Bohdan S. Bakhurynskyi

43-year-old fighter Bohdan Bahurynskyi was killed on September 21, 2022, in a battle on the outskirts of Bakhmut in the Donetsk region. During an enemy tank shelling, the defender sustained explosive injuries, shrapnel wounds to the head, and multiple fractures of the upper limbs. He from his injuries during evacuation to the medical unit. Bohdan was born in the village of Pershotravensk in the Zhytomyr region. He graduated from the local school. He then obtained the profession of a tractor driver-machine operator at Polonske Vocational Training Institution No. 35. However, he did not work in that profession. In his teenage years, he lost his father, so he learned everything in life on his own: he could build a house, perform all interior work, install heating, and connect plumbing. From the first days of the full-scale Russian invasion, Bohdan signed up for the local territorial defense. He patrolled the streets and stood duty at checkpoints. Later, he joined the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He held the position of a shooter - assistant grenade launcher in the 30th Separate Mechanized Brigade named after Prince Kostiantyn Ostrozhskiy. He fought in the Donetsk, Luhansk, and Kharkiv regions. "Everything we have in our home was made by his hardworking hands. He never shied away from work and quickly learned new things. He especially loved working with wood. His solace and greatest relaxation was fishing. He loved tending to the garden in our yard. He grafted each young tree by hand. He nurtured about ten bushes of grapes of various varieties. In the fall, he made wine from the harvest, experimenting with different flavors. Bohdan was a wonderful husband and a loving father. Over the 18 years of our life together, he became my source of strength, support, and stability," recalls his wife, Tetiana. The warrior was buried in the cemetery in the village of Hlybochok in the Zhytomyr region. Bohdan is survived by his mother, sister, wife, and two sons. The defender was posthumously awarded the distinction "For Merits to the Novograd-Volynskyi District."