Vasyl Marmus

Vasyl Volodymyrovych Marmus (; 26 April 1992, Chortkiv, Ternopil Oblast — 11 September 2022, Oskil, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine ) was a Ukrainian musician, actor, serviceman, soldier of the 80th Air Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a participant in the Russian-Ukrainian war. Son of a well-known Ukrainian dissident, member of the Rosokhach Group, Volodymyr Marmus.

Biography Vasyl Marmus was born on 26 April 1992 in Chortkiv, Ternopil Oblast.

Marmus studied at the Chortkiv Music School and secondary school No. 5, graduated from the Prykarpatskyi Military and Sports Boarding Lyceum, Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University. He served with the 80th air assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He died on 11 September 2022 in Oskil, Kharkiv Oblast.

He was buried on 15 September 2022 on the Alley of Heroes of the Yahilnytskyi Cemetery in Chortkiv.

He is survived by his parents, wife, daughter, and a brother.

He was a member of the Ternopil Film Commission (2021, dreamed of creating a branch in Chortkiv). He played the role of an Enkavedist in the national non-fiction film Mariia (2021).

In 2022, before the invasion, Vasyl dedicated the song Braty po nevoli to his father Volodymyr. Honorary Citizen of Chortkiv (2022, posthumously)

Commemorating the memory On 13 October 2022, a memorial evening was held in memory of Vasyl Marmus at the Kateryna Rubchakova Cultural Services Center in Chortkiv.

In June 2023, the Chortkiv Art School was named after him.