From the 60s until the entry of troops in 1978, Soviet specialists built more than 100 objects of industry, infrastructure, education, the purpose of which is not the expansion of the USSR, and the creation in Afghanistan of modern, at that time, standards of living.In addition to the oil industry, the Union tried to help ordinary Afghans. According to the archives, after the introduction of its troops, the USSR built 142 objects that ensure the economic and social development of this country.Roads and transportSince the 1950s, thousands of kilometers of roads have been built in Afghanistan with the money of the Soviet Union, which often had to be built through the mountains. The most famous object is the Salang road with a tunnel laid by Moscow metro builders at an altitude of more than 3 thousand kilometers. The longest road from Kushka to Kabul is 679 kilometres long. Highway Bullet-Hiberna and is Characterised by Sirha length 329 and 216 kilometers respectively.Due to the complex Afghan terrain, special attention was paid to the construction of bridges. In 1959 built a bridge with a length of 120 meters over the river Khanabad. In the province of Nangar Soviet engineers for one only 1964 built three bridges, one of which had a length of 360 meters. In 1982, a road-rail bridge was thrown across the Amu Darya.The Soviet allies paid special attention to the development of the automotive industry in Afghanistan. So in 1960 in Kabul built repair plant Jangalak, capable in the year to make the repair of 1,300 vehicles per year. The company also engaged in the production of machines, pumps, road construction equipment.In 1985, Soviet specialists built three automobile plants for the production of KAMAZ trucks. By 1988, Kabul had opened a Bicycle factory with a capacity of 15,000 bicycles per year. In 1961, Bagram airport was built with a 3-kilometer runway. The following year, the international airport appeared in Kabul.EnergySoviet geologists have developed for the Afghan government map of minerals marked on it 1.5 thousand deposits. After Afghanistan began to produce gas, the USSR began to buy it from Kabul at reduced prices. As a result, the government of a poor country has received a constant profit, which could be directed to social and economic development.Moscow has built eight oil depots and a gas pipeline that passes 4 billion cubic meters of gas per year. Engineers from the Soviet Union built hydroelectric power station in Naglu and Puli Khumri capacity of 100 thousand and 9 thousand kW, respectively. In large cities, power plants and electrical networks were being developed. Part of the missing energy of the USSR supplied from its territory.Education, science and social servicesEconomic development and social transformation are impossible without local specialists, for whose training in the 60s the USSR built a Polytechnic University for 1,200 students in Kabul. The Union spent 6 million rubles on the organization of the University, and the language of teaching was Russian. In 1973, a College for 500 students was opened in Mazar-I-Sheriff, which trained oil workers and geologists.Every year, 250 mechanics graduated from Kabul technical school, and between 1982 and 1986, 8 vocational schools were opened throughout the country. Soviet representatives opened a boarding school for orphans in Kabul and, in 1971, a mother and child centre, which was visited daily by more than 100 people. USSR built across the country residential neighborhoods, kindergartens, weather stations, clinics and other facilities, the purpose of which is to make the life of ordinary Afghans more comfortable and civilizedAgriculture and food industryDue to the difficult climatic conditions and technical backwardness, hunger has become a common phenomenon in Afghanistan. To provide the population with a sufficient number of products, the USSR decided to use the latest achievements of Soviet agricultural science. In Afghanistan, there were 3 soil-agrochemical, 3 veterinary, 2 cotton-seed and one control and seed laboratories created by specialists from the USSR.In Mazar-I-Sharif inaugurated the plant of nitrogen fertilizers and across the country build irrigation fields. In 1965, the Jalalabad irrigation canal was built on the Kabul river, and the Sarde dam was used for additional irrigation. Since 1984, the plant of citrus and olives has been operating in Jalalabad, and even earlier, Soviet specialists opened several diversified farms. Throughout the country, the money of the USSR built mills, bakeries, elevators.The Soviet Union poured huge amounts of money into the economy of Afghanistan for decades. Construction of various facilities continued during the war, although the USSR was more difficult to do it. Afghans, and today comparing Russians and Americans, say that the first fought, but also built, and here the second only destroy. This is reported by Rambler. Next: https://weekend.rambler.ru/read/42483008/?utm_content=rweekend&utm_medium=read_more&utm_source=copylink