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Nikolai Melnik | |
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.JPG) Melnyk in 2006 | |
| Born | December 17, 1953 Stavysche, Kyiv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Died | July 26, 2013 (aged 59) Alicante, Spain |
| Allegiance |  Soviet Union Ukraine |
| Battles / wars | Chernobyl disaster relief operation |
| Awards | Hero of the Soviet Union Order of Lenin Igor I. Sikorsky Award for Humanitarian Service |
| Other work | Test pilot, aerial firefighting pilot |
Mykola Mykolayovych Melnyk (Ukrainian: Микола Миколайович Мельник; 17 December 1953 – 26 July 2013), also known as Nikolai Melnik, was a Soviet-Ukrainian pilot and liquidator hero renowned for his high-risk helicopter mission on the dangerously-radioactive Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant building immediately after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
For this operation, he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union,[1] and the Igor I. Sikorsky Award for Humanitarian Service.