On Monday, October 2, Lviv will say goodbye to serviceman Oleksandr Sulimov, who died at the hands of the Russian occupier while 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.
At 9:30 a.m., a funeral prayer and farewell to the serviceman will be held in the Church of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist of the UGCC in the city of Vinnyki (61 Halytska St.).
The funeral service will begin at 11:00 a.m. in the Garrison Church of Sts. App. Peter and Paul, at 11:30 a city farewell ceremony will take place on Rynok Square.
The soldier will be buried at the Lychakiv cemetery.
Biographical certificate of the defender
Oleksandr Sulimov (16.12.1991-26.09.2023)
He grew up in the village of Rekshin, Ternopil region. He studied at the Rekshinsky institution of general secondary education of the I-III degrees. After graduating from school, he moved to Lviv and obtained a professional and technical education at the Lviv Vocational College of Food and Processing Industry of the National University of Food Technologies. Subsequently, he entered the correspondence form of education at the National University of Food Technologies.
While studying in college, he became interested in production and decided to work in his profession: he started his career as an “operator of assembly and packaging machines” in the Private Joint-Stock Company “Concern “Hlibprom”.
Despite his young age, having demonstrated extraordinary responsibility and exceptional human qualities, he was quickly promoted and became a shift master, and during the last period he worked as the head of the frozen semi-finished product shop. In his spare time, he was an avid fisherman and fond of football: he participated in numerous district competitions, played in several local clubs. Also, according to relatives, Oleksandr Sulimov was an “extremely loving, but fair father.”
With the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation, he actively engaged in volunteer activities and joined the ranks of the territorial defense. Despite the lack of military experience, he tried to get to the front several times. Ignoring the persuasion of his relatives, he secretly went to Kyiv and joined the 12th operational brigade named after Dmytro Vyshnevetskyi of the Eastern operational-territorial unit of the National Guard of Ukraine. Performed combat missions in the eastern direction.
Oleksandr Sulimov is survived by his grandmother, mother, wife, three small children, a sister and two brothers. One of them defends Ukraine from Russian invaders on the front line.