Yevgeny "Tungus" Roldugin is a fan of the CSKA football club (Kyiv), a representative of the Praetorian Guard team.
Yevgeny Oleksandrovich Roldugin was born on August 15, 1995 in Khmelnytskyi. Studied at the Polytechnic Technological Lyceum named after Artem Mazur, after which he entered the Faculty of Geography at the Chernivtsi National University named after Yury Fedkovych. At the age of 9, on the advice of his father, he started practicing judo. Having signed up for the section, he did not leave this sport throughout his life, with small breaks for boxing, karate and football.
Among school subjects, he liked history and geography the most, but when choosing a university, he was also guided by the desire to improve in sports, and in Chernivtsi he was just recruiting for the pankration section. He participated in competitions and won the title of candidate for master of sports in pankration and grappling, became the owner of a purple belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
Devoting a significant amount of his life to jiu-jitsu, Yevgeny had many friends among athletes throughout the country. So, together with friends from Ivano-Frankivsk, in 2012 he got into the fan movement of the capital's CSKA. In those years, the football team was going through a period of decline, but fans regularly gathered to compete with rivals from different cities of the country. Together with his friends, Yevgeny took part in a number of memorable events.
In December 2013, revolutionary events began. Yevgeny completely immersed himself in the struggle against the then criminal authorities. And when the enemy began an invasion in the East of the country, he began to look for options to get to the front. He was denied all benefits, because at that time he was only 18 years old and had not served in the army before that. But this did not stop him, and in the end he achieved his goal. On the day of his 19th birthday, having received sports medals, he went to beg for the war, which is how he got into the "St. Mary" battalion.
"Tungus" fought in the hottest spots of the country: near Mariupol, in Pisky, Avdiivka, in the village of Opytne. He was a participant in the battles for the "Butivka" mine area. In the breaks between rotations, he trained and performed at competitions, was engaged in coaching and refereeing activities, completed his studies at the university in absentia. He was awarded six awards, including the order "Knight's Cross of the Volunteer" and the honorary award "For the Liberation of Mariupol".
Returning from ATO/OOS in a difficult moral state, he encountered a negative attitude towards volunteers. He made a pilgrimage to the Manyava Monastery with one loaf of bread and a bottle of water, where he prayed with the monks for three days. Having started walking on my father's birthday (March 23), I returned on my mother's birthday (April 2).
He undertook the writing of the book "Time of the Brave", on the pages of which he told readers about the generation of volunteers of 2014, and also shared his own life memories. In an easy-to-read style, the author remembers why he exchanged a sports kimono for a bulletproof vest, and football confrontations for a war for his native land. Unfortunately, the book was never published during Yevgeny's lifetime. It was printed in June 2023, with the father's additions.
He was a regular member of the TMS jiu-jitsu league. Vyborov took an honorable second place at his last tournament, which was held at the Khmelnytskyi Polytechnic College on February 6, 2022.
In the first days of the full-scale war, "Tungus" went to Odessa to rescue civilians. After returning home, he immediately went to Kyiv, where he participated in the defense of the capital as part of the "Brotherhood" battalion, showed himself in battle in Lukyanivka He received numerous shrapnel wounds to his arms and legs in the village of Nova Basan in Chernihiv Oblast, where he commanded a battalion.
After recovery, he attended courses of combat medics in Ternopil, where he met his beloved Elena. Joined the ranks of the 54th OMBr named after Hetman Ivan Mazepa. Yevgeny Roldugin died on September 11, 2022 near the village of Belogorivka in the Luhansk region, while rescuing a seriously wounded man at the BRDM, ran into anti-tank mines. Two explosions took the lives of Yevgeny, the driver of the car, and their wounded brother. Buried in his native Khmelnytskyi.