page_title: 2018 in Ukraine
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 2018 in Ukraine / Deaths
caption_attribution_description: Portrait cosmonaut Leonid Kadenyuk Українська: Леонід Каденюк, перший космонавт незалежної України Русский: Леонид Каденюк, первый космонавт независимой Украины
context_page_description: Events in the year 2018 in Ukraine.
context_section_description: 18 January – Borys Yukhymovych Steklyar, military officer (b. 1923).
  31 January – Leonid Kadeniuk, pilot and astronaut (b. 1951).
  10 February – Myroslav Popovych, philosopher (b. 1930)
  14 February – Pyotr Bochek, military officer (b. 1925)
  5 March – Mykhaylo Chemberzhi, composer (b. 1944).
  18 April – Grigory Gamarnik, wrestler (b. 1929).
  2 May – Vadim Mulerman, singer (b. 1938)
  6 June – Kira Muratova, film director, screenwriter and actress (b. 1934).
  19 June – Ivan Drach, poet, screenwriter and politician, member of Verkhovna Rada (b. 1936).
  7 July – Levko Lukyanenko, politician (b. 1928).
  23 July – Oksana Shachko, artist and human rights activist, co-founder of Femen (b. 1987).
  8 August – Mikhail Shakhov, wrestler, Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1931).
  1 September – Mykola Shytyuk, historian (b. 1953).
  14 October – Valeriy Shmarov, politician, Minister of Defence (b. 1945).
  4 November – Kateryna Handziuk, politician (b. 1985).
  25 November – Viktor Kanevskyi, footballer (b. 1936).
  29 November – Viktor Matviyenko, football player and manager, Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1948).
  5 December –
  Ivan Gereg, footballer (b. 1944).
  Mykola Rushkovskyi, actor (b. 1925).
  Vasyl Zakharchenko, writer (b. 1936).
  6 December –
  Ivan Hladush, police officer and politician, Minister of Internal Affairs (b. 1929).
  Mykhailo Yunak, sambist, USSR champion (b. 1946).
caption: Leonid Kadeniuk
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