they brought snow shuravi with them. so they called the soviet soldiers, the cold was such that our guys froze in tents, around the clock, the aluminum kettle boiled. volodya said that after a few days, the aluminum teapot melted and flattened from continuous heating, 731 died there, a native of belarus, of which 84 were from minsk. and it could have been 85, can you imagine today , minsk zhbanov's sculpture? 29 february leap year 1980 surrounded by the mujahideen blows himself up so as not to be captured. senior sergeant assistant platoon commander alexander mironenko from the same 103rd airborne division in which volodya served. he was posthumously the first in the ussr to be awarded the title of hero of the soviet union shocked by the death of a colleague, volodya makes a sketch of a bust of mironenko, and when a year later he returned from afghanistan to minsk, he began comrades are dying to cast a monument to a colleague, who was installed on the territory of the 103rd airborne division in vitebsk and volodya is try