Semyon Tishkevich-Azvazhinsky was a Soviet Ukrainian composer and music administrator. He was born in 1894 in Borisov, Minsk Governorate. An only child, he was raised by his mother, Agrafena Antonovna. From childhood he played the harmonica, balalaika, guitar, accordion, and other folk instruments. His family lived in Mogilev and moved to Vitebsk after a major fire. From the age of 19, he worked as a metal turner and later as a factory foreman.
In 1920, Tishkevich-Azvazhinsky moved with his mother to Kyiv. He held management positions at several enterprises, including head of the Main Railway Workshops, director of the Dombal Plant, and head of the Kyiv tram administration. He studied composition with G. L. Lyubomirsky.
From 1932 to 1934, he was rector of the Mykola Lysenko State Music and Drama Institute in Kyiv. He later directed the Central Station of Amateur Arts, remaining in the post until July 16, 1938. He died in Bykivnia on October 14, 1938.
His works included the musical poem The Decembrists, which won first prize in a republican composition competition in 1925; its manuscript later disappeared. Other works included Eastern Dance, Lord, I Am Compelled to Grieve, chamber and piano compositions, and more than 30 romances setting poems by Taras Shevchenko, Alexander Pushkin, Semyon Nadson, Anna Akhmatova, and Maksym Rylsky.