Hero of Russia Ilyin Oleg Gennadievich: biography, achievements and interesting facts. Hero of Russia Ilyin Oleg Gennadievich: biography, achievements and interesting facts Kuznetsov, Mikhail Borisovich

Almost eight years ago, in September 2004, Chechen militants seized a school in Beslan along with students, teachers and parents. Negotiations went on for several days, and then something happened that could not have been dreamed of even in the worst dream - an explosion, hundreds of dead and wounded and Russian special forces rushing to save people. Many of them died, pulling out of the wreckage of young schoolchildren.

The feat of the Russian officers who sacrificed themselves is sacred. But few people know that among those heroes was Lieutenant Colonel Oleg Ilyin, who served in the Moscow region for many years - in a separate communications regiment of the Airborne Forces in Bear Lakes (or rather, in the neighboring village of Novy Gorodok) and in the Vympel special-purpose detachment.

Truth-lover from New Town

The future Hero of Russia Oleg Gennadievich Ilyin was born in 1967. Since childhood, he dreamed of becoming a military man - it was not for nothing that his favorite film was the epic film "Officers" for the Russian army. In 1989, Ilyin graduated from the Ryazan Higher Military Command School of Communications, after which he served in command positions in a separate communications regiment. Here he accepted a platoon, then became a company commander.

Colleagues remembered him as a person of an active life position. He tried to keep up everywhere, to participate in all important matters. “He puffs like a boiling kettle,” colleagues said about him. And the battalion commander added: "This one will go far, unless, of course, they stop him."

Somehow, senior lieutenant Ilyin met in the garrison with the only woman of the airborne battalion, Anna, who served as an ensign and who had made three dozen parachute jumps by that time. A spark of love flared up. Apparently, Oleg was looking for himself exactly the same characteristic life friend as he was.

True ... By that time Oleg was married. And Anna turned out to be married. Not even a love triangle, but some kind of quadrangle. Soon everyone in Novy Gorodok knew about this wartime romance.

Oleg Ilyin did not like rumors and gossip. He acted in his usual manner - he gathered the officers he knew and cut off his shoulder that he was getting a divorce and offered his hand and heart to Anna. So they became husband and wife, having lived together for ten happy years. Oleg adopted Anna's son, then they had their own boy - Sergei.

And soon Captain Ilyin underwent drastic changes in military service.

In the mid-90s, representatives of the famous Vympel special-purpose detachment came to the unit. Only a few passed the selection, it was necessary to have outstanding qualities to get into the detachment. Oleg was able to prove that he deserves to be a fighter of the elite special forces. “I want to do my duty, but at a high level,” - these words were remembered by his colleagues, who asked Ilyin why he wants to become a special forces soldier. In October 1995, he was enrolled in the state security organs. So the communications officer-paratrooper Ilyin became a "pennant".

Getting into special forces is the dream of almost every young officer. It is here that you can show all your best military qualities. Oleg did not have to go far, because the Vympel unit is based next to its first unit. You can walk on foot.

From the landing party to Vympel

The official birth of "Vympel" took place on August 19, 1981, when, at a closed joint meeting of the USSR Council of Ministers and the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, the country's top leadership decided "to create a top secret special-purpose detachment in the USSR State Security Committee to conduct operations outside the country in the so-called "Special period". The detachment recruited officers, and not only from the KGB, but also paratroopers, border guards, pilots, sailors, tankers. Almost 90 percent of Vympel employees know foreign languages, many have two or three higher educations.

The first commander of the detachment was a participant in the storming of the palace Amina Hero Soviet Union Captain 1st Rank Ewald Kozlov. Therefore, the detachment was named "Pennant", in association with the admiral's braid pennant on the mast. In the 80s. In Afghanistan, there were two operational combat detachments of the KGB - "Cascade" and "Omega", and "Cascade" from the beginning of 1982 was staffed by staff members of the "Vympel" group, a significant part of whom were participants in the first years of the Afghan war. Afghanistan was not the only place to hone skills. Vympel employees worked in Angola, Mozambique, Nicaragua and Cuba.

After the well-known events of 1991, "Vympel" was transferred to the Inter-Republican Security Service, then to the Federal Security Agency of the Russian Federation, and after the President's decree on the creation of the Ministry of Security on January 24, 1992, the unit became part of it on the rights of independent management. The main task was to protect strategically important and environmentally dangerous facilities from terrorist and sabotage actions, to fight terrorism and drug trafficking.

In 1993, Vympel employees managed to prevent an attempt to export radioactive materials from near Yekaterinburg. After the events of October 1993, 135 officers submitted their resignation reports, about 150 people went to serve in other departments. And only 50 people agreed to stay in Vympel, which was reassigned to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. It was then that the Motherland needed young courageous officers who could fulfill any important task with honor. So Captain Ilyin became a commando.

“He was terribly offended when he was not taken to Budennovsk, where the militants seized the hospital along with doctors and patients,” Anna says about her husband. But then Oleg just came to Vympel and had no combat experience yet. In 2000 he graduated from the Academy of the FSB of Russia. And only then came his time to get even with the terrorists. Ilyin underwent underwater and rock-climbing training, learned to fly a paraglider, brought the number of parachute jumps to seven hundred, adored alpine skiing. He repeatedly went on business trips to the North Caucasus, took part in complex military and special operations against militants.

"Call sign - Rock!"

The commandos are harsh men, but very sociable. So Ilyin loved to sit with friends, talk with them about the most intimate, which excites and warms the soul. He called these gatherings "Ilyinsky evenings". And once, as Anna Ilyina says, just before the events in Beslan, Oleg raised an unexpected toast. "The main thing in battle is to hold the machine gun in your hands until the last minute!" - he said. And this despite the fact that in the Ilyin family he tried not to talk about the war, never talked about special operations.

He seemed to have a presentiment of his death. This is often the case with military officers ...

In battle, he had the call sign "Skala". This is no coincidence - Oleg was not tall, but strong and dumpy. And on operations, they say, was two-core. For example, in Pervomayskoye, where the "Vympelovites" had to face the terrorists of Salman Raduev in open battle, Oleg took his weapon from the grenade launcher and dragged him off, although he himself was in full special forces gear. The task was completed. And during the seizure of the theater center on Dubrovka, Oleg and his comrades had to work in extremely extreme conditions, rescuing the hostages. And there the "Vympelovites" coped with the task.

... And now the fateful September 1, 2004. Chechen terrorists then decided on the Day of Knowledge to seize school No. 1 in the small Ossetian town of Beslan. They wanted to show the whole world their wolfish grin. The Vympel fighters had the task of rescuing the hostages. The task is not easy, because the day before the militants' message was intercepted with the following words: "We will die as martyrs."

Oleg Ilyin has always treasured people. For a decade in Vympel, he has not lost a single subordinate. So in Beslan, Ilyin left one of the fighters in reserve, not allowing him to go into battle - a child should soon appear in his family.

When an explosion occurred at the school, Lieutenant Colonel Ilyin and his subordinates began to divert the fire of the terrorists who were shooting at the fleeing hostages. He was soon wounded, but remained in the ranks. Then Ilyin's group was one of the first to break into the school to clear the second floor. And then I met the terrorists face to face. The battle began.

The militants ran down the corridor, firing on the move and throwing grenades - they tried to escape from the school in any way. Ours responded with automatic bursts, putting nine militants in the corridor. Two of them are on Ilyin's account. But the special forces soldier Denis Pudovkin was also killed. And then came the turn of Oleg Ilyin - an automatic burst, followed by an explosion of a bandit grenade ...

The hero was buried at the Nikolo-Arkhangelsk cemetery in Balashikha.

For courage and courage shown in hostilities, Oleg Ilyin was awarded the Orders of Courage and "For Military Merit", the Medal "For Courage", medals of the Order "For Services to the Fatherland" I and II degrees. And for the feat in Beslan on September 6, 2004, he was awarded the title of Hero of Russia (posthumously).

For his friends, he remained the same - a reliable guy, "Skala", who protected the children in the Beslan school with himself. Therefore, his comrades in arms patronize the Ilyin family. For example, Oleg did not manage to buy an electric car for his junior then. This promise was fulfilled by friends.
At the Ryazan Higher Military Command School of Communications named after Marshal of the Soviet Union M.V. Zakharov, a monument to the graduate of the school was opened to the Hero Russian Federation Lieutenant Colonel Oleg Ilyin. In the same place, in Ryazan, an army hand-to-hand fighting tournament in memory of Oleg Ilyin is held.

A monument to the heroes of the special forces was also unveiled in Beslan.

He is also forever enrolled in the lists of this school. The lover of truth, Oleg Ilyin, is also remembered in Novy Gorodok.

I only know that everything will return
There will be a day - and retribution will come,
And in the September crystal sky
Has become more than one constellation.

poem "Beslan"
fighter of the Central Security Service of the FSB of the Russian Federation E. Kelpsh

Exactly nine years have passed since the beginning of the tragedy in Beslan. During this time, a lot has been written about this drama. Journalists, like real strategists, took apart the mistakes and mistakes of the special services, discussed how the assault should be organized. And only about the most important thing - about those who died saving other people's lives, scanty lines of information were published.

The soldiers of special forces units (SPN) have an unenviable share. Glory comes to them often only with death, although even during their lifetime each of them is worthy of a monument.

The terrible bookkeeping of the war: thirty-five fighters were missing over the years, the Special Purpose Center (TsSN) of the FSB of the Russian Federation, ten of them in the city of Beslan. This bitter account is not over. But all the same, this account will always be in favor of the special forces ...

In the press and in the extensive literature devoted to the Beslan tragedy, the word "storm" is used almost everywhere.

"I would prefer to call it a special operation to free the hostages," said Gennady Nikolayevich Zaitsev, Hero of the Soviet Union, renowned commander of the Alpha Group, who was the FSB's official expert on the Beslan commission.

The assault presupposes the complex use of all types of weapons, but this, for obvious reasons, did not happen in Beslan. As was not the case in Budennovsk, where employees of "Alpha" and "Vympel" went to large-caliber machine guns and grenade launchers with one small arms. Moreover, the operation in Beslan was spontaneous, no one expected such a development of events.

And the Operational Headquarters did not prepare an explosion in the sports hall, otherwise the employees of "Alpha" and "Vympel", knowing about the "X" hour, would have been at their starting positions, prepared for the beginning of hostilities.

In memory of the fallen comrades:

major Velko Andrey Vitalievich

Hero of Russia Lieutenant Colonel Ilyin Oleg Gennadievich

major Katasonov Roman Yurievich

major Mikhail B. Kuznetsov

ensign Loskov Oleg Vyacheslavovich

major Molyarov Vyacheslav Vladimirovich

Hero of Russia Major Perov Alexander Valentinovich

ensign Pudovkin Denis Evgenievich

Hero of Russia Lieutenant Colonel Dmitry Razumovsky

Hero of Russia Lieutenant Turkin Andrey Alekseevich

It was a black page in our history, stained with blood. I was in Beslan.

What were they like - special forces, who covered defenseless children with their bodies?

About four of them - those who posthumously became the Hero of Russia and other fallen soldiers.

Turkin Andrey Alekseevich

Born on October 21, 1975 in the city of Orsk, Orenburg region in a family of workers - a Russian serviceman, an officer of the "B" ("Pennant") Directorate of the Central Service of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, a lieutenant who died while releasing hostages during the terrorist attack in the city of Beslan. Posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation.

After graduating from 8 classes of Dinskaya secondary school No. 1 of the Krasnodar Territory, he entered the Dinsk secondary vocational school, which he graduated in 1993 as a car repair mechanic.

In December 1993, A. Turkin was called up for military service in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. He served in the Border Troops in Tajikistan, where he took part in hostilities on the Tajik-Afghan border. In July 1995, A. Turkin was transferred to the reserve with the rank of "sergeant", after which he returned home to the Krasnodar Territory, where he worked and studied at the institute.

This man had a special, from God, talent. He knew how to instantly converge with people. As soon as you get to know each other, you won't spill it with water.

Wherever he was, wherever fate threw him, comrades, friends, countrymen appeared around him at once. How not to appear - if he was born in the Urals, grew up in the Krasnodar Territory, and served in Transbaikalia and Central Asia. The entire geography of the country is in one short fate.

A. Turkin had the nickname Circassians. In all photographs, he invariably smiles. Even where he tries to be serious, a smile still hides in the corners of his lips.

You are not looking for special forces. The special forces are looking for you. Andrey returned to his native village, and towards him - a bosom, still a school friend. It was he who told Andrei how "buyers" from the "Vympel" group came to them in the 76th Guards Airborne Division (Pskov), what tempting prospects they drew before being transferred to the reserve. They arrived in Moscow together and were enrolled almost on the same day - in April 1997.

Its then commander, Hero of Russia Sergei Shavrin, admits that he liked A. Turkin from the very first day:

First, he is sociable.

Secondly, economic, which is especially valuable in a war (if you need to get something, Andrei will hurt himself, but he will do the impossible).

Thirdly, trouble-free.

“I knew,” S. Shavrin recalls, “if he asks“ how are you? ”This is not an empty, ordinary formality. He was concerned with everything, and he perceived other people's problems as his own.”

A brief extract from the record: in 2000 he was awarded the medals of Suvorov and "For the salvation of the dead", in 2002 - the medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 2nd degree with swords.

Anyone who was in the war knows the value of these truly soldier's awards. And it is no coincidence that when one of the "Vympel members" was blown up in a minefield, it was A. Turkin who followed him, although he knew that the "petals" were scattered everywhere - a cluster mine is a terrible and insidious thing ...

On September 3, 2004, a group that included A. Turkin broke into the building through the gym. It was real hell. Paul walked underfoot, and only after looking closely, they realized that they were running over corpses.

A. Turkin and his partner - Alexander B. - were cut off from general group straightaway. Not militants, no: the hostages themselves. The distraught people rushed about, not making out anything, and this bloody mass of people pushed the guys aside in a stormy stream.

The hall was already on fire, clouds of smoke obscured the view. But they managed to see how the terrorist jumped out from around the corner, how, after giving a short burst, he hid back.

Both of them - Andrey and Alexander - were already wounded. The bullet hit A. Turkin under the bulletproof vest, but for some reason he did not feel pain. And when the bandit jumped out again and swung a grenade, A. Turkin did not have time to think. He rushed to meet the enemy, grabbed him tightly and fell on top of him. In the roar of firing, no one - including the hostages rescued from certain death - heard the explosion of a grenade ...

At home, Hero of Russia Lieutenant A. Turkin has a three-year-old son and wife ... No, not like that. There were not two of them, but three, because Andrei's wife, a Cossack from his own village, was four months pregnant.

A. Turkin will never know who will be born to him. How not to find out this and the former paratrooper, major of the group "Vympel" A. Velko, who also left his pregnant wife as a widow ...

Velko Andrey Vitalievich

Born on February 20, 1974 in the village of Dzhangi-Jer in the Sokuluk region of the Kirghiz SSR in a working class family.

After leaving school, he entered the Ryazan Higher Airborne School. Served as a reconnaissance platoon commander of an airborne division.

In 1998 he joined Vympel.

Major Velko A.V. entered the school building as part of an advanced assault group. He was the first to break into the doorway of the building and fight the bandits. Firing, he held back the fierce onslaught of terrorists, allowing the combat group to enter the premises and begin evacuating people, during which one of the bandits suddenly appeared from the side doorway of the corridor and opened fire from a submachine gun at the group's employees and the hostages. Andriy Velko, instantly assessing the situation and realizing the real threat to the life of his colleagues and children, entered into fire contact with the terrorist and destroyed him, while receiving mortal wound.

Dmitry Alexandrovich Razumovsky

Born on March 16, 1968, Ulyanovsk - Russian serviceman, head of the department "B" ("Vympel") of the Central Service of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, lieutenant colonel, died while releasing hostages during the terrorist attack in the city of Beslan. Posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation.

In the Armed Forces of the USSR since 1986. Graduated from the Moscow Higher Frontier Command of the Order of the October Revolution, the Red Banner School of the KGB of the USSR. Mossovet (now the Moscow Border Institute of the FSB of Russia) in 1990. He was a boxing school champion. Upon completion of training, he was assigned for further service in the Central Asian border district, to one of the most difficult sections - in the Pyanj border guard detachment. In 1990, when riots began in Dushanbe, which actually became a prelude to the civil war in Tajikistan, D. Razumovsky was in the position of deputy head of the frontier post.

Since 1991 he took part in hostilities on the Tajik-Afghan border. He was deputy commander, and later commander of the airborne assault maneuvering group of the Moscow border detachment. He participated in many military operations, for which he was awarded the Order For Personal Courage and the Medal For Courage. Under his command, the group inflicted heavy losses on gangs and groups of drug dealers - in one of the ambushes, a batch of three tons of heroin was seized. The bandits promised tens of thousands of US dollars for the officer's head.

In 1993, in one of the battles, D. Razumovsky received a severe concussion. While in the hospital, I learned about the death of friends from the 12th frontier post - the head of the outpost, Mikhail Mayboroda, was D. Razumovsky's best friend. Razumovsky met his wife, Erica, at a friend's funeral and named his eldest son in his honor.

In 1994, D. Razumovsky was forced to resign from the troops after his letter was published in a number of central newspapers about the facts of corruption among the command and the senseless death due to the fault of the higher chiefs of the Russian border guards and the military in Tajikistan.

This yellowed newspaper publication is ten years old. Exactly ten, but it reads as if it was written now, about us today ...

An open letter from the head of the outpost of the Moscow frontier detachment appeared in October 1994 on the pages of one of the central newspapers: the editorial office gave a whole "basement" for it.

“I am writing to you with pain in my heart, because my comrades in arms died on August 19. I am also writing because I’m tired of banging my head against the walls” - this is how the letter began.

At present, the Tajik events of those years have somehow already been forgotten, receded into the past, overshadowed by new cataclysms and wars. But in the early 1990s, a rare month went by without disturbing news from the Afghan border, where Russian soldiers fought Afghan drug cartels.

Then the feat of the 12th outpost thundered all over the country. For seven hours under heavy fire, 45 border guards held a perimeter defense against 250 militants, among whom, by the way, was the terrorist Khattab, unknown to anyone. We ran out of cartridges and grenades. The only BMP burned down. The barracks were destroyed by a direct hit. And all the same, the border guards did not retreat. They believed that they would not be abandoned. But the generals delayed until the last, and when help arrived, it was already too late ...

He wrote about cowardice and betrayal. About how serenely our tanks watched the execution of the 12th outpost. How commanders collude with militants, and honest, incorruptible officers are ruthlessly driven away. How they betray - one after another - the outposts, dooming people to certain death.

"The Kremlin has forbidden me to avenge my dead friends, but I do not follow this order. We are ready to serve you as cannon fodder in the future, but we just do not know for what interests, for the sake of what our friends are dying?"

To this question - as well as to all the others, by the way - no one answered Captain Razumovsky, of course. There is no answer to it today, because even after ten years, Russian soldiers and officers sacrificed to politics continue to die in inglorious wars.

And right after the publication, D. Razumovsky was fired. Ten years later - in September 2004 - he will become the Hero of Russia ...

He dreamed of being a border guard since childhood, since he watched the series "State Border".

The Razumovsky family was the most common. Provincial city of Ulyanovsk. Father is a civil engineer. Mom is a music teacher. Nothing heroic. And he dreamed of exploits, romance and pursuits and sincerely regretted that there were no more wars in his lifetime. In his view, the border remained the only place where a real man can still prove himself.

D. Razumovsky entered the Moscow border school on the second attempt. It was in 1986. He was loved on the course. In addition to remarkable physical strength (boxer, college champion), Razumovsky got a heightened sense of justice from his parents. If he saw a lie or meanness, he could never stay away. I even argued with the foreman. (This quality will remain with him for life - and oh, how many bumps and cuffs will fall on his head.)

Their release fell on the most difficult year - 1990. The Union was already bursting at the seams. Karabakh and Baku were already burning, Vilnius and Riga were seething. There were only a few days left before the collapse of the country.

He was assigned to the Tajik-Afghan border - to the Pyanj border guard detachment. This site has never been considered a resort. But what would begin here soon, what a mess would be brewed up, not a single seer could have imagined then ...

He met the beginning of the Tajik events with the deputy commander of the outpost. How D. Razumovsky fought is best described by his awards: the Order For Personal Courage, the Medal For Courage. Be more agreeable, more compliant, there would probably be even more of them, for D. Razumovsky did not hide from bullets. He climbed into the thick of it, with his airborne assault maneuvering group withstood dozens of battles. (Sometimes - several collisions a day.) But fate definitely kept him for future tests. During the four years of the war - not a scratch, only a shell shock received at a height with the sonorous name "Board of Honor" ...

Dushmans hated D. Razumovsky with particular fury. Unlike other officers, no one could "agree" with him. (Once he detained a courier with a suitcase of US dollars - and he handed everything, up to a cent, to the headquarters.) And after he and his group intercepted 3 tons of heroin - it would be enough to take it until the end of the day, and the children would also have left, - even announced a reward for the captain's head ...

The news of the death of the 12th outpost found him in a hospital in Dushanbe. The head of the outpost Mikhail Mayboroda, who died in the very first minutes of the battle, was his best friend, and this death definitely tore time in half: "before" and "after". Here, in the hospital ward, D. Razumovsky realized that he did not want and could no longer serve.

He had seen before that something was wrong at the border. The outposts were not fortified. The Tajiks recruited under the contract refused to shoot their Muslim brothers. Instead of giving a harsh rebuff to the militants, the Russian government shyly kept silent, at best - dropped lighting bombs over the border.

I saw it, but forced myself not to think about it, calming down by the fact that he was honestly doing his job. But after the death of the 12th outpost D. Razumovsky seemed to see the light, woke up from hibernation ...

At the funeral of M. Mayboroda - in the city of Alma-Ata - Dmitry met his future wife. What name to call the first-born - did not even raise questions. Of course, Mikhail: in honor of Mayboroda ...

The command did not want to let go of D. Razumovsky. Despite his obstinate disposition, he was considered one of the best officers: brave, proactive, thoughtful. Therefore, when I wrote to the newspaper, I latently hoped that now they would certainly not be left at the border. And so it happened ...

Professionals of this class do not roll on the road. He could easily get a job in any security company, head security in some bank, only he could not imagine himself without shoulder straps. Officer service was not a job for him, but a way of life.

The guys I knew - those with whom I studied, served at the border - offered to join the Vympel group, which had just returned to the FSB structure at that time. D. Razumovsky agreed immediately, without hesitation, and never regretted it later.

Only now he realized that he had dreamed of special forces all his life. He liked everything here: the constant change of places, the perfection of actions, the need for instant decisions.

Anyone who considers spetsnaz to be a simple machine for chopping off heads is cruelly mistaken. Behind each operation is a long, painstaking preparation, detailed development of plans, exhausting training. It is not enough for a spetsnaz to be just strong, dexterous and well-aimed. He must be able to think, to predict which enemy will be attacked.

D. Razumovsky was endowed with these talents in full. For six years of service in the Vympel group, his group - and soon he became the head of the department - did not suffer a single loss, although there were a lot of battles.

He went through almost all of Pennant's operations. He freed hostages at 'Nord-Ost'. Captured S. Raduev in Novogroznensky. Smashed the militants in Dagestan. He blocked the Georgian border (in that battle, his group destroyed 25 bandits). At the village of Sleptsovskaya, for 10 hours, he fought a continuous battle with terrorists.

For events in Art. Sleptsovskaya Razumovsky was presented to the Order of Courage, only he did not have time to receive it. However, D. Razumovsky generally treated the awards without any piety: pieces of iron are pieces of iron. He had every right to do so. For service in Vympel, three more were added to the two military awards received at the border: the Order for Military Merit, medals of the Order of Merit to the Fatherland of both degrees.

Life did not change, did not bend him. He remained the same truth-teller that he was from his youth. His own conscience was the main authority for him. If he considered himself right, he was ready to stand up to the end, prove, swear - even with his superiors. (How many cases were there when the Major - that was his name in the group - went to both the head of the department and the head of the FSB Central Service Center, banging his fist on the table, and demanded.)

Already after the events in Beslan, an interview with the Stavropol Archbishop - Feofan, I think, was shown on TV. "I myself saw," Vladyka said, "how one officer — everyone called him Major — was risking himself to save children. When he died, I closed his eyes."

The details of this terrible battle are now known to the smallest detail. D. Razumovsky's group was behind the fence, to the right of the school, he was supposed to lead the fire support. And when the command came to the start, he was the first to go forward. He stood up to his full height, on a patch of fire from all sides. On the outskirts of the school building, he killed two bandits. The terrorists fired at the backs of the fleeing children.

Was he scared? Probably it was. Only fools know no fear. But that is what distinguishes the brave from the coward, that he knows how to control himself.

Dmitry identified a new firing point and, diverting attention to himself, was the first to burst into the room from which the fire was being fired. Bullets whistled overhead, the PKK rattled. But D. Razumovsky did not even try to evade. Under heavy fire, he pointed to the enemy's firing points. A fight ensued, as a result of which the fire was suppressed, but Dmitry was mortally wounded.

And then the sniper hit him in the chest, right above the bulletproof vest. "I was hooked. Take it away" - that was all he had time to say ...

What is heroism? It seems to me that heroism and daring are not the same thing at all. You don't need to have a great mind to perish. Heroism should be meaningful, because it is not enough just to close the embrasure of the bunker with yourself: the machine gun will only cut you and scribble you with renewed vigor. But if at this moment the chains rise from the trenches, it means that you did not die in vain ...

Lieutenant Colonel D. Razumovsky has two sons. The youngest - three years old - was still too young to realize what had happened. But the elder - Misha - understood everything at once. At the cemetery, he stood without shedding a tear. Only when the coffin was lowered into the ground did Misha cry: soundlessly, without sobbing - like an officer ...

There, at the funeral, he decided for himself finally and firmly that he would also be a military man. As Father. As senior lieutenant M. Maiboroda, after whom he was named. Like thousands of those who died without hearing the answer to this terrible, difficult and eternal question - in the name of what? ..

Oleg Gennadievich Ilyin

Was born on December 21, 1967 in the village. Krasnooktyabrsky of the Sokuluk region of the Kirghiz SSR - a Russian serviceman, an officer of the "B" ("Pennant") Directorate of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, a lieutenant colonel, died while releasing hostages during a terrorist attack in the city of Beslan. Posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation.

They were the complete opposite of each other. D. Razumovsky - imperturbable, cold-blooded, calm ("dead lion" - they called him in the detachment). O. Ilyin - noisy, explosive, hot. He wanted, like Chapay, to be in front all the time, and for this they called him affectionately and ironically - Beacon. Not a lighthouse, but a beacon ...

Oleg Ilyin got into Vympel in 1995. The Ryazan communications school, service in the Airborne Forces remained behind.

His arrival coincided with the events in the city of Budennovsk, but O. Ilyin was not taken to the operation at that time. He was offended to tears. "Take your time, there will be enough feats for your age," the "grandfathers" reassured him, only O. Ilyin did not want to wait, and he did not know how. He was in a hurry to be in time everywhere ...

His baptism took place in the village. Pervomaisky. The group did not even have time to reach the village when a sniper's bullet struck right in front of O. Ilyin's feet. "Damn," he swore, "it's too early to die." And he went forward as if nothing had happened ...

For s. On May Day he received "courage" - the most, probably, an honorable military award. (Then there will be many more - and the Order of Courage - after Botlikh. And "For Military Merit" is "Nord-Ost". And two medals of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" with swords.)

O. Ilyin was an officer to the core. He didn't even have any hobbies, not to mention side jobs: only one service.

Once in the special operations department, he studied mining to perfection, took peaks, inaccessible for climbers with many years of experience. And when it was required to master the paragliding, every day he got up at dawn and flew over the base of the Central Security Service of the FSB, until a riot was raised in the hostel - with his rattling he would not let anyone sleep.

The family was also a match for him. His wife Anya jumped with him with a parachute. Grisha's son went to the mountains ...

How were these two seemingly incompatible qualities combined in him? Stoicism, monotonous tenacity, drill. And impetuosity, sharpness, desperate prowess. As if some kind of toggle switch clicked inside, and then O. Ilyin changed, changed right before our eyes ...

On September 3, 2004, O. Ilyin's group was at the forefront. He was one of the first to burst into the building, covering the retreat of the hostages. He and Denis Pudovkin, his subordinate, were wounded almost immediately. On the radio, they were offered to go back, but they did not want to retreat: they managed to take a too advantageous position.

The fight was already almost hand-to-hand. At point-blank O. Ilyin shot two bandits, but the bullet overtook him as well. At the cost of his life, he saved the staff of the assault group and ensured the destruction of the rest of the criminals.

Ensign D. Pudovkin died next to him. He covered one of the women with his body ...

Pudovkin Denis Evgenievich

Born on August 13, 1976 in the city of Noginsk, Moscow Region, into a family of employees. Denis Pudovkin wanted to become a military man from childhood. In his native city of Noginsk, while still at school, he went to the military-patriotic club, was engaged in hand-to-hand combat.

After leaving school, from September 1991 to December 1994 he studied at the Noginsk branch of the Tuchkovsky motor transport college.

From January 1995 to December 1996, he served on conscription in the Airborne Forces of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

From March 1997 to January 2000 he worked as a policeman in the Private Security Department at the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Administration of the Noginsk Internal Affairs Directorate of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Moscow Region. From April 2000 to December 2002 he worked as a district inspector of the 1st City Police Department of the Noginsk UVD.

Then he moved to the regional SOBR. He was a sniper. I traveled to Chechnya three times.

In January 2003 he moved to Vympel. (Medal "For Courage" found him already in "Vympel").

D. Pudovkin's group was matched by his hand-to-hand trainer - he taught Denis from childhood, he trusted immensely. This trip was D. Pudovkin's third.

Ensign Pudovkin D.E. carried children out of the fire. Passing further through the school, he saw a crowd of hostages, whom he began to help find the right direction. When Denis made an attempt to take people out, one bandit jumped out from behind the shelter. There were children behind Denis at that moment. They fired almost simultaneously. The militant died on the spot. Denis was mortally wounded. He was 28 years old.

He was posthumously awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 4th degree.

Alexander Valentinovich Perov

Born on May 17, 1975, head of the operational group of the 1st department of Directorate "A" ("Alpha") of the Central Security Service of the FSB of the Russian Federation, died while releasing hostages during the terrorist attack in Beslan. He was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation.

In the Alpha group, Sasha Perov was called Pooh. Down - not because of the lightness of the weight, but a derivative of the surname: Perov, feather, down. (What lightness is there - under two meters in height, at all championships he invariably took first places.)

A. Perov became a special forces officer by accident (although can fate be accidental?). In fact, he was going to be a military man - like a father, like an older brother. Following their example, he graduated from the Moscow Higher Command School - the forge of Kremlin personnel. The whole future life was already planned for many years ahead, but the closest friend, also a former "Kremlinist", knocked him off the pantalyk.

A friend ended up in "Alpha", and his enthusiastic stories about the group painfully touched Alexander's ambition. Before, they constantly competed with each other - who will run faster, who will shoot better. And then it turned out that he, A. Perov, would march on the parade ground, and in the meantime his eternal rival would go to war. The young lieutenant could not allow this.

So ambition led him to the special forces. But A. Perov could not limit himself to this. He needed to be the best.

As soon as I arrived, I immediately won the FSB skiing championship. Barely got busy orienteering- again turned out to be the first. And in the official biathlon - the first, and in the shooting.

He had a peculiar talent. If you really wanted something, it would definitely work out, although the hardest, exhausting work, exhausting training was invariably hidden behind the external lightness.

But A. Perov did not show this. As for any true officer, external attributes were in the first place with him. Even on business trips, he managed to look like he was going to a parade. The form is always ironed, everything shines and sparkles. Dirt and laxity did not tolerate organically.

He was also a very good commander. Coast of people. I was ready to cling to the throat for each of his fighters. The group knew: if Pooh is appointed senior, then everything will be fine.

Spetsnaz is a single organism. This is no place for lone heroes. The strength of spetsnaz lies in its solidarity, when you know that they will definitely cover you, not leave, support. If you sleep under one blanket, eat canned food from one bowl - you can no longer exist on your own. You are part of one big family. Therefore, maybe it is not customary to talk about the dead here in the past tense ...

In September 2004, A. Perov was going to study at the Academy of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation. His business trip to Beslan was to be one of the extreme (in the special forces, as well as in aviation, there is no word "last") ...

From the performance to the title of Hero of Russia: during the assault, Major A. Perov destroyed one terrorist who was firing at the hostages. He personally covered the evacuation of the hostages. Anticipating the burst of a grenade, he covered three hostages. Fatally wounded, he continued to lead the group ...

When on September 3, 2004, at 3 pm, EMERCOM officers drove up to the school by car in order to take the bodies of the men from among the hostages who were shot and thrown out by the bandits into the street in accordance with the agreement reached with the terrorists (the execution was carried out in the Russian language room), a terrible thing happened in the gym. The scotch with which the explosives were attached to the basketball basket could not stand the extreme heat. He pulled away, after which an explosion occurred from the impact. Having decided that the storming of the building had begun, the terrorists launched another powerful charge.

About a minute later, bloody children and women began to appear in front of the school. The bandits tried to "reach" the fleeing hostages, shooting them in the back. A. Perov, being behind a concrete fence, did not see all this. I just realized that it was time to storm and conduct a fierce battle with the terrorists inside the building. His group was to clear a corner room on the first floor.

The tension was building. It has not yet been possible to penetrate the school and destroy the enemy. The militants in this wing offered fierce resistance. Having jumped to the side where the windows were, the commandos saw the schoolchildren - leaning out of open windows, they waved white rags and shouted: "Don't shoot, there are a lot of them here!" Then A. Perov, along with his comrades, stood under the windows, began to pull the children from the windowsills to the ground, while simultaneously firing back at the militants who had opened fire from inside the room.

I had to break into the dining room. Without hesitation, A. Perov flew into the window, managed to kill the militant at the back room. Hiding behind its wall, he did not allow the bandits to conduct aimed fire, ensuring the penetration of the rest of the group's fighters into the dining room.

A fierce battle began indoors. In the dining room there were at least seventy exhausted children lying on the floor. In such a difficult situation, the commandos cleared the entire space. A. Perov with two officers continued to be in front, cutting off the terrorists. Other "alfovtsy" handed over the children to the Ministry of Emergency Situations through the windows.

It seemed that the task assigned to the group had been completed, and without losses. And then a new introduction - to continue cleaning the entire right wing of the building. One of the groups could not break through from the opposite end. In a short time, four classes on the right side of the corridor were freed from the bandits. We began to clean up the cinema. Ensign Oleg Loskov threw two grenades into the room. Following the explosions, firing from a machine gun, he rushed into the doorway and was hit by a machine gun fire. A. Perov, limping because of a shattered leg, ran up to Oleg and dragged him to the beginning of the corridor to the stairs. Two Vympel employees ran up to help. While they were trying to determine whether a comrade was alive, they did not notice how from a dusty corridor with a cry: "Allahu Akbar!" a terrorist ran out and discharged the entire machine-gun clip into the commandos.

Being seriously wounded, Alexander pulled the trigger, but no shots followed - he ran out of cartridges. He received two bullets in the groin below the bulletproof vest. Another spetsnaz soldier, dodging somersault from bullets, wounded the militant with a burst. He threw a grenade into the dining room and disappeared into the corridor.

Despite the terrible pain, A. Perov managed to jump back into the dining room and with his body covered a group of children from the shrapnel, who had not yet been evacuated by the Emergencies Ministry.

Mikhail Borisovich Kuznetsov

Born on August 21, 1965 in the village. Safonovo, Ramensky District, Moscow Region, in a family of workers. From 1980 to 1983 he studied at SGPTU No. 62 in Moscow. From June 1983 to April 1984 he worked at a Moscow locomotive repair plant.

In 1984 he was called up for military service in the ranks of the Armed Forces. Served in Afghanistan.

In October 1986 he was enrolled in Vympel - a veteran of the group, he also took over the White House - in general, he had to remain in reserve. He, an extra-class miner, was protected more than the apple of his eye. But when the hostages began to jump outside, from somewhere he dug up a school desk - not without reason they gave him the nickname Brownie for being homely - he dragged him to the window and began to drag people out. He saved more than twenty human lives, but he himself did not protect himself from the bullet. Covering the capture group, he entered into battle with two terrorists, destroyed them and died. On this day, September 3, his wife had a birthday ...

Chevalier of the Order of Merit to the Fatherland, IV degree (posthumously).

Malyarov Vyacheslav Vladimirovich

Was born in 1969. in the city of Balakovo, Saratov region. Grew up without a father. From 1976 to 1986 he studied at secondary school number 10. He studied at the children's and youth sports school number 1, where he showed himself to be a talented athlete, despite the lack of outstanding physical data.

After graduating from high school, Malyarov entered the Smolensk state institute physical education and sports. In fights, he earned the title of candidate for master of sports in athletics.

At the end of the 1st year, Vyacheslav voluntarily joined the ranks Soviet army, fulfilling his long-standing dream of becoming a military man. In 1987 he asked to be sent to Afghanistan. Serving as part of a separate reconnaissance company of the 103rd Airborne Division, he directly participated in hostilities, at the age of twenty he was awarded the very honorable and popular medal "For Courage".

While in Afghanistan, Malyarov wrote home that he was in peaceful Mongolia. In 1989 he was demobilized and continued his studies at the institute, which he graduated in 1992. Deciding to link his future fate with the army, he entered service under a contract in the 218th separate battalion of the Airborne Forces of special purpose, stationed in the Moscow region.

1994-1995 Malyarov "performed tasks of maintaining constitutional order on the territory of Russia." Received the rank of ensign. The second medal "For Courage" - for the storming of Grozny. There, in Chechnya, during the joint special operations, the officers of Group "A" took notice of him.

In April 1996, Vyacheslav Malyarov was enrolled in subdivision "A". In October 2002, he was one of the first to break into the building of the Theater Center on Dubrovka, freeing a large number of hostages. For this feat he was awarded the Order of Courage.

Vyacheslav always approached the task very carefully, thought over everything to the smallest detail. He even introduced a special memo, in which he wrote down everything that could be useful when completing the next task: sighting weapons, orientation in a wooded area, etc. It is impossible to remember everything, and it is especially difficult to remember in an emergency, under the bullets of bandits, in such a situation can be a good clue.

... During the years of military service, Major V. Malyarov was awarded the Order of Courage, two medals "For Courage", medals of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" I and II degrees with the image of swords, Suvorov, "For Distinction in Military Service" and "Warrior to an internationalist from a grateful Afghan people ”, a badge“ For Distinction in Combat Operations ”. And these simple "cheat sheets" really saved many from certain death.

At school No. 1 in Beslan, there was a moment when a group ran into four militants who, hiding behind children, were trying to break out of the cordon. Major Vyacheslav Malyarov was the first to see them. He, not bewildered, immediately opened fire on the enemy - at that moment covering the children who were behind him with his body. Major V.V. Malyarov practically blocked the direction of fire for the group. Having received a mortal wound, he continued to fight. Wounded two terrorists and forced them to retreat. He was 35 years old.

Chevalier of the Order of Merit to the Fatherland, IV degree (posthumously). The hometown has not forgotten its fellow countryman. On November 15, 2004, by decision of the Council of Deputies, he was awarded the title of "Honorary Citizen of the city of Balakovo".

On January 11, 2005, a memorial plaque appeared on the facade of secondary school No. 10, where the future employee of "Alpha" once studied. The second memorial plaque was inaugurated in October 2008 on the building of the children's and youth sports school № 1.

The documentary film "Immortal" about a native of Balakovo won an award from the Federal Security Service in January 2011. It was filmed by the Fatherland studio and submitted to the competition for the best work of literature and art on the activities of the FSB.

And there, in the town of Balakovo, a monument was unveiled to all the FSB special forces officers who died in Beslan.

Katasonov Roman Viktorovich

Born in June 1976 in the city of Serpukhov, Moscow Region, into a military family. His father graduated from the Serpukhov Military School of the Strategic Missile Forces. For a long time, the family roamed the garrisons. In Belarus, Roman graduated from high school with a medal, was a prize-winner in taekwondo among juniors.

Then - Minsk Suvorov. After graduating from the Minsk Suvorov Military School, Roman entered the Ryazan Higher Airborne School. A year later, the special purpose faculty, where cadet R. Katasonov studied, was transferred to Novosibirsk. In 1997, he graduated with honors from the Novosibirsk Higher Combined Arms School. Even then, Roman had 500 jumps under his belt.

Then the officer served in the Volga Military District, was the commander of the reconnaissance group 509 of the separate special forces detachment. In 2000, Senior Lieutenant R. Katasonov was transferred for further service to the "B" department of the Special Forces Center of the FSB of Russia.

Roman studied Chinese, perfectly mastered the subversive business, information technology, and defended his diploma in the capture of airfields on low-flying vehicles.

The family returned to the Moscow region. And then - brilliant operations. The first is the discovery of Dudaev's archive. Roman continued to specialize in subversion. Destruction of Barayev's group. "Nord-Ost". On Dubrovka, he and the commander walked from the other side of the main group. Roman was then awarded the Order of Courage.

Roman received all the ranks ahead of schedule, senior lieutenant, captain, at the age of 26 - major. He went through all of Chechnya, was awarded medals "For Courage" and Suvorov. He was sent to the academy, from September 1, 2004 he was supposed to start studying. But he voluntarily went to Beslan.

No body armor that day, as his colleagues said, was not on Roman. When the explosion rang out and people poured into the street, the soldiers of Directorate “B” of the Central Security Service of the FSB, on the contrary, rushed forward, throwing off all “unnecessary” from themselves. The guys covered the hostages and the staff of the assault group: with excess weight on yourself, you don't really jump over desks. Bullet-proof vests and helmets were dropped on the move.

Major Roman Katasonov, during the assault, entered the building and destroyed two terrorists, in one of the premises he found two hiding children. Rescuing them and covering the staff of the assault group, he entered the battle with the machine-gun crew of the bandits. During this battle, he was mortally wounded. Chevalier of the Order of Merit to the Fatherland, IV degree (posthumously).

He was buried at the Nikolo-Arkhangelsk cemetery together with the soldiers of "Alpha" and "Vympel", as if in a single formation, next to the graves of comrades in arms who were killed earlier - in Budennovsk, Pervomaisky, Chechnya.

The memory of the graduate of the Minsk SVU is also immortalized in the museum of the school, where there is a stand dedicated to the Minsk "cadets" who died in the line of military duty.

Loskov Oleg Vyacheslavovich

Ensign Loskov O.V. (group "Alpha") was born in 1981 in the village. Vasilyevka, Volovsky District, Lipetsk Region. Oleg always treated children with trepidation, - recalled O. Loskova's fellow villagers. - Life turned out in such a way that he alone had to raise his little sister. He knew how to do everything: to mend the torn tights, and to braid the little girl's pigtails. And he did not like to fight, although God did not offend him by force.

For him, Beslan was his first and last business trip. Ensign O. Loskov, as part of the assault group, ran into four bandits. Hiding behind the hostages, they tried to escape from the school building, Oleg was mortally wounded. The last, whom O. Loskov saved, were two little girls. He carried them out in his arms. Awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree (posthumously).

A monument was erected to him in his native village. The bust was unveiled in the park opposite the village church. Here, a few weeks before his death, Oleg got married. The honeymoon was interrupted by a call from the authorities - the commando was sent on a business trip to the North Caucasus. The first operation for O. Loskov ended tragically ...

At the school where he studied, they created a museum of Oleg Loskov. The villagers named a street in the village after him. Vasilyevka.

THEY ARE A LIVING SHIELD!

The tragedy in Beslan is the tragedy of the whole of Russia. The terrorists started a war not only with the ordinary adult population, but a directed war against our children.

And each of these soldiers was doing his duty, his job. They did what they were trained to do. But do not forget that, saving children at school, they died and left their children without fathers, and their wives without husbands.

We must not forget about the Heroes of Russia with capital letter... About the people who protect us and our children.

July 13th, 2016, 03:00 pm

Officer of Directorate "B" ("Pennant") of the Special Purpose Center of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant Colonel.
Together with the Vympel group, he immediately arrived in the city of Beslan of the Republic of North Ossetia - Alania, where on September 1, 2004, a group of 32 terrorists seized over a thousand children and adults in the building of school No. 1. When on the third day of this barbaric action at the school the explosions that caused a fire and the collapse of part of the walls through which the hostages began to flee, together with his unit, received an order to spontaneously storm the building. Initially acting in the schoolyard, Oleg Ilyin and his subordinates diverted the fire of the terrorists who were shooting at the fleeing hostages. In this battle he was wounded, but remained in the ranks.
Then he burst into the school building, where he found another group of terrorists ready to break out of the school. In a fierce battle, he destroyed two militants with point-blank fire. By diverting the bandits' attention to himself, he saved the lives of the soldiers who followed him and ensured by his actions the complete destruction of this group of terrorists. In this battle, Lieutenant Colonel Ilyin was killed.
For courage and heroism shown during the performance of a special assignment by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of September 6, 2004, Lieutenant Colonel Oleg Gennadievich Ilyin was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation (posthumously).

Lieutenant Colonel Ilyin is forever enrolled in the lists of the Ryazan VVKUS named after Marshal Zakharov. A monument to the Hero is erected on the parade ground of the school.

In memory of the Hero, inter-regional tournaments in army hand-to-hand combat are held.

In 2013, the Russian post issued a stamp from the series "Hero of the Russian Federation" with the image of O.G. Ilyin.

Oleg Gennadievich Ilyin(December 21, 1967, settlement Krasnooktyabrsky, Sokuluk region of the Kirghiz SSR - September 3, 2004, Beslan, North Ossetia - Alania, Russia) - Russian serviceman, officer of Directorate "B" ("Pennant") of the Special Forces Center of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, lieutenant colonel , who died during the release of hostages during the terrorist attack in Beslan. Posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation.

Service in the army and group "Vympel"

Graduated from the Ryazan Higher Military Command School of Communications named after Marshal of the Soviet Union M.V. Zakharov (1989), the FSB Academy (2000). He did military service in the airborne troops.

Since 1995 he served in the Vympel special unit of the FSB of Russia. He participated in battles with the terrorist group of Salman Raduev in the village of Pervomayskoye in 1996, for which he was awarded the medal "For Courage".

Repeatedly went on business trips to the North Caucasus, took part in complex military and special operations against terrorists. In 1999 he took part in battles with Shamil Basayev's detachments in the Botlikh region of Dagestan, for which he was awarded the Order of Courage. In 2002, for his participation in the anti-terrorist operation in Nord-Ost, he was awarded the Order of Military Merit. Ilyin was also a holder of medals of the Order of Merit to the Fatherland, I and II degrees.

Personal qualities

For the desire to be ahead during the hostilities, he received the nickname "Beacon" from his comrades. “Once in the special operations department, I studied mining to perfection, climbed peaks, which are inaccessible for climbers with many years of experience. And when it was required to master the paragliding, every day he got up at dawn and flew over the base of the Special Forces Center: until a riot was raised in the hostel, he would not let anyone sleep with his rattling. "

Hero of the Russian Federation

On September 3, 2004, during the assault on the school No. 1 of the city of Beslan seized by terrorists, Ilyin was part of a blocking group. Calling fire on himself and receiving a shrapnel wound to his face, he continued to fight, preventing the criminals from conducting aimed fire with accurate shooting. Then, acting in an advanced assault group, he was one of the first to enter the school building. Some of the bandits attempted to escape from the building through the group's battle formations. Oleg Ilyin shot two terrorists point-blank, but he himself was mortally wounded.

Buried on September 7 in Moscow. For the courage shown during the operation to rescue the hostages captured by terrorists, Lieutenant Colonel Oleg Ilyin was awarded the title "Hero of Russia" (posthumously) by the decree of the President of Russia on September 6, 2004.

Memory

• Lieutenant Colonel Ilyin is forever enrolled in the lists of the Ryazan VVKUS named after Marshal Zakharov. A monument to the Hero is erected on the parade ground of the school.
• In memory of the Hero, inter-regional tournaments in army hand-to-hand combat are held.
• In 2013, the Russian post issued a stamp from the series "Hero of the Russian Federation" with the image of O.G. Ilyin.

Family

Oleg was married twice. In the first marriage, a daughter, Ksenia, was born. From his second marriage (wife Anna Valerievna Ilyina, warrant officer of the Airborne Forces), Oleg has a son, Sergei. In addition, Oleg raised Anna Valerievna's son from Grigory's first marriage.

21.12.1967 — 03.09.2004

Hero of Russia

Ilyin Oleg Gennadievich - officer of Directorate "B" ("Pennant") of the Special Purpose Center of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, lieutenant colonel.

Born on December 21, 1967 in the Krasnooktyabrsky village of the Sokuluk region of the Kirghiz SSR. Russian, from a family of workers.

He graduated from high school in 1985 in the city of Ternovka, Dnepropetrovsk region of the Ukrainian SSR, entered the Armed Forces of the USSR. Graduated from the Ryazan Higher Military Command School of Communications named after Marshal of the Soviet Union M.V. Zakharov in 1989. He served in the Airborne Forces of the Moscow Military District, commanded a platoon and a company.

Since 1993, Oleg Ilyin has served in the state security agencies of the Russian Federation. In June 1995 he was admitted to the legendary Directorate "B", better known as the "Vympel" group.

Participated in hostilities during the first and second Chechen wars, in the operation to free hostages in a Dagestan village in January 1996, in hostilities in Dagestan in August - September 1999, in the release of hostages at the theater center on Dubrovka in Moscow in October 2002 of the year (" "). Graduated from the Academy of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation in 2004.

Together with the Vympel group he immediately arrived in the city of the Republic of North Ossetia - Alania, where on September 1, 2004, a group of 32 terrorists seized over a thousand children and adults in the building of school No. 1. When on the third day of this barbaric action, the school was exploded , which caused the fire and the collapse of part of the walls through which the hostages began to flee, together with his unit received an order to spontaneously storm the building. Initially acting in the schoolyard, Oleg Ilyin and his subordinates diverted the fire of the terrorists who were shooting at the fleeing hostages. In this battle he was wounded, but remained in the ranks.

Then he burst into the school building, where he found another group of terrorists ready to break out of the school. In a fierce battle, he destroyed two militants with point-blank fire. By diverting the bandits' attention to himself, he saved the lives of the soldiers who followed him and ensured by his actions the complete destruction of this group of terrorists. In this battle, Lieutenant Colonel Ilyin was killed.

For courage and heroism shown during the performance of a special assignment by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of September 6, 2004, Lieutenant Colonel Oleg Gennadievich Ilyin was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation (posthumously).

He was awarded the Orders of Courage, "For Military Merit", many medals, including "For Courage", medals of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" I and II degrees with swords.

He was buried at the Nikolo-Arkhangelsk cemetery of the hero-city of Moscow (section 75a).

Hero of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant Colonel Oleg Ilyin is forever enlisted in the lists of the Ryazan VVKUS named after Marshal of the Soviet Union M.V. Zakharov. A monument to the Hero is erected on the parade ground of the school.

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