Yevgeny Dragunov
Yevgeny Fyodorovich Dragunov (Russian: Евге́ний Фёдорович Драгуно́в; born 20 February 1920) is the leader of Zlatoust and one of the best gunsmiths of the post-Soviet space.
History
The scion of a long line of Russian gunsmiths, lead practically flows through Yevgeny Fyodorovich Dragunov's veins. He took up the family profession in his youth, and soon applied those skills to the service of the Motherland as a senior armorer in the Red Army. He was fortunate enough to be stationed in the Siberian city of Zlatoust, far away from the carnage of the front lines; however, Dragunov's fortunes would not end there, as the dreadful wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union left Dragunov as the de facto mayor over the city. Dragunov led Zlatoust in upscaling the arms manufacturing industry into becoming its main export, allowing the city to claim immense profits in the bloodbaths the Russians would wage against one another in the years to come. Dragunov's fortunes only improved further when the esteemed engineer Mikhail Kalashnikov arrived in his city, where the two secured a close friendship and a profitable fusion of their technical skills to design the greatest weapons the Russian people had ever seen.
Unlike many of the other warlords in post-Soviet Russia, Dragunov has no delusions of grandeur about reuniting the Union or sacking Germania. He certainly wouldn't mind those, but he's more preoccupied with profit than anything else. Zlatoust has become an island of prosperity and stability in a sea of chaos thanks to its arms trade, and he intends to keep it that way. There are few people he would refuse to sell to, and he's always eager to find more customers. And in the coming years, he expects business to be positively booming.
In-game
Although Dragunov has a focus tree as the leader of Zlatoust, he has no ambition to unify Russia. As such, he largely revolves around providing weapons to the warlords of western Russia and West Siberia. However, as West Siberia is home to three different unifiers, it is inevitable that he will come into conflict with one of them.
Of the three unifiers, Dragunov will only get the opportunity to peacefully unify with Sverdlovsk. Tyumen and Omsk will both declare war on Zlatoust. Regardless of if Dragunov accepts or rejects Sverdlovsk's offer, he will later appear in their regional tree, where he is pardoned in return for access to his international contacts. Should he accept Sverdlovsk's offer for peaceful annexation, he will be available as a foreign minister for them.
If Dragunov leads Zlatoust to victory in a defensive war against Western Siberia's three unifiers, he will only annex most of the Urals, giving the rest of Western Siberia (except Vorkuta) to four puppet states.