Ivan Bylatov

Russian Navy officer, underwater reconnaissance saboteur (combat swimmer). Has experience in illegal intelligence work. Fluent in English, French and German. Has pronounced leadership qualities. Has numerous state awards. Blood type: A (II) Rh+ (MD-4, 10 series) or 0 (I) Rh+ (MDRR) or B (III) Rh+ (MDOS). Combat nickname "Batya". Biography
Born around 1970. Studied at the Naval Academy, became one of the best officers in the fleet. As a destroyer's first mate, he was recalled to Moscow to the GRU Academy. He became a champion in hand-to-hand combat. In 1988, he was one of the candidates for the "Soldier of the Future" program. In the early 90s, he participated in the dismantling of a radar base in Cuba with naval attaché Beketov. In the early 2000s, 15 years before the events of the MDRR, he served with Boris Gorlin; then their detachment of five people blocked a major drug supply channel to Russia during demonstration exercises at the first international maritime salon in St. Petersburg. He has been through many "hot spots", including Yugoslavia and the Caucasus. In one of these "points" in order to complete a combat mission, he was forced to leave his wounded friend and comrade-in-arms (the son of a high-ranking official in uniform/military), promising him that he would return. However, when Bulatov returned for him, it was too late. According to the hero, a conflict arose between him and his duty to the fatherland, because of which his friend died. After this, apparently, he retired and worked as a captain of a fishing seiner in the Baltic.

When the first composition of the Navy reconnaissance and sabotage unit "Typhoon" headed by Bulatov's friend, Captain 3rd Rank Konstantin Popov, was destroyed on the territory of one neighboring state, Rear Admiral Solovyov proposed to carry out an operation to collect intelligence on the presence of medium-range missiles on the territory of this state and introduced him to FSB Major Prigov. After completing the task, Bulatov returned to service with the rank of Captain 3rd Rank and headed the "Typhoon" group. Due to the retirement of V. P. Odintsov and the rotation of the group's composition, he periodically left the post of group commander, but each time returned to it until the reorganization. He accepted reinforcements to the newly formed sabotage school based on the naval academy. He served in a local special forces detachment for less than a year, after which Bulatov was awarded the rank of Rear Admiral and offered a leadership position at the St. Petersburg KTC. Against the backdrop of renewed state interest in the North, he became the head of the Northern CTC. After the expansion of the Nerpa unit's powers, he continued to lead it.

Among Bulatov's fellow soldiers were both outstanding people and traitors to the Motherland (for example, his school comrade Murat Chizhoev, fellow soldiers in the special forces units Konstantin Danilin and Boris Gorlin).
The elder brother, also a serviceman, an officer (mentioned by Batya's former colleague, Captain Sergei Andrusenko, MDS-2, Episode 56)

Ex-wife Lyudmila and daughter from this marriage Elena. They moved to the Far East together with Lyudmila's husband, anti-sabotage service specialist Gennady Barsukov. According to Bati, the family loved him, but did not "understand", and the daughter still blames her father for all her troubles. At MDOS, the first telephone conversation in many years between father and daughter took place, which Bulatov was very happy about. By this time, Lena had graduated from the institute in Vladivostok. Guardianship of Oleg Belov, the son of a murdered banker before he was enrolled in the Nakhimov School. (MD-4, episode 10)

Adopted son Pavel Kechaev. Guardian Bulatov b

Bulatov was Pasha's guardian from the moment the boy's mother and sister died during an unsuccessful operation to free the hostages until Pasha's enrollment in the Nakhimov Naval School with the assistance of Rear Admiral Solovyov.

My grandfather, an officer in the Soviet Navy, sank his boat in the Black Sea during WWII.
Even in Typhoon he developed a friendship with Bagira (Koshkina Margarita Stepanovna, the same age as him, a red-haired woman) and Bison (Baris Andreevich Tarasov, in Typhoon he was the youngest of all). Rif Noton was a little in Typhoon. Then Kot came (Vasily Ionov, the youngest at that time 20 years old, with him Bulatov even developed a fatherly relationship sooner) then a physicist came (Sergey Mytsik, 30 years old, with him there was no relationship for quite a long time)
Character: Ivan is a very calm and reserved person, especially at work, with friends or family, he can have fun there and so on. He is always calm, it is very difficult to get him angry. Inside he can be worried, but with his back he is calm. Someone suffered and is sad, but he will not show it. Someone died, he will be sad on the sidelines when there is time, but now is not the time for weakness.