Vapnyar Oleksandr Vasyl‘ovych was the commander of the engineering and demolition platoon of the 3rd mechanized battalion of the 72nd separate mechanized brigade of the Land Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, senior lieutenant.
He was born on 8 December, 1977, in the city Gnivan, Tyvriv district, Vinnytsia region. He graduated the secondary school №2 in the city Gnivan (now the educational complex "Secondary school of I-III grades - gymnasium №2"), Vinnitsia building technical school and Ukrainian transport university (now - National transport university, the city of Kyiv) in the specialty "Urban planning" . During his studies at the university he graduated he military department.