Russian army recruits complete training and take their posting in late 1980s Afghanistan, where the insurgents are slowly gaining the upper hand.
| Writing | Yuri Korotkov | Writer |
| Writing | Iskander Galiev | Writer |
| Directing | Fyodor Bondarchuk | Director |
| Production | Fyodor Bondarchuk | Producer |
| Production | Iskander Galiev | Producer |
| Production | Alexander Rodnyansky | Producer |
| Production | Elena Yatsura | Producer |
| Sound | Dato Evgenidze | Music |
| Editing | Igor Litoninskiy | Editor |
| Art | Grigori Pushkin | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Nadezhda Balandina | Costume Design |
| Editing | Michael Wabro | Dialogue Editor |
| Sound | Kirill Vasilenko | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Sound | Steve Schwalbe | Sound Effects Editor |
| Sound | Max Hoskins | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Visual Effects | Pavel Donatov | Visual Effects Supervisor |
| Visual Effects | Leonid Volosatov | Visual Effects Supervisor |
| Visual Effects | Severi Glanville | Visual Effects Supervisor |
| Visual Effects | Nicolaj Drewsky | Visual Effects Producer |
| Crew | Reijo Kontio | Stunt Coordinator |
| Sound | Michael Wabro | Music Editor |
| Art | Ekaterina Zaletaeva | Production Design |
| Production | Sergey Melkumov | Producer |
| Production | Dmitry Rudovsky | Producer |
| Sound | Ivan Burlyaev | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Maxim Osadchy-Korytkovsky | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Dimitri Opekine | Assistant Camera |
| Camera | Joona Pettersson | Camera Loader |
| Costume & Make-Up | Yekaterina Zheleykina | Assistant Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Dmitriy Kirillov | Key Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Irina Ulyanova | Key Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Aygul Khabirova | Makeup Artist |
| Crew | Andrey Samoryadov | Visual Effects Art Director |
| Crew | Stephen Coren | Sequence Supervisor |
| Visual Effects | Alex Guri | Compositing Lead |
| Visual Effects | Olli Leppänen | Compositing Lead |
| Crew | Giuseppe Di Giorgio | Compositor |
| Crew | Jussi Kytö | Compositor |
| Crew | Antti Peltoranta | Compositor |
| Crew | Toni Pykäläniemi | Compositor |
| Visual Effects | Eduard Kargin | Digital Compositor |
| Visual Effects | Timur Saitgaraev | Digital Compositor |
| Visual Effects | Gregory Chalenko | Digital Compositor |
| Visual Effects | Sergey Vygran | Visual Effects |
| Visual Effects | Tero Kinnunen | Visual Effects Director |
| Visual Effects | Gavin Baxter | Visual Effects Technical Director |
| Visual Effects | Kari Brown | Visual Effects Technical Director |
| Visual Effects | Risto Jankkila | Visual Effects Technical Director |
| Visual Effects | Ville-Matti Vasama | Visual Effects Technical Director |
| Sound | Nadine Loginova | Assistant Dialogue Editor |
| Sound | Dima Grigoriev | Dialogue Editor |
| Sound | Lev Yezhov | Sound Mixer |
| Sound | Andrew Caller | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Sound | Andy Hagon | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Sound | Brendan Nicholson | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Sound | Richard Pryke | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Crew | Oleksandr Suvorov | Special Effects Technician |
| Sound | Vladimir Presnyakov Jr. | Vocals |