Shalva Alborov

Position unknown - Major

Unit: Ossetian volunteer battalion "Pyatnashka", 3rd Army Corps

Cargo ID: #977

English Name: Shalva Bakurovich Alborov

Russian Name: Алборов Шалва Бакурович

Date of Birth: October 14, 1989 (age: 34 years)

Place of Birth: Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia–Alania Republic, Russia

Awards: Zhukov Medal (2017), Medal for Military Merit (2018), Order of Courage (ph.)

Shalva, having graduated from North Ossetian State University named after K.L. Khetagurova, in 2009 will join the ranks of the Russian Army. He served in Novocherkassk as a machine gunner, then served in the 58th Army. In 2011, he received the status of a combat veteran.
In May 2014, he volunteered for the Donbass and fought heroically as part of the international brigade “Fifteen”. In 2017, he took part in the defense of the DPR, was seriously wounded in battle, and in 2018 returned home to Vladikavkaz.
Since 2019, he worked in the city of Zapolyarny in Norilsk Nickel, the Severny mine, but could not stay away when the SVO began, and in March 2022 he resigned from the mine and returned to the Donbass, stood side by side with his comrades in arms, showing courage and heroism.

Died August 9, 2023, Avdiivka, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.