Yevhen Ivanovych Chervoniuk (21 April 1924, Brusylova village, now Brusyliv district, Zhytomyr region - 12 February 1982, Kharkiv) was a Ukrainian opera singer-bass. Member of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR of the 6th-8th convocations. Honoured Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1956). People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1958). People's Artist of the USSR (1967).
Biography.
He graduated from Brusylivka secondary school in Zhytomyr region.
Since July 1941, he served in the Red Army, was a cadet at a military school. Participated in the German-Soviet war from August 1942 to March 1943. He served as the commander of the reconnaissance unit of the 34th Infantry Brigade of the North Caucasus Front. In March 1943, he was seriously wounded, treated in hospitals in Krasnodar and Baku, and demobilised in October 1943. He was a disabled veteran of the Second World War.
He studied at the Kyiv Construction Institute, then transferred to the Kyiv Conservatory.
In 1950, he graduated from the Kyiv Conservatory (class of Ivan Patorzhynskyi), won the International Vocal Competition in Prague (1950).
In 1950-1952, he was a soloist at the Kyiv Opera and Ballet Theatre. In 1952-1977 he was a soloist at the Lysenko Kharkiv State Opera and Ballet Theatre.
Main roles: Taras, Vybornyi (Taras Bulba, Natalka Poltavka by M. Lysenko), Maksym Kryvonis (Bohdan Khmelnytsky by K. Dankevych), Kochubey (Mazepa by P. Tchaikovsky), Mephistopheles (Faust by Ch. Gounod), Boris Godunov (M. Mussorgsky's opera of the same name).
Member of the CPSU since 1960.
Since 1960 he has been a lecturer, since 1974 - a professor at the Ivan Kotliarevsky Kharkiv Institute of Arts.
Rank
senior sergeant
Awards
Order of Lenin (1960)
Order of the Red Star (30.05.1951)
medals
