Anton O. Samokhin

Born on January 18, 1991, in the city of Kirovohrad. Later, the family moved to the village of Verblyuzhka in the Novhorodkivskyi district of Kirovohrad region. In 2006, he graduated from the 9th grade of the general education school in Verblyuzhka, and in 2008 - from the general education school No. 29 in Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk region. From 2009 to 2012, he worked seasonally as a rescue sailor at one of the suburban recreation bases of PJSC "ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih." He graduated from Kryvyi Rih National University in Kryvyi Rih with a degree in "Metal Processing by Pressure." In 2012-2013, he served in the 540th Lviv Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment named after Ivan Vyhovskyi of the Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (military unit A4623, Kam'yanka-Buzka, Lviv region). In the spring of 2014, he was mobilized into the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He served in the 25th Separate Dnipropetrovsk Airborne Brigade of the High Mobility Airborne Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (military unit A1126, the urban-type settlement of Hvardiyiske, Novomoskovskyi district, Dnipropetrovsk region). From the summer of 2014, he participated in the anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine. On June 14, 2014, around 1:00 AM, the military transport aircraft IL-76 MD of the Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, while approaching to land at the airport in the city of Luhansk, was shot down by terrorists using a portable anti-aircraft missile system. On board the aircraft were 40 servicemen of the 25th Separate Dnipropetrovsk Airborne Brigade, including Senior Soldier Samokhin, and 9 crew members. As a result of the crash, all personnel of the airborne unit and the aircraft crew were killed. On July 25, 2014, he was buried in the cemetery of the village of Verblyuzhka, Novhorodkivskyi district. Memorial plaques have been installed on the facades of the buildings of the general education school in the village of Verblyuzhka (Bilyaiev Street, 95 - opened on April 30, 2015) and the general education school No. 29 in Kryvyi Rih (Rakhmaninov Street, 1), where Anton Samokhin studied. In the village of Verblyuzhka, during a session of the village council deputies, a decision was made to rename Furmanov Street to Samokhin Street.