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1994 Russian First League

# FC Erzu Grozny was excluded from the league after playing 19 games (4 more games scheduled to be played in Grozny before Erzu's exclusion were awarded to Erzu with a score of 3:0 because the opponents did not arrive to the game due to security concerns on the brink of First Chechen War).

Anatoly Lebed

From 1999 to 2007, he made over 10 trips to Chechnya and participated in special operations in the areas of the cities of Gudermes and Argun, as well as in the suburbs of Grozny and the Vedeno region.

Angel of Grozny: Inside Chechnya

The Angel of Grozny of the book's title is a Chechen woman Hadijat Gatayeva who has turned their home into an orphanage for street children of the war.

Angel of Grozny: Inside Chechnya is a book by Norwegian journalist Åsne Seierstad published in 2008, which gives an account of everyday life in the war-torn Russian Republic of Chechnya.

Arakcheev and Khudyakov case

According to the Chechen victims' lawyer Ludmila Tikhomirova the accused had done these crimes not during the combat mission, but in the free time while they had been drunk driving around Grozny.

Battle of Dolinskoye

The Battle of Dolinskoye (Dolinskoe, Dolinsky), which took place 25 kilometers northwest of the Chechen capital of Grozny, was the first major ground engagement of the First Chechen War.

Bergmann Battalion

The unit engaged in anti-partisan actions in the Mozdok-Nalchik-Mineralnye Vody area and conducted reconnaissance and subversion in the Grozny area.

Chris Giannou

In 1996 the ICRC decided to build a surgical hospital in the city of Novye Atagi, 25 kilometres south of the capital, Grozny.

Confederation of Mountain Peoples of the Caucasus

At the end of August 1992 the Confederation held the 11th Session of Parliament in Grozny to discuss the Abkhazian issue.

It experienced a brief revival in December 1994, when Shanibov rallied thousands across the North Caucasus to block roads to the Russian forces heading to Grozny.

Cynthia Elbaum

On assignment for Time magazine during the start of the first war in Chechnya, Cynthia was photographing in the streets of Grozny, the capital of the breakaway republic, when she was killed in a Russian bombing raid.

Dzhokhar

Dzhokhar - Current name of the capital city of Grozny since 1998, according to the government of unrecognised Ichkeria

Gennady Shpigun

He was kidnapped from the airport in Grozny on March 5, 1999, when armed masked men boarded his plane as it was about to leave for Moscow.

Georgiyevsk

Georgiyevsk is a railway junction with connections to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Minsk, Krasnodar, Rostov-on-Don, Grozny, Vladikavkaz, Mineralnye Vody, Prokhladny, Budyonnovsk, and Nezlobnaya.

Grozny-City Towers Facade Clocks

The Grozny-City Clocks are located at the Northwest and Southeast side of the Grozny-City Towers and built in September 2011 and opened on 5 October 2011 on the birthday celebration of Chechnya President Ramzan Akhmadovich Kadyrov in Grozny, Chechnya.

Lidia Yusupova

Lidia Muhtarovna Yusupova (Лидия Мухтаровна Юсупова) (born September 15, 1961 in Grozny, Soviet Union) is the Coordinator of the law office of the Moscow-based human rights organization Memorial.

Liza Umarova

Liza then continued to make recordings of the First and Second Chechen Wars, with hit songs such as "Rise Up, Russia!", "Grozny, Hero City", and "Our Time Has Not Yet Come".

Mass graves in Chechnya

According to eyewitnesses, they decided to go public about the mass grave only after an official investigation of the mass grave in Grozny began in June, the wounded were finished-off by sniper and the bodies were then collected by the military and buried together with their smashed vehicles in an enormous pit on the territory of an asphalt factory.

Tanya Anisimova

Tanya Anisimova was born in the Chechen city of Grozny into a family of scientists: her father Dr. Mikhail Anisimov is a well-known physicist.

The Diary of Polina Zherebtsova

The Diary of Polina Zherebtsova is the edited diary kept by Polina Zherebtsova while she was living in Grozny, Chechen Republic.

Viktor Popkov

By the time the wounded were taken to Hospital No. 9 in Grozny, their condition was critical and Popkov was already in coma.


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