People's Artist Of Russia. The invalid of the great Patriotic War, retired captain.
Benjamin Karpovich Chebanov was born in 1925 in the village Aziatskom Prikolnenko region of the Nikolaev area. Lives and works in Novosibirsk since 1935.
In 1942 - locksmith locomotive depot Inskaya.
From 1943 to 1944 he was a student of the Novosibirsk military infantry school, after which the Lieutenant sent to the army on the 1st Ukrainian front.
There as commander of a rifle platoon, company fights with the enemy until the end of world war II.
For combat service at the front was awarded the medal “For courage”, order of “red Star” and “Patriotic war 1st degree”, and also many medals.
In the postwar years, he studied at the Novosibirsk engineering and construction Institute, faculty of architecture and at the Irkutsk art College, from which he graduated in 1956.
Since 1957, cooperating with the Novosibirsk book publishing house.
Benjamin Chebanov – since 1957, a member of the Union of artists of the USSR, RSFSR, member of regional, zonal, Republican, all-Union and international art exhibitions. His works are in museums and in private collections abroad in Poland, Germany, Bulgaria, France, America, Finland. In 1974 he organized the exhibition "Graphics of Siberia" in France.
He was repeatedly elected a member of the Board of NASH-and a member of the Board of the RSFSR sh. In 1977 19979 years Chairman of noskh.
He was elected Deputy of the Novosibirsk city Council of deputies. The delegate of I - VI Congress of the USSR Union and the II - V congresses CX. Of the RSFSR. People's artist of Russia.
Working now, preparing an exhibition for the 65th anniversary of the Victory.
