Kuzma Pavlovych Nimchenko (b. 1899, Pashkivska village - d. 1973, Pashkivska village)
Bandura player, master of folk instruments, writer, composer.
He studied bandura with V. Yemets from 1913.
From 1924 he worked at the Krasnodar Philharmonic.
Since 1927, he taught bandura playing at the Krasnodar Conservatory.
He is a master of banduras. Banduras are kept in the Museum of Kobzarism of Crimea and Kuban at the Crimean State Humanitarian Institute, where a bandura made by him in the early 20s of the XX century is kept.
In the 1930s, Nimchenko created a bandura with a system of chromatic strings on a stand and also designed a bandura with a damper that operated a pedal on the stand. The instruments of his design were supposed to be mass-produced in Odesa in 1930, but this did not happen.
In 1933, Nimchenko returned to the Kuban, where he tried to continue performing, designing, and introducing the bandura to educational institutions. At that time, the process of de-Ukrainisation began in the Kuban. The German was repressed. After his exile, he returned to the village of Pashkivska, where in 1973 he died alone and almost forgotten by everyone.
