Soviet TV ‘healer’ Anatoly Kashpirovsky to be buried in Ukraine after his coffin travels from Russia through Turkey and Poland

Television "healer" Anatoly Kashpirovsky is set to be laid to rest in the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia, according to his nephew. The coffin containing the remains of the 87-year-old is currently at an Istanbul terminal, with plans to transport it to Warsaw, then by train to Kyiv, and finally to Vinnytsia. Kashpirovsky's nephew revealed that the healer had requested a portion of his ashes to be interred in Vinnytsia, where his mother is buried, while the rest would remain in Russia.

Kashpirovsky passed away on October 3 at the age of 87. An official memorial service was held at Vinnytsia’s Troyekurovskoye Cemetery on October 8. Born in 1939 in the Ukrainian SSR's Khmelnytskyi region, Kashpirovsky graduated from a medical institute in Vinnytsia before working there for many years.