{{family name hatnote|Dmitriyevich|Dotsenko|lang=Eastern Slavic}} {{Infobox person | name = Igor Dotsenko | image = Igor Dotsenko.jpg | caption = | birth_name = Igor Dmitriyevich Dotsenko | birth_date = {{Birth date|1953|7|16}} | birth_place = Izyaslav, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | death_date = {{Death date and age|2014|12|7|1953|7|16}} | death_place = Saint-Petersburg, Russia | resting_place = | occupation = drummer, percussionist, rock musician | years_active = | spouse = | module = {{Infobox musical artist | embed= yes | background = non_vocal_instrumentalist | instrument = {{hlist|drum|percussion instrument|}} | genre = {{hlist|rock|pop|hard rock|}} | label = {{hlist|Melodiya|DDT Records|Grand Records|REAL Records|SoLyd Records|Navigator Records|}}<ref>[https://www.navimusic.ru/search?lang=ru&q=ДДТ Navigator Records ДДТ]</ref> | associated_acts = {{hlist|Sinyaya Ptitsa|DDT|Chizh & Co|}} | website = }} | partner = | website = }} '''Igor Dmitriyevich Dotsenko''' ({{langx|ru|И́горь Дми́триевич Доце́нко}}; July 16, 1953 – December 7, 2014)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Игорь ДОЦЕНКО|url=https://www.zvuki.ru/A/P/1679/members/ |access-date=2025-02-02 |website=Zvuki.ru |language=en}}</ref> was a Soviet and Russian drummer, a member of the famous rock groups ''Sinyaya Ptitsa'', ''DDT'', and ''Chizh & Co''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Сычёв |first=Сергей |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9oycDgAAQBAJ&dq=%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%8C+%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%86%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%BE+%D0%B4%D0%B4%D1%82&pg=PT53 |title=Радиола |date=2022-02-02 |publisher=Litres |isbn=978-5-04-051034-4 |language=ru}}</ref> ==Biography== Dotsenko was born in Izyaslav, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukrainian SSR. At the age of two, he ended up in Kaluga. From the 7th grade, a member of the school music ensemble. Don Brewer (Grand Funk) and John Henry Bonham (Led Zeppelin) remained Dotsenko's idols throughout his life.<ref>{{Cite web |last=admin |date=2018-07-11 |title=Игорь Доценко |url=https://krupnov.net/sotovarisi-d/igor-dotsenko/ |access-date=2025-02-02 |website=krupnov.net |language=ru-RU}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title= Игорь Доценко [«ДДТ», «Ляпин-бэнд» и др.] |url=https://drumnet.ru/articles.php?lng=ru&id=27 |access-date=2025-02-02 |website=drumnet.ru}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Интервью с Юрием Шевчуком! — НАШЕ Радио |url=https://www.nashe.ru/news/intervyu-s-yuriem-shevchukom-2 |access-date=2025-02-02 |website=nashe.ru |language=ru}}</ref>
In August 1979, one of his closest friends Vladimir Shurygin committed suicide.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://xn--80agcoa3aonm5b4fa.xn--p1ai/%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8C%D0%B8-%D0%B8-%D0%BF%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%B8.html |title=Синяя птица Дмитрия Галицкого |access-date=2021-12-05 |archive-date=2020-02-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200204073834/http://xn--80agcoa3aonm5b4fa.xn--p1ai/%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8C%D0%B8-%D0%B8-%D0%BF%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%B8.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Дмитрий Галицкий|url=https://via-era.narod.ru/Ansambli/SP/galizki/dgal_7.html |access-date=2025-02-02 |website=via-era.narod.ru}}</ref> This event, according to Dotsenko, gave him strength and confidence in the need to develop his talent and try to leave a noticeable mark on the formation of Soviet rock.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kharitonov |first=Nikolaĭ N. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fCgUAQAAIAAJ&q=%D1%88%D1%83%D1%80%D1%8B%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%BD+%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%8F%D1%8F+%D0%BF%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B0 |title=ДДТ: книга свидетельств очевидцев |date=1996 |publisher=Правда Севера |isbn=978-5-85879-026-6 |language=ru}}</ref>
In 1982, while working as a member of VIA ''Sinyaya Ptitsa'', he moved to Leningrad, where he lived until his death. In 1986 he produced the album of the group Knockout, and in the same autumn he was invited by Yuri Shevchuk to the ''DDT''. He also took part in the recording of the album of the group ''Nautilus Pompilius'' (''Man Without A Name''), with Yuri Morozov, ''Alisa'' (''Solstice''), Alexander Lyapin, Vadim Kurylev, and Zakhar May.
In June 2010, Igor Dotsenko announced his departure from the ''DDT'', in which he worked for twenty-four years. Since the fall of 2010, Dotsenko resumed his musical career in the ''Chizh & Co''.
He died at the age of 61 on the morning of December 7, 2014 after battling cancer, he was in the last stage of the disease..<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tass.ru/spb-news/1629412|title=Скончался экс-барабанщик ДДТ Игорь Доценко|date=2014-12-07|publisher=ТАСС|accessdate=2014-12-07}}</ref> He was buried in the cemetery of the village Daimishche in Gatchinsky District.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://47news.ru/articles/83147/|title=В деревне Даймище проходят похороны барабанщика группы ДДТ Игоря Доценко|date=2014-12-10|publisher=47news.ru}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [http://dotsai.narod.ru Персональная страница Игоря Доценко] * {{discogs artist|598517}} {{Russia-musician-stub}}
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