Alexander Savchenko

Alexander Savchenko was born in 1952 in Mariupol. From 1969 to 1975, he studied at the Leningrad Medical Institute (now the St. Petersburg Medical Academy). After graduating from the institute, he worked as a teacher and senior resident, and then as head of the department at the Gatchina Central District Hospital in the Leningrad Region. At the same time, Alexander Petrovich served as a preacher in the Leningrad Church (incidentally, at that time it was the only church in the entire Leningrad Region).

Recalling his childhood, he says: “I have been a believer since childhood. For this, I am grateful to my parents, who instilled faith in me from my mother’s breast.”

Child psychoneurology is Alexander Petrovich’s narrow specialty, but for most of his life he worked in a specialized ambulance team in Mariupol.

In 1994, he left medicine to become the director of the Christian publishing house “Svitlyk” and the director of an international non-governmental organization that works in 35 countries around the world and provides assistance to orphans, leprosy patients, and people with disabilities.

Alexander Savchenko is married and has six children: four sons and two daughters, ten grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. His wife, Tetyana Ivanivna, is a faithful helper in all of her husband’s endeavors.

Oleksandr Savchenko is a doctor, doctor of theology, and pastor of the Church of Salvation (where he has served since 1980). He is a poet and writer, author of the bestsellers “Diamonds of Thought,” “Companion of the Christian Doctor,” “Treasures of Wisdom and Knowledge,” “Pearls of Experience,” and many collections of poems and stories.

Due to the war in Ukraine, he was forced to flee with his wife and the entire church community from Russian-occupied Mariupol to the Polish border. He now lives with his children in America (Spokane, Washington).