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Ada
Rybachuk

Russia • born in 1931

Ada Rybachuk was born in 1931 in Ukraine. She was a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR.
As a painter and graphic artist, she was engaged in decorative and applied arts, she was also the author of various essays, sketches, and scripts. Silver medallist of the 6th World Festival of Youth and Students (1957), she was the honorary member of the Peoples Academy of Culture and Human Values (USA, 1995), a Honorary citizen of Naryan-Mar (Nenets Autonomous Okrug). The artist was born in Kyiv. She graduated from the Kyiv State Art Institute (1957). She undertook creative trips round Ukraine, as well as to Armenia, Russia — to the Kamchatka Peninsula, to the shores of White, Barents, Kara seas, to the Kolguyev Island. She collaborated with V. V. Melnichenko. She was one of the creators of the Memory Park complex project and the Wall of Memory reliefs in Kyiv (1968—1981), as well as other works. The North theme is reflected in her graphic series and paintings, the Bird’s Cry sculptures series, as well as in her literary works. She took part in the following exhibitions: Republican, All-Union, since 1957 — foreign shows in Czechoslovakia (1957), the United Arab Republic (1958), Finland, Hungary, Yugoslavia (1961), Italy (1962), Iraq (1963), Afghanistan (1964), Poland (1967), Norway (1993), the United States (1977, 1995) and others.
In 1979, the Nenets Okrug Museum of Local Lore (Naryan-Mar) opened a permanent exhibition of the northern works by Ada Rybachuk and V. V. Melnichenko. She participated in the “Environmental Traditions of the Aborigines of the North and Siberia — the Path to Human Survival” program, international symposia dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the indigenous peoples of the world (1992, 1993). The artist was a member of the Union of artists of the USSR.

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