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Олександр Кукурба | |
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Born | Verkhnii Verbizh, Kolomyia Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine | September 18, 1994
Died | July 26, 2022 Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine | (aged 27)
Education | Ivan Kozhedub National Air Force University |
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Hero of Ukraine
![]() Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky 1st class (posthumously) Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky 2nd class Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky 3rd class |
Oleksandr Vasyliovich Kukurba ( Ukrainian: Олександр Васильович Кукурба; 18 September 1994 – 26 July 2022) [1] was a Ukrainian military officer, major of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a participant in the Russo-Ukrainian War. [1] Hero of Ukraine (2022), recipient of the Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky all classes. [1]
Oleksandr Kukurba was born in 1994 in the village of Verkhnii Verbizh in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine. [1]
Kukurba studied at the Nizhniy Verbizh comprehensive school (p. Nizhniy Verbizh, Kolomyia Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk region).
He completed his military service as the head of intelligence at the headquarters of the 299th tactical aviation brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. [2]
During the repulse of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, he flew 100 sorties, destroyed more than 20 tanks and about 50 combat units of armored vehicles and other means, as well as more than 300 enemy personnel. [3] [4]
He died in battle for Ukraine on 26 July 2022. [5] [6] The Nizhniy Verbizh community declared 27–29 July to be days of mourning. [7] [8] Kukurba was buried in his native village on 29 July 2022. [9] Two days of mourning for him where held in his place of birth. [1]
In November 2022 the Cosmonaut Komarov street in Dnipro (located in the Sobornyi District) was renamed Oleksandr Kukurba Street as part of the derussification drive following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. [10]