Belyaev Nikolay Yakovlevich

Soviet Russian painter and graphic artist. Honored Artist of the RSFSR. Honorary citizen of Sergiev Posad. Born April 28, 1916 in the city of Tsaritsin (Volgograd). In Sergiev Posad since 1933. Lived in Armavir. He studied at the school of FZU in Armavir (1931-33) and at the Moscow Regional School of Fine Arts in memory of 1905 (1936-40) in P.I. Petrovicheva, S.I. Frolova, G.N. Gorelova, K.I. Finogenova. In 1939-42 he worked on works in the Studio of Military Art. M.B. Grekova. He was a correspondent of the front-line newspaper Red Warrior and the magazine Krasnoarmeets (1942). Participated in the fighting as part of the 16th Army. In 1942 he was seriously wounded, lost his left hand. One of the founders of the Zagorsky branch and the Moscow Regional Organization of Artists (1943). Member of the Union of Soviet Artists (since 1945). Member of the Audit Commission of the RSFSR CX (1961-65), Chairman of the Board of the Moscow Regional Organization of the USSR Union of Artists (1951-54, 1959-61), Member of the Board of the Moscow Regional Organization of the USSR Union of Artists, Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Association Mosoblkhudozhnik (1947-51) artistic council of the association “Mosoblkhudozhnik”. Member of the Zagorsk City Council (1967-69, 1971). He made a number of creative trips: to Kyrgyzstan (1966), Central Asia, Bulgaria (1973). He performed his works (х., М.): “Our yard in 1941”, “The first partisan detachment of Voroshilov and Parkhomenko goes to the front” (both 1941), “Portrait of Tamara’s wife” (1944), “Last attack” ( 1947, Perm State Picture Gallery), “Historical places of Zagorsk”, “Upper Volga” (both – 1948), “Soviet children” (1948, Penza Regional Picture Gallery named after KA Savitsky), “Happy Childhood” (1950 ), “On the construction of the Kuibyshev Hydroelectric Power Station” (1951), “Noon” (1952, Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts), “Native open spaces” (1954), “Neighborhood Zagor (1957), Vesna (1959), Khleb (1962), The Conversation (1964), The Portrait of Marina’s Daughter, Nastenka’s Granddaughter (both 1974), The Future Officer (1975) , “ON. Bakeyev “(1978),” In April “(1989),” Autumn Birches “(1991). He painted watercolors “Flowers” (1962), “Moscow region” (1963), “Self-portrait”, “Kirghizia. Fertilizers in the fields “(both – 1966),” In the Park in Winter “(1970),” Bells in Zagorsk “(1972),” Birch Grove in the Spring “,” Bulgaria. The Old Town of Lovech “(both – 1973),” Zagorsk. Ovrazhny Lane “(1985),” Spring. (1987), Birch Grove in Autumn (1988), Zagorskie Daly, Zagorsk – the City of the Golden Ring, and Autumn in the Moscow Region (all – 1989). The participant of exhibitions (since 1941), including: exhibitions of the studio of military artists named after. M.B. Grekova (1941), exhibitions of works by front-line veterans of the Great Patriotic War (Moscow, 1942), exhibitions of works by Zagorsk artists (Zagorsk, Moscow region, 1943), exhibitions of works by Moscow artists (Moscow, 1945), exhibitions of works by Moscow artists 1946), All-Union Art Exhibition “30 Years of Soviet Power” (Moscow, 1947), exhibitions of works by artists of the RSFSR (M., 1948), Republican Art Exhibition (M., 1949), Republican Art Exhibitions (Moscow, 1950-52 , 1954, 1955), the Moscow Regional Exhibition (Moscow, 1950, 1954-57, 1960, 1963, 1966), the first All-Union Exhibition of Watercolors (M., 1965), an art exhibition dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the defeat of the fascist German troops near Moscow (M., 1966), the third regional exhibition of veterans of the Great Patriotic War (M., 1968), the second All-Union exhibition of watercolors (M., 1969), the third zone art exhibition “Center – Northern regions” (Smolensk, 1970), the All-Russian art exhibition “The world was defended – the world will be preserved” (Moscow, 1985), the third zone art exhibition “Podmoskovye” (Moscow, 1990), YIII exhibition of works by artists of central regions of Russia (Moscow, 1997). Exhibitions of works of B. took place in 1966, 1969, 1976, 1982, 1986, 1995, 1996, 2003 (Sergiev Posad), 1970 (Bryansk), 1970, 1977 (Moscow). Works B. are stored in the SRM, SPMZ, museums of fine arts of Sofia, Pleven (Republic of Bulgaria). He was awarded orders: Patriotic War 1st Class, Labor Red Banner (1971), Friendship of Peoples (1986); medals: For Military Merit (1942), For the Defense of Moscow (1950), For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 (1960), Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 (1966), “In memory of the 800th anniversary of Moscow”; honorary diplomas of the Central Committee of the Komsomol, Vsekohudozhnik; Diplomas of the Committee for the Arts at the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR.

Belyaev Nikolay Yakovlevich “Happy” 1949 year

Photo: Belyaev N.Ya. (1916-2004) “Soviet children”. 1948

Belyaev Nikolai Yakovlevich (Russia, 1916-2000) “I did not learn the lesson” 1966

Photo: Belyaev N.Ya. “The Upper Volga” 1993