Nikolai Kolesnik is now chairman at the Presidium of Russian Inter-regional public organization of Vietnam War veterans.

In that already distant époque, in the middle of 1960’s, he was sergeant of anti-aircraft defense (AAD) in the Soviet Army. From July 1965 till June 1966 he and his companions-in-arms had taken part in the repulse of massed US airstrikes against Northern Vietnam.