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Sculptor, graphic artist, applied artist. Born in the family of Georgy Sotnikov in the village of Mikhailovskaya in the Kuban (1904). Studied at the Krasnodar Pedagogical College of Art (1925–28) and...
Sculptress, applied artist, teacher. Born in the family of Nikolai Nikonov in the town of Pskov (1910). Studied at the VKhUTEIN/Institute of Proletarian Fine Art in Leningrad (1929–31). Worked as a f...
Sculptor. Born in the family of Mikhail Orlov in St Petersburg (1911). Did not receive a systematic art education. Designed the monuments to Yury Dolgoruky in Moscow (1954) and Afanasy Nikitin in Tve...
Porcelain painter, writer. Born in the family of Nikolai Bespalov in St Petersburg (1912). Graduated from the Leningrad Technical College of Art and Industry (1929–31). Worked at the Lomonosov Porcel...
Painter, designer. Born in the family of a railwayman called Victor Vorobyevsky in the village of Tankha in Transbaikal Region (1906). Graduated from the Pavlovsk School of Art (1926) and worked at t...
Porcelain artist. Born in the family of Lavrenty Semyonov in Batanovka in Novgorod Province (1914). Studied at the school of art and industry of the Red Porcelainist Factory (1930–33). Worked as a sc...
Sculptress, applied artist. Born in Moscow in the family of David Goldstein and his artist wife (1912 or 1913). Taught the rudiments of sculpture by her stepfather Isaac Mendelevich (early 1930s). St...
Applied artist, painter, graphic artist, sculptor, teacher. Born in the village of Bykovka in Nizhny Novgorod Province in the family of a rural teacher called Mikhail Kozhin (1904). Studied at rural ...
Sculptor, applied artist. Born in Tashkent (1906) in the family of Jewish engineer Lev Slonim (1883–1954) and his wife Anna (1887–1954), who rented a room to writer Isaac Babel in Petrograd (1916). M...
Porcelain painter, book illustrator, restorer. Born in the town of Brest-Litovsk in the family of Nikolai Mokh (1911). Graduated from the Pavlovsk School of Art (1929). Worked under Nikolai Suetin at...