FEDERAL SECURITY SERVICE OF RUSSIA

Directorate for the Rostov Region
11.10.99 No. 8/6-705
Rostov-on-Don, Bolshaya Sadovaya St., 31.

To the Commander of military unit 34435
Colonel Fesenko A.V.
Moscow

In connection with the investigation of criminal case No. 173 regarding the explosion in the city of Volgodonsk on September 16, 1999, we are sending you materials for the production of an explosives expertise. I ask you to entrust the production of this expertise to your employees, explaining to them the rights and obligations provided for by Article 82 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the RSFSR, as well as warning them of the responsibility for giving a knowingly false conclusion under Article 307 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, having taken a corresponding receipt from them.
Soil samples, washings, as well as the most informative fragments found during the inspection of the scene, were sent to your address earlier.
If necessary, reports on the inspection of buildings and a report on damage to houses in the area of the explosion will be sent to you additionally upon receipt of the specified documents from the administration of Volgodonsk.

Attachment:

• decree on the appointment of explosives expertise dated September 25, 1999, on 2 sheets;
• protocol of the inspection of the scene dated September 16, 1999, with attachments, 27 sheets in total;
• copy of the large-scale plan of districts "V-U" and "V-16" of Volgodonsk (scale 1:500);
• copies of inspection reports of 16 buildings in Volgodonsk, 32 sheets in total;
• copy of the protocol of inspection of objects dated September 20, 1999, on 21 sheets;
• copy of the interrogation protocol of witness Iskanderov A.I. dated September 16, 1999, on 2 sheets;
• copy of the interrogation protocol of suspect Iskanderov A.I. dated September on 4 sheets;
• copy of the interrogation protocol of witness Iskanderova V.V. dated September 16, 1999, on 2 sheets;
• 2 video cassettes with material filmed at the scene on September 16, 1999.

Head of the Investigative Department
of the FSB Directorate of Russia
for the Rostov Region
Colonel of Justice /signature/ E.I. Protsenko

Certified:
Senior Investigator for Particularly Important Cases
of the FSB Directorate of the Russian Federation
/signature/ A.V. Kruglov