Ruslan Zubayev

Staropromyslovski victim record STA-K025 · HRW numbered entry 25

Recorded age: 35 · Date of death / discovery: Night of 20 January, found 21 January · Place: Zubayev family home, Grozny · Evidence status: Body observed by two neighbours

Documented circumstances

Ruslan was the son of Said and Zeinap Zubayev, husband of Luiza and father of Larisa and Eliza. When two neighbours entered the family courtyard on 21 January, they found Ruslan’s body with those of his wife, daughter Larisa and other relatives. The family house had been burned, and the witnesses saw marks consistent with an armoured vehicle entering the property.

Limits of the evidence

The body of Ruslan’s second daughter Eliza was not found at the time of the report; she should not be described as an independently recovered body.

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 · Malikah Zubayeva · Mariet Zubayeva · Luiza 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 25.

38-person name register and six disappearances · Historical dossier