Movsar Ospanov

Memorial victim record SAM-1995-V066 · Samashki, 7–8 April 1995

Original name: Оспанов Мовсар Оспанович · Birth year: 1899 · Recorded death date: 7 April 1995 · Place: Vygonnaya Street, Samashki · Appendix 3 entry: 66

What Memorial documented

Movsar Ospanov was the oldest person in Memorial’s 103-name register, aged approximately 96. He was fatally wounded by fragments of a grenade thrown over the fence into his courtyard, according to the report, and died the same day. The investigation lists his daughter’s testimony and local death and burial documents.

Limits of the evidence

The grenade attack is source-attributed; the responsible individual is not identified by name in the archive.

This page is a concise, source-attributed memorial record. It is not an independent criminal verdict or proof of an identified soldier’s personal guilt. Romanization is editorial; original Cyrillic and the source’s stated uncertainties are retained.

Original sources and linked archive

Memorial Human Rights Centre — Samashki investigation (1995, original Russian PDF), Appendix 3, entry 66; republished Russian-language extracts of the investigation. The original source may sometimes be inaccessible outside an archived copy.

103-person register · Samashki historical dossier · Martyrs archive