Rybak was born in the city of
Horlivka in 1971. In 1995 he graduated from the Automobile Highway Institute of the
Donetsk National Technical University and in 2002 from the
Interregional Academy of Personnel Management. From 1995 to 2009, Rybak worked in the division of Criminal Investigation for the Horlivka city
police. During the
2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election, as a Batkivshchyna candidate, he ran for the
Ukrainian parliament at the 41st electoral district (the
Budonivskyi District of
Donetsk) placing 4th with 5,195 votes (4.55%, winner of the
Party of Regions won the district with 80.85% of the votes). Rybak was an active supporter of the 2013–2014
Euromaidan protest. Later his body with signs of
torture was found in the
Torets River, along with other two bodies. In May 2020
Igor Strelkov, a key organizer of the Donetsk People's Republic's militant groups confessed in an interview with Ukrainian journalist
Dmitry Gordon that he bore some responsibility for the killing of Rybak: "Naturally, Rybak, as a person who actively opposed the "militias", was an enemy in my eyes. And his death, probably, is to some extent also under my responsibility". == Awards ==