the commander of the 3rd separate motorized rifle brigade (Horlivka) of the 1st Army Corps (Donetsk, Ukraine) of the Center of the Territorial Forces of the Southern Military District of the Russian Armed Forces

In Ukraine, uses the name: SOKOLOV Ihor Borysovych

Position and place of service before he was seconded to participate in the armed aggression against Ukraine: the commander of the 33rd separate motorized rifle brigade (mountain, Maikop, Adyheya Republic) of the 49th Army of the Southern Military District of the Russian Armed Forces.

Date and place of birth: 1968, the city of Novosybirsk, Russia.

Education:

Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School – in 1991;

Frunze Military Academy – in 2003.

Military service at the commanding positions:

2009 – 2011 – commander of the 56th separate Guards air assault Cossack brigade (light), Southern Military District of the Russian Armed Forces;

2011 – 2015 – commander of the 33rd separate motorized rifle brigade (mountain, Maikop, Adyheya Republic) of the 49th Army of the Russian Southern Military District.

Combat experience: the participant of Chechen campaigns of 1995, 2000.

Additional information:

co-ed of Lieutenant General Teplinskyi M.Yu., EO – the First Deputy Chief of the Center of the Territorial Forces, the Russian Southern Military District;

according to the Decree of the Russian president No.101 from February 21, 2014, was promoted to the rank of  “Major General”.