Team: Winter Guard
Winter Guard
Headquarters: Winter Guard Mansion, Moscow, Russia
First Appearance: Iron Man vol.3 #9, August 1998
The Winter Guard (Russian: Зимняя гвардия) is a government-sponsored team of extraordinary individuals with special abilities. They fight for the people of the Russian Federation and their interests around the globe. The team is formed from members of the Soviet Super-Soldiers that existed before the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. They have been described as "Russia's answer for the Avengers."
Winter Guard
Headquarters: Winter Guard Mansion, Moscow, Russia
First Appearance: Iron Man vol.3 #9, August 1998
The Winter Guard (Russian: Зимняя гвардия) is a government-sponsored team of extraordinary individuals with special abilities. They fight fo
Red Guardian
Name: Alexi Andreovitch Shostakov
Group: Winter Guard
First Appearance: Avengers #43, June 1967
The KGB trained Alexi to become the second Red Guardian, a special costumed agent who was intended to be the Soviet Union’s counterpart to Captai
Crimson Dynamo
Name: Dimitri Bukharin
Group: Winter Guard
First Appearance: Iron Man #109, January 1978
Little is known regarding the past of Dimitri Bukharin (Russian: Дмитрий Бухарин), save that he was a KGB agent during the Soviet regime in what was U
Darkstar
Name: Laynia Petrovna
Group: Winter Guard
First Appearance: Champions #7, May 1976
Laynia Sergeievna Petrovna (Russian: Ланья Сергеевна Петровна (Крылова); Belarusian: Ланья Сергеевна Петровна (Крылова)), known as Darkstar (Russian: Тёмная Звезд
Ursa Major
Name: Mikhail Ursus
Group: Winter Guard
First Appearance: Incredible Hulk #250, May 1980
"I love my country. I love Russia. I defend it with honor" - Ursa Major
Mikhail was one of the mutants who retained his powers after M-Day. He later retu