Yevhen I. Kvaskov (Kachkar)

44-year-old Senior Sergeant Yevhen Kvaskov (call sign Kachkar) died on April 28, 2023, during enemy artillery shelling near the village of Vasyukivka, Donetsk region. Yevhen was born in Kyiv. He graduated from Kyiv Lyceum of Natural Sciences No. 145. He was a winner and prize-winner of All-Ukrainian Olympiads and tournaments in chemistry, as well as research competitions in chemistry and ecology. He was a member of the Junior Academy of Sciences (ecology and chemistry). He had two higher education degrees: a bachelor's degree in economics and a master's degree in information management systems and technologies from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, and a master's degree in banking management from Kyiv National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman. He loved reading. He was passionate about military affairs, history, and Ukrainian culture. He adored the mountains. In 2016, Yevhen became the ideological founder and was the permanent chairman of the public union "Center for National-Patriotic Education". Since 2017, he has been the deputy head of the Coordination Council on National-Patriotic Education at the Kyiv City State Administration. For over 15 years, he dedicated himself to the national-patriotic education of children and youth, preserving the historical memory of the Ukrainian people, personally organizing and conducting events exclusively on a voluntary basis. Yevhen's call sign Kachkar is the highest peak in northern Turkey, which he conquered in 2021. Yevhen was a volunteer who joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the first day of the full-scale invasion. He was a senior mortar gunner in the 207th Battalion of the 241st Separate Territorial Defense Brigade. He participated in the defense of Kyiv and the region, as well as in the battles near Bakhmut in the Donetsk region. "Yevhen was a person with incredible intelligence, encyclopedic knowledge, and an extraordinarily deep level of training in the exact sciences, and at the same time with excellent physical condition, endurance, and strength, which distinguished him in any team. At the same time, he was extremely modest, restrained, and ready to help everyone. My brother had a very wide range of interests - innovations and technologies, sports, urban planning, horseback riding, ecology. In general, he was very curious and delved deeply into what he was passionate about. At an early age, he became fascinated with chemistry and went through almost the entire school curriculum before his class even started studying this subject. He was an expert in the field of marketing. He had over 10 years of experience working in leading Ukrainian banks, going from an intern to a department head. Since 2008, he has been the permanent organizer of large-scale annual events of a national-patriotic orientation, including the Living Chain of Unity on the Paton Bridge and the patriotic game-training "Kozak-quest" for students of all Kyiv schools. A long-term volunteer of the penitentiary ministry of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, the organizer of "Kozatsky Gart" in juvenile colonies in 2014-2019, where he personally worked with convicted minors. He also personally organized and conducted a huge number of thematic exhibitions and lectures on historical events, demonstration performances, trainings, and other events for national-patriotic education. My brother was able to educate several generations of patriotic youth. His students are among those who are now defending Ukraine from the occupiers," said the deceased's younger sister Iryna. The defender was buried at the Berkovets City Cemetery in Kyiv. Yevhen is survived by his parents and younger sister. Posthumously, Senior Sergeant Yevhen Kvaskov was awarded the Order of Courage of the III degree and the medal "Honor. Glory. State." To honor the memory of the warrior, the family has established a grant named after Yevhen Kvaskov at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy to support student projects.