Caucasian break. Border guards in operations in Chechnya

The book tells about the reasons for the emergence and development of the Chechen armed conflict, for the first time the service and combat activities of Russian border guards in the North Caucasus are considered in detail from 1994 to 2006 based on documents, the analysis of scientific, historical and journalistic literature, as well as the memoirs of participants in those events The author gives a reasoned interpretation of such problems as the content of plans for the application of border units and departments during two Chechen campaigns, the number and structure of their losses at that time, etc. Significant attention is paid to the study of issues of the moral and psychological state of border guards in combat conditions