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Painter, graphic artist. Born in Leningrad (1933) in the family of Lieutenant Alexander Mezhirov (1902–1943), who was killed near Kremchug during the Second World War (1943). Studied at the Dulyovo P...
Painter, graphic artist, teacher. Born in the family of Grigory Nevelstein in the city of Kherson in south Ukraine (1903). Worked as an assistant smelter in a foundry (1916) and joined the Red Army d...
Painter, graphic artist, teacher, writer on art. Born in the family of Semyon Kopeikin in the village of Borschovo to the north-west of Moscow (1905). Studied under Daniil Daran in Moscow (1923–26), ...
Painter, graphic artist, teacher. Father of Dmitry Buchkin. Born in the family of Dmitry Buchkin in the village of Sofronovo in Tver Province (1886). Studied under Nikolai Koshelev and Vasily Savinsk...
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...
Painter, graphic artist, book artist. Born in the family of Semyon Chernetsov in the village of Dorobino in Tula Province (1907). Studied at the Vasily Surikov Library in Moscow, studio of the Associ...
Graphic artist, book illustrator. Born in the family of Boris Suvorov in Moscow (1947). Studied at the Moscow Secondary School of Art (1960–66) and the Vasily Surikov Institute of Art in Moscow (1969...
Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, teacher. Born in the family of a lawyer called Semyon Bogorodsky in Nizhny Novgorod (1895). Took private lessons in painting and drawing from Mikhail Le ...
Painter, fabric designer, graphic artist, teacher. Born in the family of Vasily Antonov in Tambov (1904). Studied at the Tambov Studio of Art (1916–21) and the VKhUTEMAS/VKhUTEIN (1922–29). Member of...