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Sculptress. Born in the family of Vasily Andreyev in St Petersburg Province (1898). Studied under Leonid Sherwood, Matvei Manizer and Alexander Matveyev at the VKhUTEMAS/VKhUTEIN in Petrograd/Leningr...
Painter, graphic artist, teacher. Born in the family of Andrei Mylnikov in the town of Pokrovsk (renamed Engels in 1931) on the River Volga (1919). Studied architecture (1937–40) and painting (1940–4...
Armenian graphic artist, poster designer. Born in the family of Yervand Airapetiants in the town of Kislovodsk in the Caucasus (1919). Studied at Eachi Proshian’s studio in Kislovodsk (late 1920s–ear...
Painter, graphic artist, teacher. Born in the family of a blacksmith called Ivan Laktionov in Rostov-on-Don (1910). Studied at a secondary school of art in Rostov-on-Don (1926–29), under Isaac Brodsk...
Painter, teacher. Born in the family of Mikhail Oreshnikov in Perm (1904). Studied under Ivan Turansky in Perm, at the Perm Free Art Studios/Technical College of Art (1919–24), under Kuzma Petrov-Vod...
Painter, graphic artist, teacher. Born in the family of Alexander Serov in the village of Emmaus in Tver Province (1910). Studied under Savely Schleifer at the Vesiegonsk Studio of Art (1920s), under...
Painter, graphic artist, poster designer, teacher. Born in the family of Alexander Serebryany in Horodnia in the northern Ukraine (1907). Studied at the Poltava Studio of Art (1922–23), under Arkady ...
Painter, graphic artist, book artist. Born in the family of Semyon Chernetsov in the village of Dorobino in Tula Province (1907). Studied at the Vasily Surikov Library in Moscow, studio of the Associ...
Painter. Born in the family of Ivan Vikulov in the town of Nerchinsk in eastern Siberia (1904). Graduated from the Blagoveschensk Technical College of Art (1924). Studied at the VKhUTEIN/Institute of...
Painter, graphic artist, poster designer. Born in the family of Alexei Kazantsev in Khabarovsk (1908). Studied under Ilya Mashkov in Moscow (1928–29), at the Institute of Applied and Decorative art i...