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Painter, graphic artist. Wife of Victor Proshkin, sister-in-law of Anatoly Proshkin, mother of Vladimir Proshkin and artist Marianna Proshkina (born 1939). Born in the family of a doctor called Mark Belakovsky in the town of Oleksandriia in the Ukraine (1901). Graduated from grammar school (1918) and studied under Pavel Volokidin and Tit Dvornikov at Odessa School of Art (1918–23). Married Ukrainian Imaginist poet Leonid (Maloshyichenko) Chernov (1922) and moved to Petrograd (1923), where she studied under Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin at the VKhUTEIN (1923–27). Defended a dissertation on the theme of Ukrainian portraiture (1927). Member of October (1930–31). Married Victor Proshkin and worked with him at the Kharkiv Tractor Factory (1930–31). Lived in the former studio of Arkhip Kuinji on Tuchkov Embankment (from 1934) and worked for Gorkom IZO in Leningrad (1935–41). Evacuated to Selische in Yaroslavl Region (1941–42) and Yemurtla in Omsk (now Tyumen) Region (1942–44). Returned to Leningrad (1944), where she joined the Union of Artists (1945, expelled 1949–53). Painted such series as Crimea (1938, 1949–52), Kiev (1946), Belarus (1954), Flowers (1957–62) and Altai (1963). Died in Leningrad (1965). Suffered the posthumous loss of seventeen paintings in a fire at Victor Proshkin’s studio in Leningrad (1976). Contributed to exhibitions (from 1924). Contributed to the Exhibition of Works by Artists Dispatched to Regions of Industrial and Collective-Farm Construction in Vsekokhudozhnik at 11 Kuznetsky Most in Moscow (1931), Exhibition of Portraits and Exhibition of Pictures by the Leningrad Regional House of Artists at the First Five-Year Plan House of Culture in Leningrad (1933), Woman in Socialist Construction at the Russian Museum in Leningrad (1934), First Exhibition of Leningrad Artists at the Russian Museum in Leningrad (1935), Autumn Exhibition of Works by Leningrad Artists at the Russian Museum in Leningrad (1936), Exhibition of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture in the Theatrical Club (now the Konstantin Stanislavsky House of the Actor) at 86 Nevsky Prospekt in Leningrad (1937), Exhibition of Works by Leningrad Artists at the Union of Artists in Leningrad (1940), Exhibition of Women Artists of Leningrad in the Promkooperatsiya House of Culture (now the Lensoviet Palace of Culture) at 42 Kirov (now Stone Island) Prospekt in Leningrad (1941), Leningrad Graphic Art 1941–45 in Kharkiv, Kiev, Odessa, Lviv, Chernihiv and Uzhhorod (1945), Autumn Exhibition of Works by Leningrad Artists at the Union of Artists in Leningrad (1956), Exhibition of Works by Leningrad Artists Dedicated to the Fortieth Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution at the Russian Museum in Leningrad (1957), Autumn Exhibition of Works by Leningrad Artists at the Union of Artists in Leningrad (1958), Exhibition of Works by Leningrad Artists of 1960 at the Russian Museum in Leningrad (1960), Exhibition of Works by Leningrad Artists at the Union of Artists in Leningrad (1960), Exhibition of Works by Leningrad Artists at the Russian Museum and Union of Artists in Leningrad (1961), Spring Exhibition of Works by Leningrad Artists at the Union of Artists in Leningrad (1965), Soviet Art of the 1920s–30s at the Russian Museum in Leningrad (1988), Art Myth 1 at the Central House of the Artist in Moscow (1990), Russian and Soviet Art in the Collection of Ilya Luchkovsky (Kharkiv) at Kaliningrad Art Gallery (1991) and Kharkiv Museum of Art (1992), exhibitions at the Galleria d’arte Capitani in Milan (1992, 1993), Victoria Belakovskaya, Anatoly Proshkin, Victor Proshkin: Painting, Graphic Art at the Manège Central Exhibition Hall in St Petersburg (1993), exhibitions at the Moscow Palette Gallery in Moscow (1993, 1994), Link of Times: 1932–97 at the Manège Central Exhibition Hall in St Petersburg (1997), 500 Anos de Arte Russa – Dos Ícones à Arte Contemporânea at Oca in the Parque do Ibirapuera in Sâo Paolo (2002), Petersburg Dynasty at the Alexander Pushkin Museum in Moscow (2004), Petersburg Art of the Twentieth Century (Collection of Modern Art of the Manège Central Exhibition Hall) at the Manège Central Exhibition Hall in St Petersburg (2007) and one-woman shows in Vladivostok (1924), Union of Artists in Leningrad/St Petersburg (1964, 1970, 2001, 2011), Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow (2006), Manège Central Exhibition Hall in St Petersburg (2001) and the Anna Akhmatova Museum at the Fountain House in St Petersburg (2011).