Oleh I. Dovhyi

Born on January 6, 1993, in the village of Verkhi, Kamin-Kashirskyi district, Volyn region, in a family of teachers. In 1994, he moved with his parents to the village of Shchurivtsi, Izyaslavskyi district, Khmelnytskyi region. In 2008, he graduated from the 9th grade of the general education school (now an educational complex) in the village of Shchurivtsi, Izyaslavskyi district, and in 2010, he graduated from the general education school in the village of Klubivka, Izyaslavskyi district. Since 2010, he has been in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In July 2010, he entered the Hetman Petro Sahaidachnyi National Army Academy (Lviv) in the faculty of airborne troops and reconnaissance. In 2012, due to the transfer of the faculty, he continued his studies at the Military Academy (Odesa). In 2014, he graduated from the faculty of highly mobile airborne troops and reconnaissance of the Military Academy (Odesa) with a specialty in "Physical training in the troops." From June to August 2014, he served as the head of physical training and sports of a military unit, and from August 2014, he served as a platoon commander and deputy commander of a mountain infantry company for personnel work in the 15th separate mountain infantry battalion of the 128th separate guards mountain infantry brigade of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (military unit A1778, Uzhhorod). Since August 2014, he participated in the anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine. Call sign "Fizruk." Participant in the defense of the city of Debaltseve, Donetsk region. On January 31, 2015, at 04:00, Russian-terrorist groups, supported by three tanks and artillery, launched an attack on the platoon stronghold "Vitaliy" of the Ukrainian military near the urban-type settlement of Chornukhine, Popasna district, Luhansk region. During the battle, Lieutenant Dovhyi was killed by a sniper's bullet while trying to assist wounded comrades, soldier Mykhailo Hryhorishyn and senior soldier Serhii Matusievych, who also died in this battle. On February 26, 2015, he was buried in the cemetery of the village of Shchurivtsi, Izyaslavskyi district. On July 30, 2015, in the village of Shchurivtsi, Izyaslavskyi district, a memorial plaque was unveiled on the facade of the educational complex building (Centralna Street, 1), where Oleg Dovhyi studied. By the decree of the President of Ukraine No. 236/2018 dated August 23, 2018, for personal courage, heroism, and self-sacrifice demonstrated in the defense of the state sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, and loyalty to the military oath, Lieutenant Dovhyi Oleg Ivanovych was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine with the Order of the Golden Star.