1991 INIQUE air force jacket used by Hero of Russia KGB/FSB Alpha Alexander Matovnikov [SOLD]

Price $1800 (item number: #217)

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Unique lot.
Leather jacket chevretka (air force leather jacket), used in the KGB and FSB special forces Alpha.
Officially received from storage as surplus.
Size 52-5. Year of production: 1991 (1994). Extra lining.
For this year, the jacket is in excellent condition - soft not wiped leather. The jacket has the mark of the owner of "Matovnikov".
This is the jacket of one of the most famous officers of the Alpha group.
You can see a photo of KGB officer Alpha, Hero of Russia Alexander Matovnikov in such a jacket.
A unique opportunity to touch the history of the Alpha group, having received the jacket of the legendary officer.

Bio of Matovnikov Alexander Anatolyevich (Wikipedia).
Born in 1965 in the family of a KGB officer.
In 1986 he entered the service of group A of the KGB of the USSR.
He took part in the war in Afghanistan, under the guise of border guards, group A intercepted caravans with weapons and drugs.
In 1987, he participated in the protection of soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, who arrived in Washington on a state visit.
He took part in both Chechen wars, several special operations, including in the North Caucasus.
Member of operation at the White House in 1993. He was one of the leaders of the assault on the hospital in Budyonnovsk in 1995.
He participated in the anti-terrorist operation at the Nord-Ost on Dubrovka in 2002.
Investigated the circumstances of the storming of a school in Beslan in 2004.
Chechen terrorists called him the nickname "Chekist". He served as the head of the 2nd department of the 1st department of the Office “A” and the first deputy head of the Office “A” (Alpha).

After serving at Alpha for about 30 years, in 2013 he was transferred to work at the Ministry of Defense, and was appointed deputy commander of the Special Operations Forces of the Main (Intelligence) Directorate of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces. In 2015, he was appointed commander of the Special Operations Forces and deputy chief of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. According to media reports, he was an officer in special missions under the President of Russia Vladimir Putin and was one of the leaders of secret military operations abroad, including in Ukraine during the annexation of Crimea to Russia.
Also at command posts, he took part in the Russian military operation in Syria.

In 2017, in the rank of major general, he was awarded the title "Hero of the Russian Federation", in his own words, "for Syria."
In 2018, he was appointed plenipotentiary of the President of Russia in the North Caucasus Federal District,
In 2018, he was included in the Russian Security Council.