Vyacheslav Vorona
32, baseball player,
Kyiv
"In wholesome mix of whirling crankiness Providing no return address Away is flying land of boyishness — Forgetful land of time and stress,” a poet Wele Stylweld recited these lines as an epitaph on the day of Vyacheslav Vorona’s death. "This boy is from my Chernobyl school where I taught for ten years! Blessed be his memory!” he said in his farewell.
The hero of the Celestial Hundred Vyacheslav Vorona was born on December 22, 1981 in Pripyat. After Chernobyl accident in 1986 his family—like thousands of other families from Chernobyl zone—moved to Kyiv. They settled down in Troyeshchyna—the largest residential area of the country. There he finished Secondary school # 270.
Polina Olkhovskaya, a classmate, recalls, “Smiley, friendly, always sm
