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Painter, graphic artist. Born in the family of Semyon Viderman in Sebastopole (1945). Studied at the Odessa School of Art (1959–64) and under Valentina Rakhina and Guerman Yegoshin at the Vera Mukhin...
Painter, graphic artist. Born in the family of Mikhail Orlov in Leningrad (1952). Studied at the Leningrad College of Seafaring (1968–72) and the Vladimir Serov School of Art in Leningrad (1975–77). ...
Painter, graphic artist. Born in the family of Mikhail Kovalsky in Leningrad (1948). Graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Topography (1969). Member of the Fellowship of Experimental Fine Art (19...
Jewish painter, graphic artist, teacher. Born in the family of Nison Okun in Leningrad (1949). Studied at the Vera Mukhina School of Art in Leningrad (1966–72). Member of Aleph (1975–77). Emigrated t...
Painter, graphic artist. Born in evacuation in Alapayevsk in the family of Mikhail Gurevich (1944). Graduated from the Leningrad Electro-Technical Institute (1967) and the Vera Mukhina School of Art ...
Painter, graphic artist, sculptor. Born in Leningrad in the family of a worker called Dmitry Arefiev (1931). Lived through the Siege of Leningrad (1941–44). Studied at the Leningrad Secondary School ...
Painter, graphic artist, designer. Born in Leningrad in the family of an Estonian architect called Rudolf Vasmi and his Finnish wife (1929). Influenced by Nikolai Lapshin (until 1942). Studied at Len...
Painter, graphic artist, teacher. Born in the family of Grigory Weisberg in Moscow (1924). Seriously wounded in the Second World War and could only attend the Vasily Surikov Institute of Art as an oc...
Painter, sculptor, graphic artist, photographer, object artist, installation artist, illustrator, designer, applied artist. Born in the family of Boris Yankilevsky in Moscow (1938). Studied at the Mo...
Installation artist. Born in the family of Pyotr Plavinsky in Moscow (1937). His mother was arrested and exiled to Kolyma (1937). Evacuated to Omsk during the Second World War (1941–44). Returned to ...