Participants in an historical reenactment of the battle for Hill 3234 during operation Magistral, conducted by Soviet troops during the war in Afghanistan. The reenactment was dedicated to the Commemoration Day for soldiers-internationalists and the 25th anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan.15.02.2014#2374912
Participants in an historical reenactment of the battle for Hill 3234 during operation Magistral, conducted by Soviet troops during the war in Afghanistan. The reenactment was dedicated to the Commemoration Day for soldiers-internationalists and the 25th anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan.15.02.2014#2374905
Participants in an historical reenactment of the battle for Hill 3234 during operation Magistral, conducted by Soviet troops during the war in Afghanistan. The reenactment was dedicated to the Commemoration Day for soldiers-internationalists and the 25th anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan.15.02.2014#2374897
Participants in an historical reenactment of the battle for Hill 3234 during operation Magistral, conducted by Soviet troops during the war in Afghanistan. The reenactment was dedicated to the Commemoration Day for soldiers-internationalists and the 25th anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan.15.02.2014#2374923
Participants in an historical reenactment of the battle for Hill 3234 during operation Magistral, conducted by Soviet troops during the war in Afghanistan. The reenactment was dedicated to the Commemoration Day for soldiers-internationalists and the 25th anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan.15.02.2014#2374896
Participants in an historical reenactment of the battle for Hill 3234 during operation Magistral, conducted by Soviet troops during the war in Afghanistan. The reenactment was dedicated to the Commemoration Day for soldiers-internationalists and the 25th anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan.15.02.2014#2374903
Participants in an historical reenactment of the battle for Hill 3234 during operation Magistral, conducted by Soviet troops during the war in Afghanistan. The reenactment was dedicated to the Commemoration Day for soldiers-internationalists and the 25th anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan.15.02.2014#2374917
Participants in an historical reenactment of the battle for Hill 3234 during operation Magistral, conducted by Soviet troops during the war in Afghanistan. The reenactment was dedicated to the Commemoration Day for soldiers-internationalists and the 25th anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan.15.02.2014#2374921
Military hospital "Charsad Bistar" with 400 beds was built with the economic and technical support of the Soviet Union.30.10.2011#2979109
Ambassador of the Republic of Afghanistan to Russia (2002-2004), First Vice-President of Afghanistan (2004-2009) Ahmad Zia Massoud, center, and embassy officials at a reception by the Governor of the Moscow Region Boris Gromov, right.12.02.2003#3056155
Consumexpo-91, an international exhibition of consumer goods at Moscow's Expocenter exhibition grounds. Fur products of the French company Claude Litz.20.01.1991#8227715
Chairman of the Council of Ministers (Government) of the USSR, Nikolai Ryzhkov, center left, holds talks with Deputy Prime Minister of Afghanistan M. Manchal, fifth right, opposite Ryzhkov.20.08.1990#8343198
From left: Chairman of the Council of Ministers (Government) of the USSR, Nikolai Ryzhkov, meets with Deputy Prime Minister of Afghanistan M. Manchal before their talks.20.08.1990#8343195
The Afghan War of 1979-1989. The Limited Soviet Military Contingent in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, now the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Photo: Soviet military doctors treat residents of a local community.25.07.1990#8429334
A veteran of Afghan War, internationalist soldier Ilya Shumilkin (1979 - 1989). Graduates (a photo from family archive). Ilya is second left in the fourth row from below.08.05.1990#5556689
A veteran of Afghan War, internationalist soldier Ilya Shumilkin (1979 - 1989) in Afghanistan. Photo from the family archive.08.05.1990#5556688
A veteran of Afghan War, internationalist soldier Ilya Shumilkin (1979 - 1989) at home with younger brothers.08.05.1990#5556580
A veteran of Afghan War, internationalist soldier Ilya Shumilkin (1979 - 1989) with comrades in arms at Salang Pass. Photo from the family archive.08.05.1990#5556579
A veteran of Afghan War, internationalist soldier Ilya Shumilkin (1979 - 1989) with his pet.08.05.1990#5556578
A veteran of Afghan War, internationalist soldier Ilya Shumilkin (1979 - 1989) with his mother.08.05.1990#5556577
A veteran of Afghan War, internationalist soldier Ilya Shumilkin (1979 - 1989). True men can do everything.08.05.1990#5556576
A veteran of Afghan War, internationalist soldier Ilya Shumilkin (1979 - 1989) with his wife Lena. Photo from the family archive.08.05.1990#5556575
A veteran of Afghan War, internationalist soldier Ilya Shumilkin (1979 - 1989) with his brother during a walk.08.05.1990#5556395
A veteran of Afghan War, internationalist soldier Ilya Shumilkin (1979 - 1989). Boys try the elder brother's military uniform on.08.05.1990#5556394
A veteran of Afghan War, internationalist soldier Ilya Shumilkin (1979 - 1989) teaches his brothers how to play guitar.08.05.1990#5556393
Boarding school No. 9 in Volgograd for orphans from Afghanistan. Naseema, a 12-year-old Afghan schoolgirl from Helmand province, studies at a boarding school.15.03.1990#8429217
Literature class at Boarding School No. 9 in Volgograd for parentless children in Afghanistan.15.03.1990#8429214
Center: Alexander Kiselev, first secretary of Volgograd regional Komsomol committee and People's Deputy of the USSR, at a meeting with former army officers and soldiers who served in Afghanistan.01.03.1990#8218674
Metropolitan Paulos Gar Gregorios of Delhi Diocese of the Malankara Syrian Orthodox Church, a leader of the World Council of Churches, on his visit to Moscow. A conversation with a soldier who fought in Afghanistan and is undergoing treatment in the hospital.19.01.1990#6651219
Moscow, House of Unions. A rally of solidarity with the people of Afghanistan and the legitimate government of Muhammad Najibullah fighting the Mujahideen who unleashed a civil war. Second left in presidium: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Afghanistan to the USSR Said Mohammad Gulabzoy.14.12.1989#6633985
Moscow, House of Unions. A rally of solidarity with the people of Afghanistan and the legitimate government of Muhammad Najibullah fighting the Mujahideen who unleashed a civil war. Right: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Afghanistan to the USSR Said Mohammad Gulabzoy.14.12.1989#6633983
The first conference for the mothers and relatives of soldiers who went missing in Afghanistan.01.12.1989#6636833
The first conference for the mothers and relatives of soldiers who went missing in Afghanistan.01.12.1989#6636831
First conference of the mothers and families of soldiers that went missing in Afghanistan. Conference participants address the Committee of International Troops.01.12.1989#6645002
First conference of the mothers and families of soldiers that went missing in Afghanistan.01.12.1989#6645000
First conference of the mothers and families of soldiers that went missing in Afghanistan.01.12.1989#6644988
First conference of the mothers and families of soldiers that went missing in Afghanistan. Family members look at the photos of Soviet soldiers that went missing in Afghanistan.01.12.1989#6644986
First conference of the mothers and families of soldiers that went missing in Afghanistan.01.12.1989#6644984
First conference of the mothers and families of soldiers that went missing in Afghanistan.01.12.1989#6644983
From left: international journalist at the Novosti Press Agency (APN) Andrey Pravov, correspondent at the Russian News Agency TASS Victor Budan and photo correspondent at the Novosti Press Agency (APN) Vyacheslav Kiselev after a news conference at the Afghan Ministry foreign Foreign Affairs.01.10.1989#2899383
Republic of Afghanistan (Islamic Republic of Afghanistan). Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the USSR to the Republic of Afghanistan Yuly Vorontsov completed his mission. Departure home.01.10.1989#2908759
Republic of Afghanistan (Islamic Republic of Afghanistan). Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the USSR to the Republic of Afghanistan Yuly Vorontsov, second left, completed his mission. Departure home.01.10.1989#2908758
Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (Islamic Republic of Afghanistan). Soviet doctors help local residents.01.09.1989#6644989
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the USSR to the Republic of Afghanistan Yuly Vorontsov, second from left, and Foreign Minister of the Republic of Afghanistan Abdul Wakil at the airport of Kabul, Republic of Afghanistan (Islamic Republic of Afghanistan).01.09.1989#2908757
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the USSR to the Republic of Afghanistan Yuly Vorontsov (background, wearing glasses) and Foreign Minister of the Republic of Afghanistan Abdul Wakil, second left, accompanying Angola’s delegation to the airport of Kabul, Republic of Afghanistan (Islamic Republic of Afghanistan).01.09.1989#2908754
Afghan War veterans with severe injuries undergo medical treatment at the 114th District Military Hospital of the Moscow Air Defense District (now Branch No. 1 of the Third Central Military Clinical Hospital of the Russian Defense Ministry). An Afghan War veteran and amputee tries on a prosthetic leg.07.08.1989#6543898
114th District Military Hospital of the Moscow Air Defense District (now Branch No. 1 of the Third Central Military Clinical Hospital of the Russian Defense Ministry. Journalists of Novosti Press Agency (APN, now Rossiya Segodnya) organized the Charity Chain campaign in the hospital. Center: Hospital director Anatoly Zakalsky. Right: Afghan War veteran and APN journalists helping the wounded.07.08.1989#6543899
Afghan War veterans with severe injuries undergo medical treatment at the 114th District Military Hospital of the Moscow Air Defense District (now Branch No. 1 of the Third Central Military Clinical Hospital of the Russian Defense Ministry). Roman Savvayeyev's wife was by his side during the most difficult days.07.08.1989#6543892
114th District Military Hospital of the Moscow Air Defense District (now Branch No. 1 of the Third Central Military Clinical Hospital of the Russian Defense Ministry. Journalists of Novosti Press Agency (APN, now Rossiya Segodnya) organized the Charity Chain campaign in the hospital. APN editor N. Podvigina sits down with the soldiers wounded in the Afghan War during a break after cleaning the ward.07.08.1989#6543886
International journalist, Novosti Press Agency (APN) correspondent Andrei Pravov, Central Television reporter Alexander Shkirando, Deputy Chairman of the APN Board Anatoly Bogomolov, and Minister-Counselor of the Russian Embassy in Afghanistan Vladimir Ivanenko (from left to right) arrive in Mazar-i-Sharif. Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (Islamic Republic of Afghanistan).01.08.1989#2903729
A meeting of Afghan War veterans' mothers. Photo: The families and friends of Soviet soldiers, killed in action during the Afghan war of 1979-1989, gather for a symbolic wake.01.06.1989#5929562
A meeting of Afghan War veterans' mothers. Photo: The families and friends of Soviet soldiers, killed in action during the Afghan war of 1979-1989.01.06.1989#5929561
A meeting of Afghan War veterans' mothers. Photo: The families and friends of Soviet soldiers, killed in action during the Afghan war of 1979-1989, gather for a symbolic wake.01.06.1989#5929560
A meeting of Afghan War veterans' mothers. Photo: The families and friends of Soviet soldiers, killed in action during the Afghan war of 1979-1989.01.06.1989#5929559
A meeting of Afghan War veterans' mothers. Photo: The families and friends of Soviet soldiers, killed in action during the Afghan war of 1979-1989.01.06.1989#5929558
Withdrawal of limited contingent of Soviet forces from the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan). In the vicinity of Termez (the Uzbek SSR), a greeting ceremony was conducted for peacekeeping Soviet soldiers who were on their way home from Afghanistan.15.05.1989#2888182
Soviet soldiers who served with the limited Soviet military contingent in Afghanistan and who provided internationalist assistance there meet with journalists.01.05.1989#8206091
Concert for the Soviet internationalist fighters who served in the Soviet limited contingent of troops in Afghanistan at the Krasnogorsk military hospital (now Vishnevsky Central Military Hospital No. 3 under the Ministry of Defense).01.05.1989#8206088
Soviet internationalist fighters who served in the Soviet limited contingent of troops in Afghanistan at the Krasnogorsk military hospital (now Vishnevsky Central Military Hospital No. 3 under the Ministry of Defense).01.05.1989#8206079
