This hap­pened in 2000, at the height of the Sec­ond Chechen War, in the Argun Gorge. A detach­ment of 2,500 thou­sand mil­i­tants under the com­mand of Khat­tab tried to break into Dages­tan in order to take as many hostages as pos­si­ble. On their way they met a small detach­ment of the 6th com­pa­ny, con­sist­ing of 90 Pskov para­troop­ers. 86 para­troop­ers were killed.