Markiyan Frolov (1892-1944) was a composer, pianist and teacher born in Bobruisk.
He received his musical education at the Kyiv and St. Petersburg Conservatories (1913-1924). Until 1937, he gave concerts and taught (from 1924) at the Music. Lysenko Music Institute in Kyiv; co-founder, professor and director of the Sverdlovsk Conservatory (1934-37 and 1943-44).
Works: Concerto for piano and orchestra (1924), sonata, suite, symphonic painting "Grey Ural" (1936), the first Buryat-Mongolian opera "Enhe-Bulat Bator" (1940); three Ukrainian songs for vocal trio.
