Vyacheslav Nikolaevich Mironov (russian: link=no, Миронов, Вячесла́в Никола́евич) (born January 21, 1961 in
Kemerovo
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) is a Russian writer and
officer
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of the
Soviet
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then
Russian army
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The primary responsibilities of the Russian Gro ...
. He participated in several late- and post-Soviet conflicts including events in
Transnistria
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,
Gerorgia,
The Georgean-Ossetian conflict and the
, where he fought in the rank of
captain
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. He has been awarded the
Order of Courage. Vyacheslav Mironov was discharged from the Russian Army and is currently serving in the narcotics division of the Kemerovo Oblast Police in the rank of
lieutenant-colonel
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. His most well-known work ''I Was in this War' Chechnya 95'' (russian: link=no, Я был на этой войне. Чечня, год 1995) published in 1999 deals with his experiences in the First Chechen war during the
Battle of Grozny in 1995. It has received several awards and commendations for internet literature and has been translated into several languages. Mironov's books are usually fictionalised accounts of real events and deal with military themes surrounding ordinary officers and soldiers serving in the Soviet and Russian armed forces.
Selected Novels
*''Я был на этой войне. Чечня, год 1995'' (''I WAS IN THIS WAR. Chechnya 95') 1999
*''Не моя война'' (''Not My War'' – co-authored with Oleg Makov)
References
External links
Works on the artofwar.ru site (In Russian)Works on
Moshkov, Maxim Moshkov's site lib.ru.)
1961 births
Russian writers
Living people
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