Residents are expected to gather in front of the town administration's building to commemorate the deaths of the 42 civilians and security officers killed in the unrest.
On 9 January 1996, a dozen armed Chechen militants led by radical field commander Salman Raduev launched an onslaught on Kizlyar and took more than 2,000 people hostage in a local hospital.
Raduev and his men were able to escape from the town after several days of fighting with Russian troops.
Raduev was subsequently captured and tried by a court in Makhachkala, the capital of Daghestan. He died in a Russian prison colony, reportedly from a brain hemorrhage, in December 2002.
(ITAR-TASS/RIA-Novosti)
On 9 January 1996, a dozen armed Chechen militants led by radical field commander Salman Raduev launched an onslaught on Kizlyar and took more than 2,000 people hostage in a local hospital.
Raduev and his men were able to escape from the town after several days of fighting with Russian troops.
Raduev was subsequently captured and tried by a court in Makhachkala, the capital of Daghestan. He died in a Russian prison colony, reportedly from a brain hemorrhage, in December 2002.
(ITAR-TASS/RIA-Novosti)
