Zinchyk Stanislav M

After graduating from high school, he served in the border troops of Ukraine, stationed in the city of Illichivsk, Odesa region. In 2001, he graduated from the Pereyaslav-Khmelnytsky State Pedagogical Institute named after H. S. Skovoroda and worked as a teacher of the Ukrainian language and literature in schools in the capital. He was actively involved in sports: fitness, swimming, football, and also mountaineering — together with friends, he conquered the highest peaks of the Caucasus, Elbrus and Kazbek. With the beginning of the Revolution of Dignity, he joined the ranks of public activists, and later, among the first volunteers, he signed a contract to serve in the military reserve of the National Guard of Ukraine. He became the first reservist of the NGU to fall in battle. His wife, Ruzhana Kyrylenko: "I met Stas at the district commission during the last parliamentary elections. We were the heads of the electoral commissions at polling stations in Kyiv. All this time, Stas was by my side — helping to guard the ballots, keeping watch at the polling station. We lived with my parents in the village of Petrovske. You can't imagine how happy he was when our son Filat was born six months ago. I named the child; it came to me in a dream. Stas had a big and kind heart. He had no enemies, helped everyone he could, as they say, both the old and the young. He left without saying goodbye. The last time I spoke to him on the phone was the day before this tragic event. I tearfully begged him to come home. But he forbade me to cry and said he did not feel in danger. Although his voice was worried. He said: 'I can't leave my comrades; otherwise, their fighting spirit will disappear.' So, he didn't get hit by sniper bullets on Instytutska, but he couldn't escape from a terrorist grenade. I am very happy that I lived with such a brave man as Stanislav. I regret that it was so little…". A close friend, head of the department of physical culture and sports of the Boryspil District State Administration Mykola Kaskiv: "Stanislav harmoniously combined the best human qualities. He was a modest, attentive man who had an extraordinarily great spirit. He is the kind of person to take as an example. While in the mountains, Stanislav was the first to notice what other climbers could not see. He was a modern philosopher. Stanislav Zinchik consciously chose his path…".