40th Army
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The 40th Army of the Soviet Ground Forces was an army-level command that participated in World War II from 1941 to 1945 and was reformed specifically for the Soviet–Afghan War from 1979 to circa 1990.
Staff headquarters building of the 40th Army, Kabul, 1986
Boris Gromov
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Boris Vsevolodovich Gromov is a Russian politician and former military officer. He was the Governor of Moscow Oblast between January 2000 and May 2012. Deployed thrice to fight in the Soviet–Afghan Wa
40th Army
…the withdrawal resumed. The 108th Motor Rifle Division served as the rearguard. The last Soviet units left Afghanistan in February 1989. Army commander Boris Gromov was the last Soviet soldier to cross back into the Soviet Union at Termez on 15 February 1989, covered by the reconnaissance battalion of the 201st…
Gromov in 2018
With President Dmitry Medvedev, 14 October 2008
With President Medvedev and Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, January 2011
Gromov, then a colonel general, announces withdrawal of Soviet army from Afghanistan in 1989