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The 9th Company (Russian: 9 рота, romanized: 9 rota) is a 2005 Russian war film directed by Fedor Bondarchuk and set during the Soviet–Afghan War.The film is loosely based on a real-life battle that took place at Hill 3234 in early 1988, during Operation Magistral, the last large-scale Soviet military operation in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan France Earth and Ashes: خاکستر و خاک: Atiq Rahimi: Drama. Based on a novel Earth and Ashes. 2005 Russia Ukraine Finland The 9th Company: 9 рота: Fyodor Bondarchuk: Action, Drama, History, War. Battle for Hill 3234: 2006 France Germany Afghanistan The Soldier's Star: L'étoile du soldat: Christophe de Ponfilly: Drama ...
The Soviet–Afghan War was a protracted armed conflict fought in the Soviet-controlled Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA) from 1979 to 1989. The war was a major conflict of the Cold War as it saw extensive fighting between Soviet Union, the DRA and allied paramilitary groups against the Afghan mujahideen and their allied foreign fighters.
Russian–Chechen relations (1996–1999) Political tensions were fueled in part by allegedly Chechen or pro-Chechen terrorist and criminal activity in Russia, as well as by border clashes. On 16 November 1996, in Kaspiysk (Dagestan), a bomb destroyed an apartment building housing Russian border guards, killing 68 people.
Red Dawn (Russian: Красный Pассвет) is a 1984 American action drama film directed by John Milius with a screenplay by Milius and Kevin Reynolds.The film depicts a fictional World War III centering on an military invasion of the United States by an alliance of Soviet, Warsaw Pact, and Communist Latin American states.
The First Panjshir Offensive took place in April 1980, four months after the arrival of Soviet forces in Afghanistan. It involved three Soviet battalions, of which one was the fourth battalion of the 56th Guards Air Assault Brigade led by Captain Leonid Khabarov , and 1,000 men of the Afghan Army , more specifically the 37th Commando Brigade ...
[5] [6] Some Afghan women attained prominence for their roles in combat, such as Bibi Ayesha, a female warlord who fought against the Soviet invasion. [7] A number of women were also involved in the Defense of the Revolution irregular paramilitary and popular militia units created by the Communist government of Afghanistan following the 1978 ...
British invasions: 1838–1842, 1878–1880, and 1919. During the 19th and early 20th centuries, Afghanistan was invaded three times from British India . The First Anglo-Afghan War of 1838–1842 was conducted with the intention of limiting Russian influence in the country and quelling raiding from across the border.