Mykola M. Hordiichuk (Hryzun)

Born into a family of military personnel. Studied at Kamianets-Podilskyi Secondary School No. 7. Member of the National Scout Organization of Ukraine "Plast" since 1993 (belonged to the "Lions" group, from 1996 — to the preparatory camp named after Ustym Karmaliuk), senior scout. In 2003 and 2004, he participated in the military-patriotic camp "Legion." Graduated from Kamianets-Podilskyi National University named after Ivan Ohiienko with a degree in "Psychology." Participant of the KVN team "Our Format." He was a well-known showman and public activist in the city, host of the youth television program "Show of Frames," founder and soloist of the group "Svoieridne," and later the band "The DenDi" (under the creative pseudonym Nik Svoieridnyi). Actively participated in the events of the Revolution of Dignity as part of the 15th hundred of the Maidan self-defense "Free People." In December 2013, he filmed a music video for his own song "Your Destiny Matters." In June 2014, he recorded a video appeal in support of his fellow countrymen who were heading to Eastern Ukraine as part of the Khmelnytskyi Territorial Defense Battalion. From April 2015, he served in the BPSMOP "Harpoon." Farewell to Mykola took place on July 25 at the garrison Officers' House, he was commemorated in the Church of Saints Peter and Paul, where he was planning to get married a month later… During the celebrations on the occasion of Ukraine's Independence Day, which took place in Kamianets-Podilskyi, portraits of those who died in the ATO were brought to the main square of the Old Town to the song of Nik Svoieridnyi, and Mykola's brother read his unfinished poem.