He was a scientist, died a soldier: in Kiev they will say goodbye to Bizhan Sharopov, who died near Izyum last year

At 12:00, they will say goodbye to the soldier who was martyred in Istiklal Square. He will be buried on the Walk of Honor of the Lukyaniv Cemetery at 13.30.

He was an advocate biophysicist

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

The defender studied at the Department of Biology of the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences, and then in the graduate course at the Institute of Physiology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He was an active participant in the Honor Revolution in 2013-2014. 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 company “Ukrainian genetic technologies”. In the spring of 2020, it announced the creation of a PCR-based test to detect the causative agent of the coronavirus.

At the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Sharopov returned to the front. The defender was considered missing in the Kharkiv region. However, at the beginning of 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.

Defender died in April 2022 near Grape / Photo “Babylon”

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