Lysyuk, Sergei Ivanovich. Lysyuk Sergey Ivanovich Sergey Lysyuk Vityaz

He was born on July 25, 1954 in the town of Borzya, Chita Region. After graduating from the Ordzhonikidze Military Command School of the Internal Troops in 1975, he served in the Separate Motorized Rifle Division of Special Purpose named after M. F.E. Dzerzhinsky of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR. He stood at the origins of the creation of the special forces unit "Vityaz".

The entire officer service of Sergei Ivanovich Lysyuk is inextricably linked with the Separate Motorized Rifle Division of Special Purpose named after. F.E. Dzerzhinsky. He devoted more than 15 years to the creation and development of the special forces of the internal troops. The first special-purpose training company, formed for the Moscow Olympics as an anti-terrorist unit, eventually became a battalion, and then turned into the Vityaz detachment, commanded by Lysyuk for many years.

He received his baptism of fire in Sumgayit in February 1988. The commandos were tasked with cutting off the instigators of the riots from the crowd. We coped then mainly due to general physical training. Wisdom came with experience, and Lysyuk's detachment gained experience in Ferghana, Nagorno-Karabakh, Yerevan, Baku, and other hot spots of the perestroika era.

Repeatedly Sergei Ivanovich led his subordinates during special operations to free the hostages. Lysyuk's commandos acted confidently and resolutely when neutralizing terrorists in the Sukhumi temporary detention center, in one of the corrective labor colonies in the Urals, and under other emergency circumstances.

Colonel Sergei Ivanovich Lysyuk was awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 4th Class, the Order of the Red Banner, the Red Star, and the Order of Personal Courage, and the medals of Military Merit and Distinction in Military Service, 1st Class.

By the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of October 7, 1993, Colonel Sergey Ivanovich Lysyuk was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation.

After his dismissal, Sergei Ivanovich did not lose touch with the special forces. Together with like-minded people, he created the Vityaz Brotherhood of Maroon Berets, a public organization that actively participates in the military-patriotic education of a new generation of special forces.

Sergei Ivanovich Lysyuk(born July 25, 1954, Borzya, Chita region, RSFSR, USSR) - Colonel, Hero of the Russian Federation.

Biography

1975 - graduated from the Ordzhonikidze Higher Military Command School of the Red Banner. S. M. Kirov Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR.

After graduating from college, he was sent to serve in the Separate Motorized Rifle Division for Special Purposes. F. E. Dzerzhinsky of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR.

He has successively held the following positions:

platoon commander,
Deputy Commander of a Special Forces Training Company
commander of a special purpose training company,
battalion commander,
Commander of the special forces detachment "Vityaz" (until 1994).

After his dismissal from the army, he became president of the Association for the Social Protection of Special Forces "Brotherhood of Maroon Berets" Vityaz "" and a member of the board of the Union of Anti-Terror Veterans.

Participation in military operations

Participated in the suppression of riots and maintaining public order during the Sumgayit pogrom (1988), the Armenian pogrom in Baku (1990), the Karabakh conflict (1991), etc.

He led his subordinates during special operations to free hostages, including the neutralization of terrorists in the Sukhumi temporary detention center and in one of the corrective labor colonies in the Urals.

Events of October 1993 in Moscow

He took a direct part in the October events of 1993 in Moscow. On October 3, 1993, the Vityaz detachment under the command of Lieutenant Colonel S.I. Lysyuka opened fire on people who were near the Ostankino television center, as a result of which at least 46 people were killed and at least 124 were injured. For participation in the October events of 1993 S.I. Lysyuk was presented to the title of Hero of Russia.

Awards

Hero of the Russian Federation - for courage and heroism (October 7, 1993),
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" IV degree,
Order of the Red Banner,
Order of the Red Star,
Order "For Personal Courage"
Medal "For Military Merit"
Medal "For Distinction in Military Service" 1st and 2nd class.

On March 27, Russia celebrated the Day of the Internal Troops. About the special operations of the special forces detachment "Vityaz", how in 1993 in Ostankino the "Dzerzhintsy" did not allow much bloodshed and the unleashing of a civil war, about the brotherhood of the "Maroon Berets" - about this Truth. Ru was told by the colonel of the special forces detachment, Hero of Russia Sergey Lysyuk.

"Maroon berets - the guarantor of the Constitution"

- Sergey Ivanovich, they say that it is difficult to imagine military special forces without you. Have you dreamed of serving since childhood?

- Yes. My father is a military man, all my childhood was spent in military camps. I had a fairly conscious desire to become a military man when from 1959 to 1960 we were in the Polish People's Republic. My father was then the deputy commander of the auto company of the 7th motorized rifle regiment. As I remember now: the military unit - field mail 51412. Naturally, our childhood passed between the barracks, clubs, training grounds. Several times they were pulled out of the shooting range before the shooting began.

From the age of five until the end of school, I wanted to be a border guard. When we crossed the state border in Brest, I looked with envy at the people in green caps. When I entered the Moscow border school, I was rejected by the commission. Related parts are internal troops. The Ordzhonikidzievsk school used to be a border school. So I entered this school.

I set a goal for myself - to serve in the Dzerzhinsky division - OMSDO - a separate motorized rifle division for special purposes. She had to fight saboteurs, terrorists, to ensure the security of the country. At the school

- When and where did your baptism of fire take place?

— We were torn to Afghanistan quite a lot. I wrote five or six reports, but they didn't let me go. The internal troops have nothing to do there. Advisors and certain categories of soldiers and ensigns were sent there - gunners and armored personnel carrier drivers. And they didn't take us there at first.

For me, the first hot spot was Sumgayit. I was on vacation, I had a small child, my wife was pregnant with her second child. When the boil began there, the division was on the ears, I went to find out and said: write me a business trip. Colonel Rakitin (now a general) says: you're on vacation, you're not going anywhere.

I arbitrarily flew there, and then I was called back from vacation, as it were. After Sumgayit we ended up in Armenia, then Baku... I was not at home for about four months. In general, there were business trips up to 8 months a year. Suddenly raised to Fergana. There, a large number of people in the department store were taken hostage. They were blocked and wanted to set fire to. We freed people and caught extremists. Then there was Karabakh, in fact, the whole of Transcaucasia several times. Were in Transnistria. Then there were operations to free hostages in corrective labor colonies.

In hot spots, they mainly worked to disarm illegal military formations. There was a fairly serious operation in Karabakh, when we disarmed an illegal formation of 25-30 people. During the flight, one officer said that he sees their base, the group wants to leave this place. We flew there in six helicopters and blockaded this group. I started to negotiate. After a few hours he persuaded them to hand over their weapons. In fact, they stood opposite each other for four hours - a cartridge in the chamber, grenades loaded. In different periods there was either active work or almost none.

It depended on the political leadership of the country. When Gorbachev was in power, we were often ordered to start disarming illegal formations, and then this combat mission was canceled. Pass only passed - Stop! Back! Stop, wait. Again you can, then you can't. It was somehow indecisive. Or they have already surrounded us, and they tell us to move away. Some local elite called to the very top, they reached Gorbachev and said that there was no need to do anything. And the central government followed their lead. It was this softness that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

“Did you have to disobey an order and complete the operation?”

- It was in Sukhumi when hostages were taken in the temporary detention facility. The organizer was a person sentenced to death. A year before, we were already in Sukhumi, disarming the population, when one village stood up against another. And in the pre-trial detention center we had already drawn up a plan, we were ready to start the operation. Then General Starikov comes and says: no, you will not go, let Alpha storm. Karpukhin and I went and contacted Kryuchkov and told him what the situation was. But no one made a decision, everyone moved off the topic. We started to escalate: like - the situation is getting out of control, we urgently need to storm. But there was no order to storm from Gorbachev. Kryuchkov also said something vague.

We returned and Karpukhin said: "They said to storm." The prosecutor, who was nearby, as soon as they gave him a plan to sign, disappeared somewhere, so the assault plan was never signed. But we did as planned. The operation was carried out normally in a few minutes.

- Sergey Ivanovich, you stood at the origins of the Vityaz detachment. Is this your child?

Mine is loud. - So many people think. - The idea of such special forces was born in 1978. A political decision was made by the Central Committee of the CPSU for the Olympic Games. We consider Lieutenant General Sidorov the father of special forces. He was a front-line soldier, commanded penitentiaries, head of combat training. This is our father, who actually created the special forces, he considered the opinion of the soldiers. He was so tough, strong, fighting. The development of special forces was given by the commander of the internal troops, Colonel General Shatalin Yury Vasilyevich. He is like a godfather to us.

Well, we showed initiative, creativity, loved and did our job, tried to make our unit better. I served for 17 years, tried to make various innovations, ideas accepted, come. Not everything was according to orders, according to charters, officially. The same surrender to the right to wear maroon berets began to take place officially only after 1993. Before that, we didn't even talk about it. Because there were such serious tests that were not included in the combat training plans. We entered into the plans that this was a test session, no one really knew that we were handing out berets there.

But such moments contribute to the formation of the fighting character and spirit of people, because above all in special forces it is the spirit. The spirit that was planted then remains today. These are the traditions, those fighters who were the first to serve as an example. The special forces of the internal troops are really the elite, they are authoritative structures. And the fact that any of the most difficult tasks that are assigned to them are carried out is precisely the merit of the first people who laid down the traditions.

- Why did you receive the Star of the Hero in 1993?

- These were the events when presidential rule was introduced in September 1993 due to a conflict of powers. At the cost of blood, a larger tragedy, like the one that is now happening in Ukraine, was stopped. We could come to this at that moment. Also, there was a big mistake about the first Chechen campaign, when Yeltsin was unable to show flexibility and meet with Dudayev, agree on and resolve issues politically. In any situation, above all else is negotiation. The wisdom of politicians is above all. It's always better to avoid a lot of bloodshed. But what happened, happened.

And in 1993, I received the task of guarding the television center when the events near the White House began. As we were moving, we were overtaken by a team of rebels. People were excited, joyful, some with weapons, some without. When we drove up to the television center, there were already more than a thousand people on the square. There were 20 people with me on the first armored personnel carrier. We ran down the corridor and ran into Makashov and the armed men in the lobby. We ordered them to leave the building under threat of being shot. If we were even 30-40 seconds late, they would have already entered. Then we would have to fight inside the building. We took up positions.

And the rebels began to revive. They started shooting. Among our fighters there were dead. The first attack was repulsed, and then they were not allowed to approach. There were a few more attacks, but not very intense. We made it. There was little blood. Then the situation was reversed. Makashov is a military man, he is a performer. But Rutskoi was the political leader. And the Dzerzhinsky division has always been and remains the guarantor of stability.

See also photo essay

Photo: Together with the legendary Alfa player Viktor Ivanovich Blinov. At the shooting range in Alabino near Moscow. September 2008

For security professionals and those who are in the spetsnaz theme, the name of the Hero of Russia, Colonel Sergei Lysyuk, needs no introduction. He is the father of the "maroon berets". And that's it.

During the events on the Maidan, it was the Vityaz that purposefully intimidated Ukraine - they say, the Russian special forces were already at the Boryspil airport, now it is already in the center of Kiev ... Naturally, no one later refuted all this paranoid nonsense! And Lysyuk just shook his head.

Sergei Ivanovich was born on July 25, 1954 in the town of Borzya, Chita Region. After graduating from the Ordzhonikidze Military Command School of the Internal Troops in 1975, he served in the division named after F. E. Dzerzhinsky.

Although Colonel Lysyuk devoted his life to the special forces of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he retired from the post of deputy commander of Vega - what was then left of the unique Vympel reconnaissance and sabotage detachment defeated by Yeltsin.

ABOUT CHILDHOOD

Show me a man who, as a child, as a kid, did not play war, did not catch "spies", did not break the noses of "saboteurs" ... That's the same. And if you find one out of a thousand, then what can we say about such an infantile one.

For as long as he can remember, Lysiuk always dreamed of becoming a border guard. The hero of his childhood dreams and street games is Karatsupa. I read books about "green caps" to holes. In little Seryozhka, the hope lived for a long time that his father would be transferred to serve somewhere closer to the border: after all, he was born into a military family. And although the Lysyuki moved a lot - Transbaikalia, Ukraine, Poland, Ukraine again - Sergey Ivanovich first got to the border many years later with his special forces.

And his dream was never destined to come true - after school he wanted to enter the border school, but did not pass the medical examination. The Aesculapius did not like, you see, his deviated nasal septum. I decided to go to the internal troops, getting closer to spies and saboteurs - this is how he calmed himself then.

And his nose was twisted in the ring. He adored boxing, practiced with rapture, while still a schoolboy he became a candidate for master of sports. And he does not regret at all that he had to sacrifice beauty for the title of champion of the Lokomotiv Central Council among youth.

- At school, to be honest, we weren’t on “you” with science. In addition to physical education, my favorite subject was chemistry. Here in the lesson I was very attentive. By that time, I had a small clandestine laboratory for the manufacture of all kinds of pyrotechnics and explosive devices. Already in the seventh grade, I made the mixture myself. Naturally, I did not intend to blow up anyone or anything. But the experiments were carried out, and quite successfully. My parents did not share my joy about this, and I had to carefully conspire the laboratory.

ABOUT SUBJECT BROTHERS

No offense to today's platoon and company commanders will be said, but one more Lysyuk is unlikely to be found among them. Throughout his life in the army, he had a brotherly relationship with the soldiers. After all, at first it was not him, but they taught him - their big, thin, eared and inexperienced platoon commander. Taught melee, acrobatics. Oh, and then he got bumps from his subordinates, despite his title of candidate master of sports in boxing. And, by the way, he does not see anything shameful in this: if you want to achieve something on the road, study.

- I always addressed a normal soldier as "you". And if a subordinate was guilty, if he was not close to me in spirit, in hard work and dedication, I called him “you”, strictly according to the charter. Like any person, the soldier immediately felt the attitude of the commander and, if not stupid, drew conclusions. This could not be called familiarity, since then we were a community of people moving towards the same goal and charged with the same idea. Most of the soldiers felt, understood this and never crossed the line.

And those who nevertheless crossed this line were quickly put in their place, and most often the soldiers and sergeants themselves.

By and large, such relations with subordinates were only in the platoon commanded by Sergei Ivanovich. And not because he is good and smart, and the rest are bad. It's just that Lysiuk already knew then that the special forces, this team, was his place in life, his life. In other platoons, the commanders, as it happened, were temporary people in the special forces. They were normal officers, but it is difficult to call them obsessed with the idea of creating special forces. Therefore, they seemed to be present at this, doing their work, as it should be according to the charter, and nothing more.

“I don’t think my relationship with my subordinates was wrong. After all, even later, when I became a company commander, then a battalion commander, a detachment commander, I did not change myself. He called the soldiers and sergeants “brothers”, he addressed ensigns and officers as “brother”. By the way, I got it for this at meetings from the then regiment commander, and later the division commander Igor Nikolaevich Rubtsov: “This is not a unit, but some kind of monastery. They have all brothers there.”

ABOUT THE BENEFITS OF "INDIVIDUAL ACTIVITIES"

When Lysyuk was appointed commander of the unit, many (Sergey Ivanovich knew about this, conversations reached him from the headquarters corridors) thought that now the company would surely collapse. That they, they say, will not have order, because they are used to only doing amateur activities, inventing different things, about which there is not a word in the charter. But the young commander and his like-minded subordinates were sure: a soldier without work is not a soldier.

In other divisions, from morning until evening, they occupied the fighters with drill and household work. And in the training company for special purposes, a cult of occupations was introduced - not a single soldier could be exempted from them, no matter what the reason, no matter what circumstances accompanied this. Lysyuk hoped (and so it actually happened) that due to this, discipline in the company would be at such a level that delegations would go to them - to learn from experience.

Accidentally or not, but it was during that period that a team was formed in the training of special forces, which any commander can envy. Lysyuk's deputy for special training was Oleg Lutsenko, an excellent officer and a person about whom it is difficult to say anything - you need to know him.

Only those of the soldiers and sergeants of the company who could not imagine their life without a team, without special forces, who were brought up on the traditions of the URSN - a special-purpose training company, were left as ensigns-instructors in the unit, went through its harsh school. Viktor Putilov, Viktor Maspanov, Andrei Bogdanov, Gennady Sychev, Vladimir Kurgin, Oleg Shishov, Yuri Vaganov, Alexei Kulikov, Vadim Kukhar were true professionals. They enjoyed great prestige among the soldiers, they were looked upon as gods.

These people were the core of the company, the bearers of the spirit of the special forces, the group that formed the ideology of the unit. And they really continued their “amateur activities”.

The first step was to implement the idea of a training platoon. All the youth who came to the unit, they brought into one platoon and spent up to eight hours of lessons a day with them. No outfits, no chores. One lesson. From the training platoon, the fighters came to combat units 100% prepared to perform the most difficult tasks. A little later, their "amateur" took root in all internal troops.

- We initiated the approval of a new daily routine for military special forces units. First of all, this morning physical training session is an hour of hand-to-hand combat. Then, as Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov did in his time, mandatory sleep was introduced. Whether the soldier wants it or not, after dinner he was obliged to rest. The day was saturated to the limit with various activities and training - in fire, tactical, physical training. All this was approved by the commander of the unit in the daily routine of our unit. And let someone call it amateur performance, I voted for it with both hands. We're not preparing for parades.

ABOUT HOT POINTS

His baptism in hot spots was Sumgayit. Lysyuk was on vacation at the time, his wife was about to give birth to her second child. I learned that the unit was alerted, and ran to the unit. He flew away on that business trip without receiving a clear permission from the commanders. All these troubles were just beginning, and, knowing the family circumstances of the young company commander, none of the commanders, probably, wanted to take responsibility.

They stayed on that business trip for four months. Well, then came Yerevan, Baku, then, as they say, everywhere...

- In hot spots, everything in the commander's work is subordinated to the fulfillment of a combat mission. The first thing he must do is ensure the deployment of personnel and their autonomous existence. For special forces, this is especially important. The second is to ensure the safety of your subordinates.

When they began to go on these combat missions, they began to pay increased attention to the training of special forces youth to ensure their own security. All classes, training as close as possible to the combat situation. They put fighters at night in the forest to guard any object, and they themselves sent "saboteurs". They created various extreme situations for the soldiers and taught them not only to survive, but also to perform a combat mission.

- A feeling of fear ... Of course, I had to experience it. These young people are not afraid of anything or anyone. It is they who are sure that they will never be killed, that they will live forever. And when life experience comes, when you get a family, when you are responsible not only for your life, but, first of all, for the life of these eighteen-year-old boys ... But the best cure for fear is action. And you instantly forget about trembling knees when you start thinking about how best to maneuver in order to take an advantageous position in front of the same angry crowd or militants firing at you.

Lysyuk remembers well his first shot to kill. It was in Abkhazia, where special forces were clearing the Sukhumi-Ochamchira highway. Near the mined bridge across a small river, a shootout broke out between Georgians and Abkhazians. There were five or six vehicles on the bridge, including a fuel truck, from which machine-gun fire was fired. They also shot at the special forces, and quite accurately. Lysyuk took a sniper rifle and fired several shots. It's hard to say if it hit. The result of the shooting, as they say, he did not observe. But the machine gun fell silent.

“In general, in a combat situation, you don’t feel any thoughts, you don’t feel any regret. They shoot at you and you fire back. After all, we opened fire only as a last resort, when all other means of influence had already been exhausted and had not yielded results.

It was there, in hot spots, that Colonel Lysyuk met the commanders and employees of Group A.

ABOUT SPECIAL OPERATIONS

Today, our counterterror experts say: the operation in the Sukhumi temporary detention center has no analogues in the domestic practice of using special forces units to free hostages and prison institutions taken by bandits.

That operation is especially memorable for Sergei Ivanovich Lysyuk, although in those hot days of August 1990, he and his subordinates least of all thought about the glory of the participants in the assault, unprecedented in terms of the object of the attack, and, preparing for a fight with seasoned recidivists, did not waste extra words, remembering their motto : "The best kind of word is deed!"

The operation was planned by collective efforts - battalion commander Sergey Lysyuk, chief of staff Sergey Zhitikhin, deputy for special training Viktor Putilov, from Group A of the KGB of the USSR - officers Viktor Lutsev, Mikhail Maksimov and Alexander Mikhailov. An excellent idea was born: to work simultaneously with three groups. The first takes the vehicle ("Rafik"), which was demanded by the leader of the gang that took the hostages. The second and third burst into the building and disarm the bandits located there. Well, the details are technical.

Lysyuk led the second group of officers, ensigns and soldiers of the Vityaz, whose task was to break into the IVS through the emergency entrance. She was in for the biggest surprise of the whole operation. When powerful explosions tore the door off its hinges, behind it was another one - a lattice one. And, too, if it were thrice wrong, locked from the inside. Behind it is a barricade of furniture.

- The group - retreat! Lysyuk shouted. - Sappers - blow up the grate!

It's good that Putilov took spare charges with him. A minute, another - and the lattice as if it had not happened. But the power of TNT was not enough for the barricade.

The forced delay in entering the building was compensated by blowing up the lattice door with the power and swiftness of the attack. Lysyukovites were not detained either by a one and a half meter barricade of furniture blocking the passage, or by shots from the opposite end of the corridor. In order to cool the hot heads of the bandits, they threw a dozen and a half light and noise products at them. Well, then went, as the pros say, concrete work. In full contact.

The movement of the group along the corridor in clouds of smoke and dust resembled an indomitable squall, a whirlwind, accumulating energy in itself, capable of paralyzing evil will even at a distance. Ordinary fighters were charged by the example of battalion commander Sergei Lysyuk, who was the first to go to capture well-armed criminals.

And those grated rolls, by the way, prepared for defense very seriously. Barrels were placed at the windows, each position had a supply of cartridges. But the "knights" passed the seventy-meter corridor in one breath. And, pushing the neutralized prisoners into the cells, they captured the second floor at the same pace.

The alphas did a great job too. Their special forces equipment is aerobatics.

She, Group "A", and then the press will give the laurels of the winners, leaving the "knights" in the shade, although all the difficulties, all the risk during the assault, both units, acting shoulder to shoulder, shared fifty-fifty. And, by the way, Alpha veterans always emphasize this!

- Let someone at the top share the laurels, determine priorities, and for us the most important thing is to strengthen the cohesion of our units, develop the traditions of cooperation and mutual understanding that we have born in Sukhumi and other hot spots.

Nice words. They contain all of Lysyuk.

ABOUT WEAPONS

“I've been passionate about guns since childhood. After graduating from school, he even got a job at a weapons base as a mechanic for the repair of small arms.

Some people think that carrying weapons is some kind of manic habit. Nothing like this! Women have subconsciously developed a love for jewelry over the centuries, and men for weapons. Handling weapons is also an element of a man's culture. Just by the way a person picks up a pistol or machine gun, a lot can already be said about him.

ABOUT POLITICS

For a long time, Colonel Lysyuk and his subordinates did not think about politics, but silently did their job - they went to sharpeners and knives, under gangster bullets. The main thing for them was to follow the order - that's how they were brought up.

When censorship was abolished and white spots began to be written about, the first thing that deeply shocked Sergei Ivanovich was the story of the execution of the royal family. He still cannot understand what the family of Nicholas II, his children, his disabled child had to do with it.

- Later, after October 1993, after Chechnya, I realized that politics is a dirty business. Many people, unfortunately, go to power not to do something for others, to benefit the country, the people, but to achieve personal benefits. And it was not the army that lost the first Chechen war, it was the politicians who lost.

Yes, a commando must understand politics. But first of all, he must follow the orders of the commander. Special forces must be able to professionally perform the task assigned to them, and politicians must think for what purpose to use the professionalism of special forces: for bloody showdowns for power or to fight crime, corruption, and terrorism.

ABOUT FAMILY

Lysyuk ended his bachelor life, as he believes, on time, at the age of twenty-eight. Wife Natalya is from Krasnodar. And they met in Dnepropetrovsk, at the pedestal with the legendary tank of the Great Patriotic T-34. And it was February 23 ... Well, how can you get away from the fate of the military.

Natalya, the ideological, convinced wife of a commando, steadfastly endured all the hardships associated with her husband's service. For the sake of the family, for the sake of raising her son and daughter, she sacrificed her career. But she is a very talented person, she graduated with honors from a prestigious university, by profession she is an engineer-technologist of public catering.

“I never heard a word of reproach from her. For which she is very grateful. I consider Natalia the most beautiful woman I have ever met, and the best wife that can be.

Everything that is connected with family affairs, their wife commands - and the upbringing of children, and the budget, and the repair of the apartment. Natalia is the mistress of the house. Yes, and Sergei Ivanovich did not claim a leading role in family affairs, especially with regard to the budget, since during his bachelor life, his salary ended in a week and a half.

- In women, I appreciate just those qualities that are inherent in my wife. This is, first of all, an understanding of the problems that the husband is solving. Natalya understood that for me, service in special forces was a matter of life. She could wait, knew how to wait. Patience for an officer's wife is perhaps the most important quality.

After business trips, as a rule, all officers and ensigns with their families gathered at Sergey and Natalya Lysyukov's. Discussed cases, washed awards. Lysyuk is convinced that officer wives should, together with their husbands, rejoice in their successes and successes, as they share all the difficulties and hardships with them.

ABOUT FRIENDSHIP

- I have quite a lot of friends. Friendship is, first of all, mutual respect and mutual unwritten obligations of one to the other. Deep decency and devotion to each other.

Lysiuk does not tolerate betrayal. He does not like to think about it, but there were cases when he was betrayed. Sergei Ivanovich believes that, by and large, in his life he did nothing to make someone consider him their enemy. He is always ready to give a person a hundred times more if he sees that he is decent, that he is passionate about the matter. And he cannot stand hypocrites, liars, people who are not responsible for their actions and their words.

ABOUT BAD HABITS

Once, as a ten-year-old boy, he spied where his grandfather kept his tobacco. With grief, I made a cigarette in half ... And I thought: stupid people, why are they smoking such filth. Since then, he has not touched cigarettes. Although he is calm about tobacco smoke, otherwise he would have to miss a lot of interesting and useful things. After all, serious matters are discussed for a long time, and important decisions are rarely made without a couple of packs of smoked cigarettes.

- I'm not a big drinker either. Until the age of twenty-six, I did not even know the taste of champagne. Later, when military operations began, we had to relieve stress. But I don't enjoy drinking alcohol. Rarely can I afford good cognac or dry wine.

Although he likes to sit at a good table with friends, in the company of interesting interlocutors. He enjoys communication, and not long feasts with toasts and eulogies. Can't stand official receptions.

ABOUT DISMISSAL

In 1991, when the lights of casinos and bars flashed behind the fence, eyes began to run wide from the abundance of foreign cars, the first wave of dismissals of officers and ensigns swept over the special forces. It is difficult to give an assessment - someone had a difficult financial situation, someone's life orientations changed. God is their judge. Lysyuk rightly believed and still believes that only those who want to serve in the special forces should serve.

He did not persuade anyone who left to stay. Then ten or fifteen people left. They were replaced by a new wave of officers and ensigns, who showed themselves very well and did not disgrace the honor of the special forces.

- I myself left the "Vityaz" not of my own free will. But it just so happened. Retired for health reasons. It turned out that I myself never went to the doctors, but a couple of times I fell into their hands. The first - in the seventy-ninth year with a diagnosis: severe physical exhaustion of the body. We were preparing for responsible demonstration classes and for about a month we spent days and nights in the unit. At that time I was still a bachelor - and there was no time to eat, and there was no one to relax with. All this had an effect. The second time the doctors got caught after a shell shock received during the storming of the Sukhumi detention center. Therefore, in ninety-four, when the doctors laid eyes on me for the third time, I did not tempt fate further.

But even after his dismissal, Colonel Lysyuk strives not to lose contact with the special forces, to benefit him. Together with like-minded people, he created the Association for the Social Protection of Veterans of Special Forces Units "The Brotherhood of Maroon Berets" Vityaz "", which supports the cause of special forces ideologically, financially and professionally.

One of the main tasks of the organization is to help brothers who have finished their service in finding jobs. Recently, for example, they opened a military paraphernalia store, where they employ children who received a disability during the service. There are many other plans as well.

“We will do our best to support the professionalism of the special forces, their spirit and traditions, loyalty to the maroon beret.

Together with the Hero of the Soviet Union Gennady Nikolaevich Zaitsev, Lysyuk created the Commonwealth of Anti-Terror Veterans. Another of his offspring is the Vityaz Training Center, operating in the Moscow suburbs, well equipped and popular among specialists. So, both in spirit and in life, Sergei Ivanovich was and remains a member of the special forces.

ABOUT A DREAM WHICH WILL COME TRUE SOMETIME

- In my view, the special forces should be highly professional and not poor, the fighters have completed a training course according to our methodology, completed an internship and serve under a contract - three, five, ten years. Served - get decent benefits. We need a strong social base, state support. And today it cannot give an apartment to an officer, what can we say about contract soldiers. A professional special forces soldier today should have such a monetary allowance that he would be able to receive an interest-free loan, build a house for himself, and buy an apartment. Then the commanders will have not only disciplinary, but also material measures of influence, incentives for subordinates.

And you need to gather professionals all over the country. It’s like with us: if you don’t have a Moscow residence permit, then you have problems. But the same sniper is a man from God. You can choose a real sniper from several thousand. Just like a real sapper, attack aircraft - taking into account the psychological characteristics, temperament and other qualities inherent in the specialists of a particular special forces profession. They must be led by commanders - real professionals, officers of the highest qualification, who have gone through fire, water and copper pipes ... So, that's enough. This is my sore subject, and I can talk about it for days. I am sure of one thing: sooner or later the special forces will become like that.

The newspaper "SPETSNAZ RUSSIA" and the magazine "SCOUT"

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