Women killed in the Afghan war. How did Soviet women fight in Afghanistan? How did it happen

The war in Afghanistan lasted from December 25, 1979 to February 15, 1989. In November 1989, the Supreme Soviet of the USSR declared an amnesty for all crimes committed by Soviet military personnel in Afghanistan.

"... in the village, one of the sergeants, without hiding his emotions, noted that "youngsters are good."
The words of the sergeant, like a spark, set fire to everyone else, and then, throwing off his greatcoat, he moved towards one of the women:
- Row, guys!
In front of the elders and children, our internationalists mocked women to their heart's content. The rape lasted two hours. The kids, huddled in a corner, screamed and squealed, trying to somehow help their mothers. The old men, trembling, prayed, asking their God for mercy and salvation.
Then the sergeant commanded: "Fire!" - and first shot at the woman he had just raped. They quickly finished off everyone else. Then, on the orders of K., they poured fuel from the BMP gas tank, doused the corpses with it, threw clothes and rags that fell under the arm, scanty wooden furniture was also used - and set on fire. A flame flared up inside the samanka ... "

"... order: poison the wells that we find. Let them die to hell!
And how to poison? Take a live dog, for example. And you throw it there. Cadaverous poison will then do its work ... "

"... we have always been with knives.
- Why?
- And because. Whoever saw the group is not a tenant!
- What does it mean?
- This is the law of special forces. When the group is on a mission, no one should see it. It's not easy to kill a man, though. Especially when it’s not some brutal dushman there, but an old man is standing and looking at you. And all the same. Whoever saw the group is not a tenant. It was an iron law...

"...yes, on caravans, you take a fly and point with your hand, here, they say, go. He comes up, you search him, and what to do next with him? Gather them in a heap? Bind them? Sit with them, guard? Why is this necessary "Searched and everything - at a loss. With knives. In the end, the feeling of pity in us disappeared, it was exterminated. In practice, it was completely gone. It came to such situations when they even argued with each other, like, they say, you were the last time cleaned up, now let me..."

"... where did this girl in a sheepskin coat with a couple or three sheep come from?
Lyokha, seeing the movement in front of him, and realizing that the group was detected, completed his combat mission - he took aim and fired.
Cotton. Shot well. A US bullet [at a reduced speed] of 7.62 caliber flew into the girl's head, disfiguring this divine creation beyond recognition. The ensign coolly pushed the body with his foot to check the hands of the corpse. There is nothing in them but a twig.
I saw only out of the corner of my eye how a small, somehow awkward, leg was still twitching. And then it froze...

"... we tied the Afghan with a rope to an armored personnel carrier and dragged him along like a sack all day long, shot at him from machine guns on the way, and when only one leg and half of his body were left, we cut the rope..."

"... shelling of the village from the artillery division began, and the infantry was told to prepare for combing. At first, the inhabitants rushed to the crevice, but the approach to it was mined, and they began to be blown up by mines, after which they rushed back to the village.
We could see from above how they rush around the village among the explosions. Then, in general, x ... I didn’t understand it, all the civilians who survived rushed straight to our blocks. We all oh ... ate! What to do?! And then one of us fired a machine gun at the crowd, and everyone else started firing. For peaceful..."

"... remembering the burning villages and the screams of civilians trying to escape from bullets and explosions. Before my eyes there were terrible pictures: the corpses of children of old people and women, the clang of tank caterpillars winding guts on tracks, a crunch human bones under the onslaught of a multi-ton colossus, and around the blood, fire and shooting ... "

"...sometimes they hung it in a rubber loop to the barrel of a tank gun, so that a person could only touch the ground with his toes. They hooked the wires of a field telephone to others and twisted the handle, generating a current..."

"... for the entire time of service in Afghanistan (almost a year and a half) starting from December 1979, I heard so many stories about how our paratroopers killed the civilian population just like that, that they simply cannot be counted, and I have never heard that our soldiers were saved one of the Afghans - among the soldiers, such an act would be regarded as aiding the enemies.
Even during the December coup in Kabul, which lasted all night on December 27, 1979, some paratroopers shot at unarmed people who were seen on the streets - then, without a shadow of regret, they cheerfully recalled this as funny cases ... "

"... two months after the introduction of troops - on February 29, 1980 - the first military operation began in the province of Kunar. The main striking force was the paratroopers of our regiment - 300 soldiers who parachuted from helicopters on a high mountain plateau and went down to restore order. How can I the participants of that operation said, they put things in order as follows: they destroyed food supplies in the villages, killed all the livestock; usually, before entering the house, they threw a grenade there, then they shot with a fan in all directions - only after that they looked who was there; everyone men and even teenagers were immediately shot on the spot. The operation lasted almost two weeks, how many people were killed then - no one counted ... "

The corpses of three Afghans mistaken for "spirits" - two men and a woman

"... in the second half of December 1980, they surrounded a large settlement (presumably Tarinkot) in a semicircle. So they stood around three days. By this time, artillery and Grad multiple rocket launchers had been brought up.
On December 20, the operation began: a blow from the "Grad" and artillery was struck at the settlement. After the first volleys, the kishlak plunged into a continuous cloud of dust. shelling locality continued almost continuously. Residents, in order to escape from the explosions of shells, ran from the village into the field. But there they began to shoot from machine guns, BMD guns, four "Shilka" (self-propelled units with four twin heavy machine guns) fired non-stop, almost all the soldiers fired from their machine guns, killing everyone: including women and children.
After the shelling, the brigade entered the village and finished off the rest of the inhabitants there. When the military operation ended, the whole earth around was strewn with the corpses of people. They counted something like three thousand bodies ... "

"... what our paratroopers were doing in remote areas of Afghanistan was complete arbitrariness. Since the summer of 1980, the 3rd battalion of our regiment was sent to Kandahar province to patrol the territory. Without fear of anyone, they calmly drove along the roads and the desert Kandahar and could, without any clarification, kill any person who met on their way ... "

"... the Afghan went his own way. Of the weapons, the Afghan had only a stick with which he drove a donkey. A column of our paratroopers was driving along this road. He was killed just like that, with machine gun fire, without leaving the BMDshek armor.
The column stopped. One paratrooper came up and cut off the ears of the dead Afghan - in memory of his military exploits. Then a mine was placed under the corpse of the Afghan, for the one who finds this body. Only this time the idea did not work - when the column started off, someone could not resist and finally fired a burst at the corpse from a machine gun - the mine exploded and tore the Afghan's body to pieces ... "

"... the caravans they met were searched, and if they found weapons, they killed all the people who were in the caravan. cartridge, and, pretending that this cartridge was found in the pocket or in the things of the Afghan, they presented it to the Afghan as evidence of his guilt.
Now it was possible to mock: after listening to a person warmly making excuses, convincing that the patron was not his, they began to beat him, then watched him beg on his knees for mercy, but they beat him again and in the end - they still shot him. Then they killed the rest of the people who were in the caravan ... "

"... it all started with the fact that on February 22, 1980, in Kabul, in broad daylight, Senior Lieutenant Alexander Vovk, a senior instructor in the Komsomol of the political department of the 103rd Airborne Division, was killed.
This happened near the "Green Market", where Vovk arrived in an UAZ vehicle together with the air defense chief of the 103rd Airborne Division, Colonel Yuri Dvugroshev. They did not fulfill any task, but, most likely, they simply wanted to buy something in the market. They were in the car when suddenly one shot was fired - the bullet hit Vovk. Dvugroshev and the soldier-driver did not even understand where they were shooting from, and quickly left this place. However, Vovk's wound turned out to be fatal, and he died almost immediately.
And then something happened that shook the whole city. Upon learning of the death of their comrade, a group of officers and warrant officers of the 357th Airborne Regiment, led by the regiment's deputy commander, Major Vitaly Zababurin, got into armored personnel carriers and went to the scene to dismantle local residents. But, having arrived at the place, they did not bother to search for the culprit, but in a hot head decided to simply punish everyone who was there. Moving along the street, they began to smash and crush everything in their path: they threw grenades at houses, fired from machine guns and machine guns on armored personnel carriers. Dozens of innocent people fell under the hot hand of officers.
The massacre ended, but the news of the bloody pogrom quickly spread throughout the city. The streets of Kabul began to flood thousands of indignant citizens, riots began. At that time, I was on the territory of the government residence, behind the high stone wall of the Palace of the Peoples. I will never forget that wild howl of the crowd, inspiring fear, from which the blood ran cold. The feeling was the worst...
The rebellion was crushed within two days. Hundreds of Kabul residents were killed. However, the real instigators of those riots, who massacred innocent people, remained in the shadows ... "

"... one of the battalions took prisoners, loaded them into MI-8 and sent them to the base. Having transmitted by radio that they were sent to the brigade. The senior officer of the brigade who received the radiogram asked:
- On x .... I need them here?
We contacted the escort officer flying in the cabin of the helicopter. He himself did not know what to do with the prisoners and decided to let them go. From a height of 2000 meters ... "

"... the only more or less significant reason that forced the special forces to kill civilian Afghans was due to" precautionary measures ". Being in the desert or mountains on a combat mission in isolation from the main forces, any special forces group could not allow its location to be revealed From a random traveler, whether a shepherd or a picker of brushwood, who noticed an ambush of special forces or his parking lot, a very real threat emanated ... "

"... during the flight around our area of ​​​​responsibility, the Afghan bus did not stop after the third warning burst. Well, they "soaked" it with NURSs and machine guns, and there were old men, women and children. Only forty-three corpses. We then counted. One the driver survived...

"... our group opened fire on the caravan on the order of the lieutenant. I heard the screams of women. After examining the corpses, it became clear that the caravan was peaceful..."

"... Senior Lieutenant Volodya Molchanov, he was introduced to the Hero from our battalion in 1980 - he hated Muslims. He threw Afghans into the gorge, putting grenades in their pockets, they did not even reach the ground ..."

"... camp, building. Zamkombat pushes the speech:
- We fly out to opium villages, everyone shoots - women, children. Civilians - no!
They understood the team - to work for destruction.
Landed from helicopters. From the air, no cover, the sweep begins:
- Tra-ta-ta! Tra-ta-ta!
Shooting from all sides, not understanding, you fall, you throw a grenade at the duval:
- Baba!!!
Jumping, shooting, dust, screams, corpses under your feet, blood on the walls. Like a car, not a minute in place, jump, jump. The kishlak is big. In optics, women in headscarves, children. No confusion, pull the trigger. Cleaned all day...

"... once we were lifted up on five "turntables" ... They were thrown out near a mountain village. Well, we stretched out in groups and, interacting in pairs, went to scratch the village.
In fact, they shot at everything that moved. Before you enter behind the duval or anywhere, in general, before you look or look anywhere, be sure to throw a grenade - "efka" or RGD. And so you throw, you enter, and there are women and children ... "

An Afghan caravan destroyed without any clarification.

"... the soldiers sawed and chopped apple trees, pears, quince, hazel. Trees were blown up in two girths with plastids so as not to suffer for a long time. The tractor that came to the rescue filled up massive fences-duvals. Gradually we won back the living space for the construction of the "people's" government of socialism in medieval society. Our insolent and ate to such an extent that they selected only the largest and juiciest grapes, and threw the rest away. The green mass squelched underfoot. Sneakers were covered with a sweet shell, turning into bait for bees and wasps. Fighters sometimes even washed their hands with grapes .
We - expanse, and local dekhkans (peasants) - grief and tears. The only means of subsistence, after all. Having broken down the roadside villages, mined the karezes and blown up suspicious ruins, platoons and companies were now crawling out onto the highway. The Afghans, clinging to the side of the road, looked with horror at the results of our invasion of the Greenland. They were talking anxiously among themselves, apparently worried. Here come these civilized people and destroyed their native slums.
The column slowly moved towards Kabul, with the realization of a duty fulfilled ... "

"... the next day, the battalions descended from the mountains to the village. A route went through it to the equipment waiting in the valley. Life after our visit to the village froze completely. Cows, horses, donkeys lay everywhere, here and there, shot from machine guns. These are paratroopers vented on them the accumulated anger and rage.After we left the settlement, the roofs of houses and sheds in the yards smoked and burned.
Crap! You can't really set fire to these dwellings. One clay and stones. Clay floor, clay walls, clay steps. Only mats on the floor are burning, but woven from vine and bed branches. Misery and poverty all around. Paradox! According to our Marxist ideology, exactly those people live here, for the sake of whom the fire of the world revolution was started. It is their interests that the Soviet Army came to defend, fulfilling an international duty ... "

"... I also had to participate in negotiations with field commanders. I usually posted a map of Afghanistan with the designation of the places of concentration of the Dushman detachments, pointed to it and asked:
- Ahmad, do you see these two villages? We know that in one you have three wives and eleven children. In the other, two more wives and three children. You see, there are two divisions of Grad rocket launchers nearby. One shot from your side, and villages with wives and children will be destroyed. Understood?..."

"... from the air it was impossible to assess the successes presented in the reports, but the troops who continued on their way to the pass escorted hundreds of bodies of dead civilians carried to the road by the Afghans, so that we could enjoy the contemplation of what we had done..."

"... the three of them went on a water cart to the river. They scoop with buckets. The process is long. On the other side, a girl appears. They raped, killed - her and her old grandfather. He tried to prevent. The village broke loose, went to Pakistan. necessary..."

"... the very prestige of service in the units of the Soviet military intelligence obliged every soldier and special forces officer to do a lot. They were of little interest in issues of ideology and politics. They were not tormented by the problem of "how moral this war is." Such concepts as "internationalism", " duty to help the brotherly people of Afghanistan" for the special forces were just political phraseology, an empty phrase. The requirements to observe the rule of law and humanity in relation to the local population were perceived by many special forces as a thing incompatible with the order to give a result ... "

"... then we were given medals "From the grateful Afghan people" at home. Black humor!
At the presentation in the district administration (there were a hundred of our people), I asked to speak and asked:
- Who among those present saw these grateful [Afghans]?
The military commissar immediately closed this topic, something like, - "That's because of such ..." - but the men did not support me either. I don’t know why, maybe they were afraid for benefits ... "

The participation of Soviet women in the Afghan conflict was not particularly advertised. On numerous steles and obelisks in memory of that war, severe male faces. Today, a civilian nurse who had been ill with typhoid fever near Kabul, or a military saleswoman wounded by a stray shrapnel on her way to a combat unit, are deprived of additional benefits.

There are benefits for officers and male privates, even if they were in charge of a warehouse or repaired cars. However, there were women in Afghanistan. They dutifully performed their work, steadfastly endured the hardships and dangers of life in the war and, of course, died.

How women got to Afghanistan

The female soldiers were sent to Afghanistan by order of the command. In the early 1980s, there were up to 1.5% of women in uniform in the Soviet army. If a woman had the necessary skills, she could be sent to a hot spot, often regardless of her desire: “The motherland said - it’s necessary, the Komsomol answered - yes!”

Nurse Tatyana Evpatova recalls that in the early 1980s it was very difficult to get abroad. One of the ways is to apply through the military registration and enlistment office for service in Soviet troops ah with deployment in Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Mongolia, Poland. Tatyana dreamed of seeing Germany and filed in 1980 required documents. After 2.5 years, she was invited to the draft board and offered to go to Afghanistan.

Tatyana was forced to agree, and she was sent as an operating room and dressing nurse to Faizabad. Returning to the Union, Evpatova abandoned medicine forever and became a philologist. Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs could also get into Afghanistan - among them there were also a small number of women.

In addition, the Ministry of Defense recruited civilian employees Soviet army for service with a limited contingent. Civilians, including women, were contracted and flown to Kabul and from there to duty stations around the country.

What was instructed to women in hot spots

Women soldiers were sent to Afghanistan as translators, ciphers, signalmen, archivists, and employees of the logistics bases in Kabul and Puli Khumri. Many women worked as paramedics, nurses and doctors in front-line medical units and hospitals.

Civil servants received positions in military offices, regimental libraries, laundries, worked as cooks, waitresses in canteens. In Jalalabad, the commander of the 66th separate motorized rifle brigade managed to find a secretary-typist, who was also a hairdresser for the soldiers of the unit. Among the paramedics and nurses, there were also civilian women.

Under what conditions did the weaker sex serve?

The war does not distinguish by age, profession and gender - a cook, a salesman, a nurse in the same way fell under shelling, exploded on mines, and burned in wrecked aircraft. In everyday life, they had to cope with the numerous difficulties of a nomadic, unsettled life: a toilet-booth, a shower from an iron barrel with water in a fence covered with tarpaulin.

“Living rooms, operating rooms, outpatient clinics and a hospital were located in canvas tents. At night, fat rats ran between the outer and lower layers of the tents. Some fell through the shabby fabric and fell down. We had to invent gauze curtains so that these creatures did not fall on the naked body, ”recalls nurse Tatyana Evpatova. - In summer, even at night it was above plus 40 degrees - they covered themselves with wet sheets. Already in October frosts hit - we had to sleep in straight pea jackets. Dresses from the heat and sweat turned into rags - having obtained chintz in the military, we sewed simple overalls.

Special assignments are a delicate matter

Some women coped with tasks of unimaginable complexity, where experienced men failed. Tajik Mavlyuda Tursunova arrived in the west of Afghanistan at the age of 24 (her division was stationed in Herat and Shindand).

She served in the 7th Directorate of the Main Political Directorate of the SA and Navy, which was engaged in special propaganda. Mavlyuda spoke excellent mother tongue, and more Tajiks lived in Afghanistan than in the USSR.

Komsomol member Tursunova knew many Islamic prayers by heart. Shortly before leaving for the war, she buried her father and listened to memorial prayers read by the mullah every week for a whole year. Her memory did not fail her. Tursunova, the instructor of the political department, was given the task of convincing women and children that the Shuravi were their friends.

A fragile girl boldly walked around the villages, she was allowed into the women's houses. One of the Afghans agreed to confirm that he knew her as a small child, and after her parents took her to Kabul. To direct questions, Tursunova confidently called herself an Afghan. The plane in which Tursunova flew from Kabul was shot down on takeoff, but the pilot managed to land on a minefield.

Miraculously, everyone survived, but already in the Union, Mavluda was paralyzed - she caught up with a shell shock. Luckily, the doctors were able to get her back on her feet. Tursunova was awarded the Order of Honor, the Afghan medals "10 years of the Saur Revolution" and "From the grateful Afghan people", the medal "For Courage".

How many were

To this day, there is no accurate official statistics on the number of civilian and military women who participated in the Afghan war. There is information about 20-21 thousand people. 1350 women who served in Afghanistan were awarded orders and medals of the USSR.

Information collected by enthusiasts confirms the death of 54 to 60 women in Afghanistan. Among them are four ensigns and 48 civilian employees. Some were blown up by mines, came under fire, others died from illness or accidents.

Alla Smolina spent three years in Afghanistan, served as the head of the office in the military prosecutor's office of the Jalalabad garrison. For many years she has been scrupulously collecting and publishing information about heroines forgotten by her homeland - saleswomen, nurses, cooks, waitresses.

Typist Valentina Lakhteeva from Vitebsk voluntarily went to Afghanistan in February 1985. A month and a half later, she died near Puli-Khumri during the shelling of a military unit.

Paramedic Galina Shakleina from the Kirov region served for a year in a military hospital in Northern Kunduz and died of blood poisoning.

Nurse Tatyana Kuzmina from Chita served for a year and a half in the medical clinic of Jalalabad. She drowned in a mountain river while saving an Afghan child. Not awarded.

Didn't make it to the wedding

The heart and feelings cannot be turned off even in war. Unmarried girls or single mothers often met their love in Afghanistan. Many couples did not want to wait to return to the Union to get married.

The waitress of the canteen for the flight crew, Natalya Glushak, and the officer of the communications company, Yuri Tsurka, decided to register their marriage at the Soviet consulate in Kabul and drove there from Jalalabad with a convoy of armored personnel carriers. Shortly after leaving the checkpoint of the unit, the convoy ran into an ambush of the Mujahideen and came under heavy fire. The lovers died on the spot - in vain at the consulate they waited until late for the couple to register the marriage.

But not all girls died at the hands of the enemy. A former Afghan soldier recalls: “Natasha, an employee of the military department in Kunduz, was shot dead by her boyfriend, the head of the Special Department from Hairatan. He himself shot himself half an hour later. He was posthumously awarded the Order of the Red Banner, and an order was read about her in front of the unit, calling her a "dangerous currency speculator."

This year, our country celebrated the 25th anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan. And in 2015, the "forgotten regiment" will be 20 years old, which was formed from the women who fought there. Now they prefer not to even mention them.

Alfiya

A "limited contingent of Soviet troops" crossed the Amu Darya in December 1979. In our country, the war on foreign territory was called "assistance to the fraternal people of Afghanistan" and "fulfillment of international duty." V Soviet newspapers nothing was said about the dead and wounded, nor about life in tents under the scorching sun during the day and in the piercing cold at night. Therefore, Alfiya Kagarmanova agreed to work in Afghanistan without hesitation.

Her military life began in Leningrad with a romantic story. Alya met the German Wolfgang almost by accident, but the friendly correspondence of young people eventually made both of them want to meet. And the girl asked to work in a group of Soviet troops in Germany, and when they offered to go to Afghanistan instead, she also did not refuse. First, she was a Komsomol member. And secondly, she simply did not know what awaited her.

So Alya became one of the first Soviet women who ended up in Afghanistan. In Leningrad, she studied at the Faculty of Journalism, so she took up her usual business here - she wrote and edited materials for the local military newspaper. And at the same time participated in amateur performances. The military vocal and instrumental ensemble, in the first part of which Alfiya sang, later became the famous "Cascade". And as part of a military propaganda team, she traveled through the villages and told the women of Afghanistan about how life is in the Soviet country. The military took girls with them because of the local custom forbidding men to enter the women's quarters. This, by the way, was often used by dushmans.

While talking about what she saw with her own eyes, Alya looks up and slightly to the side so that tears do not shed.

When I arrived in 1981, everything was just beginning. And they lived in tents, and the hospitals were in tents,” she says. - Mortality was terrible, because no one knew how to work in the field. The sisters washed the bandages, as in the Great Patriotic War, there were not enough suture materials - they took parachute lines, disassembled them into threads and sewed them. There were not enough medicines, and everyone fell ill with infectious diseases - dysentery and hepatitis mowed down ours on a par with dushmans.

Alya herself lay in the hospital-tent for two months. Formally, they were forbidden to eat and drink from the locals, but in the East such a refusal is a great insult. And the treat had to be accepted, although terrible unsanitary conditions reigned in the houses. She says she survived because the name Alfiya in Arabic means "living for a thousand years." And also thanks to the head physician of the Bagram hospital - he did not let me go to Tashkent. There, tents for infectious patients were set up right on the streets, and not everyone had time to wait for medical care.

Only when the death rate reached a nightmarish level did a special commission arrive, and after checking, doctors, medicines, and donated blood went to Afghanistan, says Alfiya. - If all this had been at the beginning of the war, how many lives could have been saved ...

Employees and military personnel

Internationalist warriors and families scorched by Afghanistan - widows and mothers who lost their sons - were entitled to significant benefits, including housing and garden plots out of turn, discounts on utility bills and on public transport. However, numerous changes in the legislation left without attention the women who have walked this path side by side with the Afghan men.

Article 3 of the Federal Law "On Veterans", adopted in 1995, directly refers to combat veterans all those who were sent "to work in Afghanistan in the period from December 1979 to December 1989 and worked out the term specified in the direction or were seconded ahead of schedule for good reasons." However, when distributing benefits, this category has the right only to preferential provision of vouchers to sanatorium organizations, an advantage in admission to horticultural, horticultural and dacha non-profit associations of citizens, as well as the right to use annual leave at a convenient time for them. And another priority when installing an apartment telephone. In today's times, not so much funny as humiliating.

Changes in laws have left without attention women who went their way side by side with Afghan warriors

Both Alya and other women could get to Afghanistan only through the Ministry of Defense. In her work book there is a record that she was hired as a typist in a military unit. The archival certificate issued by the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense states that there is an order from the commander of the military unit of field mail 51854 N 75, according to which "to consider arriving: 08/21/1981 the employee of the Soviet Army Kagarmanova A.M. personnel units, for all types of allowances. "The same certificate says that this military unit took part in hostilities for ten years.

But telephone operators, typists, cooks, waitresses, accountants and nurses who worked in military units are not considered military personnel in the law. They were just employees and are now deprived of real benefits. They were not even included in the work experience "a year and a half", as it was in the days of the USSR.

The nurses are the most offensive, - Alya says, - they saw the blood and death the most. There was not enough donor blood - they gave in liters, they fell - but they gave it. Isn't that a feat? The guys did not go to combat operations every day, but for two years they turned a blind eye to them and to the last call "Mom!" told their peers: "I'm here, son ..."

Inequality sign

Humiliating differentiation applies only to "Afghan women". For example, among the participants in the Great Patriotic War the same law applies to civilians who held regular positions in military units, headquarters and institutions that were part of the army in the field. When this material was being prepared, in order to justify such a different approach, I was repeatedly told that women went to Afghanistan voluntarily. But was it different in 1941?

I graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Culture and was liable for military service as a civil defense nurse, says Vera Kuchina. - Once in the winter at four o'clock in the morning I was called to the draft board and told that I had to go to Afghanistan. We were not forced, but insistently asked. They assured me that it would be absolutely safe there, and they gave ten minutes to "consult with my mother."

Now people like Vera and Alfiya are denied even the issuance of veteran certificates. Military registration and enlistment offices habitually refer to the fact that women were not military personnel and did not take part in military operations.

We were all there in combat position. All those who were in Afghanistan are considered fighters of the 40th army, - Petr Zubarev, professor of the Department of General Surgery of the Military Medical Academy, is outraged, in 1980-1982 he was an army surgeon at the Kabul hospital. - And those who refuse to obtain a certificate must be punished - they do not have the right. All participants in those events should have a certificate of a warrior-internationalist.

Probably, it would still be wrong to equate military officers and saleswomen, telephone operators, and cooks. But it is just as wrong to completely hush up the facts about how yesterday's schoolgirls were blown up by mines or took machine guns from the hands of the killed fighters who were supposed to protect them. Against this background, the response from the Committee on Veterans Affairs of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, which actually says: "There is no money for you," looks all the more humiliating.

"Based on the fact that these citizens did not have the status of military personnel, in order to amend paragraph 1 of Article 16 of the Federal Law "On Veterans", unfortunately, legal grounds not available, says the first deputy chairman of the committee Franz Klintsevich. “At the same time, we do not hide the fact that bills that require additional financial costs from the federal budget, as a rule, are not supported by the federal executive authorities and, as a result, do not find their legal resolution.”

Editorial

Please consider this article an official appeal to the legislative authorities with a request to pay attention to the situation of civilians sent to work in Afghanistan and take measures to restore social justice.

Direct speech

Sergey Andenko, Vice-Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg (he was involved in rescuing the wounded in Afghanistan for more than two years):

The question is extremely difficult. Of course, to compare the guys who went into battle in the mountains, and the civilians who worked in the hospital, is not entirely correct. The principle of justice is violated. But, for example, to hand over the highest government military awards athletes - it is also wrong. The pilot or infantryman was ready to die and accomplished a feat, while the skier or figure skater trained hard and achieved results. Yes, such achievements should be encouraged, but it should be a separate award for top achievements in sports, and not the title of "Hero of Russia". Similarly, in the case of the Afghan war: social support measures need to be established for everyone, but they still need to be different. Differentiation is justified, although not to the extent that it is now.

Smolina Alla Nikolaevna

List of dead "Afghans"

THE LIST IS NOT COMPLETE...

"Supplement to the List of dead "Afghan women" (photo, memories, clipping from the Book of Memory)" was separated from this List and moved here so that the page opens faster. The material is collected bit by bit, thanks to the help of caring people. But many more dead girls remain without memories. There are also no photos of KHARCHENKO Lyubov Sergeevna and KHURAMSHINA Zulfira Rashitovna. Therefore, I am glad for any additional line, photo, facts. In Russia, thanks to veteran traitors, "Afghan women" are deprived of benefits and their military memory, as well as the memory of the girls who died in the war, unlike other republics former USSR, not just trampled down, but everything has been done so that the current fools in power are sincerely surprised: "What? Do you want women to be equated with military officers in terms of benefits?" Not many people know (and the "Afghans" themselves are silent about this, having become without exception paratroopers or scouts) that no more than 40% fought in Afghanistan military units, and the so-called "combat officers", as well as the "combat soldiers" of the remaining 60% of the units, performed the same duties as the civilian girls of the Soviet Army, being not just in the same units, but often in the same premises. That is, they served the war. Moreover, the Ministry of Defense did not have the right to send civilian specialists to places where the Labor Code could not be ensured, including labor safety and sanitation. What is the safety of work, if the bombs rained down on the head? And now, instead of repenting and repenting at least before the living, the snickering officials seem to have decided to organize a competition in replicating their own insanity, sending out answers to "Afghan women", one more idiotic one ("masterpieces" can be curious here). Fools do not even realize that they did not betray the girls, but showed the vile cowardly insides of individual Russian "Afghans". In exactly the same way they would have betrayed their colleagues in battle, in exactly the same way they would have given out all military secrets to the enemy, if the circumstances were different? And they also exposed themselves as “women”, starting to resist the girls. That's not how real men behave. Because the girls died on a par with the military, as this List clearly shows.

I repeat: here are the names of the fallen civilians of the Soviet Army from the Ministry of Defense. Those who came from other ministries received decent salaries, and among them only ONE woman from the Ministry of Internal Affairs died - Tamara Sergeevna VELIKANOVA. Why did you mention salary in such a mournful topic? Yes, because the current fools are in power in response to the offended letters of the "Afghan women": "How could we be left without benefits if we were in a real war?" - they answer: "If you are given benefits, then they need to be given to all civilian employees of other Soviet groups abroad. And in general, you received increased salaries." This is not even the answer of fools, but the answer of complete idiots. What groupings abroad came from zinc coffins with civilians in droves, how did they come from Afghanistan?!!! In addition, many civilians wounded in Afghanistan were taken to the Union for treatment, and if they could not be saved, then these losses were no longer fighting. After all, they died in the Union. Although they are not less than in this list. High salary? Yes, other ministries really paid higher salaries to their employees, while civilians from the Ministry of Defense received 70 rubles. for a book + 215 (230?) checks on hand, immediately eaten up in a military store.

But what about "servants of the people"? How dare they allow such a thing? Alas, there are also many guilty, and not only among the maliciously envious ladies-deputies or among the thieving officials. Not only among natural idiots, with one of whom I spoke personally (which I talk about here). But also, including (although I may be mistaken), the blame lies with such deputies as Klintsevich and Gromov. It is to them, who have wormed their way into power, that civilian experts on all "military" issues go. The fact that Gromov is specifically against the civilian "Afghans" was stated by more than one comrade. And I personally spoke with Klintsevich on the phone. Although, to be honest, I don’t understand: why was the service of the special propagandist of the political department of the FA Klintsevich more risky than the service of the special propagandist of the same political department Masha Ivanova? I asked Klintsevich about this by mail, but it seems that the current "servants of the people" do not answer the people, they have no time (which I am talking about here).

* * *
Viktor VERSTAKOV:

"At home everything is the same as before,
And in life everything is new,
I would walk along the boulevards
Yes, boots with horseshoes.
Spring rages in streams,
Chicks squeak under the roofs, -
twenty four months
Not seen, not heard.
And behind the TV antennas
Such a calm distance
As if the universe
Never knew about wars.
Brother teaches math
But look around for something
military soldier
Drawing on the textbook.
Mother is busy with pies
Screams from the kitchen cheerfully: -
Tanya will be glad,
And then she hung her nose.
Looking out the wide window
In glittering puddles.
Around and around again
Memories swirl.
Brother goes to physics
Sopit: it doesn't work,
...Guards division
Saying goodbye to the heroes.
Eternal fireworks are thundering,
There are regiments in columns.
And life is endless
And tears are salty.
Mother is fiddling with the dough,
Brother - with Astafiev's prose.
And Tanechka with a guitar
Sings in the photo."

1979:
there are no losses.

1. EVSINA Nina Ivanovna, serving in the Soviet Army, sent to war by the Ministry of Defense, which now in Russia "spit" not only on the living, but also on the dead "Afghan women", stating nonsense from "civilians had not THAT status" to "civilians had extra vacations during the war." Kabul, a nurse in the infectious diseases department at the central military hospital, military unit 94777. She was born on 01/23/1959 in the village. Gubachevo, Vesyegonsky district, Kalinin region, Russian. She lived in Tosno, worked as a nurse in the hospital. Botkin in Leningrad. In Afghanistan since January 1980. While on duty, she became seriously ill and on August 25 was sent to the Tashkent hospital, where she died on October 5. Not awarded. She was buried at the civil cemetery in Tosno.
Some memories of Nina here
Ninochka was not only the first Afghan woman to die, but also the youngest... A nurse at the Infectious Diseases Hospital got infected at her workplace and could not recover.

2. BESSONOVA Lyudmila Ivanovna, serving in the Soviet Army, sent to war by the Ministry of Defense, which now in Russia "spit" not only on the living, but also on the dead "Afghan women", declaring nonsense from "civilians had not THAT status" to "civilians had extra vacations during the war." Nurse of the 46th medical battalion of the 5th motorized infantry division of the city of Shindandt. Born on March 19, 1951 in Irbit Sverdlovsk region, Russian. On May 10, 1980, on a voluntary basis, she was sent through the Leninsky RVC to work in Afghanistan. She died of illness on January 26. Not awarded. Buried in the city of Irbit.

3. KALININA Margarita Anatolyevna, serving in the Soviet Army, sent to war by the Ministry of Defense, which now in Russia "spit" not only on the living, but also on the dead "Afghan women", declaring nonsense from "civilians had not THAT status" to "civilians had extra vacations during the war." Senior operating room nurse at the hospital. Born on 08/24/1955 in the city of Klin, Moscow Region, Russian, Lived in Leningrad and worked in the hospital. K. Marx. On a voluntary basis, through the Kalininsky RVC of Leningrad, on January 23, 1980, she was sent to work in Afghanistan. On February 2, she died "in the line of duty." She was awarded the medal "For Military Merit" (posthumously). She was buried at the Belavinsky city cemetery in the city of Klin. Some memories of Rita here

4. GVAI Nina Iosifovna, serving in the Soviet Army, sent to war by the Ministry of Defense. Voentorg 177 MSP Jabal-Ussaraj. She was born on December 13, 1946 in the village of Shereshevo Brest region BSSR, Belarusian, Lived in Krasnoyarsk and worked as a merchandiser-forwarder of the wholesale and trade base of the Krai Consumer Union in Krasnoyarsk. On 04/09/1981, on a voluntary basis, she was sent to work in Afghanistan through the Central RBC of Krasnoyarsk. Working as a salesperson at a military store, she constantly traveled to trading bases for goods intended to provide personnel with everything necessary motorized rifle regiment. Repeatedly came under fire. On October 19, she died while traveling to the city of Kabul as a result of an armored personnel carrier being knocked out. She was awarded the medal "For Military Merit" (posthumously). Buried in the village Dawn of the Birilyussky district of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. Awarded posthumously by Decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus A. Lukashenko of December 24, 2003 N 575 in the Brest region "On awarding soldiers-internationalists with a medal "In memory of the 10th anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan." Here are some memories of Nina

5. REMIZOVA Raisa Nikolaevna, serving in the Soviet Army, sent to war by the Ministry of Defense, which now in Russia "spit" not only on the living, but also on the dead "Afghan women", declaring nonsense from "civilians had not THAT status" to "civilians had extra vacations during the war." Kunduz military unit 53380 (1144th bath-house laundry point). Russian She lived in Ulyanovsk and worked as a cook at the Kometa instrument-making plant. On February 15, 1980, she was voluntarily sent to Afghanistan through the Zavolzhsky RVC. February 15 (two years later, the same day with the receipt of a referral to the military registration and enlistment office) died in the line of duty as a result of a car accident. Not awarded. She was buried in Ulyanovsk at the Zavolzhsky cemetery.

6. BABICH Natalya Vladimirovna, serving in the Soviet Army, sent to war by the Ministry of Defense. She was born on December 3, 1955 in the town of Orekhovsk, Orsha district, Vitebsk region, BSSR, Belarusian. She lived in the city of Bobruisk, Mogilev region and worked as a laboratory assistant at TPP-2. On March 23, 1981, on a voluntary basis, through the Bobruisk RBC, she left for work in Afghanistan. September 4th died of defeat electric shock. Buried in Bobruisk. Awarded posthumously by Decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus A. Lukashenko dated December 24, 2003 N 575 in the Mogilev region "On awarding internationalist soldiers with the medal "In memory of the 10th anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan."

7. IVANOVA Nina Nikolaevna, serving in the Soviet Army, sent to war by the Ministry of Defense, which now in Russia "spit" not only on the living, but also on the dead "Afghan women", declaring nonsense from "civilians did not have THAT status" to "civilians had extra vacations during the war." She worked as a waitress in the officer's canteen. She was born on December 28, 1955 in Astrakhan, Russian. She worked as a stewardess at the Astrakhan airport. On 09/20/1982, on a voluntary basis, through the Kirov RVC, she was sent to work in Afghanistan. She became seriously ill and died on 26 (22-?) April. Not awarded. She was buried at the Central Cemetery in Astrakhan. Some memories of Nina here

8. VELIKANOVA Tamara Sergeevna. She was born on 06/09/1950 in Moscow. She graduated from secondary school N 161 and graduated with honors from vocational school with a degree in shorthand. She worked for five years in the Central Office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR. She graduated as an external student from the 3rd year of the Moscow State Historical and Architectural Institute. On March 16, 1983, she was voluntarily sent to the Republic of Afghanistan to work in the Representation of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs at the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the DRA. On June 14, 1983, she died as a result of an accident, that is, she stayed less than three months. Awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor (posthumously). Buried in Moscow. A stand dedicated to her memory was installed in the 161st school. Addition from Eduard BERESNEV, who is engaged in military history: "VELIKANOVA Tamara Sergeevna died of an unknown disease. There is an opinion that the Afghans poisoned her."

9. BOTOLINA Lyubov Anatolyevna, serving in the Soviet Army, sent to war by the Ministry of Defense, which now in Russia "spit" not only on the living, but also on the dead "Afghan women", declaring nonsense from "civilians had not THAT status" to "civilians had extra vacations during the war." She was born on 11/18/1959 in the village. Velikoye, Velsky district, Arkhangelsk region, Russian. Student of the military medical academy. On August 12, 1982, she was sent to work in Afghanistan on a voluntary basis through the Velsky RVC of the Arkhangelsk region. She became seriously ill and died on August 2. She was awarded the medal "From the grateful Afghan people". Buried in the village Georgievsky, Velsky district, Arkhangelsk region. Some memories of Luba here

10. MOSHENSKAYA Lyudmila Mikhailovna, serving in the Soviet Army, sent to war by the Ministry of Defense. Nurse of the infectious diseases department of a separate military hospital N 650 (Kabul). She was born on 07/04/1956 in the city of Mariupol, Donetsk region of the Ukrainian SSR, Ukrainian. A graduate of the Mariupol medical school (1974), she worked as a nurse in the children's department of the city hospital No. 4. On 07.05.1983, on a voluntary basis, through the Ordzhenikidzevsky RVC, she was sent to work in Afghanistan. She died on September 12, a month before the replacement, from a severe form of typhoid fever. Not awarded. She was buried at the Novotroitskoye cemetery in Mariupol. Some information about Ludmila here

11. KOROTAYEVA Alevtina Nikolaevna, serving in the Soviet Army, sent to war by the Ministry of Defense, which now in Russia "spit" not only on the living, but also on the dead "Afghan women", declaring nonsense from "civilians had not THAT status" to "civilians had extra vacations during the war." She worked as a clerk. She was born on February 18, 1941 in the village. Eremshino, Palkinsky district, Kostroma region, Russian. Lived in Pushkin Leningrad region and worked as a postman. On 06/12/1983, on a voluntary basis, she was sent to Afghanistan through the Pushkinsky RVC of Leningrad. She died on October 28 from a serious illness. Not awarded. She was buried in the city of Pushkin at the Kuzminsky cemetery.

12. BOLSHAKOVA Nina Nikolaevna, serving in the Soviet Army, sent to war by the Ministry of Defense, which now in Russia "spit" not only in the living, but also in the dead "Afghan women", declaring nonsense from "civilians had not THAT status" to "civilians had extra vacations during the war." She was born on 07/09/1956 in the village. Andreevka, Tambov region, Russian. In Tambov, she worked in a trolleybus depot. On 09/21/1983, on a voluntary basis, Tambova was sent to work in Afghanistan through the Oktyabrsky RVC. Was in Afghanistan for about a month. On November 3, she was mortally wounded in a grenade explosion. Not awarded. Buried in the village Bogoroditskoye, Nikiforovsky district, Tambov region.

13. Natalya Ivanovna KOSTENKO, serving in the Soviet Army, sent to war by the Ministry of Defense, which now in Russia "spit" not only on the living, but also on the dead "Afghan women", declaring nonsense from "civilians had not THAT status" to "civilians had extra vacations during the war." She was born on May 14, 1952 in the city of Mariinsk, Kemerovo Region, Russian. She lived and worked as a salesperson in the supply department in the village. Smolino, Maloviskovsky district, Kirovograd region, Ukrainian SSR. On 05.04.1983, on a voluntary basis, through the Maloviskovsky RVC, she was sent to work in Afghanistan. Died December 21st. Not awarded. She was buried in the civil cemetery in the village. Smolino, Kirovograd region.

14. Shot saleswoman Natasha from Kunduz, serving in the Soviet Army, sent to war by the Ministry of Defense, which now in Russia "spit" not only on the living, but also on the dead "Afghan women", declaring nonsense from "civilians did not have THAT status" to "civilians had additional vacations in the war."

2. Voevoda 2008/06/01 17:39 [delete] [reply] Alla Nikolaevna, add to the list dead women a girl named Natasha (she was then 26-27 years old, no more). Unfortunately, I don’t remember her last name, or where she comes from, I only know that she was from the 201st Motor Rifle Division (Kunduz), serving in the SA, military department. In March-April 1984, in Hairatan, she was shot dead by the head of a special department from Hairatan, a captain named ..., who was her "boyfriend", a close friend. Then after 20-30 minutes he shot himself; posthumously he became a major and received the Order of the Red Banner. But Natasha was taken to Termez and she lay there for a long time in the morgue, it seems that even her relatives were not given the body. It was, apparently, an extraordinary case when they decided to "blur" this case and smoothly pull it to the Union (Termez). A little more memories of Natasha here

15. KROTOVA Nina Nikolaevna, serving in the Soviet Army, sent to war by the Ministry of Defense, which now in Russia "spit" not only in the living, but also in the dead "Afghan women", declaring nonsense from "civilians had not THAT status" to "civilians had extra vacations during the war." Nurse. She was born on 03/12/1939 in the city of Gorky, Russian. She worked as a nurse at Children's Hospital No. 42. On 11/20/1983, on a voluntary basis, she was sent to work in Afghanistan through Gorky's Sormovo RVC. She died on August 1 when a car was shelled. Not awarded. Buried in Gorky.

16. KORNILENKO Vera Alekseevna, serving in the Soviet Army, sent to war by the Ministry of Defense, which now in Russia "spit" not only on the living, but also on the dead "Afghan women", declaring nonsense from "civilians had not THAT status" to "civilians had extra vacations during the war." Junior nurse of the infectious diseases department of the hospital. She was born on February 21, 1959 in the village. Nemino, Medvezhyegorsk district of the Karelian ASSR, Russian. She lived in Petrozavodsk and worked at SPTU-7. On a voluntary basis, through the Petrozavodsk GVK on March 26, 1984, she was sent to work in Afghanistan. On August 1, the car in which the medical staff was traveling came under fire and Vera was hit by a bullet. Not awarded. She was buried in Medvezhyegorsk, Karelian ASSR.

17. VRUBLEVSKAYA Tatyana Anatolyevna, Soviet Army officer, sent to war by the Ministry of Defense. Kabul, seller (merchandiser?) of the trade and procurement base of the military trade. She was born on December 13, 1950 in the city of Vinnitsa, Ukrainian SSR, Russian. She worked at the head sewing enterprise of the association "Vinnitsa". On a voluntary basis, on April 20, 1983, through the Vinnitsa GVK, she was sent to work in Afghanistan. She died on October 27 in a plane shot down by a "stinger" over Kabul, returning from Tashkent, where she and her colleague (see below) flew to the base of the military department to select goods for their store. By the way, in Tashkent, Tanya bought a wedding dress for her own planned wedding. Awarded with the Order of the Red Star (posthumously). She was buried at the Old City Cemetery in Vinnitsa. The story about Tanya is written by me here

And died with her.

18. KALGANOVA Galina Alexandrovna, serving in the Soviet Army, sent to war by the Ministry of Defense, which now in Russia "spit" not only on the living, but also on the dead "Afghan women", declaring nonsense from "civilians did not have THAT status" to "civilians had extra vacations during the war." She worked as a merchandiser at one of the procurement bases of the military trade. She was born on 02/09/1943 in the city of Yeisk, Krasnodar Territory, Russian. She lived in Makhachkala and worked as a merchandiser in a bookstore. On February 4, 1984, through the military commissariat of the Dagestan ASSR, she was sent to work in Afghanistan. She died on October 27 in a plane shot down by a "stinger" over Kabul, returning from Tashkent, where she and her colleague (see above) flew to the base of the military department for a selection of goods for their store. She was awarded the Order of the Red Star (posthumously). Buried in Yeysk. The story about Galina was written by me here

FULL LIST OF DEAD IN THIS Il-76 AIRCRAFT

Crew:
Mr. BONDARENKO Yuri Fedorovich - commander of the ship
senior lieutenant KAIKOV Sergey Mikhailovich - assistant commander
Mr. GLADYSH Ivan Artemyevich - navigator
Dr. VAKULENKO Anatoly Mikhailovich - flight engineer
Dr. GURULYOV Alexander Antonovich - aircraft technician for aviation and landing equipment
pr-k ARKHIPOV Nikolay Anatolyevich - shooter
pr-to SLOBODIAN Bogdan Evstakhievich - radio operator

Passengers:
p / p-c SHINKARENKO Anatoly Maksimovich - Deputy Head of the Department of Military Trade
employee VRUBLEVSKAYA Tatiana Anatolyevna
employee KALGANOVA Galina Alexandrovna
employee SHULGAN Vladimir Mikhailovich - senior merchandiser.

19. KARMANOVA Olga Nikolaevna (Ivanovna?), an employee of the Soviet Army, sent to war by the Ministry of Defense, which now in Russia "spit" not only in the living, but also in the dead "Afghan women", declaring nonsense from "the civilians did not have THAT status "to" civilians had additional holidays in the war. Born on 07.12.1961 in Tambov, Russian. She lived in Tambov and worked as a merchandiser at the inter-district base of the regional consumer union. On 04/12/1984, on a voluntary basis, Tambova was sent through the Soviet RVC to work abroad. Died December 23rd. Not awarded Buried at the Petropalovsky cemetery in Tambov.

20. LAKHTEEVA Valentina Leonidovna, serving in the Soviet Army, sent to war by the Ministry of Defense. Secretary-typist. She was born on November 26, 1956 in the village of Liozno, Vitebsk region of the BSSR, Belarusian. She lived in Sayanogorsk and worked as a secretary-typist in the editorial office of the city newspaper "Ogni Sayan". On a voluntary basis, on February 2, 1983, she was sent to work in Afghanistan through the Sayansky RVC of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. On March 20, she died during the shelling of the brigade's permanent deployment point in the city of Kabul. She was buried in the village of Liozno, Vitebsk region. Awarded posthumously by Decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus A. Lukashenko of December 24, 2003 N 575 for the Vitebsk region "On awarding soldiers-internationalists with a medal "In memory of the 10th anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan." Some memories of Valentina are here

21. MELNIKOVA Valentina Ivanovna, serving in the Soviet Army, sent to war by the Ministry of Defense. She was born on February 14, 1942 in the town of Chebarkul, Chelyabinsk region, Russian, worked as a shop assistant in the town of Chernomorskoye, Crimean region of the Ukrainian SSR. On 09/04/1984, on a voluntary basis, through the Crimean OVK, she was sent to work in Afghanistan. She died of a serious illness on March 30 (September?) Not awarded. Buried in the village Medvedevo, Chernomorsky district, Crimean region. It is possible that Andrey GRESHNOV, ITAR representative in Kabul, remembers Valentine here

22. SHAKLEINA Galina Veniaminovna, ensign-paramedic, Northern Kunduz, military unit 39696. She was born on 10/02/1956 in the village. Panshonki of the Falensky district of the Kirov region, Russian. She worked in the Tuberculosis Hospital No. 3 in Khimki. V Military establishment The USSR was called up on May 15, 1983 by the Ivano-Frankivsk GVK in Afghanistan since July 1984. She died of blood poisoning on July 8. Not awarded. She was buried in the village of Falenki, Kirov Region. Some memories of Galina here

23. DOBROFILYA Larisa Vladimirovna, serving in the Soviet Army, sent to war by the Ministry of Defense. Junior nurse. Born on 02/09/1958 in Telavi, Georgian SSR, Ukrainian, Lived in Pereyaslavl-Khmelnitsky, Kiev region, Ukrainian SSR and worked as a typist in legal advice. On a voluntary basis, on June 29, 1983, through the Khmelnitsky RVC of the Kiev region, she was sent to work abroad. She tragically died in Kabul on July 9. Not awarded. She was buried in the city of Pereyaslavl-Khmelnitsky.

24. FINOGENOVA Nadezhda Petrovna, serving in the Soviet Army, sent to war by the Ministry of Defense, which now in Russia "spit" not only on the living, but also on the dead "Afghan women", declaring nonsense from "civilians had not THAT status" to "civilians had extra vacations during the war." Paramedic. Born on March 14, 1940 in Leningrad, Russian. She worked as a dispatcher at the central ambulance station. On November 4, 1984, she was sent on a voluntary basis through the Leningrad GVK to work in Afghanistan. She died July 10th. Not awarded. She was buried at the Southern Cemetery in St. Petersburg (formerly Leningrad).

25. SHEVCHENKO Miranda Romualdovna, serving in the Soviet Army, sent to war by the Ministry of Defense. She was born on January 17, 1951 in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Russian. She lived in Odessa and worked as a seller in the "Children's World" association. On 03/01/1985, on a voluntary basis, through the Malinovsky RVC of Odessa, she was sent to work in Afghanistan. On September 25, she died in a car accident. Not awarded. Buried in Odessa. Two photos here

26. BABUK Svetlana Mikhailovna, serving in the Soviet Army, sent to war by the Ministry of Defense. Medical operating room nurse. She was born on 05/02/1959 in Minsk, BSSR, Belarusian. She worked in the 4th clinical hospital in Minsk. On March 13, 1984, on a voluntary basis, through the Moscow RVC of Minsk, she was sent to work in Afghanistan. In Afghanistan since March 1984, She died of a serious illness on October 31. She was buried at the Chizhovsky cemetery in Minsk. Awarded posthumously by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus A. Lukashenko of December 24, 2003 N 575 for the city of Minsk "On awarding soldiers-internationalists with a medal "In memory of the 10th anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan." Some memories of Svetlana are here

27. Nina Vladimirovna KAPUSTINA, ensign, paramedic of the medical center of the motorized rifle regiment (military unit 51931), last duty station - Shindandt. She was born on 03.05 (07-?) 1955 in the village. And I Altai Territory, Russian. She graduated from the Birobidzhan Medical School. She lived and worked in the city of Vyborg, Leningrad Region. On 03.03.1982, on a voluntary basis, through the Vyborg OGVK, she was sent to work in Afghanistan (other sources report that Nina has been in Afghanistan since October 1985). She died in an accident on November 22. She was posthumously awarded the Order of the Red Star, the medal "To the Warrior-Internationalist from the grateful Afghan people", and the Diploma of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR "To the Warrior-Internationalist". She was buried at the civilian Northern cemetery in Vyborg, Leningrad Region. Some memories of Nina here

1986:

28. KUZMINA Tatyana Ivanovna, Jalalabad, military unit 93992, serving in the Soviet Army, sent to war by the Ministry of Defense, which now in Russia "spit" not only in the living, but also in the dead "Afghan women", declaring nonsense from "among civilians was not THAT status" to "civilians had additional vacations in the war." Nurse. Born on January 17, 1953 in Chita, Russian. She worked as a nurse in the district hospital in the village. Enchantment of the Chita region. On 16.01.1985, on a voluntary basis, she was sent through the Chita OVK to work in Afghanistan. On June 16, she drowned in a mountain river while rescuing an Afghan child. Not awarded. She was buried at the cemetery of the Zheleznodorozhny district of Chita. My story is dedicated to Tanya (click on the title) "Tanya, why didn't you listen to me? (Part 1)" and also "To Nurse Tanya (Part 2)"

29. DOROSH Svetlana Nikolaevna, serving in the Soviet Army, sent to war by the Ministry of Defense. Nurse. She was born on 07/12/1963 in the village. Slavyanka of the Mezhevsky district of the Dnepropetrovsk region of the Ukrainian SSR, Ukrainian. She lived in Dnepropetrovsk and worked as a nurse at the ambulance station. On a voluntary basis, on February 19, 1986, through the Amur-Nizhnedneprovsky RVC in Dnepropetrovsk, she was sent to work in Afghanistan. On July 24, she died in a car bombardment. Not awarded. Buried in her native village. Her name is listed on the slab of the monument to the war-internationalists of the Dnepropetrovsk region, who died in the Afghan war.

30. Galina Alexandrovna SMIRNOVA, serving in the Soviet Army, sent to war by the Ministry of Defense, which now in Russia "spit" not only on the living, but also on the dead "Afghan women", declaring nonsense from "civilians did not have THAT status" to "civilians had extra vacations during the war." She was born on 11/03/1950 in the village of Sudislavl, Kostroma Region, Russian. She worked as an engineer in a production and technical association. On a voluntary basis, through the Sverdlovsk RVC, Kostroma was sent on September 18, 1985 to work in Afghanistan. On October 24, she died in the line of duty. Not awarded. Buried at home. Her name is immortalized in the Memorial of Glory. Some memories of Galina here

31. SINITSYNA Tamara Nikolaevna, serving in the Soviet Army, sent to war by the Ministry of Defense, which now in Russia "spit" not only on the living, but also on the dead "Afghan women", declaring nonsense from "civilians had not THAT status" to "civilians had extra vacations during the war." She was born on February 21, 1946 in Moscow, Russian. She worked in Moscow as a dispatcher in the Mosavtolegtrans traffic service. On a voluntary basis, through the Krasnopresnensky RVC of Moscow on February 20, 1986, she was sent to work in Afghanistan. Died 12 November. Not awarded. She was buried at the Mitinsky cemetery in Moscow.

32. POLIKARPOVA Olga Vasilievna, serving in the Soviet Army, sent to war by the Ministry of Defense, which now in Russia "spit" not only on the living, but also on the dead "Afghan women", declaring nonsense from "civilians had not THAT status" to "civilians had extra vacations during the war." She was born on February 16, 1955 in the city of Kizlyar, DagASSR, Russian. She lived in Tolyatti and worked in a department store. On 09/02/1986, on a voluntary basis, through the Central RVC of the city of Togliatti, she was sent to work in Afghanistan. On November 13, she died in an accident. Not awarded. Buried in Tolyatti.

In the AN-12 plane shot down on November 29 near the Kabul airfield, along with the crew and other passengers (8/21), the following were killed:

33. LYKOVA Tatyana Vasilievna, serving in the Soviet Army, sent to war by the Ministry of Defense, which now in Russia "spit" not only in the living, but also in the dead "Afghan women", declaring nonsense from "civilians had not THAT status" to "civilians had extra vacations during the war." She was born on 04/01/1963 in Voronezh, Russian. On November 13, she was enrolled in the military registration and enlistment office for service in Afghanistan, in Kabul she received a referral to the post of secretary of secret clerical work at the headquarters of the 15th Special Forces Special Forces of Jalalabad and on November 29 she died in a blown up plane while flying from Kabul to Jalalabad (that is, from the day she received the referral to only 16 days have passed since the military registration and enlistment office). She was awarded the Order of the Red Star (posthumously), the medal "Internationalist from the grateful Afghan people." She was buried in the cemetery of the Left Bank district.

And died with her.

34. Natalya Danilovna YERMAKOVA, serving in the Soviet Army, sent to war by the Ministry of Defense, which now in Russia "spit" not only on the living, but also on the dead "Afghan women", declaring nonsense from "civilians had not THAT status" to "civilians had extra vacations during the war." Born on 09/03/1953 in Norilsk, Russian. She lived and worked in Orekhovo-Zuevo. On November 23, she was enrolled in the military registration and enlistment office for service in Afghanistan and on November 29 she died in a blown up plane while flying from Kabul to Jalalabad (that is, only 6 days have passed since the day she received the referral to the military registration and enlistment office). Not awarded. She was buried in Orekhovo-Zuevo. I tell about Natasha in the story (click on the title) "Larisa the Hairdresser" A photo of Natasha's monument can be viewed here. So far, alas, I have no other memories or facts of what this girl was during her lifetime. The surviving "Afghan women" cannot tell anything about Natasha, since this girl did not even fly to her place of service (hey, the hero of thunders and others like him ???) and did not have time to make friends with any of the girls.

And died with them:

35. MOTORINA Tatyana Anatolyevna, serving in the Soviet Army, sent to war by the Ministry of Defense, which now in Russia "spit" not only on the living, but also on the dead "Afghans", declaring nonsense from "civilians had not THAT status" to "civilians had extra vacations during the war." Jalalabad, senior merchandiser (what part?). She was born on April 12, 1959 in Tula, Russian. Lived and worked in Belgorod. In Afghanistan since September 1986. She died on November 29 in a blown up plane while returning from a business trip to Kabul. Awarded with the Order of the Red Star (posthumously). Buried at home. I talk about Tatyana in the story (click on the title) "Larisa the hairdresser"

And died with her.

37. VINOGRADOVA Irina Stanislavovna, serving in the Soviet Army, sent to war by the Ministry of Defense, which now in Russia "spit" not only in the living, but also in the dead "Afghan women", declaring nonsense from "civilians had not THAT status" to "civilians had extra vacations during the war." She was born on 09/08/1961 in Moscow, Russian. She worked in the Moscow GVK as the head of unclassified office work. On a voluntary basis, through the Sverdlovsk RVC of Moscow, on January 21, 1986, she was sent to work in Afghanistan. She died on December 20 as a result of an accident while going on vacation. Not awarded. She was buried at the Kuzminsky cemetery in Moscow. Some memories of Irina here

38. KHARCHENKO Lyubov Sergeevna (photo not found), serving in the Soviet Army, sent to war by the Ministry of Defense. Typist. Born in 1946 in the city of Mironovka, Kiev region, Ukrainian. On 03/02/1986, on a voluntary basis, through the Kiev OVK, she was sent to work in Afghanistan. On December 20, she died of a serious illness. Not awarded. Buried at home.

39. STRELCHENOK Galina Gennadievna, warrant officer, paramedic. She was born on May 18, 1962 in the village of Begoml, Dokshitsky district, Vitebsk region, BSSR, Belarusian. She lived in the Minsk region and worked as the head of the feldsher-obstetric station in the village. Balashi, Vileika district, Minsk region. She was drafted into the Armed Forces of the USSR through the Minsk RVC on 10/18/1984. She has been in Afghanistan since December 1985. She died in battle on December 29, 1986 near the city of Herat while repelling an attack on a convoy. She was awarded the Order of the Red Star (posthumously). She was awarded posthumously by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus A. Lukashenko of December 24, 2003 N 575 for the Minsk region "On awarding internationalist soldiers with the medal "In memory of the 10th anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan." She was buried in the Minsk region.

41. KOMISSAROVA Tatyana Pavlovna, serving in the Soviet Army, sent to war by the Ministry of Defense. Infectious Diseases Hospital Nurse. She was born on February 21, 1964 in the city of Lebedin, Sumy Region, Ukrainian SSR, Russian. After graduation high school studied at the Lebedinsky Medical School. Sitenko. She worked in Sumy as a nurse in the surgical department of the regional hospital. On March 11, 1986, through the Sumy OVK, she was sent to Afghanistan to the 1138th military infectious diseases hospital (Kunduz), worked as a nurse. On January 17, she died of a serious illness. On December 8, 1988, she was awarded the Order of the Red Star (posthumously). She was buried at the Mironosnitsky cemetery in Lebedin.

42. MELNIKOVA Victoria Vyacheslavovna, serving in the Soviet Army, sent to war by the Ministry of Defense. She worked as an X-ray laboratory assistant at a military hospital. She was born on October 23, 1961 in Yenakiyevo, Donetsk region, Ukrainian SSR, Russian. She worked in the city of Gorlovka as a laboratory assistant in hospital No. 2. On 18.11.1986 she was sent to work in Afghanistan on a voluntary basis through the Central city RVC of Gorlovka. On January 29, she died in a car accident during the shelling of a convoy. Awarded with the Order of the Red Star (posthumously). She was buried at the Central Cemetery in Gorlovka. A few memories of Victoria here Vika served with us in Jalalabad, in the 834th military field hospital of the military unit 93976 of especially dangerous infectious diseases, transferred to us to suppress the cholera epidemic, which I talk about here, and here Alexander Ivanovich recalls DOBRIANETS, currently - Head of the Department of Gravitational Blood Surgery and Hemodialysis (Artificial Kidney) of the 432nd Order of the Red Star of the Main Military Clinical Medical Center (formerly a hospital) of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus, Minsk. In Afghanistan - from 06.1984 to 05.1986 - art. lieutenant / captain of the medical service, head of the reception and sorting department of a separate medical company of the 66th separate motorized rifle brigade (high-frequency order 93992), surgeon.

And died with her.

44. SHEVCHUK Lyubov Tarasovna, serving in the Soviet Army, sent to war by the Ministry of Defense. Barracks, cook, 668 ooSpN military unit 44653 n.p. She was born on 01/21/1964 in the village. Zaritsk, Rivne region, Ukrainian SSR, Ukrainian. She worked as a cook in military trade-43 in Rovno. On 03/09/1986, on a voluntary basis, through the Rovno OGVK, she was sent to work in Afghanistan. On April 5, she was returning from Kabul to the unit with a convoy of cars that were carrying food. 25 km from Kabul, the column came under fire from the rebels. When trying to go around the damaged car, the armored personnel carrier, on which Lyubov followed, hit a mine and, engulfed in flames, fell into the abyss. Awarded with the Order of the Red Star (posthumously). Buried at home. Some memories of Luba here

45. STEPANOVA Lidia Illarionovna, serving in the Soviet Army, sent to war by the Ministry of Defense, which now in Russia "spit" not only on the living, but also on the dead "Afghans", declaring nonsense from "civilians had not THAT status" to "civilians had extra vacations during the war." Crane operator. She was born on October 10, 1956 in the village. Toksarkino, Morkinsky district, Mari ASSR, Mari. She worked in Novorossiysk as a typesetter in a printing house. On 10/25/1986, on a voluntary basis, through the Primorsky RVC of Novorossiysk, she was sent to work in Afghanistan. On July 10, she died from severe injuries. Not awarded. Buried in the village Adymash, Morkinsky district, Mari ASSR.

47. VASILIEVA Nina Borisovna, warrant officer, head of the secret part of the reconnaissance battalion. She was born on January 28, 1949 in the village. Kalinovka, Chernyakhovsky district, Kaliningrad region, Russian. She worked at the Ivanovo Butter Plant. She entered military service in the Armed Forces of the USSR on a voluntary basis on June 17, 1970 through the Gulyaevsky OGVK of the Kaliningrad Region. In Afghanistan since October 1986. On November 17, she died of a serious illness. Not awarded. She was buried in the town of Gusev, Kaliningrad region.

48. GLUSHAK Natalya Petrovna, serving in the Soviet Army, sent to war by the Ministry of Defense. B / h pp 22630, 22637 - Jalalabad, Separate battalion of aviation technical support and airfield security battalion, flight canteen waitress. She was born on 08/06/1960 in the Kiev region, Ukrainian. Worked in Kiev. Voluntarily through the Kiev OVK on August 26, 1986, she was sent to Afghanistan. She died on November 17 as a result of an armored personnel carrier being blown up by a landmine. Not awarded. Buried in the village Khmelevik, Kiev region. Some memories of Natalia here

49. There is information that has not been confirmed with 100 percent accuracy that when the An-26 MANPADS were shot down on September 13, 1987, the wife of Alexei Ivanovich ARTEMOV, who flew with him to the place of service, died with him.