Rostyslav O. Nikitin

Born on March 29, 1994, in the city of Dnipropetrovsk (since 2016 - the city of Dnipro). Studied at secondary school No. 62 in Dnipropetrovsk. In 2012, he graduated from the Lyceum with enhanced military-physical training in Dnipropetrovsk. He served in the 25th Separate 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). Since the spring of 2014, he participated in the anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine. On July 30, 2014, Senior Soldier Nikitin was killed during the battalion's attempt to storm the city of Shakhtarsk in the Donetsk region. He was buried at the Krasnopil Cemetery in Dnipropetrovsk. On September 1, 2016, a memorial plaque was unveiled in the city of Dnipro on the facade of secondary school No. 62 (Budivelnykiv Street, 26), where Rostyslav Nikitin studied.