1979–1989 war between the Soviet Union and Afghan insurgents
Documented facts
- Date
- 25 December 1979 (Gregorian) — 15 February 1989 (Gregorian)
- Precision
- Day
- Referenced location
- Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
- Source coordinates
- 34.5167°, 69.1333°
- Part of
- Afghan Conflict
Referenced participants
- Soviet Union ↗
- Democratic Republic of Afghanistan ↗
- Islamic Unity of Afghanistan Mujahideen ↗
- Tehran Eight ↗
Documented participation does not establish opposing sides. Alliances absent from the sources are not reconstructed.
People and command
- Vitaly Bubenin — documented participation · Source ↗
- Mohammed Rafie — documented participation · Source ↗
- Shahnawaz Tanai — documented participation · Source ↗
- Mohammad Aslam Watanjar — documented participation · Source ↗
- Abdul Rashid Dostum — documented participation · Source ↗
- Nazar Mohammad — documented participation · Source ↗
- Sergey Sokolov — documented participation · Source ↗
- Valentin Varennikov — documented participation · Source ↗
- Boris Gromov — documented participation · Source ↗
- Gulbuddin Hekmatyar — documented participation · Source ↗
- Jalaluddin Haqqani — documented participation · Source ↗
- Mohammad Nabi Mohammadi — documented participation · Source ↗
- Ibn al-Khattab — documented participation · Source ↗
- Pavel Grachev — documented participation · Source ↗
- Dzhokhar Dudayev — documented participation · Source ↗
- Lev Rokhlin — documented participation · Source ↗
- Igor Bezler — documented participation · Source ↗
- Leonid Brezhnev — documented participation · Source ↗
- Mohammad Najibullah — documented participation · Source ↗
- Hibatullah Akhundzada — documented participation · Source ↗
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