For several years now, Internet users have been distributing sensational recognition, allegedly made by a senior officer of the Russian special services. We checked whether Herman Graryumov said such a thing.
As reported in publications, in the spring of 2000, after the first presidential elections in Russia with the participation of Vladimir Putin, a certain General of the FSB German Graryumov said: “We had to blow up at home to put him in the Kremlin, how much would have to shed blood to remove it from there?” After this statement, Ugryumov allegedly did not even live for several months. Often, together with the quote, a long list of other high -ranking officers of power structures, suddenly died in the first years of Putin’s reign, is given.
In different years, news portals were distributed in different years ("Glavk" NV) and users of social networks (X, Facebook, "VKontakte","Living magazine"). The story of the recognition of General of the FSB received wide popularity at Telegram - in particular, channels were written about it "Kremlin circus"(462,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Nightingale drop"(146 000) and"Sanctions in the Russian Federation"(113,000). Against the background terrorist attack In Crocus City Hall in March 2024, Internet users again They remembered About this quote, the corresponding posts scored tens of thousands of views.
Under the houses, which are discussed in the quote, obviously, we mean residential high -rise buildings in Buinaksk, Moscow and Volgodonsk, Draised In September 1999. As a result of the attacks, 307 people were killed, and the conclusions of the investigation, which connected the explosions with the Islamist militants, later became serious arguments to start a military operation in Chechnya. The results of an official investigation caused serious criticism as In Russia, so Abroad.
In parallel, a version was born about the possible involvement in the explosions of Russian law enforcement agencies, which allegedly acted in the interests of the ex-head of the FSB and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, whom President Yeltsin a month before announced successor. The reason for doubt gave first of all incident With the so -called "Ryazan sugar". On September 22, six days after the last of the explosions, the tenant of the apartment building in Ryazan noticed three strangers who unloaded some bags from the car and brought them to the basement. The policemen who arrived on his challenge found three bags with a substance, outwardly similar to granulated sugar. A timer with a mark of 5:30 local time was attached to one of the packages. The chemical analysis carried out by the specialists of the Ryazan ATC showed the presence of explosives in the bags. Two days later, the director of the FSB Nikolai Patrushev said that the exercises were held in Ryazan in order to verify the vigilance of local security forces, the attackers were his subordinates, and there were no explosives in the sugar.
Nevertheless, since the real September attacks were disguised as sugar, the former special services employee Alexander Litvinenko and historian Yuri Felstinsky suggested that the explosions arranged Russian security forces with the aim of sowing panic in society and contributing to the election of President Putin. They presented their arguments in the book published in 2002 "The FSB explodes Russia". However, the authors failed to give indisputable evidence of their theory. Their conclusions were criticized by many independent experts, including the head of the Public Commission for the investigation of the circumstances of the terrorist attacks, the first Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation Sergei Kovalev and American journalist, editor -in -chief of the Russian version of Forbes magazine Paul Khlebnikova (Subsequently, like Litvinenko, who was killed under mysterious circumstances). And to this day, the theory about the involvement of the FSB in the explosions of houses in the fall of 1999 is considered, if not conspiracy, then at least very controversial.
A personnel officer named German Ugryumov in Russian law enforcement agencies really worked - however, the Admiral (not general) title was Assigned He on May 30, 2001, the day before death from cardiac arrest. In 1999, Ugryumov became deputy director of the FSB, he was subordinate to the special forces of Alpha and Vympel, he was directly involved in the development of a number of counter -terrorism operations in the North Caucasus. Even Litvinenko and Felstein in his book indicatedthat Ugryumov allegedly directly oversaw the organization of the attacks of 1999. The authors of the investigation I referred For information received, according to them, from Yusuf Krymshamkhalov and Timur Batchaev (both were wanted on charges of organizing a terrorist attack). Also, Litvinenko and Felshtinsky nominated the version of the inception of the death of the deputy director of the FSB.
Neither theory find confirmation. Judging by the open data, until the last days, Ugryumov remained a close associate of Putin on security issues (Russian president even Present At his funeral), therefore, the sensational statement attributed to the officer, and even made publicly, looks unlikely. “Verified” did not find a single authoritative source (from the media to the scanned publications in the collection of the project “Google Book”), where there would be a viral quote - both with the attribution of Ugryumov and without it. At the turn of the 1990s and 2000s, the story of the recognition of the security forces in open sources did not publish at all.
Apparently, the distribution of quotes began in 2009, when it was in the comments to the post on the Farvest Blog in the Live Journal He mentioned User @alex_kimstach with reference to the words of a certain Ruslan Saidov in a remote post from the same blog. Different Internet resources call Farwest, LLC, the vice president of which, according to them, was Saidov, there was Saidov. news agency, consulting And even intelligence company. Saidov’s commentary in the presentation of @alex_kimstach read: “The deceased German Ugryumov, apparently anticipating an ambulance, told me about Putin something like this:“ To give him power, I had to blow up at home. It’s even terrible to imagine that I would have to blow up to take power from him. ” In 2012, the quote in a slightly changed form dispersed over the network after it was Mentioned In the comments on one of the Felsteinsky posts in the same “living magazine”.
Whether Saidov himself cited this quote in any sources, whether he talked with Ugryumov, whether he heard from the security forces a word about the connection between the explosions of 1999 and the election of Putin-to answer these questions with at least some high degree of confidence now. Therefore, an unequivocal conclusion about authorship of statements today cannot be made. Nevertheless, many indirect arguments (Ugryumov’s high official position, his good relations with the Russian president, Saidov’s dubious reputation) indicate that these words that have surfaced into a de facto as an anonymous source a few years after the attacks were never pronounced.
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