Ponomariov Hennadii Pavlovych

Born in 1957, in Sverdlovsk region, Irbitsk district, thevillage of Kharlamovo.

He grew up as an ordinary child, after school he graduated from vocational technical school with a specialty as a locksmith. Until 1988 he lived and worked in Voronezh.

Then he met a woman from Odessa and moved to her. They lived together in Odessa until 2003. They had no children.

He lived an ordinary life, working in a port as a loader. But in 2003, his girlfriend died, and her brother asked him to vacate the house, because the house belonged to him.

For several years, he still went on working, lived as a loner, rented a room. Then he fell seriously ill and could not work any longer. So when I stopped paying his rent, he found himself on the street.

There, he began to drink heavily. He tipped over the edge to living in a cemetery, ate what remained on the graves after commemorations.

One day in the winter, he fell asleep in a crypt, and it began to snow. The dog saved him – it was digging the snow, and the watchman noticed the man and warmed him. It was then that Hennadii froze his legs. He was taken off a left foot and a part of the right one.

Then he got enslaved by the Gypsies, who forced him to beg at the stations in Kyiv and Moscow.

He says that he is tired of such a life.

Now is inthe “House of Mercy Kyiv”

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