Unidentified man from Shatoi
Staropromyslovski victim record STA-K011 · Human Rights Watch letter no. 11 · Incident group: Neftyanaya Street cellar
Age recorded: Approximately 45 · Reported death / discovery: 19 January 2000 · Location: Neftyanaya Street cellar, Grozny · Evidence classification: Direct testimony by wounded survivor; name unknown
Documented circumstances
The sixth occupant of the Neftyanaya Street shelter was a man described by the survivor as a neighbour from Shatoi, aged about forty-five. She reported that the group was attacked with grenades and then close-range gunfire after soldiers had assured them they could return to the cellar. He was among the five people killed, alongside Kosym Reshiev, Natasha Chernova, Khava and Lyusya.
Verification and unresolved questions
Human Rights Watch did not establish his name. A place of origin is not an identification and should not be used to construct a fictitious name.
Judicial context (4 October 2007): In Goncharuk v. Russia (application 58643/00), the European Court of Human Rights found violations of Articles 2 and 13 arising from the life-threatening attack on the sole surviving applicant and the failure to investigate. The Court described five people killed in the same cellar attack (§§ 69–80), but did not issue five individual judgments identifying each person by name. The name in this file comes from HRW’s earlier eyewitness investigation. Judicial source cross-reference.
The account reflects Human Rights Watch’s contemporary interviews and the numbered list issued in February 2000. Unless independently judicially established, the identification of an individual soldier as perpetrator is not asserted here. Source variants are preserved. Pseudonyms used to protect living witnesses have not been reverse-identified. No unverified photographs are reproduced.
Related recorded victims
Kosym Reshiev · Natasha Chernova · Khava (surname unrecorded) · Lyusya (surname unrecorded)
Sources
Human Rights Watch, Civilian Killings in Staropromyslovski District of Grozny (February 2000) · HRW, Open letter dated 10 February 2000 (38 numbered names), record 11.
