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Sculptor, graphic artist, teacher. Born in the family of Vasily Grube in the village of Grigorievka in Ufa Province (1894). Studied at Penza School of Art (1905–13) and Petrograd University (1914–16). Taught at a school in the small town of Krasnopolye in White Russia (1918–22), where he sculpted the first ever monument to Vladimir Lenin (1922). Lived and worked in Minsk (1924–41), where he sculp...
Armenian sculptor, musician. Born in the family of Khachatur Dumanian in Baku (1926). Studied the cello at the Azerbaijan Conservatoire in Baku (1945–46) and sculpture at the Panos Terlemezian School...
Sculptor. Born in Petrograd (1917) in the family of Jewish architect Rufin Gabe (1875–1939) and his wife Liya (died 1956). Studied sculpture under Alexander Matveyev and Victor Sinaisky at the Ilya R...
Sculptress, graphic artist, teacher. Born in the family of Fyodor Blumel in Moscow (1922). Studied under Ekaterina Belashova at the Moscow Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts (1941–44) and under...
Sculptor, graphic artist, teacher. Born in the family of a builder called Konstantin Komov in Moscow (1932). Studied at the 1905 School of Art in Moscow (1948–53) and under Nikolai Tomsky at the Vasi...
Sculptress, graphic artist, teacher. Wife of Yevsei Moiseyenko. Born in the family of Lavrenty Rybalko in the city of Simferopole in the Crimea (1918). Studied at the Nikolai Samokish Studio of Art i...
Sculptor, teacher. Born in the family of Alexander Sinaisky in the Ukrainian port of Mariupole on the Sea of Azov (1893). Studied under Kyriakos Kostandi and Giuseppe Mormone at the Odessa School of ...
Sculptor, teacher, writer on art, memoirist. Born in the family of a peasant called Timofei Konyonkov in the village of Verkhnie (Upper) Karakovichi in the south of Smolensk Province (1874). Studied ...
Sculptor, teacher. Born in the family of a floor-layer called Konstantin Anikushin in Moscow (1917). Studied under Gavriil Schultz at the Leningrad Secondary School of Art (1936–37) and under Victor ...
Sculptress. Born in the family of Andrei Venkov in the town of Vichuga in Ivanovo Province (1922). Studied at the art studio of the Leningrad Palace of Pioneers (1938–40) and the Ilya Repin Institute...