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# Nikolai Markov
- URL: https://topcargo200.com/195/
- Published: 2022-05-13T03:47:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-10-11T18:05:31.000Z
- Author: Top
- Tags: Colonel, Cargo200, Wagner PMC

*Mercenary Pilot - Colonel*

**Unit:** "Independent Pilot", Su-25, [Wagner Group](https://topcargo200.com/tag/w)

**Cargo ID:** #195

**Full Name:** Nikolay Gennadievich Markov

**Russian Name:** Марков Николай Геннадьевич

**Date of Birth:** February 3, 1955 (age: 67 years)

**Lived in:** Novgorod region, russia

**Education:** Chernigov Higher Military Aviation School (1976)

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> " Colonel of Aviation of the Republic of Belarus. "  
>  
> Died over Popasna  
>  
> buried in Lida, Belarus

> Was the Wingman for [Cargo ID#184](https://topcargo200.com/184/) [Major General Kanamat Botashev](https://topcargo200.com/184/) who was shot down ten days later

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![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/85/d1/85d19b8e-1e66-4513-a026-dadc0cd8e9c5/content/images/2023/10/195a.png)

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> His Su-25 attack aircraft was shot down by the AFU over Popasna, Luhansk Oblast Ukraine. He was buried on May 17 at the New Cemetery in the city of Lida (Belarus)