Sergei Lysyuk is a hero. Sergey Ivanovich Lysyuk

Lysyuk Sergey Ivanovich - commander of the execution in Ostankino on October 3, 1993 A killer among us October 4th, 2012

In connection with the 19th anniversary of the execution in Ostankino, I would like to remind you who exactly commanded the execution and gave the order to open fire. It was Sergei Ivanovich Lysyuk, at that time commander of the Vityaz special forces unit.

People gathered near Ostankino to demand airtime on television, Lysyuk gave the order to open fire on them. For the execution carried out, Sergei Ivanovich was awarded the star of the Hero of Russia (link). They shot anyone, they shot anywhere, including random passers-by. Dry lines from the summary of the dead:

Evdokimov Yuri Alexandrovich, born in 1967 (26 years)

Killed on the night of October 3-4, 1993 near the Ostankino television center. I was driving a car and was shot at by an armored personnel carrier. Gunshot wound to the head from a heavy machine gun through the windshield of a car.
Lived in Moscow.

A man was just passing by in a car - he was shot.

There was no investigation into the murders carried out by Lysyuk, there was no trial. Lysyuk still walks free and has not suffered any punishment. Take a closer look, maybe he is your neighbor at home or in the country.

Moreover, not a shadow of remorse is visible in Lysyuk; he became a TV star and willingly talks about how he killed people in 1993. You can see at 0:59:40 he himself says that he gave the command to open fire.

http://youtu.be/qt_rdO1cWP4

Purely psychologically, I don’t understand how you can kill so many people who are innocent of anything and not be at all embarrassed about it, and also go on television and tell everyone about it. The immorality of what is happening is simply beyond belief... Does he understand that hell awaits him? Or do such people prefer to be atheists?

At the moment, Lysyuk is favored by the authorities in every possible way. Works as an assistant to the first deputy chairman of the Federation Council Torshin (link). He is the dean of the Faculty of Training of Specialists for High-Risk Professions (link). Promoted to colonel, received the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, fourth degree, by unpublished presidential decree (link).

Several years ago there was a scandal when it was discovered at the Vityaz training base that photographs of Putin’s opponent Alexander Litvinenko, who was poisoned in London, were being used as shooting targets.

On the left is a shot-through photo of Litvinenko, in the center is Sergei Mironov, on the right is that same restless Lysyuk Sergei Ivanovich. He actually runs this center. Still in service and apparently training to shoot those who don’t like Putin. Whose photographs are being used as targets at the center now? Photos of Navalny, Udaltsov, Limonov, Gudkov, Nemtsov and others?

Do you think he will hesitate if he is assigned to shoot the March of Millions or rallies for the 31st? After all, he has already shot, he is covered in blood, so the authorities can fully rely on him. It is on such bald heads that the dictatorship rests.

At rallies they often shout from the stage that we will not forget and will not forgive. It's just chatter. So shout back to them: “They forgot Lysyuka! They forgave Lysyuka!” Because no one is even trying to demand that he be tried for execution, no one is even talking about it. Therefore, if you, like me, believe that not a single mass murderer should go unpunished, demand from both the authorities and the opposition that Lysyuk be tried, tell others about it so that everyone knows. And I would like to wish Lysyuk himself good health, so that he will live to see the time when the court hands down his well-deserved sentence.

The entire officer service of Sergei Ivanovich Lysyuk is inextricably linked with OMSDON. He devoted more than 15 years to the creation and development of special forces of internal troops. The first special-purpose company, formed for the Moscow Olympics as an anti-terrorist unit, eventually became a battalion, and then turned into the “Vityaz” detachment, commanded by Lysyuk for many years.

He received baptism of fire in Sumgait in February 1988. The special forces were given the task of cutting off the instigators of riots from the crowd. We managed then mainly due to general physical training. Wisdom came with experience, and Lysyuk’s detachment gained experience in Fergana, Nagorno-Karabakh, Yerevan, Baku, and other hot spots of the perestroika era.

Repeatedly Sergei Ivanovich led his subordinates during special operations to free hostages. Lysyuk's special forces acted confidently and decisively when neutralizing terrorists in the Sukhumi temporary detention center, in one of the correctional labor colonies in the Urals, and in other emergency circumstances.

Colonel Sergei Ivanovich Lysyuk was awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree, Red Banner, Red Star and For Personal Courage, medals For Military Merit, For Distinction in Military Service, I degree. By decree of the President of the Russian Federation of October 7, 1993, he was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation.

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Hero of the Russian Federation Colonel Lysyuk Sergey Ivanovich

Born on July 25, 1954 in the city of Borzya, Chita region. After graduating from the Ordzhonikidze Military Command School of Internal Troops in 1975, he served in the division named after. F. Dzerzhinsky. He was at the origins of the creation of the special forces unit “Vityaz”.
Awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree, Red Banner, Red Star, and medals. The title of Hero of the Russian Federation was awarded on October 7, 1993.

A FEW years ago, military special forces could not be imagined without Sergei Ivanovich Lysyuk. It seemed that life itself had inextricably linked them. Lysyuk created special forces, special forces raised Lysyuk as a Man, a Hero of Russia.
But it so happened that in 1994 Sergei Ivanovich left the “Vityaz” detachment. And although little time has passed since then, today everything connected with the unit, and especially its commander, is becoming more and more like a legend. Because it turned out that, by and large, we didn’t really know Lysyuk.
Therefore, the attitude towards him is ambiguous. Some, especially the older generation of special forces, love and respect him. Others are, to put it mildly, perplexed by his uncompromising determination and fanatical devotion to the special forces cause. What is he really like, our first special forces soldier, Hero of Russia, who during his lifetime became a legend for many?

ABOUT CHILDHOOD

SHOW me a man who, as a child, as a boy, did not play war, did not catch “spies”, did not bloody the noses of “saboteurs”... Same thing. And if you find one out of a thousand, then why talk about such an infantile thing.
As long as Lysyuk can remember, he always dreamed of becoming a border guard. The hero of his childhood dreams and street games is Karatsupa. I read books about “green caps” until I read them. For a long time, little Seryozhka had a hope that his father would be transferred to serve somewhere closer to the border: after all, he was born into a military family. And although the Lysyuks traveled a lot - Transbaikalia, Ukraine, Poland, Ukraine again - Sergei Ivanovich first came to the border many years later with his special forces.
But his dream was never destined to come true - after school he wanted to enter the border school, but did not pass the medical examination. The doctors didn't like his deviated nasal septum, you see. He decided to join the internal troops, getting closer to spies and saboteurs - that’s how he reassured himself then.
And his nose was turned in the ring. He adored boxing, practiced it with gusto, and while still a schoolboy he became a candidate for master of sports. And he doesn’t regret at all that he had to sacrifice beauty for the title of champion of the Lokomotiv Central Council among youth.
- At school, to be honest, we were not on friendly terms with science. Besides physical education, my favorite subject was chemistry. Here in the lesson I was completely attentive. By that time, I had a small underground laboratory for the manufacture of all kinds of pyrotechnics and explosive devices. Already in the seventh grade I made the mixture myself. Naturally, I had no intention of blowing up anyone or anything. But he conducted experiments, and quite successfully. My parents did not share my joy about this, and I had to carefully keep the laboratory secret.

ABOUT BROTHERS-SUBDIGETS

No offense to today's platoon and company commanders, but it is unlikely that there will be another Lysyuk among them. All his life in the army he had brotherly relationships with the soldiers. After all, at first it was not he who taught them, but they who taught him - their big, thin, big-eared and inexperienced platoon commander. They taught hand-to-hand combat and acrobatics. Oh, and then he received a lot of blows from his subordinates, despite his title of candidate master of sports in boxing. And, by the way, he doesn’t see anything wrong with this: if you want to achieve something worthwhile, study.
- I always addressed a normal soldier as “you.” And if a subordinate did something wrong, if he was not close to me in spirit, in terms of hard work and dedication, I called him “you,” strictly according to the regulations. Like any person, the soldier immediately felt the commander’s attitude towards him and, if not stupid, drew conclusions. This could not be called familiarity, since at that time we were a community of people moving towards the same goal and charged with the same idea. Most soldiers felt and understood this and never crossed the line of what was permitted.
And those who did cross this line were quickly put in their place, most often by the soldiers and sergeants themselves.
By and large, such relationships with subordinates existed only in the platoon commanded by Sergei Ivanovich. And not because he is good and smart, and the rest are bad. It’s just that Lysyuk already knew then that the special forces, this team, was his place in life, his life. In other platoons, the commanders, as it happened, were temporary people in the special forces. They were normal officers, but they could hardly be called obsessed with the idea of ​​​​creating special forces. Therefore, they seemed to be present at this, doing their job as required by the charter, and nothing more.
- I don’t think that my relationship with my subordinates was wrong. Even later, when I became a company commander, then a battalion commander, and a detachment commander, I did not betray myself. He called soldiers and sergeants brothers, and addressed warrant officers and officers as brother. By the way, I got it for this at meetings from the then regiment commander, and later divisional commander Igor Nikolaevich Rubtsov: “This is not a unit, but some kind of monastery. They all have brothers there.”

ABOUT THE BENEFITS OF “SELF-ACTIVITY”

WHEN Lysyuk was appointed commander of the unit, many (Sergei Ivanovich knew about this, conversations reached him from the headquarters corridors) thought that now the company would probably collapse. That they, they say, will not have order, because they are used to only doing amateur activities, inventing different things, about which there is not a word in the charter. But the young commander and his like-minded subordinates were sure: a soldier without work is not a soldier. In other units, soldiers were occupied with drill and household work from morning until evening. And in the special-purpose training company, a cult of classes was introduced - not a single soldier could be exempted from them, no matter what the reason, no matter what circumstances accompanied it. Lysyuk hoped (and this is what actually happened) that due to this, discipline in the company would be at such a level that delegations would come to them to learn from their experience.
Coincidentally or not, it was during that period that a team was formed in special forces training that would be the envy of any commander. Lysyuk's deputy for special training was Oleg Lutsenko, an excellent officer and a person about whom it is difficult to say anything - you need to know him. Only those soldiers and sergeants of the company who could not imagine their life without a team, without special forces, who were brought up in the traditions of the URSN - a special-purpose training company, and went through its harsh school - were retained as warrant officers-instructors in the unit. Victor Putilov, Victor Maspanov, Andrey Bogdanov, Gennady Sychev, Vladimir Kurgin, Oleg Shishov, Yuri Vaganov, Alexey Kulikov, Vadim Kukhar were true professionals. They enjoyed enormous authority among the soldiers and were looked upon as gods.
These people were the core of the company, the bearers of the spirit of special forces, the group that shaped the ideology of the unit. And they really continued their “amateur activities”.

The first step was to implement the idea of ​​a training platoon. They brought all the young people who came to the unit into one platoon and spent up to eight hours of training with them a day. No outfits, no chores. Just classes. From the training platoon, the fighters came to combat units one hundred percent prepared to perform the most difficult tasks. And a little later their “amateur activity” took root in all internal troops.
- We initiated the approval of a new daily routine for military special forces units. First of all, this is a morning physical training class - an hour of hand-to-hand combat. Then, as Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov did in his time, mandatory sleep was introduced. Whether the soldier wanted it or not, he had to rest after lunch. The day was filled to the limit with various activities and training - in fire, tactical, and physical training. All this was approved by the unit commander in the daily routine of our unit. And even if someone called it an initiative, I voted for it with both hands. We weren't preparing for parades.

ABOUT HOT SPOTS

HIS BAPTISM in hot spots was Sumgayit. Lysyuk was on vacation at the time; his wife was about to give birth to a second child. I learned that the unit had been put on alert and ran to the unit. I flew off on that business trip without receiving clear permission from my commanders. All these messes were just beginning, and, knowing the family circumstances of the young company commander, none of the commanders probably wanted to take responsibility.
They spent four months on that business trip. Well, then we went to Yerevan, Baku, and then, as they say, everywhere...
- In hot spots, everything in the commander’s work is subordinated to the fulfillment of the combat mission. The first thing he must do is ensure the accommodation of personnel and their autonomous existence. This is especially important for special forces. The second is to ensure the safety of your subordinates.
When they began to go on these combat missions, they began to pay increased attention to preparing special forces youth to ensure their own security. All classes and training were brought as close as possible to a combat situation. They stationed soldiers in the forest at night to guard some object, and they themselves sent “saboteurs.” They created various extreme situations for the soldiers and taught them not only to survive, but also to carry out a combat mission.
- A feeling of fear... Of course, I had to experience it. These young people are not afraid of anything or anyone. They are the ones who are sure that they will never be killed, that they will live forever.
And when life experience comes, when you acquire a family, when you are responsible not only for your life, but first of all for the lives of these eighteen-year-old boys... But the best cure for fear is action. And you instantly forget about your trembling knees when you start thinking about how best to maneuver in order to take an advantageous position in front of the same angry crowd or the militants firing at you.
Lysyuk remembers his first killing shot well. This was in Abkhazia, where special forces were clearing the Sukhumi-Ochamchira highway. A firefight broke out between Georgians and Abkhazians near a mined bridge across a small river. There were five or six cars parked on the bridge, including a fuel tanker, from which machine-gun fire was fired. They also shot at the special forces, and quite accurately. Lysyuk took a sniper rifle and fired several shots. It's hard to say whether it hit. As they say, he did not observe the result of the shooting. But the machine gun fell silent.
- In general, in a combat situation you don’t have any thoughts, you don’t feel any regret. They shoot at you, and you fire back. After all, we opened fire only as a last resort, when all other means of influence had already been exhausted and had failed.

ABOUT SPECIAL OPERATIONS

TODAY, our counter-terrorism experts claim: the operation in the Sukhumi temporary detention center has no analogues in the domestic practice of using special forces units to free hostages and prisons captured by bandits. That operation is especially memorable for Sergei Ivanovich Lysyuk, although in those hot days of August 1990, he and his subordinates least of all thought about the glory of the participants in the unprecedented assault on the target and, preparing for the fight with seasoned repeat offenders, did not waste extra words, remembering their motto : “The best kind of word is action!”
The operation was planned by collective efforts - battalion commander of the “Knights” Sergei Lysyuk, chief of staff Sergei Zhitikhin, deputy for special training Viktor Putilov, from group “A” of the KGB of the USSR - officers Mikhail Maksimov, Alexander Mikhailov and Viktor Luttsev. An excellent idea was born: to work simultaneously in three groups. The first takes the vehicle demanded by the leader of the hostage-taking gang. The second and third break into the building and disarm the bandits located there. Well, the details are a matter of technique.
Lysyuk led the second group of officers, warrant officers and Vityaz soldiers, whose task was to break into the temporary detention center through the emergency entrance from the end of the building. The coolest surprise in the entire operation awaited her. When powerful explosions tore the front door off its hinges, there was another one behind it - a lattice one. And also, if it were three times wrong, locked from the inside. Behind her is a barricade of furniture.
- The group is leaving! - Lysyuk shouted. - Sappers - blow up the grate!
It’s good that Putilov took spare charges with him. A minute, another - and the bars were gone. But the TNT power was not enough for the barricade.
The forced delay in penetrating the building was compensated for by the power and speed of the attack after the lattice door was blown up. Neither the one and a half meter barricade of furniture that blocked the passage, nor shots from the opposite end of the corridor, detained the Lysyukites. In order to cool the hot heads of the bandits, they threw a dozen and a half light and noise products at them. Well, then came, as the pros say, concrete work. Full contact.
The movement of the group along the corridor in clouds of smoke and dust resembled an indomitable squall, a tornado accumulating energy capable of paralyzing evil will even at a distance. Ordinary soldiers were inspired by the example of battalion commander Sergei Lysyuk, who was the first to capture armed criminals.
And those grated rolls, by the way, prepared for defense very seriously.
Barrels were placed near the windows, and at each position there was a supply of cartridges. But the “knights” passed the seventy-meter corridor in one breath. And, having pushed the neutralized prisoners into the cells, they captured the second floor at the same pace.
The Alpha team also did a great job. Their special forces equipment is aerobatics.
To her, Group “A”, the press will then give the laurels of the winners, leaving the “knights” in the shadows, although all the difficulties, all the risk during the assault, both units, acting shoulder to shoulder, shared fifty-fifty.
- Let someone at the top share the laurels, determine priorities, and for us the most important thing is to strengthen the cohesion of our units, develop those traditions of cooperation and mutual understanding that arose among us in Sukhumi and other hot spots.
Good words. All of Lysyuk is in them.

ABOUT WEAPONS

SINCE CHILDHOOD I have been sensitive to weapons. After graduating from school, he even got a job at a weapons base as a mechanic repairing small arms.
Some people believe that carrying weapons is some kind of manic habit. Nothing like this! Over the centuries, women have subconsciously developed a love for jewelry, and men have developed a love for weapons. Handling weapons is also an element of a man’s culture. Just by the way a person picks up a pistol or machine gun, a lot can be said about him.

ABOUT POLITICS

FOR A LONG time, Lysyuk and his subordinates did not think about politics, but silently did their job - they went to sharpening and knives, under bandit bullets. The main thing for them was to carry out the order - that’s how they were brought up.
When censorship was abolished and they began to write about white spots, the first thing that deeply shocked Sergei Ivanovich was the story of the execution of the royal family. He still cannot understand what the family of Nicholas II, his children, and his disabled child had to do with it.
- Later, after October 1993, after Chechnya, I realized that politics is a dirty business. Many people, unfortunately, come to power not to do something for others, to benefit the country and people, but to achieve personal benefits. And it was not the army that lost the first Chechen war, it was the politicians who lost.
Yes, a special forces soldier must understand politics. But first of all, he must follow the orders of the commander. Special forces must be able to professionally carry out the task assigned to them, and politicians must think for what purpose to use the professionalism of special forces. For bloody showdowns for power or to fight crime, corruption, terrorism.

ABOUT FAMILY

Lysyuk ended his bachelor life, as he believes, on time, at twenty-eight years old. His wife Natalya is from Krasnodar. And they met in Dnepropetrovsk, at the pedestal with the legendary Great Patriotic T-34 tank. And it was February 23... Well, how can you escape the fate of a military man?
Natalya, the ideological, convinced wife of a special forces soldier, steadfastly endured all the hardships associated with her husband’s service. For the sake of her family, for the sake of raising her son and daughter, she sacrificed her career. But she is a very talented person, she graduated with “excellent” marks from a prestigious university, and by profession she is a catering technologist.
“I never heard a word of reproach from her.” For which I am very grateful to her. I consider Natalya the most beautiful woman I have ever met, and the best wife anyone can have.
Their wife is in charge of everything related to family affairs - raising children, budgeting, and apartment renovation. Natalya is the mistress of the house. And Sergei Ivanovich did not claim a leading role in family affairs, especially with regard to the budget, since during his bachelor life his salary ended within a week and a half.
- In women, I value precisely those qualities that are inherent in my wife. This is, first of all, an understanding of the problems that the husband is dealing with. Natalya understood that for me, serving in special forces was a matter of life. She could wait, she knew how to wait. Patience is perhaps the most important quality for an officer’s wife.
After business trips, as a rule, all officers and warrant officers with their families gathered with Sergei and Natalya Lysyukov. They discussed business and washed away awards. Lysyuk is convinced that officers’ wives should rejoice in their successes and successes together with their husbands, just as they share with them all the difficulties and hardships.

ABOUT FRIENDSHIP

I have quite a lot of friends. Friendship is, first of all, mutual respect and mutual unwritten obligations of one to the other. Deep integrity and commitment to each other.
Lysyuk does not tolerate betrayal. He doesn’t like to remember this, but there were cases when he was betrayed. Sergei Ivanovich believes that, by and large, he has not done anything in his life for anyone to consider him their enemy. I am always ready to give a person a hundred times more if he sees that he is decent, that he is passionate about his work. And he cannot stand hypocrites, liars, people who are not responsible for their actions and their words.

ABOUT BAD HABITS

ONE day, as a ten-year-old boy, he spied where his grandfather kept his tobacco. With grief, I made a rolled-up cigarette... And I thought: stupid people, why are they smoking such crap? Since then he has not touched cigarettes. Although he treats tobacco smoke calmly, otherwise he would have to miss a lot of interesting and useful things. After all, serious matters are discussed for a long time, and it is extremely rare that important decisions are made without a couple of packs of smoked cigarettes.
- I'm not much of a drinker either. Until I was twenty-six, I didn’t even know the taste of champagne. Later, when combat operations began, I had to relieve the stress. But I don't enjoy drinking alcohol. I rarely afford good cognac or dry wine.
Although he loves to sit at a good table among friends, in the company of interesting interlocutors. He enjoys communication, and not from long feasts with toasts and laudatory speeches. Can't stand formal receptions.

ABOUT DISMISSAL

IN NINETY-first, when the lights of casinos and bars began to blink behind the fence, eyes began to run wild from the abundance of foreign cars, the first wave of dismissals of officers and warrant officers hit the special forces. It is difficult to give an assessment - some had a difficult financial situation, while others' life guidelines changed. God is their judge. Lysyuk rightly believed and still believes that only those who want to serve in special forces should serve. He did not persuade any of those who left to stay. Ten to fifteen people left then. They were replaced by a new wave of officers and warrant officers, who showed themselves very well and did not disgrace the honor of the special forces.
- I myself left Vityaz not of my own free will. But that's how it happened. Resigned due to health reasons. It turned out that I myself never went to the doctors, but a couple of times I fell into their hands. The first - in the seventy-ninth year with a diagnosis of severe physical exhaustion of the body. We were preparing for important demonstration exercises and spent days and nights in the unit for about a month. At that time I was still single - I had no time to eat, and no one to relax with. All this had an impact. The second time he was caught by doctors was after a shell shock received during the storming of the Sukhumi detention center. Therefore, in ninety-four, when the doctors laid their eyes on me for the third time, I did not tempt fate further.
But even after his dismissal, he strives not to lose contact with the special forces and to bring them benefit. Therefore, together with like-minded people, we created a public organization called the “Brotherhood of “Maroon Berets” “Vityaz”, they support the cause of special forces ideologically, financially, and professionally.
One of the main goals of the organization is to provide assistance in finding employment for brothers who have completed their service. Recently, for example, they opened a military paraphernalia store that employs guys who became disabled during their service. There are many other plans.
“We will do our best to support the professionalism of the special forces, their spirit and traditions, and loyalty to the maroon beret.”
So, both in spirit and in life, Lysyuk was and remains a special forces soldier.

ABOUT A DREAM THAT WILL EVER COME TRUE

In MY opinion, special forces should be highly professional and not beggars; the fighters have completed a training course using our methodology, completed an internship and serve under a contract - three, five, ten years. Serve - get decent benefits. We need a strong social base and state support. But today it cannot give an apartment to an officer, let alone contract soldiers. A professional special forces soldier today should have a salary such that he has the opportunity to get an interest-free loan, build himself a house, buy an apartment. Then commanders will have not only disciplinary, but also material measures of influence and incentives for subordinates.

And we need to gather professionals throughout the country. It’s the same with us: if you don’t have Moscow registration, then you have problems. But the same sniper is a man from God. You can choose one of several thousand to find a real sniper. Just like a real sapper, attack aircraft - taking into account the psychological characteristics, temperament and other qualities inherent in specialists of one or another special forces profession. They must be led by commanders - real professionals, highly qualified officers who have gone through fire, water and copper pipes... So, that's enough. This is a sore subject of mine, and I can talk about it for days. One thing I am sure of: sooner or later special forces will become like this.

Sergey KOLESNIK

On March 27, Russia celebrated Internal Troops Day. About the special operations of the special forces detachment “Vityaz”, how in 1993 in Ostankino the “Dzerzhintsy” prevented much bloodshed and the outbreak of a civil war, about the brotherhood of the “Maroon Berets” - about this Truth. Ru was told by Colonel of the special forces detachment, Hero of Russia Sergei Lysyuk.

"Maroon berets are the guarantor of the Constitution"

— Sergei Ivanovich, they say that it is difficult to imagine military special forces without you. Have you dreamed of serving since childhood?

- Yes. My father is a military man, my entire childhood was spent in military camps. I had a fairly conscious desire to become a military man when we were in the Polish People's Republic from 1959 to 1960. My father was then the deputy technical engineer of the auto company of the 7th motorized rifle regiment. As I remember now: military unit - field post 51412. Naturally, our childhood passed between barracks, clubs, training grounds. He was dragged out of the shooting range several times before the shooting began.

From the age of five until I graduated from school, I wanted to be a border guard. When we crossed the state border in Brest, I looked with envy at the people in green caps. When I entered the Moscow border school, the commission rejected me. Related units are internal troops. The Ordzhonikidzievsky school used to be a border school. That's why I entered this school.

I set a goal for myself - to serve in the Dzerzhinsky division - OMSDO - a separate special purpose motorized rifle division. It had to fight saboteurs and terrorists and ensure the security of the country. At school

— When and where did your baptism of fire take place?

— Quite a lot of us were rushing to Afghanistan. I wrote five or six reports, but they didn’t let me go. Internal troops have nothing to do there. Advisors and certain categories of soldiers and warrant officers were sent there - weapon gunners and armored personnel carrier drivers. But they didn’t take us there at first.

For me, the first hot spot was Sumgayit. I was on vacation, I had a small child, my wife was pregnant with her second child. When the commotion began there, the division was on our ears, I went to find out and said: write to me for a business trip. Colonel Rakitin (now a general) says: you are on vacation, you won’t go anywhere.

I flew there without permission, and then they retrospectively recalled me from vacation. After Sumgayit we went to Armenia, then to Baku... I wasn’t home for about four months. In general, there were business trips for up to 8 months a year. Suddenly they took me to Fergana. There, a large number of people were taken hostage in a department store. They were blocked and wanted to set them on fire. We freed people and caught extremists. Then there was Karabakh, in fact the entire Transcaucasus several times. We were in Transnistria. Then there were operations to free hostages in correctional labor colonies.

In hot spots, they mainly worked to disarm illegal military formations. There was a fairly serious operation in Karabakh, when we disarmed an illegal formation of 25-30 people. During the flight, one officer reported that he saw their base location; the group wanted to leave this place. We flew there in six helicopters and blocked this group. I started negotiating. After several hours, I persuaded them to surrender their weapons. In fact, they stood opposite each other for four hours - a cartridge in the chamber, loaded grenades. At different periods there was either active work or almost none.

It depended on the political leadership of the country. When Gorbachev was in power, we were often given the command to begin disarmament of illegal groups, and then this combat mission was canceled. We just passed the pass - Stop! Back! Stop, wait. Again you can, then you can’t. It was somehow indecisive. Or they’ve already surrounded us, and they tell us to retreat. Some local elite called to the very top, they reached Gorbachev and said that there was no need to do anything. And the central government followed their lead. It was this kind of softness that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

— Did you have to violate the order and complete the operation?

— It happened in Sukhumi when hostages were taken in a temporary detention center. The organizer was a death row prisoner. A year before that, we were already in Sukhumi, disarming the population, when one village stood up against another. And in the pre-trial detention center we had already drawn up a plan and were ready to begin the operation. Then General Starikov comes and says: no, you won’t go, let Alpha storm. Karpukhin and I went and contacted Kryuchkov and told him what the situation was. But no one made a decision, everyone left the topic. We started to escalate: like, the situation is getting out of control, we urgently need to storm. But there was never an order to storm from Gorbachev. Kryuchkov also said something vague.

We returned and Karpukhin said: “They told us to storm.” The prosecutor, who was nearby, as soon as they gave him the plan to sign, disappeared somewhere, so the assault plan was never signed. But we did it as we planned. The operation was completed normally in a few minutes.

— Sergei Ivanovich, you stood at the origins of the “Vityaz” detachment. Is this your brainchild?

“Mine” is said loudly. - Many people think so. — The idea of ​​such special forces was born in 1978. A political decision was made by the CPSU Central Committee for the Olympic Games. We consider Lieutenant General Sidorov to be the father of special forces. He was a front-line soldier, commanded penal prisoners, and was the head of combat training. This is our father, who actually created the special forces, he took into account the opinion of the soldiers. He was quite tough, strong, and fighting. The development of special forces was given by the commander of the internal troops, Colonel General Shatalin Yuri Vasilyevich. He is like a godfather to us.

Well, we showed initiative, creativity, loved and did our job, tried to make our unit better. I served for 17 years, tried to ensure that various innovations and ideas were accepted and came. Not everything was according to orders, according to regulations, or official. The same test for the right to wear maroon berets began to take place officially only after 1993. Before that we didn't even talk about her. Because there were such serious tests that were not included in the combat training plans. We wrote into the plans that this was a test exercise; no one really knew that we were presenting berets there.

But such moments contribute to the formation of the fighting character and spirit of people, because above all else in special forces is the spirit. The spirit laid down then remains today. These are the traditions, those fighters who were the first to serve as an example. The special forces of the internal troops are truly the elite, they are authoritative structures. And the fact that any of the most difficult tasks that are assigned to them are completed is precisely the merit of the first people who laid down the traditions.

— Why did you receive the Hero Star in 1993?

— These were the events when presidential rule was introduced in September 1993 due to a conflict of authorities. At the cost of blood, a greater tragedy like the one now happening in Ukraine was stopped. We could have come to this at that moment. There was also a big mistake regarding the first Chechen campaign, when Yeltsin was unable to show flexibility and meet with Dudayev, agree and resolve issues politically. In any situation, the most important thing is negotiation. The wisdom of politicians is above all. It's always better to avoid major bloodshed. But what happened happened.

And in 1993, I received the task of taking security over the television center when events began near the White House. As we moved, a team of rebels overtook us. People were excited, joyful, some with weapons, some without. When we approached the television center there were already more than a thousand people in the square. There were about 20 people with me on the first armored personnel carrier. We ran along the corridor and in the lobby we encountered Makashov and armed people. We ordered them to leave the building under threat of execution. If we were even 30-40 seconds late, they would have already entered. Then we would have to fight inside the building. We took up positions.

And the rebels began to revive. They started shooting. Some of our soldiers were killed. The first attack was repulsed, and then they were not allowed to approach. There were a few more attacks, but not very intense. We did it. There was little bloodshed. Then the situation was turned around. Makashov is a military man, he is a performer. But Rutskoy was the political leader. And Dzerzhinsky’s division has always been and remains a guarantor of stability.

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Born on July 25, 1954 in the city of Borzya, Chita region. After graduating from the Ordzhonikidze Military Command School of Internal Troops in 1975, he served in the Separate Special Purpose Motorized Rifle Division named after. F.E. Dzerzhinsky internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR. He was at the origins of the creation of the special forces unit “Vityaz”.

The entire officer service of Sergei Ivanovich Lysyuk is inextricably linked with the Separate Special Purpose Motorized Rifle Division named after. F.E. Dzerzhinsky. He devoted more than 15 years to the creation and development of special forces of internal troops. The first special-purpose training company, formed for the Moscow Olympics as an anti-terrorist unit, eventually became a battalion, and then turned into the “Vityaz” detachment, commanded by Lysyuk for many years.

He received baptism of fire in Sumgait in February 1988. The special forces were tasked with cutting off the instigators of riots from the crowd. We managed then mainly due to general physical training. Wisdom came with experience, and Lysyuk’s detachment gained experience in Fergana, Nagorno-Karabakh, Yerevan, Baku, and other hot spots of the perestroika era.

Repeatedly Sergei Ivanovich led his subordinates during special operations to free hostages. Lysyuk's special forces acted confidently and decisively when neutralizing terrorists in the Sukhumi temporary detention center, in one of the correctional labor colonies in the Urals, and in other emergency circumstances.

Colonel Sergei Ivanovich Lysyuk was awarded the orders “For Merit to the Fatherland”, IV degree, the Red Banner, the Red Star and “For Personal Courage”, medals “For Military Merit”, “For Distinction in Military Service”, I degree.

By decree of the President of the Russian Federation of October 7, 1993, Colonel Sergei Ivanovich Lysyuk was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation.

After his dismissal, Sergei Ivanovich did not lose contact with the special forces. Together with like-minded people, he created the public organization “Brotherhood of Maroon Berets “Vityaz””, which actively participates in the military-patriotic education of the new generation of special forces.