Mykola V. Kuzma

On December 21, 1981, in the village of Chervonyi Promin, in the family of Volodymyr Hryhorovych and Valentyna Yukhymivna, where there were already older brothers, the third child, Mykola, was born. He grew up, ran barefoot on the dew, tended to the livestock, in a word, helped the family as he could. After finishing the village school, Mykola entered the Dniprodzerzhynsk Energy Technical School, specializing in "Installation and Operation of Electrical Equipment for Power Plants and Energy Systems" in group ME-05-1/11. In 2008, after graduating from the Dniprodzerzhynsk Energy Technical School, he served in the internal troops and studied at the police school. After his mandatory service, he entered the National Mining University, from which he graduated in January 2014, receiving a diploma as an electrical engineer and began working at the waste incineration plant in Dnipropetrovsk. He was very athletic, enjoyed volleyball, basketball, and tennis. Witty, friendly, energetic. He was also a good driver and a skilled technician. In April 2014, Mykola was mobilized and sent to the ATO zone as a squad commander of the 93rd separate mechanized brigade. He said nothing about this to his parents, although he called every day. From the second half of August 2014, communication with him was often interrupted, and then it completely disappeared — the servicemen were shelled while exiting the Ilovaisk cauldron through the green corridor on the road near the village of Novokaterinivka. Mykola was killed, but for a long 5 months, he was considered missing. On September 2, 2014, the body of Mykola Kuzma, along with the bodies of 87 other fallen soldiers in the Ilovaisk cauldron, was delivered to the Zaporizhzhia morgue. In September, he was temporarily buried in the cemetery of Zaporizhzhia as an unidentified hero. Later, Mykola was identified through DNA testing, and on February 13, 2015, the hero of the ATO, Kuzma Mykola Volodymyrovych, was reburied in his native village of Chervonyi Promin. He was survived by his father, mother, and older brothers Yevhen and Serhiy. In this friendly family, work was always respected. The war took away the youngest of three sons, their support, hope, and strength. The retired parents had health problems before, and now they are completely crushed by grief.