Mykyta Yakovych Kalistratenko (1900, Lesnyky - 1935) was a Ukrainian choral conductor, folklorist, full member of the Mykola Leontovych Music Society, and organiser of music radio broadcasts.
He was born in 1900 in the village of Lisnyky in the Kyiv region.
He studied in Kyiv at the Mykola Lysenko State Music and Drama Institute (teacher Lev Revutskyi, Department of Choral Conducting and Playing Folk Instruments).
He worked as a conductor of the choral chapel of the Tochprylad plant in Kyiv, was a full member of the Mykola Leontovych Music Society (1924-1928), and organiser of music radio broadcasts.
As a folklorist, he recorded songs in Ukrainian villages, in his native village of Lisnyky (at that time, Buda district, Kyiv region), in particular, he recorded a version of the group singing of girls and boys.
On 22 June 1935, he was arrested in the so-called case of participation in an anti-Soviet nationalist terrorist organisation.
On 22 October 1935, he was sentenced to death by the Military Tribunal of the Kyiv Military District and by the decision of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR of 20 November 1935.
He was rehabilitated on 17 November 1959 by the decision of the Supreme Court of the USSR (decision No. 001309/p-35).
