Yakiv Mykhailovych Yatsynevych (* 8 November 1869, Bila Tserkva - † 25 April 1945, Krasnodar Territory) was a composer, conductor and folklorist from Bila Tserkva in the Kyiv region. A student of Mykola Lysenko in Kyiv, with whom he founded Ukrainian choirs in 1891-1904. Conductor of the men's choir of Kyiv University (1903-1906) and the city choir in Odesa (1925-1930). Works: symphony "1905", oratorio "The Grieving Mother" (words by P. Tychyna), church music (liturgy, cantatas on the themes of St. Yuri, Basil, Peter and Paul), choral works, more than 200 arrangements of folk songs.
During the Soviet era, he worked various jobs - he was a village teacher, a music teacher in amateur groups with a constant change of residence: in the villages of the Kyiv region, and later in Eastern Ukraine. He was exiled to the Caucasus to the Adygea Autonomous Republic. In his last years, the composer and conductor guarded a collective farm garden in the Krasnodar Territory.
Commemorative events
On 28 July 2022, in the city of Bila Tserkva, Kyiv region, Levanevsky Second Lane was renamed Yakiv Yatsynevych Street.
