Sheremet Ivan (late 1870s, Irkliivska - first half of the XX century) - tenor bandura player; violinist of the symphony orchestra of the Kuban Cossack Army (since 1911); senior officer of the Kuban Cossack Army.
He was born in the village of Irkliyivska in the Kuban. One of the pioneers of the kobza revival in the Kuban. He got acquainted with the bandura in 1904 at a concert of kobzar Mykhailo Kravchenko, and decided to become a bandura player. He mastered the bandura on his own, and later studied at the Second Kuban Kobzar School. He was a student of O. Obabko. He played the banduras of Katerynodar master D. Krykun and Koryukiv master O. Korniievskyi (1889 - 1998). He performed as a soloist and as part of a trio with K. and N. Bezshasnyi. His repertoire includes the following songs and dumas: "Oh, why are you blackened", "Oh Frost-Frost, you glorious Cossack", "Oh, from behind the mountain, from behind the estuary, around the Sich Zaporizhzhia, the Muscovite is besieging", "You, Kuban, you are our Motherland", etc.
After the proclamation of the independent Kuban People's Republic by the Legislative Council, he joined the Kuban Army.
He died in Soviet concentration camps.
