Valeria Kruglova biography

The life of Valery Alexandrovich Kruglov has developed in such a way that for 30 years he has been inextricably linked with the Vympel GSN: 15 years in personnel and 15 - as a major general general. Nowadays, the president of the support of participants in the fighting and special operations of Vympel, in principle, Kruglov himself was not very ready for such a turn of events - after all, everything happened after the only interview with an employee of the central apparatus of the KGB.

But to say that all this arose from scratch, too, is also impossible. In addition to higher education in the Moscow border guards to them. Valery himself did not fully imagine where he would serve. I only knew that the work was associated with a special risk, possible business trips abroad and a long time without communicating with the family. The last moment for Kruglov was important, since he was the father of a large family and was always proud of this in his soul.

Especially the fact that the geography of the Soviet Union could be taught at the birthplace of his children.

The eldest son-“Pereslavvets” was born in the city of Pereslavl-Zalessky, daughter-“Moldavian” Second place of service, the youngest son-“Kazakh” many officers then envied him in a good way. And only one of them either knew more than the rest, Toli was more perspicacious: “They found someone to envy, he goes to where the officers serve in cork helmets Valery then recall these words more than once.

And he still remembers his first day of arrival in the new military unit. No one met him in huge Moscow, no one accompanied anywhere. Briefly introducing himself on the phone, he received instructions where to follow and to whom to contact, and in early March of the year he was enrolled in the lists of the unit. And after a month of intensive preparation as part of the first standard unit of the Vimpel group, which was called Cascad-4, Major Valery Kruglov left for Afghanistan.

The first three “cascades” were the national teams of the Chekists who went on training at the courses of the improvement of officers. They, roughly speaking, were prepared as commanders of partisan detachments for a special period. But it turned out that special tasks had to be performed abroad, and people who know the principles and so intelligence and sabotage units actually had to be collected from all over the country.

This was not entirely convenient, so at the highest level a decision was made to create a Vimpel special forces group. Thus, the personnel of the unit, which initially included officers and warrant officers, the skills received at the new place of service began to work out in a real war. A year later, upon returning from Afghanistan, Valery was instructed to engage in operational-combat training in his unit.

In addition to personal daily simulator, he prepared mobilization exercises with a departure to the place of actual conduct. Then he participated in the "analysis of flights", made his proposals: what should be changed, supplemented. Knowing that they are “dragged” to work for specific objects abroad in order to destabilize the situation, the “Vymplovites” perfectly understood their purpose.

They were high -class saboteurs. When the destabilization began inside the country itself-in Azerbaijan, Armenia, Moldova, the Baltic states, it was difficult to re-qualify from saboteurs to anti-terrorists with one stroke of the pen. In fact, the difference when performing tasks was at first glance insignificant. Operational combat links also climbed onto the wing, threw them into place, received a task.

It was pleased when the special forces were met at the destination airport. And then it often happened that the bus was fed to the airport, and the driver after that, as fully completed his mission, disappeared without a trace. It’s good if the accompanying person remained, and, thank God, there was still a strong connection along the KGB line. The place of temporary deployment of the group could be a school, a gym, and any other completely unleashed place.

However, it was much more complicated that there were not everyday conditions, but a prediction of the situation: what intensity it would reach tomorrow, how the local authorities will behave, that the typical task that was usually set before the fighters will be made of you-to help law enforcement agencies in the places of a large cry of people, to disperse the crowd, to identify leaders, to sew them and deliver where it should be.

It would seem elementary. Today this is taught in all riot police, in the first courses of police schools and institutes. Such situations are regularly worked out during football matches and all kinds of unauthorized rallies and demonstrations. But at that time, few owned such practical skills. And the country was different. Additional difficulties arose due to the lack of protective equipment, special tools, and normal communication for interaction.

There was only a weapon that was categorically forbidden to use, and they had to be sewn in a hurry in order to somehow indicate their belonging to a particular camp. Along the way, another task was solved: to save yourself from the crowd.To get a peak or knife in those conditions was like water to get drunk. Often I had to work on the verge. As far as this line is thin, only a person who has passed a long -term special forces school can fully comprehend.

Through daily training, when each lesson is planned so that the inclusion of brain and muscle load are necessarily alternated. When you are first taught to identify the “outdoor” in the big city, and then accompany the object yourself. When you need to pass through the passage of the most difficult route with a length of up to a hundred kilo-meters, which you need to go secretly, you are given a limited time.

And another pair with the same level of preparation is put to find you. Then you in the ring to automatism bring the techniques of the "man -handed"; Together you go up to the sky to master the parachute in practice; Dive into the sea or other reservoir to develop mandatory exercises for easily dodolasis training; You will climb into the mountains, because a potential enemy can work there.

Plus, you have two higher education, almost without an accent speak someone else's language and all this, as it suddenly turns out, needs to be forgotten, because at that moment the most important thing is to “work” in the crowd. August events of the GO found Valery Alexandrovich as deputy. Even in ordinary life, it was not easy to understand what was happening: who - ours, who suddenly turned out to be an enemy.

Some historical experts are still versed in this. What can we say about a special forces, from which the adoption of a momentary decision was required, and sometimes the diametrically opposite to the previous one at first they were oriented towards the protection of the Kremlin and the White House, then, on the contrary, they ordered to storm - here anyone could “demolish the tower”.

Again I had to stay on the verge. And even when they lived without money or only on what the wife earned. Some people in uniform could not afford to go somewhere for part-time jobs at that time, because their readiness for action was a constant component of the service. One episode comes into memory, very characteristic of that time. The fighters of the special forces are led by Kruglov, a highly set general, who is also at the airport, is responsible for the overall course of the operation.

The force is placed on the following briefing, and suddenly it turns out the “small” part: the fleeting group from Switzerland is accompanied by specialists from Alpha. Valery Alexandrovich is forced to be straightforward: “This is Moscow. It is difficult to say what would happen if the plane still landed in Sheremetyevo, and it is very good that the story is not subject to subjunctive mood.

And at the end of July, a circle-lobe-already as deputy head of the group, an order is issued on the transfer of Vimpel to the Main Department of Security to strengthen the interests of the President of the Russian Federation. By the way, then it turns out that it was this pause that played its positive role. But they still did not forgive the element of disobedience. Valery Aleksandrovich is very good at what cold then it was “from above”.

There is a group of the group; Classes, training-everything is in the same mode, but the attitude towards it, as to an empty place. It was felt: it would not end with good. From the special forces, for whom there were memories of police uniforms, about the performance of unusual functions, a stream of reports was remembered. Someone found a place in other law enforcement agencies, someone simply renovated to go to the “citizen”.

The affairs were formed in such a way that the further existence of the group was under a big question. Suddenly a positive role at that time was played by the Minister of the Interior Viktor Fedoro-Vich Erin. He called the leadership of the “Vy-Pel” and began his conversation not with moralizing and beliefs, as expected, but from the perspective of the eldest in age and position, well-owned by the Si-Power.

And why do you call yourself a group-in our Ministry of Internal Affairs, this terminology is used only in relation to the bandits Dmitry Mikhailovich Gerasimov, who was commanding the Vimpel, after a meeting with the Minister went out for a frank conversation with his deputy and invited him to lead the group. Valery Alexandrovich Kruglov, before giving an answer, was advanced with the inner circle of the personnel officer, the head of the rear, who clearly set out his position: “The unit needs to be preserved at all costs.

Then, when the need arises, it will be very difficult to collect it bit by bit. It doesn’t matter which department it will obey, as it will be called, with us or without us-it just should live, it meant that two full-fledged operational combat parts and the formed headquarters are ready to fulfill the tasks. Along with the solution of many organizational issues, it was also necessary to name the group differently.

And after the minister approved the name, the special forces learned that in Austria there is an anti -terror unit, which has the same name. Looking ahead, it should be noted: Minister Erin was consistent in everything that seemed to be special forces.In addition to the fact that they were not offended in issues of weapons, training, money, they have never been attracted to the fulfillment of police functions.

Only-to the performance of operational combat tasks in anti-terror. And the need for this arose quite quickly. Chechnya was more clearly “brewing”, and almost all the regional Sobra, who were seconded to there, underwent a two -week special training in a detachment near Moscow. Kruglov personally participated in the planning and preparation of a special operation.

And when almost everything was already ready, the special forces were given “hinges”, explaining that there was an opportunity to solve the problem in a lithic-re-artistic way, what the way ended, today everyone knows well. At that moment, I distracted the general from the memories and asked him if he could take the presidential palace in Grozny with his detachment? He, without hesitation, answered negatively and further the belt-nil.

The Presidential Palace - it was a real fortified area with several defense borders.