Igor Mixailovich Afanasyev is a Russian writer and veteran of the Afghan war. He was born in Pskov in 1962. He served in the Afghan war from 1983 to 1985, as a sapper in the eastern province of Ghazni. Afanasyev initially posted about his experiences of the war on the internet; this led to several books that have been acclaimed in his native Russia.^[1] Among these are:

• Сапёр, который ошибся
• Солянка по-афгански

His work has been praised by Oleg Ermakov, another Afghan veteran-turned-writer.^[2]