Maxim “Pyrotechnician” Lazorishin is a fan of the football club “Kalush”.

Maxim Viktorovich Lazorishin was born on March 18, 2001 in the city of Ivano-Frankivsk, and since 2002 his family lives in the city. Kalush (Ivano-Frankivsk region). He studied at school No. 2 and Kalush VTU No. 7, where he earned the specialty “chef-waiter”. During his school years, he was engaged in air modeling, athletics and sports orientation, was fond of cooking.

Maxim grew up in a large family. When he was 11 years old, his father left the family, so the boy, along with his sisters, helped his mother with the upbringing of his younger brother. At the age of 15, he began to work to help his family financially. He worked as a cook, waiter and bartender in catering establishments of Kalush and Ivano-Frankivsk. Such life circumstances influenced the formation of the strong character of the young man. He was serious, responsible, balanced, made grownups like his age decisions, made commitments and at the same time was extremely kind, energetic and cheerful fun.

In 2016, Maxim, while still studying at school, became interested in the public life of Kalush and joined the NGO “Young People's Movement” and “Union of Catholic Youth”. The main focus of these organizations is the education of young people in a patriotic and Christian spirit, the organization of schools, volunteer activities, etc. He actively participated in many activities of these organizations, in particular in volunteer actions. The first action was to collect plastic caps and funds for prosthetics of wounded soldiers in the ATO zone, where Maxim showed considerable activity and did a lot to ensure that funds were collected and transferred to volunteers in the shortest possible time.

He came to the FC Kalush fan stand for the first time in 15 years, attending the match of red and black. The weather that day was rainy and the team could not cheer the result of their fans, but Maxim firmly decided for himself that he wanted to become an active fan of Kalush. And already in 2018, he was one of the founders of the Kalush fan movement, which received its “second breath” when Maxim together with his brothers decided to restore the ultras group in the city. He got the nickname “Pyrotechnician” due to the fact that he was always responsible for ordering pyrotechnics for all matches, marches and performances, knew all the wholesale suppliers, and always skillfully calculated the number of required pyro for a particular match.

In 2019, when Maxim turned 18, he decided to go to serve. Having chosen the border troops, he signed a contract with the Kennel Training Center of the Western Regional Department of the State Police of Ukraine, later the 7th Carpathian Border Detachment. During his service, he participated in the international military exercises “Rapid Trident 2020" at the Yavoriv test site and the special operation “Polissya” on the Belarusian border in the early hours of 2021. Gained new knowledge and improved his skills and abilities. He was an instructor in tactical medicine, an instructor in the use of group weapons.

By the beginning of the full-scale war, Maxim had already received the rank of senior sergeant and served in the special unit “Shkval” of the rapid response commandery as a border service inspector of the 2nd category, a machine gunner.

Together with his combat brethren, “Pyrotechnician” performed tasks almost throughout the territory where the fighting took place. The brothers remember Maxim as a faithful and reliable friend. Determined and resourceful, there were no such questions that he could not solve. When crews were formed for a combat trip and the guys wrote a list of partners, Max was the number one in all.

The experience of participation in ultras movement was also agreed on the front, the “Pyrotechnician” knew where and how to find the necessary equipment or equipment, took care of the material support of the comrades.

The next combat deployment to Donetsk region was the last for the 21-year-old defender. On January 15, 2023, while performing official duties near the city of Soledar, Maxim Lazorishin died. By the decree of the President of Ukraine dated July 26, 2023, he was awarded the medal “Defender of the Fatherland” (posthumously).