Yuriy N.Yegorov
Yuriy Nikolaevich Yegorov (Ukrainian ''Єгоров Юрій Миколаєвич''), January 27, 1926 Stalingrad (currently Volgograd), USSR – died October 12, 2008, Odesa, Ukraine) was one of the most prominent Ukrainian artists of the 2nd half of the 20 century, a classic of the Odesa school of painting. He created easel and monumental paintings, drawings, tapestries, ceramics, stained glass, and mosaics. Biography Yuriy Yegorov was born in Stalingrad to a couple of ballet dancers. Romantic musical theater, which flings the human into sublime state, affected the impressionable boy’s identity, defining the personality of the characters of his future works. Influenced by theater as a synthetic art form, Yuriy Yegorov combined different monumental techniques, such as painting, mosaics, and tapestries. In 1941, Yegorov’s family evacuated to Tashkent and then moved to Krasnoyarsk together with the Odessa Opera and Ballet Theater. In Krasnoyarsk, the future painter met Kyiv a ...
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Stalingrad
Volgograd ( rus, Волгогра́д, a=ru-Volgograd.ogg, p=vəɫɡɐˈɡrat), geographical renaming, formerly Tsaritsyn (russian: Цари́цын, Tsarítsyn, label=none; ) (1589–1925), and Stalingrad (russian: Сталингра́д, Stalingrád, label=none; ) (1925–1961), is the largest city and the administrative centre of Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The city lies on the western bank of the Volga, covering an area of , with a population of slightly over 1 million residents. Volgograd is the List of cities and towns in Russia by population, sixteenth-largest city by population size in Russia, the second-largest city of the Southern Federal District, and the Volga#Biggest cities on the shores of the Volga, fourth-largest city on the Volga. The city was founded as the fortress of ''Tsaritsyn'' in 1589. By the nineteenth century, Tsaritsyn had become an important river-port and commercial centre, leading to its population to grow rapidly. In November 1917, at the start of th ...
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