Mykola V. Bulavka

Mykola Volodymyrovych Bulavka was born on August 24, 1974, in the village of Cheremoshna Vola, Lyuboml District, Volyn. After finishing 9 grades of secondary school in his native village, he enrolled in the Lyuboml Vocational Technical School, where he obtained a diploma in construction. In 1992, he was drafted into the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He took the oath in currently occupied Crimea, in the city of Yevpatoria, and served in the city of Mariupol in the Donetsk region. After his mandatory service, he initially attended computer courses offered by the employment center. He was then sent to a sergeant school, and upon graduation, Mykola signed a 5-year contract and served in the city of Volodymyr. In the late 1990s, military service was not prestigious. Therefore, he left the service and worked in another beloved profession—construction. He worked for many years in Kyiv, using a rotational work method. He then went to Poland for seasonal work. Everything he earned, he invested in his own household. Since June 2018, Mykola Bulavka lived in the village of Zachernechchia, where he bought a house and moved out from his parents' home. He worked for three years as a maintenance worker at the village school. With the onset of the full-scale military invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine, he volunteered for territorial defense, and from March 7, 2022, he joined the Ukrainian army. He held the position of squad commander. He was killed on March 24, 2022, during an enemy artillery shelling near the village of Zasillia in the Vitovskyi District of Mykolaiv Oblast. The military serviceman was laid to rest on March 28, 2022, in his native village of Cheremoshna Vola, Holovnenska community. He is buried in the cemetery of the village of Nudyzhe.