Oleksandr M. Ihnatov

Born on June 25, 1993, in the village of Volodymyrivka, Kazankivskyi district, Mykolaiv region. Lived in the city of Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk region. In 2009, he graduated from the 9th grade of secondary school No. 26 in Kryvyi Rih, and in 2012 - from the Center for Training and Retraining of Workers No. 1 in Kryvyi Rih, specializing as a "Bulldozer, Scraper, Grader Operator." In 2012-2013, he served in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He served in the 169th Training Center of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (military unit A0665, the urban-type settlement of Desna, Kozelets district, Chernihiv region). He worked as an excavator operator at an enterprise in Kryvyi Rih. On August 14, 2014, he was mobilized into the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He served as a mechanic-driver of the sapper platoon of the 53rd Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (military unit V0927, the cities of Sievierodonetsk/Lysychansk, Luhansk region). Since the fall of 2014, he participated in the anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine. On May 23, 2015, soldier Ihnatov received a serious head injury from a sniper in the area of the urban-type settlement of Stanytsia Luhanska, Luhansk region. The serviceman was taken to a hospital in Kyiv, where doctors fought for his life, but their efforts were in vain. On August 16, 2015, soldier Ihnatov died from his injuries. On August 20, 2015, he was buried in the Alley of Glory at the Central Cemetery of Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk region.