Vyacheslav "Syava" Matvienko is a fan of the "Shakhtar" football club (Donetsk).
Vyacheslav Olegovich Matvienko was born on April 15, 1990 in the city of Donetsk. He studied at school No. 25 in Makiivka. Among his childhood and youth hobbies, he paid the most attention to playing football and drawing, and read a lot. After school, he continued his studies at the Donetsk Polytechnic College, where he graduated as a Water Supply and Drainage Technologist.
Vyacheslav joined the Shakhtar fan club at the age of 16. He took an active part not only in supporting the team in the stands, but also liked to compete with fans of other teams.
Donetsk fans were among those who not only went to pro-Ukrainian rallies in their city, but also tried to actively oppose collaborators and pro-Russian werewolves at all levels of government. But then they were in the minority, and all those who had a patriotic position - suddenly found themselves under the muzzles of machine guns. War literally knocked on the door of the Matvienko family when a shell flew under the window of their apartment on the first floor. Forced to save their lives, he and his wife first moved to Dnipro, and then moved to Mariupol. In 2015, their daughter Elizaveta was born, and at the end of the summer of the same year, Vyacheslav took up arms, becoming a soldier of the 54th OMBr of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He took part in battles on the Svitlodar arc and in Popasnaya, had awards and distinctions.
In 2017, while serving in the Armed Forces, he began writing a book. Unfortunately, it was in electronic form and remained in the phone. This book was about the struggle that we must wage, both in war and in everyday life. He thought a lot about what he would do if it weren't for the war. And more and more often he came to the conclusion that he could no longer live without this struggle. In January 2020, he joined the ranks of "Azov", where he took the call sign "Iceland".
He met the beginning of a full-scale war in Mariupol in the position of a senior gunner of an LNG gunner. His last words to his wife were a message: - "I'm fine. I'm alive and healthy. The connection is disappearing." Vyacheslav Matvienko died on March 22, 2022 while performing a combat mission. Awarded the Order "For Courage" III degree (posthumously).