18.02.2009 15:18 | We remember everybody, who sacrificed a life for the sake of the Homeland: Leonid Nikolaevich Doguzov
Leonid Nikolaevich Doguzov was one of the first, who bore the brunt of theenemy's attackin the days of Georgian aggression against South Ossetia.
Tengiz Doguzov, Leonid`s brother, tells:
- Leonid was born in 1962 in South Ossetia (Tskhinvalsky District, Satikar village). He finished 8 classes of a rural school, ented the technical college in Beslan. He has served in army. Then he worked in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tskhinvalsky District. Married. From the beginning of 90th (it was time of unrest for South Ossetia) he served in the Ministry of Defence of the republic, the last years carrying out his service on the posts.
He was a sportsman, the candidate for the master sportsman of judo and boxing, he was a reliable comrade. On August, 8, the day of the beginning of the Georgian aggression he had to hand over the post and leave to Vladikavkaz, to see his nephew of 6. He also was going to visit his brother and the sister living in Mozdok, whom he did not see for a long time. But all these plans were shattered by the Georgian tanks, which invaded Satikar village, being escorted by two hundreds of armed fighters.
Saving the lives of his friends, Leonid gave him a chance to take cover, and continued to shoot till the last cartridge. He died in unequal fight. Riddled, he won a time, so that elderly, women and children of his native village Satikar had time to take cover in the next wood.
Twenty four hours Leonid with the submachine-gun in his hands was lying on the native ground, impregnated by his own blood, while the bandits in the military uniform of the Georgian army
committed excesses in Satikar, blowing up an orthodox chapel and apartment houses and shooting monuments on a cemetery...
And only ten days later we managed to rebury (Village Satikar in the main is inhabited by the representatives of Doguzovs) Leonid’s body from a kitchen garden on a family cemetery.
On September, 17th it would be 40 days since the day of Leonid's death.
He does not exist, but for his mother Ekaterina, father Nikolai, widow Zemfira, children - Zarina and Botaz, brother Tengiz, sister Saniat - he is still alive. And he is alive for all Ossetian people, which will always remember the names of the heroes.
Madina Tezieva
Translated by Tatiana Inozemtseva
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