Serhii V. Petryk

Born on April 16, 1987, in the village of Chervony Kolodyaz (since 2016 - Chystyy Kolodyaz) in the Nizhyn district of Chernihiv region. In 2002, he graduated from the 9th grade of the general education school in the village of Peremoha, Nizhyn district, and in 2003 - from the Chernihiv Professional Construction Lyceum with a specialty in "carpentry." He served his mandatory military service in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He worked as a carpenter at the Chernihiv Professional Construction Lyceum, and from 2010 to 2011 - as a carpenter at the general education school in the village of Peremoha, Nizhyn district. On March 19, 2014, he was mobilized into the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He served as a mechanic for repairing equipment in the 1st Separate Guards Tank Brigade of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (military unit A1815, the urban-type settlement of Honcharivske, Chernihiv district, Chernihiv region). He established himself as a good mechanic, and he was kept in the urban-type settlement of Honcharivske to repair equipment, which was then sent to the area of the anti-terrorist operation. Since 2014, he participated in the anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine. He transported damaged military equipment from the anti-terrorist operation zone for repairs to the city of Kharkiv and returned repaired military equipment back to the front. He also transported soldiers for rotation. At the end of 2014, he spent two and a half months near the urban-type settlement of Stanytsia Luhanska in Luhansk region, where their team was shelled twice from a BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launcher. Then, Senior Soldier Petryk was transferred to the area of the city of Yasynuvata in Donetsk region. On February 22, 2015, Senior Soldier Petryk was killed by a gunshot wound near the village of Zlatoivka in Volnovakha district of Donetsk region. On February 25, 2015, he was buried in the cemetery of the village of Peremoha, Nizhyn district, Chernihiv region.