The armed conflict in Chechnya occupies a special place in modern Russian history. The study of the history of the conflict is one of the potentially priority areas of Russian historical science, as evidenced, for example, by the number of publications on this topic. Over 3,000 publications of various kinds have been published on various problems and aspects of the armed conflict in Chechnya, including monographs, studies, articles in collections and journals, encyclopedic publications, and memoirs of direct participants in events; a number of dissertations defended