This tribute is deeply personal. On Sunday, March 22, I had planned to call my longtime friend, Zaporizhzhia-based historian Liudmyla Turchyna, to wish her a happy birthday and share our traditional joke about being only three months apart in age. Instead, I received the devastating news that she was in intensive care. She passed away the following day, March 23. Officially, Liudmyla Valeriivna Turchyna was a PhD of Historical Sciences and an Associate Professor who dedicated many years to the