Tomasz Padura


Tymko Padura also Padurra was a Ukrainian-Polish Romantic poet of the so-called Ukrainian school, musician-torbanist, and composer-songwriter.
Padura's ballad of Ustym Karmaliuk "Beyond Siberia The Sun Rises" achieved extraordinary popularity in 19th century Ukraine. It became a folk-song. His song "Hej Sokoły " is very popular in both Ukraine and Poland.