Andrey Ivanovich Digdalovich ( June 3, 1973 , Sokolniki - February 20, 2014 , Kiev ) - activist of Euromaidan . He died from a sniper bullet on Institutskaya street in Kiev on February 20, 2014 . Cavalier of the Order "For the Defense of the Maidan." Hero of Ukraine .
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Biography
Born June 3, 1973 in the village. Sokolniki of the Pustomitovsky district of the Lviv region .
Andrei’s grandfather, father Yarimovich, during the time of the persecution of the Greek Catholic Church organized underground services (L. Voitovich, Doctor of Historical Sciences, professor, Lviv National University named after I. Frank, “Underground UGCC. Some little-known pages”). The grandmother’s brother, Ivan Butkovsky, was a colonel of the UPA (pseudonym “Hutsul”), Knight of the Golden Cross of Battle Merit , who died in Munich in 1967.
At the age of 18, he organized in Sokolniki the Ukrainian Language Society named after T. Shevchenko In 2004, from the first to the last day, he was on the Maidan during the Orange Revolution .
He raised two daughters - Andrian (21 years old) and Anastasia (11 years old). Was a builder
On Maidan
He was enrolled in the Hundred Afghanistan Veterans Self-Defense Maidan, although he did not serve in Afghanistan In January, after being wounded with a rubber bullet on Grushevsky Street, he lost 80% of his vision in one eye.
Memory
They buried the Hero of Heavenly Hundred on February 23 at the Alley of Heroes of the Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv.
In the district center of Pustomyty , Pryamaya Street, where Andrei Digdalovich lived for a long time, was renamed to Andrei Digdalovich Street [1] according to decision No. 1459 of the Pustomytovsky City Council of 08.07.2014.
Rewards
- The title of Hero of Ukraine with the award of the Golden Star Order ( November 21, 2014 , posthumous) - for civic courage, patriotism, heroic upholding of the constitutional principles of democracy, human rights and freedoms, selfless service to the Ukrainian people, discovered during the Revolution of Dignity [2]
- Medal “For Sacrifice and Love for Ukraine” ( UOC-KP , June 2015) (posthumous) [3]
Notes
- ↑ About the renaming of the vulitsi at the city of Pustomiti . Date of treatment October 28, 2015. Archived October 28, 2015.
- ↑ Decree of the President of Ukraine dated 11/21/2014 to Rock No. 890/2014 “On the assignment of a title to the Hero of Ukraine” (Ukrainian) (inaccessible link) . President of Ukraine. Official online representation ( 11/21/2014 ). Date of treatment November 22, 2014. Archived November 21, 2014.
- ↑ Patriarch Filaret having awarded ceremonial medals to relatives of heroes of the Heavenly Hundreds // TSN, 5 Lipnya 2015
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See also
- List of dead members of Euromaidan