Oleksandr Yevtushenko

Oleksandr Mykolaiovych Yevtushenko (27 September 195723 December 2020) was a Ukrainian music journalist.

Biography He was born in Uman, Cherkasy region, in the Ukrainian SSR. Yevtushenko graduated from the Kyiv Art Institute in 1982. During the 1990s, he established independent Ukraine's first music publications, including the newspaper Audiotoloka and the magazine Halas. In the early 2000s, Yevtushenko worked as a music critic for magazine. During his career, he authored several books on the Ukrainian music scene. He died in Kyiv due to complications from encephalopathy. Halas Yevtushenko was the editor-in-chief of Halas , the first Ukrainian-language music magazine established in independent Ukraine. the earliest of which were printed in the Czech Republic. Yevtushenko wanted to introduce a Western-style musical reporting format, modeling his approach after British publications—specifically Q and Melody Maker. Funded by the Ukrainian software firm , the magazine ceased operations in 1998 following financial hardship.

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