Сергій Валерійович. Гончаренко

Born on July 16, 1991, in the city of Izium, Kharkiv region. Graduated from Gymnasium No. 1 in the city of Izium. Served mandatory military service in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Since 2011, studied at the Faculty of Radio Engineering of the Air Defense Forces at the Ivan Kozhedub Air Force University in Kharkiv in part-time education. Since April 2013, served under contract 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, Dnipropetrovsk region). Since the spring of 2014, participated in the Anti-Terrorist Operation in eastern Ukraine. On June 14, 2014, around 1:00 AM, the military transport aircraft IL-76 MD of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, while approaching 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 Junior Sergeant Honcharenko, and 9 crew members. As a result of the crash, all personnel of the airborne unit and the aircraft crew were killed. On July 27, 2014, he was buried in the cemetery on Shevchenko Street in the city of Izium. On January 30, 2015, a decision was made at a session of the Izium City Council to rename Artem Lane to Junior Sergeant Serhiy Honcharenko Street. In the city of Izium, a memorial plaque was installed on the facade of Gymnasium No. 1 (Soborna Street, 1), where Serhiy Honcharenko studied.