Nikolay
Vasilyevich Sitnikov

Date of birth in the list of Islands 1910-07-27. Thesis in the CVC (workshop M. P. Bobyshev)- "the snow maiden", the rating is good. The training took place at the faculty of painting, awarded the title of artist of theatrical paintings.

Narodny artist of the RSFSR. Member of the Union of artists of the USSR.

He graduated from the Leningrad Institute of painting, sculpture and architecture named after Repin, worked in the theatres of Ufa (1938-1944), Sverdlovsk (since 1944). For 35 years he was the chief artist of the Sverdlovsk Opera and ballet theatre. Its design went on stage "Eugene Onegin", "Swan lake", "Sleeping beauty", "the Tsar's bride", "Boris Godunov", "Rigoletto"...

Taught at Sverdlovsk art College from 1974 to 1978, taught the secrets of the first group of students and production of the theater Department. "You — great-grandchildren Cezanne" — not once repeated to his disciples Sitnikov, in turn, educated the basics of creative work of the famous artist Alexander Osmerkin for which Cezanne was an idol. Nikolai believed in the great power of continuity in art and passed on their faith to the pupils.