Andrei Andreevich Mylnikov (russian: Андре́й Андре́евич Мы́льников) (22 February 1919 in

Pokrovsk Pokrovsk (russian: Покро́вск) is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia. Modern localities ;Urban localities *Pokrovsk, Sakha Republic, a town under republic jurisdiction in Khangalassky District of the Sakha Republic ;Rura ...

Saratov Governorate Saratov Governorate (russian: link=no, Саратовская губе́рния, ''Saratovskaya guberniya'', Government of Saratov), was an administrative division (a ''guberniya'') of the Russian Empire and the Russian Socialist Federative Sovie ...

– 16 May 2012 in

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

) was a Russian and Soviet painter and art educator,

People's Artist of the Russian Federation People's Artist of the Russian Federation (russian: Наро́дный худо́жник Росси́йской Федера́ции). The honorary title "People's Artist of the Russian Federation" is given no earlier than five years after the h ...

Stalin Prize Stalin Prize may refer to: * The State Stalin Prize in science and engineering and in arts, awarded 1941 to 1954, later known as the USSR State Prize The USSR State Prize (russian: links=no, Государственная премия СССР, ...

winner, and Lenin Prize winner, who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg. He was a member of the

Saint Petersburg Union of Artists Union of Artists of Saint Petersburg (russian: Санкт-Петербургский Союз художников) was established on August 2, 1932, as a creative union of the Leningrad artists and arts critics. Prior to 1959, it was called " Le ...

(former Leningrad Union of Artists), and professor of painting of the

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, regarded as one of the brightest representatives of the Soviet art, who played an important role in the formation of the

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Biography

Mylnikov was born in 1919 in

. In 1946, Mylnikov graduated from the Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, a student of

Igor Grabar Igor Emmanuilovich Grabar (russian: И́горь Эммануи́лович Граба́рь, 25 March 1871 in Budapest – 16 May 1960 in Moscow) was a Russian post-impressionist painter, publisher, restorer and historian of art. Grabar, des ...

and

Victor Oreshnikov Victor Mikhailovich Oreshnikov (russian: Виктор Михайлович Орешников) (January 7 ( O.S. January 20), 1904, Perm – March 15, 1987, Leningrad) was a Soviet Russian painter, People's Artist of the USSR, active member ...

. In 1948, he graduated from the graduate school of the same institute. Professor since 1957. For more than 50 years Mylnikov taught in the Repin Institute of Arts. He is a Head of personal studio of Monumental painting. At the same time he was head of the Department of Painting of Repin Institute. In 1990, he was awarded the Honorary Title «Hero of Socialist Labour».''The Leningrad School of Painting. Essays on the History''. St Petersburg, ARKA Gallery Publishing, 2019. P.350.

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