Anton Gubankov

Anton Nikolayevich Gubankov (Russian: Антон Николаевич Губанков; 29 January 1965 – 25 December 2016) was a Russian journalist and civil servant. He worked as a television journalist until 2013.[1] He served as the Director of the Department of Culture in the Russian Ministry of Defence from 2013 to 2016.[2] In this role Gubankov popularised the term Polite People (referring to the unmarked Russian soldiers during the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea).[3] He died in the 2016 Russian Defence Ministry Tupolev Tu-154 crash when he was on his route to Syria with 63 members of the Alexandrov Ensemble with its director Valery Khalilov and 27 others which killed all 92 passengers on board, including Anton.[2]

In this Eastern Slavic name, the patronymic is Nikolayevich and the family name is Gubankov.
Anton Gubankov
Anton Gubankov
Born
Anton Nikolayevich Gubankov

(1965-01-29)29 January 1965
Leningrad, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Died25 December 2016(2016-12-25) (aged 51)
Black Sea near Sochi, Russia
OccupationTV journalist, civil servant

References
  1. "Russia: Civil servant raps army call-up video". BBC. 19 July 2013. Retrieved 25 December 2016.
  2. "Putin declares national day of mourning over Russia military plane crash". The Straits Times. 25 December 2016. Retrieved 25 December 2016. Other passengers named were the head of the military band, Valery Khalilov, and the head of the defence ministry’s department of culture, Anton Gubankov, said RT.
  3. Russian plane crash: The victims, BBC News (27 December 2016)


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