Mykhaylo Verbytsky
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Michael Verbytsky (March 4, 1815 - December 7, 1870) was a Ukrainian songwriter, and a Greek Catholic priest. He is mainly famous for composing the Shche ne vmerla Ukrainy ("Ukraine's glory has not perished") song on which the modern National Anthem of Ukraine is based.
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Myhaylo Verbytsky was born in the Lemkivshchyna. Sources differ on an exact location of his birth giving either Jawornik Ruski[1] or Ulucz[2] (both now in Poland.)
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In 2005 the chapel-pantheon over the tomb of Mykhaylo Verbytsky was opened to mark the 140th anniversary of Ukrainian national anthem and 190th anniversary of its composer.
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