Participant of the Regional Competition "Young Person of the Year – 2025" in the Nomination "Critical Infrastructure Worker of the Year" Stanislav Sidach
For over 10 years, the Donetsk region has been in a state of war, and for the past three years, it has been a full-scale one. Throughout this time, power engineers have been doing more than just repairing wires—they have been maintaining critical infrastructure under what seem to be impossible conditions. Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Stanislav Sidach has become one of the leaders in the fight for light on the front lines.
As a team master, Stanislav makes decisions every day that affect not only the technical condition of power facilities but also the lives of thousands of people. His team repairs power grids, sometimes dozens of times at the same facility. They work in bulletproof vests, under shelling, often without the possibility of using special equipment—climbing poles by hand, risking their lives.
A key challenge and, at the same time, a major achievement was Stanislav's participation in restoring electricity to the newly liberated territories in the north of the Donetsk region. His team entered right behind the sappers to bring light back to more than 20 settlements, which meant 15,000 families who had lived without electricity for almost a year. They worked among minefields, destroyed infrastructure, and under the constant threat of shelling due to the proximity of the front line.
Overall, during the years of the full-scale war, power engineers in the Donetsk region, under his and similar leadership, have restored electricity to 11.1 million homes (including dozens of repeated reconnections). In many settlements, electricity is the only source of energy, as some areas lack heating, gas, and have water supply problems.
At 28 years old, Stanislav Sidach is an example of a new generation of Ukrainians for whom courage, technical competence, and service to people are not slogans, but a daily reality.