Yuri
Dmitrievich Petrov

Painter. Member of the Union of artists of the USSR.
Soviet artist, portraitist, landscapist, genre painter, a brilliant representative of the Moscow school of realism, Russian impressionism and social realism.
Born in 1924 in Moscow. During the great Patriotic war, fought on the 2nd Baltic front, was the commander of branch of submachine gunners. Senior Sergeant. In 1943, during the fighting, at the onset he received a severe shrapnel wound to the spine. Awarded the order of Patriotic war I degree, medals "for victory over Germany in the great Patriotic war 1941-1945", "Forty years of victory in the great Patriotic war of 1941-1945" and others.
In 1950 he graduated from the Moscow city art Studio for disabled world war II the Department of arts of Moscow city. He studied at K. Yuon, I. Gurvich, B. G. and Smirnov, G. Ryazhskaya, I. Rubanov.
Since 1954, the constant participant of all-Union, all-Russian, Moscow and regional art exhibitions. In 1958, on the recommendation of I. M. Gurvich was accepted as a member of the Union of artists of the RSFSR.
The result of creative trips to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and the Altai was a series of portraits of Heroes of Socialist Labor. Has diplomas and diplomas MOSH RSFSR, IHO HF RSFSR.
Major works: "the Skiers" (1954), "Caucasus" (1955) "Evening" (1956), "new sandy" (1957), "On the roads of Spring" (1958), "Climbers rest," (1960), "portrait of a teacher" (1964), "Portrait A. I. Marinesko" (1967), "Portrait of Hero of Socialist Labor S. S. Minaeva" (1969), "Portrait of V. A. Beliavsky" (1975), "Dzerzhinsky hands of the Red banner to representatives of the mounted police in 1922" (1977), "Spring time" (1978), "Gurzuf beach" (1979), "Portrait of Hero of Socialist. Labor A. V. Gavrilenko," 1980), a portrait of the Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR A. I. Filina" (1980).
Works are in art galleries and museums in Moscow, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Crimea, in many regional museums and in private collections in Russia and abroad.