Many stars Russian stage Before becoming famous, they went through a wonderful school of life - the army. Dmitry Nagiyev, Alexander Buynov, Mikhail Boyarsky and even Bari Alibasov served. At the same time, all celebrities remember this time with a smile. Moreover, many celebrity characters love to tell stories from their army past.
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For example, Dmitry Nagiyev served in the army air defense(air defense) near Vologda. There were legends about the unit in which Nagiyev ended up. “We, the young ones, were beaten terribly,” Nagiyev admitted in an interview. “And each of the three hundred and fifty people tried to check what kind of master of sports I was".
Nagiyev admitted that he had to experience not “hazing,” but “compatriotism.” “In the ordinary unit, you rewind a year, and you are no longer a “dushara”, but a “scoop”, and life seems to be getting better, demobilization looms ahead. But in the “community communities”, service life is not important, an apricot from some village who served only a month, he can feel very comfortable in his “compatriots.” They’ll give him a “chifir”, and he’ll have vodka, and a girl, all the pleasures. But some Russian “grandfather” will clean the toilets before he’s fired. We had a lot of representatives in our unit peoples Central Asia and the Caucasus," the artist recalled. Alexander Buinov also suffered in the army because of his Moscow registration. The artist ended up in engineering troops to Altai. The part was located in the steppe, and to the nearest settlement it was eleven kilometers. However, for young soldiers this distance was not a hindrance and they constantly ran to the village to visit the local girls.
Also besides love stories the singer also had unpleasant stories with his colleagues. "I was a Muscovite, so our sergeants come from western Ukraine“They took it out on me as best they could,” said the artist. – One day they took the meat from my plate and gave it to the dog". There were also more fun moments in his service. Alexander still remembers how before the New Year he decided to decorate part of the club. Since at that time he was already an avid rocker, he wrote “Happy New Year” on the wall. “The head of the unit read the first word in Russian and suddenly asked: “What kind of “naru” is this? We laughed at this for a long time.” 
I have only pleasant memories with the army famous producer Bari Alibasova. He jokes that he went to serve voluntarily and at his own expense. Moreover, already there Alibasov laid the foundation for his career as a producer.
“So I arrived at the commissariat and said: “Take me into the army!” I explained where I wanted to serve, and they sent me to the infantry. I served in Kazakhstan on the border of the USSR with China. But even then I was not entitled to either a machine gun or weapons, because I was on staff. The unit commander said that when a rehearsal was going on, Alibasov was in charge of the unit. I created an army ensemble there, and we conquered collective farm girls. They even sat in ambush in the ravine behind our barracks, tracking and waiting for us! But after some time, at the request of Vladimir Stepanovich, I was nevertheless transferred to serve in the ensemble at the House of Officers. In fact, the army taught me a lot, and I believe that a man should serve in the army in order to learn order and, most importantly, learn to obey,” said Bari Karimovich.
Note that famous actor Mikhail Boyarsky's service was connected with music. A funny incident also happened to him. One day he had to save a drum. 
“When I was drafted into the army, I was already 25 years old, I played at the Lensoveta Theater and, of course, was not eager to serve. Director Igor Vladimirov tried to save me from the army, but he failed. Fortunately, my parents time they sent me to a music school, and this made my life in the army very easy, because I immediately got into the orchestra", Boyarsky recalls.
According to the artist, on his military ID in the column “Military specialty” it is written: “Big drum”“When I told Major Berezka that I was a pianist, he said: “Are you going to carry a piano with you?” And they gave me a torn drum. I had to get the leather somewhere and glue it. Soon I appreciated all the advantages of my instrument,” – said Mikhail.
Boyarsky also recalled that he was lucky enough to keep long hair. “In the winter I collected them under my hat, and in the summer I had to bandage them so that they couldn’t be seen from under my cap. It seemed to me then that my freedom was in my hair. But I shaved my mustache in the army - for the first time and last time "Boyarsky admitted.
I finally found time in my busy schedule to visit Yuri Dud’s YouTube show. In an hour and a half interview, Dmitry spoke about his first acquaintance with Putin, about working with bandits and relations with. He also explained why he continues to persistently act in films, why Russian army- this is hell on earth, and why you can’t run for president indefinitely.
Nagiyev spoke unequivocally about military service in the 1980s: it cripples people. And he listed exactly how:
"Nutrition. How can you feed people such crap? Over the years I have eaten about twenty meters of salted herring. They boiled it, soaked it and then fried it. These frozen potatoes... It simply kills the human body. Attitude. I painted kilometers of this grass. Despite the fact that I fought and even had something to do with sports in the army, it is still absolutely disgusting.
When you talk to guys from the Israeli army, they remember: daily exercises, training. You don't waste time, you buy there. I don’t know what stage we are at now, I hope that the attitude towards the soldiers has leveled off.”
Dmitry was especially lucky - in the army he found himself in a national minority: “There were two of us: me and a guy named Shy, well, that’s what he looked like. Here are two of us whites. And the rest of the guys were all from the fraternal southern republics. At first there was nothing, and then when they read that I was a master of sports (Nagiyev is a master of sports in judo - editor's note), only the lazy one did not want to check if this was true. And no matter what master of sports you are, there are few tricks against a stool.
I remember these wonderful moments. Surely they gave something as a result. When you stand on a pile of coal into which you have been driven and say: “Don’t be a bitch, let’s go one on one,” and to the general laughter they continue to kick you, it probably gave something. This is how I try to calm myself down. But most likely not."
Nagiyev told how one orphanage resident managed to overcome army system: “When they lined us up and beat us, he just got up at night, broke a stool and beat (well, not to death, of course) the main grandfather. We were all sent on duty to peel potatoes, and the whole crowd came to investigate. He just took a knife and slashed one, and the next one in the chest. It was never touched again. Well, this orphanage upbringing - I didn’t have enough of this toughness back then.”
Dud asked Nagiyev how he found the situation in the country. The actor said that there is something to complain about:
“You know, I am a patriot by nature. I am grateful and love where I am. I was born here. But what more people loves, the more questions he has. More indignation and bewilderment, at least. I believe that we must become a civilized country. And despite achievement list(if there is one, of course), you can’t run for merit (if there is one, of course) as many times as you want. No matter what kind of person you are, you are subject to temptations and temptations. And no matter how good you are, over time you acquire connections and nepotism, which is contrary to proper leadership and flight of thought and imagination.
There is a written deadline for how many times you can go to power. Although, as it turned out, one word is added: “in a row,” and the meaning completely changes.”
Full name: Dmitry Vladimirovich Nagiev
Stage names: Dmitry Nagiev
Age: 51 years old
Father: Vladimir Nikolaevich Nagiev
Mother: Lyudmila Zakharovna Nagieva
Zodiac sign: ♈ Aries
Place of Birth: Russia, Saint-Petersburg
Nationality: Russian
Height: 174 cm
Family status: single
Children: Kirill Dmitrievich Nagiev
Education: higher (Russian state institute performing arts)
Activity: actor, TV presenter, showman, musician
Annual income:$3 million (2017)
Who is Dmitry Nagiev
Nagiev Dmitry Vladimirovich - famous Russian actor and musician. He has more than 80 roles in cinema and many colorful characters played in theater stage.
Russian actor and TV presenter Dmitry Nagiyev
Dmitry began his presenting career on the radio; he was named the best radio presenter in the country four times. Today he is one of the most sought-after TV presenters and showmen in Russia.
Biography of Dmitry Nagiyev
Dmitry Nagiyev was born in Leningrad, there is a lot of blood flowing in his veins, so it is difficult to say who the artist is by nationality. His paternal grandfather is from Turkmenistan, his grandmother has German and Latvian roots. Dmitry's mother is Russian.
Dima Nagiev
Currently, Nagiyev lives in the capital, having bought a house in the Moscow region. He rarely appears in his native St. Petersburg, since he works a lot in Moscow.
Family of Dmitry Nagiyev
The family lived very modestly; the parents were not associated with creativity, although the showman’s father at one time really wanted to become an actor. Together with his brother, Dmitry lived in one room in a small apartment. However, despite this, the young man became a master of sports in sambo, and later - the champion of the Soviet Union.
Dmitry's father
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nagiyev (70 years old) is the father of a popular artist. He worked at an optical-mechanical plant in Leningrad, although with youth I dreamed of going into cinema. In his youth, when he lived in Ashgabat, he played in the theater, but in the capital theater university he failed to enter. After the wedding, he got a job at a factory and worked there for many years.
Nagiyevs: Vladimir Vladimirovich, Dmitry and Evgeniy
However family life things went wrong when my eldest son Dima turned 12 years old. The boy had a hard time with his parents’ breakup, stopped communicating with his father, and only recently resumed his relationship with him.
Nagiyev's mother
The showman's mother, Lyudmila Zakharovna, was born in 1937. She is Russian by nationality. By education he is a philologist. Worked as a teacher foreign languages at the Military Academy, received the academic title of associate professor. After the divorce, Lyudmila raised her sons alone, but Dmitry and Evgeny supported the woman in everything and helped her. The actor's first wife (Alice Sher) told reporters that Dmitry tried to free time visit my mother in St. Petersburg.
Lyudmila Zakharovna with her sons
In the fall of 2015, the artist was informed of the death of his mother while filming the program “The Voice.” The film crew was shocked by how Nagiyev managed to fully work through the episode without a drop of emotion. The artist later admitted that it was the most difficult filming of his life.
Brother of Dmitry Nagiyev
The popular presenter has a younger brother who was born in the summer of 1971. They decided to name the boy Evgeniy. Throughout his life, he managed to work as a security guard, actor, bodybuilding instructor, and now Evgeny Nagiyev is a successful businessman.
Dmitry s younger brother Evgeny Nagiyev
He owns a chain of small hotels and a car wash. Dmitry often sees his brother; they go out into nature in the company of the artist’s son. Recently, the brothers began to communicate with their father, forgiving him for all his mistakes.
Dima Nagiyev's childhood
The future showman lived throughout his childhood and youth in Leningrad. At that time, he did not even dream of popularity and incredible success in show business. From an early age, Dmitry was involved in sambo and judo, but due to constant illnesses, the boy was expelled from the section (at that time he was a third grader).
Little Dima Nagiev
It was then that he realized that he had to achieve a lot in life, despite any obstacles. Having matured, he took 2nd place at the city championship, and later received the title of master of sports. After graduation high school Dima entered the Electrical Engineering Institute, and then joined the army.
Dima with his younger brother Zhenya
Returning from the army to his homeland, Nagiyev decided to enter the Cherkasov Theater Institute. It beat its competitors and was successfully accepted. On last year his studies were set terrible diagnosis– facial nerve paralysis.
Dmitry Nagiyev in his youth
Dmitry underwent long-term treatment, but he was unable to completely overcome the disease. Since then, he often wears an accessory that has become his business card– tinted sunglasses.
Career of actor and showman Dmitry Nagiyev
While still studying at the institute, Dmitry met actor Sergei Rost. Together they created a project called “Beware, Modern”, which short term brought popularity to the actors. Funny phrases, written by Dmitry, made the scenes even more comical. In 1997, Nagiyev created his first original show in one of the St. Petersburg dance halls. Famous artists were invited to participate in competitions.
Dmitry Nagiev and Sergey Rost
1998 was the start acting career Dmitry. The very first film that many TV viewers remember is “Purgatory”. He did not immediately agree to play the difficult role of the Chechen commander until he was completely immersed in the character and imbued with the difficult fate of the hero. Later, the actor starred in such TV series as “Kamenskaya”, “ destructive force", "Mole".
Dmitry Nagiyev in the TV series “Kamenskaya”
One of the top-rated films with his participation was the series “Kitchen”, and a year later Dmitry signed a contract with STS to show a new project “Two Fathers and Two Sons”. Nagiyev managed to win many fans thanks to his role in the TV series “Fizruk” on TNT. The project was launched in 2014 and immediately aroused delight among viewers.
"Fizruk" Nagiyev
Nagiyev’s debut on the theater stage took place in 2000, in the musical “Cutie”, then he took part in the productions “Territory” and “Erotikon”. The dramatic play “Kysya”, where Dmitry plays two roles at once, is currently being held with triumph on the stage of the Variety Theater.
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Ilya Lagutenko, rock musician, leader of the Mumiy Troll group, served in the Pacific Fleet from 1987 to 1989
“I joined the army almost immediately after one of the first concerts of the Mumiy Troll group, while still a student at the Faculty of Oriental Studies. The years 1986–1987 were a “special time” - the country was drawn into the war in Afghanistan, and due to demographic problems the army did not have enough fighters. Everyone was required to serve, even students.
I served in naval aviation at the combat site. It was a very small island (Reineke Island is located not far from Vladivostok. – Woman’s Day note), on which pilots of aircraft-carrying ships practiced shooting and bombing accuracy. We were isolated from big land, so that if someone became seriously ill, our local doctor, my colleague (at that time, who had completed only two years of medical school), had to make a diagnosis. If the diagnosis turned out to be serious enough, only then was a helicopter called from the mainland.”
“If a plane crashed (and that happened), we were given the task of looking for the fallen black box, dividing coastline into “squares”, and my duty was to look for this box in my square. In autumn the Velvet season on Far East it seemed that such service could only be dreamed of. Hazing did not exist among us, because we had to work too hard for our own survival. They baked their own bread, pumped the water themselves, arranged their own life and accommodation.”
Andrey Fedortsov, actor, served in the Railway Troops from 1987 to 1989
“It never even occurred to me to evade military service. I received a summons, went to the military registration and enlistment office, and ended up in a unit. This, excuse the loud words, is a duty to the Motherland.
By the way, it is in Soviet army I realized that I wanted to be an actor. Colleagues were putting on a play, and suddenly one of them fell ill. I was asked to play in his place. Well, I played. I don’t even remember what the role was, but all the spectators were lying on the floor laughing. So I became the star of the military unit.
Also, when I served in the army, I had my own rock band, “Secret Men.” True, we were not allowed to perform for a long time. One day I went on stage in long johns, size 45 sneakers and an inside out army jacket, and pulled a green swimming cap over my head.
In general, I liked the army. I served in the railway troops, went into the reserve as a sergeant, commander of a mine demolition platoon. If necessary, I can make an explosive device. Pyrotechnics is a fairly simple thing, you just need to know the chemistry and proportions.”
Dmitry Nagiyev, actor, served in the air defense forces in the late 1980s
Photo from student card: Dmitry entered the theater after the army
“I had a terrible army,” recalls Nagiyev. – First, training. Then they were sent near Vologda to the Ogarkovo point. There were legends about it: there was terrible hazing there. Our call was mocked for a year. And when they found out that I was a master of sports in sambo, it was even worse for me. There is no method against scrap. Nothing helped, they beat me terribly.
In our call there was a boy from an orphanage. So he didn’t let himself be offended. And some pockets of intelligence were glowing inside me, they felt it, so I had to take a hard sip.
I still remember from those times the meager food. I ate 17 meters of boiled herring for the entire army pearl barley porridge. We were almost starving, and this was the norm. I still remember how we divided a can of simple canned food among six people, and this was officially the case according to the charter.”
Fyodor Dobronravov, actor, served in the Airborne Forces in Azerbaijan from 1979 to 1981
Photo: personal archive of Fedor Dobronravov
“Over the years of service, I have made more than 20 parachute jumps! A paratrooper cannot live without the sky: it is a miracle, it takes your breath away... Barley was served in the dining room. From it, it turns out, you can make both the first and the second, and even dessert, if with sugar. What is there! If you wish, you can make ice cream from barley!”
Gennady Malakhov, traditional healer, served in the Artillery troops from 1973 to 1975
Gennady Malakhov competes for his native sports company at competitions: “The barbell is 135 kg, and my best result– 160!”
Photo: personal archive of Gennady Malakhov
“First, I completed a young fighter’s course in my native Kamensk-Shakhtinsk, then I was sent to Buinaksk in Dagestan for a month. From there - to the Rostov sports company, where I fulfilled the standards of a master of sports. I even served a year of extra-term service as a master of sports! He played for the Rostov Army sports club. He left the army as a junior sergeant.
The best memories of those times! The army was something new for young guy separated from his parents. Thanks to her, I entered the Moscow Institute physical culture and sports. The army years were a great time because I was a young man who was interested in everything.”
Anton Makarsky, actor, served in the Internal Troops in 1997–1998
Anton Makarsky's Defender of the Fatherland Day begins with congratulations to his beloved mother-in-law, she is a military paramedic, a sergeant major. First of all, he always calls her and congratulates her on the holiday, and then everyone congratulates him.
On December 9, 1997, Anton came to the military registration and enlistment office with a request to take him into the army. The commissar's surprise knew no bounds, especially when he said that he graduated from the Shchukin Institute and got a job in his profession. The actor explains his desire to serve in the army this way: “Yes, the usual act of a person trying to remain in harmony with himself. The situation in repertory theaters at that time in the late 90s was not the best; I had no intention of devoting my life to the stage, by the way, to the misunderstanding of my grandfather, who served the theater. And, accordingly, I had no moral right to accept all the benefits that Mark Grigorievich Rozovsky offered me, namely housing in Moscow, service in the Army Theater and leading roles in his theater “At the Nikitsky Gate”. What was left for me? Either run away from the summons, or go and surrender to the military registration and enlistment office yourself. After talking with my conscience, I came to the conclusion that I had no choice.”
Photo: personal archive of Anton Makarsky
Having received the approval of all the doctors, the next morning Anton arrived at the assembly point with a few things. He ended up in the internal troops, in unit 7456.
“At the transfer point, all the conscripts were photographed in paratrooper uniforms, and then the pictures were sent home,” recalls the actor. - Nothing to do with landing troops most did not. I had the privilege of serving in internal troops Oh. I came to the military registration and enlistment office without having had time to get my hair cut. There was no car there, and I was brought in a curly head to one of the Moscow units. By coincidence, the only clipper in the barracks was broken, and they cut my hair with scissors. At the same time, we were constantly called to formations. I ran out either with a quarter or half of my hair cut. I finally got my hair cut only on the third day of my stay in the unit. There, in a month and a half, I completed the young fighter course and, for my creative success, was sent to the State Academic Song and Dance Ensemble of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation under the direction of Viktor Eliseev. This is a separate page of my biography! I am very grateful to Comrade General Viktor Petrovich Eliseev, the leader of this ensemble, for taking me to serve in this legendary and one of the most professional military musical groups. I sang in tenors, sometimes conducted concerts and was responsible for the green stools on which the second and third rows of the choir were located. Somewhere there are even booklets where I stand in the first row of the choir in full dress uniform, cap and aiguillette, everything is as it should be! It felt like we lived as one big military, but creative family. And I will never forget the lard sandwiches that the caring grandmothers-clerrokeepers fed the “hungry little soldiers.”
Evgeny Dyatlov, actor, served in the Topogeodetic Troops from 1981 to 1983
“After school I entered Kharkov University for extramural Faculty of Philology I completed a year of schooling, and I was drafted into the army to join a topographic and geodetic detachment.
There were no computers yet, and we manually determined azimuth points for anchoring missiles, encoded objects and then put the information into cruise missiles. They aimed them at the enemy. At first the United States was in our sights, and when the break with Poland began, we immediately reprogrammed the missiles for it.
We had terrible hazing: we did push-ups in the toilets, scrubbed everything, it was very tough. Sometimes, when the grandfathers wanted some relief, they lined us up and practiced karate techniques.
Thank God, I played the guitar, so the issue of hazing was mitigated for me. It was a shame when a company commander or sergeant major broke a guitar.
I went to serve, thinking that they would teach me how to fight. But in the army we did a lot of things: we built some kind of facilities, loaded some kind of paint...
During my two years of service, I think I had four shooting trips. Grenades were thrown twice during the entire period. And at the same time, we guarded the garrison ammunition depots, where all these cartridges and grenades were simply rotting.”
Mikhail Boyarsky, actor, served in a military band from 1974 to 1976
In the army, Boyarsky shaved his mustache - the only time in his life
Photo: personal archive of Mikhail Boyarsky
“When I was drafted into the army, I was already 25 years old, I played at the Theater. Lensovet and, of course, had no desire to serve. Director Igor Vladimirov tried to save me from the army, but he failed. Fortunately, my parents sent me to a music school at one time, and this made my life in the army very easy, because I immediately got into the orchestra.
On my military ID, in the “Military Specialty” column, it says “Big Drum.” When I told Major Berezka that I was a pianist, he said: “Are you going to carry a piano with you?”
And they gave me a torn drum. I had to get leather somewhere and glue it. I soon realized all the advantages of my instrument. For example, in the rain it can be used as an umbrella. All the musicians are wet on the parade ground, and we, the drummers, are dry.
In the army I managed to keep my hair long. In the winter I collected them under my hat, and in the summer I had to bandage them so that they could not be seen from under the cap. It seemed to me then that my freedom was in my hair. But I shaved my mustache in the army - for the first and last time.”
Vladimir Shakhrin, leader of the group "CHAIF": followed army fashion
Vladimir Shakhrin and Vladimir Begunov in the army
Photo: personal archive of Vladimir Shakhrin
Three of the four members of the CHAIF group - Vladimir Shakhrin, Vladimir Begunov and Valery Severin - were border guards and served together on the borders of our Motherland in the Far East in Kazakevichevo. Military unit number – 2460. Years of service – 1978–1980.
Vladimir Shakhrin recalls how he noted New Year in the army:
– From the non-statutory New Year there was something delicious on the table - chocolate sausage. We made an agreement with the kitchen, bought food together, rolled it in a huge saucepan, and then put it out in the cold. The result was a kind of chocolate ingot with the diameter of a saucepan. Then they pulled her out of there. In general, from ordinary days December 31 was different in that there were no officers, and such quiet freedom ensued.
There were fashionable canons in the army back then! Overcoats had to be trimmed and combed. They put hardboard into the shoulder straps, and it was considered especially chic to do this in a “coffin” style, when the top plate was slightly narrower than the bottom. The boots had to be ironed. And if you cleaned them before that, then after ironing they became like kid gloves. But only yuft boots, which were worn at that time only by border guards, could be transformed in this way. You can't really pet Kirza. The iron was one of the main tools for transforming an ordinary soldier's uniform into a fashionable one. On the back of personal woolen underwear, which was also only available to border guards, the fold at the level of the shoulder blades was smoothed out to create a strip.
Having seen enough of demobilizations, we went into the army with the firm conviction that we certainly wouldn’t deal with such garbage! And after a few months, how cute they were, making every effort to look like the latest soldier fashion.
And so you return to civilian life with a plaque on your personal p/sh, in a combed overcoat, ironed boots and coffin shoulder straps... But in civilian life this is of no interest to anyone! And what’s most incredible is that even your demobilization album is watched only by your parents for the second time...
Andrey Rozhkov, participant in the Ural Dumplings Show (STS): learned to drive a tank
Andrey Rozhkov at military training (center)
While studying at UPI (now UrFU) in 1990, I attended military training.
“I didn’t serve in the army, I was only at military training. Just when I reached conscription age, a law was passed that students were not conscripted into the army. Therefore, I spent only a month at the training camp in Elani. It was a wonderful army month! We learned to drive a tank and command a platoon of tankers. But what I liked most was being on duty in the kitchen - you could always eat something there. During the month, I was off duty a couple of times. And I remember I ate some meat. I felt like I ate a whole pig! But my colleagues only got cracklings!”
Maxim Kovtun, figure skater: army without interruption from sports
Maxim Kovtun is serving in a sports company
The 19-year-old Russian figure skating champion - 2013, unexpectedly for everyone, was drafted into the army in May 2014. He completed a week-long course for young fighters in one of the Russian sports companies in Balashikha near Moscow. The athlete took the oath on May 25.
The athlete’s father Pavel Kovtun told how his son’s service went:
– Maxim called us a couple of days before the draft and informed us that everyone was being drafted into the army. For his mother Elena and me, this came as a surprise. Before the oath, it was almost impossible to contact my son: his phone was taken away almost immediately. We only called him once, and they were strict about it. Maxim said that things were fine with him, the usual army routine began: assembling and disassembling a machine gun, marching and other military affairs. I myself served in a sports company and I can say that the conditions of service there are much softer - not as harsh as in the regular army. After taking the oath, Maxim went home to live. He skates exactly the same as before, but combines training and military service. That is, this does not affect the training process in any way. But if something happens, God forbid, he will be called upon to defend his homeland under normal conditions!
Nikas Safronov, artist, served in the Missile Forces in the 70s
“I served in Estonia near the city of Valga. Some were located in the forest. One day, like everyone else, I decided to go AWOL. I agreed in advance with the girl. She worked at a telephone exchange. She promised to come with her friend to the edge of the forest, where my friend and I were supposed to wait for them. It got dark quickly, the girls were still gone.
Suddenly we heard something loudly grunting in the nearby bushes. We hid and began to share our guesses in a whisper. By the sound of it, it was a hefty wild boar, about 250 kilograms. We had to come up with something urgently, otherwise he would have torn us to shreds. I suggested setting fire to a box of matches and throwing them in the animal’s face so that it would be afraid of the fire and leave us. Due to nervous tension, it was impossible to light it from the first match. We imagined that the wild boar would smell us and attack. Finally the box caught fire, we launched it into the bushes and saw the source of the grunting. It was a small hedgehog. This is how our AWOL ended joyfully.”
Sergei Astakhov, actor, served from 1987 to 1989, first in the Tank Forces, then in a military brass band
“My dad is a military man,” recalls Sergei Astakhov. “He served in the navy in the Far East, so there was no choice whether or not to join the army. I received a summons and ran to the military registration and enlistment office. Served for several months tank forces, attended exercises in Belarus. And then he transferred to Tambov. There I was accepted into the military brass band, although I had never held a trumpet in my hands before. I tried, I really wanted to be accepted into the orchestra. In fact, it’s not good when you are woken up early in the morning and forced into a tank. Immediately after the army he entered drama school. I don’t particularly like to remember my service, but I still need to be in the army. There they teach you to be independent, to build relationships with strangers, get out of difficult situations himself."
Sergei Zverev served in the ranks of the USSR Armed Forces (Air Defense) in Poland in the 1980s
Sergei Zverev served not just in the army, but in the air defense forces in Poland. The artist commanded an entire platoon and rose to the rank of senior sergeant. Sergei is very proud of this fact and has told reporters about the service more than once.
“I served in the army. It suited me very well military uniform, and I still adore hats – caps, caps. He served in Poland and saw Western fashion. The star was shocked! And from the life there, but especially from the clothes of the townspeople. Service in the army even determined my future creative path", Zverev admits to the media.
Zverev commanded a platoon and rose from private to senior sergeant. The service was by no means easy; the most difficult thing was to survive the 20-degree frosts, which tested Europe’s strength in those two years.”
Makhail Grebenshchikov, singer, served in the Border Troops in 1994–1996
Photo: personal archive of Mikhail Grebenshchikov
Mikhail Grebenshchikov remembers the army with a smile. This is understandable, because, according to his stories, he was lucky enough to get to the border with Lithuania, where he ate apples and pears every day.
Dmitry Nagiyev, actor Private Air Defense Forces “They often say: “The army will make a man out of you.” The phrase is beautiful, but not about our real army, says Dmitry Nagiyev. - We all know very well how beautiful and proud soldiers look in the movies. And when do they show real people, sometimes there is a feeling of awkwardness. I'm not talking about now elite troops- that's only one percent. The rest lead simply a miserable existence, and I know how it happens - I was one of them. What I remember most from those times was the meager food. Then we divided a can of simple canned food among six people, as was officially the case according to the regulations. As for hazing, when I served, it was real hell. I don't know if anything has changed since then. Judging by the reports - not very much. At the same time, I do not at all support those who are trying to “excuse” their children from serving. We live in a society, and whether you like it or not, your child still has to join that cruel world, of which the army is a part. If we suffered for two or three years, now we can somehow withstand one year. Another question is if your health does not allow it. This is exactly why my son Kirill didn’t get into the army - the doctors didn’t let him. Although he himself was a sporty guy, practiced martial arts and was literally eager to serve, this was not even discussed. But the draft commission twice declared him unfit for duty. military service, and my son was very upset." Source: www.wday.ru
Leonid Garbar, Leonid Garbar, restaurateur, vice president of the Stroganoff Group Junior sergeant of the Red Banner Belarusian Military District at the Air Force headquarters “My most memorable story from service is not exactly an army story. Rather, it is quite sad, but it made a strong impression on me. One day, two warrant officers from our district somehow found an unexploded shell at the training ground, one of those used by helicopters, and brought it to the unit. Next, I will quote the dry lines of the order, which I personally read out: “When welding a metal rod to the base of the projectile, an explosion occurred, which resulted in the death of warrant officer, conditionally, Ivanov, and warrant officer Petrov.” It turns out that they were planning to make a sledgehammer. Our head of the secret department tore out his hair and exclaimed like a regular: “These are people with secondary education! How did they come up with this?!” And my colleague, with a rather caustic sense of humor, stated: “I would give each warrant officer a shell to make a sledgehammer.”
Igor Mozheiko, Igor Mozheiko, art director of the magazine “Sobaka.ru” Private of the 23rd sports company of Leningrad “At first I served in the Arctic Circle, in the village of Pechenga - this is the most northwestern point of the then USSR. Polar night, -35 degrees, for some reason 80% of the personnel are guys from Nagorno-Karabakh, North Ossetia and so on. Russians are only sergeants and officers. In general, two months were enough to feel how happy you were before the service. A few kilometers away from us there was the border with Norway, a NATO country, we were constantly reminded of this so as not to relax. But no one particularly relaxed. I was in the motorized infantry - this is “cannon fodder”, people running next to tanks with heavy objects such as grenade launchers. In fact, since I was an athlete who could potentially be called to Leningrad to join a sports company, military duties were not assigned to me. After taking the oath, he worked at night in the firehouse and slept during the day. Hands, face, underwear - everything was black, but I liked living outside the rules. Two months later, I was called to the SKA training camp in Leningrad, where I had to compete at the USSR Armed Forces fencing championship. Out of fright, I took second place and ended up staying in the sports company until the end of my service. He shot once, this had to be done before the oath, such a tradition. I didn’t get anywhere, but when I left I received a military ID, and in the “Specialty” column it was “sniper.” Several times later the authorities called me and offered to meet and talk about work. It’s good to be friends with the political officer, he made friends. By the way, my political officer was Vyacheslav Chazov, later the financial director of Zenit. Our friendship was built on the fact that I, as an artist, decorated Lenin’s rooms, painted shields for the district headquarters, and so on. In general, a fireman, an artist and a fencer with the credentials of a sniper. Absurd!"
Sergei Lukovsky, Sergei Lukovsky, head of the Lukovsky Model Agency (AFFA) Sergeant major of the regime troops “I have always been a very disciplined person, so the thought never even crossed my mind that I could “slope off.” Moreover, towards the end of his service, he dreamed of staying in the army forever, but two days before his discharge he changed his mind. Apparently, I was lucky: we didn’t have any terrible incidents with beatings and other things. Yes, there was some form of hazing. But hierarchy exists everywhere: at school, at work, in any social group. In the army this is justified. If you are worth something and know how to position yourself, then there are no problems. We had a shortage of officers and warrant officers, so I went on guard as an officer, acted as a company sergeant major and met new conscripts three times. I enjoyed working with them, mentoring them, and always had a passion for teaching. They came as just children: very touching, angular and funny. It was enough to see their eyes when they were all brought to the bathhouse and shaved bald. They didn’t see themselves in the mirror, but they watched their hair (sometimes very long) fall to the floor. Your bald head is Blank sheet paper, the birth of a completely new person.”
Sergei Semkin, Sergei Semkin, photographer of the Guard private missile forces strategic purpose “I began my service in a sports company, was a candidate for master of sports in athletics. And I was not at all familiar with alcohol. And then the meeting took place: we had access to hellish booze for 68 kopecks, it was called fruit wine and the taste did not promise any trouble. In general, I got away to death, and during the evening inspection I was set on fire. Instead of submitting, I became insolent. And then the commander roared: “Yes, I will send you to the swamp!” I was exiled to the Carpathian region, and it was not easy there. Quite recently, by the will of fate, I found myself in a soldier’s canteen. You know, they serve now - it’s like they’re relaxing in a sanatorium! First of all, it's only a year. Secondly, everything is very decent, beautiful, the food is tasty and varied. Our main dish at one time was kerza - a glue-like mixture of pearl barley and some other incomprehensible cereals. I only have four photographs from army times; we were forbidden to use cameras, everything was classified. There were sixteen under our control ballistic missiles K-63, and the team came to the target every day, and these were encrypted numbers, codes. Perhaps the goal was the same, but due to secrecy, the codes changed. Rumor has it that we were targeting England - we could have submerged the entire island of Great Britain forever."
Yuri Miloslavsky, Yuri Miloslavsky, promoter of the Private, musician of the orchestra of the Military Medical Academy “I studied at the Rimsky-Korsakov Music School, played the clarinet, so army service served in the orchestra, served, by the way, together with his comrade Felix Narodnitsky. I played the clarinet. In fact, this is such a fake role: in the cold, it’s impossible to play at parades on Dvortsovaya, you just pretend. It’s a different story with trumpeters - they were given alcohol to clean their instruments. Naturally, they mostly drank. One day we were preparing for the parade, the whole orchestra went to lunch, and I remained on duty on the bus. The guys went light, folding their overcoats in a heap. And here I am sitting, foreigners get on the bus and ask where they can buy the same wonderful uniform as a souvenir? Naturally, I immediately sold half of the uniform, earned 200 bucks. Then I regularly sold “staff” - all kinds of government paraphernalia - to foreigners through my friend, who remained a civilian.”
Arkady Volk, showman
Senior Sergeant of the Infantry Regiment at Army Headquarters in Ulaanbaatar
“Even at the beginning of the service, the question was asked in front of the ranks of recruits: “Who can write with a poster pen?” I was good at it, and since then I no longer carried grenade launchers or went to the squads. He was involved in all sorts of visual propaganda, designing the territory and so on. For some time I also prepared materials for political training for one of the bosses based on special manuals. Everyone then learned in class how to be politically savvy fighters based on my notes.
I also worked as a clerk at the headquarters, where most spent time reading books like “The Adventures of the Good Soldier Schweik.” Then, as a smart person, I was invited to put things in order in the regiment’s clothing service papers, in anticipation of a big audit of the top brass. The warehouse manager regularly stole all sorts of property, especially good boots and sheepskin coats. I painted and designed everything there in such a way that the result looked very decent, and even the excess turned out to be paperwork. Since then, I began to serve in the economic service of the regiment, became an honored rear officer and deputy commander of an economic platoon - the most criminal position. All my friends and comrades received new boots and uniforms much more often than expected. And it wasn’t life at all, but raspberries.
And one day Mosfilm came to film “Across the Gobi and Khingan.” During filming, I was in charge of dressing the entire regiment in wartime uniforms; there was a crowd of several thousand people. We then rode quite a bit across the Mongolian steppes. Unforgettably. When else would I have such an experience? So my service was like a movie.”
Nikolay Merenkov, managing partner of boutigue. ru
Staff Sergeant airborne troops, awarded with the award “Military Valor”
“I started serving in 1987, just when all the perestroika unrest began. And every boy wanted to join the army, and even better, to Afghanistan. my close friend They weren’t called up due to health reasons, but he forged documents and came. Unfortunately, he died on a combat mission. I’m not saying that now the army is bad - it is different, there are many contract soldiers who are engaged in military affairs professionally - this is a plus, but then there was much more patriotism in each of us.
The Airborne Forces are an elite branch of the military, which everyone who stood in shorts and T-shirts in the corridors of the military registration and enlistment office wanted to join. But they didn’t just take me there: I got in because I was a candidate for master of sports in handball and had three parachute jumps to my credit. After three months of training in Gaizhunai, I was assigned to Bolgrad, a city in the Odessa region. Our division was called “Drunk” because it was based on the border with Moldova, which attracted local wine. But the ambitious name was not justified in reality; I didn’t really see much of the wine. The most memorable incident was the first business trip to Leninakan. After the formation on the parade ground, an order was received to receive light weapons, and exactly three hours later our Regiment (900 people) was already in the air. Holding our breath, we thought that we were being sent to Afghanistan to cover the withdrawal of troops. But we landed at Zvartnots airport, another 3 hours along the winding mountain road and we were in Leninakan. We found ourselves at the very origins of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. There was no need to use weapons then, but we became participants in a powerful “visual attack” - our regiment marched in a column along the main street of the city. Then there were many different business trips.
Every year I celebrate Airborne Forces Day with my colleagues, usually in a small circle. Normal boys don’t swim in fountains, it’s some kind of ridiculous grotesque.”
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