kutsega, Maxim

Ben Tatiana and Nicolai. He was born on April 21, 1973 in Kazan, Russia. From an early age, Maxim excelled in his physical fitness. For ten years he practiced swimming, participated in competitions and achieved impressive achievements. Among his most prominent hobbies were hunting, fishing, racing boats and diving, and he was even a sniper. After issuing a driver’s license, Maxim soon became an experienced driver. All this he learned and shared with his father, who was also his best friend since childhood. In Russia, Maxim studied for ten years at the English Literature School and graduated with a high school diploma. He then went on to graduate studies in chemical engineering. Maxim, as his name was, was his manner with those around him, the mannerisms of Noam and Charm, both with his friends, with his family and with everyone in his vicinity. He was generous and humble, loved to give of himself, and knew how to be a good friend. In 1991 Maxim immigrated to Israel with his father, his adoptive mother, Vera and her little daughter, Lena. A year later he returned to Russia to complete his university studies. All the time in Russia, he felt nostalgia for the country, and when he returned to school he returned to it. On his return to Israel, Maxim was determined to enlist in the IDF and serve in a combat unit, despite his right to be exempted from service as a combat soldier, being an only child, and Maxim’s parents supported his decision and knew that only a combat unit would be able to express his high physical fitness and will. At the end of December 1992, Maxim enlisted in the Border Police. He quickly integrated into the new environment and felt that he was contributing and doing. In the end book, basic training was written about him: “A special person, armed and armed, bursts forth like a bull.” His parents were well remembered for the graduation ceremony of the Border Police Beets campaign, which Maxim had completed with his comrades in the unit, and his positive qualities and skills in various areas were recognized both within the military and Maxim’s ranks, both by his commanders and by his comrades. And to light up parked vehicles, Maxim was given a special certificate of appreciation by the commander of the Jerusalem Border Police, Yehuda Wilk. Maxim was killed while on duty on June 8, 1994. On the way back to base with his friends on a mission, the driver of the military vehicle veered off the route of his car and crashed into a pillar of a bridge on the Ramot-Jerusalem road. He was buried at the Kiryat Shaul military cemetery.