Ship Captain - Major

Unit: Landing Ship Caesar Kunikov, 197th Landing Ship Brigade, Black Sea Fleet

Actual Rank: Navy Captain (3rd Rank)

Cargo ID: #124

Full Name: Aleksander Grigoryevich Chirva

Russian Name: Чирва Александр Григорьевич

Date of Birth: February 15, 1988 (age: 34 years)

Place of Birth: Sevastopol, Crimea, Ukraine

Place of Death: Berdiansk, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine (Tochka-U)

Education: VUNTS Navy "Naval Academy" of the Naval Institute of Radio Electronics (2010)

Awards: Order of Courage (ph.) others being investigated

Previously Served: Syria

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Wounded March 24, Died April 11
He began his service on the large landing ship "Nikolai Filchenkov", where he was the commander of the warhead-4-7, then as the first mate on the large landing ship "Yamal".
Since 2015, he has been the senior assistant to the commander of the large landing ship Caesar Kunikov.
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Footage of the strike that killed Chirva