“He had already planned to come home on Friday.” Boxer Magomed Nalgiev speaks about the rescuer who died in Balashikha

On Wednesday, September 20, after a gas explosion in a residential building in Balashikha, EMERCOM employee Magomed Nalgiev died while clearing the rubble. We now know that he was the winner of the Ingushetia football championship among the rescuers, the goalkeeper of the Mongoose mini-football team, the finalist of the hand-to-hand combat tournament… And that alone would be enough to make a text about him on a sports website. But Nalgiev was and will forever remain a savior. And the text appears on a sports site because two professional athletes knew him personally. His full namesake and cousin Magomed Nalgiev has a 4-0 record in professional boxing and fights in the “Our Business” league, and Vakha Gadaborshev develops Ingush hockey, was the best sniper in one of the tournaments in the Night Hockey League and junior coach. Republic team.

Brother Nalgiev’s story published a correspondence from a general chat in a popular messenger. A user with the nickname Nalgiev Maga from the Moscow Emergency Situations Ministry leaves a short voice message there and sends two more: “AMG [аэромобильная группа] in preparation for. A house collapsed in Reutov” (the towns are probably confused, since Reutov and Balashikha are in the same direction. – Note from ).

Magomed Nalgiev: This was sent to me from the rescue chat. There he said in an audio message: “What can you do, we have to go, we have to save. » He was already planning to be in Ingushetia on Friday. And when he was told that the house had collapsed, while he was on vacation, he went there to look for people. He was the type of person who was the first to help. He doesn’t have the ability to stand up and think: maybe someone else will go. He really loved this work and considered it his vocation.

Vakha Gadaborchev: His brother’s children got married, his nephews, and he was supposed to come to the wedding today, but he came, you see. In the morning, my brothers and I went to Grozny, met him, brought him home and held a funeral service. There were many people, even from Moscow, who worked with him.

He was such a guy since childhood, he loved to climb everywhere, jump, look for something, and somehow after the army he went to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, worked in the Republic for almost 11 years, then he went to Noginsk and continued his service there. I won’t tell you any special story about him, I know he always showed up everywhere and walked in front. I didn’t let my team do that, I tried to do everything myself. And now it happened, he was already on vacation and couldn’t go. But I found out there was a child there and that’s it. Children were a priority for him, because he didn’t have any and he ardently dreamed of having them. This is what he wanted more than anything, and for some reason God didn’t give it to him.

It is clear that we told him to be careful, but he himself spoke to us about it more often. I saw a lot and constantly asked us to take care of ourselves. He gave us entire lectures. I took the kids to competitions, and he always told me, “Be careful, you have kids. Attach your belt.”

Magomed Nalgiev: When he was in the Far East, he had to hold a large fragment of a dam with his hands (during the rescue operation in Komsomolsk-on-Amur after the Mylkino dam ruptured, rescuers erected a artificial barrier for water from sandbags and large fragments of tarpaulin – About “”. And he stood there in the water for several hours and held on alone. Much was said about it in all news. I’m an athlete myself, but I don’t know how one person can have so much strength.

Vakha Gadaborchev: I remember that when there was an explosion in the bailiff’s building in 2009, he was one of the first to arrive at the scene and look for people under the rubble. In all the most serious situations, his team was first. He rarely told anything in detail, so as not to bother us with details about blood, about complex cases. He spoke briefly: “It was so-and-so. We saved.”

Magomed Nalgiev: There is a video where Magomed lifts a car alone, it’s a very old video. But I’m not surprised. He was an incredibly strong man physically. He competed in arm wrestling and kettlebell lifting. Wherever he was interested, he would compete. This man could do anything. I have performed hand-to-hand combat on several occasions. At one tournament he reached the final and withdrew due to injury.

Vakha Gadaborchev: He barely recovered from this injury. I tore my knee ligaments. I went to operations in Tyumen and Kurgan. And so before, in the 2000s, he played a lot. Arm wrestling, then horizontal bar, then something else.

Magomed Nalgiev: We last saw each other about five years ago, we were playing football, he was the goalkeeper, the team was called “Mongoose”, they were playing very well. I remember when I was very young, I was 15-16, I would just come and watch them compete. He could also play offense, and at the same time he was tall, healthy and physically very strong. And we came to see how he stood on the door, because he looked big, but he was so fast for his weight.

Vakha Gadaborchev: In football, they took first place in the Russian championship among rescuers. If I’m not mistaken, their Noginsk team became the strongest in Russia in some competitions (Nalgiev’s team won the Russian championship by eliminating the consequences of road accidents. – Note “.” ). He worked as a diving instructor, today the guys from Grozny, to whom he taught diving, came to say goodbye to him.

Magomed Nalgiev: Magomed from the village of Plievo (five kilometers from Nazran), our specific teip is not very large for Ingushetia, but the general teip, which includes our last name, is quite large. We have another cousin, Lom-Ali Nalgiev, he speaks today at ASA, and our fathers with Magomed are cousins. We have a family group, they uploaded a video there and from there I found out what happened.

Vakha Gadaborchev: In general, Magomed grew up without a father; he died in 1996. She was raised by her mother, Lydia. Our mothers are strong here in the Caucasus, but this loss was difficult for her to bear because she is the youngest son in the family. And now imagine losing him. There are three brothers and three sisters left.

Our last conversation? I remember it well, actually. He bought a house in the republic and I had the keys. We called him recently, I asked him, “When are you coming?” He said, “I have a ticket for the 22nd.” And I said I would open the house and air it out so the air would be fresh when he arrived. He said: “Ah! How nice it will be if you do this.

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