We Are from the USSR!

7 hrs. 48 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Saveliy Gromov

Narrator Andrey Valentinov

18+ The book is written in the first person based on real events. The names of the characters have been changed or are collective images.

The story begins in the eighties with the main narrator being drafted into the border troops of the KGB of the USSR in Transbaikalia. After finishing military training, the main narrator is sent to Afghanistan. As part of the BTR crew of a sapper platoon, which includes Soviet boys of different nationalities (a Russian, a Buryat, an Uzbek, and a Ukrainian) from different parts of the once-immense and great USSR, along with the four-legged sapper—a shepherd dog named Jack—they travel along dusty wartime roads, ending up in funny and sometimes tragic situations, carrying out their international duty. The close-knit BTR crew, in the combat section where they served, jokingly nicknamed themselves “Four tankers and a dog.”

Combat events are accompanied by memories of the boys’ civilian life in the USSR, helping to create the atmosphere of the era in which these boys grew up and became adults.

The book is written easily, with humor.

1. We Are from the USSR!