Sharafutdin Kishmakhov

Victim record SAM-1995-V046 · Samashki, Chechnya · First Russian-Chechen War

Original Cyrillic: Кишмахов Шарафутдин Халидович — Year of birth: 1942 — Death recorded by Memorial: 7 April 1995 — Location: Railway housing near Vokzalnaya Street, Samashki — Memorial Appendix 3: entry 46

Documented circumstances

Sharafutdin Kishmakhov was documented by Memorial as one of three men killed in a shed near the railway housing on Vokzalnaya Street on 7 April 1995.

Investigators reported that Kishmakhov, Visit Kubiev and Vakha Shamsaev had sought shelter in the same outbuilding and were killed by automatic gunfire. Memorial’s Appendix 3 records testimony from neighbours and several documentary sources. It does not identify the gunman by name.

Related documented cases (Railway shed): Visit Kubiev · Vakha Shamsaev. These links connect people recorded at the same place or among the same family, without adding unverified personal details.

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. 46; 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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