In the aircraft shot down in Syria there were 15 Russian troops. Who are they?

"Medusa" says what is known about each of the dead

On the night of September 18, the Russian military reconnaissance aircraft IL-20 was shot down by Syrian air defense, which, according to Russia, tried to strike at Israeli fighters. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that 15 people were killed during the crash. Officially, the names of the victims have not yet called. On September 19, the REN-TV channel published a list of 14 Russian military, which, allegedly, died in the crash of the aircraft. The death of some of them was confirmed by relatives and relatives. Medusa talks about what is known about these people.

Sergey Gavryutin

The crew commander of the Il-20 shot down in Syria was born in 1985 in Yeysk-in the Krasnodar Territory. “He was always dressed from a needle, a jacket, trousers, boots. He was fond of music, then we listened to rock. The lessons, of course, were walking, rushed along the garages, but Serega ... He somehow managed to study well, ”Gavryutin's friend Oleg Ivashchenko told Komsomolskaya Pravda in Krasnodar.

In 2008, Gavryutin graduated from the Balashov Higher Military Flight School in the Saratov region. On the evening of September 19, an announcement appeared on the university’s website with a request to provide material assistance to Alexei Gavryutin, the father of the deceased pilot, who himself graduated from this school in 1984.

Sergei Gavryutin had a wife and three children. In recent years, he, like other members of the crew of a crashed aircraft, lived in one of the military units in the Odintsovo district of the Moscow region. He had a page on VKontakte, but there are no records in the public domain; Only congratulations from others on birthdays and from February 23. Relatives of Sergei Gavryutin did not talk to Medusa.

Konstantin Nazarov

The one-year-old Gavryutin from the Volgograd region was an assistant to the crew commander Il-20. In 2007, he graduated from the Krasnodar Higher Military Flight School. Nazarov had a wife and a five -year -old daughter.

The school’s website says about him: “The first -class military pilot. The total raid for about 3,000 hours. He served in units of military transport and transport aircraft of Russia. He went from an assistant ship commander to the detachment commander. ”

“We lived opposite school No. 2 in Novonikolaevsk, Kostya has dreamed of becoming a pilot since childhood. Therefore, he did not have doubts where to go to study <...> as I remember, he studied for a radioper intelligence officer, but not sure. After the school, Kosty was sent by distribution to serve in Naro-Fominsk, ”V1.ru, V1.ru, quoted the sister of the deceased officer Julia, quoted the deceased officer Julia.

His page on VKontakte consists of reposts of many public public publics - from ads on the sale of furniture to tips on how to get a tax deduction for the purchase of housing.

Alexander Vespers

The navigator of a shot down aircraft and a hereditary military was born in the same 1985 in Belarus - in the Vitebsk region. Since 2000, he lived in the city of Lesnoy in the Sverdlovsk region. In 2007 he graduated from the Chelyabinsk Higher Military Aviation Red Banner School of Sturmans. After that, in distribution, he hit the cube near Moscow. He has a wife and a child.

“He was an officer of the Russian army. Eternal memory to you, brother, ”wrote a brother, a resident of Lesnoy Andrey Vespers on his page in VK. The pilot, who asked not to indicate his name, who studied with Alexander Devilin, said that he corresponded with him: “He did not tell about Syria. But, as I understand it, he has been there for two weeks. ” A friend of Vespers by name Sergey told Komsomolskaya Pravda in Chelyabinsk that he had recently taken a preferential mortgage loan for the military. He wanted to serve until retirement, move with his family to St. Petersburg and work in civil aviation.

Alexander Aleshin

Aleshin was a colonel in the air defense troops. He graduated from the Kiev Higher Engineering Radio Engineering School. Married, he has two daughters left.

Like Vespers, he was a hereditary military man. “Alexander Alexandrovich Aleshin, the son of Major General Alexander Ivanovich Aleshin, the grandson of the regiment commander Ivan Zakharovich Aleshin. The faithful son of the Fatherland, the successor of the valiant officer of the Aleshin dynasty, ” wrote “ The People’s Information Agency ”“ My Homeland ”about him. In 2007, the newspaper Red Star wrote about Aleshin's father. The material mentioned the 16-year-old “Younger Aleshin”-a schoolboy and an athlete who played football for the Moscow team “Spartak-2”.

The mother, Elena Aleshina, on her Facebook page, reported the first about his death. She wrote: “People, my son died on Il-20 in Syria, he was shot down by a rocket. I don’t even have the strength to cry, I yelling. ” This post was later removed; Perhaps, due to a huge number of offensive comments (some users believed that the father of the deceased, Major General Alexander Aleshin Sr., participated in the operation to join Crimea to Russia).

Roman Dolmatov

Roman Dolmatov was born on September 18, 1990 in Vyazma - and died on his birthday. For the past two years, he served in an air unit in Kubinka near Moscow. His position in the crew IL-20 "Medusa" could not be established.

Dolmatov married in Kubinka, he had two little sons left; The eldest is a year and a half, the youngest is two months. “You are my hero! I love forever, ”wrote in“ VK ”his wife Svetlana Dolmatova.

Roman Dolmatov had a page in VK, but he took it to a different name. There is no personal information on it, only a couple of photos and several posts with musical collections - rhythmic songs for running or driving in a car.

Victor Kvasenkov

Kvasenkov was a contractor - he served in the rank of corporal in flight intelligence. He is from the Smolensk region, on September 2, he turned 24 years old. On the evening of September 18, a record appeared on his page on VKontakte: “Dear friends, today this status is no longer Vitya ... Yesterday in Syria, our Russian IL-20 was shot down during the attack of the Israeli Air Force, one of the dead was our native Kvasenkov Victor. Remember, love, grieve ... "

RIA Novosti quotes Kvasenkova’s friend: “We studied at the same school. There was a very cheerful and active guy. Mom Marina's name, girl Julia. Woe is not the right word. ”

“A boring life was not for him. Once in the camp (we were 12–13 years old then), he called me to the female shower to scare the girls, ” said Kvasenkov’s friend to the Smolensk publication Readovka.ru. - Then I was surprised at his courage, because I knew that if the educators notice us, they would immediately be kicked out of the camp and sent home. I remember how we ran to the girls in showers, I remember their screech and his loud, sonorous laughter. I will never forget him. He often laughed, and with all his heart ... "

Victor Kvasenkov was engaged in struggle, fond of fishing. In July 2018, he rested with his girlfriend in Crimea.

Alexey Sedunov

Alexey Sedunov was born in 1987 in the city of Akhtubinsk, Astrakhan region. He began to serve in the Akhtubin garrison, his mother worked there. In 2018, he was transferred to the Moscow Region, from there he went to Syria.

Many photos with colleagues have been published on his page. Judging by some notes and comments, Sedunov was married, there is no information about children.

In May 2018, he corresponded on his page on social networks with a friend. "How yourself, how is health, what are you doing?" He asked. “I myself serve 😎,” answered Sedunov. - I protect my homeland))) 😎😎😎✌ "

Alexey Arzumanov

Muscovite born in 1991, Arzumanov served as a military translator in Syria. At school No. 814, he taught English and French, the military, as Komsomolskaya Pravda writes , decided to become in the middle classes. He entered the Military University of the Ministry of Defense, there he studied the Arabic language. A business trip to Syria was his third in the row, he had to return home on October 10.

“About his work, Lesha said that eight hours a day flies on an airplane - he listens to radio converters in Arabic,” the school teacher Alexei Arzumanov quotes KP.

The rest of the crew Il-20 crew

About some members of the crew of a downed aircraft, nothing or almost nothing is known. Vladimir Yakovlev (the title is unknown) was 48 years old, he was born in the city of Vyazma in the Smolensk region. He served there, on the basis of army aviation. He has an adult son. Lieutenant Andrei Sergeyenkov also from the Smolensk region, served at the Shatalovo military airfield about 50 kilometers from Smolensk. Judging by the page on VKontakte, he loved to travel-he was in St. Petersburg, Vladivostok, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. The 39-year-old Denis Gordov was born in Alma-Ata, in 1996 he entered the Balashov Higher Military Aviation School, but did not learn. In the IL-20 crew, he was an operator of radar equipment. Alexander Burlake from Cherepovets and Grigory Zinoviev from Cheboksary was 34 years old. Information about two more crew members - Timofei Baranov and Paul Tkachenko - “Medusa” could not be found.

As of the middle of the day of September 20, the Ministry of Defense has not published a complete list of those killed in a knocked down plane.

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