He was awarded the title Hero of the Russian Federation posthumously when he was killed in action in the Battle of Bakhmut,[2] as well as the Hero of the Donetsk People's Republic, and the Luhansk People's Republic.

[3][4] Aleskey Nagin was born on 21 March 1981 in Vertyachy in the Gorodishchensky district of the Volgograd Oblast,[5] to his father, Yury Viktorovich, who is a former military man, and Galina Andreevna Zayler-Ivanova.

[citation needed] Nagin was drafted into the Armed Forces of Russia, and was a participant in the hostilities in Chechnya.

Then he moved to the FSB special forces in Volgograd as a reconnaissance sniper.

In the end, Nagin quit the FSB and joined the Wagner Group.