Strokun Tykhyn Hryhorovych (29 June 1902, Novopashkivska - 20 August 1965, Krasnodar) was a Ukrainian bandura player, bandura master, teacher, writer, and public figure.
He was born in the village of Novopashkivska in the Kuban. He was an active participant in the implementation of Ukrainisation in the Kuban, in particular, he often performed on regional and city radio as a bandura player (Klepkov's bandura was large, ornamented, had 20 basses and 51 strings, a wreath was painted in the centre of the soundboard, with Taras Shevchenko with a bandura in the middle). M. Varrava praised him as an outstanding bandura player. Secretary at the courses of Ukrainian language and literature in Krasnodar. In 1931, he graduated from the Faculty of Ukrainian Philology of the Krasnodar Pedagogical Institute. He taught Ukrainian language and literature at the Workers' Faculty. Since 1929, he published his poetry and prose works.
In January 1933, he was arrested by the NKVD, and in August of the same year, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison for participating in a "Ukrainian nationalist insurgent counter-revolutionary organisation". According to his relatives, he was convicted "for the Ukrainian language and bandura". He served his sentence on the White Sea Canal. In 1939, he was sent to the Russian-Finnish war. After the Second World War, he worked as a teacher of Russian language and literature at school No. 34 and as a librarian.
In the post-war years, he wrote the books "Notes of a Soldier" and "Traitor to the Motherland".
