Mykhailo Matiushenko

Mykhailo Yuriiovych Matiushenko (, call sign – Did; 8 January 1961 in Kharkiv, Soviet Union – 26 June 2022 over the Black Sea, Ukraine) was a Ukrainian entrepreneur and manager, serviceman, military and civil aviation pilot, colonel and commander of the 40th Tactical Aviation Brigade of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who participated in the Russo-Ukrainian War. Hero of Ukraine (2023, posthumously).

Biography Mykhailo Matiushenko was born on 8 January 1961 in Kharkiv. In his youth, he went in for swimming, became a master of sports, and was a children's coach.

He graduated with honors from the Hrytsevets Kharkiv Higher Military School of Pilots and also from the Gagarin Air Force Academy in Moscow. He served in the USSR until 1991. His body was found in Bulgaria. It is likely that his Su-24 was shot down by a Pantsyr-S1 anti-aircraft missile system. Major Yurii Krasylnikov was killed along with him, and his body has not yet been found.

He was buried on 3 October 2022 on the Alley of Heroes in Bucha.

Awards The title of Hero of Ukraine with the "Order of the Gold Star" (2023, posthumously).

Honoring the memory

On 12 April 2023, in the city of Bucha, Warriors of the Internationalists Street was renamed Mykhailo Matyushenko Street.