About the artist:

Born 15.11.1918 village Lisichansk (now Lugansk region) – Died 17.03.1992, Kiev. Painter, member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Honored Artist of Ukraine (from 1973).  Second World War participant. Graduated Voroshilovogradsky School of Art (now Lugansk School of Art) (1939). Studied under A. Shovkunenko and K. Elev at the Kiev Institute of Art (1946-1951). Worked in the field of easel and monumental painting. Contributed to national, all-Union and international exhibitions (from 1951). Works: Panel picture "Industry" in the main pavilion of  VDNKh in USSR, now the National Exhibition Centre (1958); painting - "Donetsk Miners" (1957), "Deep Horizon" (1963), "Year 1941" (1967), "Taras Shevchenko’s  interrogated in Orsk convict prison" (1961), "The deportation path of Taras Shevchenko" (1963-64), "Sea Troopers" (1975), "The Feast at the mine" (1982), 'Kiev Defense (1983) and others.