Schedule. Member of the Union of artists of the USSR.
Classic of Ukrainian pictorial art. During the second world war Tolkachev has served as the artist in the division of the red Army, which was tasked with documenting the crimes of the Nazis in the occupied territories. He was one of the first Soviet soldiers entered Poland in the footsteps of the Nazis, leaving behind a desecrated cemetery and the house exploded, one of the first to set foot on the territory of the abandoned "cities of death" — Majdanek and Auschwitz. Collaborating with the Commission for investigation of Nazi crimes, the artist feverishly recorded what he saw, everything that came to hand — the forms of the Directorate of concentration camps, accounts of gas companies supplying to Auschwitz "Zyklon B". It is exactly the artist wrote Viktor Nekrasov: “I do not know the documents – that is documents! – more of the outline of Zinoviy Tolkachev under the name". Some of his drawings appeared as evidence of Nazi crimes at the Nuremberg trials. After the war Tolkachev participated in the drafting of the memorial in memory of the tragedy in Babi Yar in Kiev.
