Vladislav “Hope” White is a fan of the football club “Tavria” (Simferopol).
Vladislav Sergeevich Belyi was born on August 5, 1993 in Simferopol. Since childhood, he attended preparatory preschool courses at the Simferopol gymnasium No. 1, where he eventually went to the history and law class. Especially easily and with pleasure the young man was given the study of world history. After, he continued his studies at the Faculty of History of the Taurian National University named after him. Vernadsky.
Studying in the first year of the university, from 2010 he began attending Tavria's home matches in the 5th sector. Perhaps this was a logical continuation of Vlad's love of traveling in Ukraine, because even in his school years, history teachers organized hikes and trips to other cities almost every weekend and on holidays. Thanks to this, at the age of 13, he first visited Lviv, where he liked it very much and where he would return after the occupation of his native city.
In addition to participating in the fan movement, Vlad was passionate about graffiti culture. That's where his call sign “Hope” comes from. Being talented and having a knack for creating graffiti, together with his classmate he was part of one of the leading teams in the city. He had a characteristic and recognizable tag (signature), which consisted of triangles turned at a certain angle, which corresponded to the letters in his nickname and wore a tattoo with this symbol. According to the memoirs of my mother, one of the last works of her son in Simferopol, left just for her, was so successful that the municipal workers did not decide to draw it from the first time. Although by that time, around the picture there were already many inscriptions “Glory to Ukraine” and other patriotic slogans.
After the beginning of the events of the Revolution of Dignity in Crimea, a confrontation with pro-Russian forces began. On March 8, 2014, patriotic fans of “Tavria”, together with several thousand Crimean Tatars and indifferent locals, gathered at a rally to prevent the referendum on the peninsula vi. A seemingly peaceful rally did not turn out to be such and ended with beaten buses and injuries for the Theodosian “Kazaks”. It was on that day that many Crimean fans showed their position and clearly indicated which country they consider their Motherland.
However, the very next day, many of the participants of the action were forced to leave the peninsula and went to the cities of mainland Ukraine. Before that, armed Russians seized and blocked the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea and the Council of Ministers of Crimea. Repression began among the opponents of “Russian vessna”. Vladislav and his friends left their homes, after which he went to Lviv. Once again in the city, from which he caught his breath as a child, he continued to draw, and also became fond of cycling.
In 2015, together with a friend from the fan movement of Lviv “Carpathians”, they came to the defense of the country, joining the ranks of “Azov”. Despite the words of his relatives that Vladislav should first protect his mother, and only then the state, he replied: - “If every mother thought so, where would our Ukraine be? And would it be...”. Participated in the battles in Donbas during the ATO/OSS. He lived in Mariupol, the city that became his new home. There, in September 2017, they married their beloved Olga, with whom they had been acquainted since his life in Lviv. At the same time, he planned to get a second higher education, entering the National University “Ostroh Academy” in 2020 at the Faculty of Journalism.
The beginning of a full-scale war “Hope” met in Mariupol, whose defense was held together with his brethren for several months. He took part in fierce battles on the “Azovstal”, for which he was awarded the Order “For Courage” of the III degree. After the departure of the defenders of the city from the surrounded plant, he got to the colony No. 120 in Olenivka (Donetsk region). Vladislav Belyi died on the night of July 28-29, 2022 as a result of an insidious terrorist attack committed by Russian terrorists. About two hundred Azov fighters infiltrated a separate barracks, which was blown up from the inside. More than 50 captured Ukrainian defenders were killed that night.
Vladislav's ashes are buried in the columbaric wall of the Lukyanovsky cemetery, where he will wait for the fulfillment of his last will - to be scattered over the Black Sea in the liberated Crimea.
