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Journey to Volgodonsk

  • Bags of 40-50 kg each were placed on top for camouflage; potatoes were poured out of the bags.
  • Immediately after loading, we left for Volgodonsk.
  • I traveled ahead in a 'Moskvich', while Batchayev and Krymshamkhalov followed in a 'KAMAZ'.
  • We agreed to meet at a parking lot already in Volgodonsk.
  • I showed this parking lot to Timur Batchayev when we first came to Volgodonsk with him.

Arrival and Initial Search

  • I arrived in Volgodonsk at night and stopped at the first parking lot I came across to spend the night.
  • In the morning, I repaired my car—fixed the windshield wipers—and started looking for Timur and Yoska, but didn't find them.
  • I then looked for a place to reload the 'KAMAZ', found a motor depot, and agreed with the watchman (I don't remember his name) about reloading potatoes.
  • The next night, I stayed in my car at the gates of the motor depot.

Searching for the 'KAMAZ'

  • In the morning, I started calling Krymshamkhalov's mother-in-law in Kislovodsk and my own home to find out where the 'KAMAZ' had gone, but they didn't know anything.
  • I went with the motor depot watchman to his dacha, then went with him and his wife to the market in Tsimlyansk, where they bought a goat.
  • I prepared meat for lunch.
  • After lunch, I saw a report on TV about the explosion in Moscow and a composite sketch of Gochiyayev.
  • Immediately after that, I went home to Kislovodsk.
  • At home, my wife said that someone had called my cell phone, which I had left with her, and said they were waiting for me in Volgodonsk. She didn't know who called.
  • I immediately went back to Volgodonsk.
  • I arrived at night; since there were many trucks at that parking lot, I didn't look for our 'KAMAZ', but simply decided to spend the night in my car at a neighboring parking lot.
  • In the morning, I found the 'KAMAZ', and we drove it to the motor depot.
  • Then the three of us went in my 'Moskvich' to the truck exchange (I don't remember the exact location), where we found...