1. Vecheslav Frantsevich Zagonek was a Soviet painter, People's Artist of the USSR, Member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR, who lived and worked in Leningrad.
10 Facts About Vecheslav Zagonek
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Vecheslav Zagonek was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists and regarded as one of the brightest representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his lyrical landscapes and genre paintings.
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Vecheslav Frantsevich Zagonek was born December 19,1919, in the city Irkutsk, East Siberia.
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In 1939 Vecheslav Zagonek was drafted into the Red Army and took part in the Winter War and as antiaircrafter in the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet people against Nazi Germany and its allies.
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In 1950 Vecheslav Zagonek graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Boris Ioganson studio, together with Evgenia Antipova, Anatoli Vasiliev, Nina Veselova, Tatiana Kopnina, Nikolai Mukho, Alexander Pushnin, Alexander Sokolov, Yuri Tulin, and other young artists.
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In 1950 Zagonek was admitted to the Leningrad Union of Artists.
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Vecheslav Zagonek was awarded the honorary titles of the Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, the Honored Art Worker of the Russian Federation, the People's Artist of the Russian Federation, and the People's Artist of the Soviet Union.
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In 1965 Vecheslav Zagonek was awarded a silver medal of the Academy of Arts of the USSR.
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In 1988 Vecheslav Zagonek was elected a member of the Academy of Arts of the Soviet Union.
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Vecheslav Frantsevich Zagonek died on June 24,1994, in Saint Petersburg.