Born in Rostov-on-Don 1910. Studied at Rostov-on-Don Art School 1926-29; INSTITUTE OF
PAINTING, SCULPTURE AND ARCHITECTURE 1932-38; as a post.grad. 1938-44. Active in Leningrad
until 1940; Zagorsk, Moscow reg. 1944-48; Moscow thereafter. Began exhibiting 1929.
Important shows include "Twenty Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army",
Moscow, 1938; "INDUSTRY OF SOCIALISM", Moscow 1939; "All Union Art
Exhibition", Moscow, 1946; "All Union Art Exhibition", Moscow, 1947;
"All Union Art Exhibition", Moscow, 1949; "All Union Art Exhibition",
Moscow, 1952; "All Union Art Exhibition", Moscow, 1955; "SOVIET
RUSSIA", Moscow, 1960. Well known works include Hero of the Soviet Union N.V.Yudin
visiting KomSoMol Tank Troops (1938; Academy of Arts Museum, St.Petersburg); A
Letter from the Front (1947; Tretyakov Gallery; later versions in various
collections); Into a new Flat (1952; Donetsk Art Museum). Taught at INSTITUTE OF
PAINTING, SCULPTURE AND ARCHITECTURE 1936-44; Moscow Correspondance Teacher-Training
Institute 1967(66?)-70(72?). Became a Soviet academician 1949. Awarded Stalin Prize 1948.
The favourite pupil of I.I.Brodski; arch exponent of the highly-finished post-war style of
socialist realism. Died in Moscow 1972.
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