Tatarenko, Leonid Sergeevich

Born on June 10, 1930 in the village of Trostyanets, Sumy Region, in a family of rural intellectuals, rich in interesting traditions. His father, Sergey Pavlovich Tatarenko, was a very talented person, had a legal and economic education. In childhood, he sang in a church choir, in his youth he was a music teacher, played the violin, wrote poetry. Leonid Sergeyevich’s grandfather - Pavel Ivanovich Tatarenko was a revolutionary. He spent 10 years in prison for participating in the first Russian revolution (campaigning among the soldiers of the 29th Odessa Dragoon Regiment not to shoot at the crowd). His uncle Pyotr Taryanik also participated in the revolutionary events of 1917 in Trostyants, and was shot in 1919 by Denikins. He was buried in a mass grave at the memorial cemetery of the city. The family archive carefully stores documents and photographs testifying to this.

The mother of Leonid Sergeyevich Tatarenko Antonina Kirillovna together with her father raised six children. In the family, Leonid was the eldest. He has 3 sisters and 2 brothers: Angelina, Raisa, Tamara, Victor and Alexander.

In 1953 he graduated from the Kharkov Mining Institute (now the Kharkov National University of Radio Electronics ), faculty - industrial transport. After graduation, he worked at the Kiev Research Institute.

In 1956 he became a Member of the National Society of Writers of Ukraine.

In 1979, for the poetic cycle "Komsomol in the 2000s envy us" and the poem "Thunder from Putivl" L. Tatarenko was awarded the Republican Komsomol Prize. N. Ostrovsky .

In 1997 he became a laureate of the prize. N. Ushakova , which awarded Ukrainian poets who write their works in Russian.

Leonid Tatarenko was one of the authors of The Truth of Ukraine. Leonid collaborated with the Association of Pop Artists of Ukraine, and in the last years of his life - most actively. Thanks to Leonid Tatarenko and his friends in Trostyants since 1991, the annual All-Ukrainian art festival called " Boromlya " began to take place.

In memory of Leonid Tatarenko, the central street of the city of Trostyanets was named after him. Thanks to the efforts of the director Melnik Nikolai Stepanovich, sister of Angelina, nieces of Irina, Alla, who donated the poet’s personal belongings, manuscripts of poems, music, photographs, a very interesting exhibition has been opened in the museum of local lore. The excursion begins with the most famous hit of Leonid Tatarenko “Chervona Trojan.” An exhibition dedicated to the student years of the poet is also open in the Kharkov Museum of KNURE.

December 17, 1999 in Kiev Leonid Tatarenko died. He was buried at the Berkovetsky cemetery.

Leonid, being a schoolboy, brought the first poems to his teacher, Prasok Ekaterina Stepanovna. Perhaps, after a positive response from a strict, but fair teacher, a talented student Leonid believed in his own strength. Leonid Sergeyevich wrote poems "Hello, dear alien ...", the music of which was written by Anatoly Gorkinsky . This song has become a real hit and sounds from the modern stage for the fourth decade. For the first time this song was performed by N. Shchukin in general public in 1959, at one of the concerts in Lviv . In the 70s, the hit was performed by the founder of the Russian chanson Arkady Severny , and on May 1, 1995, the song “Hello, someone else's dear ...” was sung by Alexander Solodukha . This song gained popularity in 1951 when the first disc of Anatoly Gorchinsky was released.

Also, more than 200 songs are written and sounded on Tatarenko’s poems. The most popular of them:

• "Chervona Trojan" music - A. Gorchinsky,
• "Boys are sleeping in the radiance of stars" muses. - G. Podelsky ,
• "Fatherland" music. - Yu. Isarov,
• "Our prayer, mamo" mus. - O. Osadchy,
• "Cow" music. - O. Osadchy,
• "Who called you Black, the sea?" - G. Podelsky.
• "Natalina Pisnya" (dedicated to the beloved grandmother Natalia Stepanovna Tatarenko)
• "On the Indian river"

Based on the poems of L. Tatarenko, composers created such operas as “Grim z Putivlya” (Vadim Ilinsk) and “Chotiri Ganni” (Oleksandr Levkovich). Leonid Tatarenko is the author of the libretto for Oleksandr Bilash’s children's opera “Come Buratino”. L. Tatarenko created an epic cycle glorifying the exploits of the partisans during the Great Patriotic War: “Thunder from Putivl” (a poetic legend about Sidor Kovpak and his military twin cities), “Bride” (in memory of the Hero of the Soviet Union Maria Kislyak, which the Nazis hung in a wedding dress ), “The Poem of the Four Annas” (coherent, burned in their own huts).

Careful preservation, study and popularization of the work of Leonid Tatarenko is devoted a lot of time and energy to his sister Angelina Sergeyevna, her daughters Irina and Alla, granddaughter of Victoria. In 2008-2009, while still a schoolgirl, Victoria devoted her research work at the Small Academy of Sciences to the work of her grandfather and became a winner. A review of her work was written by a close friend of Leonid Tatarenko, Nikolai Singingivsky, the author of the famous Chernobrivtsi. Angelina Sergeevna, her brother Alexander and their families are permanent guests of the Boromlya festival.

Literature

• The book "Forest springs" (1955)
• Prince "Clusters of mountain ash" (1957)
• Prince The Red Land (1962)
• Prince The Blue Tree (1963)
• Prince The Atomium (1966)
• Prince "They are seventeen - forever seventeen" (1967)
• Prince "The Age of the Restless Sun" (1968)
• Prince Immortelle and Forget-Me-Not (1969)
• Collection of poems "Selected Lyrics" (1970)
• Prince Boromlya (1972)
• Prince “On the brotherly field” (1974)
• Prince Korchagin Watch (1975)
• Prince Thunder from Putivl (1977)
• Prince "The bridge across the Danube" (1977)
• Prince The Formula of Light (1979)
• Prince "Land of Yaroslavna" (1980)
• Prince The Furious Bell (1980)
• Book of songs "Krinitsya" (1981)
• Prince "Ivan Chernyakhovsky" (1985)
• Prince Four Anne (1986)
• Prince songs "Goritsvіt" (1990)
• Prince "Mountain ash at the bunker" (1990)
• Prince “Daughters of the Boromli River” (1990)

• Ukranian writings by L. Tatarenko [1]
• Well deeper than time well [2] (inaccessible link)
• Library creativity Tatarenko [3]
• Science Library [4]