Biography:

Oleksandr Ivanovich Smyk ( October 26 , 1957 , Ukraine  — May 18 , 2022 )

Member of the national unions of Ukraine: theater actors , kobzars , journalists , writers and the All-Ukrainian Music Union .

Graduated from the Faculty of Pedagogy of the Rivne State Pedagogical Institute (1977, now the State Humanitarian University), Taras Shevchenko Kyiv University (1983).

Organizer of the first private House of Creativity “Potik Irva” ^[2] in Kremenets (2004). ^[3]

Author of the idea and curator of the implementation of the “Literary Ternopil” library-museum project (2012).

Head of the Department of Culture and Arts of the Ternopil City Council ^[4] (2010—2014).

Deputy mayor of Ternopil for humanitarian issues ^[4] (from October 2014 to November 2015)

Since July 2015, he has been the head of the NSPU regional organization ^[5] .

Head of the Culture and Arts Department of the Ternopil City Council (2015—2020)

Lived and worked in Ternopil and Kremenets .

He died on May 18, 2022 in Ternopil, where he was buried on May 20 at the Mykulynetsky cemetery .

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