In 1939, dismissed as not providing a thesis. In 1950 - as an external student, diploma thesis in the CVC - "Portrait of Hero of Socialist labor", the score is mediocre. The training took place at the picturesque faculty, qualification of the artist painting.
The name of Nikolai Kuzmich of Bandrika all Mariupol is well known to art lovers and not only them. Though the artist nearly a decade are no longer with us, his work continues to live on in the hearts of the townspeople.
Bendrick was born in 1914 in the village of Olginka Volnovakha, in the family of the worker-the Metallurgist plant "Nikopol". Before the war graduated from the Russian Academy of arts in Leningrad, and his teachers were famous Russian artists I. Brodskiy, V. Yakovlev, P. Sahlin. They taught Nicholas Kuzmich excellence in painting. Then the war broke out, the road which the artist has passed from the beginning to the end, after teaching at the Lviv Institute of decorative and applied art. Since 1956 Bendrick lived and worked in Zhdanov participated in all city, regional and Republican art exhibitions. He had his personal exhibitions in Moscow, Kiev, Donetsk and Mariupol. For his creative work the artist was awarded the Honorary diploma of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of Ukraine, diplomas of different creative organizations, and many commemorative medals. Honored artist of the USSR.
All his works of the Master was transferred to the Mariupol Museum of local lore. That's just difficult to see: the Museum space is limited and art galleries in the city.
