In the army, he did what he knew and knew best — he taught his colleagues cartography and orientation on the ground — Ukrinform.
Before the army, Taras-Tymofii was a well-known instructor of sea plating and sailed on the Cossack gull "Spas" along the Dnieper and the Black Sea up to Istanbul.
Joining the Armed Forces, he became a soldier of the 45th separate artillery brigade named after General Myron Tarnavsky and brought to his fellows what a quarter of a century lived in the Plast movement — the spirit of unity with friends, the ability to unite the team to perform the most difficult tasks and be able to read the map and navigate the terrain.
On November 1, 2022, the defender was killed during enemy shelling near Novooleksandrivka, Kherson region. He did not live a few days until the liberation of Kherson.
Taras-Tymofii Hawrylyshyn / Photo: Official website of the Lviv City Council.
For a long time, Taras-Tymofii worked in the tourism industry — he laid and marked mountain routes in the Carpathians, led groups as a guide, and built custom-made boats of various types. However, his main vocation was the Plast movement, to which he came as a teenager and devoted his whole life to it.
Taras-Tymofii was born on April 20, 1985 in Lviv. He studied at the Yevshan Gymnasium, and in 2010 he graduated with honors from the Department of Geomorphology and Paleogeography of the Faculty of Geography of Ivan Franko University of Lviv. Training was interrupted by military service, after which the man returned to the university to complete his education.