Painter, graphic artist, teacher. Born in the family of Vasily Uchayev in the village of Dzhermen in Khabarovsk Region (1939). Studied at Saratov School of Art (1959–64) and under Yevsei Moiseyenko at the Ilya Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Leningrad (1964–70). Member of the Union of Artists (1970). Chairman of the Saratov Union of Artists and the Volga section of the ...