Zavalnyy Igor Yuriyovych was the service staff of 9th reactive Battery 3rd reactive artillery battalion 27th artillery regiment jet Land Forces of Ukraine, the senior soldier.
He was born on June 3, 1992 in the village Symonivka, Sumy region, and Sumy region. In 2007 he graduated 9 classes of secondary school of the village Large Wilma,Sumy region, Sumy region. In 2009 he graduated the secondary school Tereshkivka village of Sumy region, Sumy region.
He passed military service in the Internal Troops of Ukraine (March 2014 - Ukraine National Guard, a military unit №3011, city Kirovograd).
He worked as a welder-boiler-maker at JSC "Sumy Machine Building Research and Production Association named after MV Frunze ", Sumy.
In March 2014 he was mobilized into the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He served in the 9th reactive Battery 3rd reactive artillery battalion 27th artillery regiment jet Land Forces of Ukraine (2015 - 27th artillery brigade, military unit A1476, Sumy).
Since the summer of 2014 he took part in the anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine.
On September 3, 2014 near the village of Pobeda Novoaydarsky district, Luhansk region from Russian Federation it was fired from the MLRS "Smerch" to the base camp 27th reactive artillery regiment. The shelling killed 15 soldiers, among them Igor Zavalnyy was.
On September 9, 2014 he was buried in the Alley of honorary citizens of the central cemetery of Sumy.
On September 1, 2015 in the village of Great Wilma Sumy region on the facade of the building of secondary school (School Street, 36), where Igor Zavalnyy studied, a memorial plaque was established to him.
He was awarded the Order "For courage" of III degree (23.5.2015, posthumously).
The wife and the daughter remain.
