Nikolenko Anatoliy Volodymyrovych was the gunner of 6th department of the 3rd platoon of special purpose 1st special purpose company 2nd battalion of special purpose "Donbass" North quickly and territorial unification of Ukraine National Guard, Reserve soldiers.
He was born on July 15, 1960 in Kharkiv. He graduated the high school №106 Kharkiv.
From May 1979 to May 1981 he passed the military service in the Armed Forces of the USSR.
From December 1979 to May 1981 he was composed of a limited contingent of Soviet troops in Afghanistan. He served as a driver in the 860-m individual Motorized Infantry Regiment of the 40th Combined Arms Army (military unit field mail 89933; Faizabad city, Badakhshan province).
After demobilization he returned to Kharkov. He worked in the automotive service lately - guard.
Being a patriot of his country, despite his age, he could not stay out of events that threatened the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine in 2014.
In May 2014 he was volunteered to volunteer territorial defense battalion "Donbass". In June 2014 passed a short training in the training center of the National Guard of Ukraine in the village of Petrovka New Vyshgorod district of Kyiv region.
Since June 2014 he took part in anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine. He served as a machine gunner 6th department of the 3rd platoon of special purpose 1st special purpose company 2nd battalion of special purpose "Donbass" North quickly and territorial unification of Ukraine National Guard (military unit 3027) reserve soldiers. Callsign "Karat". He participated in the liberation of settlements Donetsk and Lugansk regions, including the cities of Artemovsk, Lisichans‘k Popasna, Kurakhovo. On 13 August 2014 he participated in the battles for the liberation of Ilovaysk, Donetsk region.
On August 20, 2014 minivan "Toyota", which took the wounded from Ilovaisk (according to an officer with the call sign "Dentist" in the car were 8 fighters battalion "Donbass" and servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine) near the village Hrabske Amvrosiivskyi Donetsk region was in ambush arranged by two platoons of regular Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In this battle killed three soldiers of the battalion "Donbass" (Alexander Utkin, Gennady Kipishynov and Artem Kuzyakov) and A.V.Nikolenko, getting seriously injured in the leg, hand grenades blew himself and a few Russians who tried to seize him prisoner. This act of surviving soldiers managed to break away from the enemy and get to their troops.
He was buried in the cemetery №18 (block 10) in Kharkiv.
He was awarded the Order "For courage" of III degree (27/11/2014, posthumously), Soviet and Ukrainian medals.
On July 1, 2015 his call sign "Karat" was used to name the tank of Tank Company of 46 separate battalion of special purpose Armed Forces of Ukraine "Donbas Ukraine." On July 13, 2015 Street was named after him in Popasna, Lugansk region.