Maksym Mykhaylovych Marchenko (; born 10 February 1983) is a Ukrainian colonel, former commander of the 28th Mechanized Brigade and the

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of the

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and the

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since 1 March 2022.

Biography

Marchenko was born on 10 February 1983 in

Sloviansk Sloviansk ( uk, Слов'янськ, Sloviansk ; russian: Славянск, Slavyansk or ; prior to 1784 – Tor) is a city in the Kramatorsk district of the Donetsk region of Ukraine, the administrative center of the Slovyansk urban commun ...

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. In 2005, he graduated from the Kharkiv Institute of Tank Troops and studied the Command and Staff Institute for the Use of Troops (Forces) of the National University of Defense of Ukraine. From 2015 to 2017 he served as the commander of one of the assault battalion of

, the

. Later, in 2017, he was appointed Deputy Commander of the

92nd Mechanized Brigade The 92nd Assault Brigade "Ivan Sirko" ( uk, 92-га окрема штурмова бригада, translit=92 okrema shturmova bryhada), abbreviated 92 OShBr (), is a formation of the Ukrainian Ground Forces. Its honorific name is after Cossack ...

, where he stayed for a short time because he led another brigade for a year. In April 2019, he was promoted to the rank of

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Governor of Odesa Oblast

On 1 March 2022, during the

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, he was appointed

, succeeding

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.Decree of the President of Ukraine from 1 березня 2022 year № 90/202
«Про призначення М.Марченка головою Одеської обласної державної адміністрації»
On 15 March 2022, Marchenko appointed Anatoly Vorokhaev as his deputy. The same day, Marchenko met with

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References

External links

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Living people 1983 births People from Sloviansk Ukrainian military personnel Governors of Odesa Oblast Pro-Ukrainian people of the war in Donbas Ukrainian military personnel of the war in Donbas People of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine {{Ukraine-bio-stub