Heroes of Kunar operations: 4th Company 149 th Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment 25 May 1985 The operation, known as Kunar, was planned by the General Staff of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR. Its purpose was to destroy the forces of the Afghan Mujahideen in Kunar Valley. Among other military units participated in the operation and units of the 201st Infantry Division, including the 149th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Ivanovich Guard Skorodumova. 4th Company of the regiment was ordered to come from the north to the village of Cognac, which has the largest ammunition depots Mujahideen. Rothe were attached grenade and mortar platoons. He commanded a division of Guard Captain Alexander G. Peryatinets. However, Afghan guides, whose services are used by motorized infantry, were traitors. They have got a company in an ambush, which consisted mainly of black storks - dushmanskoy elite. First noticed this Guard sergeant Vasily Kuznetsov and Guard soldier Victor and Alexander Akchebash France. They managed to prevent a company of the ambush, taking the fire itself ... First reacted Guard Sergeant Albert Hayrapetyan. Best shot he struck first spooks. Hayrapetyan was one of the few who managed to survive the fierce battle taking place in a gorge. He later rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel. On the infantry attacked literally a hail of fire. Shot from sniper rifles and mortars, from hand-held and heavy machine guns and recoilless rifles ... spooks hoped that the soldiers panicked and start to flee. But the company did not flinch, no one had even thought about how to move on. To save bullets, beat back short bursts of 2-3 shots. At the beginning of the battle was seriously wounded company commander. Guard sergeants Ilfak Gareyev and Victor Erovenko commander managed to include a small grotto, bandaged and covered it until the last minute, themselves being wounded. Both have refused to obey orders of the commander and move to save themselves. Gareyev Erovenko and killed by the bullets of snipers, leaving Captain Peryatintsa. Wounded officer preferred death to captivity. The last words of the company commander forever be remembered by all his colleagues: Good-bye, guys! Save a company! Get out while there is still ammunition. Bring those who can. Im leaving for good. Forgive me, Lord! Do not think badly of me! After destroying the radio and map, Captain Peryatinets committed suicide. Guard soldier Alexei Abakumov and Nuritdin Alibaev under heavy fire carried the seriously wounded fellow soldiers from the battlefield. Both at the time of this feat were seriously wounds and later died heroically in battle. From time to time the Mujahideen tolerably Russian soldiers offered to surrender, threatening otherwise to not leave anyone alive, and to dismember the body. But in response to received only bullets and grenades. 4th Company five oclock stood against the superior forces of the enemy ... At the beginning of the battle each soldier was 8-10 fully loaded magazine, plus about a thousand rounds of ammunition in bulk. By the end of the battle was an incomplete store - less than 30 rounds ... waste is already in the twilight, under the direction of a wounded lieutenant Gennady Tranina. Waste company covered badly wounded among the first Guard sergeant Vasily Kuznetsov, who destroyed himself and his enemies surrounding the last grenade. Just a battle lost 23 officers and soldiers of the 4th company. This Guard Captain Alexander Peryatinets Guards Lieutenant Valery Castle Guards Sergeant Victor Erovenko Guards sergeants Vasily Kuznetsov, Ilfak Gareyev, Basil Vokhmyanin, Vyacheslav Duplishev, Shukhrat encoded Guard Corporal Vladimir Andreev Guard soldier Alexei Abakumov Nuritdin Alibaev, Victor Akchebash, Alexander Frantsev, Alex Lukoshkin, Abdulhanon Hamzaev, Alex Khristophorov, Rusalberdy Khodjakuli Yuri slaughter Zaza Tsartsidze Vladimir Tsalay, Basil Fitsik, Victor Demkin, Zhohonboy Inobeddinov. All of them completed before the end of military duty to the Motherland ... Soldiers of the 4th company was posthumously awarded the Order of Lenin, the Red Banner and Red Star. Name Guard Captain Alexei Peryatintsa got a street in his hometown Novoshahtinsk Rostov region. Street in the Penza region and named in honor of the Guards Junior Sergeant Vasily Kuznetsov, and there is a street in Ussuriysk Guard soldier Alexander Frantseva.
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