“Mykola Volkov lived a short but very busy life”, – WRITE: Sport.ua
Career Mykola Volkov was born on February 25, 1999 in Mariupol. He graduated from the nine classes of Mariupol School No. 4, after which he entered the Mariupol Electromechanical College – for the specialty “Electric”.
Trace in Fanat’s life Nicholas was an active fan of Mariupol. The guy loved and hurried to travel. During his short life, he visited many cities of Ukraine, often traveling. Nicholas did his best to have as many fans as possible, he made sketches of banners, sought paint and fabric for perfomens in the sector. At the same time, the guy was constantly training, visiting boxing sections and kickboxing, speaking at the amateur level, participating in mass sports events of the city, promoting a healthy lifestyle.
In the 2017/18 Smurfa season, which was 18, the Gold Season was shouted – he visited all the home and field matches of Mariupol, which then performed in UPL. And two months later he went to the front.
Combat path The time of formation as a person and patriot Mykola Volkov coincided with the period of active fighting in eastern Ukraine. A 16-year-old guy came to the Azov Civil Corps, participated in patriotic actions and training. Friends recall that the decision to fight the enemy Volkov made after January 24, 2015, Katsapi released a residential area in the East neighborhood in Mariupol more than 120 shells from BM-21 and Hurrica Volip Fire Systems for 38 seconds. That terrorist attack selected the lives of 29 Mariupols, two of them children.
Even then, Nicholas wanted to fight for the independence of Ukraine, but the severe injury of the skull received as a child did not have the chance to get to the ranks of defense forces. However, without business, the guy, helping with the delivery of products and other things for warriors, did not sit.
In the end, without appropriate medical education, he decided to help the wounded soldiers at the call of the soul and in June 2018, he was trained at the Hospitalers Training Center – the Battalion of the Ukrainian Volunteer Army. On July 1, 2018, Volkov went to the first rotation in the village of Pisky, Yasynuvatsky district in Donetsk region as part of the medical group “ASAP – Sands”. Nicholas managed to save the lives of several soldiers, evacuating them from the front line and providing the necessary medical care in a timely manner.
Since the fall of 2018, Nicholas has been fixed to the 8th separate battalion of UDA “Aratta” with the call sign “Smurfa”. He performed tasks in the area of his native Mariupol, rescued Ukrainian fighters in Shirokin, Sand, and Water.
Death On April 10, 2019, Nikolai Volkov was seriously injured by a sniper ball in the head near Vodyany in Donetsk. In the critical condition of the boy was evacuated to the Mechnikov Hospital in the Dnieper. During the life of a warrior, doctors fought for five days. Nicholas died on April 15.
The founder and commander of the medical battalion “Hospitalers” Jan Zinkevich at the funeral Honoring Mykola Volkov was buried on the Walk of Glory of the Starocman Cemetery in his hometown. On March 13, 2020 he was awarded the Order of Courage III (posthumously). He was also posthumously awarded with Mercy Medal.
The boy in his native Mariupol had a father, a sister and a brother. Their fate after the occupation of the city in the spring of 2022 is unknown.
After the boy and then death, banners in support and memory of Smurfa appeared in the sectors of different Ukrainian clubs. The most accurate one that was placed by the Ultras of Ternopil “Niva”: “While you” tired of war “, the heroes die, rescuing others.”
