Friday, October 25, 2019

meet GRU Maj-General

2017


  Andrey Averyanov was born in 1967 in Turkmenistan and graduated from the Taskhent Military School (TVOKU) in Soviet Uzbekistan in 1988.  In the '90’s he lived – likely as a result of military deployment – in a village near the southwestern Russian city of Samara and later in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar.  As of early 2000’s he was already deployed in Moscow and resided with his family at the dormitory of the GRU Academy, at Narodnogo Opolchenia 50.
  The character of his military services in the early 2000’s is yet unknown to us; however he continued posting under his own name at the website of his alma mater, and displayed an energetic activity in keeping tabs on its former alumni – and even publicly arranging help for ill or injured former classmates.  While many of these posts were deleted after 2011, some snippets of his posts remained in quotes by other military school alumni – one even included his telephone number.
     A reverse search in contact-list sharing apps under this and other telephone numbers linked to his name shows that he was listed under names such as “Director 1”, “Andrey Crimea”, and “Andrey – Senezh”.  Notably, our investigative team has been able to establish that Andrey Averyanov – just like Colonel Chepiga and Dr. Mishkin – is a non-disclosed recipient of the Hero of Russia award, which was bestowed namely for his participation in the Crimea annexation operation.
 
Photograph of Maj. General Andrey Averyanov taken from the Odnoklassniki account of a family member
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2019/10/14/averyanov-chepiga/

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