# Igor Dotsenko
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{{family name hatnote|Dmitriyevich|Dotsenko|lang=Eastern Slavic}}
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| name = Igor Dotsenko
| image = Igor Dotsenko.jpg
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| birth_name = Igor Dmitriyevich Dotsenko
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1953|7|16}}
| birth_place = [Izyaslav](/source/Izyaslav), [Khmelnytskyi Oblast](/source/Khmelnytskyi_Oblast), [Ukrainian SSR](/source/Ukrainian_SSR), [Soviet Union](/source/Soviet_Union)
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2014|12|7|1953|7|16}}
| death_place = [Saint-Petersburg](/source/Saint-Petersburg), [Russia](/source/Russia)
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| occupation = drummer, percussionist, rock musician
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| background = non_vocal_instrumentalist
| instrument = {{hlist|[drum](/source/drum)|[percussion instrument](/source/percussion_instrument)|}}
| genre = {{hlist|[rock](/source/Rock_music)|[pop](/source/Pop_music)|[hard rock](/source/hard_rock)|}}
| label = {{hlist|[Melodiya](/source/Melodiya)|DDT Records|Grand Records|REAL Records|SoLyd Records|[Navigator Records](/source/Navigator_Records)|}}[[https://www.navimusic.ru/search?lang=ru&q=ДДТ Navigator Records ДДТ]]
| associated_acts = {{hlist|[Sinyaya Ptitsa](/source/Sinyaya_Ptitsa)|[DDT](/source/DDT_(band))|[Chizh & Co](/source/Chizh_%26_Co)|}}
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'''Igor Dmitriyevich Dotsenko''' ({{langx|ru|И́горь Дми́триевич Доце́нко}}; July 16, 1953 – December 7, 2014)[{{Cite web |title=Игорь ДОЦЕНКО|url=https://www.zvuki.ru/A/P/1679/members/ |access-date=2025-02-02 |website=Zvuki.ru |language=en}}] was a [Soviet](/source/Soviet) and [Russia](/source/Russia)n [drummer](/source/drummer), a member of the famous rock groups ''[Sinyaya Ptitsa](/source/Sinyaya_Ptitsa)'', ''[DDT](/source/DDT_(band))'', and ''[Chizh & Co](/source/Chizh_%26_Co)''.[{{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}}]
==Biography==
Dotsenko was born in [Izyaslav](/source/Izyaslav), Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukrainian SSR. At the age of two, he ended up in [Kaluga](/source/Kaluga). From the 7th grade, a member of the school music ensemble. [Don Brewer](/source/Don_Brewer) ([Grand Funk](/source/Grand_Funk)) and [John Henry Bonham](/source/John_Henry_Bonham) ([Led Zeppelin](/source/Led_Zeppelin)) remained Dotsenko's idols throughout his life.[{{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}}][{{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}}][{{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}}]
In August 1979, one of his closest friends [Vladimir Shurygin](/source/%3Aru%3A%D0%A8%D1%83%D1%80%D1%8B%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%BD%2C_%D0%92%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%80_%D0%98%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87) committed [suicide](/source/suicide).[{{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 }}][{{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}}] 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](/source/Rock_music_in_Russia).[{{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}}]
In 1982, while working as a member of VIA ''[Sinyaya Ptitsa](/source/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](/source/Yuri_Shevchuk) to the ''[DDT](/source/DDT_(band))''. He also took part in the recording of the album of the group ''[Nautilus Pompilius](/source/Nautilus_Pompilius_(band))'' (''[Man Without A Name](/source/%3Aru%3A%D0%A7%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BA_%D0%B1%D0%B5%D0%B7_%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8)''), with [Yuri Morozov](/source/Yuri_Morozov_(musician)), ''[Alisa](/source/Alisa_(Russian_band))'' (''[Solstice](/source/%3Aru%3A%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%82_(%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BC_%C2%AB%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%8B%C2%BB))''), Alexander Lyapin, Vadim Kurylev, and [Zakhar May](/source/Zakhar_May).
In June 2010, Igor Dotsenko announced his departure from the ''[DDT](/source/DDT_(band))'', in which he worked for twenty-four years. Since the fall of 2010, Dotsenko resumed his musical career in the ''[Chizh & Co](/source/Chizh_%26_Co)''.
He died at the age of 61 on the morning of December 7, 2014 after battling [cancer](/source/cancer), he was in the last stage of the disease..[{{cite web|url=http://tass.ru/spb-news/1629412|title=Скончался экс-барабанщик ДДТ Игорь Доценко|date=2014-12-07|publisher=[ТАСС](/source/%D0%A2%D0%90%D0%A1%D0%A1)|accessdate=2014-12-07}}] He was buried in the cemetery of the village [Daimishche](/source/%3Aru%3A%D0%94%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%89%D0%B5) in [Gatchinsky District](/source/Gatchinsky_District).[{{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}}]
==References==
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==External links==
* [http://dotsai.narod.ru Персональная страница Игоря Доценко]
* {{discogs artist|598517}}
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