08.01.2009 22:33 | He didn’t manage to hide in a shelter
 68-year-old Jury Tigiev lived in Pris village. On that diabolical night – from the 7th to the 8th of August, when Georgia made a barbarous attack to South Ossetia, shooting at sleeping Tshinval and other inhabited areas from heavy weapons, “Grad” rocket systems and other, Jury together with his spouse Juliet Gagieva took cover in a basement. Village Pris, which is located near the border on Georgia, also underwent by the massive shelling.
At a dawn husband and wife decided to move to the city, to the house of Jury’s sister -Alexandra. It seemed to Jury more dangerous to remain in village Pris under Georgian’s very nose than in the city, because any minute the Georgian murderers could enter and take reprisals against them. The private house of sister Alexandra in Tshinval, situated on Pobedy Street, seemed to be less dangerous place.
As Alexandra Tigieva says, Jury together with his spouse and several residents of the village came to the city in the morning, despite of a constant bombardment from Georgia. They went past Zguderskoje cemetery across a wood. “I was alone in the house, took cover from bombardments in the cellar. It was about 10 o'clock in the morning when the brother with his wife came to me, - Alexandra says. - I was so glad that they managed to reach my house safe and sound. I invited them to my shelter, but at the moment they were going down, the deafening explosion was heard. Everything around were shaking: the shell hit my house and destroyed a part of a building. The spouse of my brother managed to go down to a basement, and my brother, unfortunately, didn’t manage, he had no enough time – just few seconds. The shell’s shrapnel hit his neck, face and legs. The blood flooded from the wounds on a neck, I ran out to him, but already could do nothing: Jury died instantaneous death from received wounds.
On August, 9 we buried Jury in a kitchen garden, and in three days, on August, 12, when the Russian peacemakers have completely taken a situation under the control and military operations have calmed down, we reburied him in village Pris. Jury was my only brother. He was a decent person. He was sensitive, kind; he never refused to help people. Many years he worked as plumber in republican hospital. On the work and among relatives people always respected and loved him. There are many houses, destroyed in result of the shelling in Pris village. The roof of Tigiev`s house is strongly damaged, the shell smashed it up.
Soslan Tigiev
Translated by Tatiana Inozemtseva |
