Isa Borshigov

Victim record SAM-1995-V025 · Samashki, Chechnya · First Russian-Chechen War

Original Cyrillic: Боршигов Иса Солсбекович — Year of birth: 1972 — Date of death in Memorial: 8 April 1995 — Location: Vygonnaya Street, Samashki — Memorial Appendix 3: entry 25

Documented circumstances

Memorial’s Appendix 3 records Isa Borshigov as a resident of Vygonnaya Street who died on 8 April 1995.

According to testimony collected from his father and a neighbour, Borshigov was brought out of a cellar and shot around the corner of a building. The body of Khizir Khazhbekarov, another resident removed from the cellar, was documented in the same immediate area. Memorial’s narrative describes the two killings together and includes a photograph of their burial location taken on 12 April 1995.

Related documented cases (Vygonnaya cellar): Khizir Khazhbekarov. These links connect records by documented place or family relationship, without implying unrecorded kinship or personal criminal guilt.

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. 25; 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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