About the artist:

Born 10.08.1936, village Gatische, Lipetsk region, Russia – Died 21.03.2009, Donetsk. Painter, member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (from 1970). Graduated from the Moscow High Art- Industrial School, where he studied under V. Bordichenko, B. Iordan and V. Zamkova (1966). Lived in Donetsk. Worked in the field of monumental and easel painting. Works: "Ghost" (1996), "My thoughts, my thoughts" (1969), "Donbass Industrial" (1980), "Divorce" (1996), "Moonlight Sonata" (1996); iconostasis and icons for churches and monasteries (from the late 1970s up to 2009), and others.