Dmytro Ostapenko

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Dmytro Ostapenko
Дмитро Остапенко
Ostapenko in 2019
Minister of Culture and Arts of Ukraine
In office 25 September 1995 – 4 August 1999
Preceded by	Ivan Dziuba
Succeeded by	Bohdan Stupka
Personal details
Born	(1946-11-03) 3 November 1946 (age 77) Novachyka [uk], Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Political party	Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1973–?)
Alma mater	Kharkiv National Kotlyarevsky University of Arts

Dmytro Ivanovych Ostapenko (Ukrainian: Дмито Іванович Остапенко; born 3 November 1946) is a Ukrainian conductor and politician who is currently director of the National Philharmonic of Ukraine. He is also a former Minister of Culture of Ukraine, having served from 1995 to 1999.

Biography[edit]

Dmytro Ostapenko was born in Novachykha village, Poltava Oblast. In 1968 was graduated from the Kharkiv Institute of Arts.^[1]

From 1973 to 1977 he worked in the Kharkiv regional committee of the Young Communist League and the city committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine.^[1]

From 1977 to 1982 - Director of the Kharkiv Academic Opera and Ballet Theater.^[1][2]

From 1982 to 1984 - Head of the Department of Theaters and Music Institutions of the Ministry of Culture of the USSR.^[1][2]

From 1984 to 1991 - Instructor in the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine.^[1][2]

From 1991 to 1992 - Head of the Department of Culture of the Institute of Scientific Innovations of the Ukrainian Branch of the International Center for Scientific Culture "World Laboratory".^[1][2]

From 1992 to 1995 - Director of the National Philharmonic of Ukraine.^[1][2]

From 25 September 1995 to 4 August 1999, Ostapenko was Minister of Culture and Arts of Ukraine.^[3][1][2] Since 1999, he has been director of the National Philharmonic of Ukraine.^[1][2]

Family[edit]

He has a son named Andriy Ostapenko, who is a guitarist and a soloist of the National Philharmonic of Ukraine.^[4]

References[edit]

Links[edit]

• "Dmytro Ostapenko: "The Philharmonic's repertoire has been formed for the year ahead. Come - it will be interesting ... "". day.kyiv.ua (in Ukrainian). 2006.
• "Dmytro Ostapenko: I am the only on the contract in the philharmonic, all the others are for life". umoloda.kiev.ua. 2009.
• "Dmytro Ostapenko celebrates his 65th birthday". Musicreview (in Ukrainian). 2011.