Yakiv Yatsynevych

Yakiv Mykhailovych Yatsynevych (Ukrainian: Яків Михайлович Яциневич, 8 November 1869–25 April 1945) was a prominent Ukrainian composer, conductor, and folklorist, known for his eclectic works.

Biography Yakiv Mikhailovych Yatsynevych was born on in Bila Tserkva, a city now in the Kyiv Oblast. He studied with the Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko in Kyiv, He worked in Zaporizhzhia from 1930 until 1940, and in the Russian city of Maykop between 1940 and 1945, where he conducted the Adygea Song and Dance Ensemble.

Yatsynevych died on 25 April 1945, at Kropotkin, Krasnodar Krai.