Vasyl' Potapenko

Vasyl' Potapenko (1886–1934) born in Berezna, Mensk region, Chernihiv province was the guide-boy for the blind kobzar Tereshko Parkhomenko.

As a guide-boy he was a participant of the ХІІth Archeological congress held in Kharkiv in 1902.

He travelled to Halychyna by himself after discovering that Hnat Khotkevych had invited kobzars to perform there in 1909.

On October 15, 1930 Potapenko was arrested for being a member of "counter-revolutionary" (anti-Soviet) organizations.

He was one of the bandurists who cemented the use of the Chernihiv style of bandura playing in Kiev, and in particular the drag technique exploited by Parkhomenko.