Bessaraba Leonid Pavlovich

Soviet Ukrainian painter. Member of the USSR from 1983. Honored Artist of the USSR. He was born on July 29, 1935 in the village of Novaya Greblya, now the Lipovets district of the Vinnitsa region. Graduated: Kiev Art Institute (1965). Teachers by specialty: K. Trofimenko, T. Yablonskaya, A. Plamenitsky. Painter. Main genres: landscape, portrait, thematic picture. Worked as a teacher of drawing at the Khmelnytsky Pedagogical School (1965-1968); Assistant of the Department of Engineering Graphics of the Khmelnitsky Institute of Consumer Services (1968-1969); the main artist of Khmelnitsky artistic and industrial workshops of the Art Fund of Ukraine. The main works: “In life” (1967), “The underground workers Proskurov” (1975), “Without the right to make a mistake” (1982), “Portrait of the writer A. Matsevichi” (1986), “T. Shevchenko in Kamyanets-Podolsky (1989), Liberation of Proskurov (1994), Evening Gurzuf (1994), First Snow (1995), Podolskaya Fortress (2000), Southern Bug (2001) ). He worked on 6 dioramas, dedicated to the 2-nd World War and the participants of the war in Afghanistan. Participated in exhibitions: regional (since 1965), republican and international (1986), personal (1995). The artist’s works are kept in the Khmelnitsky Art Museum. Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (since 1983).

Photo: L. Bessaraba “Conversation with Ilyich”.