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Oleksandr Marchenko (politician)

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Oleksandr Marchenko
Marchenko in 2014
Member of the Verkhovna Rada
In office
27 November 2014 – 29 August 2019
Personal details
Born
Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Marchenko

14 January 1965
Rybchyntsi [uk], Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Died6 March 2022(2022-03-06) (aged 57)
Pushcha-Vodytsia, Kyiv, Ukraine
Cause of deathKilled in action
NationalityUkrainian
Political partySvoboda
EducationInterregional Academy of Personnel Management

Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Marchenko (Ukrainian: Олекса́ндр Олекса́ндрович Ма́рченко; 14 January 1965 – 7 March 2022) was a Ukrainian politician.

A member of Svoboda, he served in the Verkhovna Rada from 2014 to 2019.[1] In 2014 he joined a militia unit to fight in the Russian-Ukrainian war.[2]

He was killed in action in Pushcha-Vodytsia, Kyiv, while fighting in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine on 6 March 2022, at the age of 57.[3][4]

References

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  1. ^ "Марченко Олександр Олександрович". Verkhovna Rada (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 24 March 2019.
  2. ^ "Олександра Марченка відзначили медаллю "За оборону Авдіївки"". ВО "Свобода" (in Ukrainian). 30 April 2019. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
  3. ^ "У війні з окупантом загинув народний депутат VIII скликання свободівець Олександр Марченко". Svoboda (in Ukrainian). 7 March 2022. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
  4. ^ "Petition on posthumous assignment to the defender of the Kyiv region Oleksandr Marchenko the title of Hero of Ukraine". My Kyiv Region. Retrieved 5 March 2024.