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The most famous battles
January 7, 1988 there was a fight at an altitude of 3234 meters in the area of the Afghan-Pakistani border. On the basis of these events for the film "The Ninth Company". We decided to recall the most famous battles in which participated the Soviet troops in Afghanistan.
View dominant 3234. Photo from personal archive SV Rozhkov, 1988
Battle for Hill 3234
January 7, 1988 in Afghanistan at an altitude of 3234 m above the road to the city of Khost in the area of the Afghan-Pakistani border came a fierce battle. It was one of the most famous clashes portion of the limited contingent of Soviet troops in Afghanistan with the Afghan mujahideen militias. On the basis of these events in 2005 for the film "The Ninth Company". The height of 3234 m protected 9th paratrooper company of 345-th Guards separate airborne regiment of the total number of 39 people, with the support of artillery regiment. Soviet fighters attacked the special units of the Mujahideen of between 200 to 400 people have been trained in Pakistan. The battle lasted 12 hours. Mujahideen did not manage to seize the high ground. After suffering heavy losses, they retreated. In the ninth company, six Marines were killed, 28 were injured, nine of them - heavy. All the Marines for the battle were awarded the Order of the Red Banner and the Red Star. Sergeant VA Alexandrov and ordinary AA Melnikov, was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.
In the reflection attacks artillery played a major role, in particular - two howitzer battery of six howitzers, three D-30 howitzers and three self-propelled "Acacia", which produced about 600 shots. Presumably, supporting the mujahideen exerted by Pakistani armed forces delivered by transport helicopters to the neighboring valley of ammunition and reinforcements and taking away the dead and wounded in the direction of Pakistan. According to the helipad were produced volleys of installation "Smerch" from a distance of about 40 km, with the result that the helicopters were destroyed.
Fight off villages BRANDY
May 25, 1985 there was a fight guards 4th infantry company 149 th Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment with the Afghan Mujahideen "Islamic Party of Afghanistan" and Pakistani mercenaries unit "Black Stork". The collision happened during "Kunar operations" - a planned large-scale combined-arms operations in the gorge Pechdara from the village near the town of Cognac Asadabad in the area of the Afghan-Pakistani border. Guardsmen perform combat missions to find and eliminate weapons and ammunition warehouses and members of armed Afghan opposition.
As it turned out, were the agents of the local people associated with the Mujahideen. In the highlands of these "wires" company was wound up in the boiler, which, being in a closed ring, for 12 hours led fierce unequal battle with the superior forces of the Mujahideen and Pakistani mercenaries. With more than 200 Mujahideen fighting 43 soldiers. In this battle heroically he behaved Guard sergeant Vasily Kuznetsov. Badly wounded, he was covering the retreat company, having spent ammunition, being surrounded by the enemy, let the enemies close and killed them and himself last grenade. For this feat Vasily Kuznetsov was posthumously awarded the Order of Lenin. The collision killed 23 soldiers, 18 soldiers have received injuries of varying severity.
Fight off villages HARA
May 11, 1980 in the gorge at the village of Hara Pechdara near the town of Asadabad in the area of the Afghan-Pakistan border was a fight units of the 66th separate motorized rifle brigade against numerous detachment of the Afghan mujahideen. When making a foot march from the village towards the Barkanday kishlak Hara Soviet troops were ambushed by Mujahideen, the approximate strength of 150-200 people and being surrounded, took a fierce battle. This battle is one of the most ambitious in the number of losses in the history of the Afghan war. From the battle, which involved 90 military personnel, 17 people came. According to the survivors of the battle, leaving the environment to fight, deryas in melee (one of the confirmed facts melee in the war in Afghanistan. Another fact melee was in 1984). The group left in total darkness, in the water pulling on himself wounded and weapons. Mujahideen chased for 1, 5 km of the road along the river, but did not guess that by them in the water leaked remnants surrounded by subdivisions. According to some, enemy losses totaled 120 dead and badly wounded.
FIGHT ON MOUNT YAFSADZH
June 17, 1986 on the mountain at an altitude of 2540 Yafsadzh meters into the gorge at the Jarai village Mirheyl in Takhar province there was a fight between the 783rd separate reconnaissance battalion - "Kunduz Reconnaissance" and a detachment of the Mujahideen warlord Qazi Kabir. The clash took place in the course of large-scale combined arms operations "maneuver." Troopers had to liquidate a staging post in the mountain range Mugulan, Cholbahir Tali-Gobang near Ishkamysh supplying arms and ammunition to rebel groups under their control and supporting settlements in the north-eastern part of the Republic of Afghanistan. In addition, the anticipated capture of being in a war zone field commander Ahmad Shah Massoud.
783rd separate reconnaissance battalion was landed literally on the head fortified strong point and got into a zone of continuous fire damage. There has been an error commander of a helicopter squadron 335 th separate helicopter regiment in the place of landing northwest of nearly 8 km from the planned landing point, which led to significant losses of staff at the beginning of the operation. The planned landing point has been prepared for the landing preliminary artillery and aviation. However, planting was launched on an unprepared area directly under direct enemy fire from the commanding heights, the first wave of troops scouts planted in totally suppressed the enemy. After taking profitable at the time frontiers, troops immediately joined the battle. The absence of the element of surprise attacks 783rd ORB, due to leakage of information about the time and details of the planned operation, the actual numerical superiority of the Mujahideen, as well as clever use of their strategic position in the high altitude led to a compression of the encirclement and intelligence officers blocked the way to the sail. At KP 201 MSD continued to mistakenly assume that the troops landed well as the commander of the 783rd ORB Major PV Korytny radio did not convince them that they are in another place. Only in the morning on June 18 in the actual area of the fight were sent Su-25 attack helicopters and Mi-24, which were imposed on the landing target. Also thanks expelled reinforcement troops could seize the fortified warehouses of weapons and ammunition and to eliminate infrastructure transshipment base. In this battle the 783rd ORB lost 18 dead, more than 15 soldiers were wounded.
Fight off villages AFRIDZH
22 November 1985 there was a fight at the village Afridzh Zardevskom gorge in the mountain massif Darayya-Kalat in north-eastern Afghanistan. Battle Group Panfilov guards outpost Moto maneuver group (of 21 people) was ambushed by improper crossing of the river. During the battle killed 19 border guards. It was the loss of many guards in the Afghan war. According to some estimates, the amount involved in the ambush Mujahideen was 150 people.
Border Guards of Panfilov outpost
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Bridge near the village Dzhulbar clicking which entered the last battle group Panfilov guards outpost. The border guards were killed before the bridge, on the side where the shooting was carried out.
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View dominant 3234. Photo from personal archive SV Rozhkov, 1988
Battle for Hill 3234
January 7, 1988 in Afghanistan at an altitude of 3234 m above the road to the city of Khost in the area of the Afghan-Pakistani border came a fierce battle. It was one of the most famous clashes portion of the limited contingent of Soviet troops in Afghanistan with the Afghan mujahideen militias. On the basis of these events in 2005 for the film "The Ninth Company". The height of 3234 m protected 9th paratrooper company of 345-th Guards separate airborne regiment of the total number of 39 people, with the support of artillery regiment. Soviet fighters attacked the special units of the Mujahideen of between 200 to 400 people have been trained in Pakistan. The battle lasted 12 hours. Mujahideen did not manage to seize the high ground. After suffering heavy losses, they retreated. In the ninth company, six Marines were killed, 28 were injured, nine of them - heavy. All the Marines for the battle were awarded the Order of the Red Banner and the Red Star. Sergeant VA Alexandrov and ordinary AA Melnikov, was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.
In the reflection attacks artillery played a major role, in particular - two howitzer battery of six howitzers, three D-30 howitzers and three self-propelled "Acacia", which produced about 600 shots. Presumably, supporting the mujahideen exerted by Pakistani armed forces delivered by transport helicopters to the neighboring valley of ammunition and reinforcements and taking away the dead and wounded in the direction of Pakistan. According to the helipad were produced volleys of installation "Smerch" from a distance of about 40 km, with the result that the helicopters were destroyed.
Fight off villages BRANDY
May 25, 1985 there was a fight guards 4th infantry company 149 th Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment with the Afghan Mujahideen "Islamic Party of Afghanistan" and Pakistani mercenaries unit "Black Stork". The collision happened during "Kunar operations" - a planned large-scale combined-arms operations in the gorge Pechdara from the village near the town of Cognac Asadabad in the area of the Afghan-Pakistani border. Guardsmen perform combat missions to find and eliminate weapons and ammunition warehouses and members of armed Afghan opposition.
As it turned out, were the agents of the local people associated with the Mujahideen. In the highlands of these "wires" company was wound up in the boiler, which, being in a closed ring, for 12 hours led fierce unequal battle with the superior forces of the Mujahideen and Pakistani mercenaries. With more than 200 Mujahideen fighting 43 soldiers. In this battle heroically he behaved Guard sergeant Vasily Kuznetsov. Badly wounded, he was covering the retreat company, having spent ammunition, being surrounded by the enemy, let the enemies close and killed them and himself last grenade. For this feat Vasily Kuznetsov was posthumously awarded the Order of Lenin. The collision killed 23 soldiers, 18 soldiers have received injuries of varying severity.
Fight off villages HARA
May 11, 1980 in the gorge at the village of Hara Pechdara near the town of Asadabad in the area of the Afghan-Pakistan border was a fight units of the 66th separate motorized rifle brigade against numerous detachment of the Afghan mujahideen. When making a foot march from the village towards the Barkanday kishlak Hara Soviet troops were ambushed by Mujahideen, the approximate strength of 150-200 people and being surrounded, took a fierce battle. This battle is one of the most ambitious in the number of losses in the history of the Afghan war. From the battle, which involved 90 military personnel, 17 people came. According to the survivors of the battle, leaving the environment to fight, deryas in melee (one of the confirmed facts melee in the war in Afghanistan. Another fact melee was in 1984). The group left in total darkness, in the water pulling on himself wounded and weapons. Mujahideen chased for 1, 5 km of the road along the river, but did not guess that by them in the water leaked remnants surrounded by subdivisions. According to some, enemy losses totaled 120 dead and badly wounded.
FIGHT ON MOUNT YAFSADZH
June 17, 1986 on the mountain at an altitude of 2540 Yafsadzh meters into the gorge at the Jarai village Mirheyl in Takhar province there was a fight between the 783rd separate reconnaissance battalion - "Kunduz Reconnaissance" and a detachment of the Mujahideen warlord Qazi Kabir. The clash took place in the course of large-scale combined arms operations "maneuver." Troopers had to liquidate a staging post in the mountain range Mugulan, Cholbahir Tali-Gobang near Ishkamysh supplying arms and ammunition to rebel groups under their control and supporting settlements in the north-eastern part of the Republic of Afghanistan. In addition, the anticipated capture of being in a war zone field commander Ahmad Shah Massoud.
783rd separate reconnaissance battalion was landed literally on the head fortified strong point and got into a zone of continuous fire damage. There has been an error commander of a helicopter squadron 335 th separate helicopter regiment in the place of landing northwest of nearly 8 km from the planned landing point, which led to significant losses of staff at the beginning of the operation. The planned landing point has been prepared for the landing preliminary artillery and aviation. However, planting was launched on an unprepared area directly under direct enemy fire from the commanding heights, the first wave of troops scouts planted in totally suppressed the enemy. After taking profitable at the time frontiers, troops immediately joined the battle. The absence of the element of surprise attacks 783rd ORB, due to leakage of information about the time and details of the planned operation, the actual numerical superiority of the Mujahideen, as well as clever use of their strategic position in the high altitude led to a compression of the encirclement and intelligence officers blocked the way to the sail. At KP 201 MSD continued to mistakenly assume that the troops landed well as the commander of the 783rd ORB Major PV Korytny radio did not convince them that they are in another place. Only in the morning on June 18 in the actual area of the fight were sent Su-25 attack helicopters and Mi-24, which were imposed on the landing target. Also thanks expelled reinforcement troops could seize the fortified warehouses of weapons and ammunition and to eliminate infrastructure transshipment base. In this battle the 783rd ORB lost 18 dead, more than 15 soldiers were wounded.
Fight off villages AFRIDZH
22 November 1985 there was a fight at the village Afridzh Zardevskom gorge in the mountain massif Darayya-Kalat in north-eastern Afghanistan. Battle Group Panfilov guards outpost Moto maneuver group (of 21 people) was ambushed by improper crossing of the river. During the battle killed 19 border guards. It was the loss of many guards in the Afghan war. According to some estimates, the amount involved in the ambush Mujahideen was 150 people.
Border Guards of Panfilov outpost
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Bridge near the village Dzhulbar clicking which entered the last battle group Panfilov guards outpost. The border guards were killed before the bridge, on the side where the shooting was carried out.
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