П'ятихатки-БАМ 

evacuation & Humanitarian Relief organization, Kharkiv 

in memoriam

Sergey Shalígín

Vadim Zabara

On September 19, 2023, the Piatykhatki Bam team lost two of their volunteers, Sergey Shalígín and Vadim Zabara. Sergey, Vadim and six civilians died when their van was struck by a guided russian Grom-E1 missile. They were evacuating civilians from the encroaching front lines near Kupiansk. Our deepest sympathy to Sergey and Vadim's families, Тіна Пір, the volunteer team at Piatykhatki Bam and all who loved and lost those who perished.

Світла пам'ять!

“Piatykhatki Bam” supports and rescues civilians fleeing from or caught in the crossfire of the eastern Ukrainian front. Its teams evacuate families, children, the elderly and pets from the danger of advancing russian forces. They deliver critical aid to those who remain stranded behind in frontline villages or previously occupied and devastated territories without water, electricity, heat, food, medicine or civilian infrastructure. Piatykhatki Bam’s volunteers also risk their lives driving along the front line hellscape to deliver supplies, medicine, medical equipment and critical aid to Ukraine’s defenders.

П'ятихатки-БАМ 

The organization is named after the town of Piatykhatki, which was all but obliterated by russian aerial attacks in March 2022. Living only 12 miles from the russian border, its volunteers are no strangers to constant aerial attacks and russian incursions. They drive hundreds of miles along the front lines, over bomb and artillery cratered roads, to evacuate people from danger and deliver help to vulnerable populations.

The town of Piatykhatki is home to the Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology and the site of a nuclear reactor, which russia bombed and shelled more than 100 times since March 2022, inflicting grievous damage to the nuclear reactor that now poses a considerable threat to Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city.

The cadre of 15 permanent volunteers operates from a partially bombed out building at the Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology, sited atop a heavily damaged nuclear reactor.

Piatykhatki Bam continuously supports front-line area children by providing educational and enrichment activities to foster some small semblance of normalcy for children whose childhood is being robbed by the war.

When russia blew up and the Kakhovka dam, causing a humanitarian and environmental catastrophe in the Kherson Oblast, the teams from Piatykhatki Bam drove to Kherson, delivered flood relief and helped with rescue and evacuation operations.

Co-Founder & President

Tina Pir

Tina co-founded the organization with her friend, Andrii Tagaev. Before the war, Tina had a flourishing career in IT, specializing in internet marketing and search engine optimization. She scaled her business down to one client and now devotes all of her time managing and volunteering at Piatykhatki Bam.

Tina and Piatykhatki Bam have been recognized by the Relief Coordination Center for their “significant contribution to the development of Kharkiv Oblast and Ukraine during the war in 2022” in two separate categories: Provision of Medical Services and Helping Vulnerable Populations.