Incident Details

The narrative describes events related to a planned action involving the dam of the Volgodonsk HPP.

Initial Concerns and Arrangements

• The narrator expressed reluctance to carry out an explosion at the market due to the risk of civilian casualties.
• In Kislovodsk, an agreement was made with the cousin of Iskhak Temirliev, who resides in the village of Sary-Tyuz.
  • The narrator agreed to purchase a KAMAZ truck from him, with payment deferred.
  • Timur Batchaev drove this vehicle to Kislovodsk.
• After Gochiyaev took a portion of the prepared explosive substance, several bags remained.
  • These bags were initially in the back of an old KAMAZ, which the narrator had acquired from a Karachay man in the village of Mirny near Kislovodsk.
  • Yoska and Timur Batchaev reloaded all the bags into the KAMAZ purchased from Temirliev's brother and covered them with potatoes.
  • The narrator traveled to Volgodonsk in a 'Moskvich', while Yoska and Timur traveled in the KAMAZ.

Acquisition of the GAZ-53 and Decision Making

• In Volgodonsk, at a parking lot belonging to an unnamed Russian man, a GAZ-53 truck was purchased, and all the bags were reloaded into it.
• Batchaev opposed the idea of blowing up the dam because it would be impossible to leave a vehicle on it without attracting immediate attention.
• Under pressure from Batchaev and Yoska, the narrator agreed to leave the vehicle near a residential building.
• This decision was influenced by two factors:
  1. The recent explosions of residential buildings in Moscow.
  2. Law enforcement agencies had already implicated Gochiyaev in those incidents.
• Consequently, the police began paying increased attention to vehicles bearing license plates from the Karachay-Cherkess Republic.
• The narrator learned from an old man working at the parking lot (whose son was a policeman) that their KAMAZ was also drawing interest.

Conclusion of the Segment

• The narrator instructed the man who sold the GAZ-53 to leave the vehicle with the cargo near his house.
• That same evening, they departed.

Note: The narrator mentions having lived near Tsimla village in relation to the Volgodonsk HPP approximately 15-16 years prior.