Maxim “Misha” Mishchenko is a fan of the football club “Kryvbas” (Kryvyi Rih), a representative of the RWB team.

Maxim Yuryevich Mishchenko was born on September 8, 1995. He graduated from 9 classes of the school №85 in Kryvyi Rih. After school, there was a center for retraining of labor personnel and contract service in the 25th Separate Airborne Brigade.

Relatives and friends recall that Maxim was a lively and energetic guy. A good friend and friend, an optimist in life. He was engaged in boxing, loved his hometown very much and actively supported Kryvbas. When the city of Debaltseve was liberated, he was the first to raise the flag of Ukraine in it.

Maxim was killed in battle on August 5, 2014. Around 4 o'clock in the morning, while performing a combat task near Orlovo-Ivanovka (Donetsk region), a unit of the brigade was ambushed by terrorists, as a result of tank shelling, a senior soldier Mishchenko was killed.

On November 14, 2014 he was awarded the Order “For Courage” of the III degree (posthumously). On November 12, 2014 in Kryvyi Rih, on the wall of his native 85th school, a memorial plaque in memory of Maxim Mishchenko took place.