Muayed Shorov
Muayed Shorov (Russian: муаед шоров), born Muayed Lvovich Shorokhov (Russian: Муаед Львович Шорохов) (7 February 1962 - 11 August 1994), was a volunteer soldier and major of the Kabardian Battalion during the War in Abkhazia (1992-1993), fighting on the side of the Abkhazian separatists against Georgia. He commanded the reconnaissance and assault group of the battalion.
Early life[edit]
Shorov was born on 7 February 1962 in the village of Kuba, Baksansky district, Kabardino-Balkar ASSR, Soviet Union [1]. He had a brother, Anzor, who, as of 2013, was chairman of the Union of Abkhaz Volunteers in Nalchik.[2] Anzor recalled that Shorov was a "clever, tidy boy", who was called "Commissioner Cattani" for his character integrity. Before the War in Abkhazia, Shorov was the head of the tax police department in Nalchik.
Service during the War in Abkhazia[edit]
In September 1992, less than a month after the outbreak of the War in Abkhazia, Shorov volunteered to fight alongside the Abkhazians. He didn't tell anyone except his brother where he was going. During the entire war, Shorov came home for a week, telling his mother she had "taught him to be strong, to defend the weak". The group participated in the victorious battle of Gagra in October 1992. On 25 December 1992, Muayed's unit, along with units led by Genia Kardanov and Zurik Zarandia, defeated the Georgian White Eagle battalion, capturing that unit's commander, Colonel Kalandadze. In January 1993, Shorov became the commander of the reconnaissance and assault group of the Kabardian Battalion.
In July 1993, on the Gumista front, Shorov's unit captured the strategically important Akhbuk heights, which the Chechen and North Ossetian volunteer units had previously failed to do.
On 27 September, 1993, during the battle of Sukhumi, Shorov's intelligence group, along with elements of Aki Ardzinba's Abkhazian battalion and the Bagramyan Battalion, laid siege to the building of the Council of Ministers of Abkhazia, where the Georgian defenders made their last stand. After four and a half hours of fierce fighting, the Georgian defenders ceased fire. Zhiuli Shartava, the chief of the Council, said he would only surrender to the Kabardians, which Shorov accepted. Shartava and the other members of the Georgian government surrendered their documents and weapons to Shorov, and were led out of the building. Shorov and his men tried unsuccessfully to guarantee the safety of the Georgian captives from an increasingly large and angry crowd of Abkhazians who had gathered in the square. The captives were assaulted by the crowd as they were squeezed into a minibus which transported them to the site of their execution on the same day.[3]
After the war[edit]
After the war, Shorov returned to Nalchik, where he became the chairman of the Union of Abkhaz Volunteers of Kabardino-Balkaria. On 24 June 1994, a few months after the end of the war in Abkhazia, Shorov was critically injured in a car accident while on a business trip in Maykop, Adygea. He died in the Republic hospital of Maykop, on 11 August 1994, never having regained consciousness.[4] Shorov was posthumously awarded Hero of Abkhazia by Abkhazian president Vladislav Ardzinba. Every year a judo competition is held in Shorov's honour in Nalchik.
References[edit]
- ↑ Ashiba, Rada. "Шоров о брате: Муаед прошел все военные тропы обоих фронтов Абхазии". sputnik-abkhazia.ru (in русский). Retrieved 2019-03-11.
- ↑ Orazaeva, Luiza. "Delegation of Abkhaz women visits families of victims of Georgian-Abkhaz conflict in KBR". Caucasian Knot. Retrieved 2019-03-11.
- ↑ gvidogio (2009-08-06), Fall of Sokhumi, retrieved 2019-03-11
- ↑ Shibzukho, A. (7 February 2017). "7 февраля исполнилось бы 55 лет Муаеду Шорову (7 February - Muayed Shorov would have been 55 today)". Кавказский Узел (Caucasian Knot). Retrieved 2019-03-11.
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