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Dmytro Hnatyuk ( uk, Дмитро́ Миха́йлович Гнатю́к; 28 March 1925 – 29 April 2016) was a Soviet and Ukrainian
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opera singer and a former member of the
Ukrainian Parliament The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine ( uk, Верхо́вна Ра́да Украї́ни, translit=, Verkhovna Rada Ukrainy, translation=Supreme Council of Ukraine, Ukrainian abbreviation ''ВРУ''), often simply Verkhovna Rada or just Rada, is the ...
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Biography

Dmytro Hnatyuk was born on 28 March 1925 in the village of Mămăești, Sipeniț district,
Cernăuți County Cernăuți County was a county (județ) of Romania, in Bukovina, with the capital city at Cernăuți. The area was incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1940 (after the Soviet occupation of Northern Bukovina) and again in 1944 (after the Soviet o ...
,
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. He graduated from the
Kyiv Conservatory Pyotr Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine ( uk, Національна музична академія України імені Петра Чайковського) or Kyiv Conservatory is a Ukrainian state institution of higher music e ...
in 1951 as an opera and
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singer. He was a singer at the Kiev Opera and Ballet Theatre appearing as a soloist in many songs. In 1979, Hnatyuk graduated from the State Institute and of Theatrical Arts as a Director (''rezhyser''). From 1951 to 1988, he worked as an opera singer and from 1975 also as a director of the State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet as well working as a trainer of the National Academic Theatre. In 1988, he became the director of the State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet. Hnatyuk sang in many operas by Ukrainian and worldwide composers. Hnatyuk was a member of the
Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union The Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( rus, Верховный Совет Союза Советских Социалистических Республик, r=Verkhovnyy Sovet Soyuza Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respubl ...
(8th–10th sessions) from 1972 to 1984. He also was a member of the
Ukrainian Parliament The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine ( uk, Верхо́вна Ра́да Украї́ни, translit=, Verkhovna Rada Ukrainy, translation=Supreme Council of Ukraine, Ukrainian abbreviation ''ВРУ''), often simply Verkhovna Rada or just Rada, is the ...
from 1998 to 2002. He had been
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into parliament as member of
Hromada A hromada ( uk, територіальна громада, lit=territorial community, translit=terytorialna hromada) is a basic unit of administrative division in Ukraine, similar to a municipality. It was established by the Government of Ukra ...
. Early 1999 he switched to the Hromada breakaway faction "
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".State Building in Ukraine: The Ukrainian parliament, 1990–2003
/ref>People's deputy Dmytro Hnatyuk came out of the "Fatherland" faction, and joined the "Labor Ukraine" group
Fakty i Kommentarii (22 February 2001)
Early 2001 he again moved to another faction in parliament, this time to
Labour Ukraine Labour Ukraine ( uk, Трудова Україна ''Trudova Ukrajina'')
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. Hnatyuk was elected the head of the Musical Society of Ukraine, as the head of the Kiyvan Theatrical Society, as a member of the Committee of State Shevchenko Prizes, the Committee of Defense and Peace and others. Member of the Board of the All Ukrainian Fund of Recreating Memorials of the Historical-Architectural Heritage in the name of O. Honchar, a member of the Board of the Fund of Influence of Development of Arts; the Committee "Ukraine-Europe". Hnatyuk died on 29 April 2016. He was buried at
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's
Baikove Cemetery Baikove Cemetery ( uk, Байкове кладовище) is a historic cemetery memorial in Holosiiv Raion of Kyiv, Ukraine. It is a National Historic Landmark of Ukraine and is known as a necropolis of distinguished people. It was established i ...
.Newspaper: Ukrainian opera singer Dmytro Hnatyuk passes away
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(29 April 2016)


Family

Dmytro Hnatyuk was married to Doctor of Philological Sciences and historian of Ukrainian language Halyna Hnatyuk.


Awards

Hnatyuk was a People's Artist of Ukraine, was a
People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR People's Artist of Ukraine is an honorary and the highest title awarding to outstanding performing artists whose merits are exceptional in the sphere of the development of the performing arts (theatre, music, dance, circus, cinema, etc.). Establ ...
, an "Academic" of the
Academy of Arts of Ukraine National Ukrainian Academy of Arts ( ua, Академія мистецтв України (АМУ)) is a state scientific and artistic institution in the field of art, culture, and art history in Ukraine. The academy is one of the six state funde ...
, and a professor of the Tchaikovsky Music Academy. In 2005 he was awarded with the
Hero of Ukraine Hero of Ukraine (HOU; uk, Герой України, ''Heroi Ukrainy'') is the highest national title that can be conferred upon an individual citizen by the President of Ukraine. The title was created in 1998 by President Leonid Kuchma and as ...
, the highest decoration of Ukraine. In 1960 he had also been granted the title of the
People's Artist of the USSR People's Artist of the USSR ( rus, Народный артист СССР, Narodny artist SSSR), also sometimes translated as National Artist of the USSR, was an honorary title granted to artists of the Soviet Union. Nomenclature and significa ...
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Dmytro Hnatyuk «Золотий Фонд української естради»

Biography of Hnatyuk


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