the first trip to the chechen republic took place in january 1995 by andrei prolenkov. those who were sent. i was a grenade launcher. they brought us these grenade launchers and that’s it, and immediately the cleansing of grozny began, and we started losing. here are the first departures right away, and a wounded man appeared, then a dead man appeared , and igor egorov was the first, well, they cleared out quarter by quarter. already on his first combat mission, sergeant frolenkov earned a medal for courage; the command highly noted his skillful actions. the good fellows left the school where they were based at night and looked for a place, where are they really from ? every night they went out there somewhere a kilometer, maybe more from the school, they lay down right in the cemetery in the snow, lay there at night and figured out, and a mortar was floated down the river on a raft. he fired at the school and then went downstream, we couldn’t understand where it was coming from. well , they figured it out, naturally, they destroyed business trips to the north caucasus