Khizir Khazhbekarov

Victim record SAM-1995-V082 · Samashki, Chechnya · First Russian-Chechen War

Original Cyrillic: Хажбекаров Хизир Имранович — Year of birth: 1959 — Death recorded by Memorial: 8 April 1995 — Location: Vygonnaya Street, Samashki — Memorial Appendix 3: entry 82

Documented circumstances

Khizir Khazhbekarov is listed by Memorial among the Samashki residents killed on 8 April 1995.

According to testimony from his father and a neighbour, he was taken out of a cellar on Vygonnaya Street and shot around the corner of a building. Memorial’s narrative discusses his death together with that of Isa Borshigov, who was also removed from the shelter and killed. The report includes a photograph documenting where their bodies were initially buried, taken on 12 April 1995.

Related documented cases (Vygonnaya cellar): Isa Borshigov. 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. 82; see the relevant discussion in sections 9.1–9.2. Memorial’s evidence includes eyewitness accounts and supporting records.

Editorial qualification

This memorial entry summarises an independent human-rights investigation. It is not a criminal conviction or an independent judicial determination of the identity of a shooter. Names are transliterated editorially; the Cyrillic recorded by Memorial remains the source spelling. No unverifiable photographs or biographical details have been added.

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