In Vladivostok, school No. 14 was renamed in honor of Yevgeny Orlov, a Wagner mercenary who died in the war in Ukraine, on the website of the educational institution he is called a “hero of Russia”. Another school had a class named after him. The BBC Russian Service drew attention to this.
The publication writes that the city administration signed a resolution on renaming the educational institution back in October last year, but the local media and the school did not talk about the changes. Established in 1941, School 14 is now called the “Secondary School named after the Hero of the Russian Federation – a participant in a special military operation in Ukraine, Yevgeny Mikhailovich Orlov.”
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Yevgeny Orlov, 42, died in the Bakhmut region of Ukraine in July. He participated in the war in Ukraine even before the full-scale Russian invasion, and also fought in Syria and wrote the book “Ihtamnet”. In 2021, Ukraine included him in the sanctions list as a reconnaissance sniper of the Wagner PMC.
The son of a mercenary, in a conversation with BBC journalists, said that he did not know about the renaming of the school in Vladivostok. All he knew was that a class at an educational institution in the area where they lived was named after his father. He did not confirm the involvement of his relative in the Wagner PMC, but noted that the man fought in Syria and the so-called “DPR”.
“I’m not sure that I can talk about such things. We can say that he went there as a volunteer. He was called – he went,” the mercenary’s son said.
According to the head of the department for work with municipal educational institutions of the city administration, Maxim Kilchevsky, the leadership of the institution turned to him with the initiative to rename the schools after a letter from Orlov’s acquaintances. At school, they say that the opposite is true – the proposal came from the “management”.
