Matrosov, Yuri Petrovich

He graduated from the art and graphic department of the Chuvash State Pedagogical Institute. I. Ya. Yakovleva (1970). After serving in the Soviet Army, he entered the architectural and construction department of the Chuvashselkhozproekt design institute (1972-1980), was engaged in the manufacture of architectural models, and in 1980-1982 he was a teacher at the Cheboksary Children's Art School No. 2. In 1982-1987 he worked as an artist-designer Chuvash enterprise of the Art Fund of the RSFSR. Together with like-minded people, he founded the Museum creative group to create and design museums and exhibitions expositions (1989-1995).

He was the executive secretary of the board of the Union of Artists of Chuvashia (1987-1989). As a recognized figure of national art, he was elected executive secretary, later chairman of the Union of Chuvash artists (1993-1996).

Since 1994 he worked as the main artist of the Chuvash State Academic Drama Theater .

Since the 2000s, he mainly lives and works in his native village, 23 km from the city of Cheboksary . Rebuilt the parental home, created a small creative workshop with a repository of works.

Sailors has wide creative interests, he proved himself in painting, graphic arts, theatrical and decorative art, decorative and applied art (chasing, carving), sculpture. An important component of the creative activity of Yu. P. Matrosov is traditional culture, history, folklore, customs, and everyday life.

Yu. P. Matrosov received his first recognition in the early 1970s, working in the technique of embossing and woodcarving. The artist wrote: “The beginning of the exhibition activity is connected with the work“ Table ”, executed in the technique of woodcarving, which was exhibited at the First Zonal Exhibition of works by young artists of the Gorky and Ulyanovsk Regions, Mari, Mordovia, Tatar and Chuvash Autonomous Republics in Cheboksary in 1973” ^[one]

A favorite genre in painting is a romantic rural landscape , conveying the characteristic features of a local hilly landscape with green slopes and fields, endowed with historical associations and symbolic meanings. Nature is a great creator and wise teacher for an artist.

A significant part of the artist’s works reflects local cultural traditions; figures of villagers are organically inscribed in their compositions. Art historians note: “Through the harmony of all the details, one can feel the connection of times and generations, pagan antiquity and the present of our people. Perhaps, there has never been such an embodiment of this theme in Chuvash painting ” ^[2] .

The works of Yu. P. Matrosov are stored and exhibited in museums in Chuvashia, the Republic of Bashkorotostan ( Chuvash State Art Museum , Chuvash National Museum, K.V. Ivanov Literary Museum , Bichurin and the Present Museum, etc.)

• Permanent exhibition of the Chuvash Republican Museum of Local Lore (now the Chuvash National Museum ), Cheboksary. 1983;
• Forest Protection Museum (1984, p. Shemursha );
• Cosmonautics Museum of A. G. Nikolaev (1985, p. Shorshely );
• Museum of Mikhail Sespel (1984, p. Sespel ).
• Literary Museum named after K.V. Ivanova (1990, Cheboksary );
• Memorial House-Museum of K.V. Ivanov (1990, p. Slakbash , Republic of Bashkortostan );
• Exposition of the Chuvash Republic at the International Trade and Industry Exhibition (1991, Poznan , Poland).
• Museum of Bread (1994, p. Batyrevo );
• Memorial Museum of I. Ya. Yakovlev (1997, p. Koshki-Novotimbaevo , Republic of Tatarstan ).

• "Хÿхĕм хĕрĕн хÿхлевĕ" (Crying girls at dawn) N.I. Sidorova (1995),
• “Praska kinemi menukne avlantarat” (Grandma Praska grandson marries) A. S. Chebanova (1996),
• “Khurănlă çulpa” (Birch tract) by I. S. Tuktash (1997),
• “Kăvakarchănpa Sunarçă tata Hura Suhal” (Andrey-shooter and Mary-dove) S. L. Prokofieva and I. P. Tokmakova,
• Çÿl tÿperi tări (Lark) J. Anuya (1999), “Yashshi te yurat, watti te ...” (All ages are submissive to love) A. Bolshakova (2000),
• “Wun Chichchre Chun Chera” (How Young We Were) N. I. Sidorova (2001),
• “An Suhal, Save!” (A kiss) by A. D. Salynsky (2002),
• “Kayri is mala, khur kayăksem” (Farewell, geese and swans) N.T. Terentyeva (2003),
• "Tui ikerci" (Wedding pancakes) A. A. Volkova (2004)

Major Exhibitions

1973 - The first zonal exhibition of young artists. Cheboksary

1980 - Fine art of Chuvashia in the Central House of Artists. Moscow.

1985 - Sixth zonal art exhibition "Big Volga". CHHM . Cheboksary.

1997 - “Artist - Theater”. Cheboksary.

2003 - Ninth regional art exhibition "Big Volga". Nizhny Novgorod..

Personal expositions:

• Exhibition (together with Yu. Yu. Yuvenalyev). C-tr "World". Cheboksary (1980);
• Personal exhibition for the 50th anniversary. Cheboksary (1997);
• Exhibition (together with N. M. Baltaev). Ulyanovsk (1994);
• Personal exhibition. Museum "Bichurin and the present." (2005, the village of Kugesi , Chuvashia );
• 70th anniversary exhibition. Museum "Bichurin and the Present" (02/09/2017, the village of Kugesi , Chuvashia ):

Honored Artist of the Republic of Bashkortostan (1990);

Honored Artist of the Chuvash Republic (1997);

People's Artist of the Chuvash Republic (2002);

• Komsomol Prize named after M. Sespel (1986)

Laureate of the State Prize of the Chuvash Republic in the field of literature and art (1999)

Laureate of the Republican competition of theatrical art "Chnturlĕ charshav - Patterned curtain" (2000, 2006).

• Viktorov, Yu. Yuri Matrosov, Yuri Yuvenalyev. Exhibition catalog. Cheboksary, 1980.
• Tikhonov P.T. Museum in the leshoz // Forestry. 1985. No. 4.
• Etkel, V. Yuri Matrosov // Tǎvan Atǎl. 1988. No. 1.
• Artists of Chuvashia. Bibliographic reference. Comp. N.A. Urgalkina. Cheboksary, 1989.S. 186-187.
• Yuri Matrosov: Painting. Graphics. Scenography. Art design. Applied art: [book-album] [text by Y. Viktorov et al.]. - Cheboksary: ​​Chuvashia, 2005 .-- 111 p.
• Union of Artists of Chuvashia. 1935-2005. Dedicated to the 70th anniversary. Album catalog. [b.i.] Cheboksary, 2005.P. 111.
• Viktorov Yu. V. Matrosov Yuri Petrovich // Chuvash Encyclopedia. In 4 t. - Cheboksary: ​​Chuvash. Prince publishing house 2009. T. 3. M — S. S. 60.

• The cultural heritage of Chuvashia: Matrosov Yuri Petrovich
• Works by Yu. P. Matrosov in the collection of the Chuvash State Art Museum
• Opening of the personal exhibition on the occasion of the 70th anniversary.