It caught my eye because when I was in Omsk awhile ago, there was a little park across the street from my apartment on Vatutina street, alongside a community center called 'Dvorets Molodezhi' (Palace of Youth). It had a nice little grove of birch trees and a monument like a low wall enscribed in gold "Here are the remains of an unidentified soldier, together with the soil from his grave in Afghanistan."
At that monument there always seemed to be fresh flowers, even in the winter. Behind the wall, on a raised platform was a circular structure like a gazebo, open at the top, with a lot of plaques bearing places and dates which I wrote down:
Algiers, 1962-1964The website roughtly corresponds to the monument I found in Omsk, FWIW. I always wondered how many lost and fallen soldiers those dates and places represent.
Egypt, 1962-3, 1967-75
Syria, 1967-70, 1972-73
Yemen, 1962-63, 1967-1969
Syria/Lebanon, 1982
Laos, 1960-3, 1964-68, 1969-70
Vietnam, 1961-1974
Cambodia, 1970
China, 1924-27, 1937-44, 1945, 1946-1949, 1950
Ozero Khasan, 1938
Khalan Gol, 1939
Japan, 1945
North Korea, 1950-53
Ozero Damanskiy and Ozero Zhalansh Kol, 1969
Finland, 1939-40
Hungary, 1956
Czechslovakia, 1968
Yugoslavia, 1993-95
Cuba, 1962
Mozambique, 1967-69, 1970-75
Bangladesh, 1972-73
Angola, 1975-1979
Ethiopia, 1977-1979
Afghanistan, 1979-1989
I don't have a picture of it, but here's one from Kyiv's Afghanistan monument that captures the mood.