Oleksandr Marchenko (politician)

Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Marchenko (Ukrainian: Олекса́ндр Олекса́ндрович Ма́рченко; 14 January 1965 – 7 March 2022) was a Ukrainian politician.

Oleksandr Marchenko
Олексaндр Мaрченко
Marchenko in 2014
Member of the Verkhovna Rada
In office 27 November 2014 – 29 August 2019
Personal details
Born	Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Marchenko 14 January 1965 Rybchyntsi [uk], Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Died	6 March 2022(2022-03-06) (aged 57) Pushcha-Vodytsia, Kyiv, Ukraine
Cause of death	Killed in action
Nationality	Ukrainian
Political party	Svoboda
Education	Interregional Academy of Personnel Management

A member of Svoboda, he served from 2014 to 2019 in the Verkhovna Rada, the unicameral parliament of Ukraine.^[1] In 2014 he joined a militia unit to fight in the Russian-Ukrainian war.^[2]

He was killed in action in Pushcha-Vodytsia, Kyiv, while resisting the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine on 6 March 2022, at the age of 57.^[3][4]