Vitaly Kostin

Vitaly Kostin
Birth name	Vitaly Semyonovich Kostin (Виталий Семенович Костин)
Role	Potential leader of the Siberian Workers' Federation and potential leader of Novosibirsk
Born	19th March 1938 (age 23) Togul, Altai Krai, Russian SFSR
Nationality	Russian
Political party	Kostintsy, Novosibirsk Trade Union (Новосибирский Профсоюз/Novosibirskiy Profsoyuz) (Post-SBA collapse)
Political alignment	Syndicalist

Vitaly Kostin (born 19th March 1938) came from a poor mining family in a small settlement in the Altai. From a young age, he quickly became involved in mining. After a brief period of serving in the Central Siberian Republic's army, where he was a first-hand witness of its unraveling and final collapse, he found himself in Novosibirsk, poised to continue his career. Kostin lacked the adhesion others had to the regime's beliefs, and despite the rumors of connections with the underground socialist-populist "Narodnik" group, he became an exemplary worker.