Raisa Masaeva

Victim record SAM-1995-V053 · Samashki, Chechnya · First Russian-Chechen War

Original Cyrillic name: Масаева Раиса Насрулдиновна (Базуева, Маликова) — Born: 1971 — Date of death recorded by Memorial: 8 April 1995 — Location: Vygonnaya Street, Samashki — Memorial source record: Appendix 3, no. 53 — Case category: Daughter killed alongside her wounded father

Documented circumstances

Raisa Masaeva, born in 1971, is also listed in Memorial’s records under the family names Bazueva and Malikova. She was the daughter of Nasruldin Bazuev.

On 7 April 1995, her father had been seriously wounded by gunfire while seeking shelter. The following day he was staying with family members in a house on Vygonnaya Street. Memorial recorded that soldiers entered and used a grenade against the occupants.

Raisa was wounded by the grenade and then shot when she tried to protect her father. Memorial based this account in part on testimony from a surviving relative who had been inside the building. The report also records that the bodies were burned in the house. Her name appears in Appendix 3 as entry 53.

The account is a source-attributed reconstruction of a reported unlawful killing; further independent biographical information about Raisa has not yet been established.

Related documented victims: Nasruldin Bazuev — Raisa’s father, killed in the same 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 53. 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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