Serhiy Kultschyzkyj
Serhij Petrowytsch Kultschyzkyj ( Ukrainian Сергій Петрович Кульчицький ; born December 17, 1963 in Weimar , GDR ; † May 29, 2014 near Slovyansk , Ukraine ) was a Ukrainian major general .
Life
Kultschyzkyj was born in Weimar in 1963. His father, who belonged to the Soviet army , was stationed in the GDR at the time. He attended military school in Ussuriysk in the Primorsky Krai and sat there after his degree in 1981 his education at the Far Eastern Military Academy ( Дальневосточное высшее военное командное училище ) in Blagoveshchensk in the Amur Oblast on. There he received an award in 1985. Kultschyzkyj was now platoon leader in the Northern Fleet of the Soviet Navy and was stationed in Murmansk . After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the associated independence of Ukraine, he moved to the west of the new state. In 1992 he became deputy commander of a battalion of the National Guard stationed in Ternopil . In 1994 he became the commandant of the battalion. In 2010 he was appointed deputy commander of the Western Operations Command , one of the three army commands of the Ukrainian Army . In December 2013 he was promoted to major general by President Viktor Yanukovych . After his removal from office in February 2014, Kultschyzkyj became head of the combat training department.
Kultschyzkyj died on May 29, 2014 when pro-Russian separatists shot down his army helicopter near Slovyansk in Donetsk Oblast . A total of 14 soldiers were killed in the crash. At that time, Kultschyzkyj was responsible for the National Guard's command of combat and was on his way to a nearby military base. Until the end of May 2014, he was the highest-ranking officer who died in combat operations in the course of the war in Ukraine .
Kultschyzkyj was married and had one son. He was posthumously awarded the title Hero of Ukraine on June 20, 2014 .
Web links
- Obituary: Major General Serhiy Kulchytsky , May 29, 2014, BBC News
- General killed when helicopter was shot down , May 29, 2014, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Individual evidence
- ↑ Decree No. 544/2014 of the President of Ukraine conferring the title Hero of Ukraine on S. Kultschyzkyj , accessed on February 10, 201
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| SURNAME | Kultschyzkyj, Serhiy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kultschyzkyj, Serhij Petrowytsch (full name); Кульчицький, Сергій Петрович (Ukrainian spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian major general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th December 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Weimar , GDR |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 29, 2014 |
| Place of death | near Slovyansk , Ukraine |