Andrey Viktorovich Gurulyov (16 October 1967-) was a Russian United Russia politician and Russian Army general who served in the State Duma from 19 September 2021.
Biography[]
Andrey Viktorovich Gurulyov was born in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union in 1967. He rose in the ranks of the Russian Army, commanding the 5th Guards Tank Division at Kyakhta, Buryatia from 2006 to 2008, becoming commander of the 58th Combined Arms Army in 2012, and participating in the Donbas War and the Syrian Civil War. In 2021, Gurulyov was elected to the State Duma as a United Russia member, and he harbored a particular hatred for Britain, saying that, in case of a world war, Russia would bomb London before Warsaw, Paris, or Berlin, and, on 30 August 2022, encouraged President Vladimir Putin to launch missile strikes on the British Isles and kill the British royal family. On 2 October 2022, he criticized the Russian Army's decision to "surrender" the key town of Lyman to the Ukrainian army, arguing that the incorrect assessments of the situation and "the general lies, the report of a good situation" were significant both militarily and politically.