Monument to Afghanistan - Comrat

The memorial lists those from Comrat, Gagauzia, and perhaps the broader region who fell during the 1979-89 Soviet-Afghan war. Many names are clearly Gagauz or Turkic in origin: Tanasogllu, Yanakoglu, Kazmaly, Molla, Belekchi, and Chebanov - the Russified version of Cheban, a common Gagauz surname. Others are Romanian/Moldovan (Mavrodi, Kesia, Bezhenar), likely Ukrainian (Rudenko) and potentially Bulgarian (Yanev), portraying the diversity of both Gagauzia and Moldova at large.