Ruslan Tagirovich Khuchbarov is the leader of a militant gang that seized a school in Beslan in September 2004. He was the organizer of other notorious gang operations.
Khuchbarov Ruslan Tagirovich - Ingush terrorist. It was he who led the gang that took hostages at a school in Beslan in 2004.
Biography
Ruslan Khuchbarov was born in November 1972 in Ingushetia, in the village of Galashki. His father worked as a tractor driver. At first, this family was complete. But then the husband and wife decided to divorce. Ruslan stayed with his mother. At the age of 8, Khuchbarov went to school. But he did not study very well. Ruslan Khuchbarov had a sister and a brother.
Moving to Russia
When Ruslan Tagirovich Khuchbarov turned 23, he moved to the city of Oryol. The future infamous bandit did not officially work anywhere.
Subsequently, neighbors in a rented apartment recalled that he talked with the same "bearded people" like him in the entrance. They talked about something in their own language. Once Ruslan Khuchbarov was detained for hooliganism. The patrolmen asked him to show his passport, to which he cursed them.
In the spring of 1998, Khuchbarov had a fight with Armenian guys over a girl. After the conflict, he opened fire with a machine gun and killed two representatives of the Armenian diaspora. But the future militant did not receive the due punishment, as he managed to escape to Chechnya.
Personal life
When Ruslan Tagirovich Khuchbarov lived in Orel, he rented a room from the mother of his future wife Elena. But, they say that it was a civil marriage. In 1998, the young people had a daughter, Lilia. But after what happened in Beslan, Elena's relatives and she began to assert that the girl's father was not Khuchbarov. After those terrible events, FSB officers took the woman and her daughter under their protection. Until now, the whereabouts of Elena and Lilia are kept secret.
But Elena managed to give several interviews. In one of them, she said that she always suspected that Khuchbarov had several girls like her. When Ruslan Tagirovich Khuchbarov fled to Chechnya, soon a bell rang in Elena's apartment. It was Ruslana's sister who said that he had married an Ingush girl, and the couple had already had a son.
Events at the Beslan school
When there was the first Chechen war, Khuchbarov fought on the side of the militants. After the murders in Oryol, he fled to Chechnya and went to a militant camp, where he underwent military training. He was given the nickname "Colonel".
For two years - from 2002 to 2003, together with other militants, he trains suicide bombers. Then Khuchbarov became one of the initiators of the operation to seize the Beslan school. It was he who assigned the roles for the terrorists who arrived there.
Together with them, for more than two days in the stuffy hall, Khuchbarov kept small children, women, and the elderly. He forbade giving them food and water. There were also suicide bombers trained by the militants. The bandits mined the school. When the self-detonation occurred, the hostages began to run out of the hole formed in the wall. Many were killed by the militants' bullets, but some were rescued.
Ruslan Tagirovich Khuchbarov was killed during the storming of the school.
