The Telegram channel Ostorozhno, Novosti reported the deployment, citing people close to the performer. A friend of Anyamov said the rapper had recently been working a shift job at a construction site in Yekaterinburg.
According to the friend, a week ago Anyamov received a notice ordering him to report to a military enlistment office. There he signed several documents and was then released. The performer says he did not sign a contract with the Defense Ministry and that there was no discussion of the "special military operation" at the enlistment office.
A few days later he received a call telling him he was being sent to the war. Anyamov learned he had been assigned through the construction company he worked for. According to Ostorozhno, Novosti, the man was paid for train and plane tickets and a hotel. After that, his relatives could not reach him by phone.
Yevgeny Anyamov performs under the pseudonym Bizzo. He writes and performs in the Lozva dialect of the Mansi language. The rapper is from Ivdel in the Sverdlovsk Region, home to the Mansi people. According to open sources, he is 30 years old and an orphan with no close relatives.
Anyamov has given numerous interviews and appeared on local television channels, talking about the Mansi language and traditions. He was the subject of the documentary "Anyamov's Pass," released in 2023. In an interview with The New Tab, the performer said Mansi traditions "died together with the old people" and that he "does not keep any traditions, but simply performs in Mansi" because "the language must not die."