Born on 28.02.1978 in the city of Chuguiv. Studied at secondary school No. 1 in the city of Chuguiv. After graduating from school, he studied at vocational school No. 19 and received the profession of a welder. In addition, he graduated from vocational school No. 53 with a degree in driver. He served in the city of Volodymyr-Volynskyi in the period 1997 - 1999 as a senior driver and squad commander.
Since 2000, he began to actively engage in sports: boxing and weightlifting. He took an active part in the city's sports life, in the weightlifting competitions "Bogatyrskiy igri". He was a bronze medalist of the "Cossack Entertainment" in 2014-2015.
Anatoly's career path took place in Chuguiv and beyond, even abroad, in various fields of work. During his career, he mastered many professions: from a worker to a shop foreman.
During March 2022 - January 2023, he served as a mortar commander of the mortar battery of the 125th separate territorial defense battalion of the 113th separate territorial defense brigade. He took an active part in the combat operations in which the battalion participated during this time in the Kharkiv, Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
Family composition:
Mother: Khmeleva Tatyana Yukhymovna, lives in the city of Chuguev.
Wife: Fomina Anastasia Viktorovna, lives in the city of Chuguev.
Daughter: Fomina Vira Anatolyivna, born in 2014, lives in the city of Chuguev.
Circumstances of death:
In December 2022, while performing a combat mission near the settlement of Ploshchanka, Luhansk region, he received a mine-explosive injury and shrapnel injuries to the body, which led to a complication of his health condition: a cerebral stroke. In May 2023, he was forced to resign due to health reasons and, already being in the reserve, died on July 17, 2023 in a hospital in the city of Kharkiv as a result of a cerebral infarction.
Buried in the city of Chuguev on the Alley of Memory.
For exemplary performance of combat missions, he was awarded the breastplate "For Exemplary Service" and the Cross "Honor and Glory". He was posthumously awarded the medal "For the Liberation of the Kharkiv Region".
