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Chinghiz Aitmatov
12.12.1928 – 10.06.2008
Kyrgyz writer
Honorary Member of the Russian Academy of Arts
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Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Kyzgyz Republic to Benelux and France
Vasily P. Aksenov
20.08.1932 – 06.07.2009
Russian writer and script writer
Honorary Member of the
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Doctor of Humane Letters (
Juan de Avalos
21.10.1911 – 07.07.2006
Spanish sculptor
Honorary Member of the Russian Academy of Arts
Edward G. Bragovsky
06.101923-06.08.2010
Painter
Full Member of the Russian Academy of Arts
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Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, Winner of the State Prize of the Russian
Federation
Gukas G. Chubaryan
16.06.1923 – 23.03.2009
Sculptor
Full Member of the Russian Academy of Arts
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People’s Artist of the Soviet Republic of Armenia, Professor
Edward N. Drobitski
24.03.1941 – 19.09.2007
Painter
Full Member, Member of the Presidium,
Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Arts
President of International Federation of Artists
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People’s Artist of the Russian Federation, Laureate of Order of Honor and Winner of International Prizes
Edward Drobitski graduated from the Moscow Institute of Architecture in 1969. Since early 1960-s he actively worked in industrial graphic art. Drobitski was one of the initiators of the Center for Non-Official Art on Malaya Gruzinskaya street in Moscow which later developed in the establishment of the Moscow United Committee of Graphic Artists. In 1979 Edward Drobitski was elected its president. In 1974 Drobitski was one of the participants and organizers of the notorious Bulldozer Exhibition and the first exhibition of Moscow avant-garde artists in a pavilion of the Economic Achievements Exhibition.
Boris E. Efimov
28.09.1900 – 01.10.2008
Graphic artist, master of political cartoons
Full Member of the Russian Academy of Arts
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People’s Artist of the USSR (1967), Hero of Socialist Labor (1990), winner of three State Prizes (1950, 1951, 1972), holder of three Orders of Lenin, Order of October Revolution, Order of Labor Red Banner, Sign of Honor Order, Order of Cyril and Methody 1st rank (Bulgaria), Moscow City Hall Prize “Legend of the Century” (2003).
Natalia A. Egorshina
28.12.1926 – 06.02.2010
Painter
Corresponding Member of the
Illarion V. Golitsyn
20.05.1928 – 14.03.2007
Graphic artist
Full Member, Member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Arts
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People’s Artist of the Russian Federation, winner of many Russian and International awards
Yuri P. Ishkhanov
30.12.1929-23.03.2009
Sculptor
Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Arts
Full Member of the Russian Academy of Arts
Head of the Urals, Siberia and Far East Regional Department
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People’s Artist of the Russian Federation, Professor
Andrei I. Kurnakov
05.10.1916 – 05.02.2010
Painter
Full Member of the Russian Academy of Arts
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People’s Artist of the USSR, Winner of the State I. Repin Prize of the Russian Federation, Professor
Kisho Kurokawa
08.04.1934 – 12.10.2007
Leading Japanese architect
Honorary Member of the Russian Academy of Arts
Boris G. Lukyanov
23.04.1937 – 03.03.2009
Art historian
Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Arts
Akhmat F. Lutfullin
04.03.1941 – 10.07.2007
Painter
Full Member of the Russian Academy of Arts
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People’s Artist of USSR, Winner of Salavat Uylaev Prize of Bashkiria Republic of USSR
May P. Miturich-Khlebnikov
29.05.1925 – 30.06.2008
Graphic artist
Full Member of the Russian Academy of Arts
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People’s Artist of the Russian Federation, Winner of the State Prize of the Russian Federation, Professor
Alexander I. Morozov
24.11.1941 – 05.08.2010
Art historian
Full Member of the Russian Academy of Arts
Vladimir A. Nabatchikov
27.04.1940 – 10.01.2009
Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Arts
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Honored Worker of Arts of Russia, Doctor of Philosophy
Igor P. Obrosov
23.05.1930 – 05.08.2010
Painter, graphic artist
Full Member of the Russian Academy of Arts
Member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Arts
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People’s Artist of the Russian Federation, Winner of the USSR State Prize, Winner
of the State Prize of the Russian Federation
Vadim M. Polevoi
21.12.1923 – 04.02.2008
Art Historian, Art Critic
Full Member, Member of the Presidium
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Winner of the USSR State Prize, Doctor of Art History, Professor
Adelaeda G. Pologova
29.10.1923 – 29.01.2008
Sculptor
Full Member
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Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, Winner of USSR State Prize, Winner of the Prize of President of the Russian Federation
Ivan P. Sautov
16.09.1947 – 01.08.2008
Architect
Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Arts
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Position: Director of Tsarskoye Selo State Museum-Preserve (1987-2008)
Honors and awards: Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation,
Winner of the State Prize of the Russian Federation, Professor
Order of Friendship, Order of St. Daniel 2nd rank
Member: Member of Board of Directors of the Architects’ Union of Russia,
Member of the Presidium of St. Petersburg Culture Foundation
Vladimir V. Scherbakov
19.07.1935 – 11.02.2008
Painter
Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Arts
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People’s Artist of Russia
Winner of the Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Arts (2004)
1964-1969 – member of art and expert panel of the Fine Arts Department of the Ministry for Culture of the Russian Federation Republic
Since 1987 – Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Russian Artists’ Union
Liudmila N. Shushkanova
26.03.1926 – 29.06.2008
Artist of decorative and applied art
Full Member of the Russian Academy of Arts
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People’s Artist of the Russian Federation, Winner of State Prize of the Russian Federation
Revecca M. Tsuzmer
22.11.1918 -06.08.2009
Artist of Decorative and Applied Art
Full Member of the
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People’s Artist of the
Andrei V. Vasnetsov
24.02.1924-06.12.2009
Painter
Full Member, Member of the Presidium of the
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People’s Artist of the
Winner of the
Professor
From 1988 till 1992 Andrei Vasnetsov headed the USSR Union of Artists
Anatoli I. Zykov
30.05.1930 – 06.07.2008
Graphic artist
Full Member of the Russian Academy of Arts
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People’s Artist of the Russian Federation
Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Artists’ Union of Russia 1994-2008