Yurii M. Bronyk

Yuriy Mykolayovych Bronik was born on February 10, 1972, in the village of Ushomyr, Korosten district, Zhytomyr region. In 1989, he graduated from Ushomyr Secondary School (now a gymnasium). He served his mandatory military service in the Armed Forces of the USSR and Ukraine. Later, for 22 years, he worked as a sawmill operator at the Ushomyr forestry industrial complex of the state enterprise "Korosten Forestry and Hunting Economy" of the Zhytomyr Regional Department of Forestry and Hunting. In March 2014, he was called up for military service by mobilization and took the position of mechanic-driver of the 30th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (military unit A-0409). From the summer of that year, he participated in the anti-terrorist operation in Eastern Ukraine.