Dmitry Smolich

Dmytro Mykolayovych Smolych (; ) (11 April 191928 April 1987) was a Soviet and Ukrainian theatre director.

Early years Smolych was born in Petrograd (now Saint Petersburg), in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. From 1970 he was the chief director of the Ukrainian Opera and Ballet Theatre.

Smolych's notable productions of operas include Taras Bulba by M. Lysenko, Yaroslav the Wise by H. Maiboroda, Macbeth by J. Verdi, Boris Godunov by M. Mussorgsky, Prince Igor by O. Borodin, The Queen of Spades by P. Tchaikovsky, In the Storm by T. Hryennikov, Absalom and Eteri by Paliashvili, and Huguenots by Meyerbeer,

Later life

Smolych spent much of his later life in Kyiv, and there is a bronze memorial plaque dedicated to him at 39 Bohdan Khmelnytskyi Street, where he lived and worked from 1971 to 1987. He died in Kyiv on April 28, 1987. He is buried next to his father in Baikove Cemetery.

Honours He was an Honoured Artist of the Georgian SSR (1957), Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1958). People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1960), (1964), Laureate of the Taras Shevchenko State Prize of the Ukrainian SSR (1970), and People's Artist of the USSR (1979).