Afghan War Reenactment and T-72B and BMP Crew Demonstration Run

Opening of guided-tour and interactive areas to visitors:

• “Stalin Line” Guided Tour Route
• “Our Armoured Train” Exhibition
• Operational Military Vehicle Display
• Photo Area
• Shooting from a tank and gun**
• Blank-Firing Weapons Shooting**

Ready for Labour and Defence (GTO) These are interactive entertainment areas.

Everyone taking part in the Stalin Line GTO Challenge Area can enter the prize draw.

To enter the prize draw, you must:

• Complete all GTO areas and receive a score for each one
• Arrive at the specified time for the announcement of the prize-draw results
• Certificates and prizes will be awarded exclusively to participants who attend the prize-giving ceremony.

Main GTO areas:

• Airgun Shooting






• Weapon Assembly and Disassembly






• Scout Trail






• Historical Quiz






• Grenade Throwing






• Artillery School

In accordance with the reform plan for the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus, and to improve the security of military facilities belonging to Armed Forces units and institutions, the 1st Military School for Junior Specialists (Service Dog Training) was established in 1993. Now the Armed Forces Canine Centre, it is based in Krupki, Minsk Region. Its official date of establishment is 16 November 1993, when the first school order was issued.

In 1995, recognising the importance and potential for the development of military working dog training, a decision was made to relocate the Armed Forces Canine Centre to the settlement of Kolodishchi, Minsk District.

Since the centre was established, it has trained more than three thousand service dogs and over three thousand military working dog specialists.

Today, the Armed Forces Canine Centre is a military training unit responsible for training military working dog specialists and service dogs for a variety of roles, including mine detection, search and rescue, tracking, the detection of weapons, narcotics and explosives, guard duties, patrol work and others.

The centre devotes considerable attention to breeding and dog shows. More than 500 dogs and puppies have taken part in national and international shows.

The centre’s dogs hold titles including International Champion, Candidate for International Champion, Champion of Belarus, Candidate for Champion of Belarus, class winner and FCI group winner.

The Canine Centre plays an active role in the military-patriotic education of schoolchildren and in enhancing the prestige of military service. To this end, the centre’s personnel give demonstrations, conduct informative guided tours and take part in other civic and patriotic events.

Since the centre was established, there has not been a single breach of any facility guarded by service dogs trained there.

The Service Dog Handler Training School was established on 24 January 1995 at the Smorgon Border Guard Training Detachment in the settlement of Devyatni, Smorgon District, Grodno Region. 

In October 1995, the Service Dog Handler Training School was relocated to the Smorgon Border Guard Detachment in the settlement of Gauti, Smorgon District, Grodno Region. 

In November 2002, the Service Dog Handler Training School was reorganised as the Canine Centre. 

The Canine Centre is now a training unit of the border guard service. It trains, retrains and provides advanced training for canine specialists, as well as training service dogs for a variety of duties, including tracking people by scent, sentry duties, specialised searches for narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, weapons, ammunition and explosives, and guarding facilities. It also breeds and raises working dog breeds. 

Today, the Canine Centre of the border guard service is recognised as one of the best not only in the CIS, but also in Eastern Europe. 

A year earlier, the Soviet leadership had decided to establish a border security zone in Afghanistan known as the “Curtain”, intended to block most of the caravan routes used to supply the mujahideen from Pakistan. To reinforce the Soviet forces already in Afghanistan, two separate special forces brigades were deployed there. Their individual detachments were dispersed throughout the border provinces.

 27 March 1985 in the vicinity of the city of Asadabad a separate special forces detachment arrived, formed on the basis of the 5th Independent Special Forces Brigade from Maryina Gorka Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. In Afghanistan, this brigade was redesignated as the 5th Battalion. It was commanded by Major Terentyev.

On 20 April 1985, at the entrance to the Maravar Gorge leading towards Pakistan, Major Terentyev openly carried out a reconnaissance with a group of company commanders, in full view of local residents. The mujahideen learnt of the reconnaissance and prepared an ambush. Terentyev initially sent three companies to search the small village of Sangam. During the night of 20–21 April, the three companies searched Sangam but found no one. Terentyev then unexpectedly ordered Tsebruk’s 1st Company to search another, larger village, Daridam, where intelligence indicated that a mujahideen detachment accompanied by an American instructor might be present, and, if possible, to capture the foreign instructor. No one questioned the illogical nature of the order: the battalion commander had committed fewer troops to searching an even larger village, despite the possible presence of an American there.

Aware of the difficulty of the task, the commander of the 1st Company, Captain Tsebruk, divided the company into four groups. He sent the 1st group Lieutenant Nikolai Kuznetsov, followed by the 2nd group under Lieutenant Alexander Kotenko. The 3rd group under Lieutenant Alexander Kisten and 4th Group under Captain Sergei Taran were to provide cover for the reconnaissance troops from the rear and from above on the slopes of the gorge.

While advancing through the kishlak 1st and 2nd Group (22 men) The mujahideen watched them from concealed positions on the slopes of the gorge. After our reconnaissance troops had finished sweeping the area and decided to return, one group of mujahideen descended from the slope into the kishlak and attacked the retreating troops from the rear, while another group bypassed the kishlak from the south and blocked their escape route.

At 05:00, hearing gunfire on the outskirts of the kishlak, the company commander, Captain Tsebruk, radioed Major Terentyev to request reinforcements and then set out with four men to assist his company. Captain Tsebruk was killed in the ensuing exchange of fire.

When 1st and 2nd group were fired upon from behind by the mujahideen. Our reconnaissance troops rushed towards the exit from the kishlak, where they came under fire from mujahideen who had blocked their route of retreat. Mortar bombs rained down on our soldiers, who were trapped in the kishlak. Of the 22 reconnaissance troops surrounded, five survived: Lieutenant Kotenko, Sergeant Turkin, Privates Korobov and Biynyk, and Warrant Officer Bakhmutov. 

Sergeant Vladimir Turkin later recalled how our men fought to the last round, dying rather than surrendering.

The severely wounded Lieutenant Nikolai Kuznetsov killed himself and the mujahideen around him with an F-1 grenade. Private Vyacheslav Sulin did the same. The wounded soldiers Volodya Boychuk, Sanya Vakulyuk, Yura Gavrash, Vasya Kukharchuk, Slava Marchenko, Vasya Muzyka and Nail Mustafin also preferred death to captivity and torture, blowing themselves up with a five-kilogram ‘witch’ (an improvised assault grenade made from an OZM-72 bounding fragmentation mine).

The soldiers of the 3rd Group, having spotted from above the enemy blocking the exit from the kishlak, opened fire, killing two. However, some of the mujahideen took cover beneath overhanging rocks, while the others targeted the 3rd Group with mortar fire. Having suffered casualties, The 3rd and 4th groups withdrew from the village.

By 11 a.m. the battle in the Maravar Gorge it was over. Of its 85 men, the 1st Company lost 29 that day, while the 2nd Company lost a further two. Most of the reconnaissance troops surrounded at Daridam were killed not by gunshot wounds, but by grenade blasts and mine fragments.

Thus, contrary to popular myth, the 1st Company was not wiped out, although it suffered very heavy losses.

List of the Fallen:

1. Captain Nikolai Nesterovich Tsebruk (posthumously awarded the Order of the Red Star)
2. Lieutenant Nikolai Anatolyevich Kuznetsov (posthumously awarded the Gold Star of Hero)
3. Sergeant Vladimir Leonidovich Nekrasov
4. Private Sakhob Saatovich Khaidarov
5. Sergeant Dzhumabek Geldyevich Urazbayev
6. Private Nail Maratovi Mustafin
7. Lance Corporal Vyacheslav Valentinovich Marchenko (Order of the Red Star, posthumously)
8. Sergeant Vasily Fedorovich Kukharchuk (Order of the Red Star, posthumously)
9. Junior Sergeant Abdurakhmon Tozhievich Chutanov
10. Sergeant Oleg Masurmankulovich Kasymov
11. Private Viktor Gavrilovich Moryakhin
12. Sergeant Stanislav Iosifovich Kulnis
13. Lance Corporal Alexander Sergeyevich Vakulyuk
14. Sergeant Viktor Vasilyevich Tarasov
15. Private Ismattullo Shamsovich Madiev
16. Private Vladimir Vasilyevich Boychuk (posthumously awarded the Order of the Red Star)
17. Sergeant Yuri Cheslavovich Gavrash
18. Sergeant Andrei Mikhailovich Zhukov
19. Private Vladimir Viktorovich Popov
20. Private Vyacheslav Anatolyevich Sulin
21. Sergeant Mikhail Alekseyevich Matokh (posthumously awarded the Order of the Red Star)
22. Lance Corporal Vasily Ivanovich Fediv (posthumously awarded the Order of the Red Star)
23. Private Vasily Nikolayevich Muzyka
24. Private Alexander Germanovich Slivko
25. Lance Corporal Nikon Nikolayevich Komogortsev
26. Private Vladimir Pavlovich Kuryakin
27. Sergeant Igor Anatolyevich Napadovsky
28. Private Andrei Konstantinovich Novikov
29. Private Oleg Pavlovich Ovchinnikov
30. Private Andrei Mikhailovich Chikhunov
31. Private Yuri Nikolaevich Shapovalov

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Rules:

• Demonstration run by a T-72 crew over a route approximately 2,700 metres long
• The route includes natural and artificial obstacles.
• At the designated signal, the crew proceeds to the vehicle and sets off, negotiates the obstacles, then enters the firing section, where they load the ammunition.
• At the machine-gun firing line, the crew engages a full-length target with the PKT and a ‘grenade-launcher team’ target with the NSVT.

CREWS TAKING PART IN THE RUN:
T-72B3 Crew

Tank Commander:
Lieutenant Roman Vitalyevich Kazak

Gunner-Operator:
Lance Corporal Andrei Mikhailovich Kostyuk

Driver-Mechanic:
Private Vadim Vladimirovich Lazarevich

BMP Crew

BMP Commander:
Lieutenant Artyom Alekseyevich Ustinenko

Gunner-Operator:
Sergeant Anton Pavlovich Viltovsky

Driver-Mechanic:
Private Alovsar Azerovich Gasanov

The price is 40 BYN per person for both children and adults. Children aged 4 to 7 accompanied by an adult ride free of charge. Children under the age of 4 are not permitted.

Payment is accepted at the boarding point. Card payments are available.

The boarding point is marked on the map.

The ride location is marked on the map: