A rarely seen photograph of Cuban pilots Manuel Rojas García (Lieutenant Colonel) and Manuel Quesada Aguilar (Captain), prisoners of Savimbi, whose MIG-21UM was shot down on October 28, 1987, by UNITA’s MANPAD (manual anti-aircraft missile) in the Luena area. The photo was taken on October 31 of the same year at a political rally in Jamba.

Cuban ground crew prepare Angolan MiG-21bis C-315 for its next sortie at Menongue

Soviet Military Interpreter Oleg Gritsuk of the 13th FAPLA Brigade at the end of 1987 at Cuito Cuanavale

Soviet specialist of the FAPLA anti-aircraft missile brigade “Kvadrat” Vladimir Volodin in Cuito Cuanavale. 1984

M. I. Konovalenko with his subordinates in the ANC MK “Kakulama” camp. From left to right: military topography specialist, mine and explosives specialist, group senior, air defense specialist (Strela-2M), artillery systems specialist (Grad-P, mortars), hand-to-hand combat instructor. Angola, 1987. Photo from M. Konovalenko’s archive

Arrival at the airport of Malanje for the celebration of the
75th anniversary of the ANC of ANC President Oliver Tambo
(right in the center). On the left is the provincial commissioner
of Malanje (governor of the province), member of the Politburo
MPLA-PT Colonel João Ernesto dos Santos “Liberdade”. In the group of accompanying persons is the…Read More

At the Kakulama camp. M. I. Konovalenko (left) and his subordinates: John Nkadimeng, member of the ANC National Executive Committee and Secretary General of SACTU, Godfrey Ngwenya, commander of the MK forces in Angola from 1983 to 1989 and future Commander-in-Chief (since 2005) of the SADF, Hagger McBerry, who since 1997, with the rank of…Read More

Soviet military specialists at the Kakulama camp with female ANC MK fighters from the camp’s honor guard platoon. 1986. Photo from the archive of M. Konovalenko.

Soviet specialists with the ANC before leaving for the Umkhonto we Sizwe training camp “Kakulama”: military intelligence specialist Nikolai Ivanovich Pirch, specialist in materiel and combat use of small arms Igor Mikhailovich Sheptun, specialist in fire training Kalizhan Kuanyshbaevich Alzhanov, military translators Vitaly Dmitrievich Svetlyshev…Read More

The wreckage of the fuselage of the South African Air Force Impala attack aircraft, shot down by PLAN air defense fighters in southern Angola, was transported to the T. Haineko Training Center. In the center is Colonel V. A. Skurydin, Advisor to the Chief Military Prosecutor of PLAN. 1985. Photo from the archive of A. Marchenko.

Cuban tank crew in Angola.

Soviet special forces (Spetsnaz) in Angola, 1985.