Hryhoriy Huriyovych Veryovka^[a] (25 December 1895 [O.S. 13 December] – 1 October 1964) was a Soviet and Ukrainian composer and choir director.^[2][3]

He is best known for founding the renowned Veryovka Choir in 1943, and leading it for many years, gaining international recognition and winning multiple awards.^[4] Veryovka was also a professor of conducting at the Kyiv Conservatory, where he worked alongside faculty including Boleslav Yavorsky, Alexander Koshetz, Mykola Leontovych, and Mykhailo Verykivsky.^[5]

Veryovka was born in an old Cossack town of Berezna (today urban-type settlement).^[2] In 1916 he graduated from the Chernihiv Theological Seminary.^[6] In 1918–21 Veryovka studied at the Lysenko Music and Drama School (a predecessor of the Kyiv Conservatory) studying a musical composition by Boleslav Yavorsky,^[7] conducting by Aleksander Orlov. In 1933 he received an external degree from the institute.^[8]

From 1923 to 1927 Veryovka continued to work at the Lysenko Institute and later from 1931 to his death at the Kyiv Conservatory.^[9] During World War II in 1941–45 he was a scientist of the Rylsky Institute of Art Studies, Folklore and Ethnology.

In 1943 in Kharkiv, Veryovka organized his well known choir and until his death was its art director and a main conductor.^[4] In 1948–52 he headed the National Union of Composers of Ukraine.^[10][11]

Upon his death in 1964 he was buried in Baikove Cemetery in Kyiv, and in 1967 a monument was erected at the site of his burial in his honor.^[12]

• He was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1948.^[2]
• He was awarded the People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR in 1960.^[13]
• He was awarded the Shevchenko National Prize in 1968.^[13]
• There are streets named after him in Kyiv^[14] and Bucha.^[15]