Russia January 15, 2005 sieges were two raids of the Russian security forces on a militant Islamist group's safehouses in Daghestan.

The group, called Shariat Jamaat, previously killed 29 members of the Daghestani department for fighting extremism and criminal terrorism, including its chief Akhberdilav Akilov.

In the first incident, the government forces surrounded a group of five rebel fighters in a two-story house on the outskirts of Makhachkala, capital of Dagestan.

For 17 hours, the rebels battled Russian special forces supported by armoured vehicles and a helicopter, killing one of elite Alpha Group commandos and wounding another.

In the end a tank belonging to the Russian Marines smashed the remains of the burned and gutted house.