Security Head - Major

Unit: BARS - 11
Previously: former Senior Security Officer, Head of the Scientific and Technical Center "Okhrana" (departmental security of the Roscosmos state corporation run by Dmitry Rogozin).

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Dmitry Rogozin took control of the "Tsar's Wolves" PMC on November 11, 2022. They worked closely with BARS-11, so when Alexander Shemyakin received his mobilization orders, he volunteered to deploy with BARS-11. Since deployment, he served as Rogozin's de facto head of security.

Cargo ID: #1123

English Name: Alexander Yurievich Shemyakin

Russian Name: Шемякин Александр Юрьевич

Date of Birth: December 29, 1978 (age: 44 years)

Place of Birth: Moscow region, Russia

Place of Death: Shesh-Best Restaurant, Donetsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine (Shrapnel wound received on the night of December 21, 2022; Died in the Rostov hospital on February 6th, 2023)

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At the time of the strike on the Shesh-Best restaurant, both Rogozin and Prigozhin [Cargo ID #365] owned PMCs that were directly competing for influence and funding. The two men had a very public rivalry and dislike of each other. It has been speculated that it was, in fact, Wagner PMC that struck the restaurant where Rogozin was celebrating his birthday (wounding Rogozin and killing Shemyakin).

Awards: Medal "For Distinction in Military Service" 2nd Class, Medal "For Distinction in Military Service" 3rd Class, Badge "Parachutist Instructor", Badge "Graduation from a Higher Education Institution", Badge "Guard"

During the feast, the premises of the hotel and restaurant complex were hit by Ukrainian artillery. Rogozin and Khotsenko received shrapnel wounds. Rogozin's bodyguard Mikhail Bridasov died on the spot. The driver Dmitry Muravyov, bodyguards Vladimir Huseynov and Aleksandr Shemyakin , who was the director of the RTC "Okhorona Roskosmos" and a former officer of the SSO, were seriously injured. The last two died later in hospitals.
Rogozin was wounded in the shoulder. The shrapnel stopped a few millimeters from the spinal cord — in the cervical spine. As evidenced by his correspondence and the photo he sent, there was no wound in the buttock, as started to be written in social networks and mass media.
And already in the morning, Rogozin wrote in his Telegram channel: "It was a working meeting, in a narrow circle and in a calm environment after returning from one of our volunteer units. We lived in this hotel for the last months, and in 8 years the enemy never fired at us this place. Someone leaked the information, and around 7:45 p.m. there were several high-precision hits, including where we were directly."
In the following days, Rogozin spread information that "the Ukrainian special services had been preparing an attempt on him for a long time."