1. Serhiy Gagikovych Nigoyan or Nihoyan was an Armenian-Ukrainian Euromaidan activist who was fatally shot during the 2014 Hrushevskoho Street protests where he was acting as security.
15 Facts About Serhiy Nigoyan
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Serhiy Nigoyan was the first protester killed by shooting during the protest.
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Serhiy Nigoyan was born on August 2,1993, to ethnic Armenians in the village of Bereznuvativka in Ukraine.
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Serhiy Nigoyan's parents are from the village Navur, in Armenia's northeastern province of Tavush, not far from the Azerbaijani border.
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Serhiy Nigoyan was born in Ukraine and never visited his ancestral land, yet loved his country.
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Serhiy Nigoyan was attending the Armenian Church and knew the history of his people.
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Serhiy Nigoyan's father stated that Serhiy studied at the Kamianske, then Dniprodzerzhynsk, College of Physical Education, but after two years of study he ceased attending classes and in summer along with his father was visiting Crimea for seasonal work.
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Serhiy Nigoyan was an amateur fighter in kyokushinkaikan karate and in the 2012 city championship in Kamianske, he placed third.
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Serhiy Nigoyan died early in the morning of January 22,2014, at around 06.30 after being mortally wounded.
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On January 23,2014, the Televised News Service showed a footage with interview of Serhiy Nigoyan filmed on January 19 by the TSN's cameraman.
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On January 26,2014, Serhiy Nigoyan was buried in his native village Bereznuvativka.
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Serhiy Nigoyan's funeral was attended by local villagers, representative of the Armenian diaspora, priests from Armenian and Ukrainian Churches.
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Serhiy Nigoyan's requiem was served by the head of Ukrainian Eparchy of the Armenian Apostolic Church Archbishop Grigoris Buniatyan.
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On January 22,2014, in his Twitter Svyatoslav Vakarchuk mentioned that "another Armenian, Parajanov created the film that became symbol for all Ukrainians, today Armenian Serhiy Nigoyan sacrificed his life that became a symbol of Ukraine".
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The new pieces use lyrics by Taras Shevchenko which Serhiy Nigoyan had quoted, and the traditional liturgical text "With the saints give rest".