“Cranes flew to Chernobyl": Mykola Kondratyuk

The audio is the composition “Cranes flew to Chernobyl”. Music by: Oleksandr Bilash and Dmytro Lutsenko. Performers: Mykola Kondratiuk and the State Orchestra of Folk Instruments of Ukraine, conducted by Viktor Hutsal. Recorded in 1988.

Reference: Mykola Kondratiuk was born on May 5, 1931 in Starokonstantyniv. He was an opera and concert chamber singer, teacher, music and public figure, professor, academician of the International Pedagogical Academy of the CIS countries, People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR and the USSR, and a member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the ninth and tenth convocations.

He has toured the concert and opera stages of the world - in South America, the USA, Canada, Australia, Western Europe, in 40 countries in total. He has recorded on radio, gramophone records, and television. He appeared in music and feature films. He also appeared in the periodicals.

He died on November 16, 2006 in Kyiv. He was buried at the Baikove cemetery.

Ukrainian Radio, together with Suspilne Media Library, is releasing unique archival recordings collected over 100 years in the project “Treasures of the Ukrainian Radio Phonotheque”. As part of the project, you will hear the voices of prominent writers, singers, legendary announcers, and music by Ukrainian Radio artistic groups. You can listen to the recordings on the Suspilne Media Library website and on the project's YouTube page.