The museum opens a cycle of six lectures on Volodymyr Ivasyuk (1949-1979) — the author of 'Chervona Ruta' who was killed by Soviet authorities in Lviv in 1979.
In February 2026 the Ukrainian Gramophone Museum opens a new lecture cycle 'Volodymyr Ivasyuk — A Ukrainian Voice They Tried to Silence'. Six lectures, held every Thursday during February-March, illuminate the life and work of Volodymyr Mykhailovych Ivasyuk (1949-1979) — the outstanding Ukrainian composer, poet and singer who became a symbol of the 1970s generation and whose voice the Soviet authorities could not erase even after his murder. Ivasyuk created 'Chervona Ruta' (1970) — a song that became the national anthem of Ukrainian youth and revolutionarily influenced Ukrainian pop culture.
The cycle includes separate lectures: 'Chernivtsi Roots — Bukovinian Trace in His Work'; 'Chervona Ruta 1970 — Anatomy of a Cultural Phenomenon'; 'Lviv Period — Between Fame and Persecution'; 'Summer 1979 — The Mystery of the 27-Year-Old Composer's Death'; 'Ban and Revival — How Ivasyuk Returned from the Shadow After 1991'; 'Chervona Ruta 2022+ — A Song as the Anthem of Resistance'. Programme lecturers: musicologists of the Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Music Academy, an investigative journalist of the Ivasyuk case, the composer's family. Lectures emphasise: Ivasyuk's death was NOT an accident — it was a political murder in the system of Soviet persecution of Ukrainian cultural leaders.
