Svyryd Sotnychenko (c. 1880, Pashkivska village - 5 January 1919, Katerynodar) was a Kuban bandura player, public and political activist, cooperator, member of the Kuban Council (1917). He was a member of the first Kyiv Bandura Chapel in 1918. On 5 January 1919, he was shot by the Bolsheviks.
He was born in the village of Pashkivska in the Kuban. He was a cousin of the Kuban bandura player and bandura master Anton Chornyi (1891-1972). He played the bandura of the Kuban master. He received his first lessons from the bandura players of Pashkivska village. He improved the art of playing while studying at the First Kuban Kobzar School (1913). He was a student of V. Yemets.
"He was a very conscious and patriotic Cossack who believed in one Ukrainian state - the Cossack state" (Vasyl Yemets).
He performed as a soloist and in a duet with his wife, N. Sotnychenko. He was shot by Denikin's counterintelligence in Katerynodar together with nationally conscious Black Sea Cossacks (Ukrainians) Yevdokym Plokhy, Vasyl Taran, and Ivan Shpak.
