Alan Godzhiev

Battalion Commander - Major

Unit: 4th Special Operations Reconnaissance Assault Battalion

Cargo ID: #712

English Name: Alan Germanovich Godzhiev

Russian Name: Годжиев Алан Германович

Date of Birth: April 26, 1984 (age: 37 years and 363 days)

From: Veseloe village, Mozdok district, Russia

Place of Death: Andriivka, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine (Mortar Fire)

Awards: Order of Courage (ph.), others under investigation

Previously Deployed: Ukraine 2014, Syria, Libya, CAR

"He went through several hot spots, fought in Syria, was awarded three Orders of Courage. The business trip to Donbass was his last."

In 2005, he was drafted by the Mozdok Military Commissariat to serve in the Russian Army. After serving for two years, Alan decided to stay in the army and signed a contract with military unit 08801 in the 1st Separate Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade. He was the commander of an assault company. Since 2014, he took part in the liberation of Donbass, as well as in military operations in Libya, Syria, and African countries.

On March 19, he received a shrapnel wound to his arm and a concussion. I spent 2 days in the hospital and... insisted on being sent to the front line. April 23 was a fateful day: the group commanded by Alan came under mortar fire in the village of Andreevka, Kharkov region. He himself was at that hour on a combat mission in another place. He decided to remove the bodies of his dead comrades from the battlefield, but he himself came under mortar fire. He received injuries incompatible with life.