Magomed Nurbagandov was born on January 9, 1985 in the Dagestani village of Sergokala.

He graduated with a gold medal from Lyceum No. 2, graduated from the law faculty of DSU in Makhachkala.

He served in the non-departmental security in Kaspiysk, was married, raised a son and daughter. 

On the night of July 10, 2016, the Nurbagandov family was relaxing in nature when they were attacked by five militants who called themselves recruits of the "Islamic State" *.

We came to the tents, when everyone was asleep, and tied their hands and feet.

The first to die was 21-year-old Abdurashid Nurbagandov, who stood up for his younger brother.

Police Lieutenant Magomed Nurbagandov was brought to his knees and demanded on camera to urge his colleagues to leave the service.

He refused and was killed.

After the massacre, the militants posted footage of their crime online.

But, as it turned out, not completely.

There were no last words of Magomed.

The fact that he was not frightened in front of the weapon pointed at him, but gave a covenant to his comrades, which became winged: “Work, brothers!” Became known two months later, when the bandits were killed during a special operation.

RT spoke with the father of the Hero of Russia Nurbagand Nurbagandov.

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- Nurbagand Magomedovich, how did it happen?

How did you know that your son was killed?

Who were the people who committed this murder?

- All of us, relatives, usually get together, go to the forest, have a rest. May 1 were at the May Day. And that was all on July 9th. One of the nephews, Arsen, came from Novosibirsk, finished the third year of the military institute of the National Guard there. Another nephew, Abdurashid, who was killed first, was just about to move to Moscow, where he finally found his place in sports. He is the champion of Russia in martial arts, he always fought well and really wanted to perform in fights. The parents were not happy with this decision, but accepted it with understanding. And to celebrate, we all gathered there. A week later Abdurashid had to leave for Moscow, and 15 days later Arsen had to go to study. Magomed drove up after work, by the end of the day, with his wife. We've all been there. And we were about to leave already. They began to ask: we are staying here, and the nephews, too, they say, will come back later. Well honestlyI didn’t say anything, but the mothers were, of course, against it.

And it so happened that the day before in the town, 35 km from our village (in Izberbash -

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), these bandits carried out a raid.

We went straight home to a policeman.

They wounded him, called a taxi and ran away.

Then the taxi driver was tied up and thrown into the trunk, and they themselves stole his car and drove off in our direction.

But the taxi driver somehow managed to jump out of his trunk at a traffic light.

And he reported to the police.

A search was announced there, but they (the militants -

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) have already entered the forest - who will find it there?

And at night they walked and came across our guys: young, sitting, having fun.

  • © Photo courtesy of colleagues of Magomed Nurbagandov

More guests, their friends, came and went to them.

There were my son, three nephews, my younger brother's sons, and other relatives.

It was half past eleven at night.

The bandits see: five guys stayed there, they were afraid to approach.

We waited until everyone was asleep. 

At five o'clock in the morning, everyone slept like marmots.

They woke them up, tied their hands and feet with plastic ties.

And then it so happened that the nephew stood up for his younger brother.

They hit him with the butt, and one of them fired a burst, shot him.

- Did they understand that Abdurashid is strong and can fight back?

- He even said: "At least untie my legs and see what I will do with you."

And even when he was talking, with his legs tied, he hit one of them and even knocked him down.

And at that time they shot him.

Strong guy.

Then they searched their cars.

A police ID was found in Magomed's car.

And that's it, they needed him.

They took Magomed and Arsen, drove off for about one and a half or two kilometers, then led them through the forest.

A video was filmed there.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has awarded Abdurashid Nurbagandov the Order of Courage posthumously.

- Arsen is still alive.

Why didn't they kill him?

- He miraculously survived.

They wanted to kill him too, but he somehow psychologically crushed them.

He still finished three courses, a special forces soldier, went through psychology at the institute, apparently, he knew how to talk to them.

He says: “Do you follow Islam?

Is there no God for you?

Are you men or what? "

Like this.

One says, "Let's shoot him too."

And the other: “Leave it.

Let him go and say that he was left alive. "

- That is, they needed someone to tell about their "feat"?

- Sure.

They did not know that he was a special forces cadet.

If they knew, they would not regret him.

They also had a dispute among themselves.

Some say: "Let's keep the rest alive," others: "Let's shoot everyone."

And so they left Arsen and left.

Arsen Magomed dragged him on his shoulders to where everyone else was. 

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And at this time one of the remaining at the picnic site, the youngest nephew - a seventh-grader, with another couple with tied hands broke a bottle and cut off the plastic ties with shrapnel.

They scratched everything to themselves, their hands were covered in blood, but they were free.

This place is not far from our house, and at four in the morning this boy came running and told us everything.

This is how we learned about this tragedy.

- What made these people commit such a crime?

- We have seven or eight years, count, 11 people kept the whole area in fear. Today they sit here in the forest, tomorrow there. At night they will crawl out into the village or come to their own people, stock up on something, or come to do their dirty business: a policeman will be killed, money will be taken away from someone who is engaged in business. These people, who did not take place in anything - not in school, not in sports, not in life, not among their friends. And the Islamists know whom to recruit, whom to talk to. Psychologically, it was easy to break them and win over to their side. Crimes are tied to each other: they will take someone with them, deal with someone - and that's it, here you are already an accomplice. They are given machine guns, grenades. And at this moment they feel themselves the most daring, the most courageous, they think that they are men with weapons. These are crybears among their peers, who could not look their classmates in the eyes, weaklings.These were the people they were. If you can call them people. 

- How do their families live now? 

- They live quietly.

But there are those who behave like this, they say, the guys died for nothing.

Due to the fact that parents are like that, and their children are also spoiled, which do not bring anything good to society.

- Did you find the strength to watch the video filmed by the militants?

- Not.

It's hard for me.

Often, when these shots show where he is kneeling, my heart bleeds right out, I can't look.

Initially, when everything just happened, we were told that the bandits on their website launched this video, where he cries, asks, begs.

We didn't believe it.

Magomed could not do that.

We knew him well.

But when we finally found out that Magomed did not ask them for mercy, it was a huge relief, both for me, and especially for my mother.

Relief that he behaved so worthily, like a man ... If he was destined to die, he died with dignity.

I answered them as expected.

It all happened on July 10, and already in August three of them were shot.

Then, in a shootout, three police officers were also killed.

Then on September 7 a special operation was carried out in Makhachkala.

Shortly before that, one of them surrendered and told the authorities that this guy (Magomed Nurbagandov -

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) behaved with

dignity

.

And when this detachment was destroyed, a telephone was found in the pocket of one of them, and this record immediately went from there to the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB.

And on the same day, the recording reached President Vladimir Putin.

He looked and was dumbfounded by this.

"It was a real man"

- You had a meeting with the president.

Did he personally present you with the award for your son?

- Yes, we met with him on the eve of the presentation, he invited my mother and me to Novo-Ogaryovo.

And on September 22, there was already the presentation of the Hero's Star in the Kremlin.

And the president told us: “I have seen a lot, I myself as a military man.

But that was not the case.

It was a real man. "

And then he said many more kind words.

There was a lot of support from him.

It meant a lot to us at that moment.

  • The father of Police Lieutenant Magomed Nurbagandov Nurbagand, who received the Hero of Russia Star awarded to his son posthumously, speaks at the ceremony of presenting state awards by Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin.

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“It so happens that fate measures a person only a few minutes, moments in order to commit a real act, to make his choice: either to chicken out, or to step into immortality” - Russian President Vladimir Putin on the feat of Magomed Nurbagandov.

- I would very much like that over time the words spoken by Magomed did not lose their original meaning.

- Yes.

Five years since our son is gone ... And all these years all our relatives, all my friends, all the villagers, all of Dagestan and all of Russia were with us.

Everyone was with us.

This support was very important for us, it was needed.

And this continues to this day.

A few days ago, guys came from Surgut.

Unfortunately, I was not there.

The wife was at home.

We arrived, brought gifts to children, to us.

To this day, people all over Russia remember, know, come and call.

We left the Kremlin, walked through Moscow with my wife, people came up: “You are the mother of this hero.

You are the father of a hero. "

And pride that everyone knows and remembers.

I am sure that many have compassion at heart.

Therefore, I am infinitely grateful to everyone who remembers my son, who honors him.

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I was recently at the United Russia congress.

There people come up: "Are you the father of Magomed?"

It is very nice. 

- How is the memory of Magomed honored at home?

- A lot of tournaments are held in honor of the Nurbagandov brothers.

The streets are named, the school has been named, there are memorial plaques.

The street was named in Grozny, here in our district, in Smolensk, a public garden was opened.

Departmental medals were established.

The Yunarmeysky detachment is created after Magomed.

Much is being done to perpetuate the memory ...

On the other hand, this is all, perhaps, I do not need as a father.

I'd better have my son alive.

But in order to educate our younger generation, all this must be developed, all this must be done.

No matter how hard it is for me, I meet with young people in schools, I come to all events where I am invited, I try not to refuse, to find time - to come, meet, tell, hear them, answer their questions.

We need to talk about it. 

  • © Photo courtesy of colleagues of Magomed Nurbagandov

Why did this happen in our region, in the republic, in the Caucasus?

Because at that moment, work with young people was going only from their (militants -

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) side.

They campaigned better, spent more time with them.

Unfortunately, what was in that Soviet system of ours, when there were Octobrists, pioneers, Komsomol members, is gone.

Then there were no questions about the education of patriotism and internationalism, that all people are brothers.

You didn't graduate from school yesterday either, did you?

You remember.

Unfortunately, we lost these values ​​at that moment.

Now they have already begun to revive this in schools.

And at that moment everything was destroyed, and their (militants -

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) ideology was higher than any other.

It was because of this that it turned out that the guys went there.

"Received a gold medal, but was not a botanist"

- Tell us, what was Magomed like?

How did you study?

What was your hobby? 

- He finished school with honors, received a gold medal.

But he was not a botanist.

He had a phenomenal memory, everything was very easy for him.

It was enough for him to read it once, or even an explanation in the lesson was enough.

I had a wide outlook, I read a lot of informative literature: books from the series “What?

Where?

When? ”, Guinness Book of Records, etc. He was very interested in sports and knew a lot about sports.

I did a lot of it at school.

Starting in the eighth grade, he participated in all inter-district competitions from the school.

There were times when he performed in seven or eight sports and took first place everywhere.

He ran well, and jumped, and pulled himself up.

Then the physical education instructors felt offended that one person took all the prizes.

We decided to limit the participation of one student to three sports.

But he always took first place in these three types.

Not a single event at the school was complete without him.

KVN passes - he is the captain.

Some kind of competition - he participates or conducts it.

I went to all the Olympics and was also first and second there.

Everything he succeeded easily. 

- You said that Magomed loved football.

Was he just sick or was he playing?

- Football was the most cherished thing, he raved about it.

Magomed loved football and knew football.

You could ask him about any football player of the national team, he knew everything about him.

He was still studying somewhere in the third or fourth grade, when he took a sheet of paper, cut it in half, drew two football fields, drew 11 football players on one side and 11 football players on the other.

And he drew all these players, who plays which combination.

And that's how I played football on paper.

  • © Photo courtesy of colleagues of Magomed Nurbagandov

And when he was already an adult, he left for work at seven o'clock, driving 45 km to another village.

From there he returned at seven in the evening.

I gathered my team, and they left for 20 km to another village, where there was a mini-football field with artificial turf.

He left and played until late at night, every day.

- And for whom did you root?

Did you have a favorite team, favorite footballers?

- I was rooting for Ronaldo.

For the French, Zidane was very fond of.

What I regretted very much later was that the European Championship was taking place at that time.

But that evening, when they went to rest, July 9, there was no match.

If there was football that evening, he would never have stayed there.

He never missed such matches.

He loved football very much, although at first, when he was in the fifth or sixth grade, he went to karate.

But, unfortunately, at that moment karate was not openly allowed, in the basements they practiced themselves.

Choose any sport now.

And then for a year and a half, their coach was working with them almost illegally.

Then Magomed at home, for himself, was engaged in hand-to-hand combat.

He had a pear.

In the morning, exercise, workout, stretched out on a stool, just like Van Damme - neatly, sat down with a cross.

  • © Photo courtesy of colleagues of Magomed Nurbagandov

"We are trying to replace him as best we can"

- Magomed has two children, your grandchildren.

How do they grow up, what are they fond of?

- The boy just turned 11 years old.

He was looking forward to this birthday.

The girl is 8 years old.

She finished the second grade.

The grandson finished fourth.

I introduced him to football, he goes to the section.

Now he is in Makhachkala: he went to his grandparents on vacation.

There he goes swimming.

And the other day he calls me and says: "Grandpa, I signed up for boxing."

Until he chooses one thing in sports, he tries everything - this is natural.

He is looking for something to his liking. 

The granddaughter has different talents.

Modeling works very well, perfectly sculpts from plasticine.

We pay a lot of attention to the development of the girl.

Everything is fine here, my grandchildren live with me.

With me to school in the morning, I bring them, have lunch, then classes.

Children grow up normally, they have no problems, of course, except that there is no father.

How we can try to replace it. 

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- Now you are in charge of the school.

Do you teach a subject? 

- Yes, I am the director of secondary school No. 2 in the village of Sergokala named after Hero of Russia Magomed Nurbagandov.

Unfortunately, only the director.

I am engaged only in administrative matters, I do not have enough time, so I did not take lessons. 

* "Islamic State" (IS, ISIS) - the organization was recognized as terrorist by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of December 29, 2014.