Zhigimont Pavel Ivanovich

Soviet painter. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1949). Laureate of the Stalin Prize. 1934-1937 he studied at the Kharkiv State Art Institute in Kharkov (graduated as an external student in 1950), in 1937-1939 - in Leningrad at the I. E. Repin Institute of Fine Arts. Since 1938 the participant of art exhibitions. Since 1946 in the temporary storage warehouse named after M. B. Grekov. Since 1949, a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. Together with colleagues, he participated in the restoration of the picturesque panorama "Battle of Borodino" in Moscow and in the creation of the largest panorama "The defeat of the Nazi troops near Stalingrad", which is exhibited in the panorama museum "Battle of Stalingrad" (Volgograd).