Arefyev, Anatoly Vasilievich

Born on November 24, 1918 in Stavropol (now Togliatti , Samara Region ). He graduated from the Art and Pedagogical College in Penza (he studied in 1936-1938). Member of World War II . He was repeatedly injured.

Since 1947 he worked in the Kyrgyz ATOB: as an artist, and since 1949 - as the main artist.

In 1971-1974 he worked in the Gorky ATOB named after A.S. Pushkin .

In 1974-1989 - the main artist of the Dnepropetrovsk GATOB .

Son Vladimir Arefiev also became a theater artist.

He was a member of the CPSU (b) since 1945, in 1967 he was elected a candidate member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan.

He died on January 28, 1989 in Dnepropetrovsk (now the Dnieper , Ukraine ). He was buried in Moscow at the Khovansky cemetery (Central Territory, plot 45l) [1] .

The final encyclopedic assessment of the artist’s creativity was given by art critic Tatyana Shpakovskaya:

• "Bogdan Khmelnitsky" K. F. Dankevich (1976)
• The Young Lady and the Hooligan by D. D. Shostakovich (1978)
• "Aida" by J. Verdi (1981)

• People's Artist of the USSR (1967)
• The State Prize of the Ukrainian SSR named after T. G. Shevchenko (1978) - for the design of the opera performance “Bogdan Khmelnitsky” by K. F. Dankevich (new edition), staged on the stage of the Dnipropetrovsk State Theater
• Order of Lenin (11/01/1958)
• Order of the Red Banner (07/18/1943)
• Order of the Patriotic War I degree (03/11/1985)
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor (08/07/1981)
• Order of the Red Star (04/01/1945)
• medals

• Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia - 2nd Edition. - T. 1. - Kiev, 1977 .-- S. 242.
• Kucherenko Z. Arefyev // Mystetsvo of Ukraine: Biographical dovidnik / order: A.V. Kudritsky, M.G. Labinsky. Ed. A.V. Kudritsky. -K .: "Ukrainian Encyclopedia" im. M.P. Bazhan, 1997 .-- 700 p. - ISBN 5-88500-071-9 . (Ukrainian) M.G. Labinsky . Ed. A.V. Kudritsky . - K .: “Ukrainian Encyclopedia” named after M.P. Bazhan, 1997 .-- 700 p. - ISBN 5-88500-071-9 - S. 25.
• Shpakovskaya T. A. Arefyev Anatoly Vasilyevich // Encyclopedia of modern Ukraine / National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine , Shevchenko Scientific Society , Coordination Bureau of Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. - Ed. I. M. Dziuba, A. I. Zhukovsky and others - K .: [b. c.], 2001 . - T. 1: A.— 825 p. - 10,000 copies. - ISBN 966-02-2075-8 . - S. 637-638.
• Shevchenko laureates. 1962-2001: Encyclopedic Reference / Author-comp. M. G. Labinsky ; introduction. next I.M. Dzyuba . - K .: Well, 2001 .-- 696 p. - ISBN 966-7575-29-2 . - S. 26.
• [ Dzhusupova E.N. ] A.V. Arefiev. - Frunze, 1958.
• Lupandina A. Anatoly and Vladimir Arefyev // Soviet theater and film artists. - Moscow, 1980.
• Borisova N. Energy and the beauty of decisions // Soviet Ballet. - 1987. - No. 3.
• Anatoly Vasilyevich Arefiev: [Obituary] // Soviet Ukraine. - 1989. - January 29.
• Shpakovskaya T. Master. Tvorchestao knows no boundaries // Theatrical annals lasting a quarter of a century. - Dnepropetrovsk, 1999.