Serhii V. Dobropas

Born on August 30, 1990, in the village of Chervonyi Lyman (now Dobropasove) of the Pokrovsk district in Dnipropetrovsk region. He graduated from the general education school in the village of Kolomiytsi, Pokrovsk district, and then from the Dnipropetrovsk Higher Vocational School of Construction. From 2009 to 2010, he served in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. After his service, he worked at the LLC "Agrofirma 'Obriy'" in the village of Kolomiytsi, Pokrovsk district. In March 2014, he was mobilized into the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He served in the 25th Separate Dnipropetrovsk Airborne Brigade of the High Mobility Airborne Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (military unit A1126, the urban-type settlement of Hvardiyiske, Novomoskovsk district, Dnipropetrovsk region). From the summer of 2014, he participated in the Anti-Terrorist Operation in eastern Ukraine. On June 14, 2014, around 1:00 AM, the military transport aircraft IL-76 MD of the Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, while approaching to land at the airport in the city of Luhansk, was shot down by terrorists using a portable anti-aircraft missile system. On board the aircraft were 40 servicemen of the 25th Separate Dnipropetrovsk Airborne Brigade, including soldier Dobropas, and 9 crew members. As a result of the crash, all personnel of the airborne unit and the aircraft crew were killed. On July 26, 2014, he was buried in the cemetery of the village of Chervonyi Lyman (now Dobropasove), Pokrovsk district. On June 12, 2015, a memorial plaque was unveiled in the village of Kolomiytsi, Pokrovsk district, on the facade of the general education school building (Shkilna Street, 13), where Serhiy Dobropas studied.