Yurii S. Chopyk

Senior Lieutenant (Starshyi Leiutnant) Yuriy Chuipyk killed in action on February 26, 2022, in battle with the invaders for the Mykolaiv region. The defender was 38 years old. Yuriy was born in Ivano-Frankivsk. He graduated from the Faculty of Foreign Languages at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. He served in the military. Since 2011, he has worked at Ivano-Frankivsk National Medical University. He taught Latin at the Department of Linguistics. In 2017, he defended his dissertation and became a Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences. In 2015, the man went to serve under contract in the ranks of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine. He participated in the ATO / OOS on Donbas. During the full-scale Russian invasion, Yuriy defended Ukraine as part of the 80th Separate Airborne Assault Brigade. He on the third day of the big war. He was considered missing until March 7. "Yuriy Stepanovych loved the informal communication with students, joking, telling army stories. Already knowing that he would go to military service in a day or two, he did not leave his remote work, prepared tests, compiled methodological instructions, edited a manual, and was on friendly terms with all colleagues." It was pleasant to cooperate and relax with him. Everyone remembers Yuriy Chuipyk with warmth. He loved his work, his city, his homeland, his children, and tried to spend a lot of time with them. The children, Aniechka and Stepan, are schoolchildren. The only son of his parents, he gave his life for our future. We will live without Yuri, but in a free Ukraine with a memory in our hearts of our hero... Eternal and bright memory to the Hero of Ukraine - Chuipyk Yuriy Stepanovych..." - they wrote on the page of Ivano-Frankivsk University. The officer was buried in his hometown. Yuriy is survived by his parents, son, and daughter. Posthumously, Senior Lieutenant Yuriy Chuipyk was awarded the Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky III degree.