On the evening of July 26, Leonid Yakovyshyn, Hero of Ukraine, Honored Citizen of Chernihiv Region, agrarian, and director of the LLC “Zemlya i Volya,” passed away, reports Baltimore Chronicle, citing the Bobrovytsia City Council. Yakovyshyn died at the National Scientific Center for Surgery and Transplantation named after Shalimov, where he had been receiving medical care in his final days.
According to Volodymyr Danishevskyi, Deputy Mayor of Bobrovytsia, Yakovyshyn had been in the hospital until his death. Earlier, he shared his wishes regarding his burial, expressing his desire to be laid to rest in a mausoleum he built on the outskirts of Bobrovytsia, inspired by the tomb of French Emperor Napoleon. The mausoleum, decorated with gilded gold and white marble, cost Yakovyshyn around three million dollars. He had also stated that the mausoleum would be open to visitors after his death.
Leonid Yakovyshyn was born on May 19, 1939, in the village of Koziatyn in Vinnytsia region. In 1961, he graduated from the Uman Agricultural Institute, specializing in agronomy. Later, he earned a PhD in economics with a dissertation on the intensification of potato production in Chernihiv region.
In his career, Yakovyshyn began as an agronomist and, in 1966, became the head of the Kostopil District Agricultural Department in Rivne region. In 1970, he was appointed director of the Bobrovytsia Agricultural Technical School, and in 1995, he became the General Director of LLC “Zemlya i Volya,” established on the basis of the restructured Bobrovytsia Agricultural Technical School.
Yakovyshyn also served as a People’s Deputy of Ukraine in the first convocation (1990-1994), working in parliamentary committees on the Chernobyl disaster and combating corruption. He was an advisor to several Ukrainian Prime Ministers and held advisory positions in the Verkhovna Rada. Yakovyshyn was awarded the Soviet Order of “Sign of Honor” and the title of Hero of Ukraine for his outstanding contributions to the development of the agro-industrial complex.
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