Mykola Kravchenko

Mykola Serhiyovych Kravchenko (; 20 May 198314 March 2022) was a Ukrainian public and political figure, historian, chief ideologue of the far-right Azov Battalion 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. As a historian he researched the history of modern Ukrainian nationalist movement from the late 1980s - present.

A 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.

Biography Native of the Ukrainian East, Kravchenko was born on 20 May 1983, in the city of Lyubotyn near Kharkiv. 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.

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,

Military-Revolutionary Activist Kravchenko was a member of the public organization "Patriot of Ukraine" since 2005, and was one of its official co-founders. On 1 March 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. 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. He became one of the founders of the Civil Corps "Azov", 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. On 24 December 2018, he became the founder and head of the "Orijentir" publishing house.

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.