Pavlo Gennadiyovich Ushivets (

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: Павло Геннадійович Ушивець,

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: Павел Геннадьевич Ушивец, born 21 January 1987), better known as Mustang Wanted, is a Ukrainian

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and

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. He is known for the high-altitude stunts he performs around the world with little or no safety equipment.

Biography

Ushivets was born in

Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...

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and identifies as Heorhiy (or Grigory). He lives in Kyiv.

Urban climbing

He has climbed Vienna's Votivkirche,

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and

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On 19–20 August 2014, he climbed

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, one of the Seven Sisters (a group of

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s in

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designed in the Stalinist style), painted the

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in blue and raised the

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on the top of the building. He dedicated the performance to

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(celebrated on 24 August). He suggested online that he was willing to be arrested by Russian police in exchange for the release of Ukrainian pilot

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, who was captured by pro-Russian forces in eastern Ukraine and abducted to Russia.Ukraine conflict: Russia charges pilot over deaths

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(9 July 2014)Russia Charges Ukrainian Pilot Savchenko Over Journalists' Deaths

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(9 July 2014) He received the 2014 Troublemaker Award for this stunt. In September 2016, Ushivets attended the

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, where he participated in the announcement of a new film based on his exploits and those of three Russian climbers. The film title is ''We Kill Death,'' and it will be produced by Alex Ginzburg and Tony Lee. In August 2017, Ushivets, during an interview with the Russian service of

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, announced that he will not do any more "provocative stunts" in Russia.

Filmography

* ''

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'' (2014) – music video for the band

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* ''Don't Look Down'' (Channel 4, 2014)

Awards

* Commemorative Fire-arm (2014), for painting the star on the Kotelnicheskaya Embankment BuildingAvakov awarded the roofer Mustang with commemorative arms and advised Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation to safe-keep color of Kremlin stars
Censor.net. 3 October 2014

Gallery

File:Mustang Wanted Hanging 1.jpg, Mustang Wanted hanging on steel beam File:Mustang Wanted one hand hanging.jpg, Mustang Wanted one hand hanging

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wanted, Mustang 1987 births Living people Urban climbers Ukrainian mountain climbers Pro-Ukrainian people of the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine People from Kyiv Ukrainian Internet celebrities