Arbi Arsaev

Victim record SAM-1995-V011 · Samashki, Chechnya · First Russian-Chechen War

Original Cyrillic: Арсаев Арби Зелимханович — Year of birth: 1951 — Date of death in Memorial: 7 April 1995 — Location: School No. 3, Samashki — Memorial Appendix 3: entry 11

Documented circumstances

According to Memorial, Arbi Arsaev was wounded during the fighting on 7 April 1995 and was taken by a companion into School No. 3 in Samashki.

Investigators reported that Arsaev was later found shot in a school corridor. The entry includes accounts from his brother, a neighbour, the school director and another local resident, along with the village funeral list and a death-certificate reference. The report also records Said-Akhmed Akhmadov found shot in the same school, without establishing that both deaths occurred at the identical moment.

Linked case group — School No. 3: Said-Akhmed Akhmadov. These links indicate a documented relationship of place or event; they do not by themselves establish any individual’s legal responsibility or unrecorded family ties.

Primary evidence

Memorial Human Rights Centre, “By All Available Means… The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs operation in Samashki” (1995, Russian PDF), Appendix 3, victim no. 11; compare the relevant discussion in sections 9.1–9.2 of the report. The account is based on testimonies and supporting records described by the investigators.

Editorial qualification

This is a source-based memorial entry, not a judicial finding or an independent criminal investigation. Statements about the soldiers’ conduct are attributed to Memorial’s witnesses; a particular individual perpetrator has not been established here. English transliterations are editorial, and a precise birth date is not available. Witnesses’ private addresses have not been reproduced.

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