Peacefully on Friday January 4, 2019, at Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital in his 68 ^th year. Beloved husband of Zoya. Loved father of Tatyana and Michael, and Anatoly and Olga. Dear brother of Vitaly.

Visitation at the Kopriva Taylor Community Funeral Home, 64 Lakeshore Road West, Oakville from 3-5 pm on Sunday January 6, 2018. In lieu of flowers please consider a donation to a charity of you choice. An open invitation reception will be held at Seasons restaurant, 134 Lakeshore Rd E, Oakville, at 5PM in the upstairs dining room of the restaurant.  "He will be remembered as a loving, caring, generous father and friend. He was an extraordinary storyteller and a passionate fisherman, a talented cook that could make a stone laugh."