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Zenya Kurtarov was born on November 12, 1992 in Saint Petersburg, Soviet Union (Actually Russian Federation), and joined the Russian Army sometime before the start 2012. According to Kurtarov, her father was a musician, who, during the "War in Donbass" conflict, played music by patriotic composers with his violin. His music was a symbol of hope for his fellow countrymen, but a symbol of defiance to the Ukrainians, and Zenya never forgot the sound of his music even years later. His father had his throat slit by a Ukrainian while he slept, one of the many reasons Zenya hated the Ukrainian soldiers. In the past, Zenya was a good person. However, her personality changed greatly when her sister was killed, driving her insane. She became a vengeful and angered person.
Biography[]
Battle of Donetsk Oblast[]
Her first mission during 2012, was as a sniper trying to assassinate the Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko. As one of the only two survivors of a brutal Ukrainian massacre near a fountain, she was saved from being executed by feigning death. It is here that she and Yakov Pavlov first met each other, with Kurtarov explaining his situation to Yakov.
Donetsk during the battle
Kurtarov, who could no longer snipe precisely as a marksman due to their injured hand and blown off trigger finger, gave Pavlov his scoped Mosin-Nagant rifle, and asked him to eliminate the president. Kurtarov guided Yakov on killing a few Ukrainian soldiers as Ukrainian bombers flew overhead, to shroud out the noise of the gunshots. She led him through Donetsk, dueling against a Ukrainian sniper, and then dispatching a whole Ukrainian platoon with multiple soldiers equipped with flamethrowers.
Then, they were saved by Pavlov's squad led by Boris, and continued with them on an assault against a Ukrainian communication post. After fierce fighting, Pavlov killed Poroshenko, which gave Kurtarov a hearty chuckle. They were soon attacked by Ukrainian tanks and soldiers. Kurtarov held off numerous Ukrainian soldiers before she jumped into a canal, with Yakov soon following her.
Army Sergeant[]
Later, in 2014, 9 years prior to the events of the Gorky Park, Kurtarov held the rank of Sergeant in the 29th Army Russia brigade, under the command of Captain Braditch. The two were deployed to Crimea, Ukraine on a covert operation to assassinate the Russian arms dealer Yuri Orlov.
Yuri Orlov, the arms dealer
While Kurtarov initially believed she had killed Orlov with a sniper rifle, Orlov survived, despite losing his left arm. The duo were then swarmed by Ukrainian forces, and in the ensuing firefight, Braditch was crippled by a falling Mi-28 helicopter. Kurtarov carried Braditch to the extraction point, where they were rescued after holding their ground against Ukrainian forces.
In another mission during 2015, Zenya and the Estonian commander Nikos Borvachov were parachuted next to a town which was under attack by Ukrainian ground forces. They then fled to a nearby Russian outpost with the Ukrainians in pursuit, where they would escape in a Mil Mi-26. However, Ukrainian MiGs destroyed a bridge leading to the Mil Mi-26, forcing Zenya and Nikos to evacuate to another extraction point much farther away. Two atomic bombs were then dropped on the outpost, with Ukrainian forces finishing off any survivors before going after Zenya and Nikos. The Russians evacuated their structures and defenses after the second detonation, hastening their demise.
Zenya and Nikos would receive minimal reinforcements along the way to aid them in reaching their destination. There was also a Ukrainian base which lay between them and the Mil Mi-26. The mission was a success, Nikos and Zenya entered the Mil Mi-26 and is airlifted from the area.
F.S.O. Career[]
One year later, Kurtarov was an agent protecting President Vladimir Putin and part of the FSO. It was supposed to be a routine day, but everything changed in the fly. She held off the Ukrainian terrorists that attempted to hijack the presidents plane while it was en route to Hamburg. Zenya was blindsided at the beginning of the attack, and was tasked with rescuing the presidents daughter. Before the plane crash, the FSO Commander Alexei Tarkovshy
Putin and the FSO before the hijack attempt.
stayed with the President while Kurtarov fought with another agent who then fell out of the plane leaving only Kurtarov and Alexei to survive until the end.
As Zenya struggled to not fall from the plane, the remnants of an engine slammed into his section, knocking him unconscious. After the plane crash landed, she and Alexei attempted to retrieve the President. As Alexei, and other agents got ready to board the helicopter, Kurtarov opened the door only to find more Ukrainian soldiers holding her at gunpoint was then shot. Alexei pulled out his gun but was shot before he was given a chance to kill the terrorist. As the terrorists grabbed Putin onto the helicopter, Kurtarov reached for Alexei's pistol and killed the Ukrainian soldiers. This was Zenya's last mission as an agent of the FSO, and was awarded a medal for distinction for valour in while seriously injured.
F.S.B. Captain[]
During 2018, In the events of the Crimean Crisis, Kurtarov held the rank of Captain and led a FSB squad, designated "Amadeus Brigade", from the Bering Strait, to Germany, to Turkey and finally back to Russia. Under her command throughout the events was her friend Yurik Pavlov and then Sgt. Vassili Kulikov, as well as others such as Gromov, Sgt. Filatov, Sgt. Leonov, Pvt. Igor and then Pvt. Kozlov.
The cargo boat after being fired
After meeting Pavlov, Amadeus Brigade was deployed to the Bering Strait and assaulted an Arabic cargo ship containing a nuclear device. Kurtarov was puzzled to see that there were Ukrainian forces on board the container, along with a Ukrainian flag draped on the floor. As she signaled the chopper for extraction of the container, the boat was fired upon by MiG-29 fighters. They were forced to escape to the helicopter as the boat started to sink. As they reached the helicopter and jumped for safety, Yurik almost fell into the sea, but Kurtarov grabbed him just in time, saving him from falling to his death.
The next related mission took them to Ukraine in 2020, where they worked with Sgt. Kamarov's pro-Russians to rescue their compromised informant, Stavros. Kamarov kept delaying the FSB team with the hope that their assistance would help him take the village from the Ukrainians, but acquiesced and revealed the informant's location when threatened by Pavlov. Kurtarov, Pavlov, and Vassili then stormed the house where Stavros was held hostage. Once inside, Pavlov cut the power, plunging the house into darkness and the team proceed to neutralize some Ukrainian soldiers, and three others mercs before they got Stavros. Kurtarov, along with Pavlov and Vassili, then extracted Stavros on a chopper, but the chopper asw shot down by an enemy surface-to-air missile and they were forced to fight their way to the extraction point with the aid of an AC-130H Spectre, codenamed "Vodka". Along the way they saved the life of an old farmer.
The nuke detonation in Romania
After receiving valuable intel from Stavros, Kurtarov led the team to Romania to capture Dmitry Karpot after he set off a nuclear device concealed in the Romanian capital city, killing thousands of Russian soldiers and Romanian civilians. The team fought their way through Dmitry Karpot's defenses and eventually captured him inside his safehouse, where Kurtarov tortured him for intel. Kurtarov learned that Yuri Orlov was still alive and executed Dmitry Karpot. Kurtarov told the rest of the team about her past mission to assassinate Orlov. During the escape attempt eight hours later, the team was then extracted by a unit of the 41st Army led by Sgt. Patynsky.
The Gorky Park bombing[]
After several years of hunting, the squad came to the conclusion that Yuri Orlov was hiding in Moscow and they decided not to call reinforcements, preventing Yuri's alarm. Orlov was found in the city and executed, but the squad located a Ukrainian-made warhead bomb in the Gorky Park. The squad are dispatched to disarm the weapon, but the warhead was detonated by another terrorist on Yuri Orlov's last orders, wiping out the entire place, several civilians losses including Kurtarov's sister. Yurik Pavlov, Sgt. Vassili Kuliko, Gromov, Sgt. Filatov, Sgt. Leonov, Pvt. Igor and Pvt. Kozlov, were among the victims of the massive bomb explosion that destroyed the park.
Moments before the explosion
The unfolding events made Zenya distraught, and when she discovered that the FSB could have prevented the bombing and subsequently her sister and squads death, but did not due to the level of corruption in the government and military, she collapsed, turning for a brief period to rampant alcoholism before resigning in disgust, she left the army after being discharged and disappeared soon after.
As she went insane, she decided to take revenge on Russia, then secretly created the Blue Berets Division with dissidents of the Russian Army, and started to build up power to launch a full-scale attack, a conflict called Operation Liberty, that ended fruitlessly.
The Armed Republic of Dvinmiste Capia[]
Zenya was exiled with the rest of her soldiers and followers to a remote and abandoned island in northern Russia. There, she decided to form her own country, where she could stay away from the world corruption, while planning her next move against Russia.
And so was born in 2029 the Armed Republic of Dvinmiste Capia - a vast and powerful military country formed by combining the existing terrorist groups with Zenya's own defected troops.
Disappearance and Death[]
Zenya Kurtarov, along with the ARDC, went missing without any apparent explanation at an unknown date, and is assumed to be deceased.