Oleksandr "Sokha" Kolotvin is a fan of the "Dnipro" football club.
Oleksandr Viktorovich Kolotvin was born on November 18, 1984 in the city of Pyatikhatka (Dnipropetrovsk region). He graduated from secondary school No. 1 in his hometown.
"Dnipro" came to the fan stand in the mid-2000s, seeing a new wave of rising fanaticism in the country, as well as the formation of the same team that every year forced the giants to fight.
In civilian life, he worked as a cook, since 2009 he was a pizza maker at the "Portfolio" enterprise and several restaurants in the city. In December 2013, when the revolution was ignited on the capital's Maidan, Oleksandr worked three after three, and on weekends he traveled to Kyiv and cooked hot meals in giant vats on improvised stoves. Later, he told his bride that he wanted to live separately, but he never told his parents where he went. He was wounded in the leg, and only later told his mother where he had been all this time. During the 2014 elections, he was guarding the street. Bankova.
In May of the same year, immediately after the Maidan, Oleksandr joined the ranks of the Aydar territorial defense volunteer battalion. Despite the cook's considerable experience, he went to the detachment, which was called the "Black Company". He reassured his family, which is far from hostilities, but even then he was standing near the Luhansk airport. "Sokha" took part in the liberation of the city of Shchastya, battles for the villages of Metalist and Lutugyne. He received a bullet wound in the leg near the village of Georgiivka. Soon after the injury, he returned to his brothers.
Oleksandr Kolotvin died on August 13, 2014 while performing a combat mission near the village of Khryashchuvet in the Luhansk Region. Having disembarked from the armored personnel carrier, he and his comrades immediately came under enemy fire. "Sokha" was wounded in the heart by a fragment, three more Aida residents died in the same place. On June 27, 2015, he was awarded the Order "For Courage" III degree (posthumously). Awarded the badge "For the Defense of Luhansk Airport" (posthumously). Buried in his native Pyatikhatki.