Staropromyslovski — Visual, Forensic and Documentary Evidence Register (1999–2007)

Archive STA-EVD-001 · Cross-source documentary catalogue · 14 November 2026. This page records the existence, provenance, described subject and current access or reproduction status of evidence mentioned in historical human-rights reports and ECtHR judgments. It does not claim that Ichkeria.net possesses the underlying photographs, original expert reports or prosecution files.

Access and rights: We have linked the published court judgments, not copied photographic exhibits. No human-remains photographs are embedded here. A judgment that describes or considers an image is not a licence to reproduce it. Photographic authorship, estates, privacy concerns, archival holdings and applicable rights must be checked independently.

Items documented in judicial decisions

STA-EVD-001 — Sketches of the Derzhavina Street house and nearby district. Person submitting evidence: Zaynap Tangiyeva, the applicant in Tangiyeva v. Russia, application 57935/00. Judicial reference: paragraph 23. Content: drawings locating the family property, neighbouring sites and places where bodies were found. Relevant memorial entries: STA-K013–STA-K016. Current availability: described in the public judgment; the drawings themselves have not been acquired or independently verified by this archive. Rights: unknown.

STA-EVD-002 — Photographs of house ruins and the Pugacheva Street cellar. Submitted by: Zaynap Tangiyeva. Judicial reference: Tangiyeva, paragraph 23. The applicant submitted photographs of the ruined house in Derzhavina Street and the large civilian shelter in Pugacheva Street. Relevance: site context for the deaths of her family and the reported detention of Valera, Issa and Visayit. Current availability: exhibits referenced in a judgment, original image files not yet located. Rights: not established.

STA-EVD-003 — Photographs at the discovery of three bodies on 10 February 2000. Photographer: Magomed Khashiyev, as identified in Goygova v. Russia, paragraphs 19 and 22, and Khashiyev and Akayeva. Subjects: the bodies identified as Khamid Khashiyev, Rizvan Taymeskhanov and Magomed (Said-Magomed) Goygov, found near garages in Grozny. Relevance: later confirmation of deaths for former HRW disappearance IDs STA-D04–D06. Availability: described and submitted as evidence in proceedings; no public reproduction licence verified. Sensitivity: human remains / severe injuries.

STA-EVD-004 — Photographs associated with medical examination at Nazran. Source: Goygova, paragraphs 22–23 and 61–62. Subject: wounds documented when the recovered bodies were brought to Ingushetia. Related documents: 10 February 2000 official body examination concerning Magomed Goygov. Availability and permissions: only textual references verified; no original files acquired. Sensitivity: do not republish or portray as individual portraits.

STA-EVD-005 — Forensic-pathology opinion of Christopher Mark Milroy. Source: Goygova, paragraphs 61–62, citing evidence submitted in Khashiyev and Akayeva. Milroy, a forensic pathologist, reviewed witness statements and eight colour photographs made by Magomed Khashiyev. The expert judged that injuries depicted were consistent with high-velocity rifle fire and described investigative steps needed to assess suspicious deaths. Limitation: an opinion based on photographs is not a complete autopsy and does not alone identify the gunman, precise range or every injury mechanism. Original expert statement: not acquired by this archive.

STA-EVD-006 — Recovery of charred remains on 6 March 2000. Source: Tangiyeva, paragraph 22. Recorded action: officers of Russia’s Ministry of Emergencies extracted the remains of the applicant’s mother Khirzhan Gadaborsheva and uncle Ismail Gadaborshev from the burned cellar; the family buried them in Ingushetia. The judgment also refers to photographs of the house and cellar, but this catalogue does not assert that the archive holds photographs of the recovery itself. Related HRW entries: STA-K015 and STA-K016. Underlying recovery reports: not independently obtained.

STA-EVD-007 — Later site inspection for the Neftyanaya cellar shooting. Source: Goncharuk v. Russia, paragraph 40. Investigators inspected the courtyard, house and garage at no. 9 in Fourth Neftyanoy Lane on 14 April 2005; the structures were destroyed and uninhabited, and no useful trace was recorded. Relevance: STA-K007–K011 and the surviving eyewitness. Limitation: a 2005 scene inspection is not a contemporaneous 2000 photograph or forensic reconstruction.

STA-EVD-008 — Criminal investigation file no. 12038 and journalists’ testimony. Source: Tangiyeva, paragraph 52, and Makhauri v. Russia, investigation materials. Case no. 12038 was opened in May 2000 concerning alleged mass killings in the district. The record mentions testimony from journalist Anna Politkovskaya about interviews conducted around Grozny and Ingushetia. Access: publicly reported within judicial reasoning, not a scanned full prosecutorial case file; the underlying statements must be sourced separately before quotation or reproduction.

Incident links and documentary gaps

Three men taken from the Pugacheva Street cellar: Valera (D01), Issa (D02), Visayit (D03). Tangiyeva, paragraphs 16 and 50, records subsequent testimony about their reported shooting and discovery of three men’s bodies. No matched death certificates, original identification reports, burial records or verified photographs of those three persons have been located for this archive. The witness statement does not make those identifications automatically certain.

Follow-up priorities: locate any publicly released copy of the photographs, drawings and Milroy opinion through their identified custodians; request reproduction authorisation in writing; verify whether investigation records include names and burial places for the three men taken on 1 January; check Cyrillic name variants; and document the date and provenance of every newly acquired item. Until permission and identification are verified, link original textual sources only.

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