Alexey Botyan. Bondarenko A.Yu.

Almost the entire biography of the Foreign Intelligence Colonel Alexei Nikolayevich Botyan (1917-2020) is hidden under the stamp “Top Secret”, but even the slightly that we know about him would be enough for several action-packed books. He entered the Second World War on September 1, 1939 and in the early days of the war shot down three Junkers. During the Great Patriotic War, he fought behind the front line as part of the Olympus NKVD operational group, took part in many impudent operations against the Nazi troops and gangsting underground in Western Ukraine. He also blew up the Ovruch Gabits-Commissariat in September 1943 and saved from the destruction of Krakow in January 1945, for which he was twice presented to the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, but only in 2007 he received the Golden Star of the Hero of Russia. After the war, he worked in Europe as a reconnaissance reconnaissance, and then took an active part in the preparation of truly Almighty fighters of the legendary special purpose of Vympel.