Zakhar Prilepin
Zakhar Prilepin | |
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Захар Прилепин | |
Prilepin in 2020 | |
| Co-chairman of A Just Russia – For Truth | |
| Assumed office 22 February 2021 | |
| President of the For Truth | |
| In office 1 February 2020 – 22 February 2021 | |
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| Born | Yevgeny Nikolayevich Prilepin 7 July 1975 Ilyinka, Ryazan Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
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| Alma mater | Nizhny Novgorod State University |
| Occupation | Writer, Rosgvardiya officer, journalist, politician |
| Awards | Order of Courage |
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| Rank | Podpolkovnik |
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| Pen name | Zakhar Prilepin |
| Language | Russian |
| Period | Contemporary |
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| Literary movement | Realism |
| Years active | 2003–present |
Yevgeny Nikolayevich Prilepin (Russian: Евге́ний Никола́евич Приле́пин; born 7 July 1975), writing as Zakhar Prilepin (Russian: Захар Прилепин), and sometimes using another pseudonym, Yevgeny Lavlinsky (Russian: Евгений Лавлинский), is a Russian writer, politician and paramilitary leader.
He was a member of Russia's National Bolshevik Party from 1996 to 2019 and the leader of the national-conservative political party For Truth from 1 February 2020 until it merged into A Just Russia in February 2021.