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Yuriy Yuriyovych Popravka (September 11, 1995, Morozivka, Baryshivskyi Raion, Kyiv Oblast – April 18, 2014, Sloviansk, Donetsk Oblast) was a Ukrainian student and participant in The Revolution of Dignity. He was one of the first victims of the War in Donbas. Along with Yuriy Dyakovsky, he was captured by pro-Russian militants, his body was found on April 19, 2014, with the body of Volodymyr Rybak. He was posthumously awarded the title of "Hero of Ukraine".

From biography
In 2014, he was a student of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (external form of education, Faculty of Sociology and Law).

Yuriy went with his friends to his girlfriend in Kharkiv on April 16, and after that, there was no contact with him. Yuri's girlfriend, Dasha, who studied in Kharkiv, said he came to her with friends, and the next day he left for an unknown destination.

Together with Yury Dyakovsky and three other friends, he went to Slovyansk. On April 16, they were spotted by pro-Russian militants, let into a trap between two roadblocks, and surrounded. On the afternoon of April 17, Yuriy was captured.

Yuriy's mother, Yaroslava Popravka, declared that her son was missing.

On April 19, 2014,  Yuriy's body was found in the Kazennyi Torets river near the village of Raihorodok in Donetsk Oblast, with signs of violent death, along with the body of Volodymyr Rybak, a city council deputy from Horlivka, whose wife identified him on April 22. Yuriy was only identified on April 25. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs press office, "the cause of death of both victims was a combined body trauma due to torture, with subsequent drowning of the still-living unconscious victims".

According to witnesses, including one who was captured with Yuriy and survived the torture, Yuriy was killed for refusing to speak Russian and refusing to lie about attending a Moscow Patriarchate church.

Yuriy was buried on April 28 in Morozivka, Kyiv Oblast.

Investigation
According to the available evidence in the investigation, representatives of a Russian group that had seized the building of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) in the city of Sloviansk are involved in the torture and murder of these people. The chief editor of Censor.net Yuriy Butusov reported:

It is unknown whether the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the SBU officially named the organizers and perpetrators of the murder by August 24, 2014.

Commemoration
On July 23, 2014, the head of the UOC-KP, Patriarch Filaret, in the presence of representatives of the UOC (MP), UGCC, and RCC, led the consecration of the academic church dedicated to St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Myra in Lycia, at the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.

On Independence Day of Ukraine, August 24, 2014, the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Patriarch Sviatoslav, consecrated the monument to the Heavenly Hundred Heroes. The monument in the form of a Cossack cross is located near the newly built interfaith church dedicated to St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, which is next to the dormitory of the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.

On October 12, 2017, the Kyiv City Council renamed Mykola Lebedev Street in the Dnipro district of Kyiv in honor of Yuri Popravka.

On November 15, 2017, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine established the Yuri Popravka Scholarship among the state scholarships for the best young scientists for their significant contribution to the development of democratic and humanistic values in science and education and strengthening the international reputation of Ukraine.

State awards
The title of Hero of Ukraine with the award of the Order of the "Golden Star" (February 20, 2015, posthumously) – for civil courage, patriotism, heroic defense of the constitutional principles of democracy, human rights and freedoms, selfless service to the Ukrainian people, demonstrated during the Revolution of Dignity.