Even a tablespoon can cause harm to health if you put it in your mouth beyond measure. Although, most sane people manage not to hurt themselves while eating....

After Orlov’s “introduction,” I thought: “God, whoever gets drafted into the army needs to hug and cry.” The boy lived to be eighteen years old, and his head...

By mid-August 1984, our post No. 12, Dragon's Tooth, had acquired the reputation of the most belligerent post in our regiment. There were several reasons. Th...

In such a military-political situation, a crowd of strangely outfitted boys arrived at the Dragon’s Tooth. They crawled out to our post in the second half of...

In the first days of August 1984, our regiment, once again, went on a combat operation to some distant outback of the Panjshir Gorge. I don’t know where exac...

Our Commander observed the battlefield, made decisions and coordinated the actions of five big men (read, exhausted fighters). As a result, the actions turne...

At altitude 2921, from dawn to dusk, Dushman heavy machine guns fired at us. Enemy saboteurs with misanthropic intentions periodically tried to penetrate the...

Everyone knows that you can’t play around with weapons, and I knew it too. But there was nothing else on the Dragon Tooth, as the old joke goes: “If he hadn’...

Personally, it seems to me that the District Human Resources Department should have thought about this problem. But it, apparently, was so busy with more imp...

The book describes the harsh everyday life of service in the mountains. Mountain Battalion, July 1984, Panjshir Gorge, Parwan Province, Afghanistan.

Me and four other fighters were covered from heaven by our Guardian Angels from the 262nd Bagram Separate Air Squadron

There is a war going on here, the kindergarten remains in the Union. Whoever does not understand this will return home in a zinc coffin.