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Pinchuk Veniamin Borisovich Soviet sculptor and teacher

Pinchuk Veniamin Borisovich

Pinchuk Veniamin Borisovich

Biography of Pinchuk Veniamin Borisovich

Veniamin Borisovich Pinchuk (1908-1987) Soviet monumental sculptor, teacher.

Veniamin Pinchuk was born on November 17, 1908 in the village of Goroshki in the Russian Empire.

From 1928 to 1930 he studied at the Moscow VKhUTEIN with Mukhina Vera Ignatievna.

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Arefiev Anatoly Vasilievich Soviet theater artist

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Arefiev Anatoly Vasilievich For more than thirty years of creative life A.V. Arefiev has designed over 70 opera and ballet performances. Among them: “Carmen” by J. Bizet (1949), “Swan Lake” by P.I. Tchaikovsky (1949), “Prince Igor” by A.P. Borodin (1954), “Toktogul” by V.A. Vlasov, A. Maldybaeva, V.G. Feret (1958), “The Unknown Soldier” by K.M. Molchanov (1967).

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Nirod Fedor Fedorovich Theatrical artist.

Nirod Fedor Fedorovich Theatrical artist.

Nirod Fedor Fedorovich Theatrical artist.

Nirod Fedor Fedorovich Born on March 31 in St. Petersburg

1918 Moving with parents from Petrograd to Kiev.

1926 Graduated from the Kiev art-industrial vocational school.

1926 1930 Studied at the Kiev Art Institute under F.G. Krichevsky, V.N. Palmova, M.D. Bernstein, K. D. Fedorchenko, L.T. Chupyatova.

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Romas Yakov Dorofeevich

Romas Yakov Dorofeevich

Romas Yakov Dorofeevich

From the first days of the Great Patriotic War, people of quite peaceful professions served in the navy – actors and musicians, artists and photographers, writers and journalists, one of them was Yakov Dorofeevich Romas.

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Kuzminskis Jonas Mikolo

Kuzminskis Jonas Mikolo

Kuzminskis Jonas Mikolo – Graphic artist, painter.

Biography of Kuzminskis Jonas Mikolo

Kuzminskis Jonas (1906-85), Lithuanian graphic artist, people’s artist (1965), full member of the Academy of Arts (1975). He creatively used the traditions of Lithuanian folk lubok (cycles “Vilnius”, 1942-57, “Based on Lithuanian folk and revolutionary songs”, 1960-66).

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Volkov Boris Ivanovich

Volkov Boris Ivanovich

Volkov Boris Ivanovich

Biography

Volkov Boris Ivanovich (13 (26) .3.1900, Moscow, – 23.12.1970, ibid.), Soviet theater artist, People’s Artist of the USSR (1965). Studied at the Stroganov School (1913-18) under F.F. Tatlin, DP Shterenberg and others. OST member. In 1924-40, the chief artist of the theater.

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Ara Sargsyan soviet sculptor

Monument to Hovhannes Tumanyan in Yerevan

Monument to Ara Sargsyan in Yerevan

The story of Ara Sargsyan – a sculptor, the first rector of the Academy of Arts and avenger

It is almost impossible to visit Yerevan and not see the work of the sculptor Ara Sargsyan. In front of one of the most popular places in the city – the building of the Opera and Ballet Theater, there are monuments to two great Armenians – Hovhannes Tumanyan and Alexander Spendiaryan. Both monuments belong to the hand of the famous sculptor, now inappropriately forgotten Ara Sargsyan. Ara Sargsyan embodied his monumental work in Gyumri, over which Mother Armenia proudly towers – a symbol of victory.

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