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Vladimir Nikolaevich Aralov (1893-1972) was a Soviet artist, painter, and landscape artist. He was a member of the Moscow Union of Artists (since 1939). He lived and worked in Moscow. In 1908, he entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (MUZhVZ), where he studied under A.E. Arkhipov and A.M. Vasnetsov. He graduated in 1912 from Arkhipov's studio, and his graduation work "Fishermen" was highly praised by his famed teacher. He participated in exhibitions from 1913. Aralov was a member of the "Assembly" artists' group (later the "Group of Moscow Artists"). During World War I he served at the front, and in the early years after the October Revolution, served in the Red Army. He mostly painted landscapes, still lifes, and genre scenes. He created a number of works dedicated to A.P. Chekhov and M. Gorky, as well as a large series of architectural landscapes "Monuments of Moscow and the Moscow Region," for which he was awarded the First Prize of the RSFSR Art Fund. His work is characterized by a certain blurriness, elongation of forms, and brilliance of color: "Chekhov's House in Yalta" (1939), "Blossoming May" (1939), "Timiryazev Academy" (1944), "Pakhra. Gorki Leninskiye" (1948), the series "Architectural Monuments of Moscow and the Moscow Region" (1961–1962), "Banks of the Volga," "Plowed Field" (1947), "Collective Farm Apiary" (1949), "Winter. Sunny Day" (1961). In 1950, a solo exhibition of the artist was held in Moscow. Aralov’s works are kept in the Museum of History and Reconstruction of Moscow, the Museum of M. Gorky in Moscow, the Novosibirsk Regional Art Gallery, and other museum and private collections.