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Evgeniy Nikolaevich Rodionov(November 9, 1965, Chelyabinsk, USSR - January 5, 1996, Chechnya) - Hero of the Russian Federation, Guard Major, Chief of Intelligence of the 108th Guards Parachute Regiment (military unit 42091).

Biography

Born on November 9, 1965 in the city of Chelyabinsk, since childhood he dreamed of becoming a military man. From the age of 13 he studied in DOSAAF. Actively jumped with a parachute. After 8th grade, I tried unsuccessfully to enter the Sverdlovsk Suvorov Military School.

In 1983 he graduated from Chelyabinsk secondary school No. 68, in the same year he entered the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School, which he graduated in 1987. He went in for sports, was fond of boxing, martial arts, skiing, and skating.

Service

At the end of 1995, Rodionov took part in a well-known operation near the village of Shatoy. In that operation, his group (17 people in three combat vehicles, led by officers Alexey Lagoda, Igor Kirichenko, Evgeny Rodionov) had to break through to the area of ​​the Razdolnoye tract in the village of Shatoy. There it was necessary to connect with the previously surrounded forces that had landed to cover the dirt road to this village. The main forces were intended to storm the village of Shatoi. But the situation was such that it was along this small dirt road that several hundred Dudayevites were moving (according to various estimates, 600). The militants were tightening the encirclement. The paratroopers covering the dirt road were running out of ammunition. An attempt to deliver ammunition by air failed - the militants shot down the arriving helicopter. An armored group walked along mountain roads and off-road for two days to help. “When the twice-wounded Major Yevgeny Rodionov finally brought the combat vehicles to the battlefield and the paratroopers united, the bandits had to save themselves” - Quote from the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper. Having made a heroic breakthrough and repelling repeated attacks by Dudayev’s men, the armored group helped cut off the militants from the village of Shatoi. Then the operation was completed successfully, Shatoy was captured, 16 people among them and Evgeny Rodionov were presented with the highest military award - the title of Hero of Russia.

• 1996 Chechnya- last operation.

From the moment he was nominated for the title of Hero of the Russian Federation, 2 months passed and on January 5, 1996, when Rodionov’s reconnaissance group was carrying out its next mission, on the way to the area of ​​the Razdolnoye tract of the same village of Shatoy, Evgeniy died from a mine-explosive injury.

For the courage and heroism shown during the performance of a special task in 1995, by decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 622 of May 2, 1996, Guard Major Evgeniy Nikolaevich Rodionov was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation.

Memory

Excerpt characterizing Rodionov, Evgeniy Nikolaevich

His luminous figure became completely transparent. And she began to disappear.
– I’ll be back, Isidora. – rustled a gentle voice.
“Goodbye, North...” I answered just as quietly.
- But how can that be?! – Stella suddenly exclaimed. – You didn’t even ask about the planet you came from?!.. Weren’t you interested?! How so?..
To be honest, I, too, could barely resist asking Isidora the same thing! Her essence came from outside, and she didn’t even ask about it!.. But to some extent, I probably understood her, since it was too terrible a time for her, and she was mortally afraid for those whom she loved very much, and whom still trying to save. Well, as for the House - it could be found later, when there was no other choice but to leave...
- No, honey, I didn’t ask because I wasn’t interested. But because then it was not so important, somehow, that wonderful people died. And they died in brutal torment, which was permitted and supported by one person. And he had no right to exist on our land. This was the most important thing. And everything else could be left for later.
Stella blushed, ashamed of her outburst, and quietly whispered:
- Please forgive me, Isidora...
And Isidora has already “gone” into her past again, continuing her amazing story...
As soon as North disappeared, I immediately tried to mentally call my father. But for some reason he didn’t respond. This alarmed me a little, but, not expecting anything bad, I tried again - there was still no answer...
Having decided not to give free rein to my fevered imagination for now and leaving my father alone for a while, I plunged into the sweet and sad memories of Anna’s recent visit.
I still remembered the smell of her fragile body, the softness of her thick black hair and the extraordinary courage with which my wonderful twelve-year-old daughter faced her evil fate. I was incredibly proud of her! Anna was a fighter, and I believed that no matter what happened, she would fight to the end, until her last breath.
I didn’t yet know whether I would be able to save her, but I swore to myself that I would do everything in my power to save her from the tenacious clutches of the cruel Pope.
Karaffa returned a few days later, very upset and taciturn about something. He just showed me with his hand that I should follow him. I obeyed.
After walking through several long corridors, we found ourselves in a small office, which (as I found out later) was his private reception room, to which he very rarely invited guests.
Caraffa silently pointed to a chair and slowly sat down opposite me. His silence seemed ominous and, as I already knew from my own sad experience, never boded well. I, after meeting Anna and the unexpected arrival of Sever, unforgivably relaxed, “putting to sleep” to some extent my usual vigilance, and missed the next blow...
– I don’t have time for pleasantries, Isidora. You will answer my questions or someone else will suffer greatly. So, I advise you to answer!
Caraffa was angry and irritated, and to contradict him at such a time would be real madness.
“I’ll try, Your Holiness.” What do you want to know?
– Your youth, Isidora? How did you get it? You are thirty-eight years old, but you look twenty and haven’t changed. Who gave you your youth? Answer!
I couldn’t understand what made Karaffa so angry?.. During our already quite long acquaintance, he never screamed and very rarely lost control of himself. Now an enraged, out-of-control man spoke to me, from whom one could expect anything.
- Answer, Madonna! Or another, very unpleasant surprise will await you.
Such a statement made my hair stand out... I understood that trying to evade the question would not be possible. Something made Karaffa very angry, and he did not try to hide it. He did not accept the game, and was not going to joke. All that was left was to answer, blindly hoping that he would accept the half-truth...
– I am a hereditary Witch, Holiness, and today I am the most powerful of them. Youth came to me by inheritance, I did not ask for it. Just like my mother, my grandmother, and the rest of the line of Witches in my family. You must be one of us, Your Holiness, to receive this. Moreover, to be the most worthy.
- Nonsense, Isidora! I knew people who themselves achieved immortality! And they weren't born with it. So there are ways. And you will open them to me. Believe me.
He was absolutely right... There were ways. But I was not going to open them to him under any circumstances. Not for any torture.
- Forgive me, Your Holiness, but I cannot give you what I did not receive myself. This is impossible - I don't know how. But your God, I think, would give you “eternal life” on our sinful earth if he thought that you were worthy of it, wouldn’t he?.. Childhood, youth

Little Evgeniy dreamed of becoming a military man since childhood. From the age of 13 he studied in DOSAAF. Actively jumped with a parachute. After 8th grade, he tried to enter the Sverdlovsk Suvorov School, but for unknown reasons he was not accepted. In 1983 he graduated from Chelyabinsk secondary school No. 68, in the same year he entered the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School, which he graduated in 1987. He went in for sports, was fond of boxing, martial arts, skiing, and skating.

Service

• 1987-1989 Afghanistan- as part of OKSVA.
• Nagorno-Karabakh.
• Ossetia.
• 1995 Chechnya- The first Chechen war.

At the end of 1995, Rodionov took part in a well-known operation near the village of Shatoy. In that operation, his group (17 people in three combat vehicles, led by officers Alexey Lagoda, Igor Kirichenko, Evgeny Rodionov) had to break through to the area of ​​the Razdolnoye tract in the village of Shatoy. There it was necessary to connect with the previously surrounded forces that had landed to cover the dirt road to this village. The main forces were intended to storm the village of Shatoi. But the situation was such that it was along this small dirt road that several hundred Dudayevites were moving (according to various estimates, 600). The militants were tightening the encirclement. The paratroopers covering the dirt road were running out of ammunition. An attempt to deliver ammunition by air failed - the militants shot down an arriving helicopter. An armored group walked along mountain roads and off-road for two days to help. “When the twice-wounded Major Yevgeny Rodionov finally brought the combat vehicles to the battlefield and the paratroopers united, the bandits had to save themselves” - Quote from the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper. Having made a heroic breakthrough and repelling repeated attacks by Dudayev’s men, the armored group helped cut off the militants from the village of Shatoi. Then the operation was completed successfully, Shatoy was captured, 16 people among them and Evgeny Rodionov were presented with the highest military award - the title of Hero of Russia.

• 1996 Chechnya- last operation.

From the moment he was nominated for the title of Hero of the Russian Federation, 2 months passed and on January 5, 1996, when Rodionov’s reconnaissance group was carrying out its next mission, on the way to the area of ​​the Razdolnoye tract of the same village of Shatoy, Evgeniy died from a mine-explosive injury.

High reward

On January 13, 1996 he was solemnly buried at the Sukhomesovo cemetery in Chelyabinsk. After Eugene’s death, the highest award was approved. For the courage and heroism shown during a special task in 1995, by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 622 of May 2, 1996, Guard Major Evgeniy Nikolaevich Rodionov was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation.

In Evgeniy Rodionov’s hometown, a new avenue was named in his honor. There is an obelisk on his grave. Memorial plaques are installed on the building of school No. 68, where Evgeniy studied, and in the school museum.

Evgeniy Nikolaevich Rodionov(November 9, 1965, Chelyabinsk, USSR - January 5, 1996, Chechnya) - Hero of the Russian Federation, Guard Major, Chief of Intelligence of the 108th Guards Parachute Regiment (military unit 42091).

Biography

Born on November 9, 1965 in the city of Chelyabinsk, since childhood he dreamed of becoming a military man. From the age of 13 he studied in DOSAAF. Actively jumped with a parachute. After 8th grade, I tried unsuccessfully to enter the Sverdlovsk Suvorov Military School.

In 1983 he graduated from Chelyabinsk secondary school No. 68, in the same year he entered the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School, which he graduated in 1987. He went in for sports, was fond of boxing, martial arts, skiing, and skating.

Service

• Nagorno-Karabakh.
• Ossetia.
• 1995 Chechnya- The first Chechen war.

At the end of 1995, Rodionov took part in a well-known operation near the village of Shatoy. In that operation, his group (17 people in three combat vehicles, led by officers Alexey Lagoda, Igor Kirichenko, Evgeny Rodionov) had to break through to the area of ​​the Razdolnoye tract in the village of Shatoy. There it was necessary to connect with the previously surrounded forces that had landed to cover the dirt road to this village. The main forces were intended to storm the village of Shatoi. But the situation was such that it was along this small dirt road that several hundred Dudayevites were moving (according to various estimates, 600). The militants were tightening the encirclement. The paratroopers covering the dirt road were running out of ammunition. An attempt to deliver ammunition by air failed - the militants shot down the arriving helicopter. An armored group walked along mountain roads and off-road for two days to help. “When the twice-wounded Major Yevgeny Rodionov finally brought the combat vehicles to the battlefield and the paratroopers united, the bandits had to save themselves” - Quote from the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper. Having made a heroic breakthrough and repelling repeated attacks by Dudayev’s men, the armored group helped cut off the militants from the village of Shatoi. Then the operation was completed successfully, Shatoy was captured, 16 people among them and Evgeny Rodionov were presented with the highest military award - the title of Hero of Russia.

• 1996 Chechnya- last operation.

From the moment he was nominated for the title of Hero of the Russian Federation, 2 months passed and on January 5, 1996, when Rodionov’s reconnaissance group was carrying out its next mission, on the way to the area of ​​the Razdolnoye tract of the same village of Shatoy, Evgeniy died from a mine-explosive injury.

For the courage and heroism shown during a special task in 1995, by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 622 of May 2, 1996, Guard Major Evgeniy Nikolaevich Rodionov was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation.

Memory

In his native Chelyabinsk, a new avenue was named in honor of Evgeniy. There is an obelisk on his grave. Memorial plaques are installed on the building of school No. 68, where Evgeniy studied (and which bears his name since February 1, 2006), on the house where he lived (47 Southern Boulevard) and in the school museum.

Hero of the Russian Federation
RODIONOV EVGENY NIKOLAEVICH
9.11.65 - 5.01.96
guard major

Native of Chelyabinsk. Russian. Higher education.
In Chechnya - head of intelligence of the 108th Guards Parachute Regiment (military unit 61756).
After graduating from secondary school No. 68 in Chelyabinsk in 1983, he entered the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School, which he graduated in 1987.
From 1987 to 1989 he served in Afghanistan. From 1989 to 1995, he served in military units located in the cities of Kaunas, Maykop, and Novorossiysk.
Awarded the medal "For Distinction in Military Service" II degree.
Since October 1995 - Chechnya. He took part in the liquidation of armed gangs on the territory of the Chechen Republic.
On January 5, 1996, he died from a mine explosion injury, which led to the destruction of his body.
For the courage and heroism shown during the performance of a special task, by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 622 of May 2, 1996, Guard Major Evgeniy Nikolaevich Rodionov was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation.
On January 13, 1996 he was buried at the Sukhomesovo cemetery in Chelyabinsk.
There is an obelisk on his grave. Memorial plaques are installed on the building of school No. 68, where Evgeniy studied, and in the school museum. One of the streets under construction in Chelyabinsk will be named after him.
On the day of his death, Chelyabinsk resident Evgeniy Rodionov, Hero of Russia, was only 30 years old. His life, in fact, was just beginning...
Smart, kind, strong, gentle, hardy, courageous, all girls dream of such guys. But in life, alas, they are so rare. But Zhenya had it all. It was difficult with him, because in matters of principle he did not give an inch. And it was easy with him: he could turn any awkward situation or disagreement into a joke. He loved friendly companies and did not like officialdom. He never whined, he only said: “Who has it easy?”
He was caring from childhood and learned responsibility early.
Zhenya grew up as a lively and active boy, he loved noisy games and running around. Therefore, when sending her son to first grade, my mother was afraid that she would often be called to school.
But Zhenya turned out to be serious beyond his years and left pranks for his free time. He reasoned like this: “You can fool around at home, but you have to study at school.”
My wife was lucky to have good teachers. The first teacher, Lyudmila Mikhailovna Vazhenina, saw his abilities and immediately understood Zhenya’s character: you should not raise your voice at him. He knew how to appreciate affection, studying was easy - he loved both the exact sciences and the humanities. I read a lot, voraciously, inheriting this passion from my mother. Having already matured and started a family, he found time for books, snatching an hour or two from sleep.
Then, having entered the school, Zhenya admitted: “How little I know.” I began to study English on my own and over the years of study I mastered it perfectly.
When the Americans came to Kaunas, where Zhenya was assigned, they were surprised: where did such knowledge of the language come from?
He loved life in all its manifestations. He had a keen sense of nature and was extremely kind to animals. I couldn’t imagine myself without sports. I practiced boxing for nine years and was fond of martial arts. At home there were always skates, skis, foils - it’s easier to say what wasn’t there. In high school he was secretary of the Komsomol organization. He put his soul into every business, was a first-class organizer and inventor.
“One thing he didn’t like,” his mother admits, “was drinking vodka.” It’s understandable: when he loves and understands life so much, why should he go into daydreams?
From childhood, Lyubov Fedorovna taught her children honesty and decency.
And what was Zhenya’s confusion when for the first time he encountered lies and indifference: he was expelled from the Sverdlovsk Suvorov School, where he entered after the 8th grade, with the words “unfit”, without even looking at the documents.
His chin trembled: how can you do this? And how to live further? After all, he dreamed of becoming a military man since childhood. From the age of 13 he studied in DOSAAF, by the end of school he had made more than a hundred parachute jumps...
For some time he lost his purpose in life. "What's happened?" - the teachers were perplexed.
He couldn't study.
Lyubov Fedorovna was always afraid of losing her son. But, hoping in her heart that Zhenya would not go to military school, she reassured and supported him. All his fellow countrymen who entered after school returned from the Ryazan VVDKU, where he submitted documents. Except Zhenya.
After graduating from college, Zhenya had the opportunity to make a brilliant career.
He could remain a teacher at the school or, among the four graduates, become M.S. Gorbachev’s personal bodyguard. But he chose the third.
“I was appointed “platoon van”,” he wrote to his mother and was incredibly happy about it.
“You have to start from the bottom,” he used to say. His sister Elena was brought up the same way: after graduating from school with a gold medal, she went to medical school, graduated from it, and is now finishing her studies at the Medical Academy...
At first, after graduating from college, Zhenya was going to enter the Academy, but chose to serve in the military. While already in Kaunas, he wrote an application to be sent as a volunteer to Afghanistan. At this time, he received a call to study at the Academy, but he postponed his studies until better times.
“Hot spots” flared up in the country one after another: Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia, North Ossetia. And this means the paratroopers are ahead, and reconnaissance is ahead of the paratroopers.
Evgeny Rodionov was a scout.
Zhenya took care of Lyubov Fedorovna tenderly. Only from randomly dropped phrases did she understand: he was somewhere again. And he kept laughing it off: “Yes, I was here in one place, basking in the southern sun.”
When he said that his mother would never read about him in Red Star, Zhenya was right: they don’t write about special forces or paratroopers in the newspapers. After all, he was a highly professional intelligence officer. His call sign was "Truth". And for a whole year the Dudayevites unsuccessfully chased the elusive “Truth”. What kind of newspapers are there?
But Zhenya was wrong. One day, having opened the “Red Star”, Lyubov Fedorovna saw her son’s name. It was a story about the absolutely fantastic courage of 16 paratroopers opposing 600 Dudayev militants near Shatoi. Talking about the feat of our fighters, correspondent Nikolai Starodymov named all 16 names, including the name of intelligence officer Yevgeny Nikolaevich Rodionov.
An excerpt from a newspaper article about the feat of paratroopers near Shatoi:
“...The long-awaited help did not come to the Dudayevites - it did not get through. A handful of heroes stood in her way. It was hard for them. The paratroopers sent their main forces to capture Shatoi, where they awaited the main events. And only in order to protect themselves from the flank, a small group was landed in the area of ​​the Razdolnoye tract... to straddle the dirt road... The battle broke out desperately from the very first minutes. According to incomplete data, the group was hit by at least six hundred well-armed militants... They tried to transfer ammunition to the group by helicopter, but it didn’t work: the first vehicle was fired upon
in the air and crashed into the forest. Help went across the ground - seventeen people for three
combat vehicles.
The breakthrough group was led by officers Alexey Lagoda, Igor Kirichenko, Evgeny Rodionov. The soldiers are mostly untrained newbies. The battle was terrible, but they broke through. Then they simultaneously unloaded ammunition and fought off the advancing Dudayevites.
Unable to prevent the two groups from uniting, the militants soon weakened their pressure.
They suffered considerable losses. At the captured base, the paratroopers took trophies - weapons were literally piled up...
Shatoy himself was taken with little blood and almost no destruction...”
This is how Lyubov Fedorovna found out that her son was in Chechnya. All 16 heroes of Shatoy were nominated for the highest military award - the title of Hero of Russia. But Zhenya did not live to see the Presidential decree. He was awarded the title of Hero posthumously.
He died two months after these events, when his reconnaissance group was carrying out another mission.
“There was an unnatural, eerie silence, the guys say, he jumped off the armor first. Behind him are three comrades. A powerful explosion shook the silence. And all four stepped into immortality..."
And in the combat log there was an entry: “01/5/96 at 15.20 in the area of ​​​​the settlement of Shatoy, a column of a reconnaissance platoon was ambushed. At 21.30 the reconnaissance platoon personnel ended the battle. During the battle, up to 8-10 militants were destroyed. The losses of the reconnaissance platoon were: killed - Major Rodionov Evgeniy Nikolaevich, senior lieutenant Gnyp Viktor Nikolaevich, privates Aniskin Andrei Anatolyevich, Shimakin Viktor Gennadievich ... "
The death of Major Rodionov and his subordinates shook their colleagues to the core.
In life, Evgenia was generally lucky to have good people. In addition to an intelligent, kind, understanding mother, a tenderly loving sister, a faithful wife who shared with him all the hardships of an officer’s life, he had wonderful teachers, friends, and neighbors. There was enough Zhenya for everyone. For him, the company was one family. He knew everyone not only by name, but also who lived where, what was going on in everyone’s soul and at home. He was responsive to everyone and never divided people by rank.
For all these people, someone else's grief became their own. Classmates and colleagues from different parts of the country came to Zhenya’s funeral. Airborne Forces Commander G.I. Shpak personally ordered the allocation of an aircraft to deliver the bodies of the four dead.
The Chelyabinsk Tank School provided a guard and a brass band. Many people, familiar and unfamiliar, responded to the grief of others.
The commander of the 108th Guards Parachute Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel I. Dmitrik, sent his letter to Evgeniy’s parents, in which he spoke about the circumstances of the death of Major E.N. Rodionov. and expressed condolences to the parents both on my own behalf and on behalf of all the servicemen of the regiment. The teachers of school No. 68, where Evgeniy studied, suggested that Lyubov Fedorovna organize the funeral from the school. And how much participation and warmth the director Zoya Ivanovna Fedorova showed... “I don’t know what I would do without them,” Evgeniy’s mother was perplexed.
What about the neighbors next door? When his friends came to bury Zhenya, the neighbors, who could, took the guys in to stay. Of course, Lyubov Fedorovna also met with bureaucratic indifference, but there were disproportionately more of those who lent a shoulder.
In December 1996, the Chelyabinsk Worker newspaper published an article by Lydia Starikova about Evgeny Rodionov, “You know what kind of guy he was!”, excerpts from which we used on the pages of the Book of Memory.
On the obelisk of Yevgeny Rodionov his call sign is carved - “Truth”. And this is symbolic. He was a true citizen of Russia, a real person.
Many, remembering Zhenya, write that death for some reason chooses the best.
This is probably also an immutable truth. Such people do not hide behind their backs. They are noble. And bullets, as you know, hit those who are first encountered on their
crazy way. Evgeny Rodionov was one of those who were ahead.
May he rest in peace, Ural land...
Your name, Eugene, should and, we think, will live forever in our memory and in our hearts.

Lyubov Fedorovna Rodionova, mother of the Hero of Russia, Chelyabinsk resident Evgeniy Nikolayevich Rodionov, approached the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Chelyabinsk Region with a request to help correct the mistakes made by the media.

His call sign is "TRUTH". This is a headline from the eighth page of “Evening Chelyabinsk” dated November 1, 2007 about Chelyabinsk resident, Hero of Russia, Evgeniy Rodionov, or more precisely about Evgeniy Nikolaevich, major, paratrooper, chief of reconnaissance of the parachute regiment, who died on January 5, 1996 on the territory of the Chechen Republic in battle. E.N. Rodionov was nominated for the title of Hero of Russia for the famous battle near Shatoy, which took place at the end of 1995.

In that operation, a group of 17 people in three combat vehicles under the command of officers Alexei Lagoda, Igor Kirichenko and Evgeniy Rodionov had to break through to the area of ​​the Razdolnoye tract in the village of Shatoy.

It was necessary to connect with the previously surrounded forces that had landed to cover the dirt road to this village. The main forces were intended to storm the village of Shatoi. But the situation was such that it was along this small dirt road that several hundred Dudayevites were moving (according to various estimates, up to 600). The militants tightened the encirclement. The paratroopers covering the dirt road were running out of ammunition.

An attempt to deliver ammunition by air failed - the militants shot down an arriving helicopter. An armored group walked along mountain roads and off-road for two days to help. “When the twice-wounded Major Yevgeny Rodionov finally brought the combat vehicles to the battlefield and the paratroopers united, the bandits had to save themselves” (quote from the newspaper
"A red star"). Having made a heroic breakthrough and repelling repeated attacks by Dudayev’s men, the armored group helped cut off the militants from the village of Shatoi. Then the operation was completed successfully. Shatoi was captured. 16 people, among them Evgeny Rodionov, were nominated for the highest military award - the title of Hero of Russia.

From 1987 to 1989 he served and fought in Afghanistan. On the territory of the Chechen Republic, E.N. Rodionov served a full 97 days as chief of intelligence of the 108th Guards Parachute Regiment and died.

When on September 3, 2013, Lyubov Fedorovna, Evgeniy’s mother, was asked by countless acquaintances and friends whether it was true that they were going to erect a monument to her son in Chelyabinsk and whether there was a mistake, she was both pleasantly surprised and puzzled. I went and bought “Komsomolskaya Pravda” dated September 3, 2013 and found the material on page 4. About the monument. Rodionov. Evgeniy. Died in 1996. But the article was about a monument to ANOTHER Evgeniy Rodionov.

Evgeny Aleksandrovich Rodionov is a native of the village of Chibirley, Kuznetsk district, Penza region. He was called up to serve in the border troops in 1995. In January 1996 he was sent to the North Caucasus. In February 1996, during an inspection at the administrative border of the Chechen and Ingush republics of an ambulance, which, as it turned out, contained militants, a battle broke out, during which Yevgeny Rodionov and three colleagues were captured.

Evgeniy was held captive for 100 days. Seeing the soldier’s pectoral cross, the militants suggested that he renounce Orthodoxy and convert to Islam. Rodionov rejected the militants' conditions. On May 23, Evgeniy’s birthday, he and three colleagues were executed.

Lyubov Fedorovna was not surprised that the callers got everything mixed up. Since November 2010, there has been an unhealed wound in my memory from the fact that an essay about her son Evgeniy Nikolaevich was published in the “South Ural Panorama”, accompanied by a photograph of Evgeniy Alexandrovich.

Hero’s mother was struck by the readiness with which the city administration began to look for a place for a monument to the namesake and namesake of her son from the Penza region, when in order to name a street in Chelyabinsk after her son, the Chelyabinsk Hero, she had to spend almost ten years going to her office. The three of us went then, with Elena Yakovleva and Svetlana Kislova. The decision was made, but neither the mothers of the Heroes nor the widow had any idea of ​​demanding that monuments be erected to their deceased relatives within the city limits. And the merits of the Hero of Russia, Chelyabinsk resident Alexander Yakovlev, a conscript private who died on the territory of the Chechen Republic in March 1996, and the Hero of Russia, Chelyabinsk resident, Colonel Sergei Kislov, as well as E.N. Rodionov, are quite enough.

In the battles of the first Chechen war since April 1995, Private Alexander Yakovlev was a gunner-operator of an infantry fighting vehicle. During the breakthrough of militants into Grozny on March 8, 1996, an infantry fighting vehicle was ambushed by militants and was hit by a shot from a grenade launcher. Private Yakovlev received a shell shock. However, he immediately returned fire and destroyed 4 enemy firing points. Such a decisive rebuff caused confusion among the militants, thanks to which the fighters located on the armor were able to take up the defensive and take the fight. Alexander Yakovlev himself continued to fire from the burning infantry fighting vehicle at the enemy and left it only after shooting all the ammunition. However, immediately after he managed to get out, the BMP exploded. The brave fighter received a new concussion and wounds. When he woke up, he found himself surrounded by militants. He entered into hand-to-hand combat with the militants who were trying to capture him, in which he managed to destroy two Dudayevites and seize their weapons. I fought for about half an hour with captured weapons. During another attempt by the militants to capture the soldier, he died in hand-to-hand combat. This was his 342nd day in combat.

On May 17, 2001, Colonel Kislov carried out another operation to identify and detain the leaders of gangs who were seeking shelter in the Kurchaloevsky district. The column of the commandant's company drove out onto the central street of the Oktyabrskoye village. The servicemen immediately noticed the “kopek”, in which four young men were clearly tracking the convoy. The commandant decided to inspect the car. Together with the operational group, he began checking documents. At this time, a car with tinted windows slowed down nearby. Colonel Kislov and several subordinates headed towards her. There were only a few meters left before the car when the car door swung open and an unknown person jumped out of the front seat with a Stechkin pistol in his hand. And immediately shots rang out. The bandit aimed at the commandant. The bulletproof vest took the first bullet, the other two seriously wounded the officer. Kislov's weakening hand did not waver. The second bandit, who jumped out with a machine gun, was overwhelmed by the colonel’s subordinates.

Sergei Kislov did not yet know that at the cost of his life he destroyed one of Khattab’s associates, Abu Darra. An Arab mercenary from the extremist organization Al-Haramain. At one time he was considered a close friend of Arbi Barayev and joined Khattab’s detachment. It was Abu Darr who commanded the militants near Ulus-Kert, where in March 2000, at an altitude of 705.6, the 6th company of Pskov paratroopers died. In June 2000, he organized the defense of the village of Serzhen-Yurt in the Shali region. Where, with a detachment of Arabs, he was surrounded. After a week of fighting with a group of militants, he broke into the mountains, where he then commanded Khattab’s large detachment of 500 bayonets. In 2001, he oversaw sabotage and terrorist activities in Grozny, Shalinsky and Kurchaloevsky districts. In March, in the village of Oktyabrskoye, Abu Darra militants shot 11 people, including the deputy head of the administration. But he failed to escape retribution. The operatives found a large number of documents on the killed mercenary. Among them were altered documents from a special forces officer who was killed in action in April 2001. Khattab himself, who goes on radio only in emergencies, went on the air several times demanding confirmation of the death of his associate in bandit attacks.

We don’t know whether the decision on the monument to private Evgeniy Aleksandrovich Rodionov was made easily and quickly. Only what we have read is generally known: “There is a strict order in such things,” explained the head of the culture department, Viktor Ereklintsev. – All proposals are reviewed by experts—historians, cultural experts, and architects. The Victory Garden is overloaded with objects... When we offer another place, it does not mean that we refuse. We suggest choosing other worthy points where you can erect a monument. The city center is generally congested, but there are new areas. They also need iconic places. We will decide."

For the mothers of our Heroes, the main thing is not the monument. AND MEMORY. AND NOT ALLOWING ITS DISTORTION. This is what is very important for mothers, but most importantly for their descendants. It was with this request that Lyubov Fedorovna addressed the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Chelyabinsk Region.

I am publishing this material with a huge request to the media to be attentive and professional in their work, as well as government bodies, heads of pedagogical and sports organizations involved in patriotic education, to prevent similar mistakes in the future. They are very expensive, bringing moral suffering to the families and friends of our Heroes.