Wassyl Ahibalov

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Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
Василь Іванович Агібалов
Transl. : Vasyl 'Ivanovyč Ahibalov
Transcr. : Wassyl Iwanowytsch Ahibalow
Cyrillic ( Russian )
Василий Иванович Агибалов
Transl .: Vasilij Ivanovič Agibalov
Transcr .: Vasily Iwanowitsch Agibalow
"Monument to commemorate the proclamation of Soviet rule in Ukraine" in Kharkiv created by Wassyl Ahibalov in 1975

Vasyl Iwanowytsch Ahibalow (born April 8 . Jul / 21st April  1913 greg. In Losowoje, Voronezh Governorate , Russian Empire ; † 18th February 2002 in Kharkiv , Ukraine ) was a Ukrainian- Soviet sculptor.

Life

Wassyl Ahibalow studied at the Kiev Art Institute in 1932/33 and between 1933 and 1942 at the Kharkov Art College and the Kharkov Art Institute. From 1942 on he was a member of KhB UAU, the Kharkov branch of the Union of Artists of Ukraine, and has since participated in Ukrainian, Soviet and international exhibitions. As a soldier in the Red Army , he fought in the German-Soviet War .

Together with other artists, he created a large number of monuments in the style of socialist realism to commemorate Soviet leaders and the Great Patriotic War , mainly from granite and bronze . Among other things, he created monuments to Vladimir Lenin in Luhansk (1949) and Bila Tserkva (1983) and other monuments in Krasnodon (grave of the Young Guard , 1954), in Dnipropetrovsk (Monument of Eternal Glory, 1967) and Kharkiv (commemoration of the Proclamation Soviet rule in Ukraine, 1975; dismantled in 2012) and a number of busts, including one by Taras Shevchenko (1961).

Wassyl Ahibalow lived and worked in Kharkiv, where he died in 2002 at the age of 88.

Honors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ biography Wassyl Ahibalow on kharkov.vbelous.net ; accessed on March 24, 2017 (English)
  2. ↑ Entry on Ahibalov, Vasyl in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on March 24, 2017 (English)
  3. ↑ Profile Vasyl Ahibalow on the website of the Prize Committee of the Taras Shevchenko Prize; accessed on March 24, 2017 (Ukrainian)
  4. ↑ Entry on Wassyl Ahibalow in the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia ; accessed on March 24, 2017 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Ahibalow, Wassyl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ahibalow, Wassyl Iwanowytsch (full name); Агібалов, Василь Іванович (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian-Soviet sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Losovoye, Voronezh Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 2002
Place of death Kharkiv , Ukraine