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Artist. Born in Moscow in the family of an economist called Nikolai Tselkov employed at an aviation factory (1934). Studied at the Moscow Secondary School of Art (1949–53), Minsk Institute of Theatri...
Graphic artist, theatrical and cinema designer, teacher, director. Born in the family of Alexander Nolev-Sobolev in Moscow (1928). Studied at Moscow Institute of Polygraphy (1945–53). Opened a club a...
Sculptor, theatrical designer, graphic artist, painter, restorer. Born in the family of Vasily Vasilyev in Moscow (1925). Visited Yevgeny Kropivnitsky’s studio (1936). Studied under Anton Chirkov and...
Painter, graphic artist. Born in the family of Vasily Kharitonov in Moscow (1931). Did not receive a professional art education. Studied but did not graduate from the Moscow Municipal Children’s Scho...
Anatoly Brusilovsky was born in the family of Rafail Brusilovsky in Odessa in 1932. A graduate of the Kharkov School of Art, his first book illustrations were published in 1953. In 1957, Brusilovsky ...
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 ...
Painter, graphic artist. Born in Moscow (1937) in the family of Arkady Steinberg (1907–1976), a poet, translator and graduate of the VKhUTEMAS. Graduated from a school for workers. Forced to find wor...
Estonian painter, graphic artist. Born in the village of Ühtri on the island of Hiiumaa in Estonia (1924). Studied at Tartu Institute of Art (1945–48). Arrested in Tallinn with a group of fellow stud...