Soviet Ukrainian painter. Member of the USSR Academy of Arts. He was born on October 19, 1935 in Kiev. He graduated from the Kharkov State Art Institute (1966), teachers – N. Gnoyeva, A. Lutsenko; Ukrainian Polygraphic Institute. I. Fedorova (Lviv, 1972), teachers – V.Savin, V.Bunov. Member of the Union of Journalists of Ukraine since 1974. Member of the National Union of Artists since 1990. Member of republican, all-Union, international, foreign art exhibitions since 1972. Works in Kharkov State Academy of Municipal Economy, Associate Professor (since 1991). Participant in exhibitions: republican, all-Union since 1966, international since 1972 and foreign (Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Poland, 1977-1989). Personal in Kharkov in (1975, 1966, 2000); in Moscow (1993). The main works: “In his own brigade” (1970); “The Little Earth. Commissioner, 1978; “Soldiers. The 43rd year “, 1966; “Expectation. 1945 “; Second echelon, 1989; «Obzhinka», 1982; “On a peaceful field”, 1983-1984; Portrait of a Milkmaid, 1977; “Portrait of the artist M. Seredchenka”, 1987; “Portrait of a Professor”, 1990; “Portrait of the Hero of Socialist Labor I. Babansky”, 1983; “Khleborob”, 1989; “Bright Day”, “Spring Comes”, 1994; “Berezin ‘”, 1996; “Evening Bells”, 1999. Works are kept in the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine, the National Museum of the city of Yeisk (RF).

Photo: Babenko Ivan Aleksandrovich. “To my own brigade”, 1970