Taras M. Pavliuk

Pavliuk Taras Mykolaiovych was born on July 12, 1969 in the village of Riasnyky, Hoshcha district, Rivne region. He was a distant relative of the native writer, participant of the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917-1921, Antin Pavliuk. He graduated from Riasnyky secondary school, Rivne SPTU No. 38, and the Mechanical Faculty of the Kyiv Technological Institute of Food Industry. He served in the border troops, and after that he held the position of the head of the CHP of the Babyne-Tomakhivka sugar factory for 5 years. He was a member of the People's Movement of Ukraine since 1990, one of the founders of the Hoshcha district branch of the NRU. He participated in the Revolution of Dignity. Until 2014, he was engaged in entrepreneurial activity. He was a participant in the Anti-Terrorist Operation. He held the position of a mechanic-driver of the MTLB in the tank company "Kholodnyi Yar" of the "Azov" regiment, and later for a long time he was a truck driver, driving around Western Europe. After February 24, 2022, he returned from Belgium to his homeland and voluntarily went to the front. He served in the brigade reconnaissance of the 24th separate mechanized brigade named after King Danylo. He was killed on May 27, 2022 during a massive artillery and mortar shelling near the village of Komyshuvakha, Luhansk region.