Artamonov, Alexey Mikhailovich

Born February 18, 1918 in the village of Vvedenka (now Morshansky district , Tambov region ). At the age of seven, his father died and the boy moved to his mother in Moscow , where he studied at school. He worked at the Moscow Operetta Theater, where he was engaged in decorative painting. From 1934 to 1938 he studied at the Moscow Art College in memory of 1905 , where Nikolai Petrovich Krymov was his teacher.

In 1938, after graduation, he was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army . He served in the tank troops in Starokonstantinov . He took part in the Soviet-Finnish war , the Polish campaign of the Red Army and the annexation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina to the USSR .

The Great Patriotic War found him in Przemysl , where he was seriously wounded and was behind enemy lines. Immediately after recovery, he organized an underground group, which in January 1942 joined the partisan detachment, later named after F. Mikhailov. Alexei Mikhailovich became the commander of a sabotage group, and then the deputy commander of a partisan detachment named after Karmalyuk. During 1943, he personally blew up 12 enemy echelons with manpower and equipment. At the Ukrainian headquarters of the partisan movement, commanded by Timothy Strokach , they issued documents for the title of Hero of the Soviet Union . But the secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (b) U Nikita Khrushchev , having examined the documents, made the decision that it was too early to assign such a title at 25.

Author of thematic paintings and portraits: “Oil rig. Borislav ”(1947),“ People’s Avengers ”(1967),“ After the Battle ”(1974),“ There is a People’s War ”(1975),“ Great Friendship. The meeting of T. Shevchenko with M. Shchepkin "(1988)," On the Sunny Valley "(1991); decorative panel of the branch of the Central Museum of V.I. Lenin in Kiev in collaboration with I. Grachev (1965−1966) and others.

In 1944 he moved to Kiev . Immediately upon arrival, he was appointed chief artist of the exhibition of guerrilla fame. A year later he became a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR, began to participate in art exhibitions, and was repeatedly abroad. Member of the CPSU (b) since 1947 .

He died on December 18, 2011 . He was buried in Kiev at the Baykovsky cemetery (plot number 33).

• Order of Lenin (1945)
• Order of the Patriotic War I degree (03/11/1985)
• Order of Friendship of Peoples (08/07/1981)
• Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky II degree (2001)
• Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky III degree (10/14/1999)
• medal "For Labor Distinction" (11.24.1960)
• other medals
• Certificate of honor of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Ukrainian SSR (1968)
• Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1974)
• People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1985)

• Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia : in 12 volumes = Ukrainian Radyansk Encyclopedia (Ukrainian) / Ed. M. Bazhan . - 2nd view. - K .: Goal. Editorial URE, 1974-1985.