Composition: Silver
Fineness: 0.9250
Weight: 15.5500g
Diameter 33.00 mm
Series: Outstanding Personalities
Designers: V.Atamanchuk, S.Ivanenko
Mintage only 5,000 coins
Petrusenko Oksana Andreevna
Born Feb. 5 (17), 1900, in Malaia Balakleia, in present-day Kharkov Oblast; died July 15,1940, in Kiev. Soviet Ukrainian lyric-dramatic soprano. People’s Artist of the Ukrainian SSR(1939).
Petrusenko, a pupil of P. K. Saksaganskii, was a most important representative of theUkrainian school of singing. She had great dramatic abilities and a rich expressive voice ofgreat range. Petrusenko was particularly outstanding in roles from Ukrainian national operas,including the title role in Lysenko’s Natalka Poltavka and Oksana in Gulak-Artemovskii’s TheZaporozhian Cossack Beyond the Danube. She was also well known for her roles in works byRussian classical composers. Petrusenko performed in concert, singing Ukrainian folk songswith much feeling. She was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor.
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