Platon Ilarionovych Maiboroda (Ukrainian: Платон Іларіонович Майборода; 1 December 1918 – 8 July 1989) was a Soviet and Ukrainian composer and educator.

Maiboroda, whose brother Heorhiy Maiboroda was also a composer, studied at the Gliere Music College. In 1938 Maiboroda enrolled in the Kyiv Conservatory in Kyiv where he studied under Levko Revutsky, graduating in 1947.^[1] Maiboroda taught at the Gliere Music College from 1947 to 1950.

He was buried at the Baikove Cemetery, Kyiv.

Works

Films

• Valley of Blue Rocks (1956)
• Far and Near (1957)
• Thunder Over Fields (1958)
• Shift Starts at Six (1958)
• Ages of Youth (1958)
• Blood of Man - Not a Water (1960)
• Dmytro Horytsvit (1961)
• Ukrainian Rhapsody (1961)
• People Don't Know Everything (1964)
• Ballad of British (1969)
• Abiturient (1973)
• Adieu, Pharaohs! (1975)
• Ordinary Concerns (1975)
• Involuntary Diplomats (1978)
• Revision (1979)
• Visit to Kovalivka (1980)

Selected songs

• Dearest mother of mine^[2] (words of Andriy Malyshko), soundtrack to the film Ages of Youth (1958)^[3]
• Kyiv Waltz^[4] (words of Andriy Malyshko)^[5]

Awards

• Stalin Prize, 3rd class (1950) - for songs "About Olena Khobta", "About Mark Ozerny", "About Maria Lysenko"
• Shevchenko National Prize (1962)
• Honored Art Worker of the Ukrainian SSR (1958)
• People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1968)
• People's Artist of the USSR (1979)
• Order of Lenin (1960)
• Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1982)
• Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
• Medal "In Commemoration of the 1500th Anniversary of Kyiv"