A memorial plaque to Dzhokhar Dudayev, the leader of the Chechen liberation movement, was unveiled in Poltava (PHOTO)

The plaque was inaugurated on 15 February and the preliminary decision on its installation was made during the meeting of the executive committee of the Poltava City Council on January 31.

Dzhokhar Dudayev was a Chechen military, statesman and political figure. leader of the Chechen liberation movement in the 1990s, the first president of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, its commander-in-chief (1991-1996).

In the times of the USSR, he held the rank of Air Force Major General (1989). From 1985 to 1987, Colonel Dudayev served in Poltava as the Chief of Staff of the 13th Guards Heavy Bombardment Division.

From the memories of Alla Dudayeva’s wife, Dzhokhar Dudayev raised the division to the highest level of combat readiness. But there was no question of appointing him to the post of commander. According to Alla Dudayeva, the reason was the “national issue”: the brand of origin “Chechen” accompanied her husband like a shadow.

President of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin personally signed the order to kill Air Force Major General, President of the Chechen Republic Ichkeria Dzhokhar Dudayev.

On 21 April 1996, employees of the Federal Counterintelligence Service of Russia located the signal of Dzhokhar Dudayev’s satellite phone in the area of ​​the village of Gehi-Chu, which was located 30 kilometres from Grozny. Immediately, two Su-25 planes took off. Dudayev was killed by a rocket explosion during a telephone conversation with the deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Kostiantyn Borov.

We will remind you that Poltava installed a memorial plaque for the architect and artist Anatoly Chornoshchokov. For 13 years, Anatoly Chornoshkokov was the main artist of the city and also participated in the development of the monument to Galushka. Recently, a memorial plaque to the architect was unveiled on the street where he lived.

The Poltava regional organization of the National Union of Architects of Ukraine acted as the initiator of the project commemorating the artist. The author of the plaque was Poltava sculptor Dmytro Korshunov.