Valery Sablin (born January 1st, 1939) is the leader of Buryatia, and was a commissar under Genrikh Yagoda's regime in Irkutsk. Initially, in this role, Sablin faithfully served Yagoda's regime and genuinely believed Yagoda himself to be the true carrier of Lenin's legacy. However, becoming disillusioned with Yagoda's tyrannical practices (most notably, his use of the NKVD to crush dissent and rein terror), Sablin and a small cadre of like-minded supporters and Buryats seized control of various radio towers in the Buryat ASSR, declaring a new Leninist revolution. At the beginning of 1962, Sablin's rebels are engaged in a civil war with Yagoda's loyalists in Irkutsk.



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Real life - Captain 3rd Rank Valery Mikhailovich Sablin (Russian: Вале́рий Миха́йлович Са́блин, Valerij Michajlovič Sablin) (1 January 1939 – 3 August 1976) was a Soviet Navy officer and a member of the Communist Party. In November 1975, disillusioned by corruption and stagnation in Leonid Brezhnev's Soviet Union, he led a mutiny on the Soviet anti-submarine frigate, Storozhevoy (Russian: Сторожевой, Storoževoj, meaning "Sentry") in the hope of starting a Leninist political revolution in the Soviet Union. His mutiny failed and he was executed for treason nine months later