Yulian Nazarak

[1] Yulian Nazarak was born in 1893 in Cherkavshchyna, now Nahirianka rural hromada, Chortkiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine.

[1][2] He was active in the "Artystychna horstka" riflemen's art society and also played in an amateur theater.

[1] Author of the libretto for the one-act comic opera "Shturm na polukipky" (1915, music by Mykhailo Haivoronskyi), to which he wrote the rifle songs "Khloptsi, aliarm!

", "Nema v sviti krashchykh khloptsiv" (published in collections of arrangements of rifle songs by B. Vakhnianyn, B. Kudryk, Z. Lysko, Y. Yaroslavenko, and others).

[1] Main works: "Prometei", "M. Kotsiubynskyi", "Barabannyi vohon artylerii pid Semykivtsiamy" and "Bii pid Rakovtsem" (both 1916; the former is kept in the National Museum of Lviv, and the latter is now destroyed; it was also kept in the same institution until 1952; exhibited in Vienna (1906), Lviv (1916, 1934); recognized by art critics as the first expressionist works of Ukrainian Galician painting).