Oleksii D. Kvasha

Born on September 30, 1977, in the city of Mykolaiv. In 1995, he graduated from the general education school in Mykolaiv, and in 2001 - from the agronomy faculty of Mykolaiv State Agrarian Academy (now Mykolaiv National Agrarian University). Worked in field jobs, construction sites, a brick factory, and a bakery No. 1. He was a poet, the author of the children's poetry book "The Beautiful Animals of Our Country" (2014). Engaged in patriotic education of children. On September 5, 2014, he was mobilized into the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He served as a shooter - assistant grenade launcher of the 2nd section of the 2nd platoon of the 3rd mechanized company of the 1st mechanized battalion of the 30th separate mechanized brigade of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (military unit A0409, city of Novograd-Volynskyi, Zhytomyr region). From 2014 to 2015, he served at checkpoints in the Kherson region on the administrative border with the occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea by Russian troops. Since 2015, he participated in the anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine. On July 7, 2015, soldier Kvasha was killed during a mortar shelling near the urban-type settlement of Luhanske in the Artemivsk (now Bakhmut) district of Donetsk region while pulling a wounded comrade from under fire. On July 12, 2015, he was buried in the cemetery of the village of Pisky in the Novoodesky district of Mykolaiv region.