Yurii V. Polishchuk

Born on August 3, 1982, in the village of Tokariv, Novograd-Volynskyi district, Zhytomyr region. Graduated from the general education school in the village of Tokariv. In the Armed Forces of Ukraine since the early 2000s. As of May 2014, he served as the chief sergeant - commander of a platoon of the 54th separate reconnaissance battalion of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (military unit A2076 - the city of Novograd-Volynskyi, Zhytomyr region). In 2007, he participated in a peacekeeping mission in Kosovo. Lived in his native village of Tokariv. He was the captain of the Tokariv football team "Hranit." In May 2014, during exercises in the Zaporizhzhia region, he suffered a severe traumatic brain injury. He was treated in the neurosurgery department of the Zaporizhzhia regional clinical hospital, where he died on May 25, 2014, without regaining consciousness. On May 28, 2014, he was buried in the cemetery of the village of Tokariv, Novograd-Volynskyi district, Zhytomyr region.