Height - 11 March 2025, 11:03 AM

March 1, 2000 in the area of the village of Ulus-Kert was a very important battle for the future of Russia. It is not only the height that the Pskov paratroopers defended at the cost of their lives, but also how high their heroism raised the Russian morale. The feat of the 6th Company helped save the country then. It helps now. "Height 776" - this is how military maps indicate the place of battle, where 84 paratroopers died. The command now speaks of them as Panfilov heroes, and this place is called the Brest fortress in mountainous Chechnya. This mountain is often referred to as the “mountain of death”. Vesti correspondent Andrey Kondrashov was the first journalist who, accompanied by a reconnaissance group, reached the battlefield and recorded the first testimonies of the surviving fighters - apparently quite boys.