Ruslan S. Semchyshche

Ruslan was born on February 7, 1977, in the village of Orikhovitsa in the Uzhhorod district. He studied at the local primary school, and from 1988 to 1992, he attended Uzhhorod Secondary School No. 17. He graduated from Vocational Technical School No. 19, obtaining the profession of carpenter-machine operator. From 1995 to 1997, he served in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He worked as a security guard and carpenter-machine operator, married in 1998, and soon he and his wife Natalia had two sons. Since 2003, he served under contract in the 128th Separate Mountain Assault Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine, during which he was in the ATO area for almost four months.