Zaluba Yavmirzaeva

Memorial case SAM-1995-V099 · Samashki, Chechnya · April 1995

Original Cyrillic name: Явмирзаева Залуба Ахметовна · Born: 1955 · Recorded death: Approximately 15–20 April 1995 · Place: Injured in a cellar in Samashki; died in Petropavlovka · Memorial Appendix 3 no.: 99

Documented circumstances

On 8 April 1995, Zaluba Yavmirzaeva was wounded by fragments from a grenade thrown into a cellar where she had taken shelter. Memorial recorded that she later died of her injuries at relatives’ home in Petropavlovka, about a week or more after the operation.

What the evidence does not establish

The source gives her death as approximately 15–20 April, not a single verified date. The location of injury and the later place of death are separate.

This is a source-based memorial record, not a judicial verdict. References to Russian military involvement summarise Memorial’s documented witness evidence. The transliteration is editorial and all explicit uncertainties are retained.

Sources and archive links

Memorial Human Rights Centre, “By All Available Means… The Russian Interior Ministry Operation in Samashki” (Russian PDF, 1995), Appendix 3, entry 99. Read republished Russian-language extracts. The original link may be intermittently inaccessible.

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