Photos Post-Soviet Conflicts

[RisingStar]

Transnistrian separatists take cover behind an MT-LBu in Tighina (now Bender) during the Transnistria War (1992)

Russian women plead with a Russian Army officer to be evacuated from Kulob, Tajikistan during the Tajik Civil War (1992)

A helicopter brings supplies to Russian border guards during the Tajik Civil War (August 1, 1996)

Russian soldiers in North Ossetia during the East Prigorodny conflict (1992)

Ossetians in trenches on the outskirts of Tskhinvali. The men are using antiquated Russian Mosin-Nagant rifles first produced in the 1890s. South Ossetia War (1991)

A Russian (left), a Moldovan (center), and a Transnistrian seperatist (right) stand on guard at the security zone separating Moldova from the unrecognized breakaway state of Transnistria along the Dniester River (2002)

Tajikistani government forces Government forces take up postions in Tursunzade during the Tajik Civil War (January 1997)

An opposition gunman fires from a doorway of the largely ruined Hotel Tbilisi during the Georgian Civil War (1991)

Georgian government soldiers during Georgian Civil War, Tbilisi (1991)

Russian tanks shelling the White House in Moscow during Black October (1993)

Russian "little green men" moving through Crimea to seize a Ukrainian military base (March 2014)

 

[Bennie]

Tajik troops patrol the border with Afghanistan during the Tajik Civil War

A fighter of the United Tajik Opposition reads a medical handbook during the Tajik Civil War

Soldiers of the 15th Independent Special Forces Brigade of the Uzbek Armed Forces during the Tajik Civil War, 1992

Guards on the Pamir Highway, Tajik Civil War, 1996

Russian soldiers riding in the back of a truck in a convoy from the Tajikistan capital Dushanbe to the southern Khatlon region, Tajik Civil War, September 1992

 

[Bennie]

Moscow-backed fighters engage Moldovian forces in Transnistria, 1992

Moldovan Police and Volunteer Units fighting in the Dubasari District, around the village of Cosnita

Fighters of the self-proclaimed Trans-Dniester republic near the village of Dubasari, 30 March 1992

Pro-Russian Transnistrian militants during the fighting for the city of Dubossary, April 1992

Moldovan troops in armored personnel carriers headed for their headquarters in Bendery, June 1992

Russian-speaking nationalist fighters of the newly proclaimed Trans-Dnestr republic in the city of Bender, June 1992

Russian peacekeeping unit on the approach route to Bendery, 1992

 

[RisingStar]

Black October (1993)

Members of the Internal Affairs Special Operations Alpha Group take cover behind a BMP-2 from Parliamentarian forces

Defenders of the Russian parliament walk out of the building with guns after pro-communist supporters broke through the lines of the security forces

A defender of the House of Soviets surrendering to troops loyal to Boris Yeltsin

The White House seen in the distance burning from the tank shelling it received earlier that day by pro-Yeltsin forces

Pro-communist rioters meet with police officers armed with riot shields

A sniper near the House of Soviets surrounded by troops loyal to President Boris Yeltsin

 

[Bennie]

Russian airborne forces guard the road leading to Boris Yeltsin's country house during the coup attempt, 28 August 1991

 

[Bennie]

Russian paratroopers of the 76th Guards Air Assault Division during the East Prigorodny conflict, 1992

 

[Bennie]

Pictures from the Transnistria war 1990-1992
Seperatist vehicle flying the Transnistria flag

Republican guard troops

Watching Benderi across the Dniester

“Cossack” volunteers from Southern Russia

 

[Bennie]

Moldovan troops during the Transnistria War

A Moldovan soldier takes aim with an RPG near Coşniţa, June 1992.

A Transnistrian separatist, circa 1992.

Moldovan soldiers guard the bridge near Vadul lui Voda, circa 1992.

 

[droopy]

Check those technicals in the background in the second to last picture.

 

[Kadir93]

Ethnic-Kazakh volunteer with PKT 7.62mm machine gun which was modified for infantry use in Armenian side during First Nagorno-Karabakh War.

Azerbaijani forces engaging combat with Armenian forces during First Nagorno-Karabakh War.

Azerbaijani RPG-7 gunner in 1992.

Azerbaijani soldiers trying to communicate with radio.

Armenian soldiers travelling on top of the their T-72B MBT.

Armenian BMP-1 IFV.

Armenian militiaman alligned to breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.

 

[BravoZulu]

Russian military convoy en route to Dagestan, August 1999.

 

[Kadir93]

East Prigorodny conflict between Ingushes and Ossetians backed by Moscow.

Ossetian militia.

Russian MVD units supporting the Ossetian irregulars.