Composer, People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (since 1982), artistic director and chief conductor of the Cherkasy State Honored Ukrainian Folk Choir.
Biography.
He was born on November 7, 1945 in the village of Velyun, Dubrovytsia district, Rivne region. After graduating from the Odesa Conservatory in 1974, he worked as a choirmaster, and later as the artistic director and chief conductor of the Cherkasy Choir.
He is known as a composer, author of music for the songs:
"My Land";
"An Apple Tree from the Cherkasy Land";
"Two Poplars";
"Over the Cradle of the Son" and others.
In 1981, the choir won the Taras Shevchenko State Prize of the Ukrainian SSR.
In 1986, E. Kukharets was awarded the Order of Friendship of Peoples.
Kukharets' grave at the city cemetery in Cherkasy
He tragically died in a car accident on December 27, 1987. He was buried in the city cemetery in Cherkasy. In 1991, a granite obelisk (3 meters high) with a bronze bas-relief image of Kukharets was erected on the grave. Near the obelisk, a bronze sculpture of a bent-down bandura player in national costume (1.7 meters high) is installed on a granite tombstone. The obelisk has an inscription: "Kukharets Yevhen Ivanovych. People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR. 1945-1987".
Awards and honors
1982 - honorary title "People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR"
1986 - the Order of Friendship of Peoples
Memory
In the composer's native village of Velyunia, there is a room-museum of Yevhen Kukharets.
In 2016, the former Marshal Krasovsky Street in Cherkasy was renamed in his honor.
