According to organizations supporting peacekeeping soldiers, 5,620 people, who fought in Afghanistan, live in Kyrgyzstan.
At least 782 veterans are registered in Bishkek (including 76 of them — on the waiting list for improving housing conditions and 3 — on the waiting list for receiving land plots for construction).
Deputy Kozhobek Ryspaev took the initiative to allocate land to those in need out of turn.
A total of 7,141 Kyrgyzstanis were sent to participate in the war in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan from the Kyrgyz SSR. At least 249 people did not return, 4 went missing; 17 people became disabled of the 1st group, 61 — the 2nd, 305 — the third. About 1,500 people were injured and shell-shocked.
