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Bugai Petro Mykhailovych

1880-1940

Ukrainian bandura player from the Kuban, a soldier of the UPR army.
Biography

A student of Vasyl Yemets. Participant of the first kobzar school in Katerynodar (1913). Participant in the Liberation Movement. Interned in Kalisz in Poland.

At the urging of the Ukrainian Public Committee, he moved to Prague. There he became a member of the second chapel of bandura players under the direction of Vasyl Yemets.

He was a close friend of the bandura player Yukhym Klevchutskyi. He was imprisoned in a German concentration camp during World War II but survived. His fate is unknown.

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