Shooter DPR Biography

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. The pseudonyms of nicknames, under which he appeared on military-historical sites: Moskvit, Kotych or Co. As a volunteer took part in the hostilities in Transnistria, Bosnia, Chechnya. For more than fifteen years he was in the service in the FSB. He was an adviser to the head of the Republic of Crimea Sergey Aksenov, an active participant in the armed conflict in the Donbass.

For several months he was as Minister of Defense of the DPR. Now - a military pensioner and an expert. Has a sister. According to some reports, Vsevolod Ignatievich was a military man, his father participated in the war with Japan as a personnel officer of aviation and a military engineer. The maternal grandfather, whose name was Ivan, went to the front of the Great Patriotic War as a volunteer, received five injuries, became the commander of a rifle battalion.

He was a participant in the defense of Moscow, the Battle of Kursk, liberated Poland and the Baltic states, reached Koenigsberg, where he was wounded before the victory. Igor Strelkov’s grandfather - Ivan Runov, both grandfathers and father influenced Igor, who from early childhood became interested in reading historical books. At the boy’s school, they teased the “botan” because he even read books at the breaks.

He seemed strange to his peers, although he was not closed. In high school, the young man was read a brilliant future, he went to a gold medal. Having become a student at the State Historical and Archival Institute, he became interested in military-historical reconstruction. One of the classmates, Alexander, works, so described Girkina: Igor was not an absolute excellent student, but he studied in general well.

He was fond of madness by military history. Could, showing to the map, describe any battle, show at what time the ship moved in that direction and where he followed. He could also describe in detail the form of a military man in a different period of time. The only student event that attracted him was archaeological excavations, where only five people from our course called. After graduating from the institute, Igor did not work in the specialty and day.

Together with his friend, he went to fight in Transnistria, where he was enrolled in the Black Sea Cossack army as an arrow and gunner of a mortar. Girkin told about his decision as follows: I was then three years as a member of the Military Historical Club “Moscow Dragoon Regiment”, a certain militarism was always present in character. Over the years, he dulled and softened, and then he was very sharp.

Moreover, I did not serve in the army then. I remember the episode: the first parade of Moscow military-historical clubs near the monument to the heroes of Plevna, several dozen people of everything, in a variety of forms. We were specifically in the likeness of the form of the year, and during this parade, some uncle, apparently, took us for the Cossacks and shouted from the crowd: “Freed!

Why are you still not in Transnistria? The next step for Girkin was the civil war in Bosnia, where he fought on the side of the Serbs. About that period, he wrote the book "Bosnian Diary". Returning to Russia, Igor served a year -old for the year in the ranks of the air defense, then he moved to the contract service with the rank of sergeant and the position of the commander of the Arkady self -propelled artillery installation.

He was deputy platoon commander. Igor Girkin in the youth of Transnistria, a military quarry and social activity in a turning point in Girkin's life was participation in both military campaigns in Chechnya. Around this period, he, in the year, entered the Federal Security Service, according to the coverage documents, he began to call Igor Ivanovich Strelkov. With the rank of lieutenant as an operative, he entered the courses at the FSB.

After their end, he was appointed deputy head of the department as a senior lieutenant. At the very end of the nineties, shooters again went to Chechnya, visited Dagestan as a participant in special operations to combat terrorism. For participation in counter -terrorism operations, he was awarded the Order of Courage and the medal of Alexander Suvorov. Igor Strelkov Girkin during the first and second Chechen war served in the FSB in Moscow since the year, until, he said, he had “left” the authorities for retirement.

For several months, Strelkov got a job as the head of the Security Service in the Marshal-Capital investment fund, which belonged to Konstantin Malofeev. At the beginning of the year, he ended up in Crimea as a freelance adviser to the chairman of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Crimea. After the referendum on the peninsula, Igor Strelkov formed the battalion and went to the Donbass, where military operations flared up by that time.

Igor Strelkov Girkin on April 12 with his detachment of militias, in which, according to him, Arsen Pavlov Motorola also seized several administrative buildings in Slavyansk, announcing that the city joins the Donetsk People’s Republic of the DPR. For about three months, fierce battles were fought for Slavyansk, but Strelkov failed to win the city. He remained under the jurisdiction of Ukraine.As soon as the referendum took place and the DPR was proclaimed, Igor Ivanovich took the post of Minister of Defense of the self -proclaimed republic, having stayed in this post for about four months.

I went to conduct a special operation as I can. I was not going to fight. He was going to hold power promotions, create a militia, provide a referendum after which Russian peacekeepers were supposed to be introduced. The Crimean scenario was to be repeated, without hostilities. But in Moscow they decided differently. Moreover, after I went [to the territory of Ukraine].

The fighting began as soon as Ukraine realized that there would be no Russian peacekeepers. If everything happened as I planned, there would be no war. In August, Strelkov returned to Russia, continuing to follow the events in the Donbass from Moscow. His publications on the military-political situation began to appear on the website of the Novorossiya public movement.

Also, within the framework of the movement of shooters, he began organizational issues for the collection of funds, medicines, grocery sets for the army and residents of the DPR. The ex-Minister of Defense has repeatedly stated in an interview and his notes that the armed conflict in the Donbass is dangerous primarily for Russia, and the existence of the DPR and LPR “in their current form is beneficial to the United States, which once pushing the fraternal Russian and Ukrainian peoples”.

In the year, Igor Strelkov gave a detailed interview to Dmitry Gordon in the list of terrorists and extremists of Rosfinmonitoring, in the register of foreign agents of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, which caused a broad public outcry. The journalist had to urgently inform his indignant fans that an interview with the odious military was authorized by the SBU as a future proof for a court in The Hague.

Later, the SBU denied any connection with Gordon. A wave of criticism of the shooters was also subjected to Russia. So, in addition to criticism of the interview himself, his former ally Alexander Borodai, said that the former Minister of Defense of the DPR acted ugly in relation to his wife and children. The personal life of Igor Strelkov Girkin about private life, a military expert does not like to spread.

Nevertheless, it is known that he was married three times, has a child from the first wife. With the second wife, Vera Nikitina, Girkin met in her homeland - in Chechnya. Soon, Vera was offered the position of translator, and a romance ensued between her and Igor. In the year, he took it to Kislovodsk, and then sent it to Moscow to his relatives. In the year, Vera gave birth to a son Andrei.

The second boy named after the grandfather of Girkin - Ivan, was born. Igor Strelkov and his second wife Vera Nikitin, according to Nikitina, in the year Igor left the family, she was left alone with her sons, the eldest of whom was disabled. When the ex-Supro became known to the whole world, she had to move to the Rostov region, since it became impossible to stay in Moscow: journalists and suspicious people crowded at the entrance, she could no longer work in a taxi.

Faith does not despair: he is engaged in farming to support children. In the year, Strelkov married for the third time.

The girl’s father is a well -known fighter in the republic Sergey Sitolenko. Two years after the marriage, Miroslav gave birth to a daughter Ulyana. The wedding of Igor Strelkov and Miroslav Reginskaya, together with her husband, is an active participant in the Novorossia public movement, and is engaged in socio-political issues. In the year, it became known that Reginskaya in court wrote out his ex -wife and children from her husband’s apartment, and the living space was recorded in her daughter Ulyana.

In the year, he, analyzing the situation, predicted that the armed conflict in Ukraine cannot be avoided if the Russian Federation wants to strengthen its own borders. Strelkov called the Kremlin’s actions “ahead of the attack”, later offering partial mobilization and the creation of a folk militia. Former military was regularly invited to the studio of the Roy-TV channel, presenter Maxim Kalashnikov, where Strelkov expressed his own opinion on topical issues.

Igor Strelkov Girkin in the year in the year Igor Ivanovich announced the grief that happened in their family. From a sniper bullet at the front near Avdeevka, his father -in -law, father of Miroslava, Sergeant Sergey Sitolenko called the call sign, died. Reginskaya published the last photo of the deceased parent on her page. In October of the same year, Strelkov personally went to the front, but in December he returned disappointed.

After that, he fell under criticism of Vladimir Solovyov. Strelkov called Solovyov on the debate on an independent site, but the presenter responded with a refusal in a very rude form. But for Girkin, the refusal was not a surprise. In the spring of the year, Strelkov announced the creation of a “club of angry patriots” - an organization aimed at helping the soldiers of the RF Armed Forces at the front.

According to preliminary information, he is suspected of extremism - earlier he criticized the actions of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu and other military functionaries.This was confirmed by his wife: he appeared in the telegram channel of Strelkov with the words: today representatives of the Investigative Committee came to us. I was not at home.

According to the concierge, they brought my husband under the arms and took away in an unknown direction. From friends I managed to find out that my husband was charged under the article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Miroslav Reginskaya notified the subscribers of Girkin’s telegram channel that in conclusion he had health problems, in particular, with his heart.

In November, his associate Oleg Nelzin announced Girkin’s statement during the meeting of the Russian Movement for Strelkov organization: I am applying to a proposal to start the work on nominating me as a presidential candidate according to the current legislation of Russia, the formation of an initiative to support presidential candidate and collect signatures to participate in the elections as a nomineed complicated legislation of Russia.

He reacted to the verdict with the words "I serve the Fatherland." Interesting facts Igor Strelkov, seriously fascinated by historical reconstruction, created a group of seven people “The Consolidated machine -gun team” based on the Moscow Dragoon Regiment club.