Northern Man

The stated goals of the organization are "consolidation of citizens based on the Slavic ethnicity," "popularization and preservation of traditional values," "patriotic education of youth," "support for physical and spiritual development," and assistance to Russian soldiers in Ukraine.{{Cite web |title=Виртуальная диаспора. Рэпер Миша Маваши создал большую националистическую организацию. Она может стать частью политической системы России |url=https://semnasem.org/articles/2023/11/20/virtualnaya-diaspora |access-date=2025-05-12 |website=semnasem.org |language=ru}}{{Cite web |title=Организация «Северный человек» начала военные тренировки на полигоне Бригады Катукова |url=https://newsorel.ru/fn_1637767.html |access-date=2025-05-20 |website=newsorel.ru |language=ru}}{{Cite web |date=2025-05-16 |title=«Северный человек» в Балаково: сила традиций и единства {{!}} Газета Балаково |url=https://gazetabalakovo.ru/severnyj-chelovek-v-balakovo-sila-tradicij-i-edinstva/ |access-date=2025-05-20 |website=gazetabalakovo.ru |language=ru-RU}}

Northern Man has been described as adhering to far-right, Russian nationalist, national-conservative, Islamophobic, anti-immigrant views.{{Cite web |title=Националисты наращивают темп / COBA |url=https://www.sova-center.ru/racism-xenophobia/publications/2023/07/d48353/ |access-date=2025-05-12 |website=www.sova-center.ru |language=ru}}{{Cite web |title=Виртуальная диаспора. Рэпер Миша Маваши создал большую националистическую организацию. Она может стать частью политической системы России |url=https://semnasem.org/articles/2023/11/20/virtualnaya-diaspora |access-date=2025-05-12 |website=semnasem.org |language=ru}} Ideologically, Northern Man is close to Russian Community, with which it has an alliance.{{Cite web |title=«Русская община» и «Северный человек» будут работать сообща |url=https://ngregion.ru/novosti/russkaya-obshchina-i-severnyj-chelovek-budut-rabotat-soobshcha |access-date=2025-05-20 |website=ngregion.ru |language=ru-ru}}

Misha Mavashi expressed the idea of ​​creating the organization back in 2021, amid rising anti-migrant sentiments in Russia.{{Cite web |last=Малёванный |first=Владимир |title=Кто защитит русских в собственном доме? |url=https://ruskline.ru/news_rl/2021/12/02/kto_zawitit_russkih_v_sobstvennom_dome |access-date=2025-05-21 |website=Русская народная линия |language=ru}} The organization's stated start date is 25 November 2022, although it was already registered as an autonomous non-profit organization on 18 May 2022.{{Cite web |title=АНО "СЕВЕРНЫЙ ЧЕЛОВЕК" |url=https://платформа-нко.рф/organization/1223600007916/ |website=Платформа некоммерческих организаций}} The organization's name coincides with Mikhail Mavashi's song "Severny Chelovek" (Northern Man), which was posted in March 2021.{{Cite web |last=МАВАШИ group. Официальный канал. |date=2021-03-28 |title=МАВАШИ group - Северный Человек |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbHUSUhh7Tg |access-date=2025-05-21}}

In April 2024, Northern Man joined the Ethno-Confessional Council under the Governor of Astrakhan Oblast as a representative of ethnic Russians.{{Cite web |title=Организация «Северный человек» вошла в этноконфессиональный Совет при губернаторе Астраханской области |url=https://nazaccent.ru/content/42179-organizaciya-severnyj-chelovek-voshla-v-etnokonfessionalnyj-sovet-pri-gubernatore-astrahanskoj-oblasti/ |access-date=2025-05-20 |website=nazaccent.ru |language=ru}} That same month, mayor of Vladivostok {{Ill|Konstantin Shestakov|ru|Шестаков, Константин Владимирович}} expressed solidarity with the organization's members in a pre-campaign for the launch of the city branch of the organization.{{Cite web |title=Глава Владивостока попал в промо русского движения Северный человек - PrimaMedia.ru |url=https://primamedia.ru/news/1731884/ |access-date=2025-05-20 |website=primamedia.ru |language=ru}} The movement also collaborated with Governor of Vologda Oblast Georgy Filimonov, who is known for his ultra-conservative views.{{Cite web |title=«Неожиданный бокс в Череповце» |url=https://cherepovec.bezformata.com/listnews/neozhidanniy-boks-v-cherepovtce/136233898/ |access-date=2025-05-26 |website=cherepovec.bezformata.com}}{{Cite web |title=Михаил Фёдорович Маваши |url=https://t.me/mikhailmavashi/4453 |access-date=2025-05-26 |website=Telegram}}

The organization also had a connection through a common director with the charitable Center for Social Projects, Yevgeny Khamin, a businessman and deputy of the Voronezh Oblast Duma from United Russia.{{Cite web |title=АНО "СЕВЕРНЫЙ ЧЕЛОВЕК", Воронеж, проверка по ИНН 3666263590 |url=https://www.audit-it.ru/contragent/1223600007916_ano-severnyy-chelovek |access-date=2025-05-26 |website=www.audit-it.ru}}{{Cite web |date=2024-06-18 |title=Воронежский девелопер Евгений Хамин ликвидирует свой Благотворительный фонд |url=https://ploschadnews.ru/voronezhskij-developer-evgenij-hamin-likvidiruet-svoj-blagotvoritelnyj-fond/ |access-date=2025-05-26 |website=Новости Черноземья – Площадь |language=ru-RU}}{{Cite web |title=Евгений Хамин |url=https://www.forbes.ru/profile/379177-evgeniy-hamin |access-date=2025-05-26 |website=Forbes.ru |language=ru}}

In March 2023, Northern Man activists from the organization published a video in which a teenager from Perm apologized to "Russian Orthodox people" for burning an icon. Before this, the teenager was flogged.{{Cite web |title=Националисты наращивают темп / COBA |url=https://www.sova-center.ru/racism-xenophobia/publications/2023/07/d48353/ |access-date=2025-05-12 |website=www.sova-center.ru |language=ru}}{{Cite web |title=Виртуальная диаспора. Рэпер Миша Маваши создал большую националистическую организацию. Она может стать частью политической системы России |url=https://semnasem.org/articles/2023/11/20/virtualnaya-diaspora |access-date=2025-05-12 |website=semnasem.org |language=ru}}{{Cite web |date=2024-03-05 |title=Чем известен «Северный человек», который заходит в Тюмень |url=https://ura.news/news/1052740189 |access-date=2025-05-20 |website=ura.news |language=ru}}

In the spring of 2024, activists of the movement, together with the Russian Community, supported the protest against the construction of a mosque in the Kosino-Ukhtomsky District of Moscow.{{Cite web |date=2025-05-26 |title=Мечети для мигрантов на месте православных храмов: Духовная экспансия и профилактика экстремизма. Как меняет Россию исламский радикализм |url=https://novorosinform.org/mecheti-dlya-migrantov-na-meste-pravoslavnyh-hramov-duhovnaya-ekspansiya-i-profilaktika-ekstremizma-kak-menyaet-rossiyu-islamskij-radikalizm-126604.html |access-date=2025-05-26 |website=novorosinform.org |language=ru}}

In September 2024, Northern Man took part in the Orthodox fundamentalist procession along Nevsky Prospect together with the Russian Community and the Movement of Academists.{{Cite web |date=2024-09-12 |title=От Крестного хода до Русского марша |url=https://www.fontanka.ru/2024/09/12/74081921/ |access-date=2025-05-20 |website=ФОНТАНКА.ру |language=ru}}

In November 2024, the organization filed a complaint with law enforcement about a rap artist's concert in Vladivostok, calling his work "antisocial," and successfully got the concert cancelled.{{Cite web |date=2024-11-01 |title=Концерт рэпера CODE10/80 отменили во Владивостоке. Предварительно — из-за обращения в полицию |url=https://vladivostok1.ru/text/gorod/2024/11/01/74283527/ |access-date=2025-05-20 |website=ВЛАДИВОСТОК1.ру |language=ru}}

Members of the organization often act as people's druzhinas.{{Cite web |date=2025-03-27 |title=В Кургане открылось новое движение, которое будет укреплять русские традиции |url=https://ura.news/news/1052908254 |access-date=2025-05-20 |website=ura.news |language=ru}} In March 2025, members of Northern Man, together with the Russian Community, took under protection residents of the outskirts of Zelenograd who were receiving threats from a network of drug dens.{{Cite news |date=2025-03-28 |title=Казаки и дружинники выйдут на борьбу с притонами в Андреевке и Голубом |url=https://www.netall.ru/incidents/news/1450310.html |work=Инфопортал Зеленограда}}{{Cite news |date=2025-03-26 |title=Жители Андреевки и Голубого попросили Бастрыкина избавить их от наркомафии |url=https://www.netall.ru/incidents/news/1449900.html |work=Инфопортал Зеленограда}}

The organization also conducts sports training in various cities of Russia.{{Cite web |title=Семейные тренировки объединения «Северный человек» проходят в Нижнем Новгороде |url=https://www.vremyan.ru/analitycs/571434 |access-date=2025-05-20 |website=www.vremyan.ru |language=ru}}{{Cite web |title=Впервые в Усть-Лабинск приехал «Северный человек» |url=https://ustlabinfo.ru/news/2024-05-28-vpervye-v-ust-labinsk-priekhal-severnyy-chelovek/ |access-date=2025-05-20 |website=ustlabinfo.ru |language=ru}}

During the first year, branches of Northern Man appeared in Perm, Lipetsk, Khabarovsk, Murom, Astrakhan and other cities of Russia. In early 2024, a branch appeared in Tyumen, which in September held a march in the city center, which the authorities did not approve but did not interfere with either.{{Cite web |date=2024-09-30 |title=В Тюмени прошел марш русских националистов |url=https://ura.news/news/1052823491 |access-date=2025-05-20 |website=ura.news |language=ru}} In February 2025, a branch of the organization appeared in Bratsk.{{Cite web |last=admin |date=2025-02-12 |title=Мир меняется и это очевидно. В Братске появилось объединение "Северный человек", которое возрождает культуру и ценности русских людей |url=https://trk-bratsk.tv/mir-menyaetsya-i-eto-ochevidno-v-bratske-poyavilos-obedinenie-severnyj-chelovek-kotoroe-vozrozhdaet-kulturu-i-tsennosti-russkih-lyudej |access-date=2025-05-20 |website=ТРК «Братск» |language=ru-RU}} In total, 45 branches of the organization have been declared in different cities of Russia.{{Cite web |title=Объединение «Северный Человек» {{!}} Михаил Фёдорович Маваши |url=https://%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BA.%D1%80%D1%84/ |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250515174344/https://xn--b1aahbabzlgrotj4gsc.xn--p1ai/ |archive-date=2025-05-15 |access-date=2025-05-20 |website=Северный человек {{!}} Миша Маваши |language=ru-RU}} The organization's membership, according to its own statements, is about 185 thousand people.

In April 2024, MMA fighter {{Ill|Magomed Ismailov|ru|Исмаилов, Магомед Гасанович}} criticized Northern Man for the fact that a person of non-Slavic nationality cannot become a member of the organization.{{Cite web |last=Никита Карин |date=2024-04-25 |title=Исмаилов: Маваши говорит, что дагестанец не может прийти в «Северный человек», это разделение наций |url=https://mma.metaratings.ru/news/ismailov-mavashi-govorit-chto-dagestanec-ne-mozhet-priiti-v-severnyi-chelovek-eto-razdelenie-nacii-356983/ |website=Metaratings.ru}}

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