It is in my power to decide how to live boldly or quietly: the story of Marine Dianov | Belarus news

On September 23, the media and social networks spread scary photos of a marine released from Russian captivity Mikhail Dianov. For 4 months of captivity, the hand of the defenders of Azovstal is not something that has not grown together – it lacks 4 cm of bone. Hromadske tells the story of Mikhail, who dreamed of being a bass player, but found himself in the army.

Went not to write music, but to fight

“I was not surprised that Misha joined the army. He had such an approach to work. He was looking for himself. I understood that today he works here, and tomorrow he could change everything dramatically,” – says a colleague and friend of Mikhail Vladimir Gavrilyuk.

They have known each other for 18 years. Once together they worked as sales agents in one of the Ternopil companies. And even when the paths parted, the comrades continued to communicate.

In recent years, Vladimir treated his daughter abroad, she had leukemia. Dianov, he says, even responded from the front: “Misha helped us a lot. He constantly called or wrote, asked how we were. He said: “I am at war, you treat the child. Everyone should do their own thing.”

Vladimir says that Mikhail changed many jobs: he was an administrator in Bukovel, in Chernobyl, a sales agent in Ternopil.

“From the outside, it looked like he feels comfortable in any job. But at some point he said that everything was not for him,” recalls a colleague.

And then one day he took it and went to the army. Nobody expected this.

“He always, always wanted to make a career as a musician, namely a bass player. I was shocked when I found out that he wanted to go to war. Because he had never dealt with the army. Misha was never inclined towards this, because he is a creative person. And then he went not to write music, but to fight, “recalls Igor ShvedikMichael’s best friend.

I have known Mikhail Igor since the late 1990s. Music brought them together. Then Igor also played the guitar.

“We went to the Ternopil city rock club, we were one of its first members. Underground, because there was still a semi-Soviet union,” he recalls.