Mikhail Nadezhdin was born may 18, 1935 in the village of Konstantinovka, Sumy region.He graduated from the Dnepropetrovsk state art school, teachers: I. Kalashnikov, G. Cherniavsky. Member of the National Union of artists of Ukraine since 1988, painter. People's artist of Ukraine (1997). The participant of many all-Union, Ukrainian, personal, foreign (Bulgaria, Canada, USA) art exhibitions. Works are kept in National Art Museum of Ukraine, the Directorate of exhibitions, Ministry of culture of Ukraine, Sumy, Kirovograd, Cherkasy, Dnipropetrovsk regional art museums, art memorial Museum A. osmerkina (Kirovograd), private collections