Vasily Rainchik

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Vasil Pyatrovič Rainčyk (Belarusian: Васіль Пятро́віч Раінчык, Russian: Василий Петрович Раинчик) (born March 7 1950, village Charapy [be], Mogilev Region, Belarus^[1]), also Vasily Rainchik, is a Belarusian musician and composer and also a professor at the Belarus University of Culture, Minsk, Belarus. He was also the leader of Vierasy, an early Belarusian pop music band.^[2][3]

In 1994 he became musical director and in 2000 artistic director he became artistic director of the State Youth Variety Theater (Моладзевы тэатар эстрады) of the Belarus University of Culture.^[2][1]

• 1980: Belarus Komsomol prize^[1]
• 1982: Honored Artist of the Byelorussian SSR^[2]
• 1985: People's Artist of Belarus^[2]
• 2006: Order of Francysk Skaryna^[4]
• 2006: Certificate of Honor from the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus^[5]

Married to Irina Tsvetkova (Ирина Цветкова). Their only son Sergey died in 2020 (at the age of 48). Grandson: Vasily (23 years in 2020).^[6]

• Rainchik in the catalog of the Belarus National Library