Visit Kubiev

Victim record SAM-1995-V047 · Samashki, Chechnya · First Russian-Chechen War

Original Cyrillic: Кубиев Висит Султанович — Year of birth: 1948 — Death recorded by Memorial: 7 April 1995 — Location: Railway housing near Vokzalnaya Street, Samashki — Memorial Appendix 3: entry 47

Documented circumstances

Visit Kubiev, born in 1948, appears in Memorial’s victim list as killed on 7 April 1995 near the railway housing in Samashki.

The investigation states that Kubiev was shot by automatic gunfire while sheltering in a shed alongside Sharafutdin Kishmakhov and Vakha Shamsaev. His uncle and residents of the surrounding area provided information, as did the village funeral register. No individual gunman was identified in the published investigation.

Related documented cases (Railway shed): Sharafutdin Kishmakhov · 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. 47; 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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