Regiment Deputy Commander - Lieutenant Colonel
Unit: 234th Guards Air Assault Regiment, 76th Guards Air Assault Division, Southern Military District
Cargo ID: #392
Full Name: Aleksey Valerievich Afonin
Russian Name: Афонин Алексей Валерьевич
Date of Birth: February 2, 1980 (age: 42 years)
Lived in: Pskov, Pskov Oblast, Russia
Education: Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School, Combined Arms Academy of the Armed Forces
Awards: Order of Courage (ph.), others under investigation
Previously Deployed: Syria
Today in Pskov, at the multidisciplinary legal lyceum, a memorial plaque to guard Major Artyom Lazarenko and guard Lieutenant Colonel Alexei Afonin will be unveiled. Both of them died while performing military duty during a special military operation on the territory of Ukraine. (January 13, 2023)
“Always, if he set some goal, he achieved it. He wanted to be a military man. And if I want to be a military man, then I am a defender of my Fatherland. Therefore... It’s sad, of course, that all this happened. But he fulfilled his duty,” Natalya Burova, class teacher of Alexei Afonin.
