EVERY DAY OF A SCOUT IS AN AWARD!

This is Zem (from the word “zemlyak”). He is on intelligence service, special forces captain, has a medal “For courage”. The man, who many times penetrated behind enemy lines, performs the most responsible tasks of command, a man who is always on the verge of life and death. This is the service of the scout. From a scout no one can “pull out” anything if he did not want to…

– My cross is everywhere with me, since when I was 13 years old, and now I’m 35. In it is me, my aspirations, desires, expectations, victories and defeats, my fears, efforts to overcome them. We are – one, I and my cross…

I was an ordinary guy, graduated from Yerevan College of computers and was not particularly distinguished either by physical force or special talent. I was not even accepted at the Military Sports Lyceum after Monteh Melkonian. But I’m very patient, waited for my hour, and in 2006 I went to contract service in the special military unit.

Finally, I was given the task to punish the enemy in response to his assault in the direction of the border village of Chinari. I silenced the enemy. I paused. I was silent for a long time. Silent inside. Then my friend said, “We are responding, do not feel guilty.”

I love life. And after each operation even more… I just love it because for each scout every day it is a reward!

Interviewd by SHOUSHAN STEPANYAN
Photos by AREG VARDANYAN