Russians in Chechnya (repost)

[Kingpin]

Ok. Here some working links.

This is well known roadblock in Grozny. From the first Chechen war there was a slogan: Welcome to hell.
During second war someone renewed it and added below: Part II. We're back!

http://www.6rota.nm.ru/Images/088.jpg

Men at work :)

http://www.6rota.nm.ru/Images/013.jpg

Northern Chechnya. Winter. Cold.

http://www.6rota.nm.ru/Images/009.jpg

Shelling Grozny outskirts

http://www.6rota.nm.ru/Images/033.jpg

Komsomolskoye (Spring 2000)

http://www.6rota.nm.ru/Images/064.jpg

Military column (marines or VDV)

http://www.6rota.nm.ru/Images/067.jpg

Dagestan, 1999

http://www.6rota.nm.ru/Images/146.jpg

Actually Komsomolskoye was leveled to the ground in 2000

http://www.6rota.nm.ru/Images/147.jpg

This is Grozny, 1995

http://www.6rota.nm.ru/Images/172.jpg

This was L-39 from Chechen airforce (yes, yes) destroyed along with other 3 or 5 tenth of this aircrafts in the first bombing of 1994-1996 war.

http://www.6rota.nm.ru/Images/224.jpg

More howitzers

http://www.6rota.nm.ru/Images/255.jpg

Msta howitzer entering Chechnya

http://www.6rota.nm.ru/Images/251.jpg

More Grozny. Summer 2000

http://www.6rota.nm.ru/Images/275.jpg

Bad day for someone

http://www.6rota.nm.ru/Images/306.jpg

Mi-8 crash

http://www.6rota.nm.ru/Images/315.jpg

[Kingpin]

SS-21 used in the second war in Chechnya

http://www.acq.osd.mil/bmdo/bmdolink/bcmt/images/images_lg/ss-21_chechnya.jpg

Caucasus mountains

http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/correspondents/gfx/Cn2.jpg

http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/correspondents/gfx/Cn1.jpg

Preparing positions

http://pvo.guns.ru/images/zu23/zu23_hyp_sm.jpg

Grozny 2000

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38380000/jpg/_38380029_chech_grozny_ruins3_ap.jpg

[hendrix33]

Great set of photos !

Especially I liked the BM-21's multiple launches and the SS-21 launch.

[koster]

it also says SOBR, Irkutsk, we are back, on the first picture.
I guess the Irkutskii SOBR is responsible for the sign.

[Kingpin]

By the way. If anyone have links to other photo sites dedicated to chechen wars please let me know.

[Rantanplan]

Holy ****! Chechenia is the ugliest Place, I can Imagine! :|

[Dmitri]

Yea, Berlin didn't look very pretty at 1945 either.. ;)

[Rantanplan]

Yeah! everywhere where the Russians go its look like Hell when they leave! rofl

[Sergei]

Yeah! everywhere where the Russians go its look like Hell when they leave! rofl

Same can be said about Germans, ;)
Remember Stalingrad and 19 walls surviving in the entire city?

[mack pl]

Remember Warsaw 1944 :(

[Marmot1]

Remember Warsaw 1944 :(
yep warsaw was intentionaly demolished... on the left bank over 90% was leveled little les on right bank so overal 71% of buldings were pillrs of rubble...