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  • Genia Chef

    Painter, graphic artist, book illustrator. Born Yevgeny Sheffer in the family of exiled photojournalist Vladimir Sheffer in the city of Aktyubinsk (renamed Aktobe in 1999) in north-west Kazakhstan (1...

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  • Mikhail Karasik

    Graphic artist, painter, publisher, curator, book artist. One of the leading creators, ideologues and promoters of the artist’s book in Russia, who has published dozens of books and catalogues on art...

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  • Iya Venkova

    Sculptress. Born in the family of Andrei Venkov in the town of Vichuga in Ivanovo Province (1922). Studied at the art studio of the Leningrad Palace of Pioneers (1938–40) and the Ilya Repin Institute...

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  • Valentina Povarova

    Painter, graphic artist, teacher, writer on art. Born in the family of Pyotr Povarov in Leningrad (1933). Graduated from the Leningrad Secondary School of Art (1953) and the Ilya Repin Institute of P...

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  • Mihail Chemiakine

    Painter, graphic artist, sculptor, book artist, theatrical designer, performance artist. Born in the family of Mikhail Shemyakin in Moscow (1943). Grew up in the German town of Königsberg, where his ...

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  • Boris Sveshnikov

    Painter, graphic artist, illustrator. Born in the family of Pyotr Sveshnikov in Moscow (1927). Studied at the Moscow Institute of Applied and Decorative Art (1945–46). Arrested and accused of anti-So...

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  • Gleb Bogomolov

    Painter, graphic artist. Father of television presenter and politician Alexander Nevzorov (born 1958). Born in the family of a sailor and amateur artist called Sergei Bogomolov in Leningrad (1933). A...

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  • Anatoly Belkin

    Painter, graphic artist, object artist, installation artist, art critic, writer, television presenter, head editor of www.sobaka.ru. Born in the family of Pavel Belkin in Moscow (1953). Studied under...

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  • Andrei Grositsky

    Andrei Grositsky was born in the family of Boris Grositsky in Moscow in 1934, and graduated from the Vasily Surikov Institute of Art in Moscow in 1959. Between 1962 and 1968, he contributed to shows ...

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  • Valentin Vorobyov

    Valentin Vorobyov was born in the family of Ilya Vorobyov in Bryansk in 1938. He attended art studios in the 1950s and studied painting under Berta Geller, a former student of Naum Gabo and Vasyl Yer...

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