Hryhory Ivanovych Bazhul[a] (January 22, 1906 — October 17, 1989, sometimes spelled Georg Baschul)[1] was a Ukrainian bandurist and publisher of articles on bandura history from Poltava, Russian Empire.

Bazhul was born in the Poltava Governorate of the Russian Empire (in present-day Ukraine), his father was a rail road engineer and his family moved to Kharkiv in 1911.

[4][5] In the early 1934, Bazhul was arrested again and charged with improperly giving bread ration coupons to the Khotkevych family during the period of the Famine-Holodomor.

[4][5] In February 1938, Khotkevych was arrested by the NKVD (Soviet secret police) and in October he was shot in Kharkiv as an enemy of the state with all his possessions confiscated.

[7] In Western Ukraine, he formed a bandura trio with Zinoviy Shtokalko and Volodymyr Yurkevych which worked throughout the region, including numerous performances for the soldiers in the Ukrainian Insurgent Army.

At his insistence Volodymyr Bozhyk joined the group, alongside other professional singer non-bandurists primarily from Western Ukraine[8] He resigned from the Chorus and founded and directed a bandura quintet, the Veresai Brotherhood, which toured the Ukrainian communities in the displaced persons camps in Germany with a program agitating against the return to the Soviet Union of Ukrainians, to great acclaim until 1948.