The former base of 108st Motor Rifle Division of the Soviet Army | military, ruins

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At 15.00 on Dec. 25, 1979 108 th Motorized Infantry Division began crossing on a pontoon bridge on the Kabul area. On the Afghan bank of its vanguard on behalf of H. Amin met her elder brother Abdul Amin Rakhmon responsible for the suppression of the actions of the opposition in the north. At the same time, the border crossed aircraft military transport aircraft from the 103rd Airborne Division, which had to be moved to the airfield of the city of Kabul. Since fighting broke out everyday Soviet troops in the DRA, which was composed of 108-I and Nevelskaya Red Banner Division.
From 1980 to 1989 he served as division of tasks to ensure the safety of convoys along routes Doshi-Kabul, the Kabul-Jalalabad, the protection of objects of importance (elevator, storage of fuels and lubricants, power in Kabul, a dam and hydroelectric power station site in Surubi, airfield Bagram, etc.), to conduct combat operations to destroy the gangs of insurgents in the area of ​​responsibility, and in offshore operations.