Ukrainian bard, poet, playwright.
Member of the national unions of Ukraine: theater workers, kobzars, journalists, writers, and the All-Ukrainian Music Union.
Biography.
Oleksandr Smyk was born on October 26, 1957, in the village of Hruzke, now Krolevets community, Konotop district, Sumy region, Ukraine.
He graduated from the Faculty of Pedagogy of Rivne State Pedagogical Institute (1977, now the State Humanitarian University) and Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv (1983).
Organizer of the first private House of Creativity "Irva Stream" in Kremenets. Kremenets (2004).
Author of the idea and curator of the project of the library-museum "Literary Ternopil" (2012).
Head of the Department of Culture and Arts of the Ternopil City Council (2010-2014).
Deputy Mayor of Ternopil for Humanitarian Affairs (October 2014 - November 2015).
Since July 2015 - Chairman of the regional organization of the NUJU.
Head of the Department of Culture and Arts of the Ternopil City Council (2015-2020)
He lived and worked in Ternopil and Kremenets.
Died on May 18, 2022 in Ternopil, where he was buried on May 20 at Mykulynets Cemetery.
Creativity
Festivals.
Author of conceptual developments of music festivals:
"Taras Bulba"
"Dislocation"
"Rebel Nights"
"Laba"
"Golden Underground"
"Green Flower - the Flower of Hope"
"Kobzar seasons of Volyn"
"I am where there is blessing"
Poetry collections
"Song and Car" (1989)
"Two Bodies... Two Souls..." (1993)
"The Attraction of the Fettered River" (1995)
"Marked" (1996)
"Nightingale Congress (1997)
"Storming the Universe" (1997)
"Crosses and Crossroads (1999)
"To that worthy love" (2002)
"I Love and Hate (2003)
"This is Who We Are" - a repertoire collection for bandura (2004)
"Don't be silent to prolong your life" - music collection, romances (2004)
"Provincial Ukraine" (2004)
"Versions" - presentation of a manuscript book (2004)
"Volynski Vedomosti" - literary and local history magazine (2004)
"I am where there is blessing..." (Kremenets, 2005)
"Little Motherland" - newspaper (2005)
"Two bodies... two souls..." - in Slovak (Slovakia, 2005)
"When the sky opens" (2006)
"In the Embrace of Nudity" - poetry and photo album, English version by O. Harvath (2010)
"Ukraine is in me" (2010)
"There are no losers in love" (2010)
"To the sky and beyond" (2012)
"Caramels of the World" (2015)
"Everything is in time for God" (2017)
"The Undeclared War" / Grotesque, the song history of modern Ukraine / (2019)
"Memory of Water" (2021)
Music library
"Let's have a drink" (1998)
"Two Bodies... Two Souls..." (2000)
"I will not disturb you in vain..." (2001)
"Red... Black... White..." (2001)
"Diagnosis - Ukraine" (2003)
"The Third Toast (2003)
"Volyn (2003)
"That's Who We Are" (2004)
"Time for the truth of fools" (2004)
"Volyn Athens" (2005)
"Healing with Love (2005)
"Paranoid Ark (2005)
"Mom is in a hurry for a date" (2006)
"Ukraine with a backpack" (2007)
"Frankinstein in an embroidered shirt" (2007)
"A Vigil for the Soul" (2007)
"There are no losers in love" (2007)
"The Provincial Lady (2008)
"The Red Stripe (2008)
"The Undeclared War (2008)
"Galician Format" (2009)
"The Echo of the Hiding Place (2010)
"The Whirlpool (2012)
"The Border (2013)
"Gunpowder in the Sun (2015)
"Snows... Snows..." (2016, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the battle on Mount Lysonia)
Filmography
the song "Snows, Snows" became the soundtrack to the movie "Orestes" (2017) from the cycle directed by M. Yaremchuk "Living UPA"
the song "A Moment" is performed in the joint Ukrainian-Moldovan film "In Love with the Mountains" (2020) (dir. B. Golich, S. Shelest)
the song "To Mr. Lieutenant" became the soundtrack to the film "Maria" (2021) from the series "Living UPA" directed by M. Yaremchuk.
Awards
Winner of awards
"Recognition of the Krakow Confraternity of Poets" (1995)
Vasyl Stus Award (2008)
named after the Lepky Brothers (2009)
Volodymyr Hnatiuk Prize - for a significant contribution to the development of ethnography and museum studies (2011)
Ternopil City Council's award of the first degree (2011)
Commemorative award "Gurbas 1944-2009"
Commemorative award "Gurbas 1944-2009"
Commemorative award "Gurby 1944-2009" - for personal contribution to the development of the Pantheon of Gurba (2016)Battle of Gurba
Honorary jubilee award of the NUJU
Honorary jubilee award of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine (2021)
Titles.
Honored Worker of Arts of Ukraine (December 1, 2018) - on the occasion of the 27th anniversary of the confirmation of the Act of Independence of Ukraine by the All-Ukrainian referendum on December 1, 1991
Honored by
In 2020, a star to Oleksandr Smyk was installed on the Alley of Stars in Ternopil
