Khmelevskaya Kursk biography

At first, according to his mother Irina Nikolaevna, Andryusha grew up with a painful child - frequent colds, bronchitis. Regardless of the weather, he began to constantly pour cold water in the shower, sleep with an open window. Then, as the mother recalls, many things necessary in the household began to disappear from the house: knives, spoons, forks, ax, linen ropes from Andrei on this occasion could not be intelligible.

Later, from his friends, she accidentally found out that his son was breaking a group of tourists for a long campaign in the forest. Everyone brought things necessary for the “expedition” and buried them at the school in a special cache. In the seventh grade, the summer Khmelevskaya was passionately carried away by tourism and began to engage in this sport in the city Palace of Pioneers.

Having made several campaigns in the Kursk region, Andrei a year later received the right to participate in the alloy on kayaks along the lakes of Karelia. True, for this it was necessary to pay for the trip. There was no extra money in the Khmelevsky family. But, caught in the desire to go to Karelia, young Andrei independently got a janitor to the store.

I got up to work at five in the morning and eventually earned the amount you needed for a tourist trip. In August - September, as part of the Courage detachment of the Kursk riot police, he participated in the liberation of the villages of the villages of the Botlikh district of Dagestan from the Chechen terrorists. And on December 9, the police sergeant Andrei Khmelevskaya was sent on the next official business trip to Chechnya.

There were less than three months to his feat. He blew himself and the bandits with a grenade in the morning of March 5, Khmelevskaya, along with his comrades, detained the Chechen militant-narcomancer near the Caucasus checkpoint. After about an hour, the bandit’s father arrived. He suggested for 2 thousand dollars to release his son to the wild. Andrei did not succumb to persuasion and took the police arrested to the regional department, located in the village of Achkhoy-Martan.

In the Volga, in addition to them, there were two witnesses, the police captain from Kursk and the police major from Orenburg. Sitting in the car, Andrei jokingly shouted to his fighting friends Roman and Kostya: “Hold the steam in the bathhouse by my arrival! On the way back we will jump up for beer! Chechen militants ambushed on the way back. There were only 9 kilometers left to their own.

When the Volga found herself at the village of Asinovskaya, the bandits opened a fluffy fire along the passenger car. Andrei Khmelevskaya was still injured in the car. However, he was not at a loss and, somehow getting out of the salon gone by bullets, began to shoot back. Having taken fire on himself, the sergeant made it possible to retreat with him to retreat at a safe distance.

This ultimately saved their lives. Andrei, with two witnesses and a driver, joined the battle with a whole bunch of militants. When all three were killed by shots of snipers, the wounded chicken was left alone against dozens of the Wahhabis armed to the teeth. For more than half an hour he held back their frantic onslaught, then the cartridges ended. Feeling this, the Chechens surrounded the Kursk policeman with a dense ring, hoping to take him alive.

Khmelevskaya was wounded in both hands. However, Andrei, letting the bandits at a close distance, pulled out a check from the last grenade with his teeth and blew himself up and the militants surrounded by him.

When the Help came to the place of the fight, Andrei’s body was raised from the ground with a special “cat”. They were afraid that it was mined. Similar "surprises" often met in the Chechen war. Not far from the car lay the corpses of witnesses and the driver. For the courageous feat on April 26, the fighter of the Kursk riot police, Andrei Khmelevsky, was awarded the title of Hero of Russia posthumously.