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Stalnoivolk
Personal Info:
Real Name: Ivan Illyich Gor
Also Known As: Steel Wolf
Place Of Birth: Russia
First Appearance: Firestorm Vol.2 #67 (1988) Modern Age Villain
Known Associates: Major Zastrow
Group Affiliation: Red Shadows, KGB, Suicide Squad, Partner of Major Zastrow
Base Of Operations: Siberia, Russia
Grudges: Suicide Squad and Firestorm
Creators: John Ostrander and Joe Brozowski
Gallery: Click

Powers:

Enhanced Abilities: Stalnoivolk has super human strength, agility, endurance and durability.

Invulnerability: Stalnoivolk has a degree of invulnerability to physical attacks.

Longevity: Stalnoivolk ages at a much slower rate than a normal human.

Origins:

Ivan Illyich Gort was born in Russia in the early 1900s. As a young man, he participated in a series of secret experiments that gave him superhuman physical characteristics. He was created to serve as a symbol of Soviet resistance during World War II and given the code name Stalnoivolk (translated as Steel Wolf). It was the Russians' intent to create an army of such men, but General Secretary Joseph Stalin destroyed the formula that created him and had all of the scientists involved with the project killed. Stalin feared that an army of Stalnoivolks might pose a threat to his rule, so he made sure that there could only be one - one that he could control. Ivan proved to be fiercely loyal to Stalin and was intricately involved in Stalin's purges in the Ukraine. After the war, Stalnoivolk was discredited and sent to Siberia where he lived as a peasant for decades.

Shortly before the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Kremlin assigned Major Zastrow to locate Stalnoivolk. They wanted to reactivate him for use against super-powered threats outside the U.S.S.R. - specifically, the American super-hero Firestorm.

Notes:

Stalnoivolk at DC Database

Stalnoivolk at WriteUp's.Org

Stalnoivolk at Comic Vine