Biography of General Zaitsev

Father - Nikolai Yakovlevich Zaitsev - mother - Zaitseva Anna Petrovna - wife - Zaitseva Mikhailova Zoya Ilyinichna, son - Zaitsev Sergey Gennadievich G. Father Zaitseva, worked at the Lyaminsky wood -based plant. Soon after the start of the Great Patriotic War, he as an officer of the reserve was drafted into the army. Gennady, who was then 7 years old, and his three sisters remained in the care of his mother.

After the war, the father did not return to the family. So she raised and raised all four of one mother. In the year, having graduated from seven classes of the Lamin school, Gennady Zaitsev decided to enter the college of the Kama River Shipping Company. But fate ordered differently. Suddenly, the mother fell ill, and he had to go to work at the same Lamyskiye Wooden Combine, where his father worked before the war.

At the plant, Gennady worked for 5 years by an electrician. He was elected a member of the trade union committee, secretary of the Komsomol committee, was a propagandist in the fall of the year he was drafted into the army.

In a separate special forces of the commandant of the commandant of the Moscow Kremlin, he served 3 years - first with a shooter, then the commander of the department. At the end of the year before dismissal to the reserve, Gennady was offered to stay super -worn, and he agreed. He served as the foreman of the company. Soon he was recommended to work in the state security authorities.

For two years, Gennady Zaitsev ended the 8th classes, after which he was invited to serve in a separate officer battalion, commanded by Colonel Nikolai Petrovich Gushchin. In the year there was a merger of the 9th KGB Directorate with the Office of the commandant of the Moscow Kremlin, who were guarded by the highest leaders of the country. When the Khrushchev’s reduction in the army and law enforcement agencies began, in the year he graduated in absentia and received the specialty of a lawyer-lawyer.

Zaitsev, according to the order of the chairman of the State Security Committee Yu. Andropov, created the famous anti -terrorist group “A”, or, as journalists later dubbed it, Alpha. The first commander of this unit was appointed border guard Hero of the Soviet Union, then the major, and now Major General Vitaliy Bubenin, and his deputy Major Robert Ivon. In April, Bubenin asked him to be returned back to the border troops, and Major Ivon headed the group.

And six months later, Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov appointed the commander of this unit G. One of the first combat missions of the group was the operation to neutralize the terrorist who threatened to blow up the US Embassy in Moscow. Zaitsev then had to enter into negotiations with a terrorist, imposing himself as an employee of the consular department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Within two and a half hours, he urged the criminal to abandon his demands. However, he was nervous, and it was not possible to avoid an explosion. Fortunately, there were no losses among groups of group “A”, and the terrorist himself was seriously injured and soon died. In subsequent years, the Alpha group under the leadership of G. Zaitsev more than once had to participate in hostage exemption operations, including air transport.

And in all cases, the criminals were neutralized, and no one was injured from hostages and employees of the unit. Maznev, corporal A. Private S. Yagmurzhi was also hopped - they stole a RPK machine gun, a SVD sniper rifle and an automatic machine equipped with cartridges, arbitrarily left part and headed to the airport. Having killed two policemen along the path of two police, Matsnev and Yagmurzhi penetrated the flight field, burst into the aircraft TA, which operated on the Lviv -Kiev - Ufa - Nizhnevartovsk route, with 76 passengers on board and 5 crew members, closed the door and, having shot two hostages, demanded departure to Pakistan.

Chebrikova Group “A” urgently flew to Ufa to free hostages and neutralize terrorists. Employees of local bodies were negotiating with terrorists, hoping to persuade them to abandon criminal intentions. However, the bandits, threatening weapons, continued to hold on board as hostages of crew and passengers, placed them in the tail of the aircraft. One of the bandits, armed with a machine gun, was at the entrance to the salon from the pilot cabin.

And the other, armed with a machine gun, hiding behind the stewardess, hid at the end of the cabin. The bandits sealed the eye in the door of the pilot cabin, the emergency hatches were blocked from the inside. At first, the terrorists were invited to go to another plane, where the capture group was pre -placed. However, they replied that they would fly only on a “own” plane, agreeing to let only one specialist into the salon to inspect and carry out repairs from the outside.

A group of 5 people went to the aircraft, who installed a ladder in places of possible penetration on the plane and adjusted the ladder. However, terrorists suddenly refused to let a specialist on board and demanded to remove the ladder. But the employees of the special forces were prepared and conducted other operational measures, as a result of which the hostages were released.

However, there was a threat of explosion of the aircraft and the life of those in the pilot cab.In the conditions of the critical situation, one of the bandits had to be eliminated. Chebrikov for great merits in ensuring the state security of the USSR, courage and courage, manifested during the neutralization of especially dangerous criminals, presented G. in all over the years of service in Alpha and subsequently in the presence of members of the collegium and subsequently.

Zaitsev had a chance to participate in many very dangerous operations. But perhaps the most difficult and amazing in its cruelty was the operation to liberate the hostages, which began in Ordzhonikidze and ended in mineral waters. There was no such sophisticated and cynical insidiousness that the gang of Pavel Yakshiyan was not yet. Here children became hostages.

In case of non -fulfillment of their requirements, the criminals were threatened to burn all the captured hostages for departure for departure for departure: under each bus seat they put three three -liter banks with gasoline. It was extremely dangerous to carry out a combat operation in these conditions. Negotiations lasted seven hours. During these “trading”, terrorists first demanded a flight to Pakistan, then to South Africa, and in the end to Israel.

During this time, 20 children were released. According to diplomatic channels, the Soviet side agreed with the government of Israel to land the aircraft with terrorists and the issuance of them to Soviet justice. Some hot heads offered to arrange a shootout on an airplane and punish the bandits. However, G. Zaitsev categorically refused to go to extreme measures: it was impossible to risk the hostiles and crew members in these conditions.

I had to come to recall with the requirements of terrorists temporarily. They gave them money. As a result of subsequent negotiations, it was possible to “exchange” all the hostages, and the plane flew only with 9 crew members. By agreement with the Israeli authorities, the criminals were immediately arrested and soon issued to the Soviet side. Thus, it was possible to save the lives of all hostages.

In November, the leadership of the KGB appointed G. Zaitsev awarded the general rank. In August, he survived the events that occurred in Moscow along with all the Alpha. And a year later, on July 2, he was called to the Kremlin and received an offer to head Alfa again. In this post, G. Zaitsev survived the tragedy of the October year, when the officers of the special forces, despite the demand of President Yeltsin, did not shoot at the White House defenders and ensured their exit and deputies of the Supreme Council from the burning building.

In March, Gennady Nikolaevich resigned with the rank of Major General. In the year, he was elected vice-president of the Association of Veterans of the Alpha anti-terror unit, and in May-a member of the Central Committee of the All-Russian Trade Union of Non-State Security Organizations. In the year he was elected a member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation. In the years - a member of the Public Chamber of Russia.

He was part of the Public Council of the Fair Russia party to combat corruption. The hero of the Soviet Union G. is an honorary employee of the USSR State Security. Laureate of various domestic and international awards.