Vladyslav "Hope" Bilyi is a fan of the football club "Tavria" (Simferopol).

Vladyslav Sergiyovich Bilyi was born on August 5, 1993 in Simferopol. As a child, he went to preparatory preschool courses in Simferopol gymnasium No. 1, where he eventually went to the history and law class. Studying world history was especially easy and enjoyable for the young man. After that, he continued his studies at the Faculty of History of the Tavra National University named after Vernadskyi.

While studying in the first year of the university, since 2010 he started attending home matches of "Tavria" in the 5th sector. Perhaps this was a logical continuation of Vlad's love for traveling in Ukraine, because back in his school years, history teachers organized hikes and trips to other cities almost every weekend and during the holidays. Thanks to this, at the age of 13, he visited Lviv for the first time, where he liked it very much and where he will return after the occupation of his native city.

In addition to participating in the fan movement, Vlad was fond of graffiti culture. That's where his nickname "Hope" comes from. Being talented and having a knack for creating graffiti, together with his fellow student he was part of one of the leading teams of the city. Had a distinctive and recognizable tag (signature) consisting of triangles turned at a certain angle corresponding to the letters in his nickname and wore a tattoo with this symbol. According to the memories of the mother, one of the last works of her son in Simferopol, left just for her, was so successful that the communal workers decided not to paint it for the first time. Although by that time, many inscriptions "Glory to Ukraine" and other patriotic slogans had already appeared around the picture.

After the events of the Revolution of Dignity began in Crimea, a confrontation with pro-Russian forces began. On March 8, 2014, patriotic Tavria fans, together with several thousand Crimean Tatars and concerned local residents, gathered at a rally to prevent a referendum on the peninsula. An apparently peaceful rally did not turn out to be so and ended with smashed buses and injuries for the Feodosian "Cossacks". 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 that action were forced to leave the peninsula and went to the cities of mainland Ukraine. Before that, armed Russians seized and blocked the Supreme Council of Crimea and the Council of Ministers of Crimea. Repression began among opponents of the "Russian Spring". Vladyslav and his friends left their homes, after which he went to Lviv. Having found himself again in the city that took his breath away even in childhood, he continued to paint and also became interested in bicycle tourism.

In 2015, together with a friend from the "Karpaty" Lviv fan movement, they stood up for the country, joining the ranks of "Azov". Despite the words of his relatives that Vladyslav should first protect his mother, and only then the state, he answered: - "Ah, if every mother thought like that - where would our Ukraine be? And would it be...". Took part in battles in Donbas during ATO/OSS. He lived in Mariupol - the city that became his new home. There, in September 2017, they married their beloved Olga, whom they had known since he lived in Lviv. At the same time, he planned to get a second higher education by entering the Ostroh Academy National University in 2020 at the Faculty of Journalism.

The beginning of a full-scale war was met by "Hope" in Mariupol, the defense of which was held together with its comrades for several months. He took part in fierce battles on "Azovstal", for which he was awarded the Order "For Courage" III degree. After the defenders of the city left the surrounded plant, he was sent to colony No. 120 in Olenivka (Donetsk region). Vladyslav Bely 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 were herded into a separate barrack, which was blown up from the inside. More than 50 captured Ukrainian defenders died that night.

Vladyslav's ashes are buried in the columbarium wall of the Lukyaniv cemetery, where they will wait for the fulfillment of his last will - to be scattered over the Black Sea in the liberated Crimea.