The first Chechen (60 photos) Bashny.Net

Nemenov Alexander E., military journalist, photographer. Visited many hot spots: Abkhazia, Karabakh, Tajikistan and Chechnya course.

Years of events in these photos: 1994-1996

Dec 12, 1994. The first loss. Deployment of troops. INGUSHETIA.





JAN 1995. Soldiers' Mothers.





Dec 23, 1994 in Grozny. TRAM. PARK. Bomb shelter. RUSSIAN.



MARCH 1995. THE TERRIBLE. RUSSIAN CEMETERY. Reburial peaceful, gathered in the city after the winter.



APRIL 1995. Khankala. LAST Peer Grozny. REPLACEMENT.



May 20-21, 1995. STORM cement plant. Chiri-Yurt.





























FEBRUARY 1996. Chatou. Airborne. CONCLUSION.













MAY TAKE 1996. Bamut. SHAMANOV.































AUGUST 1996. THE TERRIBLE.































DECEMBER 1996. scarlet. The withdrawal of troops.





I have the honor!

ALEXANDER NEMEN

Agence France-Presse

About the author: He served in the KGB Border Troops, 1987-89, p. MEPom on the outpost.

But the interesting thing started then ... How is it - to serve in the MF and not to be the coolest ... Hooked something when I saw the guys that come out of Afghanistan, dosluzhivat, in a tank regiment in the rear with us. They sat at a bus stop in Afghan x / b - then outlandish gizmos in the Union, accompanied our GAZ-66 with alarm group, looking out of the body in this same x / b, only camouflage smile ... My war lasted for ninety ... and continues to this day ... fortunately less and less ... Since 1990 - TASS photojournalist, 1997 - Agence France-Presse.

Many trains ... I wanted to say something not only "in pictures". The second picture ... 20 years later ...