How it was 11/27/2002 (2002)

Capture of hostages in Sarapul, 1981.

On December 17, 1981, servicemen Alexander Melnikov and Akhmetzhan Kolpakbayev deserted from the military unit, taking weapons with them.

On the same day, they broke into the class of the Sarapul school No. 12, declared the students hostages and issued an ultimatum to the administration: the provision of passports and departure to the United States.

Negotiations lasted about sixteen hours.

Around the school, the police kept crowds of citizens.

At the school, the KGB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs together with the city administration worked out options for the release of children.

The captain Vladimir Orekhov, the head of the Sarapul city department of the KGB, went to the terrorists as a hostage.

After long negotiations defectors were able to neutralize, none of the children were injured.

"Sarapul" is the first anti-terrorist operation carried out in the after-Afghan period by the Alpha group and the first case in the USSR of taking children hostage.

All materials on this case were classified, students, their parents and teachers were forced to give a nondisclosure subscription for 15 years.

In the studio, the details of the terrorist act are remembered by schoolchildren No. 12 Tatyana Ermakova and Albert Khakimov, military inspector Sergei Zaitsev, deputy head of the Alfa group in 1981, Sergei Goncharov.

The fragments of the interview with the school's director Lev Lapin, the biology teacher Lyudmila Verkhovtseva, the captain of the KGB Vladimir Orekhov, the 10-B class pupils Irina Shakleina, Natalia Pospelova, Lyudmila Subbotina supplement the picture with the director of the school.

Chronicle of different years: documents on the case and partial reconstruction of events at school No. 12, data on the case of hijacking the aircraft in 1970 by the father and son of the Brazinskasami, neutralization of terrorists in various countries of the world.