Vasyl Marmus

Vasyl Marmus was born on 26 April 1992 in Chortkiv, Ternopil Oblast.[4]

Marmus studied at the Chortkiv Music School[5] and secondary school No. 5, graduated from the Prykarpatskyi Military and Sports Boarding Lyceum, Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University.[4]

Active participant in the Revolution of Dignity.[1]

With the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, he went to the front as a volunteer.[6][7] He served with the 80th air assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He died on 11 September 2022 in Oskil, Kharkiv Oblast.[4][8]

He was buried on 15 September 2022 in the Alley of Heroes of the Yahilnytskyi Cemetery in Chortkiv.[9][10][11]

The parents, the wife, the daughter, the brother are left.[10]

He played many instruments, including the accordion, bandura, harmonica, and was an excellent trombone player. He was a member of the band "Oktava", for which he wrote the Christmas carol "Sviata Nich".[12]

He was a member of the Ternopil Film Commission (2021, dreamed of creating a branch in Chortkiv). He played the role of an Enkavedist in the national non-fiction film Mariia (2021).[13][14]

In 2022, before the invasion of the invaders, Vasyl dedicated the song Braty po nevoli to his father Volodymyr.[12]

• Honorary Citizen of Chortkiv (2022, posthumously)[15]

On 13 October 2022, a memorial evening was held in memory of Vasyl Marmus at the Kateryna Rubchakova Cultural Services Center in Chortkiv.[16]

In June 2023, the Chortkiv Art School was named after him.[5] On 4 September of the same year, a bas-relief to Vasyl Marmus was unveiled on the facade of the school, created by artists from Kyiv, Olha and Yakiv Bilenko.[17]