Serhii V. Shumakov

Born on May 10, 1988, in the city of Dnipropetrovsk (now Dnipro). Completed 9 grades of general education school, then attended the Dniprovsk Energy Construction College in Dnipropetrovsk (now Dnipro). Served mandatory military service in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In the spring of 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). Since the summer of 2014, he participated in the anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine. On June 14, 2014, around 01:00 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 Sergeant Shumakov, and 9 crew members. As a result of the crash, all personnel of the airborne unit and the aircraft crew were killed. On July 25, 2014, he was buried in the city cemetery of Dnipropetrovsk (now Dnipro). On August 31, 2015, in the city of Dnipropetrovsk (now Dnipro), a memorial plaque was unveiled on the facade of the Dniprovsk Energy Construction College (6A Kosmonavta Volkova Street), where Serhiy Shumakov studied.