Yurko Hnatovsky
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Yuri Hnatovsky is a Ukrainian
Ukrainians
Ukrainians are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Ukraine, which is the sixth-largest nation in Europe. The Constitution of Ukraine applies the term 'Ukrainians' to all its citizens...

 retro
Retro
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 and jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 performer. His first album Snizhnist was released in 2006, featuring Yulia Lord.

Biography

Yuri Hnatovsky was born in Lviv
Lviv
Lviv is a city in western Ukraine. The city is regarded as one of the main cultural centres of today's Ukraine and historically has also been a major Polish and Jewish cultural center, as Poles and Jews were the two main ethnicities of the city until the outbreak of World War II and the following...

. He finished the Lviv's Politekhnika (Lviv Polytechnic
Lviv Polytechnic
Lviv Polytechnic National University is the largest scientific university in Lviv. Since its foundation in 1844, it was one of the most important centres of science and technological development in Central Europe. In the interbellum period, the Polytechnic was one of the most important technical...

) as a civil engineer
Civil engineer
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.

In 2006 with the help of the concert band of Zankovetska Theater conducted a charity Christmas music show Snizhnist with intentions to reanimate the Lviv's jazz life, for which it was well known.
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