{{Short description|Ukrainian conductor & politician (born 1946)}} {{Family name hatnote|Ivanovych|Ostapenko|lang=Eastern Slavic}} {{Expand Ukrainian|topic=bio|date=November 2021}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2023}}
{{Infobox officeholder | name = Dmytro Ostapenko | native_name = {{nobold|Дмитро Остапенко}} | native_name_lang = uk | image = Остапенко Дмитро Іванович.JPG | caption = Ostapenko in 2019 | office = Minister of Culture and Arts of Ukraine | term_start = 25 September 1995 | term_end = 4 August 1999 | president = Leonid Kuchma | predecessor = Ivan Dziuba | successor = Bohdan Stupka | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1946|11|3|df=yes}} | birth_place = {{ill|Novachyka|uk|Новачиха}}, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) | party = Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1973–?) | alma_mater = Kharkiv National Kotlyarevsky University of Arts }} '''Dmytro Ivanovych Ostapenko''' ({{langx|uk|Дмито Іванович Остапенко}}; born 3 November 1946) is a Ukrainian conductor and politician who is currently director of the National Philharmonic of Ukraine. He is also a former Minister of Culture of Ukraine, having served from 1995 to 1999.
== Biography == Dmytro Ostapenko was born in Novachykha village, Poltava Oblast. In 1968 was graduated from the Kharkiv Institute of Arts.<ref name="mincult"/>
From 1973 to 1977 he worked in the Kharkiv regional committee of the Young Communist League and the city committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine.<ref name="mincult"/>
From 1977 to 1982 - Director of the Kharkiv Academic Opera and Ballet Theater.<ref name="mincult"/><ref name="ency"/>
From 1982 to 1984 - Head of the Department of Theaters and Music Institutions of the Ministry of Culture of the USSR.<ref name="mincult"/><ref name="ency"/>
From 1984 to 1991 - Instructor in the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine.<ref name="mincult"/><ref name="ency"/>
From 1991 to 1992 - Head of the Department of Culture of the Institute of Scientific Innovations of the Ukrainian Branch of the International Center for Scientific Culture "World Laboratory".<ref name="mincult"/><ref name="ency"/>
From 1992 to 1995 - Director of the National Philharmonic of Ukraine.<ref name="mincult"/><ref name="ency"/>
From 25 September 1995 to 4 August 1999, Ostapenko was Minister of Culture and Arts of Ukraine.<ref name="decree">{{cite web|url=https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/883/95#Text|title= On the appointment of D. Ostapenko as Minister of Culture and Arts of Ukraine|publisher=Ukrainian Parliament}}</ref><ref name="mincult"/><ref name="ency"/> Since 1999, he has been director of the National Philharmonic of Ukraine.<ref name="mincult">{{cite web|url=http://mincult.kmu.gov.ua/mincult/uk/publish/article/94967|title=Остапенко Дмитро Іванович|publisher=Ministry of culture of Ukraine|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100203122204/http://mincult.kmu.gov.ua/mincult/uk/publish/article/94967|archive-date=2010-02-03|language=Ukrainian}}</ref><ref name="ency">{{cite encyclopedia |title=Остапенко Дмитро Іванович |encyclopedia=Ukrainian music encyclopedia |page=540 |year=2016 |last= |first= |publisher= |volume=4 |id= |url=https://chtyvo.org.ua/authors/Skrypnyk_Hanna/Ukrainska_muzychna_entsyklopediia_Tom_4.pdf |access-date= }}</ref>
== Family == He has a son named Andriy Ostapenko, who is a guitarist and a soloist of the National Philharmonic of Ukraine.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-02-15 |title=Україна Молода :.: Видання {{!}} Дмитро Остапенко: У філармонії один я на контракті, всі решта — довічно |url=http://www.umoloda.kiev.ua/number/1511/164/53149/ |access-date=2023-06-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160215140905/http://www.umoloda.kiev.ua/number/1511/164/53149/ |archive-date=15 February 2016 }}</ref>
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== Links == *{{cite web|url=https://day.kyiv.ua/uk/article/kultura/dmitro-ostapenko-repertuar-filarmoniyi-sformovaniy-na-rik-upered-prihodte-bude|title=Dmytro Ostapenko: "The Philharmonic's repertoire has been formed for the year ahead. Come - it will be interesting ... "|date=2006|website=day.kyiv.ua|language=Ukrainian}} *{{cite web|url=https://www.umoloda.kiev.ua/number/1511/164/53149/|title=Dmytro Ostapenko: I am the only on the contract in the philharmonic, all the others are for life|website=umoloda.kiev.ua|year=2009}} *{{cite web|url=http://www.m-r.co.ua/mr/mr.nsf/0/88E9C2F3C0D9CBF1C225793D004EA8D6?OpenDocument|title=Dmytro Ostapenko celebrates his 65th birthday|website=Musicreview|year=2011|language=Ukrainian}}
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