Valerii M. Hrabovyi

Born on August 15, 1969, in the city of Kotovsk (now Podilsk) in the Odesa region. Graduated from the general education school in the village of Bandurove, Haivoron district, Kirovohrad region. From 1987, served in the Border Troops of the Committee for State Security of the USSR. In 1991, graduated from the command faculty of the Alma-Ata Higher Border School of the KGB of the USSR named after Dzerzhinsky (now the Academy of the Border Service of the National Security Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan). In 1993, left service in the Border Troops. From 1994 to 1997, worked under contract as a legal advisor in the legal support department of banking activities at JSC KB "Kazomertbank" (Almaty, Kazakhstan). In 1997, graduated from the law faculty of the "Turan" University (Almaty, Kazakhstan) with a degree in "Law". From 1998 to 1999, worked as a legal advisor at JSC "Pavlohrad Dairy Plant" in the city of Pavlohrad, Dnipropetrovsk region (now Dnipro region). Since September 1, 1999, he has been a private entrepreneur. Resided in the village of Troitske, Pavlohrad district, Dnipropetrovsk region (now Dnipro region). In the spring of 2014, he was mobilized into the Armed Forces of Ukraine. 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, Dnipro region). Since the spring 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, during its approach 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 Senior Lieutenant Hrabovyi, and 9 crew members. As a result of the crash, all personnel of the airborne unit and the aircraft crew were killed. He was buried in the cemetery of the village of Troitske, Pavlohrad district. On June 7, 2015, a memorial plaque was installed on the facade of the general education school in the village of Bandurove, Haivoron district, where Valeriy Hrabovyi studied.