Igor Kirillov

RKhBZ Chief - Lieutenant General

Unit: Chief of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense Troops (RKhBZ), Russian Ministry of Defense (MOD)

Cargo ID: #1500

English Name: Igor Anatolyevich Kirillov

Russian Name: Кириллов Игорь Анатольевич

Education: Kostroma Higher Military Command School of Chemical Defense; NBC Protection Military Academy

Date of Birth: July 13, 1970 (age: 54 years)

Place of Birth: Kostroma, Kostroma Oblast, Russia

Date of Death: December 17, 2024 (via Scooter Bomb)

Place of Death: Moscow, Moscow Oblast, Russia (coordinates 55.728106, 37.740125)

On December 16, 2024, the Security Service of Ukraine charged Kirillov in absentia with “ordering the use of chemical weapons” against the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The next morning, at about 6:00 Moscow time on December 17, Kirillov was killed in an explosion near his home on Ryazansky Prospekt in Moscow. The explosive device was planted in a scooter parked next to a residential building and detonated when Kirillov and his assistant were leaving the entrance. According to a source, the explosive's power exceeded 100 grams of TNT equivalent.

Previously Deployed: Syria

INN (Tax ID): 463230691332

Passport Information: series 4515 № 257657; issued July 31, 2015

SNILS (Government ID): 176-856-190 23

Phone Number: +7-915-901-15-15

Awards:
Hero of Labor of the Russian Federation, 
Order of Merit for the Fatherland 3rd Class, 
Order of Merit for the Fatherland 4th Class, 
Order "For Military Merit", 
Order of Alexander Nevsky, 
Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" 2nd Class, 
Medal "For Military Valor" 1st Class, 
Medal "For Military Valor" 2nd Class, 
Medal "For Strengthening Military Cooperation", 
Medal "For Distinction in Military Service" 1st Class, 
Medal "For Distinction in Military Service" 2nd Class, 
Medal "For Distinction in Military Service" 3rd Class, 
Medal "Participant of the Military Operation in Syria", 
Medal "For Participation in the Military Parade on Victory Day", 
Medal "For the Fight Against the COVID-19 Pandemic", 
Memorial Medal "Colonel General Pikalov", 
Badge "Graduation from a Higher Education Institution",
Medal of the Vladimir Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church "Holy Blessed Prince Andrei Bogolyubsky" for "special merits in the spiritual and moral education of the personnel of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation",
Honorary Citizen of the Kostroma Region

What are the RKhBZ?

Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense Troops are tasked with protecting military personnel and civilians from radiation, chemical or biological contamination, the effects of weapons of mass destruction and other similar threats. They are part of the Russian Ground Forces.

Among the main tasks of the NBC protection troops:

• assessment of the radiation, chemical and biological situation, as well as the scale and consequences of destruction of radiation, chemical and biologically hazardous facilities;
• protection of formations and units from the effects of weapons of mass destruction;
• elimination of the consequences of accidents at radiation, chemical and biologically hazardous facilities;
• inflicting losses on the enemy using flamethrower and incendiary weapons.

In 1991 he graduated from the Kostroma Higher Military Command School of Chemical Defense, and in 2007, from the Military Academy of Radiation, Chemical and Biological (RKB) Defense named after Marshal of the Soviet Union S.K. Timoshenko (2007).

From 1991 to 1995, he served as a platoon commander in the Western Group of Forces in Germany and the Moscow Military District.

From 1995 to 2009, he successively rose through the ranks from company commander to commander of a separate RKhBZ protection brigade.

Since 2009, he has served in various positions in the Directorate of the Chief of the RKhBZ of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

From September 2014 to April 2017, he held the position of head of the Military Academy of the NBC Defense named after Marshal of the Soviet Union S.K. Timoshenko.

In April 2017, he was appointed to the position of Chief of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense Troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation

In 2018, Igor Kirillov was awarded the rank of Lieutenant General.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ministry of Defense, under his leadership, developed reagents for detecting coronavirus RNA.

Kirillov was a member of the editorial board of the anniversary collection "Troops of Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. 100 Years in Service", published in 2018.