Dmytro Korchynsky

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Dmytro Korchynsky
Korchynsky in 2012.
Native name	Дмитро Олександрович Корчинський
Born	(1964-01-22) 22 January 1964 (age 60) Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Allegiance	UNA-UNSO (1992 - 1998); Brotherhood (Ukrainian political party) (2004 - now)
Battles/wars	Transnistria War War in Abkhazia (1992–1993) First Chechen War Russo-Ukrainian War
Website	http://www.bratstvo.info

Dmytro Oleksandrovych Korchynsky (Ukrainian: Дмитро Олександрович Корчинський; born 22 January 1964) is a Ukrainian writer, poet, militant, and political activist who is the former leader of far-right Ukrainian National Assembly – Ukrainian People's Self-Defence (UNA-UNSO) organisation.^[1]

Korchynsky was born on 22 January 1964 in Kyiv, Ukraine, USSR. In 1982, he finished a high school and enrolled in the Kyiv Institute of Food Industry's Department of Industrial Power Generation. After two years of study, he left the institute without finishing. Later, Korchynsky participated in number of archaeological expeditions in the Southern Ukraine.

From 1985 to 1987, he served in the Soviet army. Korchynsky was in the 24th Mechanized Brigade of the Carpathian Military District as a commander of BMP-2. After demobilization he was dismissed in reserves as an assistant to a platoon leader. In 1987, Korchynsky enrolled in the Kyiv University, but left later that year.

From 1987 to 1988, Korchynsky was a member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group.