Plokhoy Andriy was the deputy commander of the company with the armament of the 1st separate Guard tank brigade of the Land Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, captain.
He was born on 26 June, 1983 in the village Pervomayske, Cherkasy district, Cherkasy region. In 2000 he graduated the secondary school of the village Toubitsy, Cherkassy region.
Since 2000 he was in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In 2005, he graduated the Kharkiv Guards Red Star Order of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a member of the National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute" (now the Guards Red Star Order Faculty of Military Training, the National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute").
Since 2005 he has served in the 1-st Guards Tank Brigade of the Land Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (military unit A1815, settlement of the urban type Goncharivka, Chernigov district, Chernihiv region).
Since the summer of 2014, he participated in the anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine.
On August 3, 2014, Captain Plokhoy participated in the offensive operation of the Ukrainian military at the position of Russian-terrorist forces in the city Luhansk. His tank moving in front, exploded on the landing near the Krasny Yar neighborhood, Zhovtnevy district, Luhansk rehion. As a result of the explosion, Captain Plokhoy‘s tank commander got burns and was thrown out by an explosive wave from the car. Two other crew members, Senior Soldier Nagorny and Sergeant Mansurov, were killed. The officer died while transporting to the hospital in the city Schastya (Novoaidarsky district, Lugansk region).
On 7 August, 2014 he was buried in the cemetery of the village Pervomayske, Cherkassy region.
He was awarded the Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky III class (09/08/2014; posthumously), with an honorary award "For Services to Cherkassy Region" (posthumously).
In the village Nubytsi, Cherkasy region, on the facade of the building of a secondary school (Shevchenko Street, 121), where Andriy Plokhoy studied, the memorial plaque was established. In the village Pervomayske, Cherkasy district, the Pionersky lane is renamed to Andriy Plokhoy Street.