Dmytro "Pravy" Kolesnikov is a representative of the fan movements "White Boys Club" ("Dynamo", Kyiv) and "Volodymyr Ultras" (Volodymyr-Volynskyi).
Dmytro Vadimovich Kolesnikov was born on January 12, 1995 in the city of Volodymyr-Volynskyi. He studied at school No. 3 and the local agrotechnical college, after which he continued his studies at the Lutsk branch of the University of Modern Knowledge, majoring in "Jurisprudence". He was fond of football since childhood. He liked to play with friends both on the field and in the computer version of this sport. He knew the lineups of many Ukrainian and foreign clubs by heart and collected everything related to his beloved Kyiv "Dynamo", whose matches he watched with his father as a child.
Dmytro's youthful passion for football and the Dynamo game led him to actively support the capital club. Went with friends to football matches in Lutsk, Lviv and Kyiv. With his friend Andrii, they visited sectors 43-45 at NSC Olimpiyskiy, where fans usually gathered. But he liked the stadium the most. Valery Lobanovskyi. According to the memories of a friend, in 2013-14, the Kyiv team played their matches at this very stadium. Dmytro liked it here more, because the small stadium drowning in the green trees on the slopes of Kyiv seemed more cozy and homely, and the support of the fan sector felt much more powerful.
Friends remember the capital derby in 2013, when "Dynamo" played against "Arsenal". Everything happened literally on the eve of the Revolution of Dignity. Then Dim and the boys first saw such a grandiose pyroshow on the sector. It was very exciting to stand in the middle of this sea of lights. Even then they felt that something was coming. In those days, the ultras especially wanted freedom, and pyrotechnics were the embodiment of that desire. Also, Dmytro and his company attended the "Volya Pavlichenkom" campaign, during which they got their first experience of rallying. The sounds of explosions, the smell of smoke - soon all this became commonplace on the central streets of the capital.
Since the beginning of the revolutionary events of 2014, Dmytro went to Kyiv. The parents persuaded their son not to go, and then they managed to bring the 18-year-old back halfway. Later, he still went to Lviv, and from there he went to the capital with the local car park activists, where they joined the participants of the events at the KMDA. In those days, he took an active part in confronting the criminal authorities on the capital's Maidan. One more case, already after the completion of the Maidan, is highlighted by close Houses. In 2014, the Dynamo European Cup match against the Portuguese Rio Ave was preceded by an action against a pro-Russian singer's concert at the Ukraine Palace. Clashes took place with "Berkut", which had already been renamed at that time, many fans did not get to the match that evening. Dmytro managed to reach the stadium, but he did not stay there for long and went to help his teammates.
After returning home, he joined the Volodymyr-Volyn branch of "Right Sector", and since December 2014 he became a fighter of the Ukrainian Volunteer Corps. Despite the persuasion of his mother, who did not want to let his only son go to war, he underwent training at the base of the "Desna" training center and went to the front. He was in the ATO zone since November 28, 2014. A fighter of the 1st assault company of the 5th separate battalion of the DUK, participated in the defense of the Donetsk airport. Its commander was Dmytro "Da Vinci" Kotsyubailo - the Hero of Ukraine, and at that time a 19-year-old boy. As the commander later said: Pravy was a conscientious fighter, a good person and a faithful comrade. - "Who but me?" - he answered his mother when she tried to return him home again.
Dmytro Kolesnikov died on February 22, 2015 during a battle near the village of Pisky (Donetsk region), as a result of a direct hit by a tank shell into a building where DUK soldiers were. They said goodbye to the faithful and brave son of Ukraine at the Fedorivskyi cemetery in his hometown. Awarded the Order "For Courage" III degree (posthumously) in 2021 and the badge "For the Defense of Donetsk Airport". Also, in Volodymyr-Volynskyi, a street was renamed in honor of Dmytro Kolesnikov, not far from where his family lived. Futsal tournaments in memory of Dmytro Kolesnikov were held in Volodymyr-Volynskyi in 2016-17 and in 2022.