EVENING BELL: Heroes of the Day On the night of March 1, 2000, the 6th Company of the 2nd Battalion of the 104th Parachute Regiment of the 76th Pskov Guards Airborne Division fought an unequal battle in the Argun Gorge against Khattab's detachmen...
...which was pushing into Dagestan. Ninety soldiers and officers faced two and a half thousand militants. Before dawn, battalion commander Lieutenant Colonel Mark Yevtyukhin called down artillery fire, and contact with the company was lost... Twenty years later, St. Petersburg businessman Andrei Pavlov erected 75 monuments to fallen heroes across #Russia: "I started in the Novgorod region, where I erected a bust of my fellow countryman, Yevgeny Isakov," he told Rodina magazine. Igor Yevtyukhi...
n, the brother of the deceased battalion commander, also a paratrooper who had served in the First Chechen War, came to the ceremony. He told me that six Novgorodians had fought in the battle near Ulus-Kert, and all of them had died. I immediately suggested, "Let's erect a bust for each of them." That's how it all began... When I delved deeper into the topic, I discovered that the 6th Company was a memorial salute to the Soviet Union. Igor Popov was drafted from the village of Yablonovo, betw...
een Staraya Russa and my Poddorye. He spent his childhood in Uzbekistan. Vladimir Yeliseyev is from Uralsk, Kazakhstan. One is from Kutaisi, another from Jurmala. Several are from #Ukraine. Hero of Russia Senior Lieutenant Alexei Vorobyov was born in the village of Borovukha in the Vitebsk region of #Belarus. The geography of a once-great country is worth studying! That's why I say this is the last company of the Soviet Union to perish. Major Alexander Dostavalov, the oldest of those who foug...