Anatoliy Mokrenko

Anatoliy Yuriyovych Mokrenko (; 22 January 1933 – 24 March 2020) was a Ukrainian operatic baritone who appeared internationally. He was also the director of the National Opera of Ukraine and a professor at the Petro Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine.

Life and career Born Anatoliy Yuriyovych Mokrenko in a village near Terni in the Sumy district, he studied at the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute to become an engineering geologist, graduating in 1956. He worked for eight years in the Caucasus, in Northern Urals, Crimea, the Carpathians and in South Ukraine. He studied voice simultaneously at the Kyiv State Conservatory with Nikolai Zubarev and Alexandra Grodzinska, graduating in 1963.

Awards He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1976 and received the Shevchenko National Prize in 1978. Among his awards were also the Order of Friendship of Peoples, and of Yaroslav the Wise, and of Vladimir the Great.