He was 87 years old.
Ostap Kindrachuk
On Wednesday, December 18, Ukrainian kobzar and bandura player Ostap Kindrachuk, who played in Cossack clothing on the embankment of Yalta in Crimea, died, reports “Obshchestvennoye”.
“Ostap Yuryevich passed away tonight. Blessed memory!” – says a message on his Facebook page.
As Ukrainian journalist Vasyl Chepurny reported, Kindrachuk was from Galicia, he “raised” aimed, was treated in Yalta, where he stayed to work as a captain of a passenger ship.
Since 1955, he began to play the bandura, and in the late 1980s he created the Ambrose Metlinsky Ukrainian Language Society, which later became “Prosvetitelstvo”. with the instrument on the streets of Ukrainian cities, including Lviv. He also performed abroad: in Poland, Germany, the Czech Republic. He performed folk thoughts, historical, folk songs and songs about the present.