Born on June 24, 1966 in the regional center of the Donetsk region of Ukraine, the city of Donetsk, in a working class family.
From the fourth to the eighth grade I studied at a boarding school.
From 1982 to 1985 he studied at the Donetsk Construction Vocational School. After graduation, he worked as a fitter-assembler of metal structures at one of the factories in Donetsk.
Since October 1985 in the ranks of the Soviet Army. Served as part of a limited contingent Soviet troops in Afghanistan. Participated in 15 combat exits.
February 28, 1986, participating in a battle with superior forces enemy, 80 kilometers east of Kandahar, the senior reconnaissance grenade launcher, being seriously wounded, continued to fire. At the critical moment of the battle, the brave warrior, at the cost of his life, covered the company commander from enemy bullets and saved his life. He died on the battlefield from his wounds.
GOROSHKO Yaroslav Pavlovich
Born on October 4, 1957 in the village of Borschevka, Lanovetsky district, Ternopil region of Ukraine, in a working class family.
In 1974 he graduated from 10 classes, worked at an electrical repair plant.
Since 1976 - in the Soviet Army.
In 1981 he graduated from the Khmelnitsky Higher Military Artillery Command School.
From September 1981 to November 1983 he served in Afghanistan as commander of a mortar platoon and an air assault company.
After returning to the USSR, he served in one of the special forces formations.
In 1986, at his personal request, he was sent to Afghanistan.
On October 31, 1987, a group under his command departed to help the group of Senior Lieutenant Onishchuk O.P. As a result of the battle, 18 Mujahideen were destroyed. Scouts from the Goroshko Ya.P. picked up the bodies of the dead scouts from the group of O.P. Onishchuk. and under enemy fire carried them to the place of evacuation.
In 1988 he became a student of the Military Academy named after M.V. Frunze, and at the end of it he continued to serve as deputy commander of the 8th separate special forces brigade, stationed in the city of Izyaslav, Khmelnytsky region of Ukraine.
After the collapse of the USSR since 1992, Ya.P. Goroshko stood at the origins of the creation of military intelligence of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Served in the 1464th regiment special purpose Black Sea Fleet of Ukraine.
ISLAMOV Yuri Verikovich
Born on April 5, 1968 in the village of Arslanbob, Bazar-Korgon district, Osh region, Kyrgyzstan, in the family of a forester.
After graduation elementary school moved to the city of Talitsa Sverdlovsk region, where in 1985 he graduated from 10 classes.
In 1986 he graduated from the 1st year of the Sverdlovsk Forestry Institute and completed a course in the parachute section.
Since October 1986 in the Soviet Army.
From May 1987, he served as part of a limited contingent of Soviet troops in Afghanistan as a squad leader in one of the special forces units.
On October 31, 1987, the group in which he was engaged engaged in battle with superior enemy forces near the village of Duri in the province of Zabol, near the border with Pakistan. Voluntarily volunteered to cover the retreat of his comrades. During the battle he was wounded twice. Despite this, he continued to fight until the last bullet. Engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy and blew himself up along with six Mujahideen.
KOLESNIK Vasily Vasilievich
Born on December 13, 1935 in the village of Slavyanskaya (now the city of Slavyansk-on-Kuban) of the Slavyansk region Krasnodar Territory in the family of employees - the chief agronomist and teacher (she taught Russian language and literature). My father studied rice growing in China and Korea for more than five years. Fluent in Chinese and Korean. In 1934, after completing his studies abroad, he began breaking the first checks for rice cultivation in the Kuban.
In 1939, my father was sent to work in Ukraine, in the Mirgorod district of the Poltava region, to organize the cultivation of rice. Here the family was caught in the war. Father and mother went to the partisan detachment, leaving four children in the arms of grandparents.
On November 6, 1941, having come to the village to the children, the parents and another partisan were betrayed by a traitor and fell into the hands of the Germans. The next day they were shot in front of the children. Four children were left in the care of their grandparents. In the occupation, the family survived thanks to the grandmother, who was well versed in traditional medicine and treated the villagers. People paid for her services with products.
In 1943, when the Mirgorod region was liberated, the two sisters Vasily were taken in by their mother's middle sister, and little Vasya and his brother were taken by the younger one. The sister's husband was the deputy head of the Armavir flight school. In 1944 he was transferred to Maikop.
In 1945 he entered the Krasnodar Suvorov military school(Maikop), and graduated from the Caucasian Suvorov Military School in 1953 (transferred to the city of Ordzhonikidze in 1947).
In 1956, after graduating from the Caucasian Red Banner Suvorov Officers' School, he connected his fate with the special forces. He served as commander of the 1st (reconnaissance) platoon of the 92nd separate special forces company of the 25th Army (Far Eastern Military District), company commander of the 27th separate special forces battalion in Poland (Northern Group of Forces).
In 1966, after graduating from the Academy. M.V. Frunze, successively held the positions of head of intelligence of the brigade, head of the operational intelligence department and chief of staff of the brigade (Far Eastern Military District, Turkestan Military District).
Since 1975, he was the commander of a special forces brigade, and subsequently served in the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR.
With the introduction of a limited contingent of Soviet troops into Afghanistan in 1979, it was in the combat area. On December 27, 1979, a battalion with a staff strength of more than 500 people, formed and trained by him under a special program, took a direct part in the assault on Amin's palace. Despite the five-fold numerical superiority of the palace guard brigade, the battalion under the command of V.V. Kolesnik captured the palace in just 15 minutes. For the preparation and exemplary performance of a special task - the operation "Storm-333" - and the courage and courage shown at the same time by the Decree of the Presidium Supreme Council USSR dated April 28, 1980, he, one of the first "Afghans", was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. He was awarded the Orders of Lenin, "For Service to the Motherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" 3rd degree, medals, as well as the Order of the Red Banner and two medals of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. He had 349 parachute jumps to his credit.
In 1982 he graduated from the Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR. Under the leadership of V.V. Kolesnik consistently and purposefully improved the organizational structure and the system of combat training of military units and special forces.
Being in reserve, last days life was chairman of the Council of Special Forces Veterans. hosted Active participation in business patriotic education Suvorov students of the newly created North Caucasian Suvorov Military School in the city of Vladikavkaz.
KUZNETSOV Nikolai Anatolievich
Born on June 29, 1962 in the village of 1st Piterka, Morshansky District, Tambov Region. With a four-year-old sister, after the death of their parents, they remained in the upbringing of their grandmother.
In 1976 he entered the Leningrad Suvorov Military School.
In 1979 he graduated from college with a commendable diploma.
In 1983 he graduated from the Higher Combined Arms Command School. Kirov with a gold medal.
After graduating from college, Lieutenant N. Kuznetsov was sent to the airborne division in the city of Pskov as commander of a special forces group. He repeatedly asked to be sent to a limited contingent of Soviet troops in Afghanistan.
In 1984 he was sent to Afghanistan.
On April 23, 1985, a platoon of Lieutenant Kuznetsov N.A. received the task - as part of a company to reconnoiter the location and destroy a gang of Mujahideen, who settled in one of the villages of the Kunar province.
In the course of carrying out the assigned task, the platoon of Lieutenant Kuznetsov was cut off from the main forces of the company. A fight ensued. Having ordered the platoon to break through to their own, Lieutenant Kuznetsov N.A. together with the rear patrol remained to ensure the withdrawal. Left alone with the dushmans, Lieutenant Kuznetsov N.A. fought to the last bullet. With the last, sixth grenade, letting the dushmans come closer, Lieutenant N. Kuznetsov blew them up along with him.
MIROLYUBOV Yuri Nikolaevich
Born on May 8, 1967 in the village of Ryadovichi, Shablykinsky District, Oryol Region, into a peasant family.
In 1984 he graduated from high school in the village of Chistopolsky, Saratov Region, worked as a driver at the Krasnoe Znamya state farm in the Krasnopartizansky district.
In the Soviet Army since autumn 1985. He served as part of a limited contingent of Soviet troops in Afghanistan. He took part in many military operations; was wounded in one of the battles, but remained in the ranks, successfully completing a combat mission.
During the performance of combat missions, he destroyed ten Mujahideen.
In one of the battles, risking his life, he carried out the wounded chief of staff of one of the special forces units from under enemy fire.
In one of the combat exits, he made a detour of the enemy caravan and thereby cut off the escape route. During the ensuing battle, he replaced the wounded machine gunner, suppressed the resistance of the Mujahideen with fire.
In 1987 he was demobilized. He worked as a driver on a farm. Lived in the village of Chistopolsky, Krasnopartizansky district, Saratov region.
ONISCHUK Oleg Petrovich
Born on August 12, 1961 in the village of Putrintsy, Izyaslavsky district, Khmelnitsky region of Ukraine, in a working class family.
Graduated from 10 classes.
Since 1978 - in the Soviet Army.
In 1982 he graduated from the Kiev Higher Combined Arms Command School named after M.V. Frunze.
Since April 1987 - in Afghanistan.
“Deputy company commander, candidate member of the CPSU, Senior Lieutenant Oleg Onishchuk, heading a reconnaissance group, successfully completing missions to provide international assistance to the Republic of Afghanistan, showing courage and heroism, died a heroic death in battle on October 31, 1987 near the village of Duri in the province of Zabol, near the border with Pakistan…” is the official description of the cause of his death.
Everything in life was more difficult. The group of Oleg Onischuk sat in ambush for several days - they were waiting for the caravan. Finally, late in the evening of October 30, 1987, three cars appeared. The driver of the first was eliminated by the group commander from a distance of 700 meters, the other two cars disappeared. The escort and cover group of the caravan, which tried to recapture the car, was dispersed with the help of two Mi-24 helicopters that arrived. At half past five in the morning on October 31, in violation of the order of the command, Oleg Onishchuk decided on his own, without waiting for the arrival of helicopters with an inspection team, to inspect the truck. At six in the morning, he, along with part of the group, went out to the truck and was attacked by more than two hundred Mujahideen. According to the testimony of the special forces who survived that battle, the "inspection" group died within fifteen minutes. It is impossible to fight in an open area against an anti-aircraft gun and a heavy machine gun (they were in the village of Dari). According to the hero's colleagues, in that situation, the group had to fight in the early morning, even if Onishchenko had not started to inspect the truck. More than two thousand Mujahideen were deployed in this area. Although the losses would be much less. The main blame for the death of the commandos is laid by their colleagues on the command. An armored group and helicopters were supposed to arrive by six in the morning. The column with equipment did not arrive at all, and the helicopters arrived only at 6:45.
A nineteen-year-old boy from the Ural town of Talitsa, Yuri Islamov, repeated in Afghanistan the feat of his fellow countryman, scout Nikolai Kuznetsov. On October 31, 1987, senior sergeant Islamov, ensuring the withdrawal of his surrounded comrades, blew himself up and a group of dushmans with a grenade. On February 15, on the day of the 25th anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan, Hero of the Soviet Union Yury Islamov was commemorated in Yekaterinburg.
The price of victory
For seven months of service in Afghanistan, Islamov took part in ten successful military exits. The eleventh was the last, tragic ...
On the evening of October 23, a group of senior lieutenant Onishchuk, which included Yuri, was supposed to arrive by Mi-8 helicopter in the area where a caravan with weapons was expected to be delivered to the dushmans from behind the cordon. However, the helicopter, taking off into the air, immediately went to land. There was a problem and the repair was delayed. The group was unable to take off either on 24 or 25 October. Then Onischuk turned to the battalion commander with a request to advance in armored vehicles.
The group successfully reached the caravan trail and took up a position on the hill. Three days patiently waiting for transport, but he did not appear. By order, after three days, the special forces were to return to the location of the unit. But Onischuk convinces the battalion commander to stay for another day. And just on the fourth day, a caravan of three trucks appears on the road. Onischuk decides to attack the first vehicle, a three-axle Mercedes. First, the special forces put the Mujahideen in an all-terrain vehicle, and then destroyed the cover group.
It happened on the evening of October 30, from 20.00 to 21.30. But the "spirits" did not want to give up so easily. From the village of Duri, which was nearby, they began to fire at the group. Moreover, they tried to recapture the Mercedes. Then at 22.30 Onishchuk called on the radio for fire support helicopters - two Mi-24s. They dealt a powerful blow to the dushmans and the village of Duri. It seemed that all the "spirits" were killed.
In theory, at that moment our soldiers should have been taken out on "turntables" to the location of the unit. But the command underestimated the situation, the more night approached, and the decision was postponed until morning.
Around 1 am on October 31, under cover of darkness, Onishchuk with several soldiers made his way to the "Mercedes" and took away part of the trophies. The catch turned out to be rich - recoilless rifles, heavy machine guns, mortars, ammunition.
The special forces decided to make the next trip to the wrecked all-terrain vehicle at dawn. At about 5.45, as soon as Onischuk and the soldiers approached the Mercedes, the dushmans opened heavy fire on them. It turned out that the bandits were hiding very close. At night, they tracked down the special forces and realized that they would return for the rest of the trophies. And they set up an ambush. Moreover, by morning to this place, the commander of the DIRA front - the Movement of the Islamic Revolution of Afghanistan - Mullah Madad, under whose arms there were two and a half thousand militants, managed to pull over a hundred Mujahideen. He was furious that under his nose, near his fortified area, Soviet soldiers behave so freely. And ordered to destroy them.
A fierce battle ensued. Unequal fight. Senior Lieutenant Onishchuk realized that he had to urgently retreat to the hill, but how to do this under a hail of bullets? He leaves Islamov and private Khrolenko at the "Mercedes" for cover, and he himself, with the rest of the fighters, begins to make his way to the saving rocks. But almost immediately, three soldiers are injured, but continue to shoot back. Meanwhile, Islamov and Khrolenko notice that the ring of bandits is shrinking. It seems that their guttural cries of "Allah Akbar" are already heard from all sides. Some daredevils in turbans rush to the attack, but run into long bursts of "Kalash". And then our fighters are covered with a shot from a grenade launcher. Khrolenko dies, and Yuri is wounded. But, bleeding, he continues to scribble from the machine gun.
We ran out of ammo. Yuri began to beat with short bursts. Finally, the machine stopped completely. Dushmans decided: everything, now the fighter is in their hands. They approached with apprehension, stopped, looking at the swarthy, covered in blood and dust, soldier. But Yuri was still alive. Overcoming the pain, he put his hand under him and felt for the grenade. Imperceptibly pulled out the ring with his teeth and again hid the "lemon" under the hem of his pea jacket. I waited for the bandits to come quite close. Now he saw one of them, well-dressed and well-armed, stop a few paces away. Probably the commander of the Mujahideen. “It’s time,” Yuri decided, and pulled out his hand with a grenade from under him ...
19 years old and all my life
The Urals became Yuri's second home. And he was born in Kyrgyzstan. His father is Verik Ergashevich Islamov, a forester of the Arslanbobsky reserve, spread out on the spurs of the Tien Shan. Thanks to his father and grandfather, Yura began to learn about nature from early childhood. At the age of ten, he could already accurately shoot from his father's hunting rifle, "read" the tracks of animals, recognize them by the voices of birds. Yura's mother, Lyubov Ignatievna Koryakina, is a Ural girl from the city of Talitsa, Sverdlovsk Region.
After the end of the fourth grade, the parents seriously thought about the future of their son. In order to get an education, Yuri must go to a good school.
There was only one way out - to send him to the Urals, to his grandmother Agrippina Nikanorovna. Yuri went to the fifth grade already in Talitsa.
It was here that Yura turned from a shy boy into a confident and purposeful young man, he became interested in sports. And, which is not quite typical for a southerner, skiing!
Those who achieve high results in skiing are more industrious than they are able, - says Islamov's coach Alexander Alekseevich Babinov. - Yuri was just very hardworking and stubborn. Physical data - strength, growth - he did not stand out. But endurance - yes, it was.
Few people knew that Yuri kept a kind of diary. But he made notes not about what happened to him, but about what needs to be done, what to achieve. So, once he wrote down: "I undertake to grow by 8 centimeters over the summer." I shared my goal with my grandmother. She just laughed in response. However, later she was amazed at the stubbornness of her grandson: having tied weights to his feet, he hung on the horizontal bar for hours.
Yuri, it seemed, was scheduled not only every day, but his whole life. Here are more lines from his diary: "After school - to enter the Forestry Institute. Then go to my parents. Help them. Protect the forest ..."
Talitsky district is a protected area. Here Yuri first saw the centuries-old pine forests. In those years, a school forestry worked at the local forestry. In one of the letters to his parents, Yuri told with admiration that he had planted dozens of pines, firs and even several cedars with his own hands!
Once in a chest of drawers, Yuri found front-line photographs of his grandfather, Ignatius Nikandrovich Koryakin. Unfortunately, the grandfather did not live to see his grandson appear in his house. Right there, in the chest of drawers, Yura found evidence that his grandfather was awarded the Order of the Red Star, medals "For Courage" and "Defense of Moscow", as well as Thanksgiving letters Supreme Commander. From them it followed that the squad leader, senior sergeant Koryakin, fought bravely, defending Moscow, in battles near the Western Bug River, on the banks of the Vistula, and participated in the battle for Berlin.
The young man deliberately prepared himself for military service. And he soon realized that he was faced with a choice: on the one hand, he wanted to become a forester, and on the other, military service beckoned.
And it was not just a boyish whim. This thought gripped Yuri more and more. Moreover, he already knew for sure that he wanted to serve not just anywhere, but in the Airborne Forces.
In the eighth grade, Yuri, along with his classmates, was summoned to the military registration and enlistment office to pass the registration commission. And then Islamov, a pre-conscript, heard a terrible verdict: "Not fit for service!" This conclusion was made by the doctors, having discovered that he had flat feet.
Probably someone else would be okay with it. But Yuri was not like that. He decided to correct the mistake made by nature: he tore off the heels from the old shoes and nailed them from the inside, right to the insoles, of the new ones. It was uncomfortable to walk, sometimes he rubbed his legs in the blood, but he endured. I attached the same heels to the inside of the sneakers.
It is true what they say: perseverance and work will grind everything. Over time, Yuri managed to form the correct feet, in short, by the age of eighteen, and he eliminated this shortcoming that prevented him from going to the army!
In 1985, Yuri successfully graduated from high school and entered the forest engineering department of the Forestry Engineering Institute. Studying at the university was easy for Islamov. The first session, as well as the second, he passed without any problems. At the same time, he did not forget about sports.
In the winter of 1986, Islamov entered the DOSAAF aviation sports club. Yuri successfully graduated from the DOSAAF school, having received the third category of a skydiver.
And in the fall, Islamov was drafted into the army. He got into the Airborne Forces! And where! From the Urals, he was sent to training not far from his native Kyrgyzstan - in neighboring Uzbekistan, in the city of Chirchik, where special forces soldiers were trained. After graduating, Islamov, as an excellent student in combat and political training, was awarded the rank of junior sergeant and offered to remain an instructor in the training unit. But he refused. I asked the unit commander to be sent to Afghanistan.
Editorial
Unfortunately, today there are those who claim that the war in Afghanistan was in vain, and the heroism of our soldiers and officers, their sacrifices were meaningless. Society is still trying to deprive the past. And the most innocuous explanation for this may be that these people do not know the history of their country. In the conditions of confrontation between the two systems, the leadership of the USSR could not allow the Americans to enter Afghanistan, with which the USSR had too large a border. Our army defended the southern borders of the Fatherland, and Pakistan, which had nuclear weapons, also objectively fell under control.
The USSR in Afghanistan trained and educated a whole generation of Afghan intelligentsia: doctors, engineers, teachers, in fact, created the economy of this country by building 142 large facilities in the republic: schools, kindergartens, hospitals, power plants, gas pipelines, dams, three airports, a polytechnic institute and much more. Many locals still remember with gratitude the years that some call "Soviet occupation".
For our country, the Afghan war, in addition to geopolitical, had another important meaning, which is usually not talked about: in fact, it delayed for decades the influx of Afghan heroin, which today kills twice as many Russians in a year than died in all 10 years of the war, thereby preserving life for a generation - hundreds of thousands of young people.
REN TV: Elena Manikhina
"The blue splashed, splashed, spilled over the vests into the berets." Blue berets, vests, parachutes and the blue sky are all irreplaceable attributes of the fighters who have already become elite troops - the airborne.
August 2 is celebrated as the day of the Airborne Forces throughout Russia. This year, the airborne troops are celebrating their 85th anniversary. Celebrations will be held in all cities of Russia on the day of the Airborne Forces.
In Moscow, the main action will unfold in Gorky Park: concerts, exhibitions, a field kitchen, meetings of former colleagues and, of course, military equipment landing. Celebrations will start from divine liturgy in the temple of Elijah the Prophet at the headquarters of the Airborne Forces and laying flowers at the memorials.
On this day, thousands of men different ages in blue berets, vests and with turquoise flags they will bathe in fountains and remember the army years with colleagues, and we will remember the immortal feats of Russian paratroopers.
Battle of the Pskov paratroopers in the Argun Gorge
Speaking of the exploits of the Russian landing, it is impossible not to recall the incredibly tragic and equally heroic battle of the Pskov paratroopers in the Argun Gorge in Chechnya. On February 29 - March 1, 2000, soldiers of the 6th company of the 2nd battalion of the 104th Guards Airborne Regiment of the Pskov division fought a heavy battle with militants under the command of Khattab at height 776 in the vicinity of the city of Argun in the central part of Chechnya. Two and a half thousand militants were opposed by 90 paratroopers, 84 of whom fell heroically in battle. Only six soldiers survived. The company blocked the way for Chechen fighters who were trying to break through from the Argun Gorge to Dagestan. Information about the death of an entire company for a long time was kept secret.
One can only guess what the soldiers had to endure in this terrible battle. The soldiers blew themselves up, already wounded, they rushed at the militants, not wanting to give up. "It's better to die than to surrender," said the soldiers of the company.
This follows from the protocol records: "When the ammunition ran out, the paratroopers went into hand-to-hand combat and blew themselves up with grenades in a crowd of militants."
One such example is Senior Lieutenant Alexei Vorobyov, who destroyed field commander Idris. Splinters of mines broke Vorobyov's legs, one bullet hit in the stomach, the other in the chest, but he fought to the last. It is known that when the 1st company broke through to the heights on the morning of March 2, the lieutenant's body was still warm.
Our guys paid a big price for the victory, but they managed to stop the enemy, who could not escape from the gorge. Of the 2,500 militants, only 500 survived.
22 fighters of the company received the title of Hero of Russia, 21 of them - posthumously, the rest became holders of the Order of Courage.
Mozhaisk landing
An example of the greatest courage and valor of the Russian landing force is the feat of the Siberian soldiers who died in 1941 near Mozhaisk in an unequal battle with the Nazi troops.
It was the cold winter of 1941. A Soviet pilot on a reconnaissance flight saw that a column of enemy armored vehicles was moving towards Moscow, and there were no detachments or anti-tank weapons on its way. The Soviet command decided to drop troops in front of the tanks.
When the commander came to the airborne company of Siberians, who were brought to the nearest airfield, they were offered to jump from aircraft directly into the snow. Moreover, it was necessary to jump without parachutes at low level flight. It is noteworthy that this was not an order, but a request, but all the servicemen took a step forward.
German soldiers were unpleasantly surprised to see low-flying planes, and then completely succumbed to panic when people in white coats rained down from them one after another. And this stream had no end. When it seemed that the Germans had already destroyed everyone, new planes appeared with new fighters.
The author of the novel "Prince's Island" Yuri Sergeev describes these events in this way. "The Russians were not visible in the snow, they seemed to grow out of the ground itself: fearless, furious and holy in their retribution, unstoppable by any weapon. The battle boiled and bubbled on the highway. The Germans killed almost everyone and were already rejoicing at the victory when they saw a new column of tanks catching up with them and motorized infantry, when again a wave of planes crawled out of the forest and a white waterfall of fresh fighters gushed out of them, hitting the enemy even in the fall ...
The German columns were destroyed, only a few armored cars and vehicles escaped from this hell and rushed back, carrying mortal horror and mystical fear of the fearlessness, will and spirit of the Russian soldier. After it turned out that when falling into the snow, only twelve percent of the landing force died.
The rest took an unequal fight."
There is no documentary evidence for this story. Many believe that for some reason it is still classified for some reason, while others consider it a beautiful legend about the feat of the paratroopers. However, when skeptics asked the famous Soviet intelligence officer and paratrooper, the record holder for the number of parachute jumps Ivan Starchak, about this story, he did not question the reality of this story. The fact is that he himself, with his fighters, also landed in Moscow in order to stop the motorized column of opponents.
On October 5, 1941, our Soviet intelligence discovered a 25-kilometer German motorized column, which full swing moved along the Warsaw highway in the direction of Yukhnov. 200 tanks, 20 thousand infantry in vehicles, accompanied by aviation and artillery, posed a mortal threat to Moscow, which was 198 kilometers away. There were no Soviet troops on this path. Only in Podolsk there were two military schools: infantry and artillery.
In order to give them time to take up defense, a small airborne assault was dropped under the command of Captain Starchak. Of the 430 people, only 80 were experienced paratroopers, another 200 were from front-line air units and 150 were newly arrived replenishment of Komsomol members, and all without guns, machine guns and tanks.
The paratroopers took up defense on the Ugra River, mined and blew up roadbed and bridges along the route of the Germans, setting up ambushes. There is a case when one of the groups attacked an airfield captured by the Germans, burned two TB-3 aircraft, and took the third to Moscow. It was led by paratrooper Pyotr Balashov, who had never flown such aircraft before. He landed safely in Moscow on his fifth attempt.
But the forces were not equal, reinforcements came to the Germans. Three days later, out of 430 people, only 29 survived, including Ivan Starchak. Later, help came to the Soviet military. Almost everyone died, but they did not allow the Nazis to break through to Moscow. All were presented to the Order of the Red Banner, and Starchak - to the Order of Lenin. Budyonny, commander of the front, called Starchak a "desperate commander."
Then Starchak repeatedly entered the battle during the Great Patriotic War, was wounded several times, but survived.
When one of his British colleagues asked him why the Russians do not give up even in the face of death, although sometimes it is easier, he replied:
"In your opinion, this is fanaticism, but in our opinion, love for the land on which he grew up and which he exalted with labor. Love for a country where you are the complete master. And the fact that Soviet soldiers fight for their Motherland to the last bullet, to the last drop of blood, we consider the highest military and civil prowess."
Later, Starchak wrote an autobiographical story "From the sky - into battle", in which he spoke about these events. Starchak died in 1981 at the age of 76, leaving behind an immortal feat worthy of legend.
Better death than captivity
Another famous episode in the history of the Soviet and Russian landings is the battle in the Old City of Herat during the war in Afghanistan. When a Soviet armored personnel carrier hit a mine on July 11, 1985, only four people survived, led by junior sergeant V. Shimansky. They took up all-round defense and decided not to surrender under any circumstances, while the enemy wanted to capture Soviet soldiers.
Surrounded soldiers took an unequal battle. They had already run out of ammunition, the enemy was squeezing into a tight ring, but there were still no reinforcements. Then, in order not to fall into the hands of enemies, the commander ordered the soldiers to shoot themselves.
They gathered under the burning armored personnel carrier, hugged, said goodbye, and then each fired a machine gun at himself. The commander fired last. When Soviet reinforcements arrived, four of the dead soldiers were lying next to the armored personnel carrier, where they were dragged by the enemy. The surprise of the Soviet soldiers was great when they saw that one of them was alive. The machine gunner Teplyuk had four bullets that passed a few centimeters above his heart. It was he who later spoke about the last minutes of the life of the heroic crew.
The death of the Maravar company
The death of the so-called Maravar company during the war in Afghanistan on April 21, 1985 is another tragic and heroic episode in the history of the national landing force.
The 1st company of the Soviet special forces under the command of Captain Tsebruk was surrounded in the Maravar Gorge in the province of Kunar and was destroyed by the enemy.
It is known that the company carried out a training exit to the village of Sangam, located at the beginning of the Maravar gorge. There was no enemy in the village, but Mujahideen were seen in the depths of the gorge. When the soldiers of the company began to pursue the enemy, they were ambushed. The company divided into four groups and began to go deeper into the gorge.
The dushmans who saw the enemy entered the rear of the 1st company, blocked the way for the soldiers to Daridam, where the 2nd and 3rd companies were located, they set up posts armed with DShK heavy machine guns. The forces were not equal, and the ammunition load that the special forces took with them to the training exit was only enough for a few minutes of the battle.
At the same time, a detachment was hastily formed in Asadabad, which went to help the company that was ambushed. Reinforced with armored vehicles, the detachment could not quickly cross the river and had to take a detour, which took additional time. Three kilometers on the map turned into 23 on mine-laden Afghan soil. Of the entire armored group, only one vehicle broke through towards Maravar. This did not help the 1st company, but saved the 2nd and 3rd companies, which repulsed the attacks of the Mujahideen.
In the afternoon of April 21, when the consolidated company and the armored group entered the Maravar Gorge, the surviving soldiers walked towards them, bringing out and carrying out the wounded comrades. They told about the terrible massacre of the enemies enraged by the furious rebuff over those who remained on the battlefield: they ripped open their stomachs, gouged out their eyes, burned them alive.
The bodies of the dead soldiers were collected for two days. Many had to be identified by tattoos and clothing details. Some bodies had to be transported along with wicker couches, on which the fighters were tortured. In the battle in the Maravar Gorge, 31 Soviet servicemen were killed.
12-hour battle of the 9th company
The feat of Russian paratroopers, immortalized not only by history, but also by cinema, was the battle of the 9th company of the 345th Guards Separate Parachute Regiment for the dominant height of 3234 in the city of Khost during the war in Afghanistan.
A company of paratroopers, consisting of 39 people, entered the battle, trying to keep the Mujahideen out of their positions on January 7, 1988. The enemy (according to various sources, 200-400 people) intended to bring down the outposts from the dominant height and open access to the Gardez-Khost road.
The enemy opened fire on the positions of the Soviet troops with recoilless rifles, mortars, small arms and grenade launchers. Just a day before three in the morning, the Mujahideen launched 12 attacks, the last of which was critical. The enemy managed to get as close as possible, but at that time, a reconnaissance platoon of the 3rd parachute battalion, which delivered ammunition, made its way to the aid of the 9th company. This decided the outcome of the battle, the Mujahideen, suffering serious losses, began to retreat. As a result of the twelve-hour battle, it was not possible to capture the height.
In the 9th company, 6 servicemen were killed, 28 were injured.
This story formed the basis famous movie Fyodor Bondarchuk "9th Company", which tells about the valor of Soviet soldiers.
Vyazemskaya operation of the Soviet landing
Every year in Russia they remember the feat of Soviet front-line paratroopers. Among them is the so-called Vyazemskaya airborne operation. This is an operation of the Red Army to land troops behind German troops during the Rzhev-Vyazemsky offensive operation, which was carried out from January 18 to February 28, 1942 in order to assist the troops of Kalininsky and Western fronts surrounded by part of the forces of the German Army Group Center.
Airborne operations of this magnitude during the years of the Great Patriotic War no one did. For this, the 4th Airborne Corps, numbering more than 10 thousand people, was parachuted near Vyazma. The corps was commanded by Major General A.F. Levashov.
On January 27, an advanced landing detachment under the command of Captain M.Ya. Karnaukhov was thrown behind the front line on dozens of aircraft. Then, over the next six days, the 8th airborne brigade with a total strength of about 2,100 people was landed behind enemy lines.
However, the general stop at the front for the Soviet troops was difficult. Part of the landing paratroopers merged with the active units, and the landing of the remaining fighters was postponed.
A few weeks later, the 4th battalion of the 8th airborne brigade, as well as parts of the 9th and 214th brigades, landed behind enemy lines. In total, in January-February 1942, over 10 thousand people, 320 mortars, 541 machine guns, 300 anti-tank rifles were landed on Smolensk land. All this happened with an acute shortage of transport aircraft, in severe climatic and weather conditions, with strong opposition from the enemy.
Unfortunately, it was not possible to solve the tasks assigned to the paratroopers, since the enemy was very strong.
The soldiers of the 4th Airborne Corps, which had only light weapons and a minimum of food and ammunition, had to fight behind enemy lines for five long months.
After the war, the former Nazi officer A. Gove in the book "Attention, paratroopers!" was forced to admit: “The landed Russian paratroopers held the forest in their hands for many days and, lying in 38-degree frost on pine branches laid directly on the snow, repelled all German attacks, which at first were improvised in nature. Only with the support of those who arrived from Vyazma German self-propelled guns and dive bombers managed to clear the road from the Russians.
These are just a few examples of the exploits of Russian and Soviet paratroopers, which not only inspire pride among compatriots, but also the respect of enemies who bow before the bravery of "these Russians in vests."
Born on June 18, 1958 in the city of Baku (Azerbaijan) in the family of a sailor. Russian. Graduated from 10 classes. In the Soviet Army since 1975. In 1979 he graduated from the Baku Higher Combined Arms Command School named after the Supreme Soviet of the Azerbaijan SSR. Since 1979 - the commander of a reconnaissance platoon (the city of Novocherkassk, the Red Banner North Caucasian Military District). Member of the CPSU since 1982. Since 1981, for two years he was part of a limited contingent of Soviet troops in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. Proved to be an expert high class for conducting reconnaissance. While searching in the area of responsibility of the brigade, Senior Lieutenant Chernozhukov received a report from his reconnaissance patrol that a detachment of rebels had settled down to rest in the village of Yaklang (Helmand province). The company commander quickly made a decision - using surprise, attack the enemy in armored vehicles, and without hurrying the personnel, defeat him. With decisive actions, conducting heavy fire on the move from the loopholes, the company broke into the locality. The enemy's attempt to put up organized resistance was not successful. The blow was very unexpected and strong. Having lost many rebels killed, their remnants fled. Having captured several prisoners, the company returned to the place of deployment, continuing to conduct reconnaissance. When approaching the village of Sanabur (Kandahar province), intelligence discovered the movement of a rebel detachment, numbering about 150 people. There were a little over 50 people in the company. Senior Lieutenant Chernozhukov decided to secretly occupy a dominant height in the path of enemy movement and, having missed his reconnaissance, defeat the detachment. Having skillfully organized the battle, the company commander at the critical moment at the head of the reserve attacked the rebel on the flank, which contributed to his complete defeat. Only 117 people were captured. In total, together with the company, Senior Lieutenant Chernozhukov participated in more than twenty operations, and the actions of the company were always distinguished by swiftness, surprise and effectiveness with minimal losses. By the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of March 3, 1983, for the courage and heroism shown in providing international assistance to the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, Senior Lieutenant Chernozhukov Alexander Viktorovich was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the medal " Golden Star"(No. 11493). In 1988 he graduated from the Military Academy named after M.V. Frunze. After the collapse of the USSR, continued to serve in the Armed Forces Russian Federation in various positions. In 2002 he graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. He holds the position of head of the department for control and coordination of funeral services in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Lives in the hero city of Moscow. Colonel. He was awarded the Orders of Lenin (03/03/1983), the Red Star, and medals. A COMMUNIST'S DUTY At the Moscow City Party Conference, Captain Chernozhukov was elected a delegate to the 27th Party Congress. In the evening we met with him. Alexander embarrassedly accepted our congratulations ... He was the same on the day when he was awarded the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star of the Hero of the Soviet Union. He walked down the street and kept trying inadvertently to cover up the Star. “Take your hand away, Sasha,” said one of us, a witness to these joyful moments. “Let them watch.” And he somehow felt uneasy that he alone was singled out with such a high award. He was sincerely convinced that everything in his company was like a selection, and many can be called real heroes. We met with him more than once, and no matter what the conversation was about, Alexander always started talking about his colleagues, with whom he learned a lot during the two difficult years of service in Afghanistan. ... When Chernozhukov took over the company, some even among experienced platoon commanders began to complain about the overload of the classes that he spent in the mountains. "We'll be left without boots and uniforms," some grumbled half-jokingly. However, such talk soon ceased. This happened after a group of soldiers led by Chernozhukov was surrounded. According to the calculations of the dushmans, it was impossible to get out, but Alexander led the soldiers out. Through the mountains, which seemed impregnable even to those accustomed to these places. That's when hardening and training, which the company commander so persistently sought from his subordinates, affected. Yes, we talked about a lot during our meetings, but somehow it so happened that they never once asked him when and where he joined the party. There was no question of how Alexander understands his duty as a communist. Perhaps that is why they did not ask that the main thing was clear and so. The duty of a communist is to be where it is most difficult. And Captain Chernozhukov was fearless in battle, he thought not about his life, but about the task assigned, about his subordinates, about Afghan women and children. ... Since then, Alexander has not changed much. Just become more restrained. After serving in Afghanistan, he was chief of staff of the battalion, commander of the battalion, studied at the academy. In 1988 he graduated from the Frunze Military Academy, and in 2002 from the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces. Now Colonel Alexander Viktorovich Chernozhukov works as the head of the department for monitoring the coordination of funeral provision in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Lives in Moscow. Awards Medal "Gold Star"; The order of Lenin; Order of the Red Star; Medals.
After the uprising in Badaber, the dushmans decided not to take Shuravi prisoners anymore.
Thirty years ago, Soviet soldiers captured in Afghanistan organized an uprising. After an unequal battle, they blew themselves up along with an arsenal of dushmans
An event destined to become a bleeding wound in the history of the Afghan war took place in the Pakistani village of Badaber near Peshawar. On April 26, 1985, a dozen Soviet prisoners of war revolted. After a 14-hour battle, they blew themselves up along with the arsenal of dushmans - a huge amount of shells and missiles prepared to be sent to the Mujahideen in Panjshir. The sacrificial feat then saved many soldiers and officers of the 40th Army. But the state tried not to notice and forget the merits of the heroes. The reason is the absence of their names in the lists of dead soldiers-internationalists and documentary confirmation of the feat. Today we are filling this gap.
AGENT REPORT
Information about this tragedy was collected bit by bit by the staff correspondent of the Red Star in Kabul, Alexander Oleinik. Using informal contacts at the headquarters of the 40th Army, he obtained a report of radio interception of the directive of the leader of the Islamic Party of Afghanistan (IPA) G. Hekmatyar, who on April 29, 1985 reported on an incident in one of the camps in northwestern Pakistan.
“97 of our brothers were killed and wounded,” said Hekmatyar and demanded from the commanders of the IPA fronts “from now on, do not take Russians prisoner, but destroy them on the spot.”
A few years later, Oleinik published this radio interception in Krasnaya Zvezda along with another declassified document addressed to the chief military adviser in Afghanistan, General of the Army G. Salamanov. The intelligence report gave details of the armed uprising that our prisoners of war had raised.
“On May 23, 1985, agent *** arrived from Pakistan, who had the task of obtaining information about the incident in the Badaber Afghan refugee camp. The source reported on the fulfillment of the reconnaissance mission as follows: on April 26 at 21.00, when the entire personnel of the training center was lined up on the parade ground to perform prayers, the former Soviet military personnel removed six sentries from the artillery depots (AB) on the watchtower and freed all the prisoners. They failed to fully realize their plan, since from among the Soviet military personnel, nicknamed Muhammad Islam, at the time of the uprising, he defected to the rebels.
At 23.00, on the orders of B. Rabbani, a regiment of Khaled ibn Walid rebels was raised, the positions of the prisoners were surrounded. The leader of the IOA offered them to surrender, to which the rebels responded with a categorical refusal. They demanded the extradition of the escaped soldier, to summon representatives of the Soviet or Afghan embassies to Badaber. 
Rabbani and his advisers decided to blow up the warehouses of AB and thus destroy the rebels. On the morning of April 27, Rabbani ordered to open fire. In the assault, in addition to the rebels, artillery units and combat helicopters of the Pakistani Air Force participated. After several artillery salvos, the AB depots exploded. The explosion killed: 12 former Soviet servicemen (names, ranks not established); about 40 former servicemen of the Armed Forces of Afghanistan (names not established); more than 120 rebels and refugees; 6 foreign advisers; 13 representatives of the Pakistani authorities. According to the source, the government of Ziyaul-Khak was informed that the rebellious prisoners themselves blew themselves up in the warehouses of AB.
Colonel Yu. Tarasov,
The Pakistani authorities and the leader of the IOA (Islamic Society of Afghanistan) B. Rabbani did everything to hide information about the tragedy. Speaking in Islamabad, Rabbani inspiredly lied to journalists that internecine strife among the Mujahideen led to the explosion in Badaber. To the strong protest of our embassy in connection with the death of compatriots near Peshawar, the Pakistani Foreign Ministry sent a note in response, stating that there were no Soviet military personnel on the territory of their country and never were.
ENCRYPTED NAMES
Our special services in Afghanistan were ordered to find out: who were the rest of the prisoners of the camp, what were their surnames and military ranks, where and under what circumstances were they captured, why did they end up on the territory of Pakistan?
FSB Colonel Valery Belorus, in 1986 an investigative adviser to the military counterintelligence of the Ministry of State Security of the DRA, remembers how he “filtered” an Afghan named Gol Ahmad for a whole month.
Gol Ahmad was detained while crossing the Pakistani border. He escaped from Dushman captivity and passed an investigative check at the MGB. Valery Grigoryevich talked with the detainee through an interpreter, but he understood the word "Badaber" anyway. The Afghan confessed that he escaped from this camp during a series of powerful explosions, when the Shuravi began shooting trucks loaded with shells with grenade launchers. The guards fled, and there was no one to chase him.
We reported about the Afghan sergeant to the department of search for our prisoners, - says Colonel Belorus, - and they came with a file of missing persons. Gol Ahmad positively identified seven people from photographs. Unfortunately, I don’t remember their names now - so many years have passed! ..
In total, according to Gol Ahmad, at the time of the uprising, there were eleven Soviet prisoners of war in Badaber. He confirmed that they had indeed seized the armory and taken control of trucks loaded with weapons and ammunition ready to move towards the Afghan border. The rebels planned to break through to their own, but a traitor prevented the plan from being carried out.
B. Rabbani, who arrived in a jeep, tried to persuade the prisoners to lay down their arms, promising not to punish anyone. But the leader of the rebels said that he would stop resistance only in the presence of representatives of the Soviet embassy.
During the negotiations, Pakistani army units managed to pull up to the camp. They deployed two guns in the direction of the arsenal, but did not have time to load - both artillery crews were destroyed. The rebels resisted with the despair of the doomed - they knew that the dushmans would not leave any of them alive. The battle lasted 14 hours. When only three rebels remained alive, they opened fire on the crates of rockets.
In 1986, Gol Ahmad was the only witness to the uprising, whose testimony largely coincided with intelligence reports. Thus, the first list of Badaber's captives was compiled, in which there were only Muslim names and special signs.
The prisoners of the camp in Badaber, encrypted as Muslims, were our compatriots. And their real names could remain unknown. But photographs of captured Soviet soldiers appeared in the foreign press. Some of them had already been transferred to Pakistan by that time, from where they were promised an easy road to the American way of life. The main condition is to renounce the Motherland and the Soviet government.
"NOW THERE IS SOMETHING TO FIGHT"
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the investigation into the Badaber tragedy was discontinued. The feat of our guys was remembered only when the representative of the Pakistani Foreign Ministry, Sh. Khan, in 1992 handed over to the commission of Alexander Rutskoy a list of Soviet servicemen who died during the uprising: Vaskov, Dudkin, Zverkovich, Korshenko, Levchishin.
Where the rest went was a mystery. It was up to the Committee for the Affairs of Internationalist Warriors, headed by the Hero of the Soviet Union, Lieutenant General Ruslan Aushev, to unravel it. In 2006, an employee of the committee, Rashid Karimov, with the assistance of the secret services of Uzbekistan, went on the trail of a man named Rustam, who appeared on the initial list of the Afghan Ministry of State Security.
Uzbek Nosirzhon Rustamov was captured in October 1984 on the eighth day of service in Afghanistan. He was sent to a camp near the fortress of Badaber and put in the basement, where there were already two prisoners from the Afghan army. From them, he learned that ten Soviet prisoners of war were kept in the camp, they made bricks from clay and erected fortress walls. Later, a Kazakh named Kanat, who had gone mad from slave labor and bullying, was transferred to them.
Abdurakhmon was considered the main among the Soviet prisoners - strong, tall, with a direct piercing look, he often dared the Mujahideen and demonstrated his superiority over them. For several days of the uprising, Abdurakhmon challenged the camp guard commander to a duel - with the condition that if he wins, the Russians will have the right to play football with the Mujahideen. The fight was short. According to Rustamov, Abdurakhmon threw the commander of the Mujahideen over himself with such force that he ... burst into tears.
All the cadets of the training center gathered to cheer for the Mujahideen for the football match. Plotting an escape, Abdurahmon obviously wanted to find out how much strength the enemy had with the help of playing football. By the way, the match ended with the score 7:2 in favor of Shuravi.
And in early March, 28 trucks with weapons were brought to the camp - shells for rocket-propelled mortars, grenades, Kalashnikov assault rifles and machine guns. Abdurakhmon, putting his shoulder under the heavy box, winked encouragingly: “Well, guys, now there is something to fight ...”
But there were no bullets. We had to wait more than a month before trucks with ammunition appeared. During the traditional Friday evening prayer, when two guards remained in the fortress, the lights went out in the mosque - the generator in the basement where our prisoners were kept went out. The guard came down from the roof to see what had happened. Abdurahmon stunned him, took a machine gun, started the generator and gave electricity to the mosque so that the Mujahideen would not suspect anything. The Afghan army officers released from behind bars also joined the rebels. The sentries were disarmed and locked in a cell. There was desperate shooting, mortar explosions interspersed with bursts from heavy machine guns and the crackle of machine guns. Our prisoners tried to go on the air using a radio station captured from the Mujahideen, but it is not known whether anyone received their signal for help.
HEROES - "AFGHANS"
I give Rustamov a photograph that I brought on behalf of the Committee of Internationalist Warriors. In the picture, three figures in sand-colored uniforms are hiding from the scorching sun in a canvas tent. Nearby - a woman in a silk skirt to the toes. This is Lyudmila Thorn, a former Soviet citizen. She came to Pakistan through the American human rights organization Freedom House to interview three Soviet prisoners of war. The main condition is that no one knows that they are in Pakistan.
The man sitting to her left introduced himself as Harutyunyan, and the one to her right, Matvey Basayev. Harutyunyan was in fact Varvaryan, and Basayev was Shipeev. The only one who did not hide his last name was a gloomy bearded man in the back of the tent - Ukrainian Nikolai Shevchenko, recruited by the Kiev regional military registration and enlistment office to work as a driver in the OKSV in Afghanistan.
Rustamov, peering into the bearded faces, smiles happily. It turns out that he remembers everyone: “This is Abdurakhmon! - pokes a finger at the picture, pointing to Nikolai Shevchenko. - And this is Islomutdin! - transfers his finger to Mikhail Varvaryan, and then points in the direction of Vladimir Shipeev: - And this is Abdullo, fitter!
Now two names could be added to the list of participants in the uprising - Shevchenko and Shipeev (Varvaryan did not participate in the uprising). But was Rustamov wrong? After returning from Ferghana, we sent a request to Lyudmila Thorn: can she confirm to the committee that this picture was taken in Badaber? A few months later, she sent a reply confirming both the location of the camp and the names of the children in the picture. In the same letter, Lyudmila Thorn made an important clarification: in addition to Nikolai Shevchenko and Vladimir Shipeev, three more people should be considered dead in Badaber - Ravil Sayfutdinov, Alexander Matveev and Nikolai Dudkin. In December 1982, they transmitted requests in Peshawar for political asylum French journalist Olga Svintsova. For them, it was probably the only way to survive. Later, Svintsova reported that these guys did not leave Peshawar, as they died on April 27, 1985.
Thus, it was possible to find out that nine fighters participated in the uprising of prisoners of war in Badaber: Nikolai Shevchenko, Vladimir Shipeev, Ravil Sayfutdinov, Alexander Matveev, Nikolai Dudkin, Igor Vaskov, Alexander Zverkovich, Sergey Korshenko, Sergey Levchishin. All of them died the death of the brave.
An invitation to execution
A real propaganda war was launched against the soldiers and officers of the Limited Contingent of Soviet Forces in Afghanistan (OKSVA), the main tool in which was Radio Free Kabul. It spread calls for desertion. The activity of the radio station was supervised by the anti-communist organization "Resistance International" (IS), behind which the "ears" of the CIA stuck out. The London-based radio station was run by the well-known Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, who was once exchanged by Moscow for the General Secretary of the Chilean Communist Party, Luis Corvalan.
For propaganda among Soviet soldiers, the IS published a newspaper that looked like the Red Star. Incidentally, the then employee of Radio Liberty, the former Russian, and now Ukrainian TV presenter Savik Shuster, participated in the special operation for its manufacture and delivery.
Calls for voluntary surrender addressed to our servicemen in Afghanistan were, in fact, a disguised invitation to execution. Soviet soldiers who fell into the hands of dushmans were rarely released. Most often, a painful, full of bullying and humiliation, a slavish existence awaited them. The "Resistance International", which received $600 million from the US Congress for its activities, managed to smuggle only a dozen people to the West. The rest chose to die in captivity.
The rebels destroyed 3 "Grad" and 2 million rounds of ammunition
According to the documents of the General Staff of the USSR Armed Forces, more than 120 Afghan Mujahideen and refugees, a number of foreign specialists (including 6 American advisers), 28 officers of the Pakistani regular troops, 13 representatives of the Pakistani authorities died during the uprising. The Badaber base was completely destroyed, as a result of the explosion of the arsenal, 3 Grad MLRS installations, over 2 million rounds of ammunition, about 40 guns, mortars and machine guns, about 2 thousand rockets and shells of various types were destroyed. The office of the prison also perished, and with it the lists of prisoners.