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Vasily Slepchenko was born on 5 March 1962 in the town of Uglegorsk on the island of Sakhalin. After his family moved to Taganrog, he enrolled at the children’s art school and studied under Leonid St...
Yury Shabelnikov was born in Taganrog on 24 December 1954. He studied at the children’s art school with Leonid Stukanov. In 1977, Shabelnikov enrolled in the art and graphic design department of the ...
Alexander Sigutin was born in Rostov-on-Don on 5 October 1959. In 1980, he graduated from the maritime academy in Rostov. Sigutin took art lessons from Boris Mygas and enrolled in 1981 at the art and...
Vasyl Tsagolov was born in 1957 in the town of Digora in North Ossetia. Like many members of the Ukrainian “southern wave,” he was first shown in Moscow by Marat Guelman at Babylon in 1990. Tsagolov ...
Alexander Gnilitsky (Oleksandr Gnylytsky) was born in Kharkiv in 1961. A painter and film-set designer, he lived and worked in Kiev and Munich. Gnilitsky died in Kiev in 2009. Alexander Gnilitsky wor...
Painter. Born in Moscow in the family of a worker called Timofei Zverev (1931). Attended the Moscow School of Art and Industry (1948–50) and the 1905 School of Art (1951, expelled after several month...
Painter, graphic artist, writer, performer, curator. Born in a family of Old Believers in the village of Sidoryonkovo in western Siberia during the Second World War. Moved to Moscow (1959) and studie...
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...
Jewish sculptor. Born in the small town of Kraslavka in Vitebsk Province (now Kr?slava in south-east Latvia) in the family of Lvov Aronson (1872/73). Studied at the Ivan Trutnev School of Drawing in ...