Heroes of the war: the loss of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation during the Syrian operation
2 May The Russian Ministry of Defense reported the death of Russian military adviser Lieutenant Colonel Alexei Buchelnikov in Syria. He was mortally wounded as a result of a sniper-gunman shelling of an artillery unit of the Syrian troops, in which a lieutenant colonel trained personnel.
Given this incident, the combat losses of personnel and equipment of the Armed Forces (AF) of the Russian Federation during the military operation in Syria amounted to a total of 31 people, three helicopters (two Mi-8 and one Mi-28Н) and one aircraft (Su-24) .
What is known about soldiers killed in Syria is in the TASS material.
Fedor Zhuravlev
Killed November 19 2015. While performing a combat mission in Syria.
The officer provided guidance of airborne cruise missiles to the position of terrorists, the details of his death are unknown.
The loss was officially confirmed by 17 March 2016 at the awards ceremony. He was awarded the Order of Courage posthumously.
The school near Bryansk received the name of a Russian officer who died in Syria. He was buried in his native village, where his mother now lives.
Oleg Peshkov
November 24, 2015 Su-24M front-line bomber (tail number "83 white", registration number RF-90932) aviation The Russian Air Force group in Syria was shot down by the Turkish Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter in Syrian airspace.
The pilots managed to eject, they were fired from the ground, the pilot, Lieutenant Colonel Oleg Peshkov was killed.
According to the Turkish side, the bomber was shot down due to violation of the air border of this country. The Russian Defense Ministry denied the fact that the Su-24M was in Turkish airspace.
The navigator of the downed bomber - Captain Konstantin Murakhtin - was rescued by special forces of the Russian Armed Forces and the Syrian army. Awarded the Order of Courage.
25 November 2015, by presidential decree Vladimir Putin, Lieutenant Colonel Oleg Peshkov was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Russian Federation.
The name of the Hero of Russia is immortalized on a memorial tablet in the village of Kosiha near Barnaul, where he was born and raised. Memorial "Countrymen who died in local conflicts", which contains his name, is located on the Alley of Heroes of the Great Patriotic War.
The head of the Altai Territory, Alexander Karlin, reported that three monthly nominal scholarships named after Hero of Russia Oleg Peshkov were established in the region for students of the Altai boarding school with initial flight training for them. Hero of the Soviet Union K.G. Pavlyukova.
The pilot's name will be assigned to the new school of Lipetsk №100. It will create an aviation museum.
June 12, a monument to Oleg Peshkov was unveiled in the Amur Region.
He was a dedicated, courageous, highly qualified pilot. Everyone he taught speaks of him as a very good instructor who could explain everything.
Konstantin Murakhtin
The navigator of the Su-24M bomber shot down in Syria, major
Alexander Pozynic
24 November 2015, in search of the pilots of a downed Su-24M bomber, helicopters of the Russian Aerospace Forces flew out of Russia, during the operation one of them (Mi-8AMTSH) was damaged by shelling from the ground. A marine contract soldier, a sailor Alexander Poznich, was killed on board.
The helicopter made an emergency landing on neutral territory, the crew and personnel of the search and rescue team were evacuated, the car itself was later destroyed by mortar fire from the territory controlled by the gangs.
Sailor Alexander Pozynic (posthumously) was awarded the Order of Courage.
Porynych was buried in the Alley of Military Glory of his native city of Novocherkassk.
Memorial plaques commemorating Su-24M bomber commander Oleg Peshkov and marines Alexander Pozyniche in memory of those killed in Syria were installed on the Amur federal highway (Chita - Khabarovsk) near the village of Vozzhaevka, Amur Region.
Saving his comrades, Alexander Mikhailovich defended the country, city, family. He fully fulfilled his duty, giving his life for peace and tranquility. It was decided that the school №11 of Novocherkassk, in which Pozynic was studying, would be named after him
Vasily Golubev
Governor of the Rostov Region
Ivan Cheremisin
1 February 2016 as a result of a mortar attack by terrorists of the IG of one of the Syrian army formations, a Russian military adviser, Lieutenant Colonel Ivan Cheremisin, was mortally wounded.
According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the officer carried out tasks to assist the Syrian army in the development of new weapons supplied under the existing interstate contracts of military-technical cooperation.
For the first time, official news about Ivan Cheremisin was revealed to 17 in March of 2016 at the awards ceremony.
The soldier was posthumously presented to the state award.
Alexander Prokhorenko
Senior lieutenant of the Special Operations Forces Alexander Prokhorenko died on March 24 2016 near the settlement of Tadmor (Palmyra, Homs province) while performing the task of targeting Russian planes at the targets of IG terrorists.
According to the representative of the Russian home base Khmeimim in Syria, "the soldier heroically died, causing a fire on himself, after he was discovered by terrorists and surrounded."
11 April 2016. He was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Russian Federation.
The authorities of Orenburg decided to name one of the streets of the city by the name of Prokhorenko.
Prokhorenko was born 22 June 1990, in the Orenburg region in a working-class family. In 2007, he graduated from the Gorodets secondary school with a silver medal, entered the Orenburg Higher Anti-aircraft Missile School, and at 2008, due to the closure of the school, he was transferred to the Military Academy of Army Air Defense of the Russian Armed Forces, where he graduated with honors.
Andrey Okladnikov and Victor Pankov
12 April 2016, while performing flights in the city of Homs, the Mi-28H HKS of Russia crashed.
Both crew members - commander Andrei Okladnikov and navigator Viktor Pankov - died.
According to the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, "there was no fire impact on the helicopter," the cause of the disaster was the piloting error.
Anton Erygin
11 May 2016, the Russian Defense Ministry reported the death of Russian sergeant Anton Yerygin in Syria.
5 May he was seriously injured in the Syrian province of Homs while carrying out tasks to accompany the cars of the Russian Reconciliation Center of the warring parties and died in the hospital two days later.
12 May soldier was buried in the cemetery in the Voronezh village Chertovitsy.
He was awarded the Order of Courage posthumously.
Andrey Timoshenkov
15 June 2016 in the province of Homs, Andrei Timoshenkov, a security guard of a humanitarian convoy of the Russian Reconciliation Center of the warring parties in Syria, prevented a breakthrough to the place of issuance of humanitarian aid for a car filled with explosives.
During the explosion of the suicide-driven car, Tymoshenkov received a wound that was incompatible with life and died on June 16.
He was awarded the Order of Courage posthumously.
Mikhail Shirokopoyas
16 June 2016 was officially confirmed the death of Junior Sergeant Mikhail Shirokopas.
He was sent to Syria in April 2016, a month later he was injured as a result of a mine in the province of Aleppo.
The soldier underwent surgery in Moscow, however, he died on June 7 in the Main Military Clinical Hospital. N.N. Burdenko.
He was awarded the Order of Courage posthumously.
Ryabagat Khabibulin and Yevgeny Dolgin
8 July 2016 in the Syrian province of Homs, Russian instructor pilots flew around a Syrian Mi-25 helicopter (export version of the Mi-24) with ammunition.
Having broken through the defenses east of Palmyra, a large detachment of IS militants attacked the positions of the Syrian troops and rapidly advanced into the region.
The crew of the Mi-25 decided to attack the terrorists. Having spent the ammunition, the helicopter at the turn on the reverse course was hit by fire from the ground and fell in the area controlled by the Syrian government army.
Both crew members died - pilot Colonel Ryafagat Khabibulin and pilot-operator Lt. Evgeny Dolgin.
Soldiers are presented to high state awards posthumously.
Nikita Shevchenko
On July 22, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that contract serviceman Nikita Shevchenko was killed as a result of an improvised explosive device pledged by militants at the entrance to a town in the province of Aleppo.
Shevchenko accompanied the convoy with food and water for local residents.
He is presented to the state award posthumously.
Three crew members of the Mi-8AMTSH helicopter and two officers
On August 1, in the Syrian province of Idlib, a Russian helicopter Mi-8AMTSH of the Russian Air Force was shot down from the ground.
He returned to Hmeimim airbase after delivering humanitarian aid in Aleppo.
On board were three crew members and two officers of the Russian Conciliation Center of the warring parties in Syria, they all died.
Asker Bizhoev
12 August it became known that during the fulfillment of the 19 combat mission in May, Major Asker Bizhoyev died heroically in Syria.
By presidential decree he was awarded the Order of Courage posthumously. The award was given to his parents. About this on his official page on Instagram wrote the head of the republic Yuri Kokov.
Nadezhda Durachenko and Galina Mikhailova
December 5 militants "opposition" was fired upon the medical camp of the mobile hospital of the Ministry of Defense in Syrian Aleppo.
As a result of a direct hit of a mine in the emergency department, two Russian medical servicemen, Nadezhda Durachenko and Galina Mikhailova, were killed; a pediatrician Vadim Arsentiev was seriously injured.
The hospital came under artillery fire from 12.21 to 12.30 Moscow time. Local residents arrived at the doctor’s office.
Ruslan Galitsky
7 December The 2016 of the Russian Defense Ministry reported that a colonel of the Russian Armed Forces died in hospital, injured in Syrian Aleppo during an artillery shelling by militants of the “opposition” in a residential area in the western part of the city.
The colonel carried out tasks in Syria as part of a group of Russian military advisers.
Ruslan Galitsky is presented posthumously by the command to a high state award.
Four soldiers
20 February 2017 of the Russian Defense Ministry reported that 16 February in Syria caused four cars to be killed and two Russian soldiers wounded in Syria as a result of a car bombing in a radio-controlled land mine.
A car with military advisers in the convoy departed from the Tiyas airfield area in the direction of the city of Homs.
Artem Gorbunov
6 March It became known that an ordinary contract service killed 2 March in the Palmyra area while repelling an attempt to break through the militants of the IG group (banned in the Russian Federation) to the positions of the Syrian troops, where Russian military advisers were.
Command of the private submitted to the state award posthumously.
Two military men
On April 11, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported the death of two Russian contract servicemen in Syria as a result of a mortar attack on militants.
According to authorities, another soldier was seriously injured.
The servicemen are represented by the command for state awards.
Sergey Bordov
20 April became aware of the death in Syria of the Russian military adviser Major Sergey Bordov.
He died as a result of an attack by militants on a military garrison of government troops.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the officer was part of a group of Russian military advisers, carrying out the tasks of training one of the units of the Syrian troops. During the battle, he did not allow the terrorists to break through to a residential town and was fatally wounded.
Command submitted to the state award posthumously.
Vadim Kostenko. Non-lethal loss
27 in October 2015 in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation confirmed the death of a technical specialist, contract serviceman Vadim Kostenko, who committed suicide at the Hmeimim airbase.
According to the military, the cause of death of the 19-year-old contract soldier was suicide "during off-duty hours due to unfavorable personal circumstances outside the unit".
Given this incident, the combat losses of personnel and equipment of the Armed Forces (AF) of the Russian Federation during the military operation in Syria amounted to a total of 31 people, three helicopters (two Mi-8 and one Mi-28Н) and one aircraft (Su-24) .
What is known about soldiers killed in Syria is in the TASS material.
Fedor Zhuravlev
Killed November 19 2015. While performing a combat mission in Syria.
The officer provided guidance of airborne cruise missiles to the position of terrorists, the details of his death are unknown.
The loss was officially confirmed by 17 March 2016 at the awards ceremony. He was awarded the Order of Courage posthumously.
The school near Bryansk received the name of a Russian officer who died in Syria. He was buried in his native village, where his mother now lives.
Oleg Peshkov
November 24, 2015 Su-24M front-line bomber (tail number "83 white", registration number RF-90932) aviation The Russian Air Force group in Syria was shot down by the Turkish Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter in Syrian airspace.
The pilots managed to eject, they were fired from the ground, the pilot, Lieutenant Colonel Oleg Peshkov was killed.
According to the Turkish side, the bomber was shot down due to violation of the air border of this country. The Russian Defense Ministry denied the fact that the Su-24M was in Turkish airspace.
The navigator of the downed bomber - Captain Konstantin Murakhtin - was rescued by special forces of the Russian Armed Forces and the Syrian army. Awarded the Order of Courage.
25 November 2015, by presidential decree Vladimir Putin, Lieutenant Colonel Oleg Peshkov was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Russian Federation.
The name of the Hero of Russia is immortalized on a memorial tablet in the village of Kosiha near Barnaul, where he was born and raised. Memorial "Countrymen who died in local conflicts", which contains his name, is located on the Alley of Heroes of the Great Patriotic War.
The head of the Altai Territory, Alexander Karlin, reported that three monthly nominal scholarships named after Hero of Russia Oleg Peshkov were established in the region for students of the Altai boarding school with initial flight training for them. Hero of the Soviet Union K.G. Pavlyukova.
The pilot's name will be assigned to the new school of Lipetsk №100. It will create an aviation museum.
June 12, a monument to Oleg Peshkov was unveiled in the Amur Region.
He was a dedicated, courageous, highly qualified pilot. Everyone he taught speaks of him as a very good instructor who could explain everything.
Konstantin Murakhtin
The navigator of the Su-24M bomber shot down in Syria, major
Alexander Pozynic
24 November 2015, in search of the pilots of a downed Su-24M bomber, helicopters of the Russian Aerospace Forces flew out of Russia, during the operation one of them (Mi-8AMTSH) was damaged by shelling from the ground. A marine contract soldier, a sailor Alexander Poznich, was killed on board.
The helicopter made an emergency landing on neutral territory, the crew and personnel of the search and rescue team were evacuated, the car itself was later destroyed by mortar fire from the territory controlled by the gangs.
Sailor Alexander Pozynic (posthumously) was awarded the Order of Courage.
Porynych was buried in the Alley of Military Glory of his native city of Novocherkassk.
Memorial plaques commemorating Su-24M bomber commander Oleg Peshkov and marines Alexander Pozyniche in memory of those killed in Syria were installed on the Amur federal highway (Chita - Khabarovsk) near the village of Vozzhaevka, Amur Region.
Saving his comrades, Alexander Mikhailovich defended the country, city, family. He fully fulfilled his duty, giving his life for peace and tranquility. It was decided that the school №11 of Novocherkassk, in which Pozynic was studying, would be named after him
Vasily Golubev
Governor of the Rostov Region
Ivan Cheremisin
1 February 2016 as a result of a mortar attack by terrorists of the IG of one of the Syrian army formations, a Russian military adviser, Lieutenant Colonel Ivan Cheremisin, was mortally wounded.
According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the officer carried out tasks to assist the Syrian army in the development of new weapons supplied under the existing interstate contracts of military-technical cooperation.
For the first time, official news about Ivan Cheremisin was revealed to 17 in March of 2016 at the awards ceremony.
The soldier was posthumously presented to the state award.
Alexander Prokhorenko
Senior lieutenant of the Special Operations Forces Alexander Prokhorenko died on March 24 2016 near the settlement of Tadmor (Palmyra, Homs province) while performing the task of targeting Russian planes at the targets of IG terrorists.
According to the representative of the Russian home base Khmeimim in Syria, "the soldier heroically died, causing a fire on himself, after he was discovered by terrorists and surrounded."
11 April 2016. He was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Russian Federation.
The authorities of Orenburg decided to name one of the streets of the city by the name of Prokhorenko.
Prokhorenko was born 22 June 1990, in the Orenburg region in a working-class family. In 2007, he graduated from the Gorodets secondary school with a silver medal, entered the Orenburg Higher Anti-aircraft Missile School, and at 2008, due to the closure of the school, he was transferred to the Military Academy of Army Air Defense of the Russian Armed Forces, where he graduated with honors.
Andrey Okladnikov and Victor Pankov
12 April 2016, while performing flights in the city of Homs, the Mi-28H HKS of Russia crashed.
Both crew members - commander Andrei Okladnikov and navigator Viktor Pankov - died.
According to the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, "there was no fire impact on the helicopter," the cause of the disaster was the piloting error.
Anton Erygin
11 May 2016, the Russian Defense Ministry reported the death of Russian sergeant Anton Yerygin in Syria.
5 May he was seriously injured in the Syrian province of Homs while carrying out tasks to accompany the cars of the Russian Reconciliation Center of the warring parties and died in the hospital two days later.
12 May soldier was buried in the cemetery in the Voronezh village Chertovitsy.
He was awarded the Order of Courage posthumously.
Andrey Timoshenkov
15 June 2016 in the province of Homs, Andrei Timoshenkov, a security guard of a humanitarian convoy of the Russian Reconciliation Center of the warring parties in Syria, prevented a breakthrough to the place of issuance of humanitarian aid for a car filled with explosives.
During the explosion of the suicide-driven car, Tymoshenkov received a wound that was incompatible with life and died on June 16.
He was awarded the Order of Courage posthumously.
Mikhail Shirokopoyas
16 June 2016 was officially confirmed the death of Junior Sergeant Mikhail Shirokopas.
He was sent to Syria in April 2016, a month later he was injured as a result of a mine in the province of Aleppo.
The soldier underwent surgery in Moscow, however, he died on June 7 in the Main Military Clinical Hospital. N.N. Burdenko.
He was awarded the Order of Courage posthumously.
Ryabagat Khabibulin and Yevgeny Dolgin
8 July 2016 in the Syrian province of Homs, Russian instructor pilots flew around a Syrian Mi-25 helicopter (export version of the Mi-24) with ammunition.
Having broken through the defenses east of Palmyra, a large detachment of IS militants attacked the positions of the Syrian troops and rapidly advanced into the region.
The crew of the Mi-25 decided to attack the terrorists. Having spent the ammunition, the helicopter at the turn on the reverse course was hit by fire from the ground and fell in the area controlled by the Syrian government army.
Both crew members died - pilot Colonel Ryafagat Khabibulin and pilot-operator Lt. Evgeny Dolgin.
Soldiers are presented to high state awards posthumously.
Nikita Shevchenko
On July 22, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that contract serviceman Nikita Shevchenko was killed as a result of an improvised explosive device pledged by militants at the entrance to a town in the province of Aleppo.
Shevchenko accompanied the convoy with food and water for local residents.
He is presented to the state award posthumously.
Three crew members of the Mi-8AMTSH helicopter and two officers
On August 1, in the Syrian province of Idlib, a Russian helicopter Mi-8AMTSH of the Russian Air Force was shot down from the ground.
He returned to Hmeimim airbase after delivering humanitarian aid in Aleppo.
On board were three crew members and two officers of the Russian Conciliation Center of the warring parties in Syria, they all died.
Asker Bizhoev
12 August it became known that during the fulfillment of the 19 combat mission in May, Major Asker Bizhoyev died heroically in Syria.
By presidential decree he was awarded the Order of Courage posthumously. The award was given to his parents. About this on his official page on Instagram wrote the head of the republic Yuri Kokov.
Nadezhda Durachenko and Galina Mikhailova
December 5 militants "opposition" was fired upon the medical camp of the mobile hospital of the Ministry of Defense in Syrian Aleppo.
As a result of a direct hit of a mine in the emergency department, two Russian medical servicemen, Nadezhda Durachenko and Galina Mikhailova, were killed; a pediatrician Vadim Arsentiev was seriously injured.
The hospital came under artillery fire from 12.21 to 12.30 Moscow time. Local residents arrived at the doctor’s office.
Ruslan Galitsky
7 December The 2016 of the Russian Defense Ministry reported that a colonel of the Russian Armed Forces died in hospital, injured in Syrian Aleppo during an artillery shelling by militants of the “opposition” in a residential area in the western part of the city.
The colonel carried out tasks in Syria as part of a group of Russian military advisers.
Ruslan Galitsky is presented posthumously by the command to a high state award.
Four soldiers
20 February 2017 of the Russian Defense Ministry reported that 16 February in Syria caused four cars to be killed and two Russian soldiers wounded in Syria as a result of a car bombing in a radio-controlled land mine.
A car with military advisers in the convoy departed from the Tiyas airfield area in the direction of the city of Homs.
Artem Gorbunov
6 March It became known that an ordinary contract service killed 2 March in the Palmyra area while repelling an attempt to break through the militants of the IG group (banned in the Russian Federation) to the positions of the Syrian troops, where Russian military advisers were.
Command of the private submitted to the state award posthumously.
Two military men
On April 11, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported the death of two Russian contract servicemen in Syria as a result of a mortar attack on militants.
According to authorities, another soldier was seriously injured.
The servicemen are represented by the command for state awards.
Sergey Bordov
20 April became aware of the death in Syria of the Russian military adviser Major Sergey Bordov.
He died as a result of an attack by militants on a military garrison of government troops.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the officer was part of a group of Russian military advisers, carrying out the tasks of training one of the units of the Syrian troops. During the battle, he did not allow the terrorists to break through to a residential town and was fatally wounded.
Command submitted to the state award posthumously.
Vadim Kostenko. Non-lethal loss
27 in October 2015 in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation confirmed the death of a technical specialist, contract serviceman Vadim Kostenko, who committed suicide at the Hmeimim airbase.
According to the military, the cause of death of the 19-year-old contract soldier was suicide "during off-duty hours due to unfavorable personal circumstances outside the unit".
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