Viktor Petrovych Boryshchenko (*4 February 1914, Kharkiv - †14 July 1996, Kyiv) was a Ukrainian singer (lyrical and dramatic tenor). People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1951).
He was born in Kharkiv in the family of a worker. While working as a mechanic, he studied at the evening institute of railway transport engineers and at the music studio at the House of Culture of Railwaymen. From 1933, he was a soloist at the Kharkiv Opera and Ballet Theatre. Since 1935 - soloist at the Kyiv Opera and Ballet Theatre.
Member of the CPSU since 1946.
Main roles: Bohun (Dankevych's Bohdan Khmelnytsky), Petro, Andriy (Lysenko's Natalka Poltavka, Taras Bulba), Gvidon (Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tale of Tsar Saltan), Faust (Gounod's Faust), Yenik (Smetana's The Sold Bride), Pierre (Prokofiev's War and Peace), etc.
Awards
Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1951)
medals
