Soviet Yakut sculptor Pyotr Zakharov

Soviet Yakut sculptor Pyotr Zakharov was born in 1933 in Kobyayskiy district of Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of the USSR. In 1955, he graduated from the Yakut art school, and in 1969 – the sculptural faculty of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture of Ilya Repin, where he studied in the studio of MA Kerzin. Pyotr Zakharov – Member of the Union of Artists since 1970. Pyotr Zakharov belongs to the older generation of the Yakut sculptors whose work has played an important role in the development of the fine arts of Yakutia. A man of boundless energy, perseverance and performance, the artist has created a large number of monumental and easel paintings, imbued with a high sense of civic duty and heroism. In the genre of portrait sculpture he embodied images of historical figures and contemporaries – teachers, writers, scientists, and representatives of creative intelligentsia.

Soviet Yakut sculptor Pyotr Zakharov took part in the Republican Ykut art exhibitions since 1957, in the group exhibitions of artists of Yakutia in Magadan (1971), “Artists of Yakutia”, dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Yakut ASSR (1972, Leningrad, Ufa), “the Soviet Far East” (1969 Ulan-Ude, 1974 Vladivostok), “artists of the Urals, Siberia and the Far East” (1971, Moscow). His major works: “Portrait of a rural teacher RS ​​Dyakonova” (1969, marble). “Portrait of Yakutia” (1970, granite); monuments, busts of SM Arzhakov in Upper Vilyui area (1961, bronze), FK Popov (1967, cast iron), IG Chernyshevsky in Viliuisk (1978, bronze); Monument to IY Strod (1974, concrete); “Portrait of PA Oiunsky” (1977, plaster).

Soviet Yakut sculptor Pyotr Zakharov

Images are scanned from illustrated book “Artists of Yakutia”, 1986