Background
Sergei Anikin was born on June 7, 1974, in Ozerki, Buturlinovskiy district, Russian Federation in a peasant family.
Sergei Anikin was born on June 7, 1974, in Ozerki, Buturlinovskiy district, Russian Federation in a peasant family.
Graduated from Technical training college (1992).
Since 1994 he worked as a trainee, policeman of the patrol guard service, police dog handler, officer commanding a regiment of police at the Ministry of the Interior of the Russian Federation in Voronezh. Since December, 1999 he participated in combat operations in the Chechen Republic. Staff sergeant Anikin distinguished himself in the battle against a militant group who had tried to occupy the police department of Achkhoy-Martan district. In this battle he was fatally wounded.