Mykhailo Teliha

He trained initially as a forester and engineer and later he completed medical studies to become a doctor.

In 1921, he was interned in a camp in Kalisz, Poland where he organized an ethnographic ensemble and taught bandura.

In 1926, he was the editor of a collection of pieces for the bandura published in Prague under the auspices of the "Kobzar" society.

He was not involved in the publication of anti-German materials in the newspaper Ukrayinske Slovo and was offered his release.

He chose not to leave his wife's side and was shot a few days later on 21 (23) February 1942 in Babyn Yar, Kyiv.