Orlov Yuriy Alexandrovich

Honored Artist of Russia. 
After graduating from the Stavropol Art College, he studied at the Painting Studio of the Academy of Arts of the USSR under A. Tkachev and S. Tkachev from 1989 to 1991. 
Yuriy Orlov is a laureate of the A. Skokov Stavropol Komsomol Prize in literature, culture and arts (1988) and of the Russian Ministry of the Interior’s Prize for excellent works of literature, culture and arts. He was also awarded a honorary diploma the Russian Academy of Arts (1996).
In 1997 the Artists’ Union of Russia nominated him for the State Prize of Russia. Yuriy Orlov was awarded a honorary diploma and a Merenti medal of the Russian Academy of Arts in 1998, a honorary diploma of the Moscow Artists’ Union in 2002, and a diploma of the Artists’ Union of Russia for his excellence in creative work and for his contribution to the development of fine arts in Russia in 2004. 
The artist had his one-man shows in Stavropol in 1988 and in Malmo (Sweden) in 1995. 
Since 1992 Yuriy Orlov has worked at the Vereschagin Art Studio of the Russian Ministry of the Interior