Kira Suvorova

Sculptress, painter, draughtswoman. Born to Innokenty Suvorov and Sofia Zalikovskaya in Leningrad (1931). Lived at 41 Pesochnaya (now Professor Popov) Street on the Petrograd Side (1931–42). Evacuated with her parents during the Second World War to Selische in Yaroslavl Region (1942), Yemurtla in Omsk (now Tyumen) Region (1942–44) and Komsomolsk-on-Amur in the Far East (1944–45). Returned to Leningrad (1945), where she studied sculpture under Vsyevolod Lishev at the Ilya Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1952–57). Worked on official commissions (1960s–80s) and visited Siberia, Central Asia, Caucasus, Turkey, Syria and Egypt (1960s–70s). Designed the war memorial on Victims of the Revolution Street in the town of Strugi Krasnye in Pskov Region (1991). Lives and works in St Petersburg, Beryozovo near Priozersk and Dvorischi in Pskov Region. Contributed to exhibitions (from 1957). Contributed to All Petersburg at the Manège Central Exhibition Hall in St Petersburg (1999, first prize for sculpture), Times of Change: Art in the Soviet Union (1960–85) at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2006), joint exhibitions with Yevgenia Antipova and Victor Teterin in Leningrad (1965), with Alexander Stolbov in Leningrad (1982), with Vasily Zvontsov in Gorky and Kirov (1984), with Alexander Stolbov in Pskov (1988) and with Vladimir Proshkin in St Petersburg (2011) and one-woman shows at the Museum of Urban Sculpture in Leningrad (1975), Union of Artists in Leningrad (1982), Pskov Museum Complex of History, Architure and Art in Pskov (1983) and the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2006).