Olha Bura

Olha Bura
Ольга Бура
Born
Olha Vasylivna Bura

(1986-07-22)22 July 1986
Died10 March 2014(2014-03-10) (aged 27)
Kyiv, Ukraine
OccupationActivist
Years active2002–2014
AwardsHero of Ukraine

Olha Vasylivna Bura (Ukrainian: Ольга Василівна Бура; 22 July 1986 – 10 March 2014) was a Ukrainian activist who took part in the Euromaidan protests in Kyiv from late 2013 to early 2014. Born to a poor family in Busk Raion, she did not have a permanent place to work due to illness, doing various jobs in the family home, working briefly at a local bakery as well as doing childcare. Busk died after contracting a blood infection from her hand being injured by members of the Berkut some days before consulting doctors. She was posthumously conferred the title of Hero of Ukraine with the Order of the Gold Star, a memorial plaque was installed on the primary school in Ripniv [be; ce; pl; ro; ru; uk; zh] she attended was attended and a sign in the Alley of Memory of the Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred of Lviv Region in Khodoriv was named for her.