Luiza Zubayeva

Staropromyslovski victim record STA-K029 · HRW numbered entry 29

Recorded age: 33 · Date of death / discovery: Night of 20 January, found 21 January · Place: Zubayev family home, Grozny · Evidence status: Body observed with daughter Larisa

Documented circumstances

Luiza, the wife of Ruslan Zubayev, was the mother of twelve-year-old Larisa and eight-year-old Eliza. Two men who visited the family house on 21 January found Luiza among the eight people killed in the courtyard, reportedly holding her daughter. Eliza’s body was missing and the witnesses believed she might have died in the burning house.

Limits of the evidence

Human Rights Watch did not recover Eliza’s remains or establish her final moments. The two daughters must retain their distinct evidentiary statuses.

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

Said Zubayev · Zeinap Zubayeva · Ruslan Zubayev · Malikah Zubayeva · Mariet Zubayeva · Said-Magomet Zubayev · Alina Zubayeva · Larisa Zubayeva · Eliza Zubayeva

Sources and archive

HRW, Civilian Killings in Staropromyslovski District of Grozny (February 2000) · HRW, letter of 10 February 2000 — numbered list of 38, entry 29.

38-person name register and six disappearances · Historical dossier