On November 24, Lviv will say goodbye to Hero Yury Chernenko, who died defending Ukraine. The City Hall calls on Lviv residents and guests to join the city’s farewell ceremony and to refrain from entertainment events and celebrations during this time.
The funeral service will be held at 11:00 a.m. in the Garrison Church of Sts. App. Peter and Paul, at 11:30 a.m. – city farewell ceremony on Rynok Square. The soldier will be buried at the Lychakiv cemetery.
Route of the funeral procession: Garrison Church of St. App. Peter and Paul UGCC (Tetralna Street, 11) – sq. Cathedral – square Rynok (city farewell ceremony) – str. Ruska – st. Basement – str. Volodymyr Vinnichenko – square Soborna – str. Pekarska – str. Shimzeriv – str. Mechnikova – Lychakiv cemetery.
Biographical reference of the Hero
Yuriy Chernenko (November 9, 1968-November 11, 2022). A native of Lviv.
He studied at Lyceum No. 51 named after Ivan Franko of the Lviv City Council. Received a professional and technical education in the specialty “mechanic assembly fitter of the 3rd category”. During 1968-1988, he served in the military.
Since 1995, he served in the modern National Guard of Ukraine. Since 2016, he has been in the 184th training center of the National Academy of Ground Forces named after Hetman Petr Sagaidachny, later – in the 355th training mechanized regiment. Performed combat tasks in the area of the Anti-Terrorist Operation/Joint Forces Operation.
Master Sergeant. With the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation on the territory of Ukraine, he fought with the occupiers in the ranks of the 37th separate motorized infantry battalion “Zaporizhia” of the 56th separate motorized infantry Mariupol brigade of the operational command “South” of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Yuriy Chernenko is survived by a daughter and a grandson.