This year he celebrated his 68th birthday and is currently retired.
According to him, after finishing his studies and obtaining a driver's license, he was drafted into the army.
“I was born in 1958 and after graduating from school, I trained as a driver. After working for about six months at the state farm 'Santashe', I was drafted into the army as a young soldier of the USSR in 1978. I spent the first six months in the Far East, in the Chita region. In 1979, when the war in Afghanistan began, we were sent to the front without prior information about it. We learned about our assignment during a trip through Kazakhstan. We were strictly prohibited from writing to our families and informing them of our whereabouts,” shared T. Duyshobaev's memories.
The soldiers prepared for war right on the train. First, we underwent a week of training in the Kushka area in Turkmenistan, and then we arrived in Shindand, located between Herat and Kabul, by vehicles in convoys. We began carrying out our tasks from February to November 1980. At that time, the war was just starting, and we were in different places: sometimes in Kushka, sometimes on the way, and then already on Afghan territory. Our job involved escorting and transporting construction materials, as well as building barracks for soldiers. I served as a driver,” the veteran recounts.
During the war, there were losses among his comrades, and the bodies of the fallen were sent back home. By a twist of fate, Temirkul returned home after nine months of service. Information about his participation in Afghanistan reached his family only a year and a half later,” he added.
After returning home, Temirkul started a family and began working in the electrical networks of the Tyup district.
Every year he commemorates February 15 as a memorial day dedicated to the memory of war participants.
“After the army, I worked in the district electrical networks and serviced areas up to Karkyra, Chaar-Kuduk, Tasma, and Toktoyan. I started a family and, together with my wife, raised four sons and two daughters. Now we are enjoying our well-deserved rest and are happy with our 12 grandchildren. Currently, we are engaged in agriculture,” he concluded.
- On February 15, Kyrgyzstan marked the 37th anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan.
