Олександр Сергійович. Шаповал (Фортуна)

Born on July 25, 1992, in the urban-type settlement of Yelyzavethradka in the Oleksandrivsk district of Kirovohrad region. After some time, the family moved to the city of Cherkasy. In 2008, he graduated from the 9th grade of general education school No. 30 in Cherkasy, and in 2010 - from the Kyiv Military Lyceum named after Ivan Bohun. Since 2010, he has been in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In July 2010, he entered the Hetman Petro Sahaidachny National Army Academy (formerly the Academy of Ground Forces named after Hetman Petro Sahaidachny, in Lviv) in the faculty of airborne troops and reconnaissance. In 2012, due to the transfer of the faculty, he continued his studies at the Military Academy (in Odesa). In 2014, he graduated from the faculty of highly mobile airborne troops and reconnaissance of the Military Academy (in Odesa). Since 2014, he served in the 74th separate reconnaissance battalion of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (military unit A1035, urban-type settlement of Cherkaské in the Novomoskovsk district of Dnipropetrovsk region). Since August 2014, he participated in the anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine. Call sign "Fortuna". Participant in the defense of Donetsk International Airport. On August 5, 2015, Senior Lieutenant Oleksandr Shapoval was killed while performing a combat mission, detonating a mine near the village of Karlivka in the Marinka district of Donetsk region. Along with him, soldier Rostoropsha and soldier Lianka were killed. On August 8, 2015, he was buried in the cemetery of the urban-type settlement of Yelyzavethradka in the Oleksandrivsk district. On October 13, 2015, a memorial plaque was opened in honor of Oleksandr Shapoval on the facade of the general education school building (102 Lenin Street) in the urban-type settlement of Yelyzavethradka in the Oleksandrivsk district. On October 12, 2016, memorial plaques were opened in his honor on the facade of general education school No. 30 (14 Vitaliy Verhay Street) in Cherkasy and on November 24, 2016, on the facade of the main building of the Kyiv Military Lyceum named after Ivan Bohun (25 Lesya Ukrainka Boulevard) in Kyiv, where Oleksandr Shapoval studied.