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Yury Zaryanov, Russia

Yuri Nikolayevich Zaryanov was born in 1951 in Moscow into a family of engineers. Both father and mother, who studied back in Harbin, graduated from the Moscow Electrotechnical Institute of Communications. All the Harbin relatives who survived during the years of repression gathered every summer in the Moscow region in the house of Yury Zaryanov's grandfather, Vasily Ivanovich Zaryanov (1883-1952). In this amazing atmosphere of an almost vanished century, his childhood and youth passed. A great influence on the development of artistic talent of Yuri Zaryanov was exerted by his uncle, Alexei Vasilyevich Zaryanov (1913-2000), an artist and architect who graduated from the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg in 1939, a student of K.I. Rudakov, N.A. Tyrsa and I.F. Lapshin. With him, Yuri Zaryanov constantly went to sketches, mastering the technique of pastels and watercolors. In 1991, Yuri Zaryanov entered and in 1995 graduated from the Moscow Correspondence People's University of Arts (department of easel painting and graphics), teacher A.B. Grositsky. In 1994 he was admitted to the Union of Artists - International Art Fund. Yuri Zaryanov works in various genres of fine art: landscape, still life, portrait. Many of his works are in museums, private collections in Russia, Czech Republic, Germany, Serbia, Yemen, Australia, France, Switzerland... Since 1992, he became the organizer of the association of artists - the Almazovo Gallery. This association was attended by artists - graduates of the Moscow Surikov Institute and other art universities.