How it was №1 27.03.2001 (2001)

Video chronicle: A selection of the consequences of terrorist attacks that took place around the world in the 1970s and 80s.

City railway station, street cafe building after the explosions.

Symbols of the radical organization "Rosse" (Red Brigades) in a printed publication.

Police work at the scene of a car explosion.

Victims of terrorist attacks.

The program tells about the sad events of 1977. On January 8, a series of explosions were carried out in the capital of the USSR - Moscow.

Two devices went off in a store on Twenty-Fifth October Street and in a trash can next to the Architectural Institute.

As a result of the third explosion, which occurred in the capital's metro between the Izmailovskaya and Pervomayskaya stations, seven people died.

More than forty people were injured.

Dmitry Tyuzhin, along with his brother, wife and daughter, were in the car in which the explosion occurred.

His wife Valentina Tyuzhina, is present in the auditorium, taking part in the program.

There was an unattended bag in the carriage, which no one paid attention to.

Dmitry tells what happened immediately after the explosion, describes the destruction, the behavior of other passengers.

Yakov Akhuzin was appointed head of the operational headquarters to investigate the incident.

He talks about isolated assassination attempts on Soviet leaders and how the Soviet special services encountered such mass terrorist acts for the first time.

According to the special services, the terrorist attack was prepared by anti-Soviet nationalist organizations.

Yakov Akhuzin talks about the work of the headquarters, about how the investigation was conducted.

Video chronicle: Passengers of the Moscow metro.

The movement of the train in the subway.

Photos of the exploded carriage.

Press room: the work of correspondents.

A ZIL drives up to the KGB building on Lubyanka Square.

Malva Landa tells how the Moscow Helsinki Group condemned the terrorist attack at its meeting and signed a corresponding statement.

Yakov Akhuzin presents material evidence, based on which the KGB officers reconstructed the events and what caused the special services to "enter" the capital of the Armenian SSR - Yerevan.

The participants of the program talk about the National United Party that existed in Armenia, organized by students against the existing regime.

Stepan Zatikyan, one of the founders of the party, together with its members Hakob Stepanyan and Zaven Baghdasaryan, was detained on November 7, 1977, after the events at the Kursk railway station, when another explosive device was found.

Malva Landa and Yakov Akhuzin have different attitudes towards this arrest.

Interview with Hakob Demirchyan - a friend of Hakob Stepanyan.

Interview with Vazgen Karakhanyan - a friend of Stepan Zatikyan.

Paruyr Hayrikyan talks about the founding of the party, its main goals.

Does not believe in Zatikyan's guilt.

Interview with Ashot Matevosyan, Stepan Zatikyan's lawyer.

Dmitry Tyuzhin was present in the courtroom during the trial of the detainees.

According to Malva Landa, the detention of Zatikyan and his comrades was fabricated by the KGB. Video chronicle: Speeches by Hakob Stepanyan, Zaven Baghdasaryan and Stepan Zatikyan at the trial.

Interview with Hasmik Chatalyan, Stepan Zatikyan's sister.

Each of the program participants has their own point of view on the involvement of the detainees in the explosions that occurred in Moscow in 1977.