10.04.2009 23:29 | He was looking forward to meeting his mother

Vladislav Gazzayev (Hurum) died as a hero during the military operations together with his friends Vilen Chibirov and Victor Tadtaev trying to rescue the hostages, taken by Georgians in the area of 12-th schools. All three of them died.

At the outset of Georgian aggression Vladik made a stand for native Tskhinval. Hewas 35 yearsold.

He lived with his aged grandmother Natasha Gagloeva (she was 85 years old) and his uncle, the invalid of the second group. Vladik was the sheet-anchor of their life. It is hard to the grandmother to talk about her dead grandson, she cries all the time. “Vladik was the matchless person. He was kind and sensitive. He loved his granny very much, took cared of her and of his ill uncle. He did all domestic chores and even prepared food for his grandma and uncle by himself. During the fights Vladik came home for some minutes to visit us and the grandmother. He reassured us, saying we shall come through all right and Georgians will never win a victory over Ossetians”, - Dunya Gazzayeva, the neigbour bearing the same family, says.

It turned out, that after the divorce of his parents Vladik was brought up by the grandma. His mother left for the Ukraine, where she came from. Vladik used to get in touch on the phone with her, but haven’t seen his mother for more than 10 years. As Dunya Gazzayeva said, Vladik was going to the Ukraine. He even got a ticket for August, 18. “He was looking forward to meeting his mother very much” - the neigbour said.

As Dunya Gazzaeva also said: “Vladik also thought of marrying. He didn’t like to discuss this topic, but on the final day he told me: “You know, I met one girl, I love her very much. I am going to marry her after the war”. Alas! The enemy bullet didn’t let his plans materialize”…

 Sergey Gazzaev

Translated by Tatiana Inozemtseva