Orekhov, Yuri Grigoryevich

Childhood

Orekhov family roots go back centuries. Grandfather, great-grandfathers and great-great-grandfathers were blacksmiths.

In the prewar years, the life of the Orekhov family was not easy. The mother had two sisters and an older brother Sergey - a member of the government. In 1937 he was declared an “enemy of the people” and shot. Orekhov fully ^{[ what? ]} tested the fate of the members of the “enemy of the people” family: the father was expelled from the party, and he was able to rejoin its ranks only at the front.

Yuri Orekhov showed an interest in creativity from early childhood - thanks to the upbringing of her mother, who graduated from teacher seminars and was very fond of drawing. And the first professional teacher of drawing was his school teacher - Konstantin Nikolaevich Skorokhodov - a graduate of the pre-revolutionary Stroganov School . At his invitation, Jura Orekhov entered the drawing circle, where he studied before the Great Patriotic War .

When the war began, 14-year-old Yuri with his sister and cousins ​​was sent to evacuate to Orenburg . A year later, Yuri returned and immediately entered the electric meter military plant in Mytishchi , where he worked until 1945 in the tool shop, making mine fuses, intercoms for tankers and pilots, and telephones. He became a locksmith and he was a student at night school.

Stroganov School

In August 1945, at the Yaroslavl station in Moscow, Yuri saw a large poster-invitation to study at the Stroganov School. Having successfully passed the exams, he became a student of the faculty of monumental and decorative sculpture.

His first teachers were sculptors A. L. Malakhin and S. Rabinovich .

In 1953, Yuri Orekhov graduated from Stroganov and began the independent work of the sculptor.

In total, his creative asset includes about 30 monuments and sculptural compositions installed in different cities of Russia and abroad. Among them: Monument to soldiers who died in the Civil and Patriotic Wars, installed on the Memorial Hill of Glory in the city of Yalta ( 1968 ), a monument to Hero of the Soviet Union Marshal of the Soviet Union F. I. Tolbukhin in Yaroslavl ( 1972 ), a monument to Yu. A. Gagarin in the city of Gagarin ( 1974 ), Monument to the Teacher in Toropets (1974), Monument to the great Russian chemist A. M. Butlerov in Kazan ( 1978 ), Monument-ensemble N. S. Leskov in Orel ( 1980 ), Monument-ensemble dedicated to 1000- anniversary of the city of Bryansk ( 1985 ), Monument to the Hero of the Soviet Union V. D. Korneev in the city of Electrostal (1985) , Monument to I.I. Shishkin in the city of Elabuga ( 1986 ), Monument to I.E. Repin in the city of Chuguev ( 1987 ), Monument to Alexander Nevsky , installed in the niche of Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in New Jersey ( USA , 1989 ), Monument twice Hero of the Soviet Union S. A. Afanasyev in the city of Klin ( 1990 ), Monument to victims of the tragedy in the city of Osaka ( Japan , 1991 ), Monument to Victor and Apollinarius Vasnetsov in the city of Kirov ( 1992 ), Monument four times Hero of the Soviet Union Marshal of the Soviet Union G. K . Zhukov , established in Moscow metro station Kashira (1992), Monument to V. Lighthouse vskomu established in the State Museum of VV Mayakovsky in Moscow ( 1993 ), Monument to four times Hero of the Soviet Union, Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov Victory Park on Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow ( 1995 ), Pushkin monument in Minsk , Yakutsk , Vienna , Paris ( 1999 ) and in Rome ( 2000 ), etc.

Yuri Orekhov worked a lot and fruitfully in the field of monumental and decorative sculpture. Among his works in this area are the relief “Music” (a high-rise building on Kotelnicheskaya Embankment in Moscow, 1953 ), the allegorical figure “Science” (a building on Smolenskaya Embankment in Moscow, 1955 ), and the decorative composition “Cosmos” (Star City, 1976 ) , ten sculptural compositions “Peace” (“Motherhood”), “All power to the Soviets”, “We are blacksmiths ...”, “Science”, “Earth”, “Bread”, “Rear”, “Worker”, “Red Army”, “Patriotic War” (Marble Hall in the Kremlin, 1983 ), etc.

With great pleasure, Orekhov worked in the field of memorial sculpture. This type of plasticity was interesting to him for its intimacy. Plaques made by the sculptor are installed on many streets of Moscow and other cities. Among them: Yu. A. Gagarin ( Baikonur , 1974 ), A.N. Kosygin (Moscow, Granovsky St., 1980s), academician I. Artobolevsky (Moscow, Tverskaya St., 1980s), USSR artist A.V. Sveshnikov (Moscow, Tverskaya St., 1980s), People's Artist of Russia A. A. Mironov (Moscow, 22/2 Petrovka St., 1988), Marshal of the Soviet Union G.K. Zhukov (Moscow, Znamenka St., 1991 ), People's Artist of the USSR N. A. Kryuchkov ( 1999 ), People's Artist of the USSR S.F. Bondarchuk ( 2000 ).

Yu. G. Orekhov made more than 40 tombstones. They are located at Novodevichy , Vagankovsky , German and Kuntsevo cemeteries in Moscow. These are gravestones of the academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Yu. A. Ovchinnikov ( 1990 ), V. Bialynitsky-Birul ( 1958 ), the artist D. A. Nalbandyan ( 1955 ), the violinist L. B. Kogan ( 1987 ), the composer E. Ptichkin ( 1997 ), folk artists A. A. Mironov ( 1988 ), E. N. Gogoleva ( 1994 ), N. A. Kryuchkov ( 1998 ), I. S. Kozlovsky ( 1998 ), a tombstone for the fallen defenders of the White House ( 1992 ), etc. .

Another side of the talent of Yu. Orekhov is his sculptural portraits of classics of world art culture: P. I. Tchaikovsky (1968), N. V. Gogol (1971), A. S. Pushkin (1974), I. V. Goethe (1975 ), N. Paganini (1980), G. F. Handel (1980), N. S. Leskov (1981), I. S. Turgenev (1981), F. I. Chaliapin (1981), K. S. Stanislavsky (1981), I.E. Repin (1985), A. Blok (1997), etc.

The sculptor’s creativity has been widely recognized in our country and abroad. He was awarded the gold medal of the All-Union Exhibition of Economic Achievements of the USSR for the sculptural composition by A. S. Pushkin (1972), the first prize at the International Sculpture Symposium in Vyshny Ruzbachy ( Czechoslovakia ) for the composition “Elegy” (1973), and the first prize at the International Sculpture Symposium in Hoyesverd ( Germany ) for the composition “Happiness” (1975), the first prize at the Creative open air in Burgas ( Bulgaria ) for the sculpture composition “Cyril and Methodius” (1978), the first prize at the International Sculpture Symposium in Cuba for the composition “Sleeping Wave” (1983). In 1980, he was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR.

In 1975, Yu. G. Orekhov was elected Chairman of the Art and Expert Council for Sculpture of the Art Fund of the RSFSR. Later - deputy chairman of the Moscow branch of the Union of Artists of the RSFSR, chairman of the art and expert council of the USSR Ministry of Culture.

Since 1995, Yu. G. Orekhov took an active part in the reconstruction of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow as the head of the restoration of his sculptural decoration. On his initiative, the “Sculptor” partnership was created, which included more than 50 talented sculptors from different cities of Russia. 48 sculptural compositions were recreated for the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in the creative workshop of Yu. G. Orekhov, of which 8 were multi-figured. Among them is the high relief “Rev. Dionysius blesses Prince Pozharsky and Citizen Minin for the liberation of Moscow from the Poles”, which is located on the northern facade of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, as well as the archangel Varakhiel with flowers in his hand and the archangel Jehudiel with a crown in his hand, located above the right window arch of the ledge on the western facade, the high reliefs "Nativity of Christ" and "St. Stephen of Perm in episcopal vestments with a charter of Perm writing," located on the eastern facade of the temple.

In 2001, a monument to Alexander Pushkin by Orekhov ^[2] was erected in the capital of Azerbaijan , in the city of Baku .

He died on July 18, 2001 . He was buried at the Kuntsevsky cemetery in Moscow.

• People's Artist of the RSFSR (1988),
• Laureate of Lenin (1984)
• Laureate of the USSR State Prize (1982),
• Full member of the Russian Academy of Arts (1995),
• Honorary Member of the Academy of Fine Arts of Carrara (Italy, 1989).
• Order of Honor (1997),
• Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Arts (1997),
• Silver medal of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1988).
• Prize of the President of the Russian Federation in the field of literature and art for 2000.

Yu. G. Orekhov was vice-president of the Russian Academy of Arts, academician-secretary of the sculpture department of the Russian Academy of Arts, a member of the fine arts section of the Presidential Commission on State Prizes of the Russian Federation, a member of the commission on prizes of the Moscow City Hall in the field of literature and art, a member of expert Advisory Council on monumental and decorative art under the Government of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the Presidium of the Fund for Assistance to Russian Sculptors.

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