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Painter, graphic artist, sculptress. Born in Vitebsk in the family of Pavel Rosenholz (1898). Graduated as a dentist from Tomsk University (1917). Studied sculpture in Anna Golubkina’s studio (1920–2...
Graphic artist, illustrator. Born in the family of Emil Hamburger (23 December 1899) in the town of Nadezhdinsk in the Urals (renamed Serov in 1939). Moved with his family to Moscow (1906). Studied a...
Artist. Born in the family of Vladimir Grigoriev in the village of Pertnury in Kazan Province (15/27 May 1891). Studied under Nicolai Fechin at the Kazan School of Art (1910–15) and under Abram Arkhi...
Graphic artist, sculptor, illustrator, designer. Born in the family of Andrei Grabbe in Novorossiisk (30 March 1904). Studied sculpture and then graphic art at the Odessa School of Art (1920s). Met E...
Artist, teacher. Born in Kiev in the family of Dmitry Krein (4 December 1940). Moved with his mother to Odessa (1946). Studied at a secondary school of art and Odessa School of Art. Moved with his mo...
Artist. Father of Alexander Krein. Born in Kiev in the family of Grigory Krein (1904). Studied in an unknown place. Worked for the Jewish Theatre of Drama in Kiev (1938–39). Evacuated with his family...
Artist. Born in the family of a priest called Ivan Lebedev in the village of Klimovo in the Ranenburg district of Ryazan Province (1900). Served in the Red Army (1919–20). Graduated from an unknown c...
Artist. Born in the town of Yoshida (now part of Tsubame) in the prefecture of Niigata in Japan (January 1920). Called up into the Imperial Japanese Army (January 1940). Served in China (from March 1...
Painter. Born in Tbilisi (1924). Son of Oscar Mayer, a doctor who trained in Germany before the First World War, was arrested on a false charge and died in a transit camp near Tashkent (1938). His mo...
Artist. Born in Saratov in the family of Mikhail Premirov (1912). Moved with his family to Samara. Arrested in his second year of art school (1934). Sent to Ulyanovsk and Ukhta. Worked in the prison ...