Ivan A. Oliinyk

Born on July 27, 1993, in the city of Pyriatyn, Poltava region. In 2008, he graduated from the 9th grade of general education school No. 3 in the city of Pyriatyn, in 2010 - from general education school No. 4 in the city of Pyriatyn, and in 2011 - from the Pryluky Vocational Technical Lyceum (city of Pryluky, Chernihiv region) with a specialty in "locksmith-automotive mechanic." In 2011-2012, he served in the Armed Forces of Ukraine as a conscript. He served as a mechanic-driver of anti-aircraft installations in the 1121st separate training anti-aircraft missile-artillery regiment of the 169th training center of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (military unit A3435, the urban-type settlement of Desna, Kozelets district, Chernihiv region). Since 2012, he served under contract as a mechanic-driver-electrician in the 30th separate mechanized brigade of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (military unit A0409, the city of Novograd-Volynskyi, Zhytomyr region). Since the spring of 2014, he served at checkpoints in the Kherson region on the administrative border with the occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea by Russian troops. From spring to summer 2014, he participated in the anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine. He was involved in the battles for the strategically important height of Savur-Mohyla (Shakhtarsk district, Donetsk region) and for the village of Stepanyvka in the Shakhtarsk district of Donetsk region. On August 11, 2014, at 14:00, soldier Oliynyk was killed during shelling from BM-21 "Grad" combat vehicles and tanks at the brigade command post in the area of the village of Stepanyvka, Shakhtarsk district, Donetsk region. He was buried in the cemetery of the city of Pyriatyn, Poltava region.