Vladimir
Vladimir as he appears in Comrades
Appearance(s)	Battlefield 3
Rank	Unknown
Affiliation	GRU
Weapon(s)	A-91
First Appearance	Comrades
Last Appearance	Kaffarov
Status	K.I.A.

Vladimir Kamarivsky (Владимир Камаривский) is a character who appears in Battlefield 3.

BiographyEdit

KaffarovEdit

He led a GRU operation, together with Kiril and Dmitri Mayakovsky in Northern Iran on November 8, 2014, to capture an arms dealer named Kaffarov, who had stolen three Russian nuclear devices and sold them to Solomon, who intended to use them to attack Paris and New York in order to instigate a war between Russia and America. He is always armed with an A-91.

ComradesEdit

Vladimir later leads an operation to infiltrate the Paris Euronext building, and stop Solomon's men from detonating the nuke they have brought. A fierce gun battle ensued in the building, which led to a footchase in the streets of Paris in order to capture one of Solomon's men who is carrying one of the nuclear weapons, while engaging the French Gendarmerie. As the unit begins to move down an alleyway following after the bomb carrier, a PLR insurgent fires an RPG-7V2 that missed Dima and Kiril, but hits a bus near Vladimir, sending him flying, and wounded with a large piece of shrapnel piercing him in the chest. Dima drags Vladimir to safety, but he orders them to go on without him, saying that he would "hold them off". He eventually succumbed to his injuries.

Speculation of Vladimir's DeathEdit

One speculation is that, during the mission Kaffarov, Vladimir is still alive and it is leading gamers to believe that this is his current status. However, the mission Kaffarov takes place in the past and is not in chronological order. Comrades takes place after Kaffarov and is the mission that resulted in Vladimir's death. His comrades Dima and Kiril then witness his death, and leave him believing they can still stop the Russian nuclear device from detonating in Paris, which would most likely cause a war between France and Russia.

TriviaEdit

• His voice and likeness is portrayed by Ilia Volok.
• The mission Kaffarov comes first in the storyline's actual chronology before the mission Comrades, it is why Vladimir is still alive on the eleventh mission prior to the point of his death on the sixth mission. This chronology is done to explain the game's story in a proper way.
• He is the only Russian military member in the game to spawn with a gun that fires 5.56mm NATO rounds (A-91) instead of standard Russian ammo.
• Judging by the cloudy appearance of the left eye's iris (the right eye is dark brown), he is most likely half-blind.
• Vladimir is the only character to have his own song in the BF3 soundtrack (The Death of Vladimir ) other than Solomon.
• It should be noted that Vladimir is very strong, being able to kick a door off its hinges in Kaffarov.
• According to Battlefield 3: The Russian, Vladimir is nicknamed the "Jewish Ayatollah" since he is a Latvian-born Jew and was able to infiltrate the Iranian Supreme Leader's Staff and had extensive knowledge of the Koran.