Soviet artist, teacher, member of the Union of Artists of the USSR since 1975 .. He was born in the village Lichadeevo, Nizhny Novgorod region, November 30, 1922. Graduated: “Penza Art College. K. A. Savitsky “(1946-1948):” Kharkov State Art Institute “(1948-1954). Participated in exhibitions since 1954. Master of a thematic picture, portrait. He taught: “Kursk Art and Graphic Pedagogical School” (1954-1960) and at the art and graphic faculty of the Kursk State Pedagogical Institute from 1960-1976. (Dean of the Faculty) ; Lived and worked in Kursk. Member of regional, republican and all-Union exhibitions. He died on June 10, 1977. The artist’s paintings are in many public and private collections in Ukraine and abroad.
Photo: Kursk Antonovka :: Balabin Alexander Fedorovich, 1963. Kursk Regional Art Gallery named after A.A. Deineka.