PULIKOVSKY Konstantin Borisovich

Head of the Federal Service for Environmental, Technological and Nuclear Supervision

Konstantin Borisovich Pulikovsky was born on February 9, 1948 in the city of Ussuriysk, Primorsky Territory, in the family of an officer.

Graduated from the Military Academy of the BTV them. R. Ya. Malinovsky, Military Academy of the General Staff.

He worked his way up from platoon commander to deputy commander of the North Caucasian Military District.

He spent two years in the zone of the Ossetian-Ingush conflict. During the first Chechen campaign (1994-1996) he commanded the North-West group of federal forces.

From July to August 1996 - Commander of the United Group of Federal Forces in Chechnya.

Since 1998 he worked in the executive authorities of Krasnodar.

From May 2000 to November 2005 - Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Far Eastern Federal District.

By order of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 2111-r dated December 5, 2005, Pulikovsky Konstantin Borisovich was appointed head of the Federal Service for Environmental, Technological and Nuclear Supervision.

He is married, two sons, the eldest son Aleksey died while performing his military duty in the Chechen Republic.

Graduated from the Ulyanovsk Guards Higher Tank Command School in 1970, the Military Academy of Armored Forces in 1982, and the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in 1992.

For 33 years he served in the Armed Forces of the country. He held command positions in units, formations, operational and operational-strategic formations of the Armed Forces. He served in military service in Belarus, Turkmenistan, Estonia, Lithuania and the Caucasus.

1996 - Commander of the united grouping of federal forces in the Chechen Republic.

1996-1998 - Deputy Commander of the North Caucasian Military District.

In 1998-2000 he worked in the executive authorities of the Krasnodar Territory, was actively involved in social and political activities.

From May 2000 to November 2005 - Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Far Eastern Federal District. Member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.

Married with two sons. The eldest son, an officer of the Armed Forces, died during the armed conflict in the Chechen Republic in 1995.

Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Far Eastern Federal District

In 1970 he graduated with honors from the Ulyanovsk Higher Command Tank School, in 1982 he graduated with honors from the Higher Academy of Armored Forces, in 1992 he graduated with a gold medal from the Higher Academy of the General Staff.

1970 - 1982 served in the Belarusian Military District.

1982 - 1992 served in the Baltic Military District: commander of a tank regiment, division.

1992-1993 served in the Turkestan military district.

1993 - 1994 - Deputy Commander of the North Caucasian Military District.

1994 - 1996 commanded the grouping of the direction, the Provisional United Grouping of Federal Forces in Chechnya. After signing the Khasavyurt Treaty, he resigned.

1998 - 2000 after leaving military service, he worked in the executive authorities of Krasnodar.

In May 2000, he was appointed Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Far Eastern Federal District.

Member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.

Military rank - lieutenant general.

He was awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 4th degree (2003).

He is married and has a son. The eldest son, Aleksey, died in the Chechen Republic in 1995.

Russian officer, Captain Pulikovsky Alexey Konstantinovich, was born in Belarus, in the city of Borisov. His father was not a parquet general. It did not occur to the Russian general to "excuse" his son from service ...

Russian officer, Captain Pulikovsky Alexey Konstantinovich, was born in Belarus, in the city of Borisov. His father was not a parquet general.

It did not occur to the Russian general to "discourage" his son from serving in hot spots. Officer dynasty of Russia. Several photo albums on the shelf in the apartment can tell a lot about the life of the Pulikovsky family.

A lifetime in officer's shoulder straps. The family traveled throughout the country, and the son changed school after school. Any parent will say how difficult it is for a child to reorganize in another team.

But the son, having graduated with honors from high school, entered the same school that his father had once graduated from. He really wanted to become an officer. After graduating from school "excellently", and having received lieutenant shoulder straps, Alexei was assigned to the Kantemirovsk division.

The mountainous republic was already on fire. Alexey Pulikovsky wrote report after report with a request to send him to Chechnya. The troops have long known everything about possible military operations in Chechnya.

The mountains are poorly adapted to tank marches. Alexey, realizing that the battles would be severe ... Their life in the war depended on how the soldiers were prepared.

The third report of the young officer was satisfied, having appointed him the deputy commander of the tank battalion. On October 4, 1995, he was near Shatoi.

Voluntary hostage

The son of the commander of a military operation in the Chechen Republic, was shot three times. Father could not keep track of him in any way. He simply had no time. There was a war going on. Yes, and the general learned that his son was under his command, 20 days after the arrival of the regiment near Shatoy.

There has been no open confrontation yet. But the militants went about armed. And then, by chance, a contractor hit a civilian in a car. This happens everywhere, but the militants used this fact to start a confrontation.

Threats began. No matter how hard Pulikovsky tried to smooth out the conflict, the militants did not hear anything. The militants were not going to comply with any laws, fueled by extremist literature.

Alexei, deciding to prevent direct collisions, gave himself up, together with the signalman, as hostages. The militants mocked him for several days. Trying to break the officer, he was taken out for execution three times.

And he continued to negotiate with the Chechens and the federal command. Major General Shamanov personally arrived at the negotiations on the release of the hostages. Colonel Yakovlev accompanied him.

The last battle

On December 14, 1995, the scouts went on patrol and did not return. The search for the group was led by the son of General Pulikovsky. And immediately his tanks and infantry fighting vehicles ran into an ambush. Skillfully the captain deployed the armored vehicles and ordered an attack.

He hoped to save armored vehicles and soldiers. A hand grenade launcher hit the side of the BMP. Alexey died from its explosion. The explosion of a grenade that fell into the side of an infantry fighting vehicle, cut short the life of the captain of Pulikovsky Alexei Konstantinovich. The last refuge of the general's son at the cemetery in Krasnodar. His widow and daughter Sonechka visit him.

In Khabarovsk, in the house of the parents of a Russian officer, a portrait hangs on the wall. Every year, on December 11 (the day of the entry of troops into the Chechen Republic), his parents go to the city cemetery in Khabarovsk to visit the graves of the dead soldiers, like the grave of their beloved son.

Their son was an ordinary boy. He loved to play football. The father often joined the boys. He fought with rivals, returning home with bruises and bruises. Father, general, and mother tried to instill in him a sense of duty, devotion to the Motherland, and honesty.

Pride and grief coexist in the hearts of the parents of the Russian officer Alexei Pulikovsky, the son of a Russian general.

Captain Pulikovsky Alexei Konstantinovich was awarded the Order of Courage (posthumously).

General Pulikovsky's "Stolen Retribution" Konstantin Pulikovsky wrote a book about the first Chechen war ... It contains many details of army operations, but it cannot be called a textbook on military history. There are no loud revelations and sensations in the book. "Stolen retaliation" is the confession of General Pulikovsky and his reflections on the fate of the country, on what it feels like to be able to destroy all militants once and for all, but be betrayed together with the Motherland. And it is very difficult to read it. Excerpts from the historical essay of General Pulikovsky “The Stolen Retribution. About the first Chechen war and the price of betrayal ”. Dedicated to the defender of the Fatherland, the Russian soldier Alyosha ... Nelaskovy Krasnodar In Krasnodar, I was not greeted in the best way. Colonel-General Mityukhin commanded the military district in 1992. He was haunted by the question, how could I get to the Kuban from desert Turkmenistan? He literally "butted and pecked" me, trying to find out who was behind me ... and how to explain to him that I did not have any "hairy paw" ... ... In the 49th army itself, whose headquarters was in Krasnodar, It seems that they did not expect me at all ... It was commanded by Lieutenant General Netkachev - a well-known person for the military and politicians. He served in Transnistria, where he was not very successful in commanding the 14th Army. He was, perhaps, most worried about the thought that he was transferred from the vineyards and foothills not with the supposed rise, but quite simply - "horizontally". Therefore, he regarded my appointment as his first deputy with undisguised painful suspicion. And he began to beat me in all seriousness how much in vain. Where's what happened, let the little things - go and figure it out, General. Let the young lieutenant run around on the parcels. It got to the point of humiliating absurdity. Often it was on Friday that he gave an incomprehensible command - to collect information, obviously of secondary importance, but he demanded to execute orders urgently. Once he demanded to draw up a list of non-quartered officers in the army. I am reporting. Orders to clarify the presence of children, parents of officers, other relatives. And all this should be collected by Sunday, by 9.00. Throughout Saturday, staff officers puff over the lists, the commander arrives in the evening and tears up our work in front of everyone: not so, in the wrong form ... He does not explain how it should be, but orders him to submit new lists by Monday morning. On Monday, he appears with a sunburnt face, fresh - obviously spent the weekend in the rays of the southern sun, at the dacha or at the sea. He runs the unfortunate lists diagonally, tears again and tells him to make new ones in the morning. Small intrigues, nuances and nuances took place in our garrison service. Why am I telling? The South of Russia was the most comfortable place of service, especially for the generals, who always lived here quite comfortably and were very jealous of the newcomers, fearing that they would easily sit up with the old-timers. And then they can transfer from a heavenly place somewhere to the Dalny Boctok. Being in constant itrigues, army leaders in high ranks were most often aimed not at strengthening the army's combat capability, but at fighting for personal well-being, for a place in the sun. Roughly speaking, the principle of the chicken coop was fully manifested in the high army echelons of power: collide the neighbor, obgad the lower one. I will not say that this principle operated in all the Armed Forces, but in the south it was seen very strongly and always. Because there was something to fight for. And before Krasnodar, I have never practically got into such situations. About officers and shakuns ... There were cases of outright refusal of senior officers from direct participation in the operation. Some of these "refuseniks", while wearing epaulets with big stars, at the same time insulted the actions of the troops in Chechnya in every possible way, adding fuel to the fire of the already unbridled criticism in the media. For example, when General A. Mityukhin fell ill, the leadership of a group of troops in Chechnya, marching in four columns to Grozny, was offered to the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Ground Forces, Colonel-General E. Vorobyov. But he refused, and then harshly criticized the developers and executors of the plan of operation, which was the reason for his dismissal. In Russia, thank God, the generals' corps has never experienced a shortage of true and sworn-in professionals. Immediately after December 20, 1994, the group was headed by Lieutenant General A. Kvashnin, who did not flinch before the burden of the responsibility assigned to him. And no matter what various opponents and “well-wishers” say about him later, who imagined themselves to be strategists, “seeing the battle from the outside,” I think that every decent person will always and certainly respectfully take off his hat to Anatoly Vasilyevich. Because he carried out the operation to the end, as far as circumstances allowed him. ... If Grozny had been immediately taken into a tight ring, the fighting there would have ended at least a month earlier, and the entire Dudayev command elite, together with the Basayev security guard, would have ordered to live a long time and would never have appeared on the territory of Chechnya. From this side, there was a constant replenishment of ammunition, weapons, people. The military well understood the role of this corridor - a kind of nutritious umbilical cord of the Dudayevites. But, alas and ah: when politicians begin to interfere in the affairs of the military, most often nothing good can be expected. ... When we entered Grozny, there were barbecues working, the militants were rolling out with machine guns in Zhiguli - they got used to the fact that there was no one there. South of Grozny there is a highway to Baku and Rostov, then to Moscow. Move wherever you want. ... Probably, there was not a single newspaper, not a single TV channel that did not consider it his duty to “wipe your feet” on an army uniform. Human rights defenders of all stripes, “democrats-peacemakers” with thick wallets, who have their own interest in the North Caucasus, openly added fuel to the fire, depicting an endless stream of “cargo-200” and crying of mothers in all corners of Russia, mocking the squalid front-line life of soldiers and mocking in every way at the alleged inability of officers and generals to fight. As a result of massive indoctrination, part of the population of our country gradually turned into a kind of "fifth column" in relation to its own army. And she, the army, heard it all, saw it, felt it. And, gritting her teeth, hungry, tired, in tattered camouflage, she continued to honestly fulfill her military duty, correcting the mistakes of the officials of her own, already military department, on the go. Boy Somehow, in the second, in my opinion, our winter, they reported to me - a journalist arrived from Petrozavodsk. What does she want? See my son. A mother is a mother, no one has the heart to deny her anything. They rushed to look for the boy, he is nowhere to be found. The people in the regiment did not have time to get to know each other properly, the platoon commanders did not even have lists of soldiers. What then, by the way, was the subject of a serious investigation. ... The battle flared up at dawn, in a continuous morning fog. That kid jumped ahead and got lost a little. When the fog cleared, the soldier realized that he was left alone ... And what then? The guy was not taken aback. He, as it turned out, was brought up by his grandfather, a forester in Karelia. He knew how to perfectly navigate the terrain, in the forest such a person will not get lost, will not disappear. And he shot just sniper. I worked out all sorts of traps conscientiously. The soldier began to fight alone, hoping to get out to his own people, sooner and later. That is why in recent days the captured militants told us about some elusive, supposedly, reconnaissance group ... She, according to them, attacked their units unexpectedly, fired at them aimingly and disappeared without a trace. The militants even gave a name to her commander - Borz, they say, fierce. The Petrozavodsk boy in the rear of the hardened murderers made such a rustle that the militants began to bypass the southern outskirts of the Prigorodny settlement, where he settled. During the day he hid in the forest, skillfully braiding his tracks on the snow cover, and at dusk he went out on a real hunt. Then the bandits also began to move. Once he tracked down their lair and with an accurate shot fired a grenade from a grenade launcher into the slot. So they all stayed there. And mostly he harassed the enemy with ambushes. It will lie down somewhere in the woods, near the well-groomed path, and wait for hours. And as soon as he spots unshaven people, he will let him in a little and in short bursts will cause significant damage. And he himself - quickly on his run. We found it a week later. And he is not particularly hungry, and he has not a single scratch. We were all infinitely happy about this outcome of the case, presented it to the Order of Courage and handed it over to a happy mother ... Defender of the Fatherland, Russian soldier Alyosha ... ... I did not participate in that battle, and I could not have been there - by coincidence circumstances was at that time in a completely different place, hundreds of miles away. But I would very much like to be there, even as an ordinary soldier, in order to close my chest to the commander of the assault group from breaking the bandit's money. Time is powerless to erase from memory both that battle and that blow of the grenade launcher, since then my heart has been bleeding. A special, highest pride and inescapable pain burn an unhealed wound all my life ... The commander of the assault detachment was my eldest son Aleksey Pulikovsky. ... An ambush awaited them at the outpost. The first BMP was immediately knocked out. Alyoshka, as they say, commanded well. They are on the outskirts, in the devil of the city, have seized one house. I was there later: a pretty decent private house made of red brick, a three-story mansion - such new Russians are building for themselves. Our guys barricaded themselves there: they put one BMP at the gate - as a firing point, but they could not use the other. They were surrounded by a battalion of bandits under the command of Arbi Barayev ... Later I also met with this bandit. He was killed when I was already the president's plenipotentiary in the Far East ... ... The children had to fight in complete encirclement for almost a day. Volodya Shamanov helped them out: he acted with his group in the neighboring gorge. From the group of Alexei, only seven children survived. All are wounded boys. I was in their hospital, talking. Alyoshka died from a grenade explosion, and his death was instantaneous ... Senior Lieutenant Alexei Pulikovsky was posthumously awarded the Order of Courage and buried with military honors in Krasnodar ... And the day before I was recalled on vacation, my wife and I were given a ticket to a sanatorium. The chief of staff of the corps from Krasnodar called there and said: “Things are bad. Bad with my son ... "He asked, feeling cold inwardly, but with hope:" Wounded? " "Killed". ... On December 14, 1995, I was promoted to lieutenant general. I was specially summoned to Krasnodar to present new shoulder straps, I was given a short vacation. And on the same day I was informed that Alyoshka had died ... since then I have not been able to wear a uniform, and the lieutenant general's shoulder straps remind me all the time that when they gave them to me, my son died. And it was scary in those days, just unbearable. They called from everywhere, congratulated: not everyone knew that Alyoshka had died, but everyone knew that the decree on conferring a new title had been signed. The wife didn’t know anything either. Runs to every call, meets guests: “What, Kostya came to congratulate? Come in, sit down, let's get some champagne ... ”And the people who already knew, trample in the doorway, shut up and leave. ... For two days I could not tell my wife about this ... And I could not do it myself. I called a family friend, the same chief of staff. When we returned to Krasnodar. I asked him to carry out a difficult mission. He drank a glass of vodka and went to our house ... Clueless orders Clueless orders from above were enough at that time. For example, an order not to send people of "Caucasian nationality" to active troops. And there were up to 40 percent of such soldiers in every battalion in the North Caucasus. They were delicately removed from the crews that had already worked together, and in their place were put in other - "Slavic nationalities". But this was not the same crew or crew, and they went into battle, in fact, not even knowing each other. Or another example. We are standing on the pass in December - a terrible frost. One soldier froze, another, a third. I give the command: urgently bring warm underwear, sweaters, overalls. After a while I ask: have you brought it? Yes, they do. The next day I went through the trenches and saw: soldiers again in thin underwear, camouflage, summer overalls on top. I call the head of the clothing service: what's the matter? It turns out that the winter one was taken from the NZ, but they cannot print the NZ: the order is needed ... Yes, give the clothes to the people, I say. After all, they are in a combat situation, freezing. You can't, they say. There was no order to withdraw from NZ. There was an order to go into battle, but there was no order to remove warm clothes from NZ. There are KamAZ trucks full of warm clothes, and no one can give them out without an order from above ... "Ring of Pulikovsky" ... In early August 1996, bandits began to infiltrate Grozny under the guise of civilians. They walked one by one and in groups, posing as merchants, peasants, residents of neighboring villages, students. All passports are in perfect order ... And on the day of Boris Yeltsin's inauguration, they started shooting. It was then that it became clear that there had actually been a seizure of the Chechen capital. ... We have developed Operation Ring. The battalions surrounded the maniacs-cutthroats known to the whole world by that time, buried themselves in trenches. Having flown several times around the perimeter of the theater of now close military operations in a helicopter, I made sure that everything was done as it should. Almost immediately, I announced to the townspeople that within 48 hours civilians can and must leave the city, after which we will begin the systematic destruction of the bandits. Two checkpoints were marked, leaflets were scattered everywhere. And people understood us. According to our calculations, up to 240 thousand people left the city during this time: women, children, old people. There were no young men: if they had walked, they would have been simply detained. Whether you are a bandit or not, one way or another they will stop - until it is clarified. ... Chernomyrdin asks: “Well, what? If you complete this operation, there will probably be nothing left of the city? " I reply briefly: “Nothing is left of him anyway. But they are all there. " III already for the seventh day, when we were finishing the encirclement, and throughout Chechnya there was complete silence - not a single shot was fired, only the shooting continued inside Grozny ... ... The militants offered me a meeting: “We realized that we were surrounded. Nobody is going to give up. Open the corridor for a breakout, we'll leave the city. And there will be no bloodshed. " "Tell Maskhadov," I answer them, "I surrounded you in order to destroy, you will not wait for any corridor without complete and unconditional surrender." That was the end of my short conversation with the militants. About a day before the final blow, the end of the bandit bloody separatism, deserved retribution ... ... Honestly, if I knew that everything would turn out differently, I would simply not let him into Grozny. Swan. I would have driven a tank or an armored personnel carrier onto the runway, and his plane would never have landed in Khankala. And while he got to me, from Mozdok, for example, I would have already completed the operation. And then, come what may, but the deed would be done. But Lebed told me: "I'm flying to you." Everything, nothing else. I even thought that a like-minded person was flying to me who would help destroy this gang ... ... Alexander Ivanovich listened to my report in silence, and then, unexpectedly and completely for us, unexpectedly, unexpectedly announced that he understood everything, but did not agree with anything ... It is necessary, they say, to immediately stop the hostilities, to withdraw from the occupied positions and begin negotiations. And then completely remove the ring and end the war. ... Lebed, even after individual meetings with commanders, did not listen to anyone. He gathered us all again and said that Pulikovsky was avenging his deceased son. That on this basis he simply has a clouded mind and "went crazy", so he so inadequately perceives all the questions. Like, he subordinates all his actions to only one thought: to avenge the murdered Alexei. Therefore, he cannot be the commander here, he cannot do anything here. By the way, then he repeated the same tirade on his return to Moscow, in my opinion, even in the State Duma. And at that meeting, he said: here is the presidential decree on my powers, therefore, whoever does not agree with him can leave here, and he will already be nobody ... I got up and left. ... And today I am deeply convinced that it was this mistake of the country's leaders that later led to the second Chechen war: if the operation in Grozny had been completed then, then there would never have been a war in the North Caucasus. It just couldn't be ....

Heading to Chechnya, Boris Berezovsky (at that time the official representative of the federal center) first went to Maskhadov, and only then flew to Khankala, to the headquarters of the UGV.

Having listened to Berezovsky, exposed by the high power, Pulikovsky turned pale, but immediately, having gathered himself, began to mint the words:

I, as the commander of the group, do not agree with this position and believe that you should first of all meet with the leadership of the United Group of Forces. We have gathered here for a long time and are waiting for you. We have something to say. Before meeting with Maskhadov, were you really not interested in our opinion, our assessment of the situation?

You speak without thinking about those people who are now in Grozny, completely surrounded by blood, spitting up blood, - Pulikovsky "boiled". “They are waiting for my help. I promised…

I will buy you and resell you, General, together with your people, together with your entire dead group! Do you understand what your promises and ultimatums are worth? ..

The officers, unwitting witnesses to the conversation, bowed their heads. Pulikovsky could hardly restrain himself. He clenched his fists, turned abruptly and walked away, feeling Boris Abramovich's "firing squad" gaze on his back ...

On the same day, to Moscow, the Supreme Commander was reported that the commander's tough position was explained not by military necessity, but by personal motives: they say, in Chechnya, the general's son-officer died, and now he is driven by a thirst for revenge, that in order to satisfy his ambitions he is all ready to wipe the city off the face of the earth. Rumors about the general who had contracted the Chechen "bacillus of blood feud" spread along the corridors of power in Moscow. Pulikovsky, to put it mildly, was pushed aside from the leadership of the group of troops. All this happened a few days before the signing in Khasavyurt of the "end of the war" agreement.

After what happened, Konstantin Borisovich held out in the army for a little more than six months. The last time I saw him in military uniform was in March 1997, on my 50th birthday. And in April, being already deputy commander of the North Caucasus Military District for emergency situations, he wrote a letter of resignation from the ranks of the Armed Forces. His immediate superior, Colonel-General A. Kvashnin, gave his consent. Konstantin Borisovich became a civilian and went to Krasnodar, but he could not stay at home. I went to work in the regional administration. He practically did not maintain any contacts with the military leadership. However, he sometimes called me on the phone, we even met as families, but tried not to talk about Chechnya.

“They broke the man,” the headquarters said sympathetically at the mention of his name. Evil tongues even claimed that the retired general began to drink. I knew it wasn't true ...

We met back in the winter of 1985 in Moscow, at an advanced training course for command personnel at the Academy of Armored Forces. Trained as division commander and chief of staff. We managed to make friends in a short time. Even after leaving, we tried to keep in touch, occasionally called up.

Fate brought us together again in February 1995, after the capture of Grozny. Pulikovsky was in command of the Eastern Group, and I was in command of the South. Together with Kvashnin, we arrived in Khankala to see on the spot the base for the headquarters of the UGV, the state of the airfield - how suitable it is for our aviation. There we met with Kostya. We hugged each other tightly and kissed. All around impassable dirt, piercing wind. We ourselves are grimy, chilled, but our souls are warm, joyful, as happens when meeting with a loved one.

A little later, I became the commander of the 58th Army, and he became the commander of the 67th Army Corps. Everyone has their own worries and problems, their own area of ​​responsibility ... We rarely saw each other.

After a while, I learned that Kostya's son had died: an officer, captain, deputy battalion commander. He served in the Moscow military district and came to Chechnya to replace him. I spent only a week in my regiment, just accepted the post. In April 1996, under Yaryshmardy, Khattab with his thugs shot our convoy, almost a hundred people died. His son was also walking in the column. The general was shocked by the terrible news.

He did not have much trouble saving his son from a business trip to Chechnya. I know people (there are, unfortunately, a lot of them) who willingly went to any lengths just to "grease" their children, nephews, brothers from serving in the "hot spot". General Pulikovsky was of a different kind: he himself served the Motherland honestly, never looked for "warm places", he demanded the same from others, including his own son.

From the same cohort, by the way, are General G. Shpak (commander of the Airborne Forces) and General A. Sergeev (commander of the Volga Military District), who also lost their sons in the Chechen war. The children of the dead generals A. Otrakovsky and A. Rogov fought. The children passed through Chechnya (thank God, they survived) of generals A. Kulikov, M. Labunets and many others.

When sometimes the mothers of the children who died in the war reproach the military leaders for their heartlessness, or even cruelty towards their subordinates, I understand their emotional state and do not blame them for it. I only ask you to remember that the children of many generals did not hide behind the broad backs of their fathers, on the contrary, the honor of the surname obliged them to go on the attack first. It is a pity that our society does not know anything about this. But you must know. Otherwise, people will believe Berezovskiy more than Pulikovskiy ...

The bereavement crippled the general, but did not defeat him. Finished off the fact that so hastily reconciled with the separatists, having scorned his plan for the destruction of militants in Grozny - carefully thought out, literate from a military point of view. Much of his plan was implemented in the January-February 2000 operation. Then the city was completely blocked - the mouse would not slip through. Provided for a "corridor" for the exit of the population, the detention of those bandits who smeared themselves with the blood of innocent people. For those who refused to surrender - fire from all means. The operation would confirm the determination and consistency of the federal authorities in the fight against banditry and terrorism. I am sure that if Pulikovsky's ultimatum had been carried out, the Basayevs and the Khattabs wouldn’t have lost their girdles, there would have been no criminal lawlessness in Chechnya, no terrorist attacks in Buinaksk, Moscow, Volgodonsk, Vladikavkaz, no aggression in Dagestan, or a second war in the Caucasus in general.

One of the greats said: “The East loves a quick judgment. Even if he is wrong, but fast. " There is something here ...

Feeling that the federal center was "stalling," the bandits became insolent: the endless "negotiations" were perceived not as Moscow's desire for peace, but as a weakness of the state. And in some ways, apparently, they were right. One of the indicators of this is a deliberately formed false public opinion. Let's take the same collection of signatures (in the spring of 1996) in Nizhny Novgorod and the region "against the war in Chechnya." I do not want to blame its initiator Boris Nemtsov, and even more so people who put their autographs on subscription lists, but I dare to assume with confidence that if even politicians who were much more popular than Nemtsov decided to organize such actions in the Kuban or Stavropol Territories, they would have been given turn from the gate. In the South of Russia, people, as they say, have experienced firsthand what criminal Chechnya is. They did not have to look at the TV screen or in the newspapers, clarifying certain nuances of the conflict in the Caucasus. Their firm position is hard-won by life. And in the Middle Volga, many believed in the biased (sometimes sincerely mistaken) press, responding to the dubious appeals of politicians far from the problems of Chechnya.

Pulikovsky knew the Caucasus, knew how to deal with the "abreks" who were stupefied with impunity, knew how to come to real peace - through the destruction of those who, by and large, do not need peace. It was difficult to deceive him with the signatures of Nizhniy Novgorod, which Boris Yeltsin willingly “pecked at”. And it was absolutely impossible to buy, as B. Berezovsky boastfully threatened.

In that unfavorable period of Russian history, combat experience, decency, soldier's loyalty to the oath were not at a special price. His paternal feelings were filthyly perverted, used for mercenary purposes, his general's honor was tarnished, forcing him to break his word, not to fulfill his promise. What normal combat officer can handle this? Of course, Konstantin Borisovich broke down internally, closed in on himself, left the army, to which he gave the best three decades of his life. It seemed to me that he lost everything in this war. I confess I was afraid that he would not rise again. But, thank God, other times have come.

The idea of ​​appointing Pulikovsky as his plenipotentiary in the Far Eastern Federal District was suggested to V. Putin by A. Kvashnin, since he could vouch for a military general, a high-ranking person, who also possesses vast organizational experience, with a clear conscience.

We met with Konstantin before his departure to Khabarovsk, to the place of his new "service". It was June of the year 2000. The main forces of the bandits in Grozny have already been defeated, the huge gang of R. Gelayev has been destroyed in Komsomolskoye, the president again firmly declared: “A self-respecting government does not negotiate with the bandits. She either isolates them from society, or destroys them ... "

Pulikovsky was on an emotional upsurge, did not hide his joy. We didn’t talk about bad things, we recalled only pleasant moments from the past. They joked about how they confused us. We are somewhat similar to Kostya, first of all, apparently, in the timbre of our voice and the manner of speaking ... Once even my wife, having seen a short interview by Pulikovsky on the TV screen, at first took it for me.

We laughed heartily then, probably for the first time in the last four years.

Captain Pulikovsky Alexey Konstantinovich, deputy commander of a tank battalion of the 245th combined regiment. Russian. Born June 7, 1971 in the family of a professional military man in the city of Borisov, BSSR. During the service of his father, he changed six schools. He graduated with honors from an eleven-year comprehensive school in the town of Gusev, Kaliningrad Region, and the Ulyanovsk Higher Military Tank School, which his father graduated from.

Before the Chechen events, he was the commander of a tank company of the 13th regiment of the Kantemirovskaya tank division. In the Chechen Republic since October 4, 1995. Killed on December 14, 1995 in an operation against an ambushed reconnaissance group of the regiment. Buried in Krasnodar.

Awarded the Order of Courage (posthumously).

He wrote the dispatch report three times. Events in Chechnya were brewing with an invisible thundercloud. Among the military, information about the upcoming military operations spread much faster. The commander of a tank company, Senior Lieutenant Aleksey Pulikovsky, well understood that they would not be easy. Therefore, he built the educational process taking into account the upcoming hostilities, not giving concessions to conscripts. The life of each soldier and the unit as a whole depended on the quality of training.

He himself wrote three reports with a request to be sent to Chechnya. And only on the third did he receive a "go-ahead" from the command of the unit. By order, he was appointed deputy commander of the tank battalion of the 245th combined regiment, and on October 4, 1995, the regiment was already deployed near Shatoi.

He was shot three times. The commander of the entire military group in Chechnya, Lieutenant General Pulikovsky K.B. in the hustle and bustle of the redeployment of troops, he could not keep track of the movements of his own son in the service, and only twenty days later did he learn that Alexei was subordinate to him.

And at the checkpoint, the battalion performed the assigned task of the younger Pulikovsky. During the next truce, there was no open confrontation between bandit formations and federal troops. But all the inhabitants of Chechnya went about with weapons. The Teips (kindred clan) were armed to the limit.
A contract soldier of the tank battalion Somov (surname has been changed) accidentally shot down a Chechen resident. The entire pace of Suleiman Kadanov came out with threats. Aleksey Kon tried to solve it peacefully, according to the law, but the Chechens, fueled by the Wahhabi propaganda, only went to aggravate the situation.

How to get out of this conflict peacefully? Alexei decided to give himself up, together with the signalman, as hostages. They were with the Chechens for two days.

Mocking and trying to break the will of the captain, they took him out three times to be shot. Alexei did not give up hope of freeing Somov and persistently negotiated with his command and Kadanov. Colonel Yakovlev and Major General Shamanov arrived to free the soldiers.

On December 14, the regiment's reconnaissance group went on patrol and did not return by the appointed time. The command of the regiment decided to conduct a search operation, which was headed by Alexei. When we moved into a given area, we were ambushed. Aleksey competently and promptly deployed the tanks and APMs into battle formation and organized an attack on the superior forces of the bandits. To prevent the destruction of armored vehicles by grenade launchers of the Chechens, the personnel of the detachment, by order of Alexei, attacked on foot. Being next to the armored vehicles, the commander of the detachment, Aleksey Pulikovsky, led the battle. A hand grenade launcher hit the side of the BMP. Alexey died from its explosion.

Buried in the city of Krasnodar. His wife and daughter Sonya also live there.

FROM THE BOOK OF GENNADY TROSHEV:

“... After a while I learned that Kostya's son had died: an officer, a senior lieutenant, a deputy battalion commander. He served in the Moscow military district and came to Chechnya to replace him. I spent only a week in the regiment, just accepted the post. In April 1996, under () our thugs, almost a hundred people died. His son was also walking in the column. The general was shocked by the terrible news.

He did not have much trouble saving his son from a business trip to Chechnya. I know people (there are, unfortunately, a lot of them) who willingly went to any lengths just to "grease" their children, nephews, brothers from serving in the "hot spot". General Pulikovsky was of a different kind: he himself served the Motherland honestly, never looked for "warm places", he demanded the same from others, including his own son.

From the same cohort, by the way, Georgy Ivanovich Shpak (in the past - the commander of the Airborne Forces) and Anatoly Ipatovich Sergeev (in the past - the commander of the Volga Military District), who also lost their sons in the Chechen war. The children of the dead generals A. Otrakovsky and A. Rogov fought. Children passed through Chechnya (thank God, they survived) of generals A. Kulikov, M. Labunets and many others ... "