Vakha Shamsaev

Victim record SAM-1995-V094 · Samashki, Chechnya · First Russian-Chechen War

Original Cyrillic: Шамсаев Ваха Нуреддинович — Year of birth: 1947 — Death recorded by Memorial: 7 April 1995 — Location: Railway housing near Vokzalnaya Street, Samashki — Memorial Appendix 3: entry 94

Documented circumstances

Vakha Shamsaev was killed on 7 April 1995 in a shed near the railway housing of Samashki, Memorial reported.

The investigation lists two other men shot at the same location, Sharafutdin Kishmakhov and Visit Kubiev. According to the source, they had taken refuge in the outbuilding and were killed by automatic gunfire. Appendix 3 records witnesses from the railway housing area, including relatives and neighbours, as well as entries in burial and village lists.

Related documented cases (Railway shed): Sharafutdin Kishmakhov · Visit Kubiev. 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. 94; 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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