# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vitalii-skakun
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:35:02.187Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vitalii-skakun"
name: "Vitalii Skakun"
slug: "vitalii-skakun"
description: "Vitalii Volodymyrovych Skakun was a Ukrainian marine combat engineer who was posthumously awarded the Order of the Gold Star. He sacrificed his life in the Russian invasion of Ukraine while blowing up a bridge in Henichesk while he was still on it to slow the advance of Russian troops during the Southern Ukraine campaign."
tagline: "Ukrainian military figure (1996-2022)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Vitalii_Skakun_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1996-08-19"
deathDate: "2022-02-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             25
  historical:           20.74249333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Vitalij Skakun"
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    title: "Witalij Skakun"
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    title: "Vitaly Skakun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Vitalij Skakun"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump