Said-Akhmed Nazhaev

Memorial victim record SAM-1995-V064 · Samashki, 7–8 April 1995

Original name: Нажаев Саид-Ахмед Аминович · Birth year: 1953 · Recorded death date: 8 April 1995 · Place: Vygonnaya Street, Samashki · Appendix 3 entry: 64

What Memorial documented

According to Memorial’s field investigation, Said-Akhmed Nazhaev was shot in his own courtyard in front of family members on 8 April. The report further describes soldiers throwing his body into a house they had set on fire. The record names his mother, wife and neighbour among the sources.

Limits of the evidence

These are documented witness allegations in Memorial’s inquiry, not a final judgment identifying an individual perpetrator.

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 64; republished Russian-language extracts of the investigation. The original source may sometimes be inaccessible outside an archived copy.

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