Liudmyla Sheremet

Liudmyla Oleksandrivna Sheremet (; 21 November 1942 – 22 February 2014) was a Ukrainian anesthesiologist and activist. She began her career as a nurse at a hospital in Makiivka and then worked as an anesthesiologist at Krasnodon District Hospital. Sheremet was employed as an anesthesiologist at Khmelnytsky City Hospital and ended her professional career working at Khmelnytsky City Perinatal Center as an obstetrician-gynecologist. She died three days after being shot in the head at a protest held at a Security Service of Ukraine building during the Revolution of Dignity in February 2014. Sheremet was posthumously conferred the title of Hero of Ukraine with the Order of Gold Star by president Petro Poroshenko in November 2014.

Early life and career On 21 November 1942, Sheremet was born in the city of Makiivka in the Donetsk Oblast which was under German occupation at the time. Her father was a power sub-station controller and her mother stayed at home to raise Sheremet and her three elder siblings.

She relocated to the city of Khmelnytski in 1969 and acquired employment as an anaesthesiologist at Khmelnytsky City Hospital where she remained until 1977. A memorial plaque of her was unveiled at her residence in Khmelenytski in February 2015. On the in February 2015, she and the other Euromaidan activists were honoured by Poroshenko with the signed decree "On honoring the feat of the participants of the Revolution of Dignity and perpetuating the memory of the Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred." A memorial sign dedicated to her was erected close to the Security Service of Ukraine building in Khmelnytski in March 2016.