From right to left: N. V. Kurushkin, Sam NuJoma, Peter Nanyemba
and SWAPO functionaries observe the training of PLAN fighters, 1982, Lubango. Photo from the archive of N. V. Kurushkin

SWAPO leadership and Soviet military advisers watch a PLAN special forces team training. In the center Sam Nujoma and the SAF team leader at SVS at SWAPO Colonel Boris Dmitrievich Perebillo. On the right is Captain Valery Nikolaevich Skvortsov, who was engaged in training special forces, on the left is a specialist in the tactics of partisan…Read More

Review of the PLAN motorized infantry brigade at the T. Haineko Training Center. 1985. Photo from the archive of V. Stryukov

Training of a PLAN reconnaissance group. In the center F.M. Zulkarneev, Jumbo training ground, Lubango, 1985 Photo from F. Zulkarneev’s archive

Advisor and his sub-adviser. Senior of the SAF group of the SWAPO training center named after Tobias Haineko Colonel Ivan Grigorievich Zherlitsyn and the head of this training center, PLAN commander Joshua. Lubango, 1979. Photo from the archive of I. Zherlitsyn

Inspection at the Tobias Haineko Training Center. To the right of SWAPO Defense Minister Peter Nanyemba is the senior of the first group of Soviet military specialists at SWAPO in Angola, Colonel Yuri Sergeevich Zaputryaev, and translator Mikhail Petrovich Suknov. On the far left in the photo is Lieutenant Alexander Sergeevich Kuryanov. 1977.…Read More

Advisor to the PLAN commander in 1979–1983, Colonel Nikolai Vasilyevich Kurushkin, greets fighters from one of the African NODs, Angola, 1980s. Photo from N. Kurushkin’s archive.

A firearms training session at the Jumbo training center shooting range. In the center is military interpreter Lieutenant Ferid Munirovich Zulkarneev. Soviet specialists at the training center often assigned trained interpreters to conduct some of the training themselves. Among the SWAPO fighters, sitting on the right, is adviser Lieutenant…Read More

At the Tobias Haineko Training Center. In the center is Colonel Ivan Grigorievich Zherlitsyn, on the right is PLAN leadership member Comrade Ushona, Lubango, 1979. Photo from the archive of I. Zherlitsyn.

Before being sent to the front. Ceremonial formation of the PLAN brigade trained at the Tobias Haineko Training Center. Lubango region, 1979. Photo from the archive of I. Zherlitsyn.