Oleg Kurygin: biography
Oleg Kurygin was born on March 6, 1977 in the village of Uyskoye, Uysky District, Chelyabinsk Region. Early documents record an address in Uchaly (Republic of Bashkortostan) – probably the place of childhood or the first residence of the family. He began his military career in the late 1990s: early registration data is tied to the 25642 in Asbest, Sverdlovsk Oblast. He received his military education at the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School and subsequently retrained at the All-Russian Military Academy in Moscow, where he was registered as a student in 2008-2010.
At an early stage of his career – an officer at 25642 (Asbest), then service in Yekaterinburg (32nd Military Campus, Lenin Avenue, 71 – headquarters). Transferred to Novosibirsk in 2014, where he was registered at the address of v/ч 55433 (ter. Military Town, 995). Short-term registration in Rostov-on-Don falls on 2015, in 2016 – Novorossiysk. By 2017 is recorded as chief of staff in / / h 55433 in the rank of lieutenant colonel. The next stage – service in Saransk (2018), after which the return to Yekaterinburg (Lenin Avenue, 71, headquarters – 2018-2021).
The period 2019-2021 – command of the 35th Independent Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade (v/h 41659, Aleisk) with the rank of colonel.
Border crossing data document foreign business trips: in 2017-2018, Kurygin traveled on Defense Ministry flights to Kyrgyzstan (Bishkek, Kant) and Tajikistan (Gissar). In November 2020, he arrived from Latakia (Syria) on flight RFF8030 via Anapa-Vityazevo airport, which confirms his participation in the Syrian campaign.
After the invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and the withdrawal of the brigade, Kurygin left his post as commander of the 35th OMSbr and was promoted. Current data from 2022-2025 records him in Moscow.
Oleg Kurygin’s war crimes
The 35th Independent Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade under Kurygin’s command entered Ukraine on February 24, 2022 and operated in the northern direction, near Chernihiv.
On March 16, 2022, in Chernihiv, an artillery strike hit civilians queuing for bread outside the Soyuz store. At around nine in the morning, a shell struck a line of about 90 people, followed by a series of hits on neighboring residential buildings. At least 15 people died and 27 were wounded.
The direction of fire pointed to Russian positions northeast of Chernihiv, where Msta-S self-propelled howitzers (152 mm, coordinates: 51.60965, 31.45947) were identified. The only Russian Armed Forces unit in that sector with Msta-S (36 units) and Grad MLRS (18 units) in service was the 35th OMsbr. Personal responsibility was assigned to the brigade commander Kurygin. The incident was qualified as a war crime – indiscriminate attack on the civilian population.
On February 26, 2022, tank commander Major Leonid Shchetkin (35th Brigade) fired an aimed fragmentation-fugitive shell at a residential high-rise building during an airfield assault. The commander, Mikhail Kulikov, was subsequently sentenced by a Ukrainian court to 10 years in prison.
In addition to crimes against Ukrainian citizens, Kurygin appears in appeals by Russian servicemen: on his personal orders, wounded soldiers of the 35th Brigade were denied wound certificates, depriving them of legal payments.
Kurygin is included in the sanctions list of the NAZC of Ukraine.
Oleg Kurygin’s family
Kurygin has been married twice. His first wife was Lyudmila Anatolievna (née Vologzhanina, February 28, 1979), a native of Pervouralsk. In 2010, the couple had a son Alexander in Irkutsk. Lyudmila worked in the Financial Department of the Defense Ministry of the Russian Federation in the Novosibirsk Region until May 2023.
Second wife – Svetlana Viktorovna (div. Borovskikh, first marriage Yakutina, 29.06.1981), born in Leningrad, grew up in Barnaul. Worked in Gazprombank (Barnaul). Has a son from a previous marriage – Danila Borovskikh (20.06.2008, Moscow). Active in social networks under the surname Kurygina (VKontakte) and Yakutina (Odnoklassniki). Telegram account @KuryginaSV.
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