Dran‘chinkov Vitaliy Mykolayovych was the sniper of 2nd division 1st infantry platoon of the 4th motorized infantry company of the 39th separate mechanized Battalion 55th Artillery Brigade separate Army of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, sergeant.
He was born on 23 January, 1969 in the village Fedorovka, Kakhovka district, Kherson region. Russian. Since 1974, his family lived in the village of Nuzhni Torgau Nyzhni Sirohozy district, Kherson region. graduated 8 classes of high school in the village of Nuzhni Torgau 1984 and Kahovskij farm-school.
In the years 1988-1990 he passed the military service in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Since 1990, officer V.M.Dran‘chinkov was in stock.
In the 1990s he lived in Murmansk (Russia). He worked as a foreman in the fishing farm "Drummer", then - in Murmansk house-building factory. In 1997 he returned to Ukraine. He lived in the village of Nuzhni Sirogozy, Kherson region.
On 11 June, 2015 he was mobilized by Nyzhni Sirohozy Ivanivka united district military commissariat Kherson region to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He served as a sniper 2nd division 1st infantry platoon of the 4th motorized infantry company of the 39th separate mechanized Battalion 55th Artillery Brigade separate the Land Force of Ukraine (military unit field mail V1603).
He participated in the anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine.
On the night of May 22, 2016 at 1:30 Dranchinkov sergeant died from numerous shrapnel injuries (left forearm laceration, shrapnel wounds chest, shrapnel wounds frontal areas of the head) during the shelling platoon commander reference point "Minastirit» №1621 near the town Avdiivka, Donetsk region.
On 25 May, 2016 he was buried in the cemetery of village Nyzhni Sirohozy Kherson region.
He was awarded the Order "For courage" III class (20.7.2016, posthumously).
The mother is left.
