Soviet artist Boris Domashnikov
Soviet artist Boris Domashnikov (1924 – 2003) – People’s Artist of the USSR, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Arts (1997), an honorary citizen of the city of Ufa (1994). Boris Fyodorovich Domashnikov was born April 5, 1924 in the village of Krigouzovo of the Ivanovo region in a peasant family. The family had five children. In 1935 the family moved to Ufa. In Ufa, the family lived on the outskirts of the city. During the war, the military enlistment office refused to take him to the front because of poor health and Domashnikov worked in an art studio – drew slogans, posters, soldiers’ funeral tablets.
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