Order for Courage Oleksandr Ivanovych Zakolodny (April 8, 1987 - January 21, 2023) was a Ukrainian mountaineer; a soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who served the Kraken Regiment, a special volunteer unit of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine (HUR) in the Russian-Ukrainian war.
He was killed in action near the city of Soledar in Donetsk Oblast together with his friend Hryhoriy Hryhoriev.
[1][2][3][4] Oleksandr was born and lived in Kharkiv, where he graduated from Kharkiv State Academy of Physical Culture.
Since 2020, he has served as the Chairperson of the Mountaineering Committee of the Mountaineering and Climbing Federation of Ukraine (MCFU) and Vice President of the MCFU.
[5] He also worked as a coach at the Vertical Climbing Center[6][7] He took part in three expeditions to the eight-thousanders: