Raphael (Falik) Budilov

Sculptor. Born in the family of Nakhim Budilov (1906) in the Ukrainian city of Ekaterinoslav (renamed Dnepropetrovsk in 1926). Studied at the VKhUTEIN in Leningrad (1926–30), where he sculpted a statue of Vladimir Lenin in Vitebsk (1930, destroyed by German occupying forces in 1941). Member of the Union of Artists (1932). Post-graduate student of the Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Leningrad (1934). Sculpted the thirteen-metre cement figures of Tractor Driver and Collective Farmwoman outside the Main Pavilion at the All-Union Exhibition of Agriculture in Moscow (1939, dismantled in 1951). Worked in the production workshops of the Museum of Urban Sculpture, creating propaganda and camouflage sculptures on the streets of Leningrad during the Second World War (1941–45). Sculpted a statue of Vladimir Lenin in the town of Slantsy in Leningrad Region (1958). Honoured Artist of the RSFSR (1965). Died in St Petersburg and buried at Komarovo Cemetery (1992). Contributed to exhibitions (from 1932). Contributed to Fifteen Years of the Red Army at the Russian Museum in Leningrad (1933), First Exhibition of Leningrad Artists at the Russian Museum in Leningrad (1935), Alexander Pushkin Jubilee Exhibition at the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad (1937), Industry of Socialism at 79 Frunze Embankment in Moscow (1939), Exhibition of Works by Kirov Artists on the 26th Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution at the House of the Red Army in Kirov (1943), Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture by Leningrad Artists in Khabarovsk (1947), All-Union Art Exhibition of 1947 at the Tretyakov Gallery and Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow (1947), Travelling Exhibition of Works by Leningrad Artists in Omsk, Chelyabinsk, Sverdlovsk and Molotov (1948), Travelling Exhibition of Works of Painting, Graphic Art and Sculpture by Soviet Artists at the Yelets School of Art in Yelets (1948), XXXIV Travelling Exhibition of Works by Leningrad Artists at the Vyborg House of Culture in Leningrad (1949), Exhibition of Works by Leningrad Artists at the Russian Museum in Leningrad (1950), Spring Exhibition of Works by Leningrad Artists at the Union of Artists in Leningrad (1954), All-Union Art Exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery, House of the Artist and Union of Artists at 25/9 Gorky (now Tver) Street in Moscow (1955), II Soviet Russia Republican Exhibition at the Manège Central Exhibition Hall in Moscow (1965) and Times of Change: Art in the Soviet Union (1960–85) at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2006).