Perov Alexander Petrovich

People's Artist of Uzbekistan. Born in Chimkent into a large family of Russian immigrants, he lived and died in Tashkent. As a schoolboy he attended the art studio at the Palace of Pioneers. Studied at the Republican Art School named after. P. Benkov (1950-1955) and at the painting department of the Tashkent Theater and Art Institute named after. A.N. Ostrovsky (1959-1965) with Rakhim Akhmedov and Alexander Krivonos. Served in the Black Sea Fleet (1956-1959). He taught at the Russian Art University named after. P. Benkov (1958-1969), TTHI named after. A.N. Ostrovsky (1969-1974) and the Republican Art School (1974-1995). Internship at the Leningrad Academy of Arts (1973) in the workshop of E.E. Moiseenko. Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR (1967) and the Creative Association of Artists at the Academy of Arts of the Republic of Uzbekistan (1997). Participant of republican, all-Union and international exhibitions (1965-2004), including the All-Union art exhibition “USSR - Our Motherland” for the 50th anniversary of the formation of the USSR in Moscow (1972).