Oleksiy Rudenko
Oleksiy Rudenko graduated from the Ukrainian National Academy of Arts in 1992, and is a member of the National Artists’ Union of Ukraine. For 4 years he was a chief artist working on ‘Viysko Ukrainy’, a periodical for the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence. He has helped to create the decorations system for Ukraine, and is now a member of the State Decorations and Armory Committee under the President of Ukraine. He has written a book on the State Orders of Ukraine ‘Bogdan Khmelnytskyi Order’. He lives and works in Kiev, Ukraine.