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Makiyivka (Donetsk region), August 18 (Interfax-Ukraine) - A memorial ceremony for Vasyl Dzharty, the chairman of the Crimean Council of Ministers and an honorary resident of Makiivka, took place in Makiivka, Donetsk region, early on Thursday.

An Interfax-Ukraine reporter said that Dzharty’s coffin was in the Theater for Young Viewers and that about 1,000 people were attending the ceremony. Many of them have large bouquets of flowers and wreaths, with mourning ribbons with inscriptions.

It was expected that the memorial ceremony for Dzharty in the theater would end at about noon. Then the coffin is to be transported to St. George Cathedral in Makiyivka, where the burial service will be held.

Dzharty will be buried at the Kozatske cemetery in the town.

As reported, Dzharty died in Crimea in the early hours of Wednesday as a result of a serious illness. He was 53.

Dzharty was born in the village of Rozdolne in Donetsk region in the family of a miner. He graduated from Donetsk Polytechnic Institute and graduated with a master’s degree in public administration from Donetsk State Technical University. He served as the first deputy governor of Donetsk region, the mayor of Makiivka, a Regions Party MP in the Verkhovna Rada of the fifth and sixth convocations, and headed the Ukrainian Environment Ministry in 2006-2007. On March 2010, he was appointed as chairman of the Crimean Council of Ministers.