Sudakov Vladimir Mikhailovich

Born in 1912 in the city of Ustyuzhna, Vologda province, in the family of a zemstvo doctor. After graduating from high school in 1930, he entered the workers' faculty at the Academy of Arts. Difficult life circumstances forced him to leave the workers' faculty a few months later, and he joined the art workshops of the Political Education Center first as an auxiliary worker, then in 1931 at the State Russian Museum. At this time, he met the artists A. Skalon and A. Rylov, who had a great influence on him. In the evenings I attended a sketch class at the Academy of Arts. He studied in the studio of the House of Arts, where N.A. taught watercolor. Tyrsa, drawing by K.I. Rudakov. In 1933 he entered the Leningrad Art College, which he graduated in five years. Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR.