Ivan S. Poliakov (Mamai)

Ivan Polyakov (call sign Mamai) from Donetsk, was killed on August 11, 2022, during battles near the village of Bilohorivka, Donetsk region. The defender was 32 years old. Ivan was born in Donetsk. In 2011, he graduated from the Donetsk Law Institute of the Luhansk State University of Internal Affairs named after E.O. Didorenko with a degree in law. Until 2014, he worked as an investigator in the investigative department of the Proletarsky district department of the Donetsk city police department. He refused to work for the occupiers and left the city. From 2014 to 2016, he participated in the ATO. In 2017, he received his second higher education at Kryvyi Rih National University with a degree in Enterprise Economics. Then he worked for a year as an investigator in the GUNP of Mariupol, with the rank of senior lieutenant of police. In 2018, he received a certificate of the right to engage in advocacy and worked as a lawyer in his own law firm. With the start of the full-scale war, Ivan returned to the army. As part of the 8th separate mountain assault battalion of the 10th brigade, the man again went to defend his native Donetsk region. Unfortunately, this time for the last time. He was very kind, sensitive, loving, but not at all soft, on the contrary, very decisive and purposeful. He was a true patriot of Ukraine - in 2014, working in the police of Donetsk, he did not want to cooperate with the occupiers and left, leaving his native home, without taking anything with him. He had to start from scratch. All eight years that he lived in Mariupol, he dreamed of returning to his native Donetsk, but it was not destined, even buried at the other end of the country, said his beloved defender. Vanya was a very educated person. And he was a very good lawyer. He simply loved people, and they loved him. Vanya was the only child of his mother and grandmother, they were very proud of Ivan, but the war changed everything... Vanya was at my house with friends around the end of March, then they left, and we only communicated by phone. What a well-bred, polite, beautiful man... You can tell a lot about Vanya... He deserves it, wrote the defender's friend Nelya Glushko. Ivan was buried on the Alley of Glory of the Central Cemetery in Chernivtsi. Ivan's grandmother, mother and wife remained.