Shatalin Viktor Vasilyevich

Viktor Vasilyevich Shatalin (1926–2003) was a painter, People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR, laureate of the T. G. Shevchenko State Prize, professor, and full member of the Academy of Arts of Ukraine. He graduated from the Kiev State Art Institute (1953), where he later taught and headed the easel painting studio. The main themes of his work were the events of the Civil War and the Great Patriotic War. He was awarded several state honors, including the Order of Friendship of Peoples and the M. B. Grekov Gold Medal.