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Monetary allowance military check sergeant in afghanistan rubles. How much did Soviet servicemen earn in the Afghan war. Afghani, "checks" and rubles

11.02.2021

Eagle 25 12.01.2009 - 01:14

which monetary allowance military personnel in Soviet army

was the military in the USSR?

Sincerely

apple 12.01.2009 - 01:40

Hmm ... It seems I got 14 rubles in the late 80s ... But in general, what period are you interested in? Maybe pre-reform? 😊

S-D 12.01.2009 - 01:56

The private received 7 rubles. (88-90g)

air 100 12.01.2009 - 02:03

Eagle 25
What is the salary (allowance)
was the military in the USSR?

What servicemen do you mean?
Privates / warrant officers / officers?

RAY 12.01.2009 - 02:05

S-D
The private received 7 rubles. (88-90g)

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Shl. Even though I can already shake it off ...

ded2008 01/12/2009 - 04:30

25 German marks received by a private in the Soviet army in the group of Soviet forces in Germany in 1988-90

S-D 12.01.2009 - 10:22

RAY
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On Novaya Zemlya in the air defense division - Chirvonets 😊 88-89th just 😊
Shl. Even though I can already shake it off ...

Nagant 12.01.2009 - 11:10

Was called up in 1981 (Strategic Missile Forces)
private - 3.80
corporal - 4.80
ml. sergeant - 10.80

pf 12.01.2009 - 11:47

Nagant
Was called up in 1981 (Strategic Missile Forces)
private - 3.80
corporal - 4.80
ml. sergeant - 10.80

1. I found these rates at the end of the 82nd (PV). Private / shooter / shooter of the training point - 3.80 (at the rate of 2 rubles for smoking allowance and 1.80 household goods). Since January 83. salary of a private - 7.00. A gnaw or a senior specialist in the rank of private is a ruble more.

unecht 12.01.2009 - 12:00

The amount of pay for the personnel depended on the position held. At the age of 89-91, I found:
Private - 7.00 r
Squad leader - 10 rubles 80 kopecks
Deputy platoon commander - 13 rubles

Nagant 12.01.2009 - 12:05

Tea cost 3 kopecks a glass
Coffee 10 kopecks glass
Port wine - 2.12 rubles
Doctor's sausage - 2.20 rubles a kilo
Belomor 22 kopecks, Bulgaria - 35 kopecks
Tram - 3 kopecks
Trolleybus - 4 kopecks
Metro - 5 kopecks

SeRgek 12.01.2009 - 12:29

Nagant 12.01.2009 - 12:32

SeRgek
my dad at 85-89 lieutenant-captain 400-600 rubles, depending on the place of service, all together, in fact, the salary for the post is 120 rubles, for the rank of about the same.

a lot
lieutenant in 1987
245 - 255

SeRgek 12.01.2009 - 12:38

Nagant
very multi-lieutenant in 1987 245 - 255

pilot-navigator 😊
in the Far East.

pf 12.01.2009 - 12:39

Like two fingers. Northern, I'm afraid, I'm afraid, several positions, etc. As a result, the advanced pieces in the Arctic have salaries from 600 to pieces like from a bush.

oldcolony 01/12/2009 - 13:03

My father received a lieutenant 220, it seems, for his rank, and an underground - 400. Private (me) from 86 to 88 -7, then an 8-supplement for class. The sergeant seems to be 12.

ckc45 01/12/2009 - 13:15

ded2008
25 German marks received by a private in the Soviet army in the group of Soviet forces in Germany in 1988-90

28- corporal
35-junior sergeant (deputy commander of the department)
50- sergeant, (com department)
ps. after 90th - Bundes of stamps

EMC 01/12/2009 - 13:17

1977 year. company foreman (conscript) 20 rubles 80 kopecks
platoon commander, lieutenant, separate training battalion, ZabVO, 1st year after college 220 rubles, salary 150 rubles. the company commander was like 245.
Old Russian voddka, local production, that is still disgusting, 4.12 re.
watermelon, in the same season, 60-80 kopecks per kg.
fast train ticket Chita-Moscow, 5.5 days shared carriage 25-30 rubles, I don’t remember exactly, by plane about 80.

Nagant 12.01.2009 - 13:47

Airplane Khmelnitsky - Leningrad - 30 rubles

pf 12.01.2009 - 13:49

Conscript sailors (service for 2 years) at a nuclear submarine repair plant near Murmansk received almost like civilians. HZ for sure, but only demobels in '84 were transported in cash a piece. We received a quarterly dump for demobilization and a requirement for a ticket. We ate with them on the train until a pig's screech - vodka at the conductors' chirik or pyatarik, depending on the greed of the conductor and on the sobriety of the passengers, shampoo in the restaurant car at the chocks of quarters. In the store (Murmansk) - only with a screw and only Stolichnaya and Moskovskaya - a trace. 5.50 and 6.20. The rise in price of booze and chicken was in the summer of 81st - it was 4.12 for vodka - it was 4.42 for a bubble with a cap. Space was 50, now 60, White Pestilence - 22/25, Java 30/35, Trichamud like "The Beggar in the Mountains" (Pamir), Volna, Dymok, Prima and others. threw everything on 2 kopecks. The kaats beer remained at 22 per pint on tap.

Large mustache 12.01.2009 - 18:46

Private (78-80) 3.80

irishman 01/12/2009 - 18:59

Private, 1974 - three rubles.

air 100 12.01.2009 - 20:19

Technician of the aircraft and engine maintenance group, 1981-1983, Arkhangelsk province:
- for the rank (lieutenant-senior lieutenant) 120-130 rubles. ;
- for the position of 120 rubles;
-for remoteness (?? or northern ???) + 20%;
-for long service (? hell knows what it was actually called, added 10% for each year up to 50%?) - + 10% -20%.
And the income, if my memory serves me, was NOT ripped out.
In general, on the hands of about 300 rubles ... the "old" up to 450 came.

RAY 12.01.2009 - 22:33

S-D
Apparently with a premium for harmfulness + northern. 😛

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Exactly. The Arctic, clean 😊

linnet 01/13/2009 - 10:22

Lieutenant-biennial KKVO 1982-84, for the rank - 120, for the position -120. There were also 20 rubles of rations. Somewhere they gave out rations, somewhere in money. If the food was in the dining room, then 15 rubles had to be paid extra. In some positions, like mine, they did not take extra pay. During the day of duty at the airfield with two flight changes, food was brought 5 times. For two whole weeks he served as a senior lieutenant, added 10% (12 rubles) for the asterisk.
Since 1983, it seems that the 13th salary has just been introduced.
Don't forget the free travel back and forth wherever you want. The vacation was extended by the train travel time.
They took income tax and childlessness ("by the balls"). They deducted 15 rubles for an officer's hostel (a very decent one).
By the way, after serving as an engineer in a scientific institution, I received exactly 2 times less. True, the army had to work more than 4 times more.

Eagle 25 01/14/2009 - 21:13

120 = senior technician?

Sincerely

Eagle 25 01/15/2009 - 01:43

For two whole weeks he served as a senior lieutenant, added
for an asterisk 10% (12 rubles)

---> Duty systems surcharges?

apple 15.01.2009 - 11:42

Eagle 25
Technician of the aircraft and engine maintenance group ... - for the position of 120 rubles;
120 = senior technician?
and at (com) TECH, NGO, IAZ, pilot, etc. ?
Sincerely

So what was the point of your question? You didn’t make any conclusion, on the contrary, you got involved in your memories.

ckc45 01/15/2009 - 12:52

So what was the point of your question? You didn’t make any conclusion, on the contrary, you got involved in your memories.

Spiyon ame .. German, collects information about the Soviet Army 😊

DonPedro 15.01.2009 - 12:59

Sergeant, Tank commander, Mongolia, 160 tugriks (40 rubles.)

butane 15.01.2009 - 19:13

79-81years
private-3.80 rubles.
corporal - 4.80 rubles.
junior sergeant (sergeant) -10.80 rubles
senior sergeant - 11.80 rubles

krapper 01/17/2009 - 18:31

-MISTER-
... "I say - there is no romanticism ... so, for example, I could easily eat a quarter ... but again - there was romanticism ... an appetizer! ..." ")

In 1985, a two-year-old company deputy political officer took the company on an excursion to Petrodvorets on Sunday.

June, warm, sunny, fountains are working, there is gilding, greenery, a light breeze ...

Five defenders of the Motherland, who had received a preliminary penny, one might say, salary, had enough money for two cases of beer in a cafe. 😊
"Oval cigarettes" Strela "," Belomor "from the Uritsky factory ...
Very sincere "Belomor" was made in St. Petersburg. 😊

"... again - there was romanticism ..."

MEXAH 01/19/2009 - 03:12

87-89 in Desantura 1 rub. for a training jump from the AN-2 without weapons, 3 rubles fully equipped with the IL-76, The more the number of jumps was 25, 50, 100, respectively, the more they received. Sergeant, driving instructor received 22 rubles.

SeRgek 01/19/2009 - 08:16

as my dad says: when greed overcomes fear, the pilot starts jumping 😊

kolobok43 01/19/2009 - 08:20

77 - 79, ZabVo, communications, private 3.80. comotde 10.80. Any conscript in the post of ensign 20.80. For the soldier's class "M" they paid + ten, but it was given only to those conscripted with a higher profile education.

EMC 01/19/2009 - 14:29

kolobok43
77 - 79, ZabVo,

MEXAH 01/19/2009 - 21:18

SeRgek
as my dad says: when greed overcomes fear, the pilot starts jumping 😊

Exactly !!! we have flyers on their podzhopnyh domes, after us sighed, apparently also carried out their program and at the same time earned money. A couple of times he filled out the form and entered the navigator from the AN-2, that he allegedly leapt with us on the 10th. I have a ruble, and a flyer with a navigator for a bottle
😀 😊.

kolobok43 01/21/2009 - 17:05

I beg your pardon for OFF, Kolobok43, in what places did you serve?
I was from 76 to 78, first in Chita, in the 49th tank, then in Borza.

Near Kyakhta, ZKP district, "Revun"

Eagle 25 01/28/2009 - 21:18

Sincerely

kettle 01/28/2009 - 21:37

the officers also had pay books, issued for five years, a coupon for the corresponding month was cut out of the book every month. the distributor of money pasted these coupons with signatures on a sheet (for the entire department) and handed them over together with the distribution sheet

cus 01/30/2009 - 21:48

A cadet under 91 years old - 22 rubles, if without triples - 32, without fours - 42 rubles (in the next semester). If you write some nonsense instead of a lecture in the district newspaper, then up to 120 per month with fees came out ... Therefore, I never received increased allowance 😛
I was a lieutenant - 300, then I lost my account due to inflation ...

Eagle 25 01/30/2009 - 22:41

how was
military personnel urgent service in full-time positions:
(private, sergeants)
for I - III tariff categories
for IV - VI tariff categories

(division commander, zkv, tank)

and the commander of the department., zkv at the cadets

if there was money for tobacco?

Sincerely

Eagle 25 02/05/2009 - 20:14

kk were the allowance ?!

Sincerely

v-g 02/06/2009 - 11:58

Service in missile defense 1972-73. private, between Narofominsk and Kubinka. Three rubles and eighty kopecks, and in the neighboring unit (Kantemirovskaya division) increased allowance - Four eighty!
They also have the PSh form, instead of our HB and cowhide boots, instead of our tarpaulin.
They also have an emergency every couple of weeks - as a rule, runaways with weapons, rarely without. Seducing the boys.
And we are cordoned off - to catch.
Best regards, VG

Petrovich 02/06/2009 - 13:44

88-90
private - 7 rubles.
3rd class +1
2nd class +3
1st class +5
Total for the last six months at 12 rubles. on your hands.

The corporal received his "50 kopecks for a stripe" (+ 1 rub.)
ml. sergeant +3 rub.
sergeant + 5 rubles.
senior sergeant and foreman - I don't know.

In the case of setting up a conscript for the post of ensign, they were given a quarter (25 rubles) from above. In total, some sergeants received 40 rubles each. per month

captain 3 02/08/2009 - 16:49

A Soviet naval lieutenant after school received 250 rubles without allowances (salary plus the rank of 130 + 120). Well, let's go to the north ... the polar in four years - 240, one and a half salary, sea - 30-50%, DB, OUS, post-income (this is for vacation), a year in two, currency (vouchers) for autonomy, etc. etc. etc. In short, after 7-8 years of service, I received about 700-800 rubles and had a vacation for more than three months. Like this.

Eagle 25 08.02.2009 - 18:54

captain 3
Well, let's go to the north ... the polar in four years - 240, one and a half salary, sea - 30-50%, DB, OUS, post-income (this is for vacation), a year in two, currency (vouchers) for autonomy, etc. etc. etc.

how was the database, post-income (this is for vacation), and autonomous, etc.?

how was the system
currency (bons)

Sincerely

captain 3 02/08/2009 - 19:32

Dear friend from distant but close Germany! And for what purpose are you interested? Do you want to write a book, or how7

Eagle 25 08.02.2009 - 20:08

Hey,
for me.
I am interested in monetary allowance in the Soviet Army
and the Warsaw Treaty.
I have a paycheck for our NNA.
SA / GSVG is small.

Sincerely

captain 3 02/08/2009 - 20:41

On the issue of currency accrual. When crossing a certain water line (North Cape-Bear), the currency began to be calculated at the rate of 22% (of the salary). Here, for the autonomous system (a couple of months), I got about 50 bonds (which approximately corresponded to 50 dollars). It is difficult to match, but in our specialty store, it was possible to buy jeans for about ten bonds. Leave accrual system, I understand, you are not interested?

Eagle 25 08.02.2009 - 20:53

Leave accrual system, I understand, you are not interested?
-> I'm interested in

(DB, post-income (this is for vacation), and autonomous, etc.?)

Sincerely

captain 3 02/08/2009 - 21:46

No. This is the so-called "birch". And we have receipts for marine stores. This is in Murmansk and St. Petersburg "Albatross", in Sevastopol "Chernomorsky".

SHIZUKA 09.02.2009 - 01:29

The result of the jump is different
The earth judges us harshly
To whom is the candle at the head
who has 3 rubles in his pocket.
Classic......

captain 3 09.02.2009 - 15:00

In-in! It's him. Fig. 7.

Eagle 25 02/17/2009 - 17:18

Is it correct? ? ?
found on the internet.

Platoon commander 130, -

Deputy commander of company 135, -

Commander of a motorized rifle company, anti-aircraft missile battery; assistant chief of staff of regiment 140, -

Deputy battalion commander, officer of the Main Directorate; Company Commander: Special Forces; educational; separately deployed (more than 50 km), Senior Assistant to the Chief of Staff of the Regiment 145, -

Battalion Commander, Missile (Artillery) Division, Researcher 155, -

Separate battalion commander, head of the artillery section of the regiment 160, -

Deputy Regiment, Senior Researcher 165, -

division headquarters, senior command officer of the army 170, -

Officer in the main command of a branch of the Armed Forces and in the command of a branch of the Armed Forces; senior officer of the Directorate of the Military District 175, -

Regiment commander 180, -

Secretary of the military council of the military district, senior officer in the main command of the branch of the Armed Forces and in the command of the branch of the Armed Forces 185, -

Brigade commander 190, -
Brigade commander separate 195
Division commander. 210, -
Corps commander 240, -

Platoon leader 110, -

Deputy commander of company 115, -

Commander of a motorized rifle company, anti-aircraft missile battery; assistant chief of staff of the regiment 120, -

Deputy battalion commander 130, -

Deputy battalion commander of a separate, junior scientific officer, head of communications, intelligence brigade 150, -

Battalion Commander, Missile (Artillery) Battalion, Researcher 140, -

Separate battalion commander, head of artillery section of regiment 145, -?

Deputy Regiment, Senior Researcher

Deputy Chief of Rear Services of a Division, Deputy Chief
division headquarters, senior command officer of the army

Officer in the main command of a branch of the Armed Forces and in the command of a branch of the Armed Forces; senior officer of the Office of the Military District

Regiment commander 160, -

Head of the military district department
Secretary of the military council of the military district, senior officer in the main command of the Armed Forces branch and in the command of the branch of the Armed Forces

Brigade commander 170, -
Brigade commander of a separate 175
Division commander. 190, -
Corps commander

It is well known how heavy a burden on the Soviet economy in 1979-89 was the costs associated with the participation of the "limited contingent".

In addition to official spending on Afghanistan in one form or another, some impact on the economy Soviet Union also provided by the unofficial Afghan and near-Afghan economic system, which developed as a result of the stay of the Soviet military contingent in a foreign country.

Here we must remember the flow of goods that poured into the Union from the south. Most of them came to Soviet consumers in the suitcases of officers, soldiers and civilian specialists returning from an undeclared war, or in secluded places of the withdrawn equipment. In turn, Soviet goods in short supply were sent to Afghanistan in large quantities, completely unofficially.

And where there is international trade, its own monetary system inevitably arises. The published memoirs of veterans of the undeclared war in Afghanistan make it possible to form a certain idea about it.

Perhaps, Aleskender Ramazanov highlighted the “currency” side of the Afghan war in the most detail: “The monetary allowance of soldiers and sergeants of conscript service in Afghanistan was beggarly and ranged from 20-40 rubles a month. Part of this amount was exchanged for checks of VPT (Vneshposyltorg). Despite the threatening warnings, the check had nothing to do with the currency. This surrogate for the ruble could be used to pay in the stores of Voentorg in the 40th Army or, until the beginning of 1989, in the "currency" stores "Berezka" on the territory of the USSR.

The essence was clarified by the "black market" in the Soviet Union, where the VPT check cost about three and a half rubles (close to the real exchange rate of the US dollar, contrary to the legend about the "bucks" for sixty Soviet kopecks).

Officers and warrant officers, depending on rank, position, time of service in the DRA, received a double salary according to the position, from which from 45 to 150 rubles was deducted and exchanged for checks of the VPT. The accrual took place daily, strictly in accordance with the number of days spent abroad. In 1981, junior officers received about 180 checks in the DRA for a full month, and senior officers - 250. By the end of the Afghan campaign, this type of payment had almost doubled. On the bills of 100 and 50 checks, numbered seals were put on them, it was possible, in theory, to trace where he got to the “Afghans” or “non-Afghans” in the Union: in “Berezki” they demanded from the buyers identity cards, passports, military cards - sometimes at the entrance to the store, not to mention the checkout. Didn't help! In the fight against smugglers and speculators, wide red stripes and menacing inscriptions about a special purpose for military trade appeared on checks. The wonderful properties of checks include the following: if an officer could pay a quarter of the cost of the Volga with checks, then he was allowed to purchase a car out of turn.

And also - the check was appointed and canceled! In January 1989, by the end of the withdrawal of troops, the Beryozka stores were closed and the check could be exchanged for Soviet rubles one to one with the army treasurers. Here's a currency substitute!
And since Afghan shopkeepers bought everything they could sell from Soviet soldiers and officers, they needed a lot of checks. Imagine their reaction to check canceled!

“Normal people don't do that,” Dukandor Ali-Muhammadi from Mazar-i-Sharif persuaded the author of these lines. - The shah is gone. Daud is gone - Paisa lives. Taraki, Babrak - all Afghans walk! What is your country? Canceled money, right? " A panel of red-striped VPT checks adorned the northern wall of his dukan. However, the Afghans already had a lesson in 1917. They probably still have pasted over their chests with royal bills. So, they didn't learn ...

As for the prices for consumer goods in military stores - "chekushki", they approximately corresponded to the all-Union ones. In the "chekushki" immediately organized: "deficit", the issuance of goods with the permission of the unit commander, the restriction of "sales to one hand", bans on the sale of certain goods to soldiers and sergeants and a complete "bummer" advisers! At that time, they were not allowed into the territory of the units either.

Showcases and shelves of "checkers" were filled with substitutes for fruit juices from Yugoslavia, dry biscuits, candy canes, and Chinese canned meat. Under the "record" were sold tracksuits, suitcases, "diplomats", tape recorders from Japan and Germany. Lemonade "Zi-zi" was considered luxury, which, however, was called "sisi", with an emphasis on the first syllable, of course. By the withdrawal of troops, when a considerable amount of checks had accumulated in the hands of the military, the checks were mysteriously empty.

Check bills were 100, 50, 10, 5, 1 ruble and 50, 10, 1 kopecks. A penny could buy a box of matches or an unmarked envelope. After being accepted in the store, the checks were canceled (they cut the triangle along the edge).

During all the years of the Afghan campaign, there was a categorical prohibition on the purchase of goods in local stores (dukans), and therefore, everything that was not purchased in "checkers" could be seized on "legal grounds." This concerned the officers less, and the soldier could be cleaned naked before being sent home - in the unit, at the transit point or at the customs. Which was happening constantly and everywhere. Shmon is an immortal business!

But it was a wise political and ideological decision: how can you bring something sensible from an undeveloped country, which we undertook to help everyone, even flesh and blood? The monetary theme is a bit dry-sparsely deposited in the memory of the veterans. Far from being a decisive factor for Soviet soldier those times. "

It is not entirely clear why the author dates the closure of Birch to January 1989? January 1988 is usually mentioned, not 1989. In early January 1988, the USSR government announced the liquidation of the check trading system, in the course of a campaign "to fight privileges" and "for social justice." At the same time, huge queues arose - the owners of the checks tried by any means to get rid of them before the announced closing date.

But one cannot but agree that the financial factor was not decisive for Soviet soldiers and officers of those times. But their willingness to serve their country and fight where ordered was too shamelessly exploited in incredibly difficult conditions.

Magic Officer's Hat

Here is a description of how the first practical lesson in Afghan currency studies was received by the officers who recently arrived in Afghanistan, made by the helicopter flight engineer Igor Frolov:

“When the slumber began to fall on the silenced flight technicians, two Afghan soldiers from the airfield security approached the board. Putting their heads in the door, we examined the salon, looking under the benches.

- Jam, candy, liver? The tall one asked.
- There is nothing, they haven't earned it yet, - Lieutenant Molotilkin threw up his hands.
- It! - showed one soldier to the winter hat of flight engineer F., lying on the additional tank.
- And the keys to the apartment? - said flight technician F.

Suddenly, a black-haired captain of the Soviet army appeared behind a soldier of the Afghan army. The flight technicians did not hear how the Toyota drove up - she dropped the passengers at the control room so that the two majors could get to know Colonel Sattar, the main airfield, and the captain went to the sides.

- Are you afraid to sell your honor? - he asked Lieutenant F. - So honor, she is in the cockade, but the cockade is no longer there. A man, not to mention a military officer, must have money ...

During the first days, until they were outfitted, flight technician F. wore his blue-gray officer's cap, taking off his golden cockade - there should be no unmasking details on the field uniform, shiny in the sun.

- Nahzmi noise, dust? - asked the captain of the soldier.
- Hub! - said the soldier, smiling white-toothed at the Russian giant.

The captain went up to the salon, took the cap of flight engineer F., showed it to the soldier:

- Du khazor?
- No, - the soldier shook his head. - Khazor ...
- What about winter in the mountains? - said the captain. - Your brothers-souls are cold, however ...
- Dushman is the enemy! The soldier said smiling.
- All right, brother of the enemy, - said Rosenquit, - yak khazor punch garden! - and he thrust the cap into the soldier's hands.

He immediately put it on his head, took out a thin pack from his bosom, peeled off several bills and gave it to the captain.
The captain opened a bag of orange percale, in which, judging by the bulging edges, packs of Afghans were packed, put the soldier's money there, took out of his pocket a bill of fifty Vneshposyltorg checks and handed the flight engineer F.

- What is it? - the flight technician F.
“This is the first lesson of the free market and illegal foreign exchange,” said the captain. - A hat that costs eleven rubles in Voentorg, and is also very second-hand, sold for fifteen hundred aprons to a friendly Afghan warrior, for whom a warm thing is more needed in winter than Montana jeans, which you can buy at a local ducan for the same fifteen hundred. So that you understand your gain, I gave it to you in checks, at the rate of one to thirty. In the Union, these half a hundred checks will be exchanged for you near Beryozka one to three for 150 rubles, that is, your profit will be more than a thousand percent ...

- Some kind of nonsense ... - said the flight technician Molotilkin with admiration. - So, if I bring a hundred of these hats here, you can buy a Volga in the Union?

- "Volga" can be bought by properly scrolling a box of vodka, - the captain laughed. - But this is a matter of import-export, then you will understand. By the way, for these half a hundred checks you can buy a bottle of vodka here, and at the Tashkent airport you have to put so much in your passport at the cashier's desk so that you can then be sold a ticket to your home for rubles. Such are the paradoxes.

F. Borttekhnik was impressed by this simple but powerful market math. True, he was embarrassed by the fact that he so unscrupulously allowed his own hat, doused with jelly in the dining room, scorched by the stove of a squadron house at the Amur airfield, kerosene, which had served him as a pillow many times, into the wrong hands ... He suddenly felt that he had sold his smaller sister, and he felt ashamed. And even scary - I remembered my grandmother's remarks - "don't wave your hat - your head will hurt" or "don't throw your hat anywhere - you'll forget your head." Is this not a sign that here he will leave his stupid and greedy head?

To distract himself, he began to think how, after returning to the base, he would go to the "checkpoint", where the saleswoman Luda, nicknamed Globus, would sell him a block of Java cigarettes, a bottle of cherry Donna, a pack of cookies, a box of chocolates and, probably, a can of crabs ... And then he will go to the bookstore and buy a black two-volume book of Lorca there, so that, after lunch on board, he can read, lying on a bench, about the moon over Cordova, smoke, shaking off the ashes into the open window and drinking Donna ... "

In front of flight technician F., a winter hat that stood in the military shop for 11 rubles, very second-hand (that is, used), doused with jelly and kerosene-coated, turned into 50 precious checks. As the old-time captain quite rightly noted, a warm thing is more needed in winter than Montana jeans. Who would have understood this in the then Soviet Union? An unfortunate tattered hat — and a precious Montana. How many dramatic stories happened at that time due to the absence of this most coveted “Montana” by a guy or a girl… And then a hat as an equivalent of “Montana”. Currency Afghan fiction, incomprehensible to ordinary citizens of the USSR.

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Baths were built from improvised material. Often these were packages of ammunition: aerial bombs, NURSs, shells. The "Gradovskaya" container was especially appreciated - a long, grooved board. Sometimes the walls were built from "blocks", filling green boxes with dry clay. Inside, they were sheathed with the same boards, cleaned of the protective paint. Chopped, and then from afar, I happened to see near Kabul, in a special-purpose battalion. They said that they brought the bathhouse with them, rolling it onto logs.

For heating water and steam rooms, they mainly used home-made stoves made of iron barrels, steel sheets, nozzles running on diesel fuel and aviation kerosene, "Polaris" - a hybrid of a potbelly stove and a jet engine. Firewood was rarely used. No wonder that in Afghanistan, firewood was sold by weight in the markets!

The first bath, which the author of these lines got into in Afghanistan, belonged to a helicopter squadron on the Mi-24 in Kunduz. She was drowning on aviation kerosene (RT), kept a stable 110 degrees in the steam room, and plenty of water. The German, the foreman, washed everyone on schedule. Enough for everyone. Brooms were brought from Jalalabad and the Union. The bathhouse (black) in the minibatr 56 odshb, at the captain Maksimov's, was good. Harsh steam! Washing and steam room together, kind of grimy and slimy, but cool! The pilots (technicians) also built a bathhouse behind the strip from shell boxes filled with clay. They both lived and steamed in it. Then this miracle burned down. The big bath was 783 orbs. The steam room is spacious. It was established that after the raids - immediately to the bathhouse. The “highest” bathhouse was on Salanga, near the Northern portal - 3560 meters above sea level, in the pool the water is flowing, of course, all year round - ice. In terms of the number of baths per capita, the Bagram garrison was probably ahead of all. There were three of them in the army rembat alone. They praised the "Jalalabad buchilo", the bathhouse in Anava - they stood by natural springs. They said that in Tashkurgan, in the 122nd regiment, the bathhouse was heated with natural gas - these were the problems that were removed!

"In secret", long-distance communication lines and ZAS were laid in the baths. It was possible not to lose command of the troops from the waiting room. They arranged billiard and tea rooms. In the Kabul "cunning" bathhouses, the brains of inspectors, artists, journalists and Afghan middle-level agents soared.

Afghans, especially military and party people, loved to bathe in our baths. But they didn’t have a chance to see a functioning hammam (bathhouse) either in Kabul, or in Kunduz, or in Mazar-i-Sharif. Often, Afghan friends joked that before the arrival of the shuravi, they did not know what vodka and a steam room were. Of course they did. But with the Soviets, you could drink and bathe naked, without fear for your own health and other dignity. By the way, Afghans always brought vodka with them. They did not like freeloaders and did not suffer from this themselves. You just had to know that if you asked a local, especially a Pashtun, for something, give it back when he asks.

You can ask a legitimate question - where does head lice come from, if there are so many baths? Here we can say that the louse is an invariable companion of wars, since it simply crawls to the smell of grief. In addition, in many garrisons, not only baths, but also showers were lacking!

“In the artillery regiment, in Northern Kunduz, if you had time to wash yourself before the water ran out, then it’s good. In winter, generally longing for a bath. In the summer there was a shower room for officers; if not caught, it means that he had time to freshen up. "

“At first we swam in fuel barrels. Then we set up a tent with a shower. And the bath was only for officers. "

“The soldier's bathhouse in the Rembat was bad: just a room, and there were about ten taps under the ceiling. But the officer had a steam room and a swimming pool. Those who were especially guilty washed this pool twice a week with lysol (phenol-based antiseptic) without gloves. Hands climbed in a moment and then healed for two weeks.

HOW THE NEW YEAR MEETS

Few prepared (stocked up food, drink and "pyrotechnics"), say, for November 7 or May 1. The day of the Soviet Army was more celebrated by officers, but there is no need to talk about March 8. And here New Year everyone noted. By all means and by all means - of course, if possible. In someone else's garrison, on guard, on duty or in ambush (and this has happened) you don't really roam.

In the Soviet Army, holidays were a headache for commanders. A number of bans were announced, increased combat readiness was introduced, and numerous persons responsible for discipline and order were appointed. In Afghanistan, this practice has been reinforced by bans on air travel, border crossings and exits from military camps. But my soul wanted a holiday!

Who remembers half a glass of vodka in a trench near Herat, brought by a "partisan" at exactly twelve o'clock. Who has a five-fold cleaning mash, a sharop, a "joint" and a cake made of cookies and condensed milk. But everyone remembered New Year's Eve for the fireworks.

“1988 met on the hill in Khost ... fireworks from tracers from all the hills. Plague!"

“We met as expected, from everything that was at the outpost, including a mortar and a tank. But what happened over Kabul is a must see! "

“At the seventh outpost. They shot a porcupine, cooked well. I was dressed up as Santa Claus. "

“Shore champagne to the chime, and in the evening a friend begged me to change it for two bottles of vodka. I agreed. He soaped himself into the women's module. I met the chime of the clock with a glass of Denau vodyara with a touch of kerosene, and then added a tracer store to the general fireworks. "

“In a week, we started charging the batteries, we had a TV set, it worked from 12 volts, we had home brew, moonshine, a sea of char and some other tops. They raised the alarm twice in the evening, and then they arranged such a fireworks! They fired illuminating shells from self-propelled guns, then the whole battery was traced at them. It was very nice and fun. "

"The new 87th, near the airfield at the point near Jalalabad, the glow all night and the sky in the tracers - unforgettable!"

“They fired all night from everything that was - 2 tanks, 3 120-mm mortars, missiles were launched, which were rearranged in range from 800 to 1200 meters, and tracers at them; the mash was overwhelmed, well, and the char was present. "

“The mortarmen, when they were giving the salute, did something, and some of the mines exploded in a nearby village. They organized a fireman there, and in response they received fire from the village. "

“December 31, 84, in transit in Kabul. In modules plus two, outside minus ten, snow. We drank everything that was in the nearest dukans. "

“We secretly went out to Chardara at night. There was information that the "spirits" would move to the border. We spent the night in the mud, the snow was wet. And you can't smoke. And on the side of the division, on a hill, there was a glow and a roar! It was as if Berlin were being taken - such shooting. Above the North - everything also shone. In the morning they returned with nothing, hungry and chilled from the cold. But the guys left everything we needed. That was the New Year, 1982 ”.

1986th. Panjshir. They came up, turned around, but did not enter on the 31st. Festive cake made from crushed cookies and condensed milk. At 24 o'clock the sky was colored with tracers, rockets. "

SOLDIER'S DREAMS

Dreams have a wonderful ability to forget. But if something is seen several times in a row, how not to remember! It is understandable even without Freud why veterans are reluctant to talk about their Afghan dreams. Dreaming of war is bad. The house is dreaming - anxious melancholy in the morning: hasn't something happened?

Soldiers' dreams in Afghanistan could not be serenely happy. Nervous tension, physical fatigue, bad food, harsh climatic and living conditions, prolonged sexual abstinence - what "Morpheus hugs" can we talk about? Rather, "he crushed him down closely!"

The most stable plot of dreams was associated with the malfunction of weapons and equipment in a combat situation, with a second conscription to Afghanistan. The first, of course, is scary, and the second is even worse, since the life of a young soldier - a "spirit" - was not only difficult, but in some cases humiliating.

“Some row of dugouts, connected by a common corridor, in the dungeon of the“ spirits ”. I look out of the dugout into the corridor and see turbans. I think: oh well, not the first time, cartridges up to x. I, and there are no more than five of them, in the sense of "spirits." I look through the hole in the store - I don't see the cartridge, I disconnect it - and I have two cartridges there ... "

"Spirit", a red, wide muzzle, comes out of the reed right at me. I hit the hook - misfire. Dushara laughs, slowly picks up his AKM, white-polished. I twitched the shutter, and in place it goes slowly and stops in the middle. Then I woke up. And the heart leaps at the throat. "

“We are going into an ambush in a group, I go last, PC on the right shoulder. Suddenly I feel a stranglehold on my left shoulder pulling. I think: just not to scare me away, and turn around over my left shoulder, kick him in the head ... I open my eyes: Andryukha is holding me, wrapping his arms around me, and the checking major is lying on the floor, who wanted to put everything in line. He was saved by the fact that the blanket caught his leg. And I stand and shout: "And where are the" spirits "?"

“About twenty meters away“ spirits ”. I turn in them, and the bullets from the barrel fall to the ground about five meters away. And the "spirits" have "boraxes" and machine guns on their belts. They just stand and laugh: well, what, Shuravi, jumped? "

They talked about prophetic dreams when a mother, father or school friends warned of impending danger. Yes, there is nothing surprising: if in the morning you go in a column through Baghlan or to Faizabad, then you don't need to go to your grandmother - it will come true!

"Mother shakes her shoulder and says:" Wake up, son! " I woke up, left the module, just lit a pipe, and the "eres" started at once - first in the direction of the airborne division, and then very close to us. "

“In the morning I had my first love, back in the ninth grade. They crashed with her on my Chezeta scooter, and I see blood in my dreams. It really was once! In the morning I got up - not myself. At the headquarters of the disassembly, I was late in the convoy, got hooked on someone else's armor, I thought: until the first stop. And he was blown away on the road. "Spirits" at night planted a land mine under the nose at the post. "

“I often dreamed about the first Afghan, as if I had killed someone. The dream does not say who exactly. And I hide the corpse in different places. And they find it everywhere. I woke up with relief that it was all in a dream. Then I realized: this dream saved from many deadly sins ”.

Dreams with a "physiological lining" are often remembered. And what else to expect from the body at nineteen to twenty years? The soldier's wisdom says: "Zhorevo and bang are very healthy."

“In a dream I saw a fried duck with apples, a cigarette with a filter, ate ice cream, swam in the sea. When they were sent to Krasnaya Zvezda, the battalion commander handed in front of the formation twice in a dream. The girls never dreamed of. But after demobilization, for two more years, in a dream, he squeezed his hand between his legs so that he twisted the brush. Or wake up with red fingerprints on your shoulder. My wife has weaned it off! "

“We know what dreams! Nowhere did they scratch their muda like in Afghanistan. Now I understand - this was a sign that they would be useful in the future. True, the boys spoke - he gritted his teeth and moaned. And also turned over with a jerk. Hochma! As if someone tossed it up. Yes, many are so! "

CHECKS AND "CHECKS"

The monetary allowance of soldiers and sergeants of conscript service in Afghanistan was beggarly and fluctuated in the range of 20-40 rubles a month. Part of this amount was exchanged for checks of VPT (Vneshposyltorg). Despite the threatening warnings, the check had nothing to do with the currency. This surrogate for the ruble could be used to pay in the Voentorg stores in the 40th Army or, until the beginning of 1989, in the "currency" shops "Berezka" on the territory of the USSR.

In an incomprehensible way, when exchanging the due amount, a soldier was given two and a half checks for a ruble, and when accountable check sums were spent, officers were charged four rubles per check ruble. Like in a library when a book is lost. The essence was clarified by the "black market" in the Soviet Union, where the VPT check cost about three and a half rubles (close to the real exchange rate of the US dollar, contrary to the legend about the "bucks" for sixty Soviet kopecks).

On the bills of 100 and 50 checks, numbered seals were put on them, it was possible, in theory, to trace where he got to the “Afghans” or “non-Afghans” in the Union: in “Berezki” they demanded from the buyers identity cards, passports, military cards - sometimes at the entrance to the store, not to mention the checkout. Didn't help!

In the fight against smugglers and speculators, wide red stripes and menacing inscriptions about a special purpose for military trade appeared on checks.

The wonderful properties of checks include the following: if an officer could pay a quarter of the cost of the Volga with checks, then he was allowed to purchase a car out of turn.

The "Afghans" loved the VPT checks, because it was easier to import them into the USSR and it was safer to pay off the plunderers of military property and socialist property. An excess of Afghani (the currency of Afghanistan) in a soldier could arouse suspicion, and checks - they are relatives. I have saved up! Friends chipped in! And since Afghan shopkeepers bought everything they could sell from Soviet soldiers and officers, they needed a lot of checks. Imagine their reaction to check canceled!

The monetary theme is a bit dry-sparsely deposited in the memory of the veterans. Far from being a decisive factor for a Soviet soldier of those times. However, some of the evidence is noteworthy:

1980. Approximately February - May, I don't remember exactly. There were no checks yet. They gave out pieces of paper typed on a typewriter, but with a seal. The meaning is something like this: "A check for the purchase of goods in the amount of ...." (something about 25-30 rubles). You can buy goods only in a military trade shop, and the seller is at back side writes down the purchase amount and puts a stamp. At the final closing of the amount, the seller seized the check. "

“81–82 years. The gunner received 19 checks, and the sergeant 25 checks. One check could be exchanged for 10 Afghans, and in the 82nd already for 15-16 Afghans ”.

“In 1987, VPT checks appeared with a red border (top and bottom) and on the strip was written“ special, for military trade ”. In the Union, in the "Birch", they were not accepted. With the introduction of these checks, the private began to receive 23 checks.

“The conscript, in the position of the company foreman, received 98“ striped ”checks. Sergeant, squad leader, 36.80 of the same, "striped".

“I got red-striped checks from my second salary. "Spirits" in the cantina (a shop in an iron container of "Morflot") were also willingly taken. "

“The calculation (for the officers) was going on - two salaries in rubles. RUB 50 transferred to checks, from a ruble account. Minus for cigarettes, minus party fees, minus home, whatever you say. "

“From 12.86 to 08.87 I received 536 rubles - of which 16 rubles to the common fund (party contributions of a member of the CPSU). 08 kopecks. "

“From the ruble part of the salary, 18 rubles. subtracted (optional). Instead - thirty packs of "Java" or "Rostov-on-Don".

“I remember there was a conversation at the beginning of 1986 about increasing the pay, but Chernobyl happened.”

“In Kunduz I received 536 rubles. (contributions 16.08 rubles) - these are 1981-1982. In Kabul, 86-88 years - 650 rubles, contributions - about 19 rubles) ".

“230 checks minus 7 checks for party or Komsomol contributions - 223 checks remained on hand. Everything else went to books and was paid in the Union: title, position, length of service, but also taxed. "

“85-86 years: private 9.20, sergeant (or private specialist) - 13.80. At that time they didn’t know anything about inflation, so everything was stable ”.

“In 1985, returning from a business trip through Kabul, I came across a captain from a construction unit (even a fellow countryman!). I asked for help with the checks. True, I have two hundred and fifty of my own, well, I can take another two hundred - they say, I have left from old business trips. He became sad: "I need twenty thousand." Fuck! And three hours later, in Tuzel, I saw him in a happy state. I drove it, it comes out! "

“Damn, no checks, no fame! He flew in with a suitcase, flew away with a suitcase. Once we were at the transfer in Kabul: I really didn’t like how the demobels fumbled about the “diplomats”. "

"They searched through the" diplomats "before sending them, in units, and this is true, a shameful page ..."

“Shmonali before demobilization of their own, but not very cruel. But in the Kokayty! Jeans were taken away - bought in Dukan! Small things were halved - did you take them in dukan? Lurex shawls - withdraw! He resisted, and the customs officer called the border guards. “How much did you get, comrade sergeant? Thirteen checks a month? And here for six hundred rubles! " He spat - mentally, of course, they had a harsh commandant's office there.

“The exchange rates for afoshekas, rubles, checks, vodka, crystalone, cologne, electric kettles, American jeans and other goods are the dirty underside of that war. By the way, the "polkans" who came to Afghanistan from all corners of our former immense, received 50 daily checks a day, that's it! "

“… The (regimental) store was empty all the time. Therefore, wishing to bring at least something home, the soldiers and officers went to the Afghan dukans. Not for everyone, such events ended successfully, and one day two soldiers from our mortar battery were caught and beheaded by the "spirits".

“I was a private. Received 10 checks. In 1984. From some caravan they took old money, even pre-revolutionary. So they went in the cantina - apparently for beauty; they also gave change with afoshkas. "

“4 bubbles of moonshine = 2 bubbles of vodka = 100 rubles. (by checks) ".

“You mock the caravan, you had to burn so many attendants; it is better to collect trophies than papers. "

“For memory I sent afoshkas home ... Wise parents received them, but I did not write that they should not be sent back! They regularly returned them to the unit. Naturally, they did not reach me. So, my entire collection has gone to pieces, I'd rather have eaten them. "

“Oh, money, money… I remember that I paid one and a half Afghani for each bulletproof wheel on an armored personnel carrier (and there are 8 of them!), With my nine rubles. And if I didn't pay, I would board all 8 after each trip. It's not like standing on a shelf on conservation. That the dushman does not shoot, then you yourself will run into the cartridge case. The first wheel puts it "on the priest," and the second ... But all the roads were strewn with them. Where did you get the money? No, you'd better answer: I should have given these wheels just like that, or what? Moreover, I bought myself machine-gun horns (45 rounds each), sneakers and mountain boots. "

“… How to start fighting, to lead them and get out of the battle, we knew perfectly well and without the officials from the GlavpUR, clothed with big stars, we were all taught this for a long time and systematically throughout our previous service. Much more servicemen at that moment were interested in what to do with the Vneshposyltorg "red" checks issued to us in huge quantities the day before, for which purpose all the officers and warrant officers were forced to close their bank accounts? To this we received an exhaustive and satisfying answer to all of us then, with a slap of the palm on the admiral's chest and a promise to throw his honor of the sea wolf to the dogs for desecration, if he misleads us ... circulation of the "second currency", as the mass media called the checks of Vneshposyltorg, and all the "progressive forces" of the country unanimously demanded the closure of the Beryozka stores, where they traded on them ... By our arrival in the USSR, our "candy wrappers" were no longer available to anyone needed, all the servicemen were forced to close the bank books where they were stored even earlier, and the checks issued in the RA in their hands were simply exchanged for rubles on Kushka in the ratio of 1 to 1 ”.

“… Goods that are in demand are exported to the territory of Afghanistan from the Union. There they are sold for Afghans, and this money is used to buy goods that are in great demand in the USSR. This turnover gave tenfold welds! If we bought for 100 thousand, it turned out to be a million. Usually food was imported: food in Afghanistan was bad, but money was running out ... I can say that we literally completely renewed the customs service several times, sending many customs officers to "places not so remote." However, such large bribes were given that although they knew that the predecessor was there, they took it. The mind was kicked out when they give 100,000 rubles! However, an ordinary customs officer, as a rule, was offered 10,000 rubles for a one-time transportation ”.

“Brokers in Tashkent in 1985 gave two rubles per check, and in Moscow - three and a half rubles. Taxi drivers near Tuzel borzels, bitches. They drove for checks one to one. They knew when the payment point was closed, but we Soviet rubles did not have. For twenty checks in the military, a ticket for any flight, no problem! "

“Once in Kunduz, in December eighty-first, out of boredom, they began to count how much Afghanistan was costing the Union. The people are literate: the political officer of the battalion is with us. Of course, according to available sources, approximately, but the list turned out to be long. And the result is devastating, something about ten million rubles. At that time - astronomy, not economics! "

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Just like in the Great Patriotic War, only senior officers could make serious money on the war in Afghanistan. They exported large quantities of imported audio-video equipment and other valuable things from Afgan.

"Chekists" who took risks and sat out

According to the recollections of those who served in Afghanistan, privates and sergeants received every month from 9 to 12 rubles in checks (sometimes 20 rubles). It was not even money, but its equivalent, which was in circulation mainly with the "contingent". For such insignificant banknotes, which are a kind of currency, it was possible to purchase only some trifle necessary in a soldier's life, such as toothpaste, a brush or thread-needles. However, the “grandfathers” shamelessly took away these modest funds from the “young”.

A wounded soldier or sergeant could count on monetary compensation in the amount of a maximum of 200-300 rubles, depending on the number and nature of the wounds. "Kurki" (those who participated in hostilities and whose life was associated with everyday risk) and "specialists" (instructors of the KGB and GRU) received within 100 rubles. Most of all check currency revolved among officers. Vneshposyltorg's checks could be purchased in the Voentorg of the 40th Army stationed in Afghanistan, or until 1989 in the currency "Birchs", where dubious transactions with checks brought thousands of profits.

Checks were forged and changed

A significant part of the salary of officers and warrant officers who served in Afghanistan was paid in checks. In terms of the then dollar rate (60 kopecks per dollar), the check cost several times more. When giving allowances to Soviet Afghan servicemen, the state shamelessly deceived them, since when the checks were exchanged for rubles, the real amount of salaries was significantly reduced.

In the USSR, there was a black market, where the cost of an Afghan check reached 3.5 rubles. By the end of the Afghan campaign, senior officers of the Soviet Army could earn up to 500 checks, and this was only part of their allowance. The checks were marked with seals with numbers. Their bearers had to be shown military IDs, passports and other identification documents to confirm the authenticity of the payment documents. Despite these precautions, Afghan checks were constantly forged and bought by speculators and smugglers.

What could be purchased on a check in Afghanistan

Check fraud was a lucrative business. An officer with a check amount corresponding to a quarter of the cost of the Volga could buy a car out of turn. At the time, this was a major incentive.

Afghan checks were in denominations of 100 rubles (a lot of money by Soviet standards) to a penny. A penny was worth a box of matches or an unmarked envelope. In Afghanistan, checks were purchased only in Voentorg. In principle, they could be exchanged for local currency at the rate of one check to 10-16 Afghani.

Soldiers and sergeants did not understand much about this system of payments, while officers and warrant officers made money on checks - they speculated with them, and took them to the Union. In the latter case, customs officers were often involved in the business, who, of course, received their profits. Nevertheless, by the time the Soviet troops were withdrawn from Afghanistan, the check was devalued and was equivalent to the ruble.

Whoever could, exported imported audio-video equipment, carpets and other valuable things from Afghanistan. It was also possible to earn money on this in the USSR in the era of total deficit.

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