The number one problem. Salang Pass in the history of the Afghan war. Posititsyn V.

Salang - a high -altitude pass in the Hindukush mountains, dividing Afghanistan into two parts. In the 1960-1970s, Soviet engineers and builders laid the road here and broke the tunnel, thereby connecting the north and south of the country. In the 1980s, the pass became the arena of a fierce confrontation between Soviet troops and an armed opposition for the right to control strategic communication. “Number one problem”-so capacized the operation and defense of the high-mountain road, the last commander of the 40th Army B. V. Gromov.