Ukrainian singer and teacher, professor - 1982, Honored Artist of Ukraine.
Biography.
After graduating from high school, he worked as a turner at a factory and was an amateur singer. From 1926 to 1930, he studied at the Mykola Lysenko Music and Drama Institute.
In 1930, he began his artistic activity in the Dumka Chapel, and at the same time, without interrupting his main job, he entered the Kyiv Conservatory, vocal class.
From 1935 to 1939, he was a soloist at the opera studio of the Kyiv Conservatory. From 1939 to 1941, he was a student at the Tchaikovsky Kyiv Conservatory in the singing class of Dometiy Yevtushenko.
In 1941, he was drafted into the army. After graduating from the tank driver school in Leningrad, he was sent for further service not to the front line, but to the opera studio of the Leningrad Officers' House. He performed with front-line brigades; concerts in forest glades, in the open air, Darchuk performed with Yuriy Tymoshenko and Yukhym Berezin, Bely, Pavlo Virsky, Kabalevsky, Khrennykov, as part of the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Kyiv Special Military District.
The first performance of "Song of the Dnipro" was on December 31, 1941, at the Voronezh Drama Theater, and he performed at the front in Berlin and was awarded the Order of the Red Star.
In 1946, he graduated from the Kyiv Conservatory and was a soloist on Ukrainian radio.
In 1951-1955, he worked as a soloist at the Gorky Opera House and taught singing at the conservatory.
In 1955, he arrived in Lviv, performing at the Ivan Franko Lviv State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater (1955-1957 and 1959-1965) and the Mykola Lysenko Lviv State Conservatory.
During his creative life, he performed more than a hundred parts of classical repertoire, scored 11 films, and recorded 460 works by various composers for the Moscow and Ukrainian radio.
Since 1965, he has been working as a vocal teacher at the Department of Academic Singing at the Mykola Lysenko Lviv Conservatory until 1999. Among his students are Andriy Aleksyk, Serhiy Ben, Roman Vitoshynsky, Vasyl Dudar, Viktor Dudar, Ihor Kushpler, Anatoliy Lypnyk, Stepan Stepan, Corneliy Syatetsky, and Oleksiy Danylchuk.
Among his stage roles are The Forester, The Forest Song by Vitaliy Kireiko.
He performed under the direction of Yaroslav Voshchak, among others.
His wife, Mariia Petrivna Syverina, was also a music teacher.
He was buried in field 9 of the Yaniv cemetery.
