About the artist:

Born 1916, village Ocheretino (now Dnepropetrovsk region) – Died 2000, Donetsk. Painter, graphic artist, member of the Union of Artists of USSR (from 1946).  Fought in the Second World War. Studied under P. Volokidin and S. Grigoriev at the Kiev Institute of Art (1935-1941). Taught in Donetsk College of Architecture (1947-1951). Lived in city Stalino (Donetsk). Worked in the field of genre painting, landscape and still life. Actively participated in art exhibitions (from 1947). Solo exhibition in Donetsk (1986). Works: "Wildflowers" (1948), "Summer in Stalino" (1956), "At the Desk" (1960), "Winter in Donbas" (1964), dioramas; "Pre-revolutionary Makeevka" (1970), "Slavyanogorsk - health resort "(1972)," Siversky Donets "(1974) etc.