Eduard A. Dvukhimennyi (Pianist)

Soldier Eduard Dvokhminnyi (call sign Pianist) was killed on June 15, 2023. He was held captive in the Russian city of Vladimir. The fighter ended up there in April 2022 from the settlement of Zarichne in the Donetsk region. Eduard was 60 years old. He was born in the settlement of Stanytsia Luhanska, Luhansk region. When he was 7 years old, the family moved to Mykolaiv. There he grew up and studied at gymnasium No. 2. He loved his grandmother Paraska Kindratівna very much and came to visit her in the Luhansk region every vacation. He obtained the profession of a locomotive driver's assistant at the Krasnolymanskyi vocational and technical school. Then he studied in Odesa. He served his conscription in Belarus. He fought in Afghanistan. In civilian life, the man worked in his profession: first he was a locomotive driver's assistant, and then a locomotive driver at the locomotive depot TC-8 in Mykolaiv. He loved football, hockey, fishing, and skated wonderfully. He supported the Barcelona (Spain) football club. He supported the Revolution of Dignity on Maidan Nezalezhnosti in Kyiv, where he went with his son Yevhen. With the start of the full-scale invasion, the man voluntarily took up the defense of Ukraine, joining the ranks of the 79th separate air assault brigade. He held the position of a grenade launcher. He served on the Luhansk and Donetsk directions. A day before he was captured by the Russians, on April 16, 2022, he still communicated with his son. "Father had good taste in music: he listened to Sting, Rod Stewart, the band Queen, but he loved Pink Floyd and Alan Parsons the most. He even had the call sign Pianist while on duty. He really liked the movie The Legend of the Pianist, and my grandfather, his father, was also a wonderful musician. He loved to spend time with his family, he loved his grandchildren very much," said his son Yevhen. Eduard left behind a wife, a daughter, three sons, two grandsons and two granddaughters.