Denis “Stalker” Rachinsky is a fan of the football club “Dynamo” (Kyiv), a representative of the team “Ahnenerbe”.
Denis Ruslanovich Rachinsky was born on August 17, 1998 in the city of Kiev. In the capital, he studied at the Ukrainian College named after him. V.O. Sukhomlinsky. He graduated from the university named after him. Dragomanov at the Faculty of History and Archaeology with a bachelor's degree. During his school years, he achieved significant sporting success doing martial arts, in particular karate. Since 2012, Denis began to take an active part in the life of the Dynamo fan movement. In parallel with this, in his spare time he traveled to the Chernobyl exclusion zone, studied the area and filmed everything he saw. The topic of Stalker's bachelor thesis was “Chernobyl and the consequences of its disaster”. He was interested in the history of his native land and managed to travel to archaeological excavations of the era of the Trypillian culture.
With the beginning of the Revolution of Dignity, Denis, as a young man, went to the barricades to fight for a better future for his state. In 2015, the Azov Civil Corps stood at the origins of the volunteer-volunteer organization. And in a year he was one of those who launched an initiative to combat illegal gambling business on the left bank of Kiev. At the same time, he actively fought against the distribution through the streets of the capital of the campaign materials of pro-Russian forces, which today are included in the register of prohibited in Ukraine.
Having an active position in all important social and political issues, with the beginning of a full-scale Russian invasion, Stalker rallied friends with the usual zeal to take up arms in the ranks of the TRO. Denis himself went to the military commissariat of the Dnieper district and, having received weapons, joined the volunteer formation “Mriya”, where from the first days of the Great War he performed combat tasks together with the military Armed Forces.
Denis Rachinsky died on March 20 as a result of a rocket attack on the Retroville shopping center, which was completely destroyed. His comrade and teammate will recall: - “From a video camera in the Podolsk region it was filmed that the rocket fell in some unknown place. And there was a clear time - 22:46. Literally 10 minutes later, his girlfriend called me and asked where Denis was, because he does not get in touch. She said she spoke to him on the phone and the connection was abruptly severed. The first question I asked was “Please look in the journal when the call broke.” She goes into the magazine looking and the figure was 22:46. I realized that Denis was not really there anymore.”
Denis was the only son in the family. He is buried in the Forest Cemetery. After his death, the relatives and relatives of the fallen soldier began to campaign for the renaming of the capital street Chelyabinsk (subject to decommunization) and to assign it the name of Denis Rachinsky.
