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graphic artist. member of the Union of Artists.
He was born into a peasant family on March 19, 1929 in the village of Domashino, Rzhevsky uyezd, Tver province (modern Rzhevsky district, Tver region). Before the war he finished 5 grades of secondary school. In 1941-43 Arkady together with his mother, brothers and sisters found themselves in occupied Rzhev. Arkady's older brother Kuzmin was taken to Germany, and he was on the verge of death more than once. Once he was almost shot by an enraged German, but another saved him. When Rzhev was liberated, Arkady was already 14. He then became friends with the soldiers of the military unit, which in the spring redeployed here from Stalingrad. And the teenager asked to go to the front, persuaded the lieutenant-colonel commander. In May 1943, as a 14-year-old pupil, he was accepted to the PEP-40 (management of the field evacuation hospital No. 40) of the 2nd Belorussian Front. He took part in the Smolensk, Bialystok, East-Pomeranian and Berlin offensive operations. Victory Day met in the German city of Prenzlau, 80 kilometers from Berlin. But on May 10, 1945 the hospital was attacked by the RAF detachment, 4 people were killed and 7 hospital employees were wounded. For his participation in the battle he was presented to the medal "For Combat Merit". After the war he returned to Rzhev, where fate brought him together with N.V. Krotov - a legendary Rzhev artist, who gave the young man his first drawing lessons, introducing him to creativity. He graduated from evening school and worked as an artist in a movie theater. Arkady was conscripted, served in the Baltic Fleet from September 1949 to May 1953. In 1952 he participated in the Moscow exhibition of fleet artists (oil, graphics). In 1960 he graduated from the MZPI. In the Leningrad branch of the institute (Training and Consulting Center of the Moscow Polygraphic Institute - now the North-West Institute of Printing) for several years freelance lectured on the artistic design of newspapers and magazines. Since then he has been working as a graphic artist in publishing houses, illustrating various books, textbooks, manuals, creating posters, calendars, postcards, company marks, labels. More than 350 of his postcards and envelopes have been published. Until 1975 he worked as deputy director of the publishing house "Artist of the RSFSR". Awards: Order of Patriotic War II degree, medals "For military service", "For victory over Germany". Since the nineties Arkady Alekseevich actively participates in exhibitions in Houses of Culture, galleries, clubs, offices, libraries. Arkady Alekseevich does not forget easel painting and graphics. He prefers to write landscapes from nature, in mood chamber, trusting. Also writes watercolor, oil pastel, oil, works in graphic techniques. The favorite genre of the artist is landscape, cityscape. The novel "My Light" Arkady Kuzmin wrote dozens of years. At first, prose sketches, made in memory, published as separate short stories in literary magazines. And only by his 87 years Arkady Alekseevich completed the writing of the novel. The fourth and final volume was released in August 2016. The book was published on the artist's funds. The four-volume book "My Light" was presented by the author to the central library named after A.N. Ostrovsky. You can get acquainted with it in the art department. Arkady Alekseevich donated to the city of Rzhev his collection of postcards, posters, sketches for books designed by him, about 30 paintings dedicated to Rzhev, St. Petersburg, as well as panoramas of the Northern Capital, made in ink, as well as a set of 4 volumes of his book "My Light", letters of N.V.Krotov. The artist passed away on September 15, 2022. He was 93 years old. Kuzmin's works (postcards, posters) are kept in the Museum of the History of St. Petersburg, Pushkin Museum.
He was born into a peasant family on March 19, 1929 in the village of Domashino, Rzhevsky uyezd, Tver province (modern Rzhevsky district, Tver region). Before the war he finished 5 grades of secondary school. In 1941-43 Arkady together with his mother, brothers and sisters found themselves in occupied Rzhev. Arkady's older brother Kuzmin was taken to Germany, and he was on the verge of death more than once. Once he was almost shot by an enraged German, but another saved him. When Rzhev was liberated, Arkady was already 14. He then became friends with the soldiers of the military unit, which in the spring redeployed here from Stalingrad. And the teenager asked to go to the front, persuaded the lieutenant-colonel commander. In May 1943, as a 14-year-old pupil, he was accepted to the PEP-40 (management of the field evacuation hospital No. 40) of the 2nd Belorussian Front. He took part in the Smolensk, Bialystok, East-Pomeranian and Berlin offensive operations. Victory Day met in the German city of Prenzlau, 80 kilometers from Berlin. But on May 10, 1945 the hospital was attacked by the RAF detachment, 4 people were killed and 7 hospital employees were wounded. For his participation in the battle he was presented to the medal "For Combat Merit". After the war he returned to Rzhev, where fate brought him together with N.V. Krotov - a legendary Rzhev artist, who gave the young man his first drawing lessons, introducing him to creativity. He graduated from evening school and worked as an artist in a movie theater. Arkady was conscripted, served in the Baltic Fleet from September 1949 to May 1953. In 1952 he participated in the Moscow exhibition of fleet artists (oil, graphics). In 1960 he graduated from the MZPI. In the Leningrad branch of the institute (Training and Consulting Center of the Moscow Polygraphic Institute - now the North-West Institute of Printing) for several years freelance lectured on the artistic design of newspapers and magazines. Since then he has been working as a graphic artist in publishing houses, illustrating various books, textbooks, manuals, creating posters, calendars, postcards, company marks, labels. More than 350 of his postcards and envelopes have been published. Until 1975 he worked as deputy director of the publishing house "Artist of the RSFSR". Awards: Order of Patriotic War II degree, medals "For military service", "For victory over Germany". Since the nineties Arkady Alekseevich actively participates in exhibitions in Houses of Culture, galleries, clubs, offices, libraries. Arkady Alekseevich does not forget easel painting and graphics. He prefers to write landscapes from nature, in mood chamber, trusting. Also writes watercolor, oil pastel, oil, works in graphic techniques. The favorite genre of the artist is landscape, cityscape. The novel "My Light" Arkady Kuzmin wrote dozens of years. At first, prose sketches, made in memory, published as separate short stories in literary magazines. And only by his 87 years Arkady Alekseevich completed the writing of the novel. The fourth and final volume was released in August 2016. The book was published on the artist's funds. The four-volume book "My Light" was presented by the author to the central library named after A.N. Ostrovsky. You can get acquainted with it in the art department. Arkady Alekseevich donated to the city of Rzhev his collection of postcards, posters, sketches for books designed by him, about 30 paintings dedicated to Rzhev, St. Petersburg, as well as panoramas of the Northern Capital, made in ink, as well as a set of 4 volumes of his book "My Light", letters of N.V.Krotov. The artist passed away on September 15, 2022. He was 93 years old. Kuzmin's works (postcards, posters) are kept in the Museum of the History of St. Petersburg, Pushkin Museum.
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