25 May 2026

A doctor and deputy of five convocations died in Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi

(PHOTO: Ihor Velychko/Facebook)

Leonid Kondratyuk, Honored Doctor of Ukraine, honorary citizen of the city of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi in Odesa Oblast and a deputy of five convocations, died on the morning of May 25.

This was reported by Ihor Velychko, the administrator of the executive committee of the Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi City Council.

"Leonid Ivanovich was not just a doctor - he was a man with a capital M. A person who saved, supported, helped, worried about others and remained devoted to his work and his hometown to the last," wrote Ihor Velychko.

Earlier, the oldest resident of Kilia in Odesa Oblast, poet Nina Chernobykina, died on April 18 at the age of 104. Nina Chernobykina was born in 1921 in the city of Kamyshlov in the Urals. There she graduated from high school and a pedagogical college with a degree in elementary school.

Volodymyr Teravsky, an honorary resident of the Artsyz community in Odesa Oblast, an honored surgeon and longtime employee of the Artsyz hospital, died on April 17 at the age of 90.

In September 2024, the doctor retired, and in 2021 his name was entered in the Ukrainian Book of Records as the oldest practicing surgeon. At that time, the doctor was 85 years old. Volodymyr Teravsky was born in Khmelnytskyi, but lived and worked in Artsyz for 50 years.

Actor, comedian, long-time participant of the Mask Show, musician Volodymyr Komarov died on March 29, and on April 1, Odesa said goodbye to him. Cinematographer, People's Artist of Ukraine, director of the Odesa Film Studio, Willen Novak also died on March 29.

In February, Rimma Lytvak, a scholar in the field of social pedagogy, teacher, educator, public figure, philanthropist, wife of the honorary citizen of Odesa and Odesa region, Hero of Ukraine Borys Lytvak, died in Odesa at the age of 95.

Кирило Бойко

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