Don't Go Serve in the Infantry! Book 6. The Pamir March of a Motor Rifle Regiment

Continuation of the series “Don’t go serve in the infantry!”

The story begins at the end of 1979. The introduction of troops into Afghanistan through the eyes of the commander of a motorized rifle platoon. A heroic march of a motorized rifle regiment—equipped with heavy equipment—through the highlands of the Pamirs and the Hindu Kush in forty-degree frost, in a squall wind, snowstorm, along switchbacks.

Was everything so smooth? This is a book about people who served in the only regiment that entered battles on the territory of Afghanistan from the very first day. First losses. Taking control of the Vahan corridor and, more broadly, the province of Badakhshan. How they learned to fight and what they thought about it then. How they were formed. What they prepared for. How the reservists—“partisans”—served and fought. And how then the “conscripts” who replaced them “embedded” themselves into this war.

What was it like?

This is not an action thriller. It’s a book about people and events in which they participated—what were they like? Based on real events.

Contains obscene language.