Oleksandr Bilash
Musical artist
Oleksandr Ivanovych Bilash, sometimes given as Olexandr Bilash, anglicized: Alexander Bilash was a Soviet and Ukrainian composer and the author of popular lyric songs, ballads, operas, operettas, oratorios and music for films. Laureate of the Shevchenko National Prize (1975), People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1977), People's Artist of the USSR (1990), Hero of Ukraine (2001).