Mladova Maria Alexandrovna

Soviet painter, graphic designer, monumentalist. Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. She received her initial art education at the Art and Industrial School in Zaporozhye. After graduating from school in 1925, she entered the Moscow Vkhutemas Faculty of Painting. Simultaneously with her studies at Vkhutemas, she studied at the Ukrainian Theater Studio. She worked as a designer for mass revolutionary holidays and demonstrations. She was a member of the AHR and RAPH (1929–1930). Participated in the anniversary all-Union exhibition “Fifteen Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army” (1933). She exhibited mock-ups of the design of standard billboards based on visual propaganda.