Prize of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Diploma by the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine "Expert of Public Education in the USSR" (1983) Diploma of Merit by the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1977, 1981) Personal life Family Ivan Vakarchuk was married, his wife Svetlana (b. 1947) is teacher of physics, assistant professor of Lviv National Academy of veterinary medicine named after S.Gzhitsky. They had two sons: Svyatoslav Vakarchuk (b. 1975), who is a Ukrainian politician and frontman of "Okean Elzy", the famous Ukrainian rock band, and Oleg (b. 1980) - a bank employee. Death Vakarchuk died on 4 April 2020, at the age of 73 in Lviv. The causes of death was not reported. References External links Biography of Professor Ivan Vakarchuk at the official web site of Lviv National University 1947 births 2020 deaths Education and science ministers of Ukraine Chevaliers of the Order of Merit (Ukraine) People from Edineț District Moldovan emigrants to Ukraine 20th-century Ukrainian physicists University of Lviv alumni Recipients of the title of Hero of Ukraine People of the Euromaidan University of Lviv rectors Soviet physicists Laureates of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology