Hryhorii Kontsevych’s Music-foikloristic activity

Musical and folkloristic activities of the Kuban activist Hryhorii Kontsevych, Ukrainian in origin, lasted for half a century under conditions of the Russian Empire, and from 1920 – Soviet totalitarian socio-political reality, of which he became the in- nocent victim in 1937, accused of being involved in the preparation of terrorist attack against Stalin. Kontsevych’ name o and his versatile activity as a chanter, folklorist, composer, teacher and organizer of music affairs in the Krasnodar Territory of the Russian Federation have been hushed up for 52 years (until 1989). In her paper, the author, as a native of the Krasnodar Territory and researcher of folk culture of the Ukrainians from Kuban, set out an objective to draw up a creative portrait of H. Kont- sevych and review his folklore collections and papers that were reprinted or found in the libraries and archives of Krasnodar with the support of the leader of Kuban Cossack Choir, folklorist, Honoured Artist of Russia, Ukraine and Adygea Viktor Zakharchenko. The paper draws up Kontsevych’s creative portrait, examines (based on republication of 2001) the entire corpus of arranged and published in 1904–1913 276 song and analyses the collection “Musical folklore of Adygei in the records by H. M. Kontsevych”, written shortly before his death, but first published in 1997. The research essay “Chumaks in folk songs” introduced to the scientific circulation. The research essay “Chumaks in folk songs” introduced to the scientific circulation. The conclusion is drawn up that it was exactly Hryhorii Komtsevych, who made the great- est contribution to the formation of Kuban musical folklore.