In Lakhdenpokhya passed the action devoted to Memory of a feat of the 6th company of the Pskov paratroopers

22 years ago paratroopers entered unequal fight with the international terrorists. On March 1 at a memorable sign in the city square of "Memory" inhabitants of Lakhdenpokhya assigned flowers and observed a minute of silence, the lost officers and fighters of airborne forces. In the first day of spring of 2000 paratroopers of the 6th company under command of the lieutenant colonel Yevtyukhin Mark entered unequal fight with Hattab's fighters under Ulus-Kertom. They prevented break of 2,5 thousand members of illegal bands, having destroyed 700 of them. From 90 fighters 84 were lost. Already then it becomes known that Hattab brought the best mercenaries into the Argunsky gorge...