Dmytro Lutsenko

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Ukrainian 5 ₴ coin from 2006 commemorating Dmytro Luzenko's 85th birthday

Dmytro Omeljanowytsch Lutsenko ( Ukrainian Дмитро Омелянович Луценко ; born October 15, 1921 in Berezova Rudka , Poltava Governorate , Soviet Union ; † January 16, 1989 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR ) was a Ukrainian poet and songwriter of the Estrada .

Life

Immediately after the famine of 1932–1933 , Dmytro Lutsenko worked in the Donbas coal mines as a teenager . From 1938 he studied until the war began at the Kiev Institute of Irrigation and Drainage and then took as a soldier of the Red Army in the Second World War in part. He was retired in May 1945 due to a severe concussion and continued his studies in Kiev. Due to financial hardship, he became a journalist for the newspapers "Dorf-Nachrichten" and "Jugend der Ukraine". He later became a correspondent for All-Union Radio in Ukraine. His first work, Gives the People the Song , was published in 1962. In 1963 he became a member of the Ukrainian Writers' Union . Lutsenko created more than 300 popular songs before he died in Kiev in 1989 and was buried there in the Baikowe Cemetery .

Honors

Dmytro Lutsenko received numerous honors. In 1974 he was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the USSR and in 1976 the Taras Shevchenko Prize of the Ukrainian SSR State Prize. In 2006, on the occasion of his 85th birthday , the National Bank of Ukraine issued a commemorative five hryvnia silver coin with his likeness, and on October 8, 2015, Lutsenko was posthumously made an honorary citizen of the city of Kiev .

Web links

Commons : Dmytro Lutsenko  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Honorary Citizen of the City of Kiev - Dmytro Lutsenko on the official website of the Kiev City Council; accessed on October 18, 2016 (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ Short biography Dmytro Lutsenko on the gold mine of the Ukrainian Estrada ; accessed on October 18, 2016 ()
  3. ↑ a b Profile on the website of the Taras Shevchenko Prize Committee , accessed on October 18, 2016 (Ukrainian)
  4. ^ Website of the National Bank of Ukraine ; accessed on October 18, 2016 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Lutsenko, Dmytro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lutsenko, Dmytro Omeljanowytsch (full name); Луценко, Дмитро Омелянович (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian poet and songwriter of the Estrada
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Berezova Rudka , Poltava Governorate , Soviet Union
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1989
Place of death Kiev , Ukrainian SSR