Idris Uspayev

Staropromyslovski victim record STA-K034 · HRW numbered entry 34

Recorded age: 60 · Date of death / discovery: Night of 21 January; observed 22 January · Place: Shefskaya Street, Grozny · Evidence status: Body viewed from distance in courtyard

Documented circumstances

Human Rights Watch identified Idris Uspayev as a sixty-year-old scholar of pedagogy whose body was among those seen in the courtyard of Khamid Taramov’s house on Shefskaya Street. Two neighbours observed the scene on 22 January but could not approach the bodies because soldiers were moving nearby.

Limits of the evidence

The HRW report uses the spelling Idriss in its narrative and Idris in the numbered letter. His title ‘doctor of pedagogics’ does not imply he was a medical physician. The observations were from a distance.

This memorial is based on the original Human Rights Watch witness investigation and its separately numbered list of 38 reported victims. It is not an independent criminal judgment. Where the source relies on a body discovery or secondhand report rather than an eyewitness to the shooting, that distinction is preserved. Missing surnames and photographs are not invented.

Other linked victims of this episode

Khamid Taramov · Mussa Guchigov · Saidi (surname unrecorded)

Sources and archive

HRW, Civilian Killings in Staropromyslovski District of Grozny (February 2000) · HRW, letter of 10 February 2000 — numbered list of 38, entry 34.

38-person name register and six disappearances · Historical dossier