A CEREMONY OF HONOURING THE MEMORY OF MIKHAIL ZHIZNEVSKY

November 26, Kyiv residents honored the memory of Mikhail Zhiznevsky - one of the first heroes of the Heavenly Hundred. This day Mikhail could celebrate his 28th birthday.

Also, Nov 26 was held first ceremony of the Warrior of Light literature award, which is dedicated to the day of Mikhail's birthday. Since this year the literature award will be held annually on November 26 near the memorial to the Belarusian nationalism, which was set at Grushevskogo street. The Warrior of Light literature award was founded by the National Unions of Writers of Ukraine and Belarus.

Mikhail was born in Homel, Belarus; he was an activist of the Belarusian nationalist movement as well as a member of the UNSO Ukrainian nationalist organisation. In recent years before the Maidan events Zhiznevsky lived in Bila Tserkva, Kyiv region, where he worked as a welder, aslo Mikhail was a freelance correspondent for the newspaper "Soborna Kyivshina." He died from a gunshot wound to the heart on January 22, 2014 around 9 AM near the stadium "Dynamo" on Grushevskogo street.



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