The international military-patriotic Internet project “Black Tulip Memorial for Afghan Warriors” is a non-profit website created by a group of enthusiasts in February 2012 . The site publishes biographies of internationalist soldiers who died during the Afghan war (1979-1989) and who died after returning from Afghanistan , as well as photographs of memorials, monuments, memorials, plaques and museum displays on the Afghan war.
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| URL | afgan-memorial.org |
| Commercial | not |
| Site type | base of biographies of Afghan warriors and monuments dedicated to the Afghan war (1979-1989) |
| check in | not |
| Beginning of work | February 15, 2012 (3 years) |
| Current status | active |
| Alexa Rating | ▲ 2,022,033 (October 30, 2017) [1] |
History
During the Afghan war (1979-1989), according to official data, in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan 15 051 people died and died from wounds and diseases, 53 753 were injured and 417 people were missing (at the time of the withdrawal of troops). Over the past 25 years since the withdrawal, a significant number of Afghan war veterans have died. So, in 2008, out of 30 thousand veterans in Belarus , 10 thousand died [2] , and in 2009 in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine the number of dead veterans was 7 times higher than the number of deaths in the war [3] .
The international patriotic Internet project “Black Tulip Afghan Warriors Memorial” was created in February 2012 to perpetuate the memory of soldiers who died in Afghanistan and died after the war. Currently, the project is supported by a team of 3 people who manage to post on the portal pages up to 5-10 biographies of internationalist warriors per week. The editors of the site are actively working with veteran organizations, as well as with caring people in different regions of Russia and the CIS countries .
The memorial pages of the Afghan warriors, which are posted on the site, consist of a portrait, awards, biographies and photographs of the warrior’s grave. Also, the memorial page may contain additional photos related to the Afghan warrior. In case a memorial, monument, plaque or memorial sign dedicated to the Afghan warrior is placed on the site, an active link to the memorial page is displayed on the memorial page, and a biography link on the memorial page. The first biography was posted on February 15, 2012 .
As of November 8, 2015, the Black Tulip Afghan Warriors Memorial site contains 1,053 biographies of internationalist warriors and photographs of 373 memorials, memorials, plaques, and museum displays.
| Memorial page of the Hero of the Russian Federation S. Amosov | Memorial page of the Hero of the Soviet Union A. Mironenko Photo of the grave from the expedition "Return to Afghanistan" | Page of the monument "Black Tulip" (Yekaterinburg) | Page of the memorial to the Kyrgyzstanis who fell in Afghanistan (Bishkek). Photo of the memorial from the expedition "Return to Afghanistan" |
Return to Afghanistan Expedition
From July 6 to 26, 2013 the expedition “Return to Afghanistan” took place, organized by the authors of the project “Black Tulip Afghan Warriors Memorial” [4] . For 21 days, the expedition members visited Kyrgyzstan , Uzbekistan , Tajikistan and Afghanistan , where photographs were taken of the graves of Afghan soldiers ( Bishkek , Dushanbe , Bukhara ), a memorial to the Kyrgyz people who fell in Afghanistan (Bishkek) and others, meetings were held with the leadership of the Kyrgyz Republican Union of Afghanistan Veterans [5] . In Afghanistan itself, as a result of communication with local residents, participants and eyewitnesses of the events of the Afghan war, valuable materials were collected on the attitude of Afghans to the Shuravi almost 25 years after the end of the war [6] .
Rewards
- 2013 - the site “Memorial of Afghan Warriors“ Black Tulip ”” won the 13th All-Russian Competition “ Golden Site ” in the nomination “Socially Significant and Charitable Projects” [7]
Notes
- ↑ Global rating of the site "Black Tulip" (English) . Alexa Internet . Date of appeal October 30, 2017.
- ↑ Oleg Volchek: Out of 30 thousand Belarusian “Afghans” almost 10 thousand died
- ↑ Chairman of the Ukrainian Union of Veterans of Afghanistan, Major General Sergey Chervonopisky: “The boys had to collect their friends who were blown up by mines and put them in two packages so that they were identical in weight” Gordon Boulevard newspaper No. 6 (198) dated 10 February 2009
- ↑ "From Donetsk to Afghanistan and vice versa" The Donetsk News newspaper No. 35 (1155) August 29 - September 4, 2013
- ↑ Return to Afghanistan. How are veterans of the Afghan war in Kyrgyzstan
- ↑ Return to Afghanistan. What turned out to be the most dangerous country in the world
- ↑ About the project
Links
See also
- Aircraft An-12 "Black Tulip"