President Vladimir Zelensky awarded Ukrainian Yuri Rybchinsky Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise degree. The corresponding decree dated May 22 was published on the website of the presidential office.

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The Ministry of Culture reminded that today, May 22, Rybchinsky celebrates the 80th birthday. The department noted that without a poet and playwright it is difficult to imagine the Ukrainian musical culture of the second half of the twentieth century.

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Rybchinsky is the author of more than 150 songs. He began to actively publish and cooperate with composers in the 1960s, when he was a student. The first poems of Rybchinsky in Ukrainian periodicals were printed when he was 18 years old.

His poems are laid to the music of Vladimir Ivasyuk, Igor Poklad, Igor Shamo, Nikolai Mozgovoy, Gennady Tatarchenko, Pavel Zibrov and other famous composers.

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Among the most famous are “spine”, “Klenovy Vogon”, “Osinnya Pisnya”, “Dicky geese”, “Chavna violin”, “Water flowing,” added in the Ministry of Culture.

Recall that in 2020, Zelensky awarded the Rybchinsky title of Hero of Ukraine with the award of the state of the state for merits in enriching Ukrainian culture and art, the formation of national identity, as well as many years of fruitful creative activity. The award took place on Sofia Square on August 24 on the 29th day of Independence of Ukraine.