Nar. hood. USSR (1963), full member AH the USSR (1970). Member of the CPSU since 1970. Graduated from Kharkiv art. in-t (1931). From 1944 he taught at the Kiev art. the Institute, from 1947 Professor. High reliefs "China is struggling" (1933), "In the torture chambers of fascism" (1935), the monument of Sov. soldiers on the "Hill of Glory" in Lviv (1947), the monuments of N. Shchors in Kiev (with et al. 1949-54), Shevchenko in Exactly (with et al. 1964), V. Zatonskiy in Khmelnytskyi (1969), sculptural composition "Guerrilla RAID" (1945), "Oleko Dundich" (1949), "Under the yoke of the invaders" (1959), sculptural portraits of "Taras Shevchenko" (1945), "P. Vershigora" (1971), etc.
(16(29).10.1906, village Shpylivka, now Sumy district of Sumy region - 8.5.1972, Kiev)
Soviet sculptor, people's artist of the USSR (1963), full member AH the USSR (1970). Member of the CPSU since 1948.
He studied at the Kharkov art Institute (1926-31).
He taught at the Kiev art Institute (since 1944; Professor since 1947).
Works: the group at the cemetery of Soviet soldiers "Hill of Glory" in Lviv (bronze, 1947), the monument to N. A. Shchors in Kiev (with co-authors; bronze, 1949-54), the monument to Lenin in Zaporozhye (together with N. By M. Sukhodolov; bronze, 1964), monument to V. P. Zatonsky in Khmelnytskyi (granite, 1969), portrait of P. P. Vershigora (plexiglass, 1971).
Awarded the order of Lenin, order of red banner of Labor and medals.
