YELCHANINOV VLADIMIR VASILYEVICH People's Artist of Russia, painter (1932 - 2015) 1932 Was born in Gzhatsk (Gagarin) Smolensk region. 1960 Graduated from the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute named after V.I. Lenin. 1960-1969 Teacher of the Smolensk State Pedagogical Institute named after K. Marx. 1964 Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR (since 1991 - member of the Union of Artists of Russia). 1965-1967 Graduated from postgraduate studies at the Department of Painting of the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute named after V. I. Lenin. 1968 Member of the Board of the Smolensk Organization of the Agricultural Union of the RSFSR. 1968 Member of the creative commission on painting of the Union of Artists of the RSFSR. 1977 Awarded A Diploma of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR. 1980 Awarded a Diploma of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR and a Diploma of the Ministry of Culture of the RSFSR. 1984 Awarded the honorary title "Honored Artist of the RSFSR". 1985 Awarded the Diploma of the Ministry of Culture of the RSFSR and the Board of the Union of Artists of the RSFSR. 1986 Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Smolensk Organization of the Agricultural Union of the RSFSR. 1987 Awarded a Diploma of the USSR Academy of Arts. Secretary of the Board of the Union of Artists of the RSFSR. 1988 Elected member of the Board of the Union of Artists of the USSR. 1989 Awarded the Diploma of the Union of Artists of the USSR. 1995 Awarded the honorary title of "People's Artist of Russia". 1987 Awarded the medal of the President of Russia in honor of the 850th anniversary of Moscow. 1992-1999 Secretary of the Union of Artists of Russia. 1996-1999 Member of the Board of the Smolensk Organization of the Union of Artists of Russia. 1999 Awarded the "Golden Pushkin Medal" of the Government of the Russian Federation for participation in the All-Russian exhibition "Boldinskaya Autumn". He was nominated for the State Prize of the Russian Federation. He was awarded a Certificate of Honor by the Head of the Administration of the Smolensk region. In 2003, for outstanding achievements in the field of fine arts, he was awarded the "Order of Friendship". 2007 Elected Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Arts. Delegate to the congresses of the Union of Artists of the RSFSR (II-1968, III - 1972, IV - 1976, VI - 1987) and the VII Congress of the Union of Artists of the USSR. PARTICIPATION IN EXHIBITIONS. Regional exhibitions (since 1962), zonal exhibitions (I - 1964, II - 1967, III - 1969, IV -1974, V - 1980, VI - 1985, VII - 1990, VIII - 1997), republican exhibitions "Soviet Russia" (1970, 1975, 1980, 1985), All-Russian exhibitions "Across the native country" (1981, 1983), All-Union exhibitions "We are building Communism" (1981, 1985), republican exhibitions "Physical Culture and sports in Fine Arts" (1983 - gg. Ryazan, Moscow), solo exhibitions (1971, 1979, 1984, 1994 - Smolensk; 1986 -Moscow; 1987. - Leningrad), exhibitions of works by Smolensk artists in Moscow (1971, 1978, 1994). 1965 All-Union exhibition "On Guard of Peace", Moscow. 1966 Exhibition of works by Smolensk artists in Poland. 1973 All-Union exhibition "On guard of the Motherland". Moscow. All-Union exhibition "Glory to Labor", Moscow. Republican exhibition "Still Life", Moscow. 1977 All-Union exhibition "60 years on the Lenin way", Moscow. All-Russian exhibition "My Non-Chernozem region", Tula, Smolensky, Gorky. All-Russian exhibition "60 Heroic Years", Moscow. 1978 Exhibition of works by Russian artists "60 years of Lenin's way", Moscow. 1980 All-Russian exhibition "Monuments of the Fatherland in the works of artists of the Russian Federation", Yaroslavl. 1982 All-Union exhibition "The USSR is Our Motherland", Moscow. 1985 All-Russian exhibition "We have defended the world - we will save the world", Moscow. 1987 Republican exhibition "Artists and Time", Moscow. All-Union exhibition "The Country of the Soviets", Moscow. 1988 Republican exhibition "Still Life and Interior", Leningrad. Republican exhibition "Science and Space", Kaliningrad. 1989 I All-Union Exhibition of Painting, Moscow. Republican exhibition "Landscape in the works of Russian painters", Moscow. Republican exhibition "Landscape in the works of Russian painters", Moscow. 1990 Republican exhibition "For the sake of life on earth", Moscow. 1991 Republican exhibition "Monuments of the Fatherland in the works of artists of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus", Smolensk, Minsk. 1992 VIII Republican Exhibition of works by artists of Russia, Moscow. 1995 Exhibition of Smolensk artists in Hagen (Germany). 1995 All-Russian exhibition "Dedicated to the Defenders of the Fatherland", Moscow. All-Russian exhibition at the Academy of Arts, Moscow. 1997 International Exhibition "The Unfading Crown of Slavic Cities", Moscow, Sergiev Posad, Yaroslavl. All-Russian exhibition dedicated to the 850th anniversary of Moscow, Moscow. All-Russian exhibition dedicated to Slavic writing. Yaroslavl. 1999 All-Russian exhibition "Russia", Moscow. All-Russian exhibition "Renaissance" dedicated to the 2000th anniversary of Christianity, Kostroma. 1999 All-Russian exhibition "Boldinskaya Autumn", Moscow. 2000 All-Russian exhibition "Your Name", Moscow. Foreign exhibition of Smolensk artists in Vitebsk (Republic of Belarus). 2001 All-Russian exhibition "Invitation to Dialogue", Moscow. Foreign exhibition of Smolensk artists in Vitebsk (Republic of Belarus). Personal art exhibition, Smolensk. 2002 International Exhibition "Art of Nations", Moscow. All-Russian exhibition "The Image of the Motherland", Kirov. Exhibition of Smolensk artists in Lefortovo (Moscow). 2003 Regional exhibition "Artists of the Central regions of Russia", Lipetsk. Traveling exhibition of the Russian Academy of Arts, Smolensk, Moscow. All-Russian exhibition "Heritage", Voronezh. Foreign exhibition of Smolensk artists in Orsha (Republic of Belarus). Personal art exhibition, Smolensk. 2004 All-Russian exhibition "Russia" , Moscow. 2005 International Exhibition dedicated to the 60th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, Moscow. All-Russian exhibition "Renaissance", Belgorod. 2006 All-Russian exhibition "The Image of the Motherland", Vologda. 2007 Exhibition of works by Smolensk artists at the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, Moscow. 2008 Regional exhibition "Artists of the Central regions of Russia", Yaroslavl. All-Russian exhibition "Fatherland", Moscow. All-Russian exhibition "Monuments of the Fatherland", Tver. All-Russian exhibition "Renaissance", Tambov. International exhibition "From Marc Chagall to the present day", Smolensk. 2009 All-Russian exhibition "Russia", Moscow. 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