Heorhiy Maiboroda

Heorhiy Ilarionovych Maiboroda (1 December [O.S. 18 November] 1913 – 6 December 1992) was a Soviet and Ukrainian composer. People's Artist of the USSR (1960). Maiboroda, whose brother Platon Maiboroda was also a composer (mainly of songs), studied at the Glière College of Music in Kyiv, where he studied under Levko Revutsky, graduating in 1941 and teaching there from 1952 to 1958. From 1967 to 1968 he was head of the Composers Union of Ukraine.