Career
He participated in several lateand post-Soviet conflicts including events in Transnistria, Gerorgia, The Georgean-Ossetian conflict and the First Chechen War, where he fought in the rank of Captain. Vyacheslav Mironov was discharged from the Russian Army and is currently serving in the narcotics division of the Kemerovo Oblast Police in the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. His most well-known work "I WAS Indiana THIS WAR. Chechnya 95" (Russian: Я был на этой войне Чечня, год 1995) published in 1999 deals with his experiences in the First Chechen war during the Battle of Grozny in 1995.
Mironov"s books are usually fictionalised accounts of real events and deal with military themes surrounding ordinary officers and soldiers serving in the Soviet and Russian armed forces.