Biography
Borys Romanovych Hmyria (Ukrainian: Борис Романович Гмиря), also known as Boris Romanovich Gmyrya(Russian: Борис Романович Гмыря; August 5 [O.S. July 23] 1903 – August 1, 1969) PAU, was a Soviet and Ukrainian bass singer of opera and art song. Hmyria was born in 1903 in Lebedin, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire (today part of Ukraine). He remained in Poltava during World War II where he performed for the Germans. This kind of behavior was considered collaboration with the enemy by Soviet authorities. Hmyria would have been imprisoned and executed had it not been for Joseph Stalin's intervention. Hmyria's partner, Valentina Ishchenko, was exiled to Vorkuta in the Komi ASSR.
He died in Kiev in 1969.
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GenderMale
Birthday1903-08-05 (121 years old)
CitizenshipsUkrainian People's Republic, Soviet Union
AwardsMedal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", People's Artist of the USSR, State Stalin Prize, 2nd degree, Merited Artist of the Ukrainian SSR, Stalin Prize, Order of Lenin
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