Mikola Kupava gives his works for auction to collect money for Zhyzneuski's gravestone

Mikola Kupava, a member of Pahonia union of artists, will give his works for an auction.

The charity auction to collect money for a gravestone for Mikhail Zhyzneuski, who died in Kyiv during the Maidan protests last year, will be held in the headquarters of the BPF party at 19:00 on April 30, Belorusski Partizan reports.

Activists plan to install the gravestone for a hero of the Heavenly Hundred at the cemetery near Homel, where he is buried. Sculptor Ales Shaternik works on the headstone. The design was approved by Zhyzneuski's mother Nina.

Activists also organised a fundraising campaign.

Belarusian Mikhail Zhyzneuski received a gunshot wound to the heart during clashes between demonstrators and Berkut squads in Hrushevsky Street in Kyiv on January 22, 2014. He became one of the first victims of the Revolution of Dignity.

A memorial to Mikhail Zhyzneuski was installed in Kyiv's Hrushevsky Street on November 26.

On November 28, 2014, president of Ukraine awarded him with the Order of the Heavenly Hundred Heroes, which was handed in to his parents.

Mikhail Zhyzneuski was buried near Homel. His grave is sometimes desecrated by vandals.