Plusinnin Alexander Biography

The hero of the assault on the palace Amina. The legend of domestic special forces. For a long time, his name took place only in a line in different materials dedicated to the storm operations the assault on the fortified area on the outskirts of Kabul and the Palace of Amin and Baikal itself a set of measures to capture strategic objects in Kabul, held on December 27 of the year.

Well, and about calling a spade a spade - who, in fact, set the final point, eliminating the bloody Afghan dictator, there could be no question of this. Although this was well known about this in the unit. For the first time, the newspaper “Special Forces of Russia” told about the role of Plusnin in the assault on the Taj-Bek Palace in December-on the eve of the flight of the beginning of the Afghan war.

He said the following about himself: “I dreamed of serving in the“ organs ”even before the army. Preparing, playing sports intensely. In Rostov-on-Don, where he studied, he was a winner in the sambo of the city and the region. He held military service in the Black Sea Fleet, in the only diving school in the Soviet Union, and in M ​​I was sent to the Red Banner Caspian Flotilla, to the school of military swimmers.

The level of secrecy there was such that later, in Moscow, where I arrived to work, I could not put me on military registration with the military enlistment office for about a year. There they told me: such people, with such preparation and data, we need, but ... because of the lack of Moscow, they did not take the Moscow residence permit. L, he worked as a welder, married M and found a residence permit in Moscow.

I did not interrupt sports, and from the year he was intensively engaged in karate. To say honestly, the service did not suit me. Call, routine, took a passport, gave the passport, and I stagnated. He said that the work provides for military business trips abroad. I caught fire because I understood: work in group “A” is a service in a combat unit, and not the protection of a mansion or building where members of the government are sitting ...

“Nine” did not let me go for four months, but Romanov managed to organize a letter from Andropov, in which Yuri Vladimirovich spoke me with a direct order to group “A”. The level of secrecy in the unit was the highest. Officially, we did not exist. Each officer had coverage documents. I was even given a cardboard pass to the institute, where the personnel department was printed, ”wrote Alexander Plusnin.

The first business trip, in which Alexander Plusnin took part, was in the year to Cuba, where a group of combat swimmers ensured the safety of official delegations located on the vessels of our fleet, full of delegates of the XI World Youth and Students in Havana. We insured these vessels from the explosion. What did it look like? The bay there is a “bottleneck”, which means that the water in it is almost standing, not running and saturated with petroleum products.

The thickness of the oily film on the surface reached several centimeters. At a depth, not a feature is visible - even with a lantern, even without. The bottom had to go to the touch. The vessel’s hull vibrated and buzzed from constantly working cars. Being near the ship, I found myself in an acoustic cocoon, the inhale-ragged tubes were greatly vibrated from the operation of power plants.

And the most vile is sharks. The fact is that everything was dropped from the ships into the water - both the waste from the Galles, and the slop. Of course, all smells from the galley attracted sharks as a magnet. Several times, our divers had to get off with too annoying predators. Once, when the nose is literally faced with the shark to the nose and her nose will still be larger than the human, and her teeth too, the swimmers flew out of the water, like penguins, and immediately to the stern of our boat!

For a long time then they could not go down into the water. ” In March, as part of the group of Oleg Balashov Plusnin, he flew to Afghanistan. The first business trip Mart-May took place against the backdrop of exacerbation of clan and religious struggle. Employees of Group A met with the country. They provided personal protection of the Soviet ambassador, a resident of the KGB, and also worked in several provinces.

During the first stay in Afghanistan, a huge work was carried out, which became the key to the success of the December operation "Baikal". There they acted as a “thunder” detachment. Major Mikhail Romanov was appointed senior. The “Palace of Amina” itself was a hard -to -reach structure, the area around was shot from tanks and large -caliber machine guns. The protection of the residence, armed with MP5 and Beretta submachine guns consisted of guardsmen who had been training at the Ryazan Airborne School-she was four times higher in manpower.

In total, there were about two thousand five hundred people in the security brigade, in addition, other units of the Afghan army were in the vicinity and Kabul itself, which had to be blocked by the beginning of the assault. We had to refute the foundations of the theory of defense and, following the commandments of the great Suvorov: “Win ​​not by number, but by the ability,” - to commit something that there were no world special services in the analogues of the latest history of the world.

On the day of the operation, I was worried, it was jacket, as before the fight on the carpet. None of our real experience had military operations ... all unheard of.Sat down, drank one hundred and fifty; The snack did not go. Before landing on the equipment, I retired to tune in. Mentally said goodbye to his family, with loved ones - just in case ... We, fighters from the KGB special forces, were twenty -four groups in groups.

The beginning of the assault - then under the fire of the Aminov guards leaked to the hall. At the beginning of the battle, Oleg Balashov, Deputy Head of Thunder, was wounded. Among the fighters of the “thunder”, thirteen special forces were injured, and Mikhail Romanov had an renal attack from overstrain: he could not move, but continued to fire from shelter.

The competent actions of the commander of the Musbat company Vladimir Sharipov were seriously wounded in the thigh, who supported the KGB special forces with fire, did not allow the attack of the fighters of the “thunder” and “Zenith” to choke. Alexander Plusnin played one of the key roles, while at the tip of the Operation "Storm". However, his feat, like the feat of other fighters, was not marked by the star of the Hero of the Soviet Union.

He talks about how the events inside the palace developed on the pages of “Special Forces of Russia”: “Time in battle stretched very slowly.

Every jerk, every throw from the column to the column, from corner to the wall - these seconds were so long, my legs did not want to move, and I still remember some columns, because I looked at them and thought - I will have time to run up to hide? The battle in the lobby took another five minutes. It was quickly necessary to act. At first there was chaos. We were all unsettled.

After our guys undermined the electric substation, darkness came, but, good, emergency lighting worked, otherwise in the dark we could crush each other. When you shoot live at people, and they - for you, when you run past "your" corpses, when you slide on their blood ... This is not forgotten! How many guards did I kill in battle then? I don’t remember, honestly ... Maybe five, maybe more ...

Knowing that our strength was becoming less and less well -wounded, I immediately ran along the front staircase to the second floor. Not reaching two steps to the top of the staircase march, I was forced to lie down: the fire was dense, and the grenades poured like cucumbers. Some, however, did not explode ... The Afghans with whom we fought were sports, two meters tall, many were training at the Ryazan School of Airborne Forces.

Vitya Anisimov took one such athlete before my eyes. He shot from below, from a distance of fifteen meters. A tall machine gunner Afghan, sitting on a balcony with a light machine gun, crashed with a roar from above on the floor of a marble hall. After the fall, the guardsman ... rose in full height, went four meters to the porch, sat down near the column and died there. I threw the grenade at the door of the Council of Ministers Hall.

She was the left of the glass door of the personal chambers of Amina. I did not calculate the strength of the throw, the grenade hit the wall and bounced to me. Fortunately, the bracket did not let her roll smoothly, and the explosion went into the column. I was only slightly contaminated and doused with marble chips. Turning over on my back, I began to shoot lying down on the guards from the bottom, this duel lasted another half a minute.

I looked around and realized that on the patch in front of the entrance to the terrace of the second floor I was left alone. I continued to empty the shops with short bursts until the ammunition ended. Having evaluated the situation, he calculated the dead zone where bullets and fragments did not reach, hiding behind the walls and using the fact that the speed -fire “Shilka”, shooting outside, did not allow the guards to lean out in this area, I “struck” cartridges into empty stores from the bag.

It was necessary to act quickly, until the guards came to their senses, did not take up a circular defense and crushed us. I knocked out a glass door with my foot and threw a grenade inside. A deafening explosion. Then immediately a wild, heart -rending, piercing female scream: “Amin! Having jumped into the room, the first I saw Amina's wife. She sobbed loudly, sitting above the corpse of a dictator.

There was no doubt in the fact that Hafizulla Amin was dead. He lay on the floor, in his underpants and in a T -shirt. On the side, in a puddle of one’s own blood, twisted and some kind of small. The room was dark, we shone with flashlights and made sure that everything was ready. It just so happened that my grenade exploded in the very depths of the small room, killing Amin himself, hiding behind her women and children, and injuring his household.

I remember that in addition to the Amin family, in the room we found our nurse from the brigade of Soviet doctors, assigned to the dictator after trying to poison it ... If the guards took up a circular defense and managed to hold out until their 5th Panzer Army was approaching, then we would have to be very tight, but almost immediately after the liquidation of Amin, his guards began to give up.

The prisoners scored the entire hall and lobby. At the end of the recognition procedure, there was a cleansing, and I received an order to take out of the palace and at all costs to deliver Afghan comrades to the Soviet embassy.