Arkadiusz Rybicki

Arkadiusz Czesław Rybicki (12 January 1953 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish politician.

He was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 9466 votes in 25 Gdańsk district as a candidate from the Civic Platform list.

He was listed on the flight manifest[1] of the Tupolev Tu-154 of the 36th Special Aviation Regiment carrying the President of Poland Lech Kaczyński which crashed near Smolensk-North airport near Pechersk near Smolensk, Russia, on 10 April 2010, killing all aboard.

In 2001 was awarded the French Ordre national du Mérite, granted by President Jacques Chirac.

On 16 April 2010, Rybicki was posthumously awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.