“Pavlov Dryshlyuk was 41 years old”, – WRITE: Sport.ua
Career Pavel Dryshlyuk was born on April 24, 1973 in the Polish city of Legnyk, in a family of servicemen. In 1980, Pavel became a student of the first class of the school № 50 in the capital of Hungary Budapest, where at that time his father Vyacheslav Dryshlyuk served in the southern group of Soviet troops. In 1984, the Dryshlyuk family returned to Ukraine, his father was demobilized, and her mother-Galina Drishlyuk-began to work as a major financier at the Ministry of Defense. From 1984 to 1990, Pavel studied at the school № 230 of Svyatoshinsky district of Kiev, and in 1995 he graduated from Kharkiv Higher Military Aviation Engineering School.
Military experience All the life of Pavel Drishlyuk is connected with the army. After completing his studies, the man served in the military units of Boryspil in the Kyiv region – as an aviation technician, onboard engineer of the aviation detachment of the transport aviation squad “Blue Track”. He also worked under the Open Sky International Cooperation Program, participated in the flights of the airspace of other countries, and visited many countries in Europe.
Combat experience and death In the spring of 2014, when the Muscovites, with the support of local separatists, invaded the east of Ukraine and annexed the Crimean peninsula, Pavel Dryshlyuk began to participate in hostilities as an on-board technician in the crew of the An-30B aircraft, headed by Lieutenant Colonel Konstantin Mogilk. The plane became Russian twice, but both times was able to return to the base.
However, on June 6, 2014, the crew made its last departure. The An-30B photo intelligence aircraft carried out observation flight and photographed the area over the city of Slavic in Donetsk region. There were eight people in the crew. At 5:04 pm at an altitude of 4050 meters the aircraft had a rocket released by Russian creatures with MSRC. The rocket hit the right engine, punched it through, a fire began. From the engine, the fire spilled over to the right wing, the plane began to lose its height sharply and fall on the residential quarters of Slavyansk.
The crew commander Konstantin Mogilko gave the crew the order to leave the plane. Bortertelectrician Captain Pavel Dryshlyuk helped two young lieutenants remove the bulletproof vests, put on parachutes and jump out of the aircraft at an 800-meter height. He himself, together with the commander of Lieutenant Colonel Konstantin Mogilko and Bortmechanik, the ensign Oleksiy Potapenko remained on the plane.
At the cost of his own life, the crew directed the plane outside the city and prevented victims among civilians. The car fell at an angle of 80 degrees, north of Slavyansk, behind the village of Pryshib of the Slavic district. Five members of the crew were killed: aircraft commander Konstantin Mogilko, Bortertelender Pavel Dryshlyuk, Bortmechanyk Alexey Potapenko, photography operator Sergey Kaminsky and Radist Vladimir Momot. They saved, shot with parachute, Lieutenants Kirill Kramarev and Vasyl Polazhinets and navigator-instructor Lieutenant Colonel Sergey Nikolaev.
In the fall, the aircraft was completely destroyed, the bodies of the dead pilots were collected by fragments. Alexei Potapenko was buried on June 11, Konstantin Mohylka, after complex examinations and identification – June 26. Pavel Drishlyuk’s body remains were not possible to identify, he was considered missing. Only on January 6, 2015, Captain Dryshlyuk was declared dead.
Family At home, Pavel Dryshlyuk remained the wife of Lyudmila and the son of Cyril, who in the future became a professional football player, in 2019 in the youth team of Ukraine won the title of champion of the world, played for Kropyvnytskyi “Star”, “Alexandria”, Latvian “Spartaks” from Yurmala.
Immediately after our team under the guidance of Alexander Petrakov in 2019 won Korea and for the first time in history won the title of world champion, half-beetle Alexei Khakhlev, who is a close friend of Dryshlyuk Jr., wrote in his Instagram, ” He made the fact that today the Ukrainian people can calmly celebrate our victory at the World Cup! You are strong and you deserve it! I am proud of you, brother! ”.
“Every day I pray and ask my dad to help me. I am glad that we did not let him down and became champions of the world, ”Cyril said at that time.
Alexei Khakhlyov and Kirill Dryshlyuk Honoring On June 20, 2014, for personal courage and heroism, revealed in the protection of state sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, loyalty to the military oath and the indomitability of the spirit of Pavel Dryshlyuk was awarded the Order of Bohdan Khmelnitsky III degree (posthumously).
On September 10, 2015, by the order of the Minister of Defense of Ukraine No. 680, Captain Pavel Dryshlyuk was awarded the military rank of Major (posthumously).
On June 6, 2015, a commemorative sign of the crew of the An-30B aircraft was opened in Boryspil on the territory of the Knyshiv Memorial-Park complex, and an obelisk was installed in Boryspil in Boryspil in Boryspil.
On October 13, 2015 in Kiev at the premises of school № 230 (35b General Naumova St.), in which Pavel Drishlyuk studied, a memorial plaque was opened in his honor.
On June 5, 2016, a memorial “Sorrowful Angel” was opened near the village of Pryshib at the place where the An-30B crew was killed.
As part of the decommunization in Boryspil, one of the streets was renamed in honor of Pavel Dryshlyuk.
