Melnikov Alexander Gennadievich

Definition: serviceman
Years of life: 1962-?
Reproduction methods:
Member of the Komsomol. 12/18/1981, together with colleague Kolpakbaev A.Kh. deserted from part of the 248th Motorized Rifle Division (military unit 13977) and captured 25 students from Sarapul School No. 12, pushing
requirement to issue foreign passports and exit visas and send
by plane to the USA or any other capitalist country, threatening
Otherwise, shoot the hostages. After negotiations and the release of the hostages, he was neutralized by members of the Alpha special forces unit without the use of weapons. Sentenced to 8 years*.

Cases (1)

Documents (1)

Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Групповое дело военнослужащих Колпакбаева А.Х. и Мельникова А.Г.
1. The article “The capture operation lasted 6 seconds”, about terrorism in the USSR, containing an interview with General V.F. Karpukhin and a selection of information about the facts of terrorism in the USSR in the period from 1979 to 1989, published in the Leningradskaya Gazeta newspaper No. 2 for 1991.