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Oleshko Ilya

Oleshko (Illya) Ivan Fedorovych - Ukrainian bandura player; one of the first students of Hnat Khotkevych at the bandura course at the KhMDI. He is a native of Derkachi.

In 1929, he graduated from the Kharkiv Music and Drama Institute. Together with Oleksa Herashchenko, Leonid Haydamaka, and Yakiv Hayevskyi, he was a member of the famous bandura quartet.

He was repressed in 1932. His fate is unknown.

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