Mykola Kravchenko
{{Short description|Ukrainian far right activist (1983–2022)}}
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{{Infobox military person
| name = Mykola Kravchenko
| native_name = Микола Сергійович Кравченко
| image = Ukrainian Wikipedians Forum 18.jpg
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1983|5|20|df=y}}
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2022|3|14|1983|5|20|df=y}}
| birth_place = Liubotyn, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
| death_place = Horenka, Bucha Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine
| allegiance = {{UKR}}
| branch = National Guard of Ukraine
| serviceyears = 2014–2022
| unit = Azov Battalion
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Mykola Serhiyovych Kravchenko ({{Langx|uk|Микола Сергійович Кравченко}}; 20 May 1983{{Dash}}14 March 2022) was a Ukrainian public and political figure, historian, chief ideologue of the far-right Azov Battalion{{Sfn|Colborne|2022|p=55}}{{Cite web |title=Far-Right Group Made Its Home in Ukraine's Major Western Military Training Hub {{!}} illiberalism.org |url=https://www.illiberalism.org/far-right-group-made-its-home-in-ukraines-major-western-military-training-hub/ |access-date=18 March 2022 |website=Illiberalism |language=en-US}} and one of the founders of the Ukrainian ultranationalist organization Patriot of Ukraine. He also served as the deputy leader of the far-right National Corps party. {{Cite web |title=UAWire - Azov Battalion commander Biletsky has become head of the National Corps party |url=https://www.uawire.org/news/azov-battalion-commander-biletsky-has-become-head-of-the-national-corps-party |access-date=18 March 2022 |website=www.uawire.org}} As a historian he researched the history of modern Ukrainian nationalist movement from late 1980s - present.
As veteran of the Russo-Ukrainian War, he was killed by Russian Armed Forces in the Battle of Kyiv on 14 March 2022 during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.{{Cite news |title=СМРТ СТИГЛА ГЛАВНОГ ИДЕОЛОГА УКРАЈИНСКИХ НАЦИСТА: Николај Кравченко погинуо у Мариупољу у редовима злогласног Азова |url=https://www.novosti.rs/c/planeta/svet/1096850/smrt-stigla-glavnog-ideologa-ukrajinskih-nacista-nikolaj-kravcenko-poginuo-mariupolju-redovima-zloglasnog-azova |access-date=18 March 2022 |website=NOVOSTI |language=sr}}{{Cite web |title=Один із творців батальйону Азов: від рук окупантів загинув Микола Крук Кравченко |url=https://nv.ua/ukr/kharkiv/zaginuv-nacionalist-shcho-stoyav-bilya-vitokiv-pravogo-sektora-novini-harkova-50225521.html |access-date=18 March 2022 |website=NV}}
Biography
Born on May 20, 1983, in Lyubotyn, Kharkiv Oblast.{{Cite web |title=Kravchenko Mykola Serhiyovych |url=https://ukr.vote/uk/persons/11038 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211101060645/https://ukr.vote/uk/persons/11038 |archive-date=November 1, 2021 |accessdate=March 29, 2021}} His father, Kravchenko Serhiy Hryhorovych, was a Ukrainian scientist, Doctor of Architecture, military personnel, participant in the Russo-Ukrainian War, and died during the Russian invasion of Ukraine two weeks before his son's death.
In 2005, he graduated from Kharkiv University of Internal Affairs, obtaining a qualification level of "specialist" in "finance," and in 2006 he also graduated in "law" from another faculty of the same university.{{Cite web |title=ORCID |url=https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1908-1595 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210614144039/https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1908-1595 |archive-date=June 14, 2021 |accessdate=June 14, 2021}}
In 2009, he completed a master's program at the Kharkiv Regional Institute of the National Academy of Public Administration under the President of Ukraine, and in 2013, he finished his postgraduate studies at the Institute of Ukrainian Archeography and Source Studies named after Hrushevsky of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
At the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion, he organized the Kyiv territorial defense, particularly overseeing the construction of the western defense line of Kyiv.
He died on March 14, 2022, along with his colleague Serhiy Mashovets, during the escorting of foreign journalists in the village of Horenka in the Bucha district of Kyiv Oblast due to enemy shelling from a BM-21 Grad rocket system.{{cite web |title=The founder of the "Orijentir" publishing house Mykola Kravchenko died |url=https://suspilne.media/220019-zaginuv-zasnovnik-vidavnictva-orientir-mikola-kravcenko/ |accessdate=June 19, 2022 |website=Suspilne}}{{cite web |title=Publisher, Azov fighter Mykola Kravchenko died defending Ukraine |url=https://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/publisher-azov-fighter-mykola-kravchenko-died-defending-ukraine.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220503070428/https://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/publisher-azov-fighter-mykola-kravchenko-died-defending-ukraine.html |archive-date=May 3, 2022 |accessdate=June 19, 2022 |website=Kyiv Post |date=2 May 2022 |language=English}}
= Military-Revolutionary Activist =
Kravchenko was a member of the public organization "Patriot of Ukraine" since 2005,{{Cite web |title=Mykola Kravchenko, call sign "Kruk," chief of the partisan staff of "Black Men": We achieved victory on Rymarska, while the Russians received their first corpses |url=https://will-live.com/kruk-azov/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191010143753/https://will-live.com/kruk-azov/ |archive-date=October 10, 2019 |accessdate=March 29, 2021}} and was one of its official co-founders. From 2012 to 2013, he operated underground. In the winter of 2013–2014, he participated in the Revolution of Dignity and events on Kyiv's Independence Square.
From late February 2014, he acted in Kharkiv. On the night of February 28 to March 1, 2014, he participated in the storming of the "Oplot" club, which at that time was the main headquarters of pro-Russian separatists in Kharkiv.{{Cite web |date=March 14, 2018 |title=March 14, 2014 - Ukraine defended Kharkiv |url=https://censor.net/ua/resonance/3055537/14_bereznya_2014_ukrayina_vidstoyala_harkiv |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211104143512/https://m.censor.net/ua/resonance/3055537/14_bereznya_2014_ukrayina_vidstoyala_harkiv |archive-date=November 4, 2021 |accessdate=March 18, 2022 |publisher=Censor.NET |url-status=live|language=uk}} On March 1, 2014, he took part in the defense of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration, leading the "Right Sector" in Kharkiv, upon the recommendation of the commander of "Right Sector-East" Andriy Biletsky. On the night of March 14 to 15, 2014, he participated in the battle on Rymarska Street in Kharkiv, where pro-Russian separatists first suffered casualties.{{Cite web |title=March 14, 2014 — Ukraine defended Kharkiv |url=https://censor.net/ru/resonance/3055537/14_bereznya_2014_ukrana_vdstoyala_harkv |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211104175104/https://censor.net/ru/resonance/3055537/14_bereznya_2014_ukrana_vdstoyala_harkv |archive-date=November 4, 2021 |accessdate=March 29, 2021}} With the legalization of the “Black Corps” and its transformation into the volunteer battalion “Azov”, he became the head of the personnel service of the battalion.
= Public-Political Activist =
After Andriy Biletsky was elected as a People's Deputy in November 2014, Mykola Kravchenko worked as his assistant.{{Cite web |title=Andriy Yevheniyovych Biletskyi |url=https://rada.oporaua.org/deputaty/deputati/4724-biletskyi-andrii-yevheniiovych |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201202003200/https://rada.oporaua.org/deputaty/deputati/4724-biletskyi-andrii-yevheniiovych |archive-date=December 2, 2020 |accessdate=March 29, 2021}} He became one of the founders of the Civil Corps "Azov", and from 2016 to 2018, he was the head of the Youth Corps "Azov".{{Cite web |title=ГО "ЮНАЦЬКИЙ КОРПУС" - 40409577 - Опендатабот |url=https://opendatabot.ua/c/40409577 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210614144524/https://opendatabot.ua/c/40409577 |archive-date=June 14, 2021 |accessdate=June 14, 2021}} He is a co-founder of the National Corps, a political party founded on the basis of the Civil Corps "Azov"; he is the deputy leader of the National Corps, Andriy Biletsky.
In May 2016, he founded the public organization "Azov-Press," which later changed its name to "National Correspondent".{{cite web |title=GO "National Correspondent" |url=https://opendatabot.ua/c/40478829 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201009163254/https://opendatabot.ua/c/40478829 |archive-date=October 9, 2020 |accessdate=March 29, 2021 |website=opendatabot.ua/}} On December 24, 2018, he became the founder and head of the "Orijentir" publishing house.{{cite web |title="Orijentir" Publishing House Launched in Odesa |url=https://dumska.net/news/na-odeshchyni-vidkryly-nove-vydavnytstvo-orientyr-066597/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210219085820/https://dumska.net/news/na-odeshchyni-vidkryly-nove-vydavnytstvo-orientyr-066597/ |archive-date=February 19, 2021 |accessdate=March 29, 2021}}
In 2020, he participated in the creation of the National Corps' "Ukrainian World" program, aimed at the establishment of a Ukrainian state based on national values and traditions, which included aspects of cultural, educational, and spiritual life.{{Cite web |title=Kravchenko Mykola Serhiyovych |url=https://ukr.vote/uk/persons/11038 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211101060645/https://ukr.vote/uk/persons/11038 |archive-date=November 1, 2021 |accessdate=March 29, 2021}}
In 2021, he was one of the members of the initiative group for the establishment of the "Ukrainian People's Assembly" (Ukrainian People's Assembly).{{Cite web |title=Ukrainian People's Assembly Can Become Second Independent Ukrainian Elections |url=https://ua.112.ua/polityka/ukrainske-narodne-zbirshche-mozhe-staty-druhym-samostiinym-ukrainskim-vyboram-592772.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201017171231/https://ua.112.ua/polityka/ukrainske-narodne-zbirshche-mozhe-staty-druhym-samostiinym-ukrainskim-vyboram-592772.html |archive-date=October 17, 2020 |accessdate=March 29, 2021}}
References
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Literature
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