Alvi Amirkhanov
Victim record SAM-1995-V010 · Samashki, Chechnya · First Russian-Chechen War
Original Cyrillic name: Амирханов Альви Адамович — Born: 1978 — Date of death recorded by Memorial: 7 April 1995 — Location: Sharipova Street, Samashki — Memorial source record: Appendix 3, no. 10 — Case category: Child killed during shelling
Documented circumstances
Alvi Amirkhanov was a 17-year-old resident of Samashki, born in 1978. Memorial records his death on 7 April 1995 during the Russian Interior Ministry’s operation against the village.
According to the 1995 Memorial investigation, Alvi was driving calves back from pasture with 15-year-old Ruslan Makhmudov. Both teenagers were killed by mortar fire near Sharipova Street before the ultimatum deadline for civilians to evacuate had expired.
Appendix 3 cites Alvi’s father and a neighbouring resident among the witnesses and refers to funeral and death-certificate records. The report provides a documented account of the incident; it does not identify an individual gunner or a criminal judgment concerning this death.
Related documented victims: Ruslan Makhmudov — killed in the same mortar attack.
Sources and verification
Primary record: Memorial Human Rights Center, “By All Available Means… Operation of the Russian Interior Ministry in Samashki, 7–8 April 1995” (Russian, 1995), Appendix 3, entry 10. The narrative passages in the report are used only when they refer to this person or incident.
Further context: ICRC casebook — Operation Samashki (based on the Memorial investigation). The ICRC educational casebook is not an independent criminal verdict.
Editorial note: This page records a death and circumstances documented in Memorial’s investigative report. It does not independently establish the personal guilt of a named soldier. English Romanization is editorial; the original Cyrillic name governs. The birth year alone does not establish a precise age unless the source explicitly provides one. No verified portrait of this person has yet been added.
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