A teacher, composer, musician, poet, and artist who made a significant contribution to the popularization of Ukrainian national culture and art. Honorary citizen of Zavodske. The editor-in-chief and compiler of the book The City on the Sula.
Biography
Childhood and youth
Born into a large singing family. His father was Maksym Ovramovych, his older brother Andrii, and his sisters Halia, Lida, and Olia. From the time of his birth until 1955, he lived in Chernihiv region. He graduated from Yadutyn secondary school. Since childhood, he dreamed of an artistic career.
He served in the Main Headquarters of the Air Defense of Ukraine, where he was the head of the soldiers' amateur artistic activity. He performed in a string orchestra, playing percussion, and was the organizer and deputy director of a choir. He was especially notable for his artistic whistling, which he mastered perfectly.
After the service, he entered the Nizhyn Cultural and Educational College for Training of Workers at the choral department, graduating in 1959. Then he worked as a director of the Vasylkiv Village Club, and as a mass organizer of the intercollective Tokariv Recreation Center in Lebedyn district, Sumy region.
Maturity.
He composed his first songs while working as the head of the Turkianske Village Club in the Krasnopilsk region in 1963: "Dumy Divichi" and "Vyshenka", which were published as separate postcards by the Sumy Regional House of Folk Art. Some of his works were published in the local press of Poltava, Sumy, Chernihiv, Zaporizhzhia, and Kirovohrad, in the magazines Ranok and Dnipro, and in the collection Musical Evenings.
He graduated from the Kharkiv State Institute of Culture (1967), then worked as an artistic director of the Kalynivka Agricultural College in Kursk Oblast (Russia).
Later years.
In 1972, he returned to Ukraine. He lived in Chervonozavodske (Zavodske), Lokhvytsia district, Poltava region. For a year he worked as a deputy commander of the Chervonozavodske vocational school, and then from 1972 he was a teacher of drawing, music, and singing at the Hayivshchyna secondary school. In 1986, he was awarded the title of Excellence in Public Education of Ukraine for his multifaceted teaching work. He had a cheerful disposition and a sharp mind. He was able to make a joke, for which he was well respected by his students and colleagues.
Owl making a joke
Creativity
He wrote more than 300 songs and was a member of the Music Association of Composers of Ukraine. His works are performed by folk groups: the Luchanski Barvy ensemble, the Yavir choir of the Zavodske City House of Culture No. 1, rural folk groups from the villages of Haiivshchyna, Kharkivtsi, Tokari, Pisky, Hiryavi Iskivtsi, and others.
He wrote poetry and was published. In 1975, for the poem "12th Chamber," which was distributed in manuscripts and actively passed from hand to hand, he almost got to the Soviet court and was expelled from Ukraine and, only thanks to the active support of the public, was able to avoid punishment, but was banned from being published in the press.
The Kyiv publishing house Arfa released Mykola Sova's vocal collection A Kalyna Tsvite (1995), which includes more than three dozen songs.
In addition to his song and folklore achievements, Mykola Maksymovych devoted a lot of time to collecting and systematizing folk stories and fairy tales.
He became an honorary citizen of the city to which he devoted most of his life.
List of his works
"Lokhvychanka" (November 1980)
"Eternal Traces (May 1981)
"The 12th Chamber" (1975)
"The Most Democratic (1974)
"Voting for the Truth (March 20, 1994)
"Shchavil" (1980)
"Wedding Vows" ("To Iryna and Serhiy", 1995)
"Singing Songs (1994)
"Happy Angel's Day" (June 1995)
In the Yadutyn Club (February 1954)
"What a thing to do" (1954)
"The Pillar (1955)
"Shutmariya" (1959)
"Tourist Road (1980)
Young Ukraine
"I want to..." (1995)
"I Will Fly (1995)
"Lokhvychanka" (1995)
"Eternal Traces (1995)
"Birch" (1995)
"The poorest" (1995)
"The Most Democratic (1995)
"That's my strength" (1995)
"It may come in handy" (1995)
"Oh, well" (1995)
"Re-educating Baba Yaga" (1995)
"The Crane (1993)
"I will carry you over the fields" (1995)
"Broken Icons (1995)
"Snow of Gold" (1995)
