"The loss of this man will reverberate throughout the country." Vyacheslav Morozov - Admiral of the FSB (Hero of Russia German Ugryumov) Director Nikolai Kovalev
Ugryumov German Alekseevich - Head of the Department for the Protection of the Constitutional System and the Fight against Terrorism - Deputy Director of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, Vice Admiral.
Born on October 10, 1948 in the city of Astrakhan in the family of a worker and participant in the Great Patriotic War. Russian. He grew up and studied at the Bishkil station in the Chebarkul district of the Chelyabinsk region, where his parents worked at a grain elevator. In 1964, after graduating from school, he left for Astrakhan, where he graduated from State Technical University No. 6. Since 1966, he worked as a diesel mechanic at the V.P. Chkalov ship repair plant in Astrakhan.
In 1967, following the direction of the military registration and enlistment office, he entered the Caspian Higher Naval School named after S.M. Kirov in the city of Baku (Azerbaijan SSR). He studied at the Faculty of Chemistry and was a deputy company commander. I did sports; Master of Sports of the USSR in boxing. After graduating from college in 1972, he was sent for further service in the Caspian Military Flotilla.
Since August 1972 - divisional chemist of the 250th minesweeper division of the 73rd water area protection brigade, since December 1972 - assistant commander, and since 1973 - commander of a large fire boat of the 279th emergency rescue service of the Caspian military flotilla. In 1974, for skillful management and personal courage shown when extinguishing a fire in the Baku oil fields, he was awarded the medal “For Courage in a Fire.”
In 1975, he was recruited to work in the naval counterintelligence of the USSR State Security Committee. In 1976, he graduated from the Higher Military Counterintelligence Courses of the KGB of the USSR in Novosibirsk and was sent to operational work in the same Caspian military flotilla. In 1976-1982 - detective officer, senior detective officer of the Special Department of the KGB of the USSR for the Caspian Military Flotilla.
Since 1982 - deputy chief, and since 1985 - chief of the Special Department of the KGB of the USSR (since 1992 - Military Counterintelligence Department of the Ministry of Security of the Russian Federation) of the Caspian Military Flotilla. He worked in difficult conditions: interethnic clashes, the activities of the Popular Front of Azerbaijan, the collapse of the USSR. He participated in the rescue of Russian and Armenian families during the pogroms, and supervised the withdrawal of the military flotilla and naval school to Astrakhan.
Since 1992 - Head of the Military Counterintelligence Department of the Ministry of Security of the Russian Federation for the Novorossiysk Naval Garrison. Since 1993 - Head of the Military Counterintelligence Department of the Ministry of Security of the Russian Federation, and since 1994 - Head of the Military Counterintelligence Directorate of the Federal Counterintelligence Service of the Russian Federation (since 1995 - Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation) for the Pacific Fleet.
Since 1998 - First Deputy Head of the Military Counterintelligence Directorate (3rd Directorate) of the FSB of Russia, supervised the counterintelligence agencies of the Navy. Since 1999 - First Deputy Head, and since November 1999 - Head of the Department for the Protection of the Constitutional Order and Combating Terrorism (2nd Department) - Deputy Director of the FSB of Russia. Under his operational subordination was the Special Purpose Center of the FSB of Russia, which included Directorates “A” (“Alpha”) and “B” (“Vympel”).
Under his leadership and with his direct participation, special measures were developed and carried out as part of the counter-terrorism operation in the North Caucasus region, as a result of which many leaders and active members of bandit formations were neutralized. This is the bloodless capture of Gudermes in December 1999, and the arrest of Salman Raduev in March 2000, and the release of hostages in the village of Lazarevskoye in November of the same year.
By Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of December 20, 2000, for courage and heroism shown in the performance of military duty, Vice Admiral Ugryumov German Alekseevich awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation with a special distinction - the Gold Star medal.
Since January 2001 - Head of the Regional Operational Headquarters in the North Caucasus. He dealt with issues of troop withdrawal, the procedure for transferring powers from the military and the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs to counterintelligence agencies.
He spent more than 25 years serving in military counterintelligence. By decree of the President of the Russian Federation of May 30, 2001, G.A. Ugryumov was awarded the next military rank of admiral. And the next day he was gone.
He died suddenly on May 31, 2001 from a heart attack in his office at a military base in the village of Khankala (Chechen Republic). He was buried at Troekurovskoye Cemetery in Moscow.
Military ranks:
rear admiral (1993),
Vice Admiral (2000),
admiral (05/30/2001).Awarded the Order of Military Merit, Honor (02/22/1989), medals, including “For Distinction in Protecting the State Border of the USSR” (1985), “For Excellent Service in Protecting Public Order”, “For Courage in a Fire” ( 1974), badges “Honorary Counterintelligence Officer” (1997), “For Service in Counterintelligence” 2nd and 3rd degree.
His name was given to a street in Vladivostok, a street and square in Astrakhan, a street and school in Novorossiysk, as well as the base minesweeper of the Caspian flotilla (BT-244 “German Ugryumov”).
October 10, 1948 - May 31, 2001
Russian state security official, admiral
Early life and service in the navy
Born into a working-class family, a participant in the Great Patriotic War. Russian. He grew up and studied at the Bishkil station in the Chebarkul district of the Chelyabinsk region. After graduating from high school, he again went to Astrakhan, where he entered a ship repair vocational school.
In the USSR Navy since 1967: cadet of the chemical department of the Caspian Higher Naval School named after S. M. Kirov in the city of Baku. He graduated from college in 1972. He served in the Caspian military flotilla since 1972 as a senior assistant commander, and since 1973 as commander of a large fire boat. He distinguished himself while extinguishing a large fire in the Baku oil fields, for which he was awarded the medal “For Courage in a Fire.”
In the KGB of the USSR
Since 1975 - in the counterintelligence agencies of the USSR State Security Committee in the Navy. In 1976, he graduated from the Higher School of the KGB of the USSR in Novosibirsk with the rank of captain-lieutenant, and was sent to a special department of the KGB at the Caspian Naval School named after S. M. Kirov, where he conducted operational work at the faculty of foreign students. In 1979, he became the head of the special department of the KGB at this school.
In 1985 - 1992 - head of the Special Department of the KGB of the Caspian Military Flotilla. He distinguished himself in his activities to ensure the security of the flotilla in the context of aggravated interethnic relations in Transcaucasia and interethnic clashes, numerous armed attempts to seize weapons and military property of the flotilla. One of the leading participants in the operation to withdraw the Caspian Flotilla and the Caspian Naval School from Baku to Astrakhan.
In the state security agencies of Russia
Since 1993 - Head of the Special Department of the FSK of Russia at the Novorossiysk Naval Base, at the same time he was awarded the rank of captain of the 1st rank. Since 1994 - Head of the Department of the Federal Counterintelligence Service of the Russian Federation for the Pacific Fleet. In this position, one of the initiators of bringing journalist G. Pasko to criminal liability for espionage.
Since 1998 - in the central office of the FSB of the Russian Federation, first deputy head of the Military Counterintelligence Directorate of the FSB of the Russian Federation, and headed the counterintelligence agencies in the Navy. In 1999 - First Deputy Head of the 2nd Department of the FSB (protection of the constitutional order and the fight against terrorism), in November of the same year he became the head of this Department - Deputy Director of the FSB. Subordinate to him was the Special Purpose Center of the FSB of the Russian Federation, which included the Alpha and Vympel groups. With the direct participation of Ugryumov, special measures were developed and carried out as part of the counter-terrorism operation in the North Caucasus region, as a result of which many leaders and active members of gangs were neutralized. His name is associated, for example, with the bloodless capture of Gudermes in December 1999, the capture of Salman Raduev in March 2000, and the release of hostages in the village of Lazarevskoye near Sochi in November 2000.
On January 21, 2001, Vice Admiral Ugryumov, simultaneously with his previously held position, was approved as the head of the Regional Operational Headquarters in the North Caucasus. According to a number of publications in the media, on May 30, 2001, he was awarded the military rank of admiral.
The next day, May 31, Admiral Ugryumov died of a heart attack in his office on the territory of the headquarters of the Russian military group in the village of Khankala, Chechen Republic. According to media reports, the autopsy revealed traces of 7 microinfarctions. He was buried in Moscow at the Troekurovsky cemetery.
Awards
- Hero of the Russian Federation (the title was awarded by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of December 20, 2000 for courage and heroism shown in the performance of military duty)
- Order of the Badge of Honor
- Order of Military Merit,
- Medals, including “For courage in a fire”,
- Badge “Honorary Counterintelligence Officer” (1997),
- Badge "For service in counterintelligence" III and II degrees.
Memory
- By order of the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, the warship of the Caspian Flotilla - the base minesweeper BT-244 - was given the name "German Ugryumov".
- In the city of Astrakhan a street and a square bear his name,
- A monument was unveiled in Astrakhan on September 14, 2006.
- A bas-relief monument was erected in Novorossiysk.
- Streets in
Vyacheslav Morozov
Admiral FSB
Documentary novel
Dedicated to the young who choose the path.
DECREE
President of the Russian Federation
On conferring the title of HERO of the Russian Federation to Vice Admiral G. A. Ugryumov.
For courage and heroism shown in the performance of military duty, award the title
Hero of the Russian Federation to Vice Admiral Ugryumov German Alekseevich.
Ugryumov German Alekseevich
Est socia mortis homini vita ingloria.
A person's inglorious life is equal to death.
Publius Sir. Maxims
Living the lives of my heroes, I thought for them.
Margarita Volina. Black romance
On June 1, 2001, a mournful obituary about the death of Hero of Russia German Alekseevich Ugryumov appeared in Moscow newspapers. To the majority of his fellow citizens of Russia, whom he served honestly, his name meant nothing. True, someone might remember that the name “Ugryumov” was mentioned in connection with the capture of Salman Raduev, and even earlier - in connection with Pasko’s “case”. For the admiral’s colleagues from the Federal Security Service, the name of German Ugryumov was and will remain sacred.
“On May 31, 2001, while performing military duty on the territory of the Chechen Republic, the deputy director - head of the Department for the Protection of the Constitutional System and the Fight against Terrorism of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, Vice Admiral, died suddenly UGRUMOV German Alekseevich.
G. A. Ugryumov was born in 1948 in Astrakhan. Since 1967, he has been a cadet at the Caspian Higher Naval School named after S. M. Kirov. Upon completion of training, he was sent to serve in the Caspian Flotilla.
Since 1975, G. A. Ugryumov served in the security agencies of the army, where his organizational abilities and leadership talent were fully demonstrated. In 1999, he was appointed to the position of first deputy head of the Department for the Protection of the Constitutional Order and Combating Terrorism, and since November 1999 - deputy director - head of the department.
G. A. Ugryumov made a great contribution to ensuring the security of the state and preserving its sovereignty. In January 2001, by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, he was appointed head of the Regional Operational Headquarters in the North Caucasus. With his direct participation, special measures were developed and carried out as part of the counter-terrorism operation in the North Caucasus region, as a result of which leaders and active members of gangs were neutralized and hundreds of human lives were saved.
When performing official tasks, G. A. Ugryumov showed personal courage and heroism. He was distinguished by dedication to his work, deep specialized knowledge, exceptional demands on his subordinates, and the ability to work with people. These qualities, combined with extensive life and professional experience, allowed him to successfully manage complex and multilateral activities to protect the constitutional order and combat terrorism.
The merits of G. A. Ugryumov in ensuring state security were highly appreciated by the Motherland. He was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation. He was awarded the Order of Military Merit, the Badge of Honor, and many medals.
The bright memory of German Alekseevich Ugryumov will forever remain in our hearts.
Board of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation."
Just the day before, in the Kremlin, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a Decree conferring the rank of admiral on G. A. Ugryumov, so his colleagues, shocked by the sudden death of Ugryumov, did not have time to get their bearings. And in the mourning photograph of Ugryumov in vice-admiral's uniform, he did not have to wear three-star ones. The admiral’s wide chest is decorated with the Golden Star of the Hero of Russia, but he never put on the star and did not even have time to hold it in his hands: the star in the photo was scanned...
A strange grimace of fate: a sailor who died on the shore; Hero of Russia, who never wore an asterisk; an admiral who never wore admiral's shoulder straps... Maybe this is the pointing finger of fate that everything that Ugryumov was programmed to do, that he could still do, he did not have time to do...
Low bow to his friends and associates, without whom this book could not have happened.PART 1. Personality development
Do you want a person to become a Personality? Then place him from the very beginning - from childhood - in such relationships with all other people, within which he not only could, but would be forced to become an individual.
E. V. Ilyenkov, Soviet philosopher, thinker
Parents. childhood
May God give you water, feed you, and put you on a horse.
Russian proverb
From my personal profile:
Place of birth: Astrakhan.
Nationality Russian.
Alexandra Alekseevna Ugryumova, mother:
I was born in Astrakhan on August 5, 1927. The most vivid and terrible memories are of war. We survived the war very hard. The elder brother died near Voronezh and was buried there. The front was already approaching Astrakhan when I finished eighth grade and was about to enter a technical school. In 1942, my father died. Mom immediately noticeably aged, her strength left her - grief in the country, grief in the family, grief all around: they buried dad - and then we receive notification of the death of our brother. This will knock anyone down...
Mom worked in a sewing workshop, where they sewed sweatshirts for the front, and she took work to my house - sewing three-fingered mittens, also for the front. I couldn't leave her at such a time. My sister worked throughout the war in a hospital at the operating table, always complaining that her legs were swelling. On May 15, 1945, after the Victory, I officially went to work. She began working in the railway mail transportation department at the Astrakhan station.
And in 1946, a train arrived in the city - for some reason our soldiers were being driven to the Iranian border. The train stopped at the station tracks, there was a buzz in the city: so many victorious soldiers had arrived!.. Alyosha and I met under unusual circumstances: my jacket was stolen, and he helped find it. In the morning he comes to my house with a loaf of bread and a huge smoked bream. The sister was indignant: what kind of liberties! The rules in our house were strict. “Did you give him the address? Did you make a date? And you, young man, by what right have you come here?” - and so on. Alexey managed to explain himself in such a way that both him and his precious gift were accepted (for those times!). Somehow I managed to persuade my boss to give me the address where I live, and he showed up. Senior sergeant, chest in “gold”: orders, medals. Height is under two meters. He began to come to me and look after me. It ended with us getting married in 1947. At the beginning of the year he was demobilized (I think in February), and in May he came to pick me up: “Shurochka, let’s walk down the aisle!” How could you refuse? I fell in love with him myself while we were dating. Handsome hero! Two medals “For Courage”, for Warsaw, Koenigsberg, Berlin... One medal “For Courage” for knocking out a tank with direct fire - he was the commander of a 76-mm gun, the second - when he went behind the front line and brought a valuable “tongue” .
I remember when he was still courting me - it was the summer or spring of 1946, greenery all around - my sister said that our famous wrestler Ivan Poddubny came to Astrakhan with the circus. We, of course, went, Lyosha managed to get tickets to the front row. Poddubny bent horseshoes, rolled nickels into a tube with his fingers, placed a beam on his shoulders like a yoke, on which six people hung from both ends, and he made a carousel out of this “hanger”. And then he lay down on the platform, they put a shield on it and they rolled a piano onto the shield.
During the break, Poddubny jumped off the stage, approached Lyosha, and extended his hand:
Hello, soldier! Have you fought back?
He fought back.
That's good. Wife? - looked at me.
Future wife.
Good luck to you! - went to the stage and from there: - She will be a good wife!
Lyosha grinned and looked at me:
Who knows who knows…
Captain 2nd Rank Nikolai Alekseevich Medvedev:
German Alekseevich’s father was a scout for G.K. Zhukov. I went behind the front line and dragged a German officer with me - a “language” that was very necessary at that moment. They take off his helmet, this German, and he’s all blue, barely breathing, and just in time he’ll give up. While our doctors were pumping him out, the commander asked: “Ugryumov, what are you doing? You should have brought the corpse to us! How did you take it, like that?!” - “Yes, I didn’t do anything with him, I hit his helmet with my bare fist - and that’s all!..”
Exactly five years ago, a mournful obituary about the death of Hero of Russia German Alekseevich Ugryumov (1948–2001) appeared in Moscow newspapers. He died suddenly on the territory of the Chechen Republic while performing his military duty. Just the day before, in the Kremlin, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree appropriating G.A. Ugryumov with the rank of admiral. Deputy Director of the Federal Security Service, Head of the Department for the Protection of the Constitutional Order and the Fight against Terrorism, he, so to speak, was born a counterintelligence officer. He was feared and hated by those who are commonly called terrorists, both in Russia and abroad. He enjoyed great respect from intelligence agencies around the world. At one of the meetings, when they announced: “Ugryumov German Alekseevich...”, Putin stopped: “Known. That is, he is personally known.” Writer, front-line soldier Semyon Shurtakov, in a review of this book, noted: “How good and fair it would be if the wonderful person Hero of Russia German Ugryumov were personally known... to all citizens of Russia!”
Prologue
Ugryumov German Alekseevich
On June 1, 2001, a mournful obituary about the death of Hero of Russia German Alekseevich Ugryumov appeared in Moscow newspapers. To the majority of his fellow citizens of Russia, whom he served honestly, his name meant nothing. True, someone might remember that the name “Ugryumov” was mentioned in connection with the capture of Salman Raduev, and even earlier - in connection with Pasko’s “case”. For the admiral’s colleagues from the Federal Security Service, the name of German Ugryumov was and will remain sacred.
“On May 31, 2001, while performing military duty on the territory of the Chechen Republic, the deputy director - head of the Department for the Protection of the Constitutional System and the Fight against Terrorism of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, Vice Admiral, died suddenly
German Alekseevich.
G. A. Ugryumov was born in 1948 in Astrakhan. Since 1967, he has been a cadet at the Caspian Higher Naval School named after S. M. Kirov. Upon completion of training, he was sent to serve in the Caspian Flotilla.
Since 1975, G. A. Ugryumov served in the security agencies of the army, where his organizational abilities and leadership talent were fully demonstrated. In 1999, he was appointed to the position of first deputy head of the Department for the Protection of the Constitutional Order and Combating Terrorism, and since November 1999 - deputy director - head of the department.
G. A. Ugryumov made a great contribution to ensuring the security of the state and preserving its sovereignty. In January 2001, by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, he was appointed head of the Regional Operational Headquarters in the North Caucasus. With his direct participation, special measures were developed and carried out as part of the counter-terrorism operation in the North Caucasus region, as a result of which leaders and active members of gangs were neutralized and hundreds of human lives were saved.
PART 1. Personality development
Chapter 1
Parents. childhood
Alexandra Alekseevna Ugryumova, mother:
I was born in Astrakhan on August 5, 1927. The most vivid and terrible memories are of war. We survived the war very hard. The elder brother died near Voronezh and was buried there. The front was already approaching Astrakhan when I finished eighth grade and was about to enter a technical school. In 1942, my father died. Mom immediately noticeably aged, her strength left her - grief in the country, grief in the family, grief all around: they buried dad - and then we receive notification of the death of our brother. This will knock anyone down...
Mom worked in a sewing workshop, where they sewed sweatshirts for the front, and she took work to my house - sewing three-fingered mittens, also for the front. I couldn't leave her at such a time. My sister worked throughout the war in a hospital at the operating table, always complaining that her legs were swelling. On May 15, 1945, after the Victory, I officially went to work. She began working in the railway mail transportation department at the Astrakhan station.
And in 1946, a train arrived in the city - for some reason our soldiers were being driven to the Iranian border. The train stopped at the station tracks, there was a buzz in the city: so many victorious soldiers had arrived!.. Alyosha and I met under unusual circumstances: my jacket was stolen, and he helped find it. In the morning he comes to my house with a loaf of bread and a huge smoked bream. The sister was indignant: what kind of liberties! The rules in our house were strict. “Did you give him the address? Did you make a date? And you, young man, by what right have you come here?” - and so on. Alexey managed to explain himself in such a way that both him and his precious gift were accepted (for those times!). Somehow I managed to persuade my boss to give me the address where I live, and he showed up. Senior sergeant, chest in “gold”: orders, medals. Height is under two meters. He began to come to me and look after me. It ended with us getting married in 1947. At the beginning of the year he was demobilized (I think in February), and in May he came to pick me up: “Shurochka, let’s walk down the aisle!” How could you refuse? I fell in love with him myself while we were dating. Handsome hero! Two medals “For Courage”, for Warsaw, Koenigsberg, Berlin... One medal “For Courage” for knocking out a tank with direct fire - he was the commander of a 76-mm gun, the second - when he went behind the front line and brought a valuable “tongue” .
Chapter 2
School. Service
The Higher Naval School named after S. M. Kirov in the Caspian Sea is one of the eleven highest naval military schools of the USSR. And... one of the four that Russia missed after the collapse of the great power - the Soviet Union.
The suitability of a naval officer for service can perhaps be determined by five military educational standards, which can be called fundamental, general, fundamental:
High level of training of an officer as a leader of a unit, ship, unit in peacetime and war;
The ability to organize training and education of personnel, maintaining the required level of training and discipline;
Chapter 3
KGB of the USSR. Head of the Special Department
“One’s own security is the highest law in politics,” wrote our great historian Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, referring to the security of the Russian state. In Russian literature, we find the term “state security” already in the 19th century in the work of Professor I. Tarasov, who noted that danger can have a general and specific meaning, as well as an example of the merging of these concepts: a traitor-defector inflicts both general and specific on the state damage.
Military counterintelligence, according to historians of the special services, was born in Russia on January 21, 1903, when Emperor Nicholas II approved the report of the Minister of War, an honorary member of the Academy of the General Staff, the Artillery, Engineering, Military Legal and Military Medical Academies of Adjutant General Alexei Kuropatkin. General Kuropatkin defined the task of the new body, which he proposed to be called the “Intelligence Department of the General Staff”: it should be “to establish secret supervision over the paths of secret military intelligence, which have the starting point of foreign military agents and the final destinations of persons in public service within the country.”
During the Soviet period, the term “state security” was introduced in April 1934 during the formation of the Main Directorate of State Security within the NKVD, to which the functions of the OGPU were transferred. In 1936, this term was officially included in the text of the Stalinist Constitution of the USSR.
Any doctor and more or less educated pharmacist knows perfectly well that the antidote in the structure of its components must certainly reflect the components of the poison. If this rule is projected onto the problem of state security, it turns out that any threat requires adequate, most often mirror, actions.
Official documents and memoirs of friends and associates indicate that German Alekseevich began serving in the state security agencies in 1976, after studying at the Novosibirsk KGB Higher School. There is other evidence. I don’t consider it important for myself and for the reader to get to the bottom of the “truth” that no one needs; I will only cite various evidence, since the special services have their own secrets and there is a golden rule for their reliable preservation: know only what you are supposed to.
PART 2. Confronting evil
Chapter 4
Between two fires
German Ugryumov was first and foremost a creator - this is noted by everyone who ever knew him. The Creator is courageous by nature, for according to God’s plan he was born to resist evil. Without overcoming it, he has no opportunity to create. Destroyers drop their masks and roll up their sleeves in two cases: when there is an opportunity to form a pack or when they temporarily come to power. More often this happens simultaneously, or one follows from the other.
But the greater the greatness of the former, the more prominent and noticeable the insignificance of the latter.
The declared glasnost began with political, literary, newspaper and social demarcation, the “winners” in this struggle spitting on their own history, age-old spiritual values, humiliation of the Russian people - the “slave people” (the magazine “October”, for example, wrote that history Russia is so opposed to freedom that the Russians did not even (!) accept the freedom that was brought to them by the “boots of Napoleon’s soldiers...”)*, the crafty “attack” on the army, navy and intelligence services, the overthrow of “idols”. “The country is in a state of raging garbage,” stated the philosopher A. A. Zinoviev, who was then living in exile.
Georgy Vasilievich Sviridov
The great composer and no less great philosopher made an entry in his diary, making perhaps the most accurate diagnosis of the sick country: “The demarcation is taking place along the most important, fundamental line of human existence - along the spiritual and moral line. Here is the beginning of everything, the meaning of life!” I consider it simply necessary to present his reasoning at that time - not at all old-man bilious, as other liberal critics sometimes say, but wise and armor-piercingly accurate. “The so-called exposure of evil /.../ has long turned into relish, hardening the soul of the artist himself and in the surest way killing his talent, if he has one. In the matter of savoring, extraordinary results have been achieved, striking in their own way with ingenuity and inspiration, imagination, in collecting all kinds of dirt, perversion, vice, display of the shameful, etc. /.../ Behind all this there is often hidden a cold cynicism that excludes artistic inspiration and replaces it speculative invention, not devoid of remarkableness in its own way. But all this is too much, it has become monotonous.
Denigration, caricature of the Motherland, man, life, everything holy, everything pure. It seems that one might think that such artists - sufferers and martyrs - have never happened. Most often, these are successful and sometimes very business people, cleverly, thoughtlessly and enterprisingly trading their artistic skills. Proclaiming the fight against evil, they ultimately serve it!”
Chapter 5
Shooting region
Captain 1st Rank Ya. Ya.:
By the beginning of the events in Baku, we had excellent positions within all the destructive forces. We infiltrated all their organizations, including the Popular Front. They knew everything about them: where the militants’ bases were located, their weapons, apartments where they lived, appearances, participants, leaders. The KGB of Azerbaijan also knew about this.
When, after the entry of troops into Baku, a meeting was held at the KGB of Azerbaijan, at which Deputy Chairman of the KGB of the USSR Pirozhkov was present, the employees were indignant: why was no sanction given to isolate the provocateurs, the leaders of the collapse, but resorted to the introduction of troops and military equipment? After all, even without troops we could have disarmed their entire leadership as a result of one operation! In principle, this is the business of the special services. And most importantly, we would act within the framework of existing legislation: detention, charges, arrest - right up to trial. We had a rich evidence base.
The military structures of the Popular Front practically occupied the city, blocked all highways, occupied all government institutions, and the sea port. They blocked the airport and tried to occupy a military airfield. They were armed and had their own arsenal.
Power from the leadership of the city and the republic was flowing away not by the hour, but by the minute... And we were not allowed to arrest the instigators of this bloody unrest. We had a complete dossier on Elchibey, Nimat Panahov, and other activists. They knew who was behind them: Turkish and Iranian intelligence. By the way, Panakhov then fled to Iran. True, he was arrested after the troops arrived, but was released.
PART 3
From the Black Sea to the Pacific Ocean
Chapter 6
Southern sea border
Viktor Alekseevich Smirnov:
By that time, we had practically lost Sevastopol, and the division of the Black Sea Fleet had begun. The KGB leadership decided to create a Special Department in Novorossiysk. It was planned to relocate part of our Black Sea Fleet to Novorossiysk. The question arose about the head of the department, and this is already an admiral’s position. The choice fell on Ugryumov.
I must say, chance helped here. Even before the introduction of this position, he was called to the Center and offered to go to the Northern Fleet. He came to me and sat down. Speaks:
The situation is such that, as an officer, I cannot refuse; on the other hand, my wife is sick, my children were born and lived in Baku all their lives. From the south straight to the Far North - it will be difficult for them. To be honest, I don’t know what to do. You can, of course, kill your wife...
I went to see Zhardetsky and asked him not to ruin a person’s life. Of course he will go, but is it necessary? Let's send him to Novorossiysk.
Chapter 7
Pacific Ocean
Future admiral, and then captain of the 2nd rank,
Alexander Vasilievich Kolchak
wrote in December 1907 after the unsuccessful Russo-Japanese War, reflecting on the naval construction program: “The global significance of the sea as a collection of the most convenient and profitable routes of communication acquires exceptional importance during war. From this point of view, the water space of the sea can be considered as a highly developed network of railways (
Let’s not forget that before the war the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway was completed - for several years this was the “topic of the day”. -
receiving the desired strategic significance from the moment war is declared. ...The importance of communication and transport is too clear to be worth discussing further.”
Defeat in war is a bitter grief, but it is not a disaster. Trouble is when there is Troubles in the country!.. A man with a strong will, enormous personal courage, infinitely devoted to the fleet and Russia, Kolchak believed that the glory of the Russian fleet would be revived and would echo over the World Ocean more than once. Moreover, he stated: “I take the liberty of examining, as impartially as possible, the main questions: why Russia needs naval power and what this power is, or more precisely, how this power is expressed.” Then he was only 34 years old.
Another talented Russian military leader, also with a tragic fate - the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Army, from ordinary Cossacks, general
Lavr Georgievich Kornilov
Ten years later, speaking at the State Conference in Moscow, not yet betrayed by the Freemasons and politicians and - God knows how deeply and sincerely - believing in the ideals of the February bourgeois revolution, he spoke about the most urgent needs of the army: “As a legacy from the old regime, free Russia received an army , in the organization of which, of course, there were major shortcomings. But nevertheless, this army was combat-ready, resilient and ready for self-sacrifice. By a whole series of legislative measures carried out after the coup by people alien to the spirit and understanding of the army, this army was turned into the craziest crowd, valuing exclusively its own life.
...It is necessary to raise the prestige of officers. The officer corps, which fought valiantly throughout the war, the vast majority immediately took the side of the revolution and remained faithful to its cause, and now must be morally rewarded for all the humiliation they suffered, through no fault of their own, and for systematic bullying.
Chapter 8
"The Case" Pasko
Military journalist Pavel Evdokimov:
According to the logic of our glorious “human rights activists” and the so-called “democratic media,” if German Alekseevich had not raised the case against Grigory Pasko, he would have done the right thing. But because he acted like a professional, he acted badly.
The editors of many print media, television and radio programs provided space and time only to those who spoke in defense of Pasko - moreover, apologetically, based on speculation, on “personal opinion”, without particularly bothering themselves with arguments, or, as it were, neutrally, but precisely “how would". Example: “Olga Zhurman from Vladivostok reports. The trial of war journalist Pasko, who is accused of transferring classified materials to the Japanese, has resumed. Pasko told reporters that he still does not understand what he is accused of and said that the FSB is putting pressure on him and the court in all available ways. Pasko did not specify by what means. The lawyer is confident that Pasko will be acquitted.” Here, the entire “neutral” message is structured in such a way that the average person will remain in full confidence that Pasko is innocent, and the damned FSB agents do whatever they want. The only critical phrase “hidden” in the middle of the information is that Pasko did not specify the ways in which the “authorities” put pressure on the court. But it is almost invisible to the listener.
Pavel Evdokimov quoted information from the morning news of Radio Russia on December 3, 2001. On the same day, the NTV news program at 2 pm gave the floor to Grigory Pasko, who told viewers that he did not believe either the first or the second court hearing. Further comment: 50 witnesses were interviewed; Some of the documents, according to experts, transferred by military journalist Grigory Pasko to the Japanese media, are not secret.
(And the other part?.. -
The court decided to conclude the case, and is expected to pronounce a verdict on December 25, 2001. Lawyers prophesy that on this day “the inconsistency of the trial of the journalist will be demonstrated.” (Reminds me of the Russian proverb: the prophet got wet on the stove, but dried up in a puddle!..) The commentary by TV journalist Grigoriev also says that, in Pasko’s opinion, the FSB influences the court - and again, without specifying what this influence is . The TV presenter’s commentary on all of the above was also not heard.
PART 4. ANTI-Terror
Chapter 9
Head of military counterintelligence
Alexey Alekseevich Molyakov:
In the Pacific Fleet, despite the enormous scale of work, Ugryumov had no unsolvable issues. That is why, four years later, his candidacy was proposed for the post of deputy head of the Military Counterintelligence Directorate of the FSB of Russia. A leader with his approach, acumen and knowledge was needed, who could properly organize the work and manage other departments.
At that time I was invited to the post of Deputy Secretary of the Security Council. Lieutenant General Vladimir Ivanovich Petrishchev was appointed head of the 3rd Directorate, and Ugryumov became his deputy. I did not lose touch with the Directorate; I was glad that German Alekseevich immediately fit into the team of the Research and Development Directorate.
Vladimir Ivanovich Petrishchev:
Chapter 10
Hero of Russia
According to the All-Union Population Census, in 1989, over 293,700 Russians (23.1% of the republic’s population) lived on the territory of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
The systematic resettlement of Chechens from the mountainous areas to the territories bordering the Stavropol Territory and Dagestan was carried out by the leadership of the republic (D. Zavgaev) already around the mid-80s, and its consequence was a violation of the historically established “ethnic balance” in Shelkovsky, Naursky, Grozny , Sunzhensky and other lowland regions of Checheno-Ingushetia, where before this the Russian population was numerically predominant. In fact, already then the foundation was laid for future ethnic “cleansings”, which were systematically carried out in the 90s in the “Republic of Ichkeria”.
A pronounced anti-Russian policy, leading to systematic violations of human rights, moral and physical terror directed against the Russian population, has become a nightmare reality in self-proclaimed Ichkeria since August 1991, when, with the connivance, and often with the direct assistance of the central government, Chechen separatists seized power in Grozny.
Numerous evidence of terror against the non-Chechen population of the republic, which was carried out on the personal orders of President D. Dudayev and his entourage, is in the law enforcement agencies of Russia, in the administration of the President of the Russian Federation, in the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, and in other departments related to the situation in the Chechen Republic .
According to various sources, from 1991 to 1999, more than 21 thousand Russians were killed on the territory of Chechnya (not counting those killed during hostilities), more than 100 thousand apartments and houses belonging to “non-indigenous” residents of Chechnya were seized (including Ingush), more than 46 thousand people were enslaved or used in forced labor (from collecting wild wild garlic to building a road to Georgia through Itum-Kale and Tazbichi), only for the period from 1991 to December 1994 (i.e. before the entry of federal troops) more than 200 thousand Russians left Chechnya.
Chapter 11
ENEMIES OF GERMAN UGRUMOV
William Sofire
published an article with the eloquent title “The Baltic countries belong to NATO.” The article contains a remarkable phrase regarding our “subject”:
“Chechnya is necessary for the United States. The war in Chechnya makes Russia weak, and everything that makes Russia weak benefits the United States.”
Here, as they say, there is no time for diplomacy, when in front of everyone they casually throw a glove at your feet - as if they are spitting... Let's pick it up. We will answer. Not to notice is not to respect yourself.
Director of the FSB of Russia Nikolai Platonovich Patrushev:
Recently, the Federal Security Service made public the data at its disposal about the subversive nature of the activities on the territory of the Russian Federation and the CIS countries of organizations created by the extremist wing of the international Islamic association “Muslim Brotherhood”. It should be noted that extremist units of the Muslim Brotherhood operate in more than 50 countries around the world under the leadership of centers located in the Middle Eastern and European countries. Structures created by their emissaries have been identified in 49 regions of Russia. Extremist leaders coordinate their activities with the terrorist groups Al-Gamaa al-Islamiyya, Al-Jihad al-Islami, the famous international terrorist Osama bin Laden, Bosnian militants and use charity as a cover for spreading the ideas of militant Islam.
Chapter 12
Admiral's Heart
At one time, something was shaken in the Danish kingdom, and in democratic Russia it was even worse... Various media outlets responded differently to the death of the Hero. The newspaper Spetsnaz Rossii, having removed other prepared material, included an essay in the issue
Pavel Evdokimova
"The Fate of a Hero." Let us present it in abbreviation, without fear of some repetitions.
“German Ugryumov became the second senior officer whose heart could not stand it during this war. The first was the commander of the Marine Corps group in Chechnya, 53-year-old Major General Alexander Otrakovsky, who died in Vedeno in March 2000.
Now a new death... For the last two or three months there have been rumors that German Ugryumov could become first deputy director of the FSB.
German Alekseevich was born three years after the end of the war into the family of a front-line soldier. After school he worked at a ship repair plant. In 1972 he graduated from the Caspian Higher Naval School. He served in the Caspian Sea and was a ship commander.
Already in a different capacity, “on shore,” he still remained a sailor - and not only by rank, which testified to his naval “origin”; he was literally sick from the sea. His office at Lubyanka was decorated with flags, ship models and photographs. The captain's cabin, in a word.
USSR USSR, Russia Russia
German Alekseevich Ugryumov(October 10, 1948, Astrakhan - May 31, 2001, Khankala, Chechen Republic) - figure in the Russian state security agencies, admiral (2001), Hero of the Russian Federation.
Early life and service in the navy
Born into a working-class family, a participant in the Great Patriotic War. Russian. He grew up and studied at the Bishkil station in the Chebarkul district of the Chelyabinsk region. After graduating from high school, he again went to Astrakhan, where he entered a ship repair vocational school.
In the KGB of the USSR
Awards
- Hero of the Russian Federation (the title was awarded by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of December 20, 2000 for courage and heroism shown in the performance of military duty)
- Medals, including “For courage in a fire”,
- Badge “Honorary Counterintelligence Officer” (1997),
- Badge "For service in counterintelligence" III and II degrees.
Memory
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Notes
Sources
. Website "Heroes of the Country".
- The novel was published in Nos. 3 and 4 of the magazine “Our Contemporary” for 2004.
An excerpt characterizing Ugryumov, German Alekseevich
“And one more thing, please, my dear, sharpen my saber; dull it... (but Petya was afraid to lie) it was never sharpened. Can this be done?- Why, it’s possible.
Likhachev stood up, rummaged through his packs, and Petya soon heard the warlike sound of steel on a block. He climbed onto the truck and sat on the edge of it. The Cossack was sharpening his saber under the truck.
- Well, are the fellows sleeping? - said Petya.
- Some are sleeping, and some are like this.
- Well, what about the boy?
- Is it spring? He collapsed there in the entryway. He sleeps with fear. I was really glad.
For a long time after this, Petya was silent, listening to the sounds. Footsteps were heard in the darkness and a black figure appeared.
- What are you sharpening? – the man asked, approaching the truck.
- But sharpen the master’s saber.
“Good job,” said the man who seemed to Petya to be a hussar. - Do you still have a cup?
- And over there by the wheel.
The hussar took the cup.
“It’ll probably be light soon,” he said, yawning, and walked off somewhere.
Petya should have known that he was in the forest, in Denisov’s party, a mile from the road, that he was sitting on a wagon captured from the French, around which the horses were tied, that the Cossack Likhachev was sitting under him and sharpening his saber, that there was a big black spot to the right is a guardhouse, and a bright red spot below to the left is a dying fire, that the man who came for a cup is a hussar who was thirsty; but he knew nothing and did not want to know it. He was in a magical kingdom in which there was nothing like reality. A large black spot, perhaps there was definitely a guardhouse, or perhaps there was a cave that led into the very depths of the earth. The red spot might have been fire, or maybe the eye of a huge monster. Maybe he is definitely sitting on a wagon now, but it may very well be that he is sitting not on a wagon, but on a terribly high tower, from which if he fell, he would fly to the ground for a whole day, a whole month - keep flying and never reach it . It may be that just a Cossack Likhachev is sitting under the truck, but it may very well be that this is the kindest, bravest, most wonderful, most excellent person in the world, whom no one knows. Maybe it was just a hussar passing for water and going into the ravine, or maybe he just disappeared from sight and completely disappeared, and he was not there.
Whatever Petya saw now, nothing would surprise him. He was in a magical kingdom where everything was possible.
He looked at the sky. And the sky was as magical as the earth. The sky was clearing, and clouds were moving quickly over the tops of the trees, as if revealing the stars. Sometimes it seemed that the sky cleared and a black, clear sky appeared. Sometimes it seemed that these black spots were clouds. Sometimes it seemed as if the sky was rising high, high above your head; sometimes the sky dropped completely, so that you could reach it with your hand.
Petya began to close his eyes and sway.
Drops were dripping. There was a quiet conversation. The horses neighed and fought. Someone was snoring.
“Ozhig, zhig, zhig, zhig...” the saber being sharpened whistled. And suddenly Petya heard a harmonious choir of music playing some unknown, solemnly sweet hymn. Petya was musical, just like Natasha, and more than Nikolai, but he had never studied music, did not think about music, and therefore the motives that unexpectedly came to his mind were especially new and attractive to him. The music played louder and louder. The melody grew, moving from one instrument to another. What was called a fugue was happening, although Petya did not have the slightest idea what a fugue was. Each instrument, sometimes similar to a violin, sometimes like trumpets - but better and cleaner than violins and trumpets - each instrument played its own and, not yet finishing the tune, merged with another, which started almost the same, and with the third, and with the fourth , and they all merged into one and scattered again, and again merged, now into the solemn church, now into the brightly brilliant and victorious.
“Oh, yes, it’s me in a dream,” Petya said to himself, swaying forward. - It's in my ears. Or maybe it's my music. Well, again. Go ahead my music! Well!.."
He closed his eyes. And from different sides, as if from afar, sounds began to tremble, began to harmonize, scatter, merge, and again everything united into the same sweet and solemn hymn. “Oh, what a delight this is! As much as I want and how I want,” Petya said to himself. He tried to lead this huge choir of instruments.
“Well, hush, hush, freeze now. – And the sounds obeyed him. - Well, now it’s fuller, more fun. More, even more joyful. – And from an unknown depth arose intensifying, solemn sounds. “Well, voices, pester!” - Petya ordered. And first, male voices were heard from afar, then female voices. The voices grew, grew in uniform, solemn effort. Petya was scared and joyful to listen to their extraordinary beauty.
The song merged with the solemn victory march, and drops fell, and burn, burn, burn... the saber whistled, and again the horses fought and neighed, not breaking the choir, but entering into it.
Petya didn’t know how long this lasted: he enjoyed himself, was constantly surprised by his pleasure and regretted that there was no one to tell it to. He was awakened by Likhachev's gentle voice.
- Ready, your honor, you will split the guard in two.
Petya woke up.
- It’s already dawn, really, it’s dawning! - he screamed.
The previously invisible horses became visible up to their tails, and a watery light was visible through the bare branches. Petya shook himself, jumped up, took a ruble from his pocket and gave it to Likhachev, waved, tried the saber and put it in the sheath. The Cossacks untied the horses and tightened the girths.
“Here is the commander,” said Likhachev. Denisov came out of the guardhouse and, calling out to Petya, ordered them to get ready.
Quickly in the semi-darkness they dismantled the horses, tightened the girths and sorted out the teams. Denisov stood at the guardhouse, giving the last orders. The party's infantry, slapping a hundred feet, marched forward along the road and quickly disappeared between the trees in the predawn fog. Esaul ordered something to the Cossacks. Petya held his horse on the reins, impatiently awaiting the order to mount. Washed with cold water, his face, especially his eyes, burned with fire, a chill ran down his back, and something in his whole body trembled quickly and evenly.
- Well, is everything ready for you? - Denisov said. - Give us the horses.
The horses were brought in. Denisov became angry with the Cossack because the girths were weak, and, scolding him, sat down. Petya took hold of the stirrup. The horse, out of habit, wanted to bite his leg, but Petya, not feeling his weight, quickly jumped into the saddle and, looking back at the hussars who were moving behind in the dark, rode up to Denisov.
