Davydov was born on February 4, 1969, in the closed city of Penza-19 (Zarechny). His father worked at the Start production association, which manufactured nuclear missiles until 2002. Davydov received a specialized military-technical education and registered several patents in the field of rocket engines and artillery ammunition.

In 2009, he headed the Central Testing Technical Bureau (military unit 63341) at the 51st Arsenal. In 2017, he was appointed head of the Missile and Ammunition Supply Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Defense's Grau (military unit 64176).

The general has long been a target for Ukraine as a participant in war crimes. According to the Ukrainian database "Book of Executioners," Davydov was directly involved in the planning and organization of the Russian military invasion on February 24, 2022. His duties included providing the army with ammunition.

This is the second such incident in the Aviatorov neighborhood. In April 2025, Lieutenant General Yaroslav Moskalik, Deputy Chief of the Main Operations Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, was killed in an explosion in the same area. The site of the June 9 explosion is approximately 350 meters from the house near which Moskalik's car was blown up.

The victim of the explosion in Balashikha, near Moscow, was Lieutenant General Damir Davydov, an officer in the Russian Ministry of Defense responsible for the supply of missiles and artillery ammunition to the front, according to The Insider. According to eyewitnesses, the general was still alive immediately after the explosion, but according to unconfirmed reports, he died before paramedics arrived.

The explosion occurred early in the morning of June 9 in the Aviatorov neighborhood. Explosives were hidden under the underbody of a BMW and detonated shortly after the driver pulled away from the parking lot. Davydov lived in Balashikha at the following address: ul. Kozheduba (Aviatorov microdistrict), Building 6, Apt. 21—several hundred meters from the explosion site. According to The Insider, Davydov was driving a BMW X3 with the license plate U028EP750.