Isak Ovsiyovych Bukynyk (b. 1867, Kharkiv - d. 1942, Kharkiv) was a Ukrainian violinist, teacher and musicologist of Jewish origin. He was the brother of the musician Mykhailo Bukynyk.
He was born in 1867 in the city of Kharkiv (now Ukraine). In 1887 he graduated from the Kharkiv Music School of the Russian Musical Society (violin class of A. Pestel).
After completing his musical education, until 1917 he worked as a music teacher at the Sumy Gymnasium, a violin teacher in Baku, a concertmaster at the Odesa Opera, headed his own music school in Kharkiv, and performed as a violin soloist (violin and viola parts in the string quartet of the Kharkiv branch of the Russian Musical Society under the direction of Konstantin Horsky). From 1918, he taught at a music school in Kharkiv.
He was killed during the German-Soviet war in occupied Kharkiv in 1942 in Drobytskyi Yar, where he was buried.
Works
"I. Slatin: A Biographical Sketch". St. Petersburg, 1898;
"How to care for a bowed instrument" // Music for the masses. 1928. № 2;
"Instructions and advice to self-taught violinists" // Music for the masses. № 6-8;
"Tchaikovsky's Concerts in Kharkiv" // Memories of Tchaikovsky. Moscow, published in 1962.
