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Selling of I. Turina, oil on cardboard, 40h50sm. ,60-70gg.

Tyurin Ivan - the famous Samara artist - a painter, one of the oldest professional artists of the Samara region and is currently the only member of the Great Patriotic War in the Samara branch of Union of Artists.

I. Tyurin was born October 16, 1927 in the Tambov region. In 1943 he graduated from 8th grade, and in 1944 at age 17 was drafted into the army, which had already fought his father and older brother. He fought on the Western Front in the army with the rank of artillery corporal, gunners finished the war in 1951, was discharged. Among the awards the artist - the Order of World War II degree, Medal "For Victory over Germany 1941 - 1945 gg." Medal of Zhukov, 8, commemorative medals, a sign of "veteran."

In 1951, Ivan went to study in Turin Eletskaya art school, which graduated in 1956 and was sent to Kaluga teaching drawing and painting. In 1957, Mr. Smith moved to Kuibyshev, and began working as an artist in a metallurgical plant them. Lenin. At the same time he led the art room at the club "Mir", then was a creative artist in the Kuibyshev creative and production workshops of the Art Fund of the RSFSR.

In 1963-1964. I. Tyurin, one of the organizers of the first critical zone of the exhibition "Big Volga". In December 1973, I. Tyurin is a member of the Union of Russian Artists.