Kyrylo O. Hryhoriuk

Born on January 24, 1989, in the city of Kherson. Graduated from Gymnasium No. 3 in Kherson and the Kherson State Maritime Academy. In 2013, he went to Spain, but as soon as the war in eastern Ukraine began, he returned to his homeland. In July 2014, he was mobilized into the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He served as a senior shooter in the 28th Separate Guards Mechanized Brigade of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (military unit A0666 (field post V0095), the urban-type settlement of Chornomorske in the Kominternivskyi district (since 2016 - Lyman district) of Odesa region). Since the summer of 2014, he participated in the anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine. On September 4, 2014, soldier Hryhoryuk was killed while performing a combat mission in the area of the urban-type settlement of Andriivka in the Telmanivskyi district (since December 2014 - Volnovakha district) of Donetsk region. On September 15, 2014, he was buried at the memorial to fallen soldiers of the anti-terrorist operation at the Geologists cemetery in Kherson. In the city of Kherson, on March 13, 2015, a memorial plaque was opened on the building of Gymnasium No. 3 (Paton Street, 15) and on June 2, 2016, on the building of the main campus of the Kherson State Maritime Academy (Ushakova Avenue, 20), where Kyrylo Hryhoryuk studied.