Michri Alexander Ilyich

Soviet and Russian artist, art critic. Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (2004), Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts (2011). In 1961 he graduated from the Moscow Higher School of Industrial Art in the Department of Monumental and Decorative Plastics. Until 1966 he lived in Turkmenistan, worked in the Union of Artists, the Art Fund of Turkmenistan. Since 1970 he lived in Moscow. He worked in the Main Architectural and Planning Department of Moscow. As the chief artist of the Perovsky district of Moscow, he participated in the design of the historical center of the capital. From 1974 to 1997 - an employee of the Moscow Art Combine. The artist's works are presented in the collections of the State Russian Museum, the Museum-Reserve of the Republic of Karelia, the State Museum of the Chechen Republic (Grozny), the Makhachkala Museum of Local Lore and other museums in Russia, the State Museum of Turkmenistan (Ashgabat), as well as in private collections abroad.