Ihor Naumovich Shamo (Ukrainian Iгор Наумович Шамо; Russian: Игорь Наумович Шамо, also Romanized Igor; 21 February 1925 – 17 August 1982) was a Ukrainian composer.
Shamo was born in Kyiv to a family of Jewish origin. He graduated from the Lysenko Music School in Kyiv, where his main subjects were composition and piano, in 1941, and was evacuated in that year to Ufa, where he studied medicine for two years. [1] From 1942 to 1946 he was in the Soviet Army as a medical assistant; when he returned to Kyiv he recommenced his musical studies, graduating from the Kyiv Conservatory in 1951 in the class of Boris Lyatoshinsky. [2] He had joined the Union of Soviet Composers in 1948, and at his graduation played his own Concert-Ballade for piano and orchestra. [3]
His popular song Kyieve Mii (My Kyiv) is regarded as the "unofficial anthem of the Ukrainian capital", [4] and is cited on his memorial on the building where he lived (see picture). His other works include three symphonies, and an opera Yatranskiye Igri, which is unusually scored for a cappella choir and soloists. [5]
Igor Ivanovich Belanov or Ihor Ivanovych Bielanov is a Soviet and Ukrainian former professional footballer who played as a striker.
Lazar Naumovich Berman was a Soviet Russian classical pianist, Honoured Artist of the RSFSR (1988). He was hailed for a huge, thunderous technique that made him a thrilling interpreter of Liszt and Rachmaninoff and a late representative of the grand school of Russian Romantic pianism. Emil Gilels described him as a "phenomenon of the musical world."
Borys Mykolaiovych Lyatoshynsky ), also known as Boris Nikolayevich Lyatoshinsky, was a Ukrainian composer, conductor, and teacher. A leading member of the new generation of 20th century Ukrainian composers, he was awarded a number of accolades, including the honorary title of People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR and two Stalin Prizes.
Valentyn Vasylyovych Sylvestrov is a Ukrainian composer and pianist, who plays and writes contemporary classical music.
Artemy Lukyanovich Vedel, born Artemy Lukyanovich Vedelsky, was a Ukrainian-born Russian composer of military and liturgical music. He produced works based on Ukrainian folk melodies, and made an important contribution in the music history of Ukraine. Together with Maxim Berezovsky and Dmitry Bortniansky, Vedel is recognised by musicologists as one of the "Golden Three" composers of 18th century Ukrainian classical music, and one of Russia's greatest choral composers.
Arkady Dmitriyevich Filippenko was a Soviet Ukrainian composer.
Alexander Naumovich Mitta is a Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter and actor.
Heorhiy Ilarionovych Maiboroda was a Soviet and Ukrainian composer. People's Artist of the USSR (1960).
Ivan Grigorievitch Naumovich, also romanized as Ivan Hryhorovych Naumovych, was a priest, member of parliament, writer, and major figure in the Russophile movement in western Ukraine. His article, A Glimpse into the Future, was considered the most important manifesto of Galician Russophilism.
Igor Yakovlevich Krutoy or Ihor Yakovych Krutyi born on July 29, 1954), is a Russian music composer, performer, producer and musical promoter.
Ihor Valeriyovych Kolomoyskyi is a Ukrainian-born Israeli–Cypriot billionaire businessman, once considered the leading oligarch in Ukraine.
Viktor Stepanovych Kosenko was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, and educator. He was regarded by his contemporaries as a master of lyricism.
Ihor Ihorovych Kostenko was a Ukrainian journalist, student activist and Wikipedian killed during the Euromaidan events.
Alexander Naumovich Tsfasman was a Soviet Jazz pianist, composer, conductor, arranger, publisher and activist. He was an important figure in Soviet Jazz from the period of the mid-1920s until the late 1960s.
Igor Venediktovich Plotnitsky is a former Ukrainian separatist leader who served as the head of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic, in eastern Ukraine, from 14 August 2014 to 24 November 2017. He was born 26 June 1964 either in Luhansk or in the town of Kelmentsi, Chernivtsi Oblast. Plotnitsky himself did not issue a public statement on 24 November 2017, but on that day a Luhansk People's Republic website claimed he had resigned as their president. On 25 November the 38-member People's Council of the self-proclaimed state unanimously approved Plotnitsky's resignation.
Ivan Naumovich Dubovoy was a Ukrainian Soviet army commander. He fought for the Imperial Russian Army in World War I before going over to the Bolsheviks in the subsequent Civil War. With fellow Ukrainian Ivan Fedko he secured his hometown for the Red Army. He was a recipient of the Order of the Red Banner.
Mykhailo Verykivsky was a Ukrainian composer, conductor and teacher. He was an Honored Artist of Ukraine in 1944.
Miron Naumovich Sher was a Soviet-born American chess player, who was awarded the title of Grandmaster (GM) by FIDE in 1992. Towards the end of the Soviet era, he began winning the open sections at international tournaments. In 1991, when the Soviet Union dissolved, Sher became a Russian citizen. In 1997, Sher, his wife, Woman Grandmaster (WGM) Alla Grinfeld (ru), and their son, Mikhail, who then was 14, emigrated to America and settled in Brooklyn. Sher went on to become a distinguished scholastic chess coach and clinician in New York and was instrumental in developing several internationally strong players, notably Fabiano Caruana, many times number two in the world, and Robert Hess, who at age 15, while attending Stuyvesant High School, became an international master and at 16, a grandmaster. Before immigrating, Sher had also coached a number of students around Europe, including Peter Heine Nielsen.
Nikolai Naumovich Kirtok was a Soviet pilot who served during World War II. Kirtok flew 210 missions, mainly as a pilot of an attack aircraft, and in the summer of 1945, received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
Yuriy Yevhenovych Rybchynskyi is a Ukrainian poet, songwriter and playwright who is a recipient of both the Hero of Ukraine and People's Artist of Ukraine. Interestingly, he was among the pioneers of contemporary Ukrainian pop music. Between 1998 and 2000, he served as the President of Ukraine's Cultural Advisor.
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