On March 20, farewell to the biologist and military man Bizhan Sharopov will take place in Kyiv. The defender died in April in a battle near Izyum.

With the dead soldier will say goodbye at 12:00 on Maidan Nezalezhnosti. He will be buried at 13:30 on the Glory Alley of the Lukyanovka cemetery.

The defender was a biophysicist

Bizhan Sharopov was born on October 7, 1989 in Tajikistan. In 1995 his family moved to Kyiv.

The defender studied at the Department of Biology of the Faculty of Natural History of NAUKMA, and then – in graduate school at the Institute of Physiology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. In 2013-2014 he was an active participant in the Revolution of Dignity. In 2014-2015, Sharopov fought for Ukraine as part of the Aidar battalion in the Luhansk region.

He was a biophysicist, co-founder of the Ukrainian Genetic Technologies company. In the spring of 2020, she announced the creation of a PCR-based test to detect the causative agent of the coronavirus.

At the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Sharopov returned to the front. The defender was considered missing in the Kharkov region. However, in early February 2023, the death of the scientist was confirmed at the Bogomolets Institute of Physiology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, where he worked.

The editors of Channel 24 express their condolences to the families and friends of the deceased defender Bizhan Sharopov. Eternal memory to the Hero!

The defender died near Izyum in April 2022 / Photo “Babel”

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