Afghan war in Belarus. Belarusians in Afghanistan: soldiers of someone else's war

List of participants in hostilities on the territory of foreign states residing in the Slutsk region as of February 1, 2016

List of combatants in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
(last name, first name, patronymic, military rank, year of birth, place of residence)

1. Avvakumov Mikhail Petrovich, senior warrant officer, 1954, Slutsk
2. Autukhovich Sergey Nikolaevich, ensign, 1968, Slutsk
3. Akulovich Sergey Vladimirovich, private, 1967, Slutsk
4. Alexandrov Nikolai Alexandrovich, ensign, 1962, Slutsk
5. Alenikov Alexander Markovich, ensign, 1949, Slutsk
6. Alekhno Yuri Ivanovich, senior lieutenant, 1964, Slutsk
7. Aleshkevich Vladimir Adamovich, ensign, 1962, Slutsk
8. Aleshko Vladimir Nikolaevich, major, 1955, Slutsk
9. Andropov Nikolai Ivanovich, senior warrant officer, 1949, Slutsk
10. Antsipovich Nikolai Nikolaevich, lieutenant colonel, 1956, Slutsk
11. Apolonik Oleg Alexandrovich, senior warrant officer, 1954, Slutsk
12. Artyushkevich Anatoly Ivanovich, junior sergeant, 1961, Slutsk
13. Ashevsky Vladimir Leonidovich, lieutenant colonel, 1955, Slutsky district, Muravishchino village
14. Babina Alexander Viktorovich, foreman, 1966, Slutsk
15. Bazylko Sergey Konstantinovich, junior sergeant, 1961, Slutsk
16. Ban Sergey Mikhailovich, private, 1962, Slutsky district, village of Lopatichi
17. Baranov Nikolai Dmitrievich, senior warrant officer, 1947, Slutsk
18. Barisov Nikolai Ivanovich, senior warrant officer, 1959, Slutsky district, village of Luchniki
19. Bartsevich Ivan Fedorovich, private, 1958, Slutsky district, village of Ustran
20. Basalyga Nikolai Vasilievich, junior sergeant, 1961, Slutsk
21. Bachko Nikolai Mikhailovich, senior warrant officer, 1961, Slutsk
22. Belomestnykh Nikolai Ivanovich, senior lieutenant, 1964, Slutsk
23. Bely Valery Sergeevich, sergeant, 1960, Slutsk
24. Bogdan Oleg Nikolaevich, major, 1960, Slutsk
25. Borisik Alexander Ivanovich, junior sergeant, 1966, Slutsk
26. Borovsky Igor Vladimirovich, private, 1969, Slutsk
27. Bortnik Evgeny Ivanovich, private, 1962, Slutsk
28. Branovets Vasily Vasilyevich, private, 1963, Slutsk
29. Branovets Mikhail Mikhailovich, senior lieutenant, 1964, Slutsk
30. Budko Alexander Stanislavovich, sergeant, 1969, Slutsky district, village of Gutnitsa
31. Busel Viktor Nikolaevich, private, 1964, Slutsk
32. Vabishchevich Fedor Terentyevich, senior sergeant, 1934, Slutsky district, village of Selishche
33. Vaitekhovich Valery Stanislavovich, junior sergeant, 1965, Slutsk
34. Valetko Alexander Borisovich, private, 1969, Slutsk
35. Valov Vladimir Leontievich, lieutenant colonel, 1950, Slutsk
36. Vasilevich Sergey Alexandrovich, major, 1963, Slutsk
37. Vakhramey Alexander Ivanovich, private, 1963, Slutsk
38. Vergeichik Oleg Ivanovich, major, 1946, Slutsk
39. Evening Yuri Vladimirovich, senior warrant officer, 1964, Slutsk
40. Vinnik Valery Nikolaevich, senior warrant officer, 1953, Slutsk
41. Volot Vyacheslav Vladimirovich, sergeant, 1965, Slutsky district, village of Zamostye
42. Vorontsov Anatoly Alexandrovich, senior warrant officer, 1962, Slutsk
43. Voropaev Alexander Nikolaevich, captain, 1958, Slutsk
44. Vradiy Yuri Pavlovich, private, 1967, Slutsk
45. Vylinsky Alexander Ivanovich, lieutenant, 1958, Slutsk
46. ​​Gaba Oleg Nikolaevich, private, 1964, Slutsk
47. Galyas Igor Vladimirovich, private, 1967, Slutsky district, Gresk village
48. Ganiev Salman Israpilovich, sergeant, 1967, Slutsk
49. Gapanovich Sergey Nikolaevich, private, 1968, Slutsky district, village of Lyadno
50. Garkavy Vladimir Mikhailovich, private, 1968, Slutsk
51. Nail Ivan Vasilyevich, lieutenant colonel, 1953, Slutsk
52. Gerasimovich Yuri Vladimirovich, private, 1960, Slutsk
53. Gnezditsky Anatoly Ivanovich, senior warrant officer, 1946, Slutsk
54. Gonchar Ivan Andreevich, foreman, 1967, Slutsky district, village of Zamostye
55. Gorgun Sergey Anatolyevich, junior sergeant, 1964, Slutsk
56. Gordeychik Alexander Mikhailovich, ensign, 1962, Slutsk
57. Gordievich Vyacheslav Kazimirovich, major, 1947, Slutsk
58. Grinyuk Nikolai Vasilievich, lieutenant colonel, 1943, Slutsk
59. Gritskevich Vitaly Konstantinovich, private, 1968, Slutsky district, village of Gatsuk
60. Gritskevich Gennady Arkadievich, private, 1964, Slutsk
61. Gudkov Nikolai Vasilyevich, ensign, 1953, Slutsk
62. Guznov Sergey Sergeevich, major, 1960, Slutsk
63. Guk Ivan Ivanovich, junior sergeant, 1968, Slutsky district, Radichevo village
64. Guk Nikolai Anatolyevich, private, 1967, Slutsk
65. Guralsky Vladimir Romanovich, lieutenant colonel, 1950, Slutsk
66. Gurbo Viktor Mikhailovich, private, 1969, Slutsk
67. Gurbo Sergey Vladimirovich, private, 1967, Slutsk
68. Gurbo Sergey Leonidovich, private, 1966, Slutsk
69. Gurenko Konstantin Sergeevich, ensign, 1949, Slutsky district, village of Lyadno
70. Gusev Anatoly Viktorovich, lieutenant colonel, 1952, Slutsk
71. Gutkovsky Yuri Frankovich, senior warrant officer, 1962, Slutsk
72. Gutsanovich Nikolai Ivanovich, private, 1968, Slutsky district, Belevichi village
73. Danilovich Nikolai Yakovlevich, ensign, 1949, Slutsk
74. Danilovich Oleg Mikhailovich, private, 1965, Slutsk
75. Daushko Oleg Vladimirovich, private, 1966, Slutsk
76. Dakhov Sergey Alekseevich, captain, 1956, Slutsk
77. Devyaterikov Viktor Petrovich, major, 1958, Slutsk
78. Dinmukhamedov Farit Khurmatovich, major, 1957, Slutsk district, village Novodvortsy
79. Dolbik Viktor Fedorovich, private, 1965, Slutsk
80. Drobush Fedor Alekseevich, private, 1967, Slutsk
81. Drobyshev Sergey Evgenievich, lieutenant colonel, 1953, Slutsk
82. Dubinka Sergey Alexandrovich, private, 1964, Slutsky district, village of Chizhovka
83. Dubov Oleg Anatolyevich, private, 1965, Slutsk
84. Dubovik Nikolai Nikolaevich, corporal, 1969, Slutsky district, village Vezha
85. Dubovsky Anatoly Ilyich, lieutenant colonel, 1961, Slutsk
86. Duboleko Sergey Nikolaevich, private, 1964, Slutsky district, village of Pavlovka
87. Dulya Alexander Anatolyevich, sergeant, 1960, Slutsk
88. Dunko Gennady Aleksandrovich, major, 1967, Slutsk
89. Evseenko Nikolai Alekseevich, foreman, 1959, Slutsky district, Lenki village
90. Evsyuchenya Konstantin Ivanovich, warrant officer, 1949, Slutsk district, d. M. Pader
91. Elaevich Viktor Borisovich, junior sergeant, 1960, Slutsk
92. Ermakovich Alexander Alexandrovich, sergeant, 1962, Slutsk
93. Yesimchik Vladimir Konstantinovich, corporal, 1967, Slutsky district, village of Gatsuk
94. Esipovich Alexander Ivanovich, warrant officer of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, 1968, Slutsk
95. Esipovich Sergey Anatolyevich, private, 1969, Slutsk
96. Zhavrid Mikhail Viktorovich, private, 1958, Slutsk
97. Zharkovsky Igor Nikolaevich, senior warrant officer, 1962, Slutsk
98. Zhigalin Sergey Vladimirovich, junior sergeant, 1964, Slutsk
99. Zhuk Igor Nikolaevich, corporal, 1968, Slutsky district, village Povstyn
100. Zhukovsky Anatoly Ivanovich, senior warrant officer, 1959, Slutsk
101. Zhuravel Anatoly Vasilyevich, major, 1941, Slutsk
102. Zhurid Fedor Evgenievich, senior lieutenant, 1959, Slutsk
103. Zakharevich Valery Vasilievich, lieutenant colonel, 1954, Slutsk
104. Zubko Oleg Yurievich, major, 1964, Slutsk
105. Zubov Alexander Yakovlevich, ensign, 1957, Slutsk
106. Ivakin Vladimir Petrovich, major, 1947, Slutsk
107. Ivanov Vladimir Alekseevich, warrant officer, 1947, Slutsky district, village of Kirovo
108. Ilyukevich Alexander Ivanovich, senior sergeant, 1962, Slutsk
109. Kalinin Georgy Georgievich, private, 1964, Slutsky district, Gresk village
110. Kapelyush Anatoly Eduardovich, ensign, 1962, Slutsk
111. Karlov Alexander Vitalievich captain 1962 Minsk region, Slutsk district, Kalchitsy village
112. Karpienya Valery Alexandrovich, senior warrant officer, 1957, Slutsk
113. Karpuk Alexander Nikolaevich, private, 1968, Slutsk
114. Cartel Anatoly Mikhailovich, private, 1960, Slutsk
115. Kasymakumov Anatoly Taktobekovich, private, 1967, Slutsk
116. Kievitsky Vladimir Mikhailovich, private, 1964, Slutsk
117. Kleshch Nikolai Georgievich, senior warrant officer, 1951, Slutsk
118. Kleschenok Grigory Leonidovich, private, 1960, Slutsk
119. Klimovich Ivan Ivanovich, senior warrant officer, 1947, Slutsk
120. Kobzar Yuri Leonidovich, private, 1966, Slutsk
121. Kovalchuk Evgeny Pavlovich, junior sergeant, 1966, Slutsk
122. Kovalchuk Yuri Mikhailovich, sergeant, 1962, Slutsk
123. Kozak Sergey Arkadyevich, sergeant, 1960, Slutsk
124. Kozel Gennady Evgenievich, major, 1963, Slutsk
125. Koleda Valery Nikolaevich, sergeant, 1964, Slutsky district, village of Ozertsy
126. Kolikov Alexander Gennadievich, private, 1968, Slutsk
127. Konoplyanik Nikolai Gennadievich, private, 1968, Slutsk
128. Korbut Alexander Mikhailovich, private, 1966, Slutsk
129. Cat Vitaly Mikhailovich, corporal, 1968, Slutsk
130. Kotovich Mikhail Fedorovich, private, 1969, Slutsk
131. Kotyschuk Anatoly Vasilievich, ensign, 1956, Slutsk
132. Kochetov Alexander Anatolyevich, lieutenant colonel, 1952, Slutsk
133. Krasutsky Viktor Bronislavovich, sergeant, 1962, Slutsk
134. Krepsky Ivan Evgenievich, private, 1967, Slutsk
135. Kudelko Alexey Anatolyevich, private, 1968, Slutsky district, Gresk village
136. Kunitsyn Alexander Vasilyevich, major, Slutsk
137. Kuranov Vasily Viktorovich, private, 1963, Slutsk
138. Kurdyuk Alexander Ivanovich, senior warrant officer, 1950, Slutsk
139. Kurilchik Gennady Anatolyevich, sergeant, 1962, Slutsk
140. Kurlovich Alexander Alexandrovich, lieutenant colonel, 1960, Slutsk
141. Kutas Vladimir Antonovich, lieutenant, 1953, Slutsk
142. Kutselai Mikhail Mikhailovich, corporal, 1966, Slutsky district, village of Kleshevo
143. Labkovich Svyatoslav Ivanovich, private, 1966, Slutsk
144. Lagun Alexander Evgenievich, ensign, 1956, Slutsk
145. Lagun Sergey Nikolaevich, senior sergeant, 1968, Slutsky district, village of Kozlovichi
146. Lagun Yuri Nikolaevich, senior sergeant, 1967, Slutsk
147. Lelya Leonid Fedorovich, private, 1962, Slutsky district, village of Popovtsy
148. Letchenya Nikolai Ivanovich, private, 1965, Slutsk
149. Leus Alexander Vyacheslavovich, private, 1967, Slutsk
150. Leshchenko Anatoly Vikentievich, private, 1963, Slutsk
151. Leshchenko Andrey Vyacheslavovich, senior sergeant, 1965, Slutsk
152. Leshchenko Igor Vladimirovich, ensign, 1966, Slutsk
153. Fever Vyacheslav Vladimirovich, ensign, 1951, Slutsk
154. Loban Nikolai Aleksandrovich, senior sergeant, 1969, Slutsk
155. Logvinenko Leonty Alexandrovich, major, 1951, Slutsk
156. Losik Sergey Ivanovich, private, 1968 Minsk region, Slutsk district, Gresk village
157. Lukashevich Nikolai Borisovich, senior warrant officer, 1959, Slutsk
158. Lutsevich Alexander Nikolaevich, senior warrant officer, 1958, Slutsk
159. Lyubko Valery Albertovich, sergeant, 1961, Slutsk
160. Lyutsko Semyon Semyonovich, senior warrant officer, 1964, Slutsk
161. Maglysh Sergey Mikhailovich, sergeant, 1969, Slutsky district, village of Molotkovo
162. Makarenko Nikolai Mikhailovich, ensign, 1967, Slutsk
163. Makarenya Sergey Vasilyevich, private, 1962, Slutsk
164. Makarchik Sergey Ivanovich, ensign, 1960, Slutsky district, village of Luchniki
165. Maksimkin Vladimir Viktorovich, sergeant, 1961, Slutsk
166. Malinovsky Ivan Ivanovich, private, 1969, Slutsk
167. Malyk Nikolai Nikolaevich, lieutenant colonel, 1952, Slutsk
168. Malyarevich Sergey Leonidovich, private, 1968, Slutsk
169. Margun Vasily Vladimirovich, senior sergeant, 1968, Slutsky district, village of Pratsevichi
170. Maskalevich Alexander Vasilyevich, ensign, 1944, Slutsk
171. Maskalkov Vladimir Vladimirovich, ensign, 1956, Slutsk
172. Makhlai Leonid Fedorovich, sergeant, 1965, Slutsk
173. Mashko Anatoly Nikolaevich, private, 1968, Slutsk
174. Maschitsky Vadim Ivanovich, corporal, 1968, Slutsk
175. Meyerson Igor Evgenievich, junior sergeant, 1966, Slutsk
176. Metelsky Alexander Nikolaevich, private, 1966, Slutsk
177. Mironchik Gennady Ivanovich, private, 1968, Slutsk
178. Mironchik Sergey Alekseevich, sergeant, 1963, Slutsk
179. Mikhalevich Mikhail Mikhailovich, sergeant, 1965, Slutsk
180. Mikhnevich Alexander Mikhailovich, senior warrant officer, 1947, Slutsk
181. Mishonok Vladimir Mikhailovich, major, 1932, Slutsk
182. Murashov Alexander Anatolyevich, corporal, 1967, Slutsky district, village of Kozhushki
183. Mukhin Viktor Nikolaevich, lieutenant colonel, 1955, Slutsk
184. Nagorny Stepan Fedorovich, ensign, 1940, Slutsky district, village of Chizhovka
185. Narutsky Alexander Vladimirovich, sergeant, 1964, Slutsk
186. Naumov Vladimir Evgenievich, senior warrant officer, 1962, Slutsk
187. Nevmerzhitsky Vasily Ivanovich, sergeant, 1967, Slutsky district, village of Lyadno
188. Nemkovich Viktor Viktorovich, private, 1968, Slutsky district, village Belaya Luzha
189. Nikandrov Sergey Anatolyevich, senior sergeant, 1962, Slutsk
190. Novichenko Alexander Mikhailovich, private, 1962, Slutsk
191. Novokhatsky Sergey Nikolaevich, ensign, 1958, Slutsk
192. Olennikov Nikolai Nikolaevich, senior warrant officer, 1951, Slutsk
193. Onishchuk Alexey Vasilyevich, private, 1968, Slutsky district, village of Gatsuk
194. Opoytsev Valery Vladimirovich, major, 1963, Slutsk
195. Orlov Alexander Vasilyevich, private, 1964, Slutsk
196. Osadchy Anatoly Nikolaevich, sergeant, 1964, Slutsk
197. Pavlenko Mikhail Kuzmich, senior warrant officer, 1954, Slutsk
198. Pavlov Anatoly Alekseevich, major, 1952, Slutsk
199. Pavlyukevich Mikhail Vladimirovich, private, 1963, Slutsk
200. Panfilov Valery Nikolaevich, senior warrant officer, 1959, Slutsk
201. Parimonchik Nikolai Vladimirovich, senior warrant officer, 1952, no address
202. Pashkevich Nikolai Mikhailovich, private, 1969, Slutsk
203. Pashko Oleg Petrovich, private, 1963, Slutsk
204. Baker Sergey Nikolaevich, ensign, 1961, Slutsk
205. Penyaz Nikolay Arkadyevich, corporal, 1961, Slutsk
206. Pesotsky Konstantin Stepanovich, private, 1966, Slutsky district, village of Gorki
207. Petrov Sergey Alekseevich, major, 1962, Slutsk
208. Petrovich Valery Nikolaevich, major, 1956, Slutsk
209. Petrovsky Vladimir Nikolaevich, sergeant, 1962, Slutsky district, village of Lyadno
210. Petrusevich Viktor Leonidovich, corporal, 1966, Slutsk
211. Pisarchik Alexander Nikolaevich, private, 1967, Slutsk
212. Plevako Valery Stepanovich, senior warrant officer, 1950, Slutsk
213. Plishkin Yuri Vladimirovich, foreman, 1968, Slutsk
214. Polozhentsev Alexander Yurievich, private, 1964, Slutsk
215. Popovich Mikhail Gavrilovich, lieutenant colonel, 1944, Slutsk
216. Prokopenko Vladimir Andreevich, senior warrant officer, 1952, Slutsk
217. Protasenya Nikolai Anatolievich, private, 1968, Slutsky district, village Znamya
218. Puzhevich Mikhail Konstantinovich, corporal, 1961, Slutsky district, village of Kozlovichi
219. Putyato Nikolai Mikhailovich, senior sergeant, 1969, Slutsky district, village of Vesey
220. Dusty Stanislav Eduardovich, sergeant, 1962, Slutsk
221. Ralko Vladimir Vladimirovich, private, 1966, Slutsk
222. Rebrik Sergey Ivanovich, major, 1960, Slutsk
223. Romanenko Viktor Mikhailovich, major, 1955, Slutsk
224. Rombak Pavel Evgenievich, ensign, 1961, Slutsk
225. Rubtsov Evgeny Ivanovich, major, 1947, Slutsk
226. Rubchenya Nikolai Petrovich, senior warrant officer, 1957, Slutsk
227. Rudenko Andrey Vasilievich, senior warrant officer, 1946, Slutsk
228. Rudenya Leonid Arkadievich, senior warrant officer, 1952, Slutsk
229. Rulkevich Alexander Ivanovich, private, 1962, Slutsky district, village of Tanezhitsy
230. Rusakevich Ivan Ivanovich, foreman, 1968, Slutsk
231. Rusakovich Mikhail Leonidovich, private, 1963, Slutsk
232. Rusovich Alexander Ivanovich, private, 1966, Slutsky district, village B. Plum
233. Rybak Mikhail Valentinovich, sergeant, 1958, Slutsk
234. Rylach Nikolai Vladimirovich, junior sergeant, 1962, Slutsk
235. Ryabchenko Vladimir Ivanovich, senior warrant officer, 1948, Slutsk
236. Savenya Ivan Nikolaevich, private, 1964, Slutsk
237. Savilin Vasily Vasilyevich, senior warrant officer, 1959, Slutsk
238. Samartsev Sergey Viktorovich, junior sergeant, 1961, Slutsk
239. Svirida Sergey Vladimirovich, senior warrant officer, 1962, Slutsk
240. Sevruk Sergey Fedorovich, private, 1969, Slutsk
241. Selitsky Vladimir Nikolaevich, sergeant, 1968, Slutsk
242. Senkevich Alexander Ivanovich, ensign, 1948, Slutsk
243. Senozhatsky Nikolai Nikolaevich, senior warrant officer, 1965, Slutsk
244. Sechko Sergey Vladimirovich, senior warrant officer, 1948, Slutsk
245. Skorobogatov Yuri Anatolyevich, sergeant, 1964, Slutsk
246. Slivets Sergey Anatolyevich, sergeant, 1962, Slutsk
247. Snimschikov Vasily Fedorovich, senior warrant officer, 1941, Slutsk
248. Sokolovsky Vladimir Leonidovich, lieutenant colonel, 1948, Slutsk
249. Nightingale Alexander Viktorovich, ensign, 1967, Slutsk
250. Sorogovets Ivan Ivanovich, private, 1968, Slutsk
251. Spoke Rostislav Ivanovich, colonel, 1948, Slutsk
253. Staroverov Anatoly Savelyevich, senior warrant officer, 1947, Slutsk
254. Starovoit Vasily Dmitrievich, senior warrant officer, 1944, Slutsk
255. Stepuro Gennady Bronislavovich, senior warrant officer, 1950, Slutsk
256. Strunin Viktor Alexandrovich, ensign, 1955, Slutsk
257. Stulba Mikhail Vasilyevich, senior warrant officer, 1959, Slutsk
258. Sugak Mikhail Nikolaevich, senior warrant officer, 1956, Slutsk
259. Sukhovey Sergey Sergeevich, senior warrant officer, 1957, Slutsky district, Ogorodniki village
260. Sytin Leonid Vladimirovich, sergeant, 1969, Slutsky district, village Luchniki
261. Sytnikov Nikolai Nikolaevich, ensign, 1965, Slutsk
262. Sytko Alexander Nikolaevich, sergeant, 1960, Slutsk
263. Sytko Vladimir Anatolyevich, junior sergeant, 1960, Slutsky district, village Gorodishe
264. Tarasov Leonid Alexandrovich, senior sergeant, 1960, Slutsk
265. Tisetsky Sergey Yuryevich, corporal, 1963, Slutsk
266. Tikhonov Nikolai Ivanovich, major, 1952, Slutsk
267. Tkachuk Anatoly Vyacheslavovich, private, 1969, Slutsk district, village of Gatsuk
268. Pusher Alexander Nikolaevich, sergeant, 1966, Slutsk
269. Torgonsky Leonid Albinovich, major, 1943, Slutsk
270. Trepachev Valery Karpovich, major, 1962, Slutsk
271. Tretyakov Alexander Nikolaevich, major, 1957, Slutsk
272. Tretyakov Alexander Sergeevich, senior warrant officer, 1952, Slutsk
273. Troinich Anatoly Fedosovich, lieutenant colonel, 1937, Slutsk
274. Trohimets Alexey Ilyich, major, 1945, Slutsk
275. Trotsky Ivan Vladimirovich, sergeant, 1959, Slutsky district, village of Vesey
276. Trushko Nikolai Anatolievich, private, 1967, Slutsky district, village of Selishche
277. Tyshkevich Alexander Valentinovich, colonel, 1956, Slutsky district, village of Pader
278. Urbanovich Viktor Bronislavovich, private, 1961, Slutsk
279. Fedorov Alexander Alexandrovich, major, 1956, Slutsk
280. Fedorov Alexander Efremovich, major, 1949, Slutsk
281. Fedorovich Grigory Vladimirovich, private, 1964, Slutsk
282. Finot Nikolai Fedorovich, senior warrant officer, 1956, Slutsk
283. Frantskevich Vladimir Nikolaevich, private, 1967, Slutsky district, Oktyabr village
284. Tsimbalov Valery Vasilyevich, major, 1953, Slutsk
285. Chalevich Valentin Nikolaevich, senior warrant officer, 1957, Slutsk
286. Chelyubeev Gennady Alexandrovich, senior warrant officer, 1950, Slutsk
287. Chernitsky Yuri Sergeevich, foreman, 1964, Slutsky district, village of Gatsuk
288. Chesalov Andrey Borisovich, private, 1965, Slutsk
289. Chizh Nikolai Nikolaevich, major, 1959, Slutsk
290. Chizhik Alexander Viktorovich, private, 1967, Slutsky district, village B. Plum
291. Shalaev Sergey Andreevich, senior warrant officer, 1959, Slutsk
292. Sharupich Valery Lvovich, major, 1952, Slutsk
293. Shevelev Pyotr Nikolaevich, major, 1948, Slutsk
294. Shevchik Nikolai Nikolaevich, senior sergeant, 1963, Slutsk
295. Shevchuk Valery Vladimirovich, senior warrant officer, 1956, Slutsk
296. Sheiko Nikolai Viktorovich, senior warrant officer, 1957, Slutsky district, village of Yachevo
297. Shestoperov Sergey Nikolaevich, corporal, 1969, Slutsk
298. Shestyuk Viktor Ivanovich, senior lieutenant, 1961, Slutsk
299. Shilovich Nikolai Grigorievich, lieutenant colonel, 1947, Slutsky district, village of Lesuny
300. Shilovich Yuri Mikhailovich, private, 1969, Slutsky district, village of Mikheyki
301. Shimansky Gennady Anatolyevich, private, 1962, Slutsk
302. Shirin Nikolai Nikolaevich, private, 1961, Slutsky district, village of Bolotchitsy
303. Shishko Sergey Mikhailovich, private, 1969, Slutsky district, village of Tiraspol
304. Shmakov Viktor Alexandrovich, ensign, 1957, Slutsky district, village of Tnezhitsy
305. Shmatok Anatoly Ivanovich, lieutenant colonel, 1959, Slutsk
306. Shtykhno Sergey Fedorovich, lieutenant colonel, 1959, Slutsk
307. Shumitsky Alexey Alekseevich, major, 1959, Slutsk
308. Shaev Vasily Leonidovich, major, 1946, Slutsk
309. Clicker Vasily Viktorovich, private, 1965, Slutsk
310. Schepanov Gennady Ivanovich, junior sergeant, 1967, Slutsky district, d. B. Plum
311. Shcherbitsky Sergey Ivanovich, junior sergeant, 1964, Slutsk
312. Yurchenko Dmitry Yuryevich, private, 1965, Slutsk
313. Yakimovich Vladimir Nikolaevich, sergeant, 1957, Slutsk
314. Yakimovich Vyacheslav Yakovlevich, private, 1968, Slutsky district, d. B. Plum
315. Yanovich Mikhail Vladimirovich, senior warrant officer, 1948, Slutsk
316. Yantsevich Vladimir Alexandrovich, foreman, 1969, Slutsk
317. Yarkin Vladimir Severyanovich, major, 1954, Slutsk

Other countries
(last name, first name, patronymic, country, year of birth, place of residence)

1. Gaev Anatoly Dmitrievich, Bangladesh, 1944, Slutsk
2. Gnetnev Alexey Filippovich, Egypt, 1938, Slutsk
3. Gomolko Leonid Romanovich, Angola, 1954, Slutsk
4. Preparer Vyacheslav Grigorievich, Egypt, 1951, Slutsk
5. Makarenya Vladimir Alexandrovich, Egypt, 1953, Slutsk
6. Martynenko Nikolai Markovich, Syria, 1939, Slutsk
7. Mitskevich Ivan Viktorovich, Egypt, 1952, Slutsk
8. Mukhin Gennady Alexandrovich, Syria, 1938, Slutsk
9. Popov Valery Borisovich, Egypt, 1947, Slutsk
10. Semenovich Anatoly Semyonovich, Egypt, 1953, Slutsky district, Lyadno village
11. Tokmakov Stanislav Nikolaevich, Syria, 1953, Slutsk

List of workers and employees sent to the DRA by military commissariats
(last name, first name, patronymic, year of birth, place of residence)

1. Bachko Elena Petrovna, 1960, Slutsk
2. Borovleva Marina Ivanovna, 1959, Slutsk
3. Koipysh Svetlana Vasilievna, 1964, Pokrashevo
4. Malyk Nadezhda Petrovna, 1954, Slutsk
5. Stasyuk Svetlana Ivanovna, 1964, Slutsk

To the attention of the soldiers of the internationalists. The lists are published for the convenience of finding fellow soldiers through search engines. If for some reason you do not want information about you to be available on our website, please let us know in any convenient way.

The lists were provided by the chairman of the regional organization of the public association "Belarusian Union of Veterans of the War in Afghanistan" Vasily Dmitrievich Belousov.

"Everyone knows you and asks you to give Cherginets!"

Nikolai Cherginets, chairman of the Union of Writers of Belarus, came to Afghanistan in June 1984. He worked in Kabul as a senior adviser for the Ministry of Internal Affairs and was responsible for the security of the city. “Afghanistan forced us to look at the life and actions of people differently, more fundamentally. Therefore, we often had to enter into conflicts even with officials. Especially those who went through Afghanistan, but overestimate their “I” too much,” he says.

In Kabul, I was offered a five-room apartment in an old neighborhood. Refused. Most of the Soviet and party leaders lived there. Since I provided security and wanted to set an example, I moved to a new microdistrict, where there was not a single Soviet one. He asked for a two-room apartment. The apartments there are like that - painted concrete floors, iron furniture ... When there is a power outage, the water is turned off. Therefore, always a bath, some cisterns, bottles filled with water in reserve.

Streets there without drains. Imagine a man selling tomatoes, it's hot, he's getting a bucket of water from the drain, where even dead rats are swimming, and "woo!" for tomatoes ... So they acquired a presentation.

The meat in the market was covered with flies. Our women fainted from fear. But I had to buy, soak in potassium permanganate, and then cook. Fruits were also washed with laundry soap.

In 1985, my wife and daughter came to Kabul. Daughter through the whole of Kabul went to school in the embassy in a minibus, which was overlaid with bulletproof vests. There were guards on the bus - one or two submachine gunners. If everything is fine, then it took 40 minutes to get to school. If shelling began, then the route was changed and more time was spent on the road.

In Kabul, there was a mess on the streets, no one followed any rules: people were running under the hood, cars were honking. In order to somehow streamline this, 11 traffic lights were installed in the city center and vigilantes were brought in. They let people through at intersections.

I remember a case when there was a battle at night on the outskirts of Kabul. I gave the command to go there along seven streets so that there would be no crowds. But the commander led them all in one column. The tank got stuck, a shootout began. While they came to help, 30 people were already taken prisoner and about 80 people died. I got this commander removed, and in the end he tried to poison me. Afghans are unique specialists in poisons. They can make a poison that will kill you in an hour or a month or a year. He put poison in my barbecue. And no one would have saved, if not for the case. At this time, a team from the Leningrad hospital arrived in Kabul to work in the search for an antidote. I was the first one they saved.

After returning home from Afghanistan, many are rushing back. I remember three of our soldiers sitting in my office. Suddenly, the Minister of Internal Affairs of the USSR calls me and asks if I would go to Afghanistan again. Like, everyone knows you and asks you to give Cherginets. He hung up. And the soldiers say: "Nikolai Ivanovich, take us with you!" Does something magical with the people of Afghanistan.

"We thought it was a helicopter with water, but we were dropped leaflets by May 1"

Sergei Rozhkov, director of the ArtPanno company, came to Afghanistan in 1988. He says that he went to war, like everyone else. "There was a call, three months of training - and sent," - says Sergei. It should be noted that he himself, like many others, wrote a statement that he wants to go to Afghanistan. "All in their mass argued: for the Motherland!" he notes.

I served in a motorized maneuver group as a soldier. There is such concept - "on a point". This is a place equipped in the mountains, which we have built for ourselves. They lived in dugouts, dugouts. What is a barracks, I do not know.

When we arrived there, we had dinner, and the guys who served there asked what we were shooting with.

From a machine gun, a grenade launcher, - we say.

That evening they let us shoot with all the weapons that were available.

I remember when you were guarding yourself at night, taking a box of cartridges and grenades, standing at your post and shooting so that, God forbid, someone would not come up to you.

Somehow, rumors came that they wanted to attack us. There weren't many people, so we pretended to be very active. We made several improvised cannons out of cardboard, actively moved around: someone enters the tent, immediately leaves ...

I remember on May 1 we were landed between the bandits and the local authorities. Our task was to deter the attacks of one on the other. We were left with virtually no provisions and no water at all. A helicopter came and we thought it brought water. And he dropped a box of leaflets with congratulations on May 1 and wishes for success in the service. But in the end we dug a well for ourselves and found water.

It seems to me that at that stage in my life, this experience was useful for me. Then I really, as in old films about the Patriotic War, reasoned: "Well, they will kill me, well, what, I will die for the Motherland. I only feel sorry for my parents." I don't have that feeling now.

"He built two baths and forced the officers to bathe twice a week!"

Stanislav Knyazev, Doctor of Law, Professor, Rector of the International University "MITSO", fought from 1984 to 1986 as part of the 201st motorized rifle division, which was based in Kunduz. He was a lieutenant colonel, headed military counterintelligence. The picture that Afghanistan met was shelling at the airport. "Fortunately, he was not wounded," he says after a pause. "Although he fell from a helicopter."

I remember how just a few minutes ago I flew to Kunduz airport. The general called me and asked me to report the situation.

So I just arrived! - I say.

And who will give you time to think in a war?

This is how the war in Afghanistan met me. We were all young and dashing back then. They lived in tents, plywood barracks, dugouts…

I remember the case when our father and son served in different divisions. The father returned to his homeland, but the son remained. They decided to meet and say goodbye. They were driving in an armored personnel carrier, and some Afghan shot them. Indeed, in Afghanistan, as a rule, they rode on the armor itself. So it was more likely to survive. If a person was inside the conveyor, then after the explosion, a mess remained from him.

In Afghanistan, typhoid and hepatitis are common, and hygiene is difficult. In order not to get sick, you need to change your underwear more often and take a steam bath. Therefore, the first thing he did was to build two baths together with the soldiers. Bricks were made from clay, straw and grass, the walls of the bath were made from them, they were covered with oilcloth on top and covered with clay. One bathhouse was built for about a month. Sometimes steamed sheets. You climb onto the shelves, pinch one edge of the sheet, and inspire heat with the other. Then familiar pilots brought us eucalyptus brooms. It's actually a dream! After all, eucalyptus is the only tree in which insects are not found. He forced his officers to bathe twice a week. But then I had five times less people hurt.

Wealthy locals had swimming pools - they bathed there. The poor are in the rivers. Therefore, when an Afghan approached, a change in the microclimate was immediately felt ... Such smells ...

The first time I returned home, I walked around all the bushes - there was a feeling that a person with a knife or a machine gun was sitting behind them. A lot has changed in me since the war. The overestimation of the very importance of life was serious. You realize how good it is to just live. You begin to notice each leaf, and how a ray of sunlight pierces it.

As a participant in the war, I had some benefits, but I never used them. For example, he could go to a sanatorium for free once a year, but there was no time. I was on vacation for ten days in total. If you are responsible for your work, then you are all in it. It cannot be left. It’s like you can’t leave a beloved woman for a long time - they will seduce you.

"Life in the country is improving, while the number of Afghans and social guarantees is decreasing"

Alexander Metla, director of the "Memory of Afghan" Charitable Foundation for Assistance to Internationalist Soldiers, came to Afghanistan in 1987. He served as an officer in the city of Gardez. He is convinced that war does not make anyone worse or better. The biggest reward for him is that he survived.

When you remember Afghanistan, you don't understand the young officers, for whom the transition from Brest to Baranovichi is already a tragedy. We didn't ask questions back then, we went where they told us to go.

They ate simple food. In the morning - white fish, in the evening - red fish. But in fact it was sprat in tomato sauce or canned food in oil. Sometimes potatoes were brought from the USSR in jars peeled in water. It was a good potato, not a concentrate, which is like glue.

There were problems with water. The water there was all contagious for our man. Afghans, when they drank it, everything is fine. And ours have hepatitis or typhoid. Imagine a stream flowing - someone washes there, someone takes water for tea, someone washes their feet. Therefore, the water was heavily chlorinated. I ate so much bleach during that time!

There was a situation when they came under fire. We lie on the ground, the shells burst, fall nearby, but you can’t do anything, you won’t dig into the ground. We lie and joke: mine flew in, mine didn’t fly, the captain says: “But mine hit.” Look, his hand is broken ...

Afghans come to our foundation with problems ranging from everyday ones to those that we are sometimes unable to solve. Periodically, they call and complain, including about benefits for Afghans. It seems that life in the country is improving, and the number of Afghans and social guarantees is decreasing. But we, unfortunately, cannot answer some questions, because they are within the competence of the government, parliament.

A quarter of a century ago - on May 15, 1988 - scorched by the sun of Afghanistan, hardened in battles and bitter with the pain of losses, they began to return home. To a completely different country. They were called to exploits by a great power, and their stepmother accepted them.

771 Belarusians and residents of the republic paid with their lives for a peaceful sky over Afghanistan, which, alas, is still not such. Together with the Belarusians, the inhabitants of other republics of the then united country shed blood. 10 days after the start of the withdrawal of troops, official data on the losses of the USSR first appeared in the Soviet press. After 6 years, they were clarified: 14,453 dead, 49,983 wounded, 6,669 disabled, 330 missing. Even later, in a study of the Afghan war conducted by officers of the General Staff under the guidance of Professor Valentin Runov, it was already said about 26 thousand dead, including those who died from wounds and diseases.

Economic losses were also huge: about $800 million was spent annually from the USSR budget to support the Kabul government, and about $3 billion to maintain the 40th Army and conduct combat operations.

In total, for the period from December 25, 1979 (the beginning of the entry of Soviet troops) to February 15, 1989 (the date of the final withdrawal), 620 thousand Soviet military personnel served in Afghanistan, of which 525 thousand were in formations and units of the Soviet Army, in border and other units of the KGB of the USSR - 90 thousand, in the internal troops of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs - 5 thousand people.

Island of tears

There is a special and very beautiful place in the corner of old Minsk - a small island in the bend of the Svisloch River near the Trinity Suburb. Here, in August 1986, a memorial complex was opened, the center of which was the monument "To the Sons of the Fatherland who died outside of it." Inside the monument there are four altars carved with the names of the dead Belarusians - "Afghans". Among them are two names of the Heroes of the Soviet Union - an ordinary machine gunner Andrei Melnikov from Mogilev, who died heroically while defending a height, and the commander of a sapper unit, senior sergeant Nikolai Chepik from the Pukhovichi district, who blew himself up with a grenade, blocking the road to dushmans. When visiting the memorial, relatives and friends of the victims can place a lighted candle near each surname.

The official name of the complex is the Island of Courage and Sorrow, but another one has taken root among the people - the Island of Tears. Solemn events are held here, as a rule, twice a year - on December 27 and February 15. But on other days people come here to, surrounded by willows that shed tears in the quiet Svisloch, to honor the memory of all those who died and survived in that war.

My old friend Pavel Tsupik, who lives in Russia, published a complete list of the fallen in the Republic of Belarus. The work has been going on for several years, but there is still work to be done.

Come, see, study. The author of the list appeals to all those who are not indifferent: if there is any information on the dead that is not presented on the site, be sure to contact him. By clicking on the link Surname Name Patronymic, after the information about the person you will see Paul's email address, clicking on which will create a topic with the already registered full name.

Or write me an e-mail: [email protected]

About the author Mikhail Tarasov

Belarusian lieutenant Sergei Anisko at the age of 22 became perhaps the youngest company commander in the Afghan war. On the eve of the 25th anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan, he told Komsomolskaya Pravda what helped to survive and how the motherland welcomed the dead

Photo: Victor GILITSKY

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In the Afghan war, which lasted almost 10 years (1979-1989), more than 15 thousand Soviet soldiers died. Young guys went to "fulfill their international duty", and their bodies were returned to their homeland without much publicity.

Yes, at the beginning of the war, bad news from Afghanistan was banned. When the body of 19-year-old Belarusian Seryozha Gribko - the guy died in battle from a direct shot in the heart - was brought to his native village of Dubniki, Chervensky district, officials from the district committee of the party came to his relatives.

Warn them not to make a demonstration out of the funeral and in no case mention the word "Afghanistan" on the nameplate of the future pedestal. Then it was all hidden.

But Sergey's mother still ordered an inscription for her son: they say, just try to touch, then stand this monument at the district committee of the party! ..

Such an indication was throughout the Union. It was impossible to write "He died in the line of international duty."

Today Serezha's name is engraved in the Chapel on the Island of Tears, his name is also in the book of memory. Sergei Gribko was posthumously awarded the Order of the Red Star.

“In Afghanistan, I received twice as much as the secretary of the district party committee”

Of course, they were afraid of where to go from fear? At the beginning of the fight, my left knee always trembled. As once before entering the ring, I was engaged in boxing.

But if in the ring - how it will turn out, then in the war, it seemed, the main thing is not to disgrace yourself, you are an officer! ..

We had a battalion of various calibers, there were only eight Belarusians, ours were always ready to help.

The orderly officer of the company, Yura Smolensky, in addition to his duties as a paramedic, poked around in cars, helped fix them, and sometimes even got behind the wheel. And sheared half a battalion. I think the willingness to help is in the genes of Belarusians.

Others - Kazakhs, Uzbeks, Tajiks - reacted differently, holding on to their diasporas.

I remember there was only one Estonian. When he had a month left before demobilization, he, as part of a column, was ambushed, there was a fierce battle. Then he came up to me and asked: “Comrade Lieutenant, do not send me any more, I am afraid that I will perish in the last days!”

Asking not to be sent into battle was considered shameful. But I understood him and appointed him on duty at the checkpoint for a month. Moreover, in two years in the DRA, he fulfilled his duty to the USSR even with a makeweight.

- In the war, many were frightened by the premonition of death?

It was so. On December 18, 1983, I led a column out of the settlement of Puli-Khumri. There was also a saying: "If you want to live in dust, go to Puli-Khumri." The dust is knee-deep there, you can smell it, hear its champing. The British Expeditionary Brigade died there from hepatitis.

Before leaving, I formed a company, and scolded one soldier with a dirty collar: “How can you, even in the tsarist army, soldiers dressed in everything clean before the battle!”

And he told me - his commander! - for no reason at all: “What difference does it make how to die: clean or dirty? ..”

He, the kid, as luck would have it, on that day - his birthday - is 19 years old. “Okay, I say, then wash off!” - congratulated him before the formation of the company and drove off.

We go out onto the highway, we drive five kilometers, the shelling begins. And that soldier at full speed jumps out of the cab of an uncontrolled car and falls with his chest directly onto the iron crane of a huge pipe lying in a ditch.

When we picked him up, he let out his last breath. So I didn’t have time to wash my collar ...

I became a company commander just a year after graduating from a military school. My company was called Chinese - 150 people, in an ordinary automobile company - no more than 120.

But I was comfortable leading a large team in wartime conditions. Then there was no whimpering or disobedience. What machismo?

If someone did not follow the order, I was obliged to achieve its execution up to the use of weapons. Before that, thank God, it did not come, but my political officer once imitated execution.

Two old-timers who sold sugar, condensed milk and stew from a common boiler to the Afghans for moonshine. Sharop - Afghans sold it right in plastic bags. And those idiots were drinking.

Idiots - because the Afghans sometimes poured poison into moonshine, and ours went blind.

At that time, the products were sold, and the convoy was on the road for another three days - there was nothing to eat! And the political officer put them to the duval (fence. - Ed.). He lined up a company nearby and read out his own order: they say, these bastards left their comrades hungry, so I sentence them ... to be shot!

And gave a turn. over their heads. The lesson was remembered by everyone who was there ...

Iniquity? Yes. For which the political officer suffered a severe punishment.

I also got it, although I was at that time in Kabul. Not the most pleasant facts of that war, but they cannot be erased from memory and history.

- I know that during the Afghan war your son was born.

Yes, that day is forever etched in my memory. I remember that my convoy was going to Kabul, in the Tashkurgan region, our other convoy was meeting. From there they shout: “Tova-arish lieutenant, someone was born with you!” "Who?!" - yell that there is urine. “Yes, I don’t know, maybe at the end of the column, who knows ...”

And I give the command: “Ta-a-ak! Pull over to the parking lot!"

And there is the very place for a combat pause: a huge parking lot, two small radon lakes and a former hotel in which, after a brothel, our motorized rifle company was stationed.

I stop the column, and they finally tell me: “Your son was born!”

He gathered officers and ensigns, raised mugs, as is customary among the Slavs, with vodka ...

- Where is the vodka from?

How from where? Bought in the Soviet Union! After all, I crossed the state border with my company column three or four times a month.

We had plenty of money, there was even such a saying: money is tight on the thigh.

In Afghanistan, I received three front-line salaries, by the standards of the Soviet Union, twice as much as the secretary of the district committee - 750 rubles a month, part of it in foreign currency, by checks. And they gave in cash, and on a passbook.

In short, then they walked notably, they even staged a salute from ZSU-23 anti-aircraft guns.

- And they say that holidays do not count in war ...

It's like when. For example, on the eve of each New Year, all officers were usually lined up: “Comrade officers, remember - no shooting at midnight - no salutes, no rockets! - It's clear?!" "Yes sir!"

And at 24.00, the cheered brigade commander and all his deputies went out and let's shoot into the sky. At this point, everyone else picked up the baton.

When tracer bullets were fired from a large-caliber machine gun, the word "New Year!" lit up in the sky over Kabul.

I spent a year in Afghanistan before my vacation. I remember the first feeling - interesting! Romance, in a word. And the country is beautiful, and the people are hardworking, and at first they treated us friendly.

And it seemed that it was we who were saving this country from "the insidious tentacles of NATO"...

And on the eve of the vacation, I led the convoy to Kabul, exhaled: that's it, I'm flying away to my wife, I will see my son Maxim for the first time!

And the battalion commander says: “Sergey, it won’t work, your convoy was redirected, it needs to be led to Jalalabad.”

And this is another 200 kilometers, then they still said: “If you want a bullet in the ass, go to Jalalabad!” I understood that this place was a dead place, anything could happen.

All these throwings were probably reflected on my face, and the battalion commander waved his hand: “Okay, Seryoga, that's it - you are free, another will lead, and you fly away to your wife. Deserved!

Later I often recalled that incident: maybe that saved me? All my life I have been grateful to the battalion commander Kochergin.

“They exchanged potatoes for silk scarves”

In Afghanistan, he became friends with the head of the medical service of the battalion. He taught: so that in those conditions I would not go down, not get sick with hepatitis, typhoid or malaria - every evening I ate an onion and sometimes drank 50 grams of medical alcohol for prevention. Army vitamins ate handfuls. But they tried not to abuse alcohol. Although, sometimes there was no other way out.

Once our column was covered up on the pass: four cars were cut off by an avalanche. We did not know in how many days they would break through to us. For eight - a bag of crackers, three boxes of oranges and a five-liter canister of alcohol.

To save diesel fuel, all the cars did not start, but warmed up in turn in my Kamaz. I poured half a glass of alcohol for each for internal warming and rubbing, gave out crackers and an orange. Oranges in Afghanistan got so drunk that I still can’t look at them.

And how we missed potato pancakes! We also had a Belarusian cook in the officer's canteen, from the Gomel region, cook - I don't want to! But a good potato in Afghanistan was worth its weight in gold, not to be found during the day with fire.

Everything was there: watermelons, pineapples, oranges, Finnish salami, even kangaroo carcasses from New Zealand. And there were no potatoes (ours, crumbly!) More often dry potato powder, which was poured with water and diluted with liquid, such as mashed potatoes.

For potato pancakes, we in Termez (a regional center in Uzbekistan. - Ed.) We got potatoes on the basis of blat at the base in Uch-Kizil .. We exchanged for scarce Chinese silk scarves, which cost a penny in Afghanistan, and in Soviet Uzbekistan - 60 rubles - a month nurse's salary.

I remember the first time we went to the Union, I did not yet know how valuable these scarves were. We go through customs, enter Termez, and around - women, children - everyone is screaming and waving!

I straightened my shoulders, well, I think the heroes are met, we are internationalists! And I joyfully say to the driver: “Look how they meet us! .. And what are they shouting?” And from the window I hear: “Plyatki, platyki come on! ..”

I think, well, your mother, those are the hero (laughs)!

- Did you believe in omens?

They often looked at my car in bewilderment, but I had a number - “13-13 LZ”

I chose it myself, 13 is my favorite number, so I took it off the previously damaged car of my company. I drove with this number for about a year - only one bullet hole appeared in the back.

And once in a shot MAZ I counted 97 holes. Then two of our guys died. And because of that MAZ, I received the first party penalty.

At that time it was forbidden to drive in one car, and a truck was assigned to our convoy, which was supposed to bring a concrete mixer.

The head of the car - captain Lyutenko - did not heed the lieutenant's ban and, taking advantage of my being in a closure, rushed to Kabul on his own. He was waiting there for a replacement in the Union.

Already when they climbed the Salang pass, they found out that their car had been shot near the village of Jabal-uzh-Saraj.

And on the dashboard of the MAZ lay an unfinished letter home from the driver Martynenko. On a piece of paper - his bloody five, right under the text: “Mom, I can’t believe that in 10 days I will be at home ...”

“More than 60 officers landed in the USSR, but did not get home”

- Then what did the communists believe in the war?

In that war, we all seemed to be atheists. But only at the beginning - the war quickly made me believe in heavenly values. It turned out that many had crosses, and icons, and amulets. I didn’t have a cross: as I am an officer, a communist, I will take it through customs - it’s a shame!

But over the left shoulder before the battle, he always spat three times and tapped on the wooden butt of the machine gun.

Turn away - cross yourself and forward to the mines - the war has begun!

But I saw my soldiers when they washed - many had crosses, they were given mothers on the road. The Muslim fighters, respectively, have rosaries and notes with quotes from the Koran. Many as amulets hung around the neck bullets in the form of key chains. But the main amulets are photographs of loved ones and relatives.

And after my vacation from Belarus, I brought the icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker with me - a gift from the late mother-in-law, from the Zhirovichi Monastery. Helped, didn’t help - I don’t know, but it definitely calmed the soul!

But it was not the war that impressed me more, but the tragic moments of that time, not related to the war. Few people know about them now. I myself found out only when I was already working in the Special Department of the KGB.

Most of the officers of that war returned from Afghanistan to the Union by transport aircraft to the Uzbek Tuzel airfield. It is located far beyond Tashkent, there was no regular bus service as such.

Here, local taxi drivers, having heard the rumble of landing planes, like kites, gathered at the airfield to take officers to the Tashkent airport. So everyone thought...

The officers returned to the Union "packed": they brought home currency, Japanese equipment, branded clothes.

It turned out that more than 60 Soviet officers and ensigns who landed in the Union did not get home. They went through the war, survived, but they were torn to pieces by their own, killing and robbing. So the big question is: who are ours, and who are strangers, and where exactly the war begins and ends ...