Pavlo M. Levchuk

Born on February 5, 1988, in the city of Tokmak, Zaporizhia region. In 2005, he graduated from general education school No. 5 in Tokmak, and in 2010 - from the Department of Political Science of the Faculty of Social Sciences and International Relations at Dnipropetrovsk National University named after Oles Honchar. In 2013, he completed his postgraduate studies at Dnipropetrovsk National University named after Oles Honchar and continued to work as an assistant in the Department of Political Science. In March 2014, he was mobilized as a volunteer by the October District Military Commissariat of Dnipropetrovsk (now Dnipro) into the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He served in the 25th Separate Dnipropetrovsk Airborne Brigade of the High Mobility Airborne Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (military unit A1126, the urban-type settlement of Hvardiyiske, Novomoskovsk district, Dnipropetrovsk region). On June 5, 2014, he defended his dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Political Sciences on the topic: "The Growth Coalition as a Subject of Power Relations in Urban Political Regimes." Since the summer of 2014, he participated in the anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine. On June 14, 2014, around 1:00 AM, the military transport aircraft IL-76 MD of the Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, during its approach to land at the airport in the city of Luhansk, was shot down by terrorists using a portable anti-aircraft missile system. On board the aircraft were 40 servicemen of the 25th Separate Dnipropetrovsk Airborne Brigade, including soldier Levchuk, and 9 crew members. As a result of the crash, all personnel of the airborne unit and the aircraft crew were killed. On July 24, 2014, he was buried in the city cemetery of Tokmak.