11 Facts About Yuri Tulin

Yuri Nilovich Tulin was a Soviet Russian painter and Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.

Yuri Tulin lived and worked in Leningrad and is regarded as one of the brightest representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his portraits and historical paintings.

Yuri Nilovich Tulin was born August 14,1921, in village of Maksatikha, Tver Oblast, Soviet Russia.

In 1941, Yuri Tulin entered the painting department of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.

In 1944, after the liberation of Leningrad from the enemy's blockade and the return from evacuation institute Yuri Tulin resume classes at the faculty of painting.

Yuri Tulin studied of Mikhail Bernshtein, Genrikh Pavlovsky, Alexander Zaytsev.

In 1950, Yuri Tulin graduated from Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin in Boris Ioganson personal Art Studio.

Yuri Tulin's graduation work was a historical painting named "Sergei Kirov in Khibin Mountains", dedicated to industrial development of the Kola Peninsula.

In 1951, Yuri Tulin was admitted to the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists.

In 1965 Tulin was awarded the honorary title of Honored Art worker of the Russian Federation.

Yuri Nilovich Tulin died on April 27,1983, in Leningrad.