Juan de Avalos
21.10.1911 – 07.07.2006
Spanish sculptor
Honorary Member of the Russian Academy of Arts

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
Biographical Info
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.


Illarion V. Golitsyn
20.05.1928 – 14.03.2007
Graphic artist
Full Member, Member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Arts
Biographical Info
People’s Artist of the Russian Federation, winner of many Russian and International awards

Kisho Kurokawa
08.04.1934 – 12.10.2007
Leading Japanese architect
Honorary 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
Biographical Info
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
Biographical Info
People’s Artist of the Russian Federation, Winner of the State Prize of the Russian Federation, Professor

Vadim M. Polevoi
21.12.1923 – 04.02.2008
Art Historian, Art Critic
Full Member, Member of the Presidium
Biographical Info
Winner of the USSR State Prize, Doctor of Art History, Professor

Adelaeda G. Pologova
29.10.1923 – 29.01.2008
Sculptor
Full Member
Biographical Info
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
Biographical Info
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
Biographical Info
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
Biographical info
People’s Artist of the Russian Federation, Winner of State Prize of the Russian Federation

Anatoli I. Zykov
30.05.1930 – 06.07.2008
Graphic artist
Full Member of the Russian Academy of Arts
Biographical Info
People’s Artist of the Russian Federation
Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Artists’ Union of Russia 1994-2008