Grozny City War (45 photos)

City in April 2010.

1. Staropromyslovskiy district. Many buildings have already been restored. Others are waiting for their turn.



2. Old fishing. Disfigured facade hiding in the siding.



3. The October district. One of the buildings Research Institute.



4. Pilot Plant.



5. Palace of Culture. Kirov.



6. View Khankalskaya valley. From east to Grozny rises Hankala - home base of federal troops. The path is very narrow. I was advised not to go with them to the side. Once again in these places do not walk, can be undermined. When the withdrawal of troops from here, mined area; in the forest were stretching. Sappers mines have not cleared.



7. Parking spaces tanks still not healed. From these locations was conducted shelling of Grozny.



8. Many of the trenches and dugouts remained untouched.



9. The road of life ...



10 ... this road left to escape the bombing. During the storming of Grozny many people to leave the city.



11. Save Hall of Fame.



12. The school building in the October district.



13. As if the war was yesterday.



14. A lot of bullets and fragments on the facade of sick building.



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16. The once beautiful park wild, walking place turned into pasture for cows and horses.



17. Monument to Lenin in the October district of Grozny did not survived.



18. Destroyed building canteen.



19. On the streets of Grozny cows more than stray cats and dogs. Oh, those Cows. There will be on the roadway, and do not want to leave. They are perhaps the only vinovki plugs in Grozny. Although, no, not the only ones. Directions motorcade Kadyrov form a large cluster of machines.



20. The building of the military commandant's office in the October district.



21. In certain hours several soldiers out on the roof. At this point it is better not to photograph the building. By the way, the soldiers of the Russian armed forces in the city for one do not go.



22. Even small shops were occupied during the fierce skirmishes.



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24. One gets the feeling that after the war the city was not a single healthy buildings, even the smallest ...



25. ... all the buildings crippled war, all the hurt ...



26. Abandoned military UAZ stands since the Second Chechen War.



27. Where there is no human nature Caucasus quickly takes its toll.



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29. You can say for sure that the house was destroyed at the beginning of the first Chechen war. Too high up wild trees.



30. Before the war, there were houses.



31. It is already difficult to imagine how the house looked.



32. Nothing found after the war.



33. Ruin - a reminder of the great tragedy.



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35. Here, no one lives. Terrible atmosphere of suffocation.



36. Half of the house is restored, now people live there. Another destroyed.



37. Trees cover the consequences of the war.



38. To finish building the house of the surviving two floors. Work is in full swing.



39. Whether the first Chechen inscriptions, or a statement that the 95 - the number of the region.



40. To restore a house after the bombing, some damaged and abandoned houses dismantled on the bricks. On the wall of the house the owner has left the inscription: "Do not touch! Master. "In the basement settled viper.



41. Sovetkie gate on the background of newly built city hospital №5.



42. Abandoned house in the Leninsky district.



43. Go to the Minute Square in the center of Grozny. But no one uses them.



44. a minute were the fiercest fighting. This place is the intersection of important roads of the city.



45. Chips and bullet holes almost all patched. Columns only not restored. Facing marble well preserved, almost the same as before the war. Only small traces of bullets damaged it just a little if you look closely. According to the recovery plan, in place of the transition will be a shopping center.



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