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Painter, graphic artist, book artist. Born in the family of Pavel Bubnov in Tiflis (1908). Studied at a studio of art in Atkarsk in Saratov Province (early 1920s) and under Konstantin Istomin and Pavel Kuznetsov at the VKhUTEIN in Moscow (1926–30). Member of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (1928). Corresponding member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1954), Honoured Artist of the RSFSR (1955). Died in Moscow and buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery (1964).Contributed to exhibitions (from 1928).