Nikolai Malashenko

[Russell]

Born on the new year's day of 1992, Nikolai was raised in the city of Voronezh in a traditional family that valued and revered the motherland. Nikolai's upbringing was a very masculine one, their father was an idealist and had previously served as a soldier under the newly-disbanded USSR. Frequent hunting trips and outdoor activities shaped the way he grew up, thick-skinned and firm in his own opinion and reasoning.

Adolescence

Upon turning 15, he joined a boxing gym which focused around Soviet-style boxing and kept up with weekly practice and went onto amateur fighting leaving a record of 7 wins & 2 losses, he kept up the practice until the age of 18, where he joined military due to obligations by law where Nikolai served for 2 years instead of 1 year to fulfill his father's ideology of service to the motherland.

Early Career

Upon leaving active duty military, Nikolai studied and became Executive Protection for VIP clients - making use of his military and CQC knowledge. The pay was good and it wasn't a boring job, which kept him active through-out his 20s.

Sense of duty

Growing tensions between Ukraine and Russia after 2014 made Nikolai reconsider joining the war effort, he discarded the idea until early 2020 where the joined the war effort to annex Ukraine serving under the Russian Army - assigned to undercover unit in Donbas to conduct reconnaissance and sabotage to Ukrainian infrastructure where he was promoted to a sergeant due to his promising performance leading local guerrillas.

Nikolai returned to his hometown, to be greeted by his overjoyed father where he spent some well deserved rest and recovery - but his stay was interrupted by their commanding officer which demanded he is to report to the nearby military base at the border of Ukraine for a undisclosed task. 

Into the fray
The news took everybody by surprise but this was it, this was the official invasion into Ukrainian territory. Nikolai was assigned to lead a demolitions squad seeing his success in Donbas. The weeks became months and the months drew long and taxing on Nikolai's mental health, which caused him to become sloppy in what would become their final missions in Ukraine.

Nikolai suffered fragmentation injuries due to a raid conducted with poor intel from high command - he was sent to the rear where he was taken care for and rehabilitated all through mid-2023 to early 2024.

Aftermath

Nikolai lost his sense of duty after seeing the unnecessary slaughter of Ukrainian civilians, his life was built on what their fathered always believed and dictated - he left he wasn't living for himself, he was living someone else's idea of what he should be. Delivering the news to his father that he was moving to capitalist America caused Nikolai to be shunned by his family but that didn't discourage Nikolai. He was going to live his own life now.

Liberty

While working as a cabbie in Liberty City, Nikolai made various connections driving lawyers, mobsters and other high status "civilians" which led to his first unforeseen act of crime as a getaway driver for a mobster who clicked with Nikolai and even introduced him to his associates which owned Saint Mark's Bistro and better part of Liberty City.

Nikolai's extensive knowledge of evasive driving, weapon handling and CQC quickly made him a valuable asset for the Camorra in Liberty.

Present

The family proudly accepted Nikolai into their organized ring, and with the help of the mobster who introduced him into the family, Salvatore Di Lauro, were tasked to scope out and expand the territory for the family here in Los Santos. Salvatore being a high earner in Liberty came up with several schemes to earn money here in Los Santos but the pair would be on their own for the time being until business became official.

Nikolai's story, here in Los Santos has only just begun.

[Russell]

 

[Portside]

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