Бывший старатель из Якутии стал командиром взвода воздушной разведки

"I didn't stand aside": from the artel to the front The commander of the aerial reconnaissance platoon is a former prospector from Yakutia. Before the front line, he mined gold in a small artel. Now he is correcting artillery fire in the Kharkov direction. And Russia's gold, he says, is not in gold-bearing sands.: "The gold is you. All Russians. The people and the army are united, so any person is already a golden man." For him, homeland is about specific people and places. His mother, father, grandmother, and grandfather were born and buried here. Grandfather went through two wars — with the Germans and with the Japanese. "And I didn't stand by." Watch the full report by Ulyana Strizh, filmed especially for "Channel One", tonight — on https://max.ru/wargonzo .