sofa room, from which those who were in it immediately left so as not to interfere with the governor.
“You know, mon cher,” said the governor’s wife with a serious expression on her small kind face, “this is definitely a party for you; do you want me to marry you?
- Whom, ma tante? Nikolai asked.
- I'm marrying the princess. Katerina Petrovna says that Lily, but in my opinion, no, is a princess. Want? I'm sure your maman will thank you. Really, what a girl, lovely! And she's not that stupid at all.
“Not at all,” Nikolai said, as if offended. “I, ma tante, as a soldier should, do not ask for anything and do not refuse anything,” said Rostov before he had time to think about what he was saying.
So remember, this is not a joke.
- What a joke!
“Yes, yes,” said the governor’s wife, as if speaking to herself. - And here's something else, mon cher, entre autres. Vous etes trop assidu aupres de l "autre, la blonde. [My friend. You are too courting for that blond one.] The husband is really pathetic, right ...
“Oh no, we are friends,” Nikolai said in simplicity of heart: it never occurred to him that such a fun pastime for him could not be fun for anyone.
“What nonsense I said, however, to the governor's wife! - Suddenly, over dinner, Nikolai remembered. “She will definitely start wooing, but Sonya? ..” And, saying goodbye to the governor’s wife, when she, smiling, once again told him: “Well, remember,” he took her aside:
“But here’s what, to tell you the truth, ma tante…
- What, what, my friend; let's go sit here.
Nikolai suddenly felt a desire and a need to tell all his sincere thoughts (those that he would not have told his mother, sister, friend) to this almost strange woman. Later, when he recalled this impulse of unprovoked, inexplicable frankness, which, however, had very important consequences for him, it seemed to Nicholas (as it always seems to people) that he had found a stupid verse; and yet this impulse of frankness, together with other minor events, had enormous consequences for him and for the whole family.
“That's it, ma tante. Maman has been wanting to marry me to a rich woman for a long time, but this thought alone is disgusting to me, marrying for money.
“Oh yes, I understand,” said the Governor.
- But Princess Bolkonskaya, that's another matter; firstly, I'll tell you the truth, I really like her, she is to my heart, and then, after I met her in such a position, it was so strange, it often occurred to me that this was fate. Think especially: maman has been thinking about this for a long time, but I had never met her before, how it all happened like this: we didn’t meet. And at a time when Natasha was the bride of her brother, because then I would not have been able to think of marrying her. It is necessary that I met her exactly when Natasha's wedding was upset, and then that's all ... Yes, that's what. I haven't told anyone this and I won't. And you only.
The Governor shook his elbow gratefully.
“Do you know Sophie, cousin?” I love her, I promised to marry and marry her ... Therefore, you see that this is out of the question, ”Nikolai said awkwardly and blushing.
- Mon cher, mon cher, how do you judge? Why, Sophie has nothing, and you yourself said that your father's business was very bad. What about your maman? This will kill her. Then Sophie, if she is a girl with a heart, what kind of life will she have? The mother is in despair, things are upset... No, mon cher, you and Sophie must understand this.
Nicholas was silent. He was pleased to hear these conclusions.
“All the same, ma tante, this cannot be,” he said with a sigh, after a pause. - Will the princess still go for me? and again, she is now in mourning. Is it possible to think about it?
“Do you really think that I will marry you now?” Il y a maniere et maniere, [There is a manner for everything.] - said the governor's wife.
“What a matchmaker you are, ma tante…” Nicolas said, kissing her plump hand.

Arriving in Moscow after her meeting with Rostov, Princess Marya found there her nephew with a tutor and a letter from Prince Andrei, who prescribed them their route to Voronezh, to Aunt Malvintseva. Worries about moving, anxiety about her brother, the arrangement of life in a new house, new faces, the upbringing of her nephew - all this drowned out in the soul of Princess Marya that feeling of temptation that tormented her during her illness and after the death of her father, and especially after meeting with Rostov. She was sad. The impression of the loss of her father, united in her soul with the death of Russia, now, after a month that had passed since then in the conditions of a quiet life, was felt more and more strongly by her. She was anxious: the thought of the dangers to which her brother, the only close person left to her, was exposed, tormented her incessantly. She was preoccupied with the education of her nephew, for whom she felt constantly inadequate; but in the depths of her soul there was agreement with herself, which flowed from the consciousness that she crushed in herself the personal dreams and hopes that had risen, connected with the appearance of Rostov.
When the next day after her evening, the governor's wife came to Malvintseva and, after talking with her aunt about her plans (having made a reservation that, although under the present circumstances it is impossible to even think about formal matchmaking, it is still possible to bring young people together, let them get to know each other ), and when, having received the approval of her aunt, the governor’s wife under Princess Marya spoke about Rostov, praising him and telling how he blushed at the mention of the princess, Princess Marya experienced a feeling that was not joyful, but painful: her inner consent no longer existed, and again Desires, doubts, reproaches and hopes arose.
In those two days that passed from the time of this news to the visit to Rostov, Princess Marya did not stop thinking about how she should behave in relation to Rostov. Now she decided that she would not go out into the drawing room when he arrived at his aunt's, that it was indecent for her, in her deep mourning, to receive guests; then she thought it would be rude after what he had done to her; then it occurred to her that her aunt and the governor's wife had some kind of views on her and Rostov (their looks and words sometimes seemed to confirm this assumption); then she said to herself that only she, with her depravity, could think this about them: they could not help but remember that in her position, when she had not yet taken off her pleresis, such a matchmaking would be insulting both to her and the memory of her father. Assuming that she would come out to him, Princess Marya thought up the words that he would say to her and which she would say to him; and sometimes these words seemed to her undeservedly cold, sometimes having too much significance. Most of all, when meeting with him, she was afraid for embarrassment, which, she felt, should have taken possession of her and betrayed her as soon as she saw him.
But when, on Sunday after mass, the footman reported in the drawing room that Count Rostov had arrived, the princess did not show embarrassment; only a slight blush came to her cheeks, and her eyes lit up with a new, radiant light.
Have you seen him, auntie? said Princess Mary in a calm voice, not knowing herself how she could be so outwardly calm and natural.
When Rostov entered the room, the princess lowered her head for a moment, as if giving time to the guest to greet her aunt, and then, at the very moment that Nikolai turned to her, she raised her head and met his gaze with shining eyes. With a movement full of dignity and grace, she rose with a joyful smile, extended her thin, tender hand to him and spoke in a voice in which for the first time new, feminine chest sounds sounded. M lle Bourienne, who was in the drawing room, looked at Princess Mary with perplexed surprise. The most skillful coquette, she herself could not have maneuvered better when meeting a person who needed to please.
“Either black suits her so much, or she really got so prettier, and I didn’t notice. And most importantly - this tact and grace! m lle Bourienne thought.
If Princess Mary had been able to think at that moment, she would have been even more surprised than m lle Bourienne at the change that had taken place in her. From the moment she saw that sweet, beloved face, some new force of life took possession of her and compelled her, against her will, to speak and act. Her face, from the time Rostov entered, suddenly changed. Suddenly, on the walls of a painted and carved lantern, that complex, skillful artistic work, which previously seemed rough, dark and meaningless, appears with unexpected striking beauty, when the light inside is lit: so suddenly the face of Princess Marya was transformed. For the first time, all that pure spiritual inner work by which she had lived until now came out. All her inner work, dissatisfied with herself, her suffering, striving for good, humility, love, self-sacrifice - all this now shone in those radiant eyes, in a thin smile, in every line of her tender face.
Rostov saw all this as clearly as if he had known her all her life. He felt that the creature that was before him was completely different, better than all those he had met up to now, and better, most importantly, than himself.
The conversation was the simplest and most insignificant. They talked about the war, involuntarily, like everyone else, exaggerating their sadness about this event, they talked about the last meeting, and Nikolai tried to divert the conversation to another subject, they talked about the good governor, about the relatives of Nikolai and Princess Mary.
Princess Mary did not speak of her brother, diverting the conversation to another subject as soon as her aunt spoke of Andrei. It was evident that she could speak of the misfortunes of Russia in a pretense, but her brother was a subject too close to her heart, and she did not want and could not talk lightly about him. Nikolai noticed this, as he generally, with penetrating observation unusual for him, noticed all the shades of Princess Marya's character, which all only confirmed his conviction that she was a very special and extraordinary creature. Nikolai, just like Princess Marya, blushed and was embarrassed when they told him about the princess and even when he thought about her, but in her presence he felt completely free and said not at all what he was preparing, but what instantaneously and always incidentally occurred to him.
During the short visit of Nicholas, as always, where there are children, in a moment of silence, Nicholas resorted to the little son of Prince Andrei, caressing him and asking if he wants to be a hussar? He took the boy in his arms, began to twirl him merrily, and looked round at Princess Mary. A touched, happy and timid look followed her beloved boy in the arms of a loved one. Nikolai noticed this look too and, as if understanding its meaning, blushed with pleasure and began to kiss the boy good-naturedly and cheerfully.


MASALEV Konstantin "PITERSKIY" - "...Because people returned home, where they were needed, where they were people with a capital letter..."..We managed to have a heart-to-heart talk with the legendary Kostya "Pitersky". Open person. Very simple - "shirt guy". In a telephone conversation, he told us about his moods. Now Konstantin lives in a small village without the Internet and other such excesses. As he says - "rests from people." Builds his own house. And in November of this year, his book "Monument to the Furious Infantry" is published. "HEROES OF RUSSIA": Where did you do your military service? You, like a hot kid, where did you seek solace after the "urgent"? KOSTIA: Tank training Leningrad region, 86th tank training battalion (62nd military base GRVZ, Akhalkalaki, Georgia), signed the first contract there. I spent a little time in civilian life, then signed a second contract and went to Chechnya. "HEROES OF RUSSIA": Kostya, with whom has Russia fought since 1994 in Chechnya? Banditry dominated all over Russia then. KOSTYA: At that time, it didn't really matter to me who Russia was fighting in Chechnya, it was important that there was a war going on and fighters were needed. They touched Russia, declared us slaves - it was necessary to answer. "HEROES OF RUSSIA": You fought in both the first and second campaigns, how did they differ? KOSTIA: They differed in the quality of the Ichkerian militants. In the first campaign they were more serious than in the second. Looks like the human reserve is over. From our side, the madhouse was the same in both the first and the second. The same lice, the same pearl barley, the same Yelets and Morshan "Prima". The commander's fucking ... was also the same. "HEROES OF RUSSIA": You are a legend! Your division is the best ever! Do you feel needed, looking back? KOSTYA: First, for sure, there were somewhere cooler. And, the so-called legend became completely by accident. There were many such nameless "legends" in the first Chechen one, it's just that no one knows about them. And necessary - of course yes. First, they thoroughly thinned out the bed of Chechen lawlessness. Secondly, maybe because of this, somewhere, not only in Russia, but also in Chechnya itself, children grew up normally. I would give anything to go back to that time. "HEROES OF RUSSIA": You say that the Union of the Indestructible...was and is your Motherland, what is your Motherland now? BONE: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. "HEROES OF RUSSIA": Which of the guys do you see? BONE: With many. "HEROES OF RUSSIA": Tell me, was the television version of "Mad Company" very different from the real one? KOSTYA: There was no such thing as a "Mad Company". "Mad" is a slang term for the 166th Motorized Rifle Brigade. "Mad Company", like Kostya Pitersky, Nevzorov came up with this ... "HEROES OF RUSSIA": Everyone remembers your words on camera "yes, it broke somehow, it pulls here again." Did it pull so hard? You said that when leaving on vacation, people returned ahead of time, for what? BONE: Because people returned "home", to where they were needed, where they were people with a capital letter. "HEROES OF RUSSIA": How do you characterize Ramzan Kadyrov? KOSTIA: He is an ordinary head of the republic, as he should be. Here his Father was an authority. "HEROES OF RUSSIA": In November, your book "MONUMENT TO THE RADIC INFANTRY" is published, what prompted you to write stories? BONE: The book hasn't been published yet. Will be around November. And it began with a short story "Moon", which I wrote on the way to work. I read it to friends, acquaintances, and they demanded - write more. EXTRACT FROM KONSTANTIN MASALYOV'S BOOK "MONITOR TO RADIO INFANTRY": Silence was suddenly broken by machine-gun fire and grenade explosions. A thick fan of tracers swept everyone who was there off the road in seconds. We cannot fire back, there is a huge risk of laying our own. A red rocket took off, but not in front, as expected, but four hundred meters to the left ... The picture of the battle immediately became more or less clear. At the crossroads, where we were so eager, the "Czechs" organized an ambush. Both time and place they chose very well. In theory, without understanding what was happening, we, after the very first shots, should have enthusiastically started to wet our boys from the 136th, and they, too, should have bombed us. The receiver is old and tested. And although there was fog and a factor of surprise on the side of the Czechs, there was no confusion. - “Cobra”, I am “Baikal”! "Cobra", I'm "Baikal", reception ... - At the reception "Cobra" ... - Seryoga, climb a hundred meters up the slope, cover the flank, if they go around from above - we're assholes, don't let the "Czechs" walk freely there. If everything goes badly, you will correct the fire of the “cornflowers”. How did you understand? - "Baikal", I'm "Cobra", I understand everything, we are working ... - "Baikal", I'm "Lotus-two"! I have a "three hundredth", very heavy, urgent evacuation is needed! "Lotos-two" is the head patrol of the "Lotus" platoon, they were closest to the "Czechs" and at first it seemed that they were warped by the very first burst ... - "Baikal", I am "Lotus-two"! we are all fucked up here now ... t, pull us out, do something! - “Lotus-two”, you don’t have to howl on the air, the “Czechs” are listening to you, what will they think of us !? And lie down, don't twitch, everything is under control... Author "HEROES OF RUSSIA"