First Deputy Head - Colonel

Unit: Kherson City State Administration

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Served in this position for less than a month before being killed.
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Formerly served for 25 years in the Border Guard Troops and in units of the FSB, after which he worked as first deputy head of the Leader Center for Special Risk Rescue Operations.

Cargo ID: #439

Full Name: Oleksiy Viktorovich Katerinichev

Russian Name: Катериничев Алексей Викторович

Date of Birth: 30 June, 1974 (age: 48 years)

Place of Birth: Rybinsk, Yaroslavl region, Russia

Place of Death: Kherson, Kherson Oblast, Ukraine (Missile Strike)

Education:

  • Ussuriysk Suvorov Military School (graduated 1991)
  • Golitsyn Military Institute of Border Troops of the Russian Federation (graduated with a gold medal in 1996)
  • Border Academy of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (graduated with honors in 2004)

Awarded: Hero of Russia (ph.), Order of Courage (x3), Medal for Excellence in State Border Protection, other departmental decorations.

Detailed History:

  • August 1992 - October 1992: cadet of Novosibirsk Higher Military-Political School.
  • October 1992 - July 1996: cadet of the Golitsyn Military Institute of the Border Troops of the Russian Federation.
  • July 1996 - 2001: Served in the Federal Border Guard Service of the Russian Federation.
  • 2001 - 2021: Served on different posts in the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation.
  • April 2021 - Present: First Deputy Head of the Federal State Institution "Center for Special Risk Rescue Operations "Leader". Took part in more than 20 counterterrorism operations.
  • March - April 2021: Took part in the rescue operation to lift the helicopter Ka-32 of EMERCOM of Russia in the Curonian Bay of the Baltic Sea, Kaliningrad region.
  • May - July 2021: Conducted diving operations related to the disposal of explosive ordnance at a potentially hazardous underwater object in the Baltic Sea in the Kaliningrad region.
  • September 2022: Apppointed First Deputy Head of the Kherson City State Administration

Family: Married; 1 daughter; 1 son.

Oleksiy Katerinichev [Cargo ID #439]
As his colleagues told me, he absolutely understood the risks of this temporary new position. He knew he was being followed. Therefore, I have never spent the night in one place in Kherson. But it is impossible to foresee everything. Someone told the AFU on the night of September 30 about the house where the first deputy head of the administration was staying. After which the house was hit by two HIMARS missiles.