Smerichka

At the end of 1968, the beginning singer Vasily Zinkevich appeared in the ensemble, in 1969 Nazari Yaremchuk began his first steps at the L. Dutkovsky vocal school.

In April 1970, the ensemble received the First Degree Diploma and the Big Gold Medal at the republican festival of amateur art. “Melody” released the first record-minion “Smerichki” with competitive songs. In 1971, "Smerichka" was shot in the television movie "Chervona Ruta" . The soloists of the ensemble played the main roles there. The main female role was to be played by Maria Isak (lead singer of "Smerichki"), but Sofia Rotaru took her place. This film made its actors popular throughout the Soviet Union.

In 1972, "Smerichka" in Moscow won the TV contest "Hello, we are looking for talent!" With L. Dutkovsky's song "Goryanka". The ensemble was awarded the Certificate of Honor of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and received the title of People. In these two years, "Smerichka" took part in television competitions in Moscow. In particular, “Song-71” with V. Ivasyuk ’s song “ Chervona Ruta ” and “Song-72” with V. Ivasyuk’s song “Vodograi”.

On April 1, 1973, the Smerichka ensemble under the direction of L. Dutkovsky, along with soloists N. Yaremchuk and V. Zinkevich, transferred to the professional stage in the Chernivtsi Philharmonic . Dutkovsky invites new vocalists to the ensemble. In Smerichka they sing: Alla Zborlyukova, Lyudmila Artemenko (later the soloist of the Dnipropetrovsk ensemble Vodograi), Anastasia Lazariuk from Moldova (now a popular pop star in Romania), later the sisters Evgenia and Ekaterina Zaitseva, as well as Nadezhda Pashchenko from Kiev, Elena Shevchenko from Transcarpathia (future wife of N. Yaremchuk). Successful tours, sold out throughout the Soviet Union. However, after leaving Zinkevich’s collective in the summer of 1975, and in October - of Dutkovsky, the collective began to decline.

In 1979, at the request of N. Yaremchuk, the Philharmonic Society reorganized the collective and again invited the head of the ensemble Lev Dutkovsky and left only Nazariy Yaremchuk and Pavel Dvorsky as part of the ensemble. L. Dutkovsky invited new artists to the ensemble: singer Viktor Morozov, drummer Igor Lesko, guitarist Yury Lutseiko, bass player Alexander Sokolov, keyboardists Vitaly Sereda and Vladimir Prokopik and backing vocalists Svetlana Gnatyuk-Dvorska and Svetlana Solyanik.

VIA "Smerichka" again attracted the viewer with a concert program of new songs by L. Dutkovsky, V. Morozov, P. Dvorsky, innovative directing by L. Dutkovsky, one of the first in the USSR to use laser-laser design. Fashion designer Alla Dutkovskaya created an original and masterful solution for new sets of stylized concert costumes. All-Union fame returned to the Smerichka ensemble, during this period the group received an audience award at the Bratislava Lyre festival with the song “I draw you ” by Raymond Pauls , as well as the Ostrovsky Komsomol Prize of Ukraine.

In 1983, after Dutkovsky was appointed director of the Philharmonic, Smerichka was headed by Nazariy Yaremchuk, the musical part was Sokolov, and later V. Prokopik.

In 1984, the group became a laureate of the All-Union Exhibition-Competition of thematic programs, a year later - a diploma winner of the XII World Festival of Youth and Students .

After the departure of V. Morozov and several other musicians, the group accompanied Nazari Yaremchuk and Pavel Dvorsky for some time.

In 1995, with the death of Nazariy Yaremchuk, the group ceased to exist.

• Chernivtsi Philharmonic
• Pages in memory of Vladimir Ivasyuk