Zubov Yuriy Viktorovych was the driver of the BM-21 combat vehicle "Grad" of the 17th separate tank brigade of the Land Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, senior officer.
He was born on 15 October, 1972, in the village Stepanivka (in the village Chernobayivka) Belozersky district, Kherson region (in 1986, the village was separated from the village Chornobayevka and became subject to the Suvorov district, Kherson city). Ukrainian. In 1987, he graduated the 8 grades of the secondary school in the village Stepanivka (now Stepanivska secondary school, I-III degrees of Kherson city council), in 1990 - a special vocational school №2 of the city of Kherson (now - the State educational institution "Higher vocational school" №2 of the city of Kherson "), specializing in "general engineer".
From October 1990 to 1992 he was in the regular military service in the armed forces of the USSR / the Russian Federation, who was called by the Suvorov district military commissariat of the city of Kherson. He served in a military unit in the city Irkutsk (Russian Federation).
After the army he served in the fire guard. He worked as a driver of the 8th paramilitary fire department for the protection of the Open Joint-Stock Company "Kherson-refinery". Since 2011 he was on retirement.
In 2014 he was mobilized into the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Served as a driver of the combat vehicle BM-21 "Grad" of the 17th separate tank brigade of the Land Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (military unit A3283, Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk region).
From 2014 he participated in the anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine. Participant of fighting for the city Debaltsevo, Donetsk region.
On 4 March, 2015, senior soldier Zubov died under the city Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, near the village Pokrovsky, Artemivskii (now - Bakhmut) district, Donetsk region.
On 8 March, 2015 he was buried in the cemetery of the village Stepanivka, Kherson city council, Kherson region.
The mother, the wife and three daughters are left.
On 13 October, 2015, in the village Stepanivka, the memorial plaque was opened on the building Stepanivska secondary school №17 (George Howard Street, 63), where he studied. In the school museum one of the expositions is devoted to Yuriy Zubov.