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Volodymyr Mykhailovych Ivasyuk or Volodymyr Ivasiuk (Ukrainian: Володи́мир Миха́йлович Івасю́к) (4 March 1949 – 24–27 April 1979[1]) was a Ukrainian songwriter, composer and poet. He is the author and composer of the widely popular song "Chervona Ruta" popularized by Sofia Rotaru in 1971, and later covered by other singers.

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Hero of Ukraine Volodymyr Ivasiuk
Ivasyuk in 1972
Native name	Володи́мир Миха́йлович Івасю́к
Born	(1949-03-04)4 March 1949 Kitsman, Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukrainian SSR
Died	24–27 April 1979 (aged 30)[1] Lviv, Ukrainian SSR
Occupation	Poet and composer
Period	1970-1979
Notable awards

Biography

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Ivasyuk was born in Kitsman, Chernivtsi Oblast. His father Mykhaylo Ivasyuk was a well-known writer from Bukovina. His mother Sofiya Ivasyuk, from Zaporizhzhia Oblast, was a teacher in a local school. He had two sisters, Halyna (b. 1944) and Oksana (b. 1960). As early as the age of five, Volodymyr began learning to play the violin at a music school. Later, he learnt to play the piano as well. In 1964 he created an ensemble - "Bukovina" - in his school and wrote their first songs, the first of which was "Lullaby". After Volodymyr graduated from secondary school, his family moved to the city of Chernivtsi where his father was offered a teaching position at the Bukovinian State Medical University. Volodymyr went on to study at the Lviv Medical Institute while he continued his musical career. He joined the "Karpaty Ensemble" at a local community centre and played the violin and performed songs.

He became an overnight national sensation in the Soviet Union, after a public performance on 13 September 1970 of his compositions "Chervona Ruta" (Ukrainian for 'Red Rue') and "Vodohray" with Olena Kuznetsova. In 1971 his "Chervona Ruta", performed live in Moscow with Vasyliy Zinkevych and Nazary Yaremchuk, won the Best Song of the Year award of the Soviet Union. His composition "Vodohray" won the best song award the next year as well. "Chervona Ruta", sung by Sofia Rotaru, was featured in the musical-film Chervona Ruta. Ivasyuk then moved to Lviv to study composition at the Lviv Conservatory of Music. Upon graduation from the medical institute, he worked as a doctor and did a post-graduate course at the Department of Pathological Physiology for his next degree. In Lviv Volodymyr composed the songs: "I am your wing", "Two rings", "Ballad about mallow", "Ballad about two violins". These songs and other works of Ivasyuk were premiered by Rotaru.

On the 24th of April 1979 he was scheduled to meet someone at the Lviv conservatory. He never got there nor did he report for duty as a doctor. Three days later his parents and older sister reported him to the police as missing. An investigation followed, until the Lviv district attorney put a temporary pause on the search.[2]

On 18 May Volodymyr was found hanging on a tree in a forest located on the outskirts of Lviv.[3] His body was discovered by an off-duty soldier who was testing his radio. The official cause of death was listed as suicide but the exact circumstances remain unknown to this day. His celebrity status in the Soviet Union and his cultural contributions to Ukraine drew the attention of authorities. His songs, mostly about love to local traditions and geography, was perceived as rousing Ukrainian nationalist sentiments to listeners by Soviet authorities. However, Ivasyuk was never confirmed to be politically active.

Ivasyuk’s funeral was attended by over 10,000 people. After his death his compositions were cancelled.[4][3] In June 2019 a new official Forensic examination concluded that Ivasyuk could not have hanged himself without the help of someone else.[3] Ivasyuk is buried at Lychakivskiy Cemetery. Among his legacy was the first Soviet rock-opera, whose scenario and songs were specifically written for performance by Sofia Rotaru.[5][6] In 2009, President Victor Yushchenko awarded Ivasyuk the Hero of Ukraine medal posthumously.

Death

Volodymyr Ivasyuk disappeared on April 24, 1979, the same day his parents filed a complaint with the police, but no effective measures were taken. The search was conducted from April 27 to May 11. It was then that the search case was closed.

Volodymyr's body was accidentally found on May 18, 1979, by a soldier who, "hunting foxes" (a form of training for radio operators), came across a half-hanging, half-vertical human corpse. The investigation put forward the version that Volodymyr has not yet regained mental balance after treatment at the Lviv Regional Psychiatric Hospital and committed suicide. The version that the treatment in the hospital was carried out in order to renew the number of conservatory students was not considered by investigators. Numerous absences could be argued due to illness, and Volodymyr, as he had chronic fatigue and insomnia, decided to go to a psychiatric hospital. Ivasyuk was a professional doctor, so he may have been able to simulate various symptoms.From the history of the disease: "the patient's condition improves: the mood gradually normalizes, sleep improves, becomes physically stronger…". In the end, Volodymyr Ivasyuk received the necessary document: “At this time, Comrade Ivasyuk VM is good, and he can start classes at the conservatory.

But investigators defended the "crazy suicide" formula. On June 4, 1979, the media reported that the cause of Volodymyr Ivasyuk's death was suicide by hanging, and rumors of other circumstances of his death were fiction. Other versions were not considered by the investigation. The possibility of other causes of death was indicated by the following facts: blown buttons on the composer's jacket; people whom university staff saw for the first time searched for Ivasyuk in the corridors of the conservatory before his disappearance; the strange death of two young lovers who saw Ivasyuk as one of the last; one student claimed to have seen Volodymyr in Rivne on May 3 (investigators say he died on April 27). When asked about the scratches, gouged eyes, and other mutilations of the corpse, the investigators responded, "the owls might have done it." Link

After examining the bark of the beech tree on which the body hung, it was found: It is not possible to resolve this issue categorically due to the lack of any individual features. " The conclusion of the examination of the analysis of clothing: "On the available items of clothing (raincoats, jackets, pants, knitted shirts and shoes) Ivasyuk VM parts of the bark,wood, as well as green spots that could come from the surface of the trunk from the scene, no… ». However, over time, forensic experts noted: "Forensic examination found that the traces on the tree trunk, on the branch where the corpse hung, left by Ivasyuk VM shoes, when he climbed a tree to tie a belt to the branch." .

During a journalistic investigation, a former political prisoner, who had seen many hanged men, noted that they were all hanging with their tongues out. The corpse's tongue was not protruding, there was no discharge. These signs were ignored by forensic experts.

According to one unofficial version, it was a murder in which KGB officers took part.

Poet Bohdan Stelmakh said in 2009 that Ivasyuk could have been killed by the KGB: “Perhaps the KGB persuaded Volodya to cooperate. But he was not one to do what he did not deserve and what he loathed. The KGB was able to interrogate him, perhaps he was thrown into the basement of the pre-trial detention center, tortured and taken to the forest, staging a suicide. But the third version, that he committed suicide, cannot be a reality. Volodya, full of strength, glory, life and plans, could not do that. ”[30]

On June 12, 2014, the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine declared it illegal to close the criminal case on Ivasyuk's death and resumed it [7].

Former prosecutor of the Lviv region Roman Fedik in February 2015 [8] [9] stated that Volodymyr Ivasyuk was killed by "KGB officers".

On June 13, 2019, the Kyiv Research Institute of Forensic Science concluded that composer-performer Volodymyr Ivasyuk could not physically commit suicide, which requires several people.

Legacy

There is a museum in Chernivtsi dedicated to preserving his memory and he has statues in Lviv and Kitsman.[7]

In 2015 former Nohinska street in Dnipro was renamed to Volodymyr Ivasiuk street.

In 1990, a bronze composition was erected on the grave in Lychakiv Cemetery - a young composer next to a piano. For 11 years, Ivasyuk's family was not allowed to erect a tombstone.

On March 3, 2011 in Chernivtsi, on the facade of the administrative building of Bukovinian State Medical University, a memorial table of the work of sculptor Ivan Salevych was unveiled, which testifies that the Hero of Ukraine, composer Volodymyr Ivasyuk studied here.

In 2011, a monument to the composer was unveiled on Taras Shevchenko Avenue in Lviv (sculptor Serhiy Oleshko, architect Mykhailo Yaholnyk). The patron, with whose funds the monument was built, is a musician Svyatoslav Vakarchuk [40].

On March 4, 2017, a memorial plaque to the Ukrainian composer was erected at the Recording House in Kyiv (Leonid Pervomaisky Street, 5-a) [41]

Writings

Songs in your own words

"Cranes flew away",

"I will go to distant mountains",

"Red Route",

"Fountain",

"The song will be between us",

"Only once love blooms",

"Ballad of Mallow",

"I am your wing",

"Welcome",

"Like a flock of birds",

"Lullaby",

"Traveling music",

"Two rings",

"There behind the mountain, behind the flint",

"Hat"

and other

Songs to the words of various poets,

in particular Dm. Pavlychko, O. Honchar, B. Stelmakh, M. Petrenko, Y. Rybchynsky, R. Bratun, R. Kudlyk and others. (over 40) -

"Fate has its own spring", "Maple fire", "Summer of late dahlias", "Ballad of two violins", "World without you" in the words of Vasily Babukh and others.

For the choir

Suite (cycle of arrangements of Ukrainian folk songs) for unaccompanied choir (1978).

Instrumental works

Suite-variations on the theme of the Ukrainian folk song "Dry Willow" (1977),

Suite Variations for Chamber Orchestra (1977),

three pieces for piano,

"Autumn picture" - for cello,

three pieces for violin,

music for the play "Bannermen" (1975, fragments preserved).

References

External links

• Pages to memories of Volodymyr Ivasyuk
• Volodymyr Ivasiuk’s biography published in “The Great Ukrainians” series

На других языках

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[de] Wolodymyr Iwasjuk

Wolodymyr Mychajlowytsch Iwasjuk (ukrainisch Володимир Михайлович Івасюк; * 4. März 1949 in Kizman, Oblast Tscherniwzi, Ukrainische SSR; † 18. Mai 1979 in Brjuchowytschi, Oblast Lwiw, Ukrainische SSR) war ein ukrainischer Komponist, Sänger, Dichter und Begründer der ukrainischen Popmusik.

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- [en] Volodymyr Ivasyuk

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[es] Volodymyr Ivasiuk

Volodymyr Mykhailovych Ivasyuk o Volodymyr Ivasiuk (en ucraniano, Володи́мир Миха́йлович Івасю́к) (4 de marzo de 1949 Kitsman, Óblast de Chernivtsi, RSS de Ucrania, Unión Soviética – 18 de mayo de 1979 Lviv, RSS de Ucrania, Unión Soviética) fue un compositor y poeta de la ucraniano, conocido por su canción Chervona Ruta, popularizada por Sofia Rotaru en 1971.[1]

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[ru] Ивасюк, Владимир Михайлович

Влади́мир Миха́йлович Ивасю́к (укр. Володи́мир Миха́йлович Івасю́к, 4 марта 1949, Кицмань, Черновицкая область, УССР, СССР — 26 апреля[3] 1979, Львов, УССР, СССР) — советский украинский композитор и поэт, Герой Украины (2009, посмертно). Один из основоположников украинской эстрадной музыки. Автор 107 песен, 53 инструментальных произведений, музыки к нескольким спектаклям.

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