Kruzhkov Ilya Markovich
Kruzhkov Ilya Markovich – was born on September 22, 1909, in the Uman city, Cherkasy region. He studied at the Kharkiv Art Institute (1930 - 1934), and the Kyiv Art Institute (1950). Mentors: O. Khvostenko-Khvostov, B. Kosarev, D. Ovcharenko, A. Cherkassky, S. Grigoriev, V. Kostetsky, F. Krichevsky. He worked in the industry of posters, graphics, and easel painting. Member of the Great Patriotic War. Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1969). Participated in republican (since 1937), all-Union (since 1950), and foreign (since 1951) exhibitions. Major works: front-line posters, propaganda windows, and postcards (1941 - 1945); a series of frontline drawings (1943 - 1945); "Hero of the Soviet Union Zoya Kosmodemyanska" (1968) and others. Lived and worked in Kyiv. The artist died in 1974.