Igor Girkin

In the military, the main trait of a commander is considered will, and then prudence, moderation and self-control follow. When the military-political conflict in Donbas (Ukraine) was just beginning to flare up in 2014, Igor Strelkov showed all these qualities. Strelkov's role is complex and ambiguous, but his contribution to the formation of Donbass as a separate republic is extremely great.

Girkin Igor Vsevolodovich (better known as Strelkov Igor Ivanovich) was born in Moscow on December 17, 1970. Considering the military career of Igor Vsevolodovich, the facts of his biography are not advertised. According to unofficial information, the father of Igor Vsevolodovich is also a military man by profession. From early childhood, Girkin was fond of history. The boy studied diligently, read with pleasure, for which he received the offensive nickname "nerd" among his peers.

Having received his basic education at the Moscow school number 249, the young man at the age of 18 became a student at the State Historical and Archival Institute in Moscow. A year later, the young man acquired a hobby, rare for that time, - military-historical reconstruction.

Having received a diploma of higher education, Igor did not work for a day in his specialty - the young man preferred to follow in his father's footsteps. Igor's military career began in 1992 as a shooter of the Cossack army and a mortar gunner. At the same time, Girkin visited the war for the first time: first in Transnistria, then in Bosnia. Upon his return, the young man published a "Bosnian Diary" with records of the events of that period and personal experience.

The young man served in the air defense forces as a rifleman of a guard company. Having begun his service as a private, by June 1994, Girkin received the rank of junior sergeant. After serving compulsory military service, the young man remained in the ranks of the army, but already under the contract as a deputy platoon and commander of the self-propelled artillery unit "Arcadia". After 5 months, Igor received the rank of Guard Sergeant.

In 1995, Igor Girkin received serious experience of real military operations, having gone to the Chechen Republic. Returning from the war, in 1996, Igor joined the Federal Security Service as an operative (at the same time he was promoted to lieutenant). Simultaneously with his work, Igor took courses at the FSB, after which he was promoted to the post of deputy head of the department (with the rank of senior lieutenant).

From 1999 to 2005, Girkin visited the Chechen and Dagestan republics with the aim of fighting the gangster underground and terrorism. By December 2005, Igor Vsevolodovich was promoted to colonel. For his contribution to the fight against terrorism, Girkin was awarded the Order of Courage and the Suvorov Medal.

In 2005, Igor Vsevolodovich was transferred to Moscow, where he worked in the Federal Security Service until 2013. In 2013 Igor Vsevolodovich was dismissed due to the length of service. Girkin's general experience in military service was 18.5 years.

Returning to Moscow, Igor Vsevolodovich remembered his youthful hobby and became the head of the Consolidated Machine-Gun Team, created on the basis of the military-historical club "Moscow Dragoon Regiment". The main goal of the organization was the reconstruction of historical battles, in which Igor took part with pleasure, most often in the lower military ranks.

In February 2014 (a month before the referendum on the status of the peninsula) Igor Vsevolodovich was appointed as a freelance advisor to the Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Crimea. At the same time, Igor Vsevolodovich headed a separate volunteer special-purpose battalion, which ensures the establishment of Russian power on the peninsula after the referendum.

The intensification of hostilities in the Donbass forced Girkin on April 12, 2014 to take the post of commander of the DPR militia. On April 12, Girkin (under the pseudonym Strelkov) with a team of armed people and activists occupied the building of the administration of the city of Slavyansk (Donetsk region), announcing the annexation of the city to the Donetsk People's Republic. For three months there were battles for the city, and on July 5, Strelkov, at the head of his group, was forced to leave the city, handing it over to the Ukrainian authorities.

After the referendum on May 11, 2014, which resulted in the proclamation of the Donetsk People's Republic, Igor Ivanovich Strelkov was appointed Minister of Defense of the DPR. But two months later, on May 15, 2014, Strelkov left the territory of the DPR, leaving for the Russian Federation.

In his speech, Igor Ivanovich stated that the reason for his departure was a political decision by the authorities. According to the ex-leader of the militia, the Russian government has betrayed the people of Donbass. At the same time, the former Minister of Defense of the DPR stressed that he continues to closely monitor the fate of the Republic, especially war crimes on the part of Ukraine.

The pseudonym Strelkov was chosen by Girkin not out of fear of political persecution and a desire to remain incognito, but on the basis that this surname is more quickly remembered and reflects the owner's connection with military affairs. Although fortunes are often made in the war, Igor Ivanovich Strelkov always emphasizes that he does not even have a personal car, and that he donates most of his finances to charity and an old hobby - military-historical reconstruction.

After leaving the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic in May 2014, Strelkov took up organizational activities in the Novorossiya social movement. The movement's official website contains information about its activities: the leader's analytical notes on the military-political situation in the world, fundraising and organizing events to provide assistance to victims on the territory of the DPR, the population and the republic's army. Help is provided in the form of food, clothing, medicine.

The main and only goal of the movement and Strelkov as a leader is to help the people of Donbass. Novorossiya has nothing to do with politics. Igor Strelkov expressed his opinion in an interview posted on the official website of Novorossiya that the fate of not Kiev and Donetsk, but Russia, is being decided in the armed conflict in Donbas.

Almost nothing is known about the personal life of the ex-minister of the Donetsk People's Republic. Igor Vsevolodovich Girkin is married to Miroslava Reginskaya. Miroslava helps her husband in all his endeavors, has an active political position and is a member of the Novorossiya social movement, headed by Girkin. The married couple has a daughter, Ulyana Igorevna Girkina. The baby was born in August 2016.

The family devotes all their free time to social and political problems and work in Novorossiya, and Igor and Miroslava spent a short vacation on the Crimean peninsula.

As Igor Ivanovich Strelkov emphasizes, now the main goal of his activity is the organization of humanitarian aid to the people of Donbass. In addition, Girkin, within the framework of the "Novorossiya" OD project, is also involved in socio-political problems in Russia.

So, on October 28, 2017, members of the public movement took part in the congress of the national-patriotic forces of Russia, where they discussed the creation of the Team of People's Leaders. The purpose of the creation of the Team is the planned reform of the economic and social policy of the Russian Federation by combating corruption, nationalizing strategically important resources and electing local Soviets.

According to Strelkov, "Novorossiya" OD is the third force along with the official authorities and the opposition. As for the comrades-in-arms in the struggle for the Donetsk People's Republic, here too Igor Ivanovich is opposed to other parties to the conflict.

So, in October 2017, there was a skirmish on the Internet between Strelkov and the former prime minister of the DPR, now the head of the Union of Donbass Volunteers, Alexander Borodai. Alexander Yuryevich in an interview called the appointment of Strelkov to the post of Minister of Defense of the DPR in 2014 as a personnel "mistake."

In addition to political issues, OD "Novorrossia" is also engaged in solving social problems in the Donbass. Strelkov and his team publish reports on the monthly humanitarian aid to the people of the DPR on the movement's official website, as well as on the VKontakte page and the LiveJournal blog.

In addition, the official website of the movement regularly publishes reports of hostilities in the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic, reflecting the crimes of the Ukrainian authorities against the civilian population of Donbass. Based on these reports and the applications received, Novorossiya makes a decision on the provision of targeted humanitarian assistance.

1992 - Black Sea Cossack Army 1995 - participation in hostilities in the Chechen Republic 1996-2013 - active military service in operational and leadership positions in various units of the FSB of Russia. 2003 - Awarded the Order of Courage 2014 - Freelance Advisor to the Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Crimea 2014 - Commander of the DPR Militia, DPR Minister of Defense 2014 - Head of the Novorossiya public movement

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