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Comrade General: Konstantin Pulikovsky celebrates his anniversary

February 9 marks the 70th anniversary of Konstantin Pulikovsky, a man who has already entered the history of Russia and our region.

He was born on February 9, 1948 in Ussuriysk. It would seem that the war has recently ended, but not for Far East. Not far from the Soviet borders, on the Korean peninsula, a full-scale massacre initiated by the Americans between two Koreas: North and South unfolded. In it, almost secretly, took part and Soviet pilots under the command of the thrice Hero Soviet Union Ivan Kozhedub, primarily pilots of the Far Eastern air units.

A lesson in courage was held in the Krasnoarmeisky district of the Kuban

The legendary combat general participated in the counterterrorist operation in Chechnya. The so-called "Pulikovsky ring" in Grozny in August 1996 went down in history. Currently, Konstantin Pulikovsky is Vice-Rector for educational work in state institute culture, a member of the Union of Writers of Russia, the owner of literary awards.

Also at the lesson of courage, Evdokia Bershanskaya was remembered. Veteran of the Great Patriotic War, the commander of the 46th Guards Taman Women's Aviation Regiment was dedicated to a musical and literary composition.

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

After listening to the accused high power Berezovsky, Pulikovsky turned pale, but immediately, gathering himself, he began to mint the words:

I, as the commander of the group, do not agree with this position and I 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 we are waiting for you. We have something to say. Were you really not interested in our opinion, our assessment of the situation before the meeting with Maskhadov?

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

I'll buy you, General, along with your people, along with your entire dead grouping and resell! I understand what your promises and ultimatums are worth?..

The officers, unwitting bystanders of the conversation, lowered their heads. Pulikovsky restrained himself with difficulty. He clenched his fists, turned around abruptly and walked away, feeling the “shooting” look of Boris Abramovich on his back ...

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

After the incident, Konstantin Borisovich stayed in the army for a little more than six months. Last time in military uniform I saw him in March 1997 on my 50th birthday. And in April, being already the deputy commander of the North Caucasus Military District for emergencies, he wrote a letter of resignation from the Armed Forces. His immediate superior, Colonel-General A. Kvashnin, gave his consent. Konstantin Borisovich became a civilian and left for Krasnodar, but he could not sit at home. Went to work in the administration of the region. He practically did not maintain any contacts with the military leadership. However, he sometimes called me up, we even met with families, but he tried not to talk about Chechnya.

“They broke the peasant,” the headquarters noted sympathetically when his name was mentioned. 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 advanced training courses commanders at the Academy of Armored Forces. Trained in the positions of commander and chief of staff of the division. We became friends in a short amount of time. Even after parting, they tried to keep in touch, occasionally called up.

Fate brought us together again in February 1995, after the capture of Grozny. Pulikovsky commanded the Eastern Group, I commanded the South. Together with Kvashnin, we came to Khankala to see on the spot the base for the headquarters of the OGV, the condition of the airfield - how suitable it is for use by our aircraft. There they met Kostya. They hugged tightly and kissed each other. Around impassable mud, piercing wind. We ourselves are grimy, chilled, but our hearts 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, a captain, a deputy battalion commander. He served in the Moscow Military District and came to Chechnya as a replacement. He spent only a week in his regiment, he had just accepted the post. In April 1996, near Yaryshmardy, Khattab and his thugs shot down our convoy, killing almost a hundred people. His son was also in the column. The terrible news shocked the general.

It was not much trouble for him to save his son from a business trip to Chechnya. I know people (unfortunately, there are quite a few of them) who willingly went to any lengths to “throw off” their children, nephews, and brothers from serving in the “hot spot”. General Pulikovsky was of a different stock: he himself served the Motherland honestly, he 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 of generals A. Kulikov, M. Labunts and many others passed through Chechnya (thank God, they survived).

When sometimes the mothers of the children who died in the war reproach the military leaders for heartlessness, and even cruelty towards their subordinates, I understand them emotional condition and I don't blame 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 family obligated them to be the first to attack. It is a pity that our society does not know anything about this. But you must know. Otherwise, people will believe Berezovsky more than Pulikovsky ...

The heavy loss crippled the general, but did not slay him. Finished off by the fact that they made peace with the separatists so hastily, having ruined his plan for the destruction of militants in Grozny - carefully thought out, competent from a military point of view. Much of what he had planned was implemented in the January-February 2000 operation. Then the city was completely blocked - the mouse will not slip through. A "corridor" was provided for the exit of the population, the detention of those bandits who stained themselves with the blood of innocent people. For those who refused to capitulate - 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 Basaevs and Khattabs would not have been unrestrained, there would have been no criminal lawlessness in Chechnya, no terrorist attacks in Buynaksk, Moscow, Volgodonsk, Vladikavkaz, no aggression in Dagestan, nor even a second war in the Caucasus.

One of the greats said: “The East loves a speedy judgment. Even if it’s wrong, but fast.” There is something here...

Feeling that federal center"slips", the bandits became insolent: they perceived the endless "negotiations" not as Moscow's desire for peace, but as a weakness of the state. And in a way, they were apparently right. One of the indicators of this is 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 don’t want to blame its initiator Boris Nemtsov, and even more so the people who put their autographs on signature sheets, but I dare to assume with confidence that even if politicians had decided to organize such actions in the Kuban or Stavropol region, even much more popular than Nemtsov, they would have been given turn from the gate. In the South of Russia, people, as they say, have experienced the hard way what criminal Chechnya is. They didn't have to look at the TV screen or the newspapers, finding out certain nuances of the conflict in the Caucasus. Their firm position is gained by life. And on the Middle Volga, many believed the biased (sometimes sincerely mistaken) press, responded to the dubious appeals of politicians who were far from the problems of Chechnya.

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

During that bad period Russian history combat experience, decency, soldier's loyalty to the oath were not in a special price. His father's feelings were dirtyly perverted, used for selfish purposes, his general's honor was tarnished, forced to break his word, not to fulfill his promise. What normal combat officer can stand it? Of course, Konstantin Borisovich broke down internally, withdrew into 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 to appoint Pulikovsky as his plenipotentiary in the Far Eastern Federal District was suggested to V. Putin by A. Kvashnin, since he could, with a clear conscience, vouch for combat general, a highly respectable person, besides having a huge organizational experience.

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

Pulikovsky was on an emotional upsurge, did not hide his joy. We did not talk about the bad, we only remembered 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 manner of speaking ... Once even my wife, seeing a short interview of Pulikovsky on the TV screen, at first mistook him for me.

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

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“Stolen Retribution” by General Pulikovsky Konstantin Pulikovsky wrote a book about the first Chechen war ... It contains many details of army operations, but it cannot be called a manual on military history. There are no high-profile revelations and sensations in the book. "The Stolen Retribution" is a confession of General Pulikovsky and his thoughts about the fate of the country, about what it is like to be able to destroy all the militants once and for all, but to be betrayed along with the Motherland. And it is very difficult to read. Excerpts from the historical essay by General Pulikovsky “The Stolen Retribution. About the first Chechen war and the cost of betrayal. Dedicated to the defender of the Fatherland, Russian soldier Alyosha ... Unkind Krasnodar In Krasnodar, I was not met in the best way . Commanded the military district in 1992, Colonel General Mityukhin. The question haunted him, how could I get from desert Turkmenistan to the Kuban? He literally “butted and pecked” me, trying to find out who was behind me ... and how to convince him that I didn’t have any “hairy paw” ... ... In the 49th Army itself, whose headquarters was in Krasnodar, I didn't seem to be expected at all... It was commanded by Lieutenant-General Netkachev, a well-known man for the military and politicians. He served in Transnistria, where he was not very successful in commanding the 14th Army. He, perhaps, was most disturbed by the thought that he was transferred from the vineyard valleys and foothills not with the expected increase, but quite plainly - “horizontally”. Therefore, he treated my appointment as his first deputy with undisguised painful suspicion. And he began to beat me in all serious ways how much in vain. Where something happened, let it be small things - go, figure it out, general. If you please, as a young lieutenant, run on parcels. It reached the point of humiliating absurdity. Often it was on Friday that he gave an incomprehensible command - to collect information, obviously of secondary importance, but demanded that orders be carried out urgently. Somehow he demanded that a list of non-residential officers in the army be compiled. I report. Orders to clarify the presence of children, parents of officers, other relatives. And collect all this by Sunday, by 9.00. All Saturday, staff officers puff on the lists, in the evening the commander arrives and tears up our work in front of everyone: it’s not done in the right way, in the wrong form ... He doesn’t explain how it should be, but orders to submit new lists to him by Monday morning. On Monday, he appears with a tanned face, fresh - he obviously spent a day off in the rays of the southern sun, in the country or at sea. He runs diagonally through the ill-fated lists, tears up again and tells him to make new ones by morning. Minor 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 newcomers, fearing that they would easily hook up old-timers. And then they can transfer from a paradise somewhere to the Far East. Staying in constant intrigues, army leaders in high ranks were most often aimed not at strengthening the combat capability of the army, 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 echelons of power in the army: push your neighbor, kick the bottom. I won’t say that this principle was in effect 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 had practically never found myself in such situations. About officers and shamblers ... There were cases of frank refusal of top-level officers from direct participation in the operation. Some of these "refuseniks", while remaining in uniform with big stars, at the same time in every possible way denounced the actions of the troops in Chechnya, adding fuel to the fire of the already unbridled criticism in the media. For example, when General A. Mityukhin fell ill, the leadership of the group of troops in Chechnya, marching in four columns to Grozny, was offered to the deputy commander in chief ground forces Colonel General E. Vorobyov. But he refused, and then brought down sharp criticism on the developers and executors of the operation plan, which was the reason for his dismissal. In Russia, thank God, the general corps has never lacked true and sworn professionals. Immediately after December 20, 1994, the group was headed by Lieutenant General A. Kvashnin, who did not flinch before the burden of responsibility entrusted to him. And no matter what various opponents and “well-wishers” later say about him, who imagined themselves to be strategists, “seeing the battle from the outside”, I think that every decent person will always and without fail respectfully take off his hat to Anatoly Vasilyevich. Because he brought 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 a long life and would never appear again on the territory of Chechnya. From this side there was a constant supply of ammunition, weapons, people. The military understood well the role of this corridor - a kind of nutritious umbilical cord of the Dudaevites. 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 barbecuers working there, militants were rolling with machine guns in Zhiguli - they got used to the fact that there was no one there. To the south of Grozny there is a route to Baku and Rostov, then to Moscow. Move where you want. ... Probably, there was not a single newspaper, not a single TV channel that would not consider it their duty to “wipe their feet” on an army uniform. Human rights activists of all stripes, “democrats-peacemakers” with thick wallets, who have their own interest in the North Caucasus, openly added fuel to the fire, depicting the endless stream of “cargo-200” and the crying of mothers in all corners of Russia, mocking the miserable front-line life of soldiers and mocking in every way over 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, saw, felt all this. And, gritting her teeth, hungry, tired, in tattered camouflage, she continued to honestly fulfill her military duty, correcting the miscalculations of officials of her own military department on the go. Boy Somehow, in the second, in my opinion, our winter, I was informed that a journalist from Petrozavodsk arrived. What does she want? To see my son. A mother is a mother, no one has the guts to refuse 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. Which then, by the way, was the subject of serious proceedings. ... The battle broke out at dawn, in a continuous morning fog. That kid got ahead and got lost a little. When the fog cleared, the soldier realized that he was left alone... So what? The guy didn't hesitate. He, as it turned out, was brought up by his grandfather, a forester in Karelia. He knew how to perfectly navigate the terrain, he would not get lost in the forest, he would not disappear. And he just shot with a sniper. He set all sorts of traps there to the conscience. The soldier began to fight alone, hoping to get out to his own, sooner and later. So-and-so in last days captured militants told us about some kind of elusive, allegedly our reconnaissance group ... According to them, they attacked their detachments unexpectedly, fired accurately and disappeared without a trace. The militants even gave its commander a name - Borz, they say, fierce. The Petrozavodsk boy in the rear of the hardened killers 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 began to move. Once he tracked down their lair and with an accurate shot launched a grenade from a grenade launcher into the gap. So they all stayed there. But mostly he exhausted the enemy with ambushes. Lie down somewhere in the woods, near the well-trodden path, and wait for hours. And as soon as he notices unshaven, he will let him in a little and in short bursts will cause significant damage. And he himself - alive on the run. We found it a week later. And he is not particularly hungry, and he does not have a single scratch. We were all infinitely happy with 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 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 an ordinary soldier, in order to protect the commander of the assault group from the explosion of a bandit grenade with his chest. Time is powerless to erase from memory both that battle and that grenade launcher strike, since then my heart has been bleeding. A special, highest pride and inescapable pain burn an unhealed wound all my life ... My eldest son Alexei Pulikovsky was the commander of the assault detachment. ... At the outpost, an ambush awaited them. The first BMP was immediately knocked out. Alyoshka, as they say, commanded well. They are on the outskirts, within the city, captured one house. I was there afterwards: pretty decent a private house red brick, three-story mansion - such new Russians build themselves. Our guys barricaded themselves there: one BMP was placed at the gate - as a firing point, but the other could not be used. They were surrounded by a battalion of bandits under the command of Arbi Baraev... I also met with this bandit later. He was killed when I was already the president's plenipotentiary in the Far East... ...The kids had to fight in full encirclement for almost a day. Volodya Shamanov rescued them: he acted with his group in the neighboring gorge. From the group of Alexei, only seven guys survived. All are wounded boys. I was with them in the hospital, talking. Alyoshka died from a grenade explosion, and his death was instantaneous ... Senior Lieutenant Alexei Pulikovsky was posthumously awarded the order Courage and with military honors he was buried 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. It’s bad with my son ... ”He asked, growing cold inside, but with hope:“ Wounded? "Killed." ... On December 14, 1995, I received the rank of lieutenant general. I was specially summoned to Krasnodar to hand over new epaulettes, they gave me a short vacation. And on the same day I was informed that Alyoshka had died ... since then I can’t even wear a uniform, and the lieutenant general’s epaulets remind me all the time that when I was given them, 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 either. Runs to every call, meets guests: “What, did they come to congratulate Kostya? Come in, sit down, let's have champagne ... "And the people who already knew will trample on the door, be silent and leave. ... For two days I could not tell my wife about this ... Yes, I could not do it myself. He called a family friend, the same chief of staff. When we returned to Krasnodar. Asked him to complete a difficult mission. He drank a glass of vodka and went to our house... Stupid orders Stupid orders from above were enough at that time. For example, the order not to send people to the active troops " caucasian nationality ". And there were up to 40 percent of such soldiers in each battalion in the North Caucasus. They were delicately withdrawn from the crews that had already worked together, and others, "Slavic nationalities", were put in their place. But this was no longer the same crew or crew, and they went into battle, in fact, without even knowing each other. Or another example. We stand on the pass in December - a terrible frost. One soldier got frostbite, another, a third. I give the command: urgently bring warm underwear, sweaters, overalls. After a while, I ask: did you bring it? Yes, they do. The next day I went through the trenches and saw: the 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: an order is needed ... Yes, give the clothes to people, I say. After all, they freeze in a combat situation. 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 stuffed with warm clothes, and no one can give them out without an order from above... "The Pulikovsky Ring"... In early August 1996, bandits began to penetrate into Grozny under the guise of civilians. They walked one by one and in groups, posing as merchants, peasants, residents of neighboring villages, and students. All their 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 the capture of the Chechen capital had actually taken place. ... We have developed the operation "Ring". The battalions in a continuous ring surrounded the maniacs-thugs known to the whole world by that time, dug into the trenches. Having flown several times around the perimeter of the theater of now close hostilities in a helicopter, I was convinced that everything had been done as it should. Almost immediately, I announced to the townspeople that within 48 hours, civilians could and should leave the city, after which we would begin the systematic destruction of the bandits. Two checkpoints were marked, and leaflets were scattered everywhere. And people understood us. According to our estimates, up to 240 thousand people left the city during this time: women, children, the elderly. There were no young men: if they went, they would simply be detained. Bandit or not, one way or another they will stop - until clarification. ... Chernomyrdin asks: “Well, what? If you complete this operation, then there will probably be nothing left of the city? I briefly answer: “There is nothing left of him anyway. But they are all there." Was it already the seventh day when we were finishing the encirclement, and all over Chechnya there was complete silence - not a single shot, only shooting continued inside Grozny ... . .. The militants offered me a meeting: “We realized that we were surrounded. None of us is going to give up. Open the corridor for a breakthrough, we will leave the city. And there will be no bloodshed." “Tell Maskhadov,” I answer them, “I surrounded you in order to destroy you, you won’t wait for any corridor without complete and unconditional surrender.” That was the end of my brief conversation with the militants. Approximately a day before the final blow, the end of gangster bloody separatism, a well-deserved retribution ... ... Honestly, if I knew that everything would turn out differently, I simply would not let him into Grozny. swan. He would have driven a tank or an armored personnel carrier onto the runway, and his plane would never have landed in Khankala. And by the time he got to me, from Mozdok, for example, I would have already completed the operation. And there come what may, but the deed would be done. But Lebed told me: "I'm flying to you." Everything, nothing more. I even thought that a like-minded person was flying to me, who would help to destroy this gang ... ... Alexander Ivanovich listened to my report in silence, and then unexpectedly and quite unexpectedly for us, he declared that he understood everything, but did not agree with anything ... Need to stop immediately fighting step back from their positions and start negotiations. And then completely remove the ring and stop the war. ... Lebed, even after individual meetings with the commanders, did not listen to anyone. He gathered us all again and said that Pulikovsky was taking revenge for his dead son. That on this basis he just has a clouding of his mind and “goes crazy”, that’s why he perceives all questions so inadequately. 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 upon his return to Moscow, in my opinion, even in the State Duma. And at that meeting, he said: here is the president's decree on my powers, so whoever disagrees 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 the war in the North Caucasus would never have happened again. It just couldn't be...

Russian statesman. Lieutenant General of the Russian Armed Forces.
Vice-rector for educational work of the Krasnodar Institute of Culture.
Acting State Councilor of the Russian Federation of the first class.
Advisor to the Speaker of the Federation Council (2008-2012). Head of the Federal Service for Environmental and Nuclear Supervision (2005-2008). Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of Russia in the Far Eastern Federal District (2000-2005). Commander of the military grouping of troops in the Chechen Republic, Deputy Commander of the North Caucasian Military District (1996-1998). Until 1996, he held command positions in operational units of the Armed Forces in Turkmenistan, Estonia, Lithuania, and the Caucasus.

Konstantin Pulikovsky was born on February 9, 1948 in the city of Ussuriysk, Primorsky Krai. The boy grew up in a military family. After school, in 1970 he graduated with honors from the Ulyanovsk Higher Command Tank School, then the Military Academy of Armored Forces named after Rodion Malinovsky and higher academy General Staff. Since 1970, he served in the Belarusian, Baltic and Turkestan military districts.

From December 1994 to August 1996 he commanded the grouping of federal forces "North-West" on the territory of the Chechen Republic. From July to August 1996 he headed the joint grouping of federal forces in Chechnya.

His eldest son, Captain Alexei Pulikovsky, served in Chechnya as deputy commander of a tank battalion of the 245th combined regiment stationed near the village of Shatoi. In the hustle and bustle of the redeployment of troops, Konstantin Borisovich could not keep track of his own son’s movements in the service, he did not even immediately find out that Alexei was subordinate to him, who died heroically on December 14, 1995 in an operation to free an ambushed reconnaissance group of the regiment. The father buried his eldest son in the city of Krasnodar.

In August 1996, when the militants managed to capture the city of Grozny, Konstantin Borisovich delivered an ultimatum to the residents of the city, demanding to leave it before the attack began. Russian troops. But the arrival of General Alexander Lebed and Boris Berezovsky, who had great influence at that time, revised Pulikovsky's ultimatum, and the assault did not take place.

Upon completion of the first Chechen campaign Konstantin Pulikovsky from 1996 to 1998 was the deputy commander of the North Caucasian Military District. In 1998 he retired with the rank of lieutenant general.

After his resignation, Pulikovsky took the post of assistant to the mayor of Krasnodar for work with municipal enterprises and head of the city improvement committee. In early 2000, he was the head of the Krasnodar regional campaign headquarters of Russian presidential candidate Vladimir Putin.

Since May 18, 2000, Konstantin Pulikovsky has been appointed Presidential Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District. From July to August 2001, he accompanied North Korean leader Kim Jong Il during his visit to the Russian Federation, with whom he held many hours of conversation.

As a plenipotentiary representative, Pulikovsky clashed with the head of the Primorsky Territory, Yevgeny Nazdratenko, due to which in February 2001 the latter was removed from the post of governor and appointed head of the State Committee for Fisheries. In parallel, the president's representative was also involved in the economy. For example, in Khabarovsk they began to use mortgages to replenish the regional budget. They built multi-storey buildings at the expense of budgetary funds and successfully sold them.

By the Decree of the President of Russia dated November 14, 2005, Pulikovsky was relieved of his post as Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Far Eastern Federal District. A month later, Konstantin Borisovich was appointed head of the Federal Service for Ecological, Technological and Nuclear Supervision. He held this post for three years.

From 2008 to 2012, Pulikovsky was an adviser to the speaker of the upper house of the Russian parliament, first with Sergei Mironov and then with Valentina Matvienko.

Later, Konstantin Borisovich moved to Krasnodar, where he took the position of vice-rector for educational work at the Krasnodar Institute of Culture. In addition, he does social activities in the regional branch of the military-historical society.

Konstantin Pulikovsky wrote several books “The Orient Express. Across Russia with Kim Jong Il, Stolen Retribution and Where Russia Begins.

Awards of Konstantin Pulikovsky

Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree (February 1, 2003) - for a great contribution to strengthening Russian statehood and many years of conscientious work

Order of Honor (December 12, 2005) - for merits in strengthening the Russian statehood and many years of conscientious work

Order of Friendship (August 21, 2018) - for active work in the preservation, enhancement and promotion of cultural and historical heritage Russia

Russian officer, Captain Pulikovsky Alexei Konstantinovich, was born in Belarus, in the city of Borisov. His father was not a parquet general. It didn't occur to the Russian general to "dismiss" his son from service...

Russian officer, Captain Pulikovsky Alexei 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 serving in hot spots. Russian officer dynasty. Several photo albums on a shelf in an apartment can tell a lot about the life of the Pulikovsky family.

A whole life in officer uniform. The family traveled across the expanses of the country, and the son changed school after school. Any parent will tell you how difficult it is for a child to reorganize in another team.

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

The mountain republic was already on fire. Report after report was written by Alexei Pulikovsky with a request to be sent to Chechnya. The troops have long been aware of the possible hostilities in Chechnya.

Mountains are poorly adapted to tank forced marches. Aleksey, realizing that the battles would be severe ... Their life in the war depended on how ready the fighters were.

The third report of the young officer was satisfied by appointing him the deputy commander of a 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. The father could not follow him. He simply had no time. There was a war. Yes, and the general found out 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 were armed. And then, by chance, a contract soldier knocked down a civilian in a car. It happens everywhere, but the militants used this fact to start a confrontation.

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

Aleksey, having decided to prevent direct clashes, gave himself, along with the signalman, as hostages. For several days the militants mocked him. Trying to break the officer, he was taken out to be shot three times.

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

Last Stand

On December 14, 1995, 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 armored vehicles, and ordered an attack.

He hoped to save armored vehicles and fighters. A grenade from a hand grenade launcher hit the side of the BMP. Alexei died from her explosion. The explosion of a grenade that hit the side of the BMP ended the life of Captain Pulikovsky Alexei Konstantinovich. The last refuge of the son of a general in the cemetery of 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 of Khabarovsk to visit the graves of the fallen soldiers, as the grave of their beloved son.

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