Full name: Artyom Vyacheslav Gavrilov
Age: 25
Gender: Male
Appearance: 
Personality: Artyom is a true Communist at heart and firmly believes in the Communist ideology and therefor doesn't smoke, drink and doesn't participate in any religion. During his time at the front he has seen countless horrors and atrocities, which left him as a shadow of his former self. He can vividly remember how he saw his girlfriend being raped and tortured by the Germans, and when they discoverd their relation, they made him watch as they shot her. As a result of many events like this he has grown cold and emotionless, and he doesn't feel fear anymore. He has become merciless and gathers a sick feeling of enjoyment out of torturing captured German prisoners, he wants to hurt them like they hurt him, and his country.
Despite being a leading figure in a platoon or squad of soldiers he prefers to distance himself from the group to not become to attached, he has seen many of his comrades fall in battle. A lot of them during the frontal wave attacks, that his superior officers orderd earlier in the war, something he was a part of many times. He however regards every Soviet soldier as important and treats them with respect, he would not use frontal assaults himself nor would he send his units into hopeless situations if there is another choice. He however, has little respect or patience for cowards and deserters. Anyone not following his orders or retreating without his approval can expect a beating or a bullet.
Brief history: Artyom was born on the 30th of April 1919 in the small village of Liski in the Voronezh Oblast. Not much is known about his early childhood but Soviet records show he joined the Young Pioneers at the age of 11 and that he continued to participate in the organisation untill he turned 15 after which he received a recommendation by his Young Pioneer group to join the Komsomol, which he did. Shortly after having joined the Komsomol, Artyom also joined the OSOAVIAKhIM. There he learned several skills, such as: marksmanship, horse riding, swimming, parachuting and he learned to operate radios. Eventually the OSOAVIAKhIM developed into a back-up military training organization. Artyom began taking advanced disciplines like tactics, topography and armament, in which he excelled. He eventually joined the Soviet Armed Forces in late 1940 and got assigned to the 6th Rifle Division that had been assigned to Brest Fortress. He made the fortress his home and he even met and got romantically involved with a girl during his stay. Unfortunately his young life got thrown into chaos with the start of operation Barbarossa.
The siege of Brest was one of the first battles of the war. The Germans were rutheless in their attacks on the fortress and killed many of the civillians residing there, the nature of warfare was harsh and desperate, often featuring massive frontal charges that Artyom voluntarely participated in. He remembers the Germans deployed various powerful guns, rocket mortars 15 cm Nebelwerfer 41 and resorted to flame throwers. The civilians inside the fortress tended the wounded, reloaded the machine-gun discs and belts with cartridges and even took up rifles to help defend the fortress. Children brought ammunition and food supplies from half-destroyed supply depots, scavenged weapons and watched enemy movements. He and the others defenders held out aslong as they could but were forced to surrender on the 29th of June. Artyom was taken as a prisoner of war along with hunderds of the other defenders of the fortress but managed to escape his captives and eventually linked up with the remnants of the 6th rifle division and continued to resist the German advance.
Artyom fought from Brest all the way to Voronzeh, the largest town in the Voronzeh Oblast, which was only a few kilometers away from his home town. Artyom experienced the loss of the city to the Germans in 1942, unlike many others from his division he evaded being captured but was forced to assume the role of Partisan, he continued to disrupt German operations in the Voronzeh oblast but avoided contact with his family so they would not be endangered. German punishments for Partisans were harsh, his family would be murderd along with him should they find him there. In 1943, during the time of the Russian counter-offensive. Artyom participated in the liberation of Voronzeh along with other Partisans and the actual Soviet Army. With the city firmly back in Soviet control Arytom was re-assigned and re-located to the Leningrad front. From there on out his record is unclear, he has been labeled as missing in action and is presumed dead after having lost contact with his unit in the winter of 1943.Role: Starshina but currently fighting as a Partisan behind enemy lines.
Expertise: Raising morale, hand-to-hand combat, armed insurgency, camouflage, tracking, knows how to operate and accurately deploy both German and Russian made weaponry, topography, armament.
Weaponry: PPSH-41 submachine gun, 1 RGD-33 grenade, 1 RPG-40 anti-tank grenade, 3 F1 grenades, a German Stielhandgranate 24, a belt of 7.62 ammunition and 2 M1895 Nagant pistols.
