Yes, Razumovsky carried out the order. Biography

Razumovsky Dmitry Aleksandrovich - head of the department of Directorate "B" ("Vympel") of the Special Purpose Center of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, lieutenant colonel.

Born on March 16, 1968 in Ulyanovsk. Russian. After graduating from secondary school No. 1 in the city of Ulyanovsk, he tried to enter a military school, but did not pass the competition. For a year he worked as a laboratory assistant at the Ulyanovsk Higher Military Command School of Communications.

Since 1986 - in the Armed Forces of the USSR. Graduated from the Moscow Higher Command Border School in 1990. Upon completion, he was assigned for further service to the Central Asian Border District, deputy head of the border post. Since 1991, he took part in hostilities on the Tajik-Afghan border. He was deputy commander and later commander of the air assault maneuver group of the Moscow border detachment. Participant in many military operations. Under his command, the group inflicted heavy losses on gangs and groups of drug dealers - in one of the ambushes, a shipment of hundreds of kilograms of heroin was captured. The bandits promised tens of thousands of dollars for the officer's head. In one of the battles he received a severe concussion. He was forced to resign from the military in 1994 after publishing his letter in a number of central newspapers about facts of corruption among the command and senseless death due to the fault of senior commanders of Russian border guards and military personnel in Tajikistan.

Served in the special forces of the Airborne Forces. In October 1996, as a combat officer and master of sports in hand-to-hand combat, he was invited to serve in the state security agencies of the Russian Federation. He served as part of the legendary Directorate "B", better known as the Vympel group.

He took part in hostilities during the first and second Chechen wars, in repelling the invasion of Chechen militants into Dagestan in 1999. At the head of the group, he conducted several successful raids on the rear of Chechen militants, destroying their bases, warehouses, and field commanders. In October 2002, he took part in the storming of the building of the theater center on Dubrovka in Moscow (Nord-Ost) seized by terrorists.

Together with the Vympel group, he immediately arrived in the city of Beslan in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, where on September 1, 2004, a group of 32 terrorists captured over a thousand children and adults in school building No. 1.

When, on the third day of this barbaric action, explosions occurred at the school, causing a fire and the collapse of part of the walls through which the hostages began to scatter, the head of the assault group received an order to spontaneously storm the building. Even on the approaches to the school building, under enemy fire, Razumovsky identified and destroyed two terrorists who were shooting fleeing hostages in the back.

Then he broke into the school building. Fighting his way through the premises, he discovered a terrorist firing point and was the first to break into the room where it was located. He diverted the attention of the bandits to himself and died a brave death in this battle. Through his actions, he ensured the destruction of all the bandits who were in the room by the fighters of his group who followed him.

For the courage and heroism shown during the performance of a special task, by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of September 6, 2004, Lieutenant Colonel Dmitry Aleksandrovich Razumovsky was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation.

He was awarded the orders "For Personal Courage", "For Military Merit", many medals, including "For Courage", medals of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" 1st and 2nd class with swords.

He was buried at the Nikolo-Arkhangelskoye Cemetery of the Hero City of Moscow.

In Ulyanovsk, a monument was erected to the Hero, and a memorial plaque was installed on the building of gymnasium No. 1.

“To die in battle is happiness”

Dmitry Razumovsky is one of the ten special forces of the Vympel detachment who died in Beslan. Section commander, lieutenant colonel, holder of six military awards. For his feat in freeing hostages - mostly children and women captured by a group of non-humans in Beslan school No. 1 - he was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of Russia.

Dmitry Razumovsky is an amazing person. When you listen to people who knew him closely - his wife (it’s so difficult to call Erica a widow), father and mother, colleagues and classmates - you get the impression of extraordinary integrity, an alloy of the highest human values: patriotism, love for family, loyalty in friendship. There is no point in rewriting their words: it is better to present the stories about Dmitry as they are.

“He died almost immediately. Two bullets pierced the chest and apparently hit an artery. If it were just a lung, even right through, they would live with it... Before his death, Dmitry managed to say: “It struck... Pull it out...” And pointed to the school.”

Maxim, a fighter from the Vympel squad, commanded by Dmitry:

The algorithm for such operations is developed in advance, and only refined on site, taking into account specific features. There was no exactly the same building on which the details could be worked out - we had to find something similar. They determined what kind of brick the school was built from, what kind of glass was in the gym, and began to prepare for the operation. While doing this, we were caught by the order to storm - this is when the bandits started shooting the fleeing women and children in the back... We had to go for the assault straight from the bus.

There were 9 of us on our side of the building. We concentrated before the attack behind some shed. The territory was very tightly targeted by the militants - I later looked at the corner of this shed: it was just crumbling, riddled with bullets.

We had to run about 60 meters across open ground. It was impossible to get closer to the armored personnel carrier: the terrorists mined not only the entrances and the school building, but also the approaches to it. The sectors were distributed: I was responsible for “my” two windows and controlled my comrades on the left and right, and they controlled me. Dmitry walked next to me - he received commands from headquarters. He died in the attack...

Erica, Dmitry's wife:

We had several videotapes that he watched over and over again. One of the films is the same one: “State Border”. Back then, boys were brought up on such films... But he himself wanted to go to Tajikistan - he graduated from college well, and he had the right to choose.

Igor Anishchenko, Dmitry’s colleague in the Moscow border detachment (Tajikistan):

Dmitry came to our squad in 1991. He passed through a bright streak in the lives of each of us. This man was a fire, a torch of some kind, constantly burning for justice. He was born a soldier and died one. Served as deputy head of the outpost, chief, and leader of the airborne assault maneuver group (ASMG).

He was our hand-to-hand combat instructor. Demanding - he “didn’t get off” with the soldiers. Constantly either in the sports town with them or on the tatami... In a peaceful situation such a commander is tolerated, but in a combat situation they are adored. Such a commander is called “Batya” in the army environment.

The situation was difficult: if at the very beginning of the 90s there were isolated violations of the state border, isolated cases of smuggling and drug trafficking, then in 1993 there was already talk of an armed invasion. The civil war began. Robberies, rapes, thefts of women for resale became common... Refugee camps appeared. We reported to headquarters the number of mine and shell explosions in the outpost area: today 120, yesterday 60...

Alexey Olenev, Dmitry’s colleague in the Moscow border detachment:

Our detachment's section of the border was about 200 kilometers. It is covered by 16 outposts. And DShMG - a plug for every barrel. Where the border was broken through, where the fighting began, a group of 15–20 people boarded helicopters and went there.

Valentina Alexandrovna, Dmitry's mother:

We constantly asked him - why are you standing there? You don’t understand, he answered: as soon as we leave, all this drugs will move from there to Russia. That’s what happened later... They fought hard. Dima said: when they go on a mission, they will definitely be ambushed. He didn’t rule out betrayal either - he just didn’t know where. And he wrote an article in Komsomolskaya Pravda: “The Kremlin forbids me to take revenge for my dead comrades, but I do not follow the order” - he did not have such a phrase, that’s what the editors called the article. But in essence it was true.

He wrote an article when we were on vacation in Ulyanovsk. I learned from television news that his guys from the border detachment were killed - it was August 18, 1994, 6 or 7 people. And he poured out his pain in the article.

Alexander Alekseevich, Dmitry’s father, civil engineer:

When Dima was watching this program, I was in the next room. And suddenly I heard a wild roar - the roar of a wounded animal. "What's happened?" - “I have to go back there, my comrades are dead, I’m leaving now.”

He, he said, had three sacred things: parents, family and friendship. When he returned from Tajikistan, he brought with him a parachute from a signal flare. On it, his colleagues wrote: “Commander, thank you for saving their sons for our mothers.”

After this article was published, he had to resign - persecution began, they even wanted to give him an officer's court of honor. But his colleagues - the heads of the border posts of the Moscow border detachment - threatened: if you try to bring Dima to justice, we will open the border.

In Tajikistan, he began writing a book, mostly autobiographical. The manuscript has been preserved.

From the manuscript of Dmitry's book:

“Lieutenant Kuznetsov was on his way to his first duty station. He was happy because he managed to get assigned to the air assault maneuver group - DS, as the border guards called it for short... The unit was combat, and this especially pleased Dmitry. After all, what young officer does not dream of being in a place where bullets whistle, mines howl and he shows miracles of courage and valor. Romance boiled in him like iron in a smelting furnace.”

Andrey Zvyagintsev, Dmitry’s colleague in the Moscow border detachment:

When Dmitry retired from the border troops, he joined the special forces of the Airborne Forces. Then he left the Airborne Forces. No special forces suited him - only Alpha or Vympel could satisfy his high demands on himself. And he suited them - in terms of business, professional, and moral qualities. Several stars converged at one point...

Igor Kogun, Dmitry’s former colleague at Vympel:

Dima has already become famous in Tajikistan. The Basmachi promised a reward of $300 thousand for his head.

Alexey Olenev:

Many did not understand him. His age and length of service allowed him to retire. There was already a family, a child was born. But how could he, a professional, leave? There is so much more menial work, so much disgrace... Each lieutenant comes to the troops with some kind of youthful fervor. For one person this fuse goes away after a year, for another - after two or three. This fuse never went away for him.

Valentina Alexandrovna:

He already had a wife and son by then. He met Erica as he could not say goodbye to his deceased close friend, commander of the 12th outpost Misha Mayboroda. Dima then, in July 1993, was in the hospital. And as soon as he left, he went to Alma-Ata, where Misha was from.

That's where we met - I lived next to Misha. And after 4 days we decided to get married... We got married in Alma-Ata, and then - so that none of our relatives would be offended - we got married in Ulyanovsk. It was my idea. Dima was baptized, but not a believer—he didn’t even know how to be baptized—but he didn’t mind. They signed on October 23, got married on the 29th, and left for Tajikistan on November 1.

He made all decisions this way - quickly and finally. And I always agreed with him. I knew he was always right. Maybe sometimes he was too categorical, then changed his point of view, but - himself. No one could convince him.

The evening before the battle, he told a friend: you know, I’ll probably die. Usually, when he and the boys were faced with a combat mission, if someone had a bad feeling or confusion, he did not take them with him. And he himself could not help but go.

He went on vacation on August 16 and was planning to go to his parents in Ulyanovsk. At first he wanted the 30th, then he said: “Misha will go to school, and I’ll go...” And in the morning he was called to work. He left, I turned on the TV and found out everything.

Valentina Alexandrovna:

He didn't tell us anything either. He generally cared about us a lot. If something is broadcast on TV about some incident in Chechnya or another hot spot, he immediately calls: “Mom, dad, don’t worry, I’m fine.” Only when they reported from Beslan that a special forces officer had saved two girls, my heart skipped a beat and I ran to call: “Erika, where is he?” - "I don't know". And then I realized that he was there. She says - he called, everything is fine, “we are intensified,” she says...

Alexander Alekseevich:

We were waiting for his arrival. I went to the plot and picked some apples. And at midnight the head of the regional FSB department came to our house and said that Dmitry had died.

Valentina Alexandrovna:

We were always worried about him. My father, like a man, kept quiet more, and I expressed my concern to Dima. He answered me: “Mom, what’s special? After all, dying in battle is happiness. If you asked me, I would really want to die. And don't cry for me if this happens. After all, you are crying for yourself - you should stay. But life doesn’t end, it just transforms into a different quality.” In this sense, he followed Eastern philosophy. And so he was a completely atheist.

He told me: you and I don’t talk about religion. He had his own faith, as he said: family, friends and parents. True, lately he has become less categorical...

Olga Bulatova, Dmitry’s classmate:

We studied together since 7th grade. At school, Dima was not very sociable, and when he entered the border school, we began to correspond and meet during his visits to Ulyanovsk. We were bound by pure and faithful friendship.

We often talked about fate. Even in the first years of his service, he mentioned one prediction made to him: everything in his life will depend on his hands - fate will not interfere in his life. “It made me feel so good,” he said, “everything I have depends on me.”

But then his idea of ​​fate changed. Returning from “hot spots,” he said that sometimes accidents that did not depend on his will saved his life. One day he and the soldiers found themselves on the defensive in a small house - they were preparing to repel an assault and stood at the door. And suddenly a rat ran by, and one of the fighters screamed. This made everyone recoil from the door, and it was at that moment that it was blown out by an explosion. If they had remained where they were, they would probably have died.

And during our last meeting, he said that he understood that everything in his life depends on fate: “For 15 years, fate has saved me and my fighters - one had a superficial wound, another had a tooth chipped off - that’s all.” I tell him - probably because your mother is praying for you. No, he says, they pray for everyone - including our enemies, perhaps even more fiercely than for us - but not everyone survives: “No, it’s fate. How much longer will she take care of me?..”

At our last meeting, he told me: “You know, I accepted a simple truth for myself: the result of life should be death. I am not afraid of death - and it retreats from me.”

After that article and dismissal, he became disappointed. He lost a lot of friends there. But I still dreamed about “Alpha”. But they only took me there with Moscow registration. And he was advised: first serve in Ulyanovsk (in the special forces of the Airborne Forces). And in 1996 he was invited to Vympel - he was known from Tajikistan - and he gladly went.

You went into battle as part of a mixed unit - but you were pulled out of vacation. Maybe if you “worked” with the usual composition, something would have turned out differently? - I don’t think so. We all have high coherence, including with Alpha. "Alpha" worked on the first floor, and we, "Vympel", on the second. Then a lot of things got mixed up in the building, but we still worked in “our” departments, trying not to interfere with each other. We know almost everyone, we are all comrades. This is where we have competition at competitions: we need to “make” “ashek”, but they are trying to “make” us. And during the operation, although we act as different teams, we act as one. The tactics are the same, the training is the same...

Igor Kogun:

We met him eight years ago. We already served together, but in different departments. I crashed into his car in the parking lot. The service counted 12 thousand rubles. At that time we received 1200–1500 rubles, I don’t remember exactly. Well, I say, it’s my fault, I’ll pay. And he tells me - I don’t take it from my own money.

Then he came to us as a squad commander. And a year ago, when I had already decided to quit, he helped me a lot with my work. The kind of person who managed to be in exactly the place and at the moment when help was needed from him. And he solved his problems himself, trying to disturb others as little as possible. Although he had enough problems.

His attitude to life, death, and duty was like in “The Last Samurai.” Friend means friend, enemy - so until the end. No compromises.

He had regular business trips. He didn’t say where, he simply said: “I’m leaving, I’ll come back then.” For training or a combat mission - I didn’t even ask, but I felt everything perfectly. He was definitely not at home for six months this year. He had training in different places: in the mountains, and diving exercises. He worked constantly, even on vacation. For several years now they have been going to train in the Elbrus region. In June, I went there with him for training - they allowed me to take our wives, because we are very little together. For the second time in 11 years, he and I went somewhere together. The bosses agreed, “to reduce the number of divorces, go together.” After all, divorces happen - “I’m tired of waiting, worrying, either finish your activities or get a divorce.” Some finished serving, some got divorced.

Have you ever had such a thought?

Never. It was he who rashly wrote his resignation letter a couple of times. He comes and tells. I say to myself: thank God. And he asks me: well, should I give it to management? I say - I won’t say, you have to make this decision yourself. If you give me your report, I will be very glad. If you don't give it back, I won't say anything against it. He was surprised: when will you start demanding that I leave?! But I understood that this was his job, his life - he couldn’t live without it. Even when I got married, I knew what kind of person he was and what awaited me. And she didn’t hesitate for a minute. Now, if only you could go on business trips with him...

Valentina Alexandrovna:

It was I who tried to influence him through her so that he would leave. And she is my mother, I won’t say that. We should be proud of him. They are such guys. Do you know what the guys call her? "My man."

Alexander Alekseevich:

Their friendship is not like that of civilians. Because always in battle, it makes people so drunk that civilians cannot understand it.

He had good friends - they helped me rent an apartment in Moscow, they helped me with money... Then someone left and offered to live in the vacant apartment. That's how we still live - with his friends. But this was never a sore subject - we were not afraid to be left without a corner.

Olga Bulatova:

He was absolutely tough towards his enemies. I think he forbade himself to seek sympathy for them. While studying at the border guard school, he once saw a guy on the street with a swastika bandage on his sleeve and beat him up. “My grandfathers fought with the Nazis,” Dima later said, “we lost so many people in the war, but this one - does he understand what he got into?”

Igor Kogun:

He rarely came home before 10–11 pm. Got up at 5 am. An hour and a half of mandatory stretching and loading. Then I went to work - and there were already training sessions and classes in my specialty. His classes were terribly difficult. It is very rare when a commander demands from his subordinates what he himself can do perfectly. Another shows the rise with a flip “on his fingers,” and Dmitry does it himself. Our standards are strict. It’s not enough to be in good physical shape, you also need to be mentally prepared.

I'll tell you about one episode. We landed in the winter of 2000 in the Itum-Kalinsky region of Chechnya together with an airborne assault regiment. Altitude 3 thousand, snow, cold, wind. The group was commanded by one general - then, according to our report, he was removed. He made an agreement with the field commanders: I won’t touch you, and you don’t touch me. We didn’t know about this, and even if we had known, we wouldn’t have listened.

We went out to the road. Columns of militants moved along it every night: they were transporting ammunition. It was impossible to reach this road from ATGMs; from mortars, it was difficult to aim because of the steep slopes. Well, we decided to mine it. The three of us went - Dmitry, me and another friend of ours. We descended easily - the elevation difference there was about 1000 m. We went out onto the road, and “darlings” noticed us from the neighboring hill. They aimed a mortar and started firing at us. This was my first combat encounter. At first I didn’t even understand: first there was a gap about a hundred meters behind, then in front - about 50 meters. Dmitry immediately saw through it - back in Tajikistan: he said we were caught in a “fork”, we had to run. And so we ran along this road for a kilometer and a half with mines - we took large mines, anti-personnel mines, 12 kg each, plus a full 25 kg of ammunition. Our guys couldn't cover us: the top was in the way. Well, they mined the road, left, and somehow got up. We were so tired that our legs were cramping. And at night there the convoy was blown up - two lead vehicles - by our mines. They were afraid to go any further. And in the morning the helicopters arrived and shot the rest. About 24 militants were killed there. When they were able to approach us two weeks later, they found five Igla MANPADS scattered by the explosion. For this operation he received the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, second degree.

The next morning we went to an ambush. Dimka saved me there. The ambush was successful and 4 cars were set on fire. But we didn’t notice that “spirits” came out onto the hill opposite and started shooting at us. And we were in white camouflage suits, because we were descending from above, from the snow, and when it began to get light, we could be seen like flies on glass. We started throwing them off. I undress and hear: Whack-Whack. Dima pushed me and said: what are you doing, idiot, undressing on your knees, you should at least lie down and tear it on yourself. It’s a pity - when they bring new ones... And when we made our way, he was transformed - he became like an animal. Running, zigzags, somersaults... Beautiful. I ran after him, was angry with him and at the same time admired him. He was a man of war - I would not want to meet him either in the ring or in battle.

I owe him an enormous debt. Whatever I touch, he has a hand in everything. He was fair. Take the awards, for example. It’s the same with us: an officer is entitled to a higher reward than a warrant officer, even if he has done more. In the first Chechen campaign, it happened - I went on a business trip, which means they drilled a hole. And in the second they tried the same. But he advocated a different approach. “I,” he says, “are writing a proposal for an award for you, for you and for you. But I’m not writing about you. Do you want to ask why? And if a person had the nerve to ask...

So he didn't work with him anymore?

Worked. But if Dima didn’t trust someone, then he didn’t take them with him.

IN OUR life sometimes we meet people who have an inexplicable charm, which attracts almost everyone around them. There are very few of them among us, but if life encounters them, this meeting cannot be forgotten. They are easy to communicate and openly say what is in their hearts. That is why they are shunned by liars and hypocrites. Not everyone is ready to admit it, but such people are always head and shoulders above us, they are leaders. They do not occupy high positions and do not strive for this; they are happy that they do their job well. The commander of the Vympel squad, Lieutenant Colonel Dmitry Razumovsky, was just such a person.
The tragedy in Beslan became a grief for the whole world, the whole country and many individual families. In those terrible days, people did everything possible to save the lives of children, many gave their own. During that assault, special forces soldiers often had to work as “human shields”, covering the children with themselves. And everyone did it without hesitating for a second. "Alpha" and "Vympel" then lost 10 people. The first of them to die was Lieutenant Colonel Dmitry Razumovsky, who was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation.
In battle, he was always ahead; he wanted to check everything himself first in order to protect his comrades. This was the case on September 3, 2004. Dmitry Razumovsky walked ahead...
“Guys, I’ve been hit, take it out,” Dima said evenly and calmly. The bullet entered just above the armor plate in the chest - a serious wound, but, as it seemed to the comrades, not fatal. During the assault, they did not think about death; the main goal was the lives of the children. Everyone was sure that Dima would recover and would be back in action very soon...

At Lenin's desk
DIMA was born a leader. In everything he did, he was the first. His school life was spent in one of the best schools in the Soviet Union, and probably the most famous - gymnasium No. 1 in the city of Ulyanovsk, where V.I. studied. Lenin. The school even had a desk where the leader of the world proletariat spent his school time. The best students were allowed to sit behind her. Now the name Lenin means nothing to schoolchildren and many of their parents, but then only the best could study in this educational institution. And Dima was the best of the best: an excellent student, an athlete, an activist...
Dima was predicted to have a great future - the doors of any university were open to him. He could become a diplomat, a politician, a famous person; he had all the makings for this. This was also what his parents wanted, who were not the last people in the provincial city and could help their son enter some prestigious university. But from an early age, Dmitry dreamed of only one thing - to become a border guard. All boys in childhood love films about war, are interested in weapons, and play at being “real men.” For Dima, this was not a game - the naive childhood desire to become a border guard strengthened and became the main goal for the strong young man. It all started with the film “State Border”; it was his favorite picture, which he could watch an unlimited number of times. Unbending determination was one of Dima’s main traits. Therefore, he went to fulfill his dream - he was preparing to enter college. He was seriously involved in sports and even in 1985 became the USSR boxing champion.

Inconvenient cadet
DMITRY was a man who was born to be a military man. He simply liked this kind of life, so entering the Moscow Border School was true happiness for him. Not only the fulfillment of a childhood dream, but also the first step towards the work of your whole life. Being in the army environment is significantly different from the carefree everyday life of school. Here, all the relationships between people are on the surface, and you can immediately see what each person is like. In such an environment, Dima’s leadership qualities began to especially manifest themselves. He could not tolerate injustice, lies and hypocrisy. “The inconvenient cadet,” as the officers called him, always spoke the truth to the face of any person, regardless of his ranks and regalia. Such qualities aroused only admiration among his classmates, so Dima’s authority in the team was very high.
The perestroika eighties did not favor people in military uniform; military service ceased to be honorable. Young people began to avoid conscription by hook or by crook, and took out their anger on people in uniform. In the Babushkinsky district of Moscow, where the border school is located, groups of young people often robbed cadets returning individually from leave. “Servant, let me have a smoke,” the acquaintance began classically, and then not everyone could stand up for themselves, because it’s hard for one person to cope with five. Somehow Dima was delayed in his dismissal; he was in a hurry for the evening roll call, and then he met a cheerful group of big guys with a perennial nicotine problem. Instead of answering the bullying question, blows rained down on the hooligans at lightning speed. They did not expect this and were forced to flee. And then Dima’s classmates teased him for a long time: “Dima, let me smoke,” they said to him and immediately stood up.
In his studies, Dima saw only one goal - to prepare himself for officer service to the highest degree. In those years, the war was just going on in Afghanistan, and Dmitry was preparing himself to go to a “hot spot” upon graduation. He practiced hand-to-hand combat and tried to master all military sciences to perfection. He always lacked knowledge; he wanted to get more and more of it in order to improve. He paid attention to both practical and theoretical training, constantly read books and for this he could often sacrifice his personal time - sleep, leisure.

On both sides of Pyanj
AFTER GRADUATING from college, Dima went to the most troubled region of the Union - Tajikistan. 1990, the war in Afghanistan had already officially ended for Soviet troops, but clashes with dushmans on the border continued. Lieutenant Razumovsky began his service as deputy head of the outpost of the Pyandzh border detachment, and continued as the head of the outpost of the Airborne Assault Maneuver Group (ASMG) of the Moscow border detachment. It so happened that from the first days of his stay in Tajikistan, he was given to understand that the region here is very turbulent. One day a young lieutenant went to the local market to buy groceries. And there they tried to kidnap him. Obviously, ill-wishers were counting on the fact that the officer was not yet experienced enough and would become an easy prey. However, they were very mistaken - Dima easily dealt with three attackers, and the rest were probably afraid to contact him.
This incident played a significant role in the life of the young officer. Firstly, he was once again convinced that he had arrived in a hot region, where it was constantly necessary to be on the alert. And secondly, local residents began to have great respect for a man in camouflage, still unfamiliar to them, who alone dealt with several strong men.
Soon the dushmans also learned about Dima. From his first operations, he began to return with impressive results. If his group went out on a search, then it would definitely come across some kind of caravan or group of “spirits”. Almost every day, Razumovsky’s group took part in military clashes, and the absolute record for it was six military clashes per day. In this regard, service in the DShMG was for Dima exactly what he wanted. After all, in fact, it was border special forces that performed the most difficult tasks.
“Our detachment’s section of the border was about 200 kilometers,” says Dmitry’s colleague in the Moscow border detachment, Alexey Olenev. - It was covered by 16 outposts and the DShMG - there was a plug in every barrel. Where the border was broken through, where the fighting began, a group of 15–20 people boarded helicopters and went there.
However, Dmitry himself saw his service differently. What he wrote in his largely autobiographical book, which he never managed to finish: “Lieutenant Kuznetsov was on his way to his first duty station. He was happy because he managed to get assigned to the air assault maneuver group - DS, as the border guards called it for short... The unit was combat, and this especially pleased Dmitry. After all, what young officer does not dream of being in a place where bullets whistle, mines howl and he shows miracles of courage and valor. Romance boiled in him like iron in a smelting furnace.”
And Dmitry wrote these lines, one might say, in between fights. When his service in Tajikistan had just begun, border violations by Afghanistan were sporadic, but in 1993, “spirits” began to walk here as if at home. A civil war began in the country, people began to kidnap and rob the local population more and more often. Border outposts came under fire almost every day. And not only from small arms, but also from mortars.
DShMG worked tirelessly. Almost every day there are clashes, caravans, endless flows of weapons and drugs. Dima's group worked very smoothly and efficiently. He managed to create a team that acted as a single whole. Everyone knew that if Razumovsky went to the mountains, he would definitely complete his task and not lose a single fighter. The spirits also knew this, so if they heard from interceptions that 203rd (Dima’s call sign) was working, then they tried to hide. And yet, every time Dima went out on a mission, he returned with results. Some attributed this to luck, and those who were closely acquainted with Razumovsky knew that these results were the fruits of Dima’s great labors. After all, combat work is not so much the direct execution of a task, but to a greater extent its planning and competent leadership during combat. Dima spent nights on end each time calculating various situations when conducting a battle as a group, and, in fact, he had a way out of any trouble. Once it happened that 18 border guards led by Razumovsky were surrounded by about 200 dushmans. This was done purposefully to destroy the 203rd. The battle went on for 11 hours, the outpost could not help its comrades in any way, since all approaches were shot through with mortars - the spirits had calculated everything to the smallest detail. Only the mortar battery helped - it hammered at the positions of the spirits according to a tip carried out by the commander himself. It would seem that the group had no chance, but it escaped the encirclement and, moreover, did not lose a single person, and the spirits were missing 24. During the entire time that Dmitry Razumovsky served in Tajikistan, he did not lose a single subordinate. Although many of his comrades died...

Outpost 25 heroes
EARLY in the morning of July 13, 1993, the 12th outpost of the Moscow border detachment was attacked by about three hundred dushmans. The border guards were surrounded, the fire was heavy and came from all types of weapons, including mortars. The border outpost, manned by only 80% and reinforced by one infantry fighting vehicle crew from the 149th motorized rifle regiment of the 201st division, was unable to withstand such an enemy onslaught.
As Dmitry Razumovsky’s friend, Lieutenant Andrei Merzlikin, later said, for several minutes, while the outpost personnel armed themselves and went into the trenches, they were covered by the BMP crew, who fought to the last, until the vehicle was hit by a grenade launcher. Having dealt with the BMP, the Mujahideen concentrated their fire on the barracks, and soon it was on fire, just like all the other buildings.
“Having entered the trenches, the border guards opened heavy fire,” Merzlikin said. “At first it was unclear where the fire was coming from. In the trench I met the head of the outpost, Senior Lieutenant Mikhail Mayboroda. He assigned specific tasks to the sergeants and went to lead the defense of the outpost to the most tense area, from the border. A few minutes later I learned that Misha had died and took command.
The outpost fought until the cartridges and grenades ran out. After it became clear that there was nowhere to expect help in the near future, and those who remained at the outpost faced imminent death, I decided to break through to the rear.
In a moment of brief calm, I gathered all the wounded and surviving soldiers and told them about my decision to break through. Several people who found it difficult to move independently volunteered to cover our retreat...”
During the battle at the outpost, 25 people died, 18, mostly wounded and shell-shocked, escaped from the encirclement. For Dima, this was a very big tragedy; he knew almost all the dead border guards personally, and the head of the outpost, Mikhail Mayboroda, was his close friend. Most of all, Razumovsky was irritated by the inaction of the higher command. No one could answer his questions, and there were plenty of them. A week before the attack on the outpost, he, in a conversation with Lieutenant Merzlikin, found out that the spirits had almost openly settled not far from the border outpost. All reports about this to the top remained without a proper response; no one gave the command to destroy the dushmans. They began to intensively guard the border using the method of military guarding, but this did not save people from dying.
Almost a year later, history repeated itself. A daring attack was again carried out on the 12th outpost, 7 border guards were killed. At that moment, Dmitry was on vacation in his native Ulyanovsk, and learned about the news from the border on TV. He knew that he had to do something to protect his comrades from death, to avenge the dead. But what could he do, all his questions to the top remained unanswered for many years now. And then he decided to write about everything that happened in the newspaper. A few months later, Komsomolskaya Pravda published an article entitled: “The Kremlin forbade me to take revenge for my dead friends. But I will not carry out this order..."
The letter outlined everything that had become painful during the 4 years of service in Tajikistan. Dmitry in it stood up not for himself, but for his comrades who died a stupid death. The letter ended with the following words: “We are ready to serve you as “cannon fodder” in the future, but we don’t know for what interests our friends are dying? Where is your concern for Russians, Russia? Who will put an end to all this?
After the article was published, Captain Dmitry Razumovsky was dismissed from service. Some people condemned him behind his back for “washing dirty linen in public,” but numerous friends supported him and tried to assure the command that without Dima in the border detachment it would be very bad, but nothing helped.
When he said goodbye to his group, his friends gave him a stabilizing parachute from a signal mine, on which everyone left their wishes. One of them was: “Commander, thank you for saving their sons for our mothers.”

Dream come true
AFTER four years of intense service on the Tajik-Afghan border, a quiet civilian life was a burden for Dmitry. It turned out that no one needed all his achievements and achievements. But he just wanted to achieve justice. It was a difficult time, Dima was left without his favorite job, not long before his son was born, he had to feed his family. What could Dmitry do? He only knew how to fight.
He did not stay in his native Ulyanovsk for long; this time dragged on in painful thoughts and worries. Razumovsky realized that he couldn’t just sit and do nothing. He went to Moscow to try to get into Alpha. Serving in this special unit of the FSB was an impossible dream for him. While still a cadet, he was eager to join Alpha, but it was more like a beautiful mirage - here it is, but it’s impossible to get to it. And yet Dmitry achieved his goal, but in a different unit. By the will of fate, he ended up serving in Vympel, the existence of which few knew about at that time.
Service here was a pleasure for him; four years of experience working on the border interested the FSB special forces. Almost all of Razumovsky’s achievements were carefully studied, and on their basis, methodological recommendations and instructions were issued. And then, during the course of his work, Dmitry worked a lot on creating teaching aids and other things. Everyone returned from business trips, tried to rest more, and the “restless major” drew diagrams and studied specialized literature. He infected everyone else with his energy and efficiency; it was impossible to sit back when Dmitry talked about his ideas, looking straight into the soul with his sparkling eyes. With this kind of work, he created a solid team in his department, and it bore fruit - during all the business trips, not a single one of Razumovsky’s subordinates died. Naturally, such a person was quickly noticed upstairs. A person who is able not only to fight well, but also to generalize experience and issue specific recommendations is useful in any governing body. However, Dmitry refused all tempting offers, because he believed that he was in the right place. His work brought true pleasure, and this made him happy.
It is impossible to count how many combat missions Dmitry has taken to the North Caucasus. The work carried out there has always produced tangible results. For obvious reasons, it is impossible to talk about most of the Vympel operations in which Lieutenant Colonel Razumovsky participated, but his comrades spoke about some combat episodes.

Hero of our time
“He went on vacation on August 16,” says Erica, Dmitry’s wife, “he was going to go to his parents in Ulyanovsk. At first he wanted the 30th, then he said: “Misha will go to school, then I’ll go too...” And in the morning he was called to work. He left, I turned on the TV and found out everything. The evening before the battle, he told a friend: you know, I’ll probably die. Usually, when he and the boys were faced with a combat mission, if someone had a bad feeling or confusion, he did not take them with him. And he himself could not help but go...

Yuri MUKHIN
Photo from the family archive
Dmitry RAZUMOVSKY

The happy days of family life were overshadowed by the unrest happening in the service. Dmitry clearly understood that borders that were not properly protected became a passageway for a huge amount of drugs. He repeatedly reported to his...

The happy days of family life were overshadowed by the unrest happening in the service. Dmitry clearly understood that borders that were not properly protected became a passageway for a huge amount of drugs. He repeatedly reported to his leadership about the need to take urgent measures to strengthen the border territory. But no orders concerning this issue were adopted: in Moscow there was a redistribution of power between President Boris Yeltsin and Ruslanov Khasbulatov, who headed the Supreme Council at that time. The political leadership of the country did not need the borders of their country.

All. He left the army

1994 became a black year for Dmitry: persecution began in the central newspapers, organized by high-ranking officials who, for a number of reasons, did not like the active military operations carried out on the territory of Tajikistan by special units, one of which was headed by Razumovsky. The officer could not understand why journalists who do not know the real state of affairs, who have not been on the ground, in the soot and gunpowder smoke, in the heat, undertake to judge the war. He wrote an open letter full of pain and anxiety for his comrades. But this letter was drowned in heated persecution from the press, which accused the leadership of the border guards of the senseless death of the soldiers. Reading such articles, Andrei Razumovsky’s chest began to sway with indignation, but no one heard him. All. He did what he could do for the country on the battlefield, but a real Russian officer could not participate in the incomprehensible political struggle organized by Yeltsin’s press. And so Dmitry resigned.

Razumovsky took Vympel

But two years later, the Motherland remembered its faithful soldier. With the outbreak of the first war in Chechnya, Dmitry was invited to serve in the state security agencies of the Russian Federation. He served as part of Directorate B, better known as the Vympel group, one of the elite units specializing in lightning-fast retaliatory strikes, which had just come under the jurisdiction of the FSB. Fighters like Razumovsky have always been worth their weight in gold.

Dmitry not only fought, he analyzed his experience and his actions, wrote them down and published books and methodological recommendations on this basis, which were extremely popular among the military. He talked about the feat like this: anyone can die in war, standing up to their full height, it doesn’t take much intelligence, the main thing is to understand how to fight correctly, how to destroy the enemy and survive yourself. And if you die in such a way that chains will then rise behind you, and not just throw yourself at the embrasure, the machine gun will cut your body with a burst and they will shoot at the soldiers again. But if all the soldiers rise up behind you, then your death will not be in vain. These words became prophetic for Dmitry Razumovsky.

For the first and second Chechen wars, he received well-deserved awards, but the main battle of his life was still ahead.

September 1 in Beslan

The tragic autumn in Beslan began on September 3, when brutal bandits took several dozen children, parents and teachers hostage at a school assembly. These were terrible days for the entire country. But people, learning from television news about the unfolding tragedy, could not fully understand the horror that peaceful people experienced. They could not know what atrocities the militants were capable of. Throughout their previous lives, Razumovsky and his comrades were clearly aware that bandits were capable of the most monstrous acts.

His wife recalled the last days of Andrei’s life with great sadness and said that he was tormented by difficult premonitions: and he told one of his close friends that he would be killed. Usually, when Andrei’s subordinates had such premonitions or behaved extremely restlessly before the battle, Razumovsky did not take such people into battle. Then, when a person passed this dangerous peak of fate, Andrei again took his comrade with him into business. This was one of the reasons that there were no combat losses in Razumovsky’s unit for six years.

Brother next to brother

Razumovsky participated in all Vympel operations, many of them can only be found out many years later, but the results of the most high-profile ones nevertheless became known to the general public: the capture of Raduev, battles with bandits in Dagestan, repelled militant attacks for 10 hours near the village of Sleptsovskaya , took part in the operation to free the hostages in Nord-Ost. And he was not wounded anywhere. It was as if fate was saving him for the main, decisive battle.

And so he himself felt uneasy in the September days of 2004. But he could not stay at home and not go on a mission for one simple reason: his knowledge and experience were needed there, in the most difficult point of the country, and he went there, throwing away all premonitions and confusion. He acted like a real soldier.

He was used to facing militants in open battle, one on one. But this time the brutal bandits put little children, their parents, and teachers in front of them. Like the Nazis in years. These were terrible minutes of waiting. Imagine for a moment that there is your child inside, and nearby, in the back, distraught fathers and mothers are asking and begging to save their children. And all this weighs down with a terrible burden. But Razumovsky was able to overcome himself. Few people know, but next to Dmitry was his younger brother, who also enlisted in Vympel.

There were long hours of waiting. The bandits dragged the hostages to the gym, did not give them anything to drink or food. They hung bombs over people's heads. Poor kids!

“I was hooked. Take it"

On the third day, the bandits did the worst thing - they blew up the gym, and the ceiling collapsed. After this, Razumovsky’s group, hiding near the school fence, received the order to launch an assault. And then Dmitry, disregarding all laws of war, stood up first, dragged his soldiers along with him, and entered the schoolyard, which was being shot at from all sides.

An experienced officer, he clearly saw where the snipers were firing from. Dmitry held out for several minutes, this was enough to detect and destroy several sniper points. And then the special forces soldiers pulled the children out from under the fire. As many as we could.

- I was hooked. Take it away,” these were the last words of Major Dmitry Razumovsky, which he spoke clearly and clearly. His comrades thought that the bullet that entered a place unprotected by body armor was not fatal, that their commander would come out of this battle alive. It didn't happen.

Only later will they find in the hands of the militant the camera on which they filmed their atrocities in order to earn money for themselves with a bloody report in front of their superior masters. The camera was taken by a Vympel fighter.

His memory will always be eternal on the streets of his beloved city, where he returned with his soldier’s soul years later.

"He's doing well"

Maxim Aleksandrovich Razumovsky (who became known in the blogosphere under the nickname “Russian Tank”), Dmitry’s younger brother, recalled:

“Beslan is generally mystical. I saw the Beslan school in my dreams several times while still in college. There was a fight in the dream and I was wounded. I remembered this dream very well, because I dreamed about it several times in a row, but I didn’t know what kind of place it was. When we first crawled up to the school on September 1, I was speechless by what I saw. I recognized this place from a dream. I dreamed about Dima for a very long time; during our lifetime, we never spoke as much as in a dream. Everything is fine with him there.

For almost 10 years now I have been learning to live without my older brother. He has always been an example for me. He is seven years older than me, so I rarely had the opportunity to play with him as a child. Rather, he was my mentor in everything. I blindly accepted everything he did and said. I followed him to the border school in 1992, and then to Vympel. He persecuted me, like all the older brothers of the younger ones, but he was always a mountain for me, just as I was for him. What did I lose when he was gone? Yes, everything. Everything from scratch. Now myself. After Beslan, my father became seriously ill and died on October 11, 2009. He was buried in the same cemetery as his brother. Mom is alive and well."

Especially for AesliB, Polina Efimova

Among them are several photographs of the wounded officer. In our gallery we captioned this photo as “Russian tank. Only death can stop this.” For the first time a comrade called it a “Russian tank” ivanov_su on our forum.

There are several more photographs showing this officer. For example, the moment he left school. He has a video camera in his hands.

At some point, there was a wave of reposts of these pictures on the Internet. The caption stated that some Western journalists called him a “Russian tank” and then there were liberal lamentations about Bolotnaya Square and apartments given to riot police. The reposts continue to this day.

As a result, the newspaper men finally found this man and interviewed him. It's under the cut. Along the way I will give some explanations, highlight them in italics and add pictures for clarity.

Russian Tank dreamed of Beslan school

I'm not a legend. There are many people in Ossetia who, with their lives, deserve to have legends written about them
I don't know who called me Russian Tank, I think it was someone's comment on my photo on the Internet. I found out about this relatively recently and, one might say, by accident. One of my friends showed it to me. He said that there was some kind of VKontakte group. These photos have been on the Internet for a long time, with various comments, among them was a “Russian tank”.

I joined our group a year after Dima. We have been flying together on business trips since 1997. Of course, we had to fight before Beslan - in Chechnya, Dagestan, and Ingushetia, in different places. And after that there’s plenty of work to do. You know... He was then wounded 2 more times and shell-shocked.

Dima is Dmitry Razumovsky, who was the first to die in the school yard.

And then, in 2004, on the way to the school we came under heavy fire. Four people were immediately wounded, among them Dima. I hoped to the end that he was alive, and I found out that he did not survive only after it was all over. While they were providing first aid to him and the others and evacuating them, I realized that I myself had been wounded in the thigh by a “shirt” from a bullet. The wound seemed minor to me, and I didn’t pay attention to it; you don’t feel pain on adrenaline. Let's go to school. We made our way to the second floor.

Their group entered the second floor of the workshop wing through the window, along a ladder. The task was to get through to the dining room, which was on the first floor at the other end of the wing. Those. they had to go through the barricades in the outbuilding corridor to the assembly hall and then go down the stairs.
The photo shows his group near the wall of the outbuilding.

They entered through the third window on the right side. You had to go to the left edge - a large gray box on the left. Dining room on the first floor.

This is the second time their group has gone to school. The first, during which Razumovsky died, was carried out from the other side - from the school yard. They were near the watchman's house and carried out reconnaissance. And this happened even before the assault began, at about half past two. Here's a photo taken at 2:30 p.m. This is the dead Dmitry Razumovsky being carried out.

There the Dukhovsky grenade launcher got me for the second time (sorry for the military slang). The explosion was close, above my head, so I got a decent cut: my head, my shoulder, and a few in my back. My friend Igor was caught in the leg along with me. Because of the blood and concussion I saw almost nothing, I had to get out, my other friend Vadim pulled out “Garik”. Well, then he bandaged himself and returned. Either the adrenaline or the painkiller helped, but it didn’t hurt much. Therefore, he considered himself combat-ready. Probably got excited.

Also, while descending the stairs to the dining room, warrant officer Oleg Loskov died. But in this interview he doesn’t talk about it.

He was treated for a short time. We were about to start a planned business trip in October, so I asked to be discharged early. At the beginning of October we already went to Ingushetia, and on October 10 I returned to the same ward, but with bullets in my legs. But they caught one of the organizers of the terrorist attack in Beslan.

Many people say that I took the camera away from the militants. Well, “taken away” is a strong word. I took it from an already dead terrorist. It was broken and there was no way to see what was on it, and there was no time to do so, but I thought that it might contain important information. When they took me to bandage it, I gave it to the doctors with a request to urgently transfer it to our leaders. I don't think they cared either. I don’t know what happened to her afterwards.

I thought long and hard about why this happened. Why did so many people die: both specialists and hostages? Who or what is out of control? I still think so. And is it possible to control a situation when children are captured by armed people and bombs are hung over them? Even we hoped that there was still something human in these animals, and that they would not blow up the school. And at the time when this did happen, we were training at a similar facility. There was only a cordon and snipers around the school. They did their job well, before our arrival they did not allow the terrorists to leave the school and, as far as possible, covered as many hostages as possible with fire. We had to go into battle directly from the buses.

The assault itself began at 15:00 - two hours after the first explosions. Conspiracy theorists who say that the assault began immediately on Putin’s personal order do not know about this. Meanwhile, the arrival of the combat groups in Beslan occurred after 14:00 - this is perfectly tracked in our gallery. Until that time, there was simply no one to storm.

The area near the school was open, and the terrorists had to walk from different directions. There are no invisible people in the field; many wounded were already on the way. The main losses were already at school. Even if you are a super-specialist, you cannot explain to children, when they are scared and want to escape, that they should not run into the direction of fire from a bandit’s machine gun. Therefore, we had to pull them out from under this fire. How can you get them out without getting caught in the fire yourself? Hence such losses among employees. There will still be many questions about what happened there, the more the greater the pain of loss. But it is unlikely that anyone will give an exhaustive answer to them.

So you tell me that I am a legend. Of course not. I'm not a legend. I served and continue to serve with guys who I consider more worthy role models than me. And I’m proud that I served with some of them, continue to serve with some, and are simply friends with others. There are many people in Ossetia who, with their lives, deserve to have legends written about them. I am happy that I can call some of them my friends and I try to look up to them myself. Sorry for being pathetic, but I really think so.

I was sure that he was no longer serving. One of the forum participants met him several years ago. At that time, this officer was guarding a very large and well-known city-forming enterprise. At least I was sure that he ended up there after demobilization. It turns out that it still works.

Beslan is generally mystical. I saw the Beslan school in my dreams several times while still in college. There was a fight in the dream and I was wounded. I remembered this dream very well, because I dreamed about it several times in a row, but I did not know what kind of place it was. When we first crawled up to the school on September 1, I was speechless by what I saw. I recognized this place from a dream. I dreamed about Dima for a very long time; during our lifetime, we never spoke as much as in a dream. Everything is fine with him...

For almost 10 years now I have been learning to live without my older brother. He has always been an example for me. He is seven years older than me, so I rarely had the opportunity to play with him as a child. Rather, he was my mentor in everything. I blindly accepted everything he did and said. I followed him to the border school in 1992, and then to Vympel. He persecuted me, like all the older brothers of the younger ones, but he was always a mountain for me, just as I was for him. What did I lose when he was gone? Yes, everything. Everything from scratch. Now myself. After Beslan, my father became seriously ill and died on October 11, 2009. He was buried in the same cemetery as his brother. Mom is alive and well. She moved to live in Moscow closer to us. She's strong. She's actually a piano teacher. But now I'm retired. She is raising two grandchildren and a granddaughter, and she does it very well. Soon she will be raising another granddaughter. In general, she has no time to sit idle; my brother and I provided her with care until she was very old.

And here's another thing. Forgive me too if I did or wrote something wrong. I'm not a writer. And I'm not a hero. We have a lot of such guys.

16.03.1968 — 03.09.2004

Heroes are not born, heroes are made. These winged words reflect the short but bright life of the Hero of Russia, our fellow countryman, Lieutenant Colonel of the Federal Security Service Dmitry Aleksandrovich Razumovsky. His life was cut short by a terrorist's bullet on September 3, 2004, when he was in full bloom. An encryption message from Moscow about the tragic death of 36-year-old Dmitry arrived at the Department late in the evening, but the deputy head of the FSB, Colonel A.I. Tronin immediately decided to meet with Dmitry’s parents and tell them the sad news.

Many articles have been written about the heroic exploits of Dmitry Razumovsky, two films “The Last Business Trip” and “Quiet Outpost” have been created, the memories of his relatives, friends, colleagues and employees of the Federal Security Service of Russia in the Ulyanovsk region have been recorded, there are materials about him in the museums of Gymnasium No. 1 and Pedagogical College No. 4 Ulyanovsk.

Dima was born in Ulyanovsk in 1968. He began his studies at school No. 9, then continued at gymnasium No. 1 named after. V.I. Lenin, then known throughout the Soviet Union. At school he was an excellent student, an activist, and an athlete. Having dreamed of becoming a military man since childhood, Dima took sports seriously and excelled in boxing, becoming the champion among USSR youths. And this was very useful to him when he became a special forces officer. The film “State Border” helped him finally choose a military profession, which, according to his mother Valentina Alexandrovna and wife Erica, he especially loved.

Border service

In 1986, Dmitry entered the Moscow Border School. Then he dreamed of a promising and in some ways even romantic service on the border. Cadet Razumovsky, strong-willed and intolerant of injustice and hypocrisy, enjoyed authority among his fellow students for his ability to defend his point of view and his strong character. But among the officers he was considered an “inconvenient cadet.”

While studying at the border guard school, he once saw a guy on the street with a swastika on his sleeve. The “discussion” ended in a fight and the defeat of this “fashionist”. “My grandfathers fought with the Nazis,” Dima later said. “We lost so many people in the war, but this one - does he understand what he got into?” “I think he forbade himself to seek sympathy for such persons,” recalls Dmitry’s classmate at school Olga Bulatova.

Dima saw one goal in his studies - to best prepare himself for officer service. In those years, there was a war in Afghanistan, and Dmitry prepared himself to go to one of the “hot spots”, practiced hand-to-hand combat, and tried to master all military sciences to perfection. He had a thirst for knowledge and wanted to get more and more of it. He paid a lot of attention to both practice and theory, and read constantly.

In 1990, cadet Razumovsky graduated from the border school (now the Moscow Border Institute of the FSB of Russia) with good and excellent grades and had the right to choose his place of service.

Dmitry chose the most troubled region of the Union - Tajikistan. Although the war in Afghanistan had officially ended for Soviet troops, clashes with dushmans on the border still continued. Lieutenant Razumovsky began his service as deputy head of the outpost of the Pyandzh border detachment, and continued as the head of the airborne assault maneuver group of the Moscow border detachment.

It so happened that from the first days of his stay in Tajikistan he was given to understand that the region here was very turbulent. One day a young lieutenant went to the local market to buy groceries. And there they tried to kidnap him. Obviously, ill-wishers hoped that the inexperienced officer would become an easy prey. However, they were very wrong. Dima alone dealt with three attackers, and the rest were afraid to contact him.

This incident played a big role in his life. He was once again convinced that it is necessary to constantly be on the alert. Local residents gained respect for this man in camouflage, who single-handedly dealt with several strong men. It must be said that while still a cadet at the border school, Dmitry somehow dealt with five hooligans! Soon the dushmans also learned about Dima.

From his first operations, he began to return with impressive results. If his group went out to search, then it would definitely find either a caravan of drug dealers or a group of “dushmans” and engage in battle with the bandits. In one of the ambushes, Razumovsky’s group captured a shipment of hundreds of kilograms of heroin. The bandits promised 300 thousand dollars for the officer's head. Service in the DShMG brought the young officer’s expectations to life. After all, in fact, it was border special forces that performed the most difficult tasks.

“A 200-kilometer section of the border,” says Alexey Olenev, “was covered by 16 outposts and DShMG. Where the border was broken through, where the fighting began, Razumovsky’s group of 15-20 people boarded helicopters and went there.

In 1993, the “spirits” began to walk here as if at home. A civil war began in Tajikistan, and people began to kidnap and rob the local population more and more often. Border outposts came under fire almost every day. And not only from small arms, but also from mortars.”

DShMG worked tirelessly. Almost every day there are clashes, caravans, endless flows of weapons and drugs. Dmitry's group acted as a single unit. Everyone knew: if Razumovsky goes to the mountains, he will definitely complete his task and will not lose a single fighter. Some attributed this to luck, and those who knew Razumovsky closely knew that these results were the fruits of his great work. After all, combat work is not so much the direct execution of a task, but to a greater extent its planning, competent management of the course of combat. Dima spent nights all night calculating various situations when fighting as a group, and, in fact, he had a way out of any trouble. If the dushmans heard from interceptions that “203rd” (Dima’s call sign) was working, they tried to hide.

One day, 18 border guards led by Razumovsky were surrounded by two hundred dushmans with the goal of destroying “203rd”. The battle went on for 11 hours, the outpost could not help its comrades, since all approaches were shot at by mortars. Only the mortar battery helped - it “pounded” the positions of the bandits according to a tip carried out by the commander himself. It would seem that the group had no chance, but it escaped the encirclement and, moreover, did not lose a single person, and the Mujahideen were missing 24. During the entire time that Dmitry Razumovsky served in Tajikistan, he did not lose a single subordinate. Although many of his comrades died at the outposts.

And the dushmans acted more and more boldly. Early in the morning of July 13, 1993, the 12th outpost of the Moscow border detachment was attacked by about three hundred bandits. The border guards were surrounded, and heavy fire was fired at them from all types of weapons. The border outpost, staffed by only 80% of personnel and reinforced by one infantry fighting vehicle crew from the 149th motorized rifle regiment of the 201st division, was unable to withstand such an enemy onslaught.

The outpost fought until the cartridges and grenades ran out. When it became clear that there was nowhere to expect help in the near future, and remaining at the outpost was tantamount to inevitable death, they began to break through to the rear.

During that battle, 25 people died at the outpost; wounded and shell-shocked border guards managed to escape from the encirclement. For Dmitry, this became a great personal tragedy: he knew almost all the victims personally, and the head of the outpost, Mikhail Mayboroda, was his close friend. Most of all, Razumovsky was irritated by the indecision and inaction of the higher command.

A year later, history practically repeated itself. A daring attack was again made on the 12th outpost, this time seven border guards were killed. At that moment, Dmitry was on vacation in his native Ulyanovsk, and learned about the news from the border on TV. He knew that he had to do something to protect his comrades from death, to avenge the dead. And then he decided to write to the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper. In a letter
everything that had become painful during the four years of service in Tajikistan was outlined. Dmitry worried about his comrades who died through no fault of their own.

Upon returning from vacation, Captain Razumovsky again joined the fight against the Mujahideen. In one of the battles he received a severe concussion. Because of an article written by journalists based on his letter to Komsomolskaya Pravda, his relationship with the leadership of the border detachment became complicated, and Dmitry made a difficult decision for him - to resign from military service and return to his native Ulyanovsk.

"Pennant"

After four years of service on the Tajik-Afghan border, a quiet civilian life turned out to be a burden for Dmitry. Time passed in painful thoughts and worries. Razumovsky understood that he could not remain inactive. He went to Moscow and tried to get into the famous Alpha, but the attempt was unsuccessful. But he was accepted into the special forces of the airborne troops. In 1996, on the recommendation of the leadership of the FSB of Russia in the Ulyanovsk region, Razumovsky as a combat officer, a hand-to-hand combat master, was accepted into service in the elite special forces unit of the FSB "Vympel" (Department "B").

His combat experience interested this FSB service. All of Razumovsky’s achievements were carefully studied, and methodological recommendations were issued on their basis. And then Dmitry worked a lot to create teaching aids. Usually, when returning from business trips, military personnel try to rest more, and the restless major drew diagrams and studied specialized literature. He infected everyone else with his energy and ideas. Gradually, a coherent, combat-ready team formed in his department, and this yielded results - during all the business trips, not a single one of Razumovsky’s subordinates died. Dmitry was quickly noticed at the top as a person capable of not only fighting well, but also generalizing experience and giving specific recommendations. However, he refused tempting offers and believed that he was in the right place.

Dmitry Razumovsky - participant in the first and second wars in the North Caucasus. Participated in repelling the invasion of Chechen militants in Dagestan in 1999. At the head of the group, he conducted several successful raids on the rear of Chechen militants, destroying their bases, warehouses, and field commanders. In the winter of 2000 D.A. Razumovsky, as part of a special forces unit, together with an airborne assault regiment, fought in the Itum-Kalinsky region of Chechnya. For the successful operation to destroy ammunition columns, he was awarded the medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree.

Igor Kogun, Dmitry’s colleague, said in an interview: “We landed in the winter of 2000 in the Itum-Kalinsky region of Chechnya together with an airborne assault regiment. Altitude 3 thousand, snow, cold, wind.

We went out to the road. Columns of militants moved along it every night: they were transporting ammunition. It was impossible to reach this road from ATGMs; from mortars, it was difficult to aim because of the steep slopes. Well, we decided to mine it. The three of us went - Dmitry, me and another friend of ours. We descended easily - the elevation difference there was about 1000 m. We went out onto the road, and “darlings” noticed us from the neighboring hill. They aimed a mortar and started firing at us.
And so we ran along this road for a kilometer and a half with mines weighing 12 kilograms plus a full 25 kg of ammunition. But the road was mined, they left, and somehow got up. We were so tired that our legs were cramping. And at night there the convoy was blown up - two lead vehicles - by our mines. They were afraid to go any further. And in the morning the helicopters arrived and shot the rest. About 24 militants were killed there. When they were able to approach us two weeks later, they found five Igla MANPADS scattered by the explosion. For this operation he received the medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, second degree.”

This is how Kogun characterized Razumovsky: “He rarely came home before 10-11 o’clock in the evening. Got up at 5 am. An hour and a half of mandatory stretching and loading. Then I went to work - and there were already training sessions and classes in my specialty. His classes were terribly difficult. It is very rare when a commander demands from his subordinates what he himself can do perfectly. Another shows the rise with a flip “on his fingers,” and Dmitry does it himself. Our standards are strict. It’s not enough to be in good physical shape, you also need to be mentally prepared.”

Igor Anishchenko, Dmitry’s colleague in the Moscow border detachment, remembers his boss with great warmth: “Dmitry came to our detachment in 1991. He passed through a bright streak in the lives of each of us. This man was a fire, some kind of torch, constantly burning for justice. He was born a soldier and died as one... He was our instructor in hand-to-hand combat. Demanding - he “didn’t get off” with the soldiers. Constantly either in the sports town with them or on the tatami... In a peaceful situation such a commander is tolerated, but in a combat situation they are adored. Such a commander is called “Batya” in the army environment.

Only his superiors know how many Vympel combat operations in the North Caucasus directly involved Lieutenant Colonel Razumovsky. But we all know for sure that his last battle with Chechen militants was in Beslan during the liberation of hostages at school No. 1.

“To die in battle is happiness”

The tragedy began on September 1, 2004, when a group of 32 terrorists seized a school in the city of Beslan (Republic of North Ossetia-Alania). 1,128 people were taken hostage (mostly children, as well as their parents and school staff). On the same day D.A. Razumovsky, together with the Vympel group, arrived in Beslan and immediately became involved in studying the situation and preparing the operation.

After explosions occurred at the school on the third day, causing a fire and the collapse of part of the walls through which the hostages began to scatter, D.A. Razumovsky, at the head of the assault group, received an order to storm the building. Even on the approaches to the school building, under enemy fire, he identified and destroyed two terrorists who were shooting fleeing hostages in the back. He and his group ensured that the hostages left the school building. During the attack, it was necessary to destroy the sniper-bandit points on the top floor and move from one shelter to another. A hail of bullets and a barrage of machine gun fire rained down on the fighters. The commander walked ahead...

One of the bullets, hitting above the body armor, inflicted a mortal wound on Dmitry. He only managed to say: “It’s broken... Pull it out...” and pointed to the school.

Dmitry's brother Maxim, who went into the attack next to him. in an interview with journalists he said the following: “The algorithm for such operations is developed in advance, and is only refined on the spot, taking into account specific features. There was no exactly the same building on which the details could be worked out - we had to find something similar. They determined what kind of brick the school was built from and what glass was used in the gym. and began to prepare for the operation. While doing this we were caught by the order to storm - this is when the bandits started shooting the fleeing women and children in the back...

We had to go for the assault straight from the bus. There were 9 of us on our side of the building. We concentrated before the attack behind some shed. The territory was heavily targeted by militants. I then looked at the corner of this shed: it was just crumbling, riddled with bullets.

We had to run about 60 meters across open ground. It was impossible to get closer to the armored personnel carrier: the terrorists mined not only the entrances and the school building, but also the approaches to it. The sectors were distributed: I was responsible for “my” two windows and controlled my comrades on the left and right, and they controlled me. Dmitry walked next to me - he received commands from headquarters. He died in the attack...”

From what has been said, it is clear that Razumovsky’s group on the first and second days in Beslan, while the Vympel headquarters was negotiating with the terrorists, was working out options for the release of the hostages. But events took an unexpected, dangerous turn. It was necessary to immediately save people, go on the attack on the move, and this led to the death of soldiers and hostages. The bandits became brutal and lost all human form, killing children.

Dmitry loved life and was not afraid of death. He once said: “To die in battle is happiness. Life doesn’t end, it transforms into a different quality.” This was a real person. Dmitry Razumovsky believed that the main thing was the Motherland, honor, friendship and family. And thanks to his parents, who raised a glorious patriotic son.

By decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated September 6, 2004, Lieutenant Colonel Dmitry Aleksandrovich Razumovsky was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation (posthumously) for the courage and heroism shown during the performance of a special task. His relatives were awarded the special distinction of the Hero of the Russian Federation - the Gold Star medal (No. 829).

Dmitry is buried at the Nikolo-Arkhangelskoye cemetery in Moscow.

For military exploits during his service, Lieutenant Colonel Razumovsky was awarded the orders "For Military Merit", "For Personal Courage", medals, including the medal of the Order "For Merit for the Fatherland" 1st and 2nd degree with swords, medals "For courage”, “For participation in the counter-terrorist operation”.

In honor of the hero in Ulyanovsk, a monument was erected on the most beautiful square of the city, the square named after the 100th anniversary of the birth of V.I. Lenin, as well as memorial plaques on house No. 14 on the street. Liebknecht's map. where Dmitry was born, and in gymnasium No. 1.