Serhiy Leonidovych Kotenko ( uk, Сергій Леонідович Котенко; 16 July 1967 – 9 March 2022) was a Colonel of the

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and participant in the 2022 Russian-Ukrainian war who posthumously received the Hero of Ukraine on 16 March 2022. Prior to the war, he was head of the

Haisyn Haisyn or Haysyn ( uk, Га́йсин, Haysyn; pl, Hajsyn; russian: Га́йсин, Gaysin) is a city in central Ukraine, the administrative center of the Haisyn Raion in Vinnytsia Oblast. Its population is It is located in the eastern part of ...

District State Administration (2014–2015) and Commander of the 9th SMIB.

Biography

Serhiy Kotenko was born in

Vinnytsia Oblast Vinnytsia Oblast ( uk, Ві́нницька о́бласть, translit=Vinnytska oblast; ; also referred to as Vinnychchyna — uk, Ві́нниччина) is an oblast of western and southwestern Ukraine. Its administrative center is Vinnytsia. ...

. He graduated from

Kamianets-Podilskyi Kamianets-Podilskyi ( uk, Ка́м'яне́ць-Поді́льський, russian: Каменец-Подольский, Kamenets-Podolskiy, pl, Kamieniec Podolski, ro, Camenița, yi, קאַמענעץ־פּאָדאָלסק / קאַמעניץ, ...

Higher Military Engineering Command School in 1989. He served in the army for 22 years. In 2014–2015, he headed the Haisyn Regional State Administration, and later returned to military service. Commander of the 9th Separate Motorized Infantry Battalion "Vinnytsa Scythians". From 24 February 2022, he took part in the Russian-Ukrainian war. He died on 9 March 2022, in a battle with Russian forces near Zaporizhia. He was buried on 11 March in the town of Haisyn, Vinnytsia region. Two days earlier, his brother Oleksandr Kotenko, serving in the Aidar Battalion, was killed in action near Mykolaiv. In December 2022 a street in

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that was named after

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n general

Alexander Suvorov Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov (russian: Алекса́ндр Васи́льевич Суво́ров, Aleksándr Vasíl'yevich Suvórov; or 1730) was a Russian general in service of the Russian Empire. He was Count of Rymnik, Count of the Holy ...

was renamed to Serhiy Kotenko Street.

Awards

* The title of " Hero of Ukraine" with the deigning Order of the Golden Star (2022, posthumously) for personal courage and heroism shown in defending the state sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, loyalty to the military oath. *

Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky The Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky ( uk, Орден Богдана Хмельницького, Orden Bohdana Khmelʹnytsʹkoho) is a Ukrainian military award named after Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Hetman of the Ukrainian Cossacks. The award was establi ...

III degree (2019) for significant personal merits in defending the state sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, civic courage, dedication to upholding the constitutional principles of democracy, human rights and freedoms, significant contribution to cultural and educational development, active volunteering.

References

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