Anatoliy Horbatiuk, writer and local historian from Odesa, passed away

At the age of 88, the heart of writer and local historian Anatoliy Horbatiuk stopped beating.

According to the Presidential Council of the World Club of Odessans, during his lifetime, he wrote 16 books and more than 180 scientific and journalistic articles on Odesa and its historical heritage. He was also the oldest member of the Odessites Club.

"In his youth, he played the drums in amateur and professional ensembles. He edited the newspaper of the Odesa community in Los Angeles, the Odesa Mayak. He is an academician of the Jazz Academy of the All-Ukrainian Military Academy," the club added.

Local history was one of Anatoliy Issakovych's hobbies. His main activity took place in the port of Odesa. It was here that he met and became friends with Mykhailo Zhvanetskyi. Anatoliy Horbatiuk's life stories formed the basis for some of Zhvanetskyi's short stories.

Since 1948, he had been studying to play the accordion, but when he came to try out his musical abilities in an ensemble, only the percussion position was available. So, in addition to working at the port, he played every night in restaurants and venues in various amateur and professional ensembles, as well as on the ships of the Black Sea Shipping Company.

The funeral service for Anatoliy Horbatiuk will be held on Friday, June 13, from 11.00 a. m. at the World Club of Odessans at 7 Marazliyevska Street (corner of Bazarna Street).

Cremation will take place at Tairovsky Cemetery at 13.00.

The memorial lunch will be held at the Anubis Memorial Hall, 178/1 Lustdorfska Road, starting at 14.00.

Anyone who wants to go to the Tairovsky cemetery and from there to the memorial hall, the organizers of the burial ask to inform the following phone numbers: 0978897405 - Oleg Tkachenko; 0685904269 - Yulia Gerashchenko; 0679813958 - Grigory Barats.

Earlier, a soloist of the Odesa National Opera and Ballet Theater, tenor Vladyslav Horay , Honored Artist of Ukraine, winner of the National Chamber Music Competition in Khmelnytsky, winner of the Antonín Dvořák International Vocal Competition (Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic), died while performing his volunteer mission.

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