twenty-year-old private sergei melnichenko was the first border guard to die during the afghan war. attack on a propaganda detachment, killed private sergei milnichenko, the first of ours. army general sailors, a commander who not only knows about everything what's happening his death again proves that negotiations with bandits cannot solve the problem, the enemy’s meanness must be punished, well, let’s act like a great patriotic one. the future head of the border troops, vadim aleksandrovich matrosov, was sent to moscow in june 1941 to attend a junior lieutenant course at the higher school of the nkvd troops. in the first months of the great patriotic war, as part of the cadet division, vadim matrosov participated in the defense of the capital. at the turn of volokolamsk, mazhaisk, kaluga, maloyaroslavets. in 1942 , sailors began serving as intelligence officers of the border regiment. the karelian front was the longest and did not have a continuous line, only pockets of confrontation. under these conditions , deep raids by soviet intelligence officers behind enemy lines were an ef