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Semenyuk, Yuri I., Yaroslavl

*1922      +2006
In 1941, he graduated from the Yaroslavl Secondary Art School. But War loomed and immediately after graduation, just 19-years-old, Yuri joined the Soviet Army as a private. Leningrad was under siege. Conditions were nearly unbearable, hardships were incredible. Many thousands of people lost their lives defending the homeland from the Nazi occupation. This artist with the gift of beauty served on the battlefields of the Great Patriotic War (referred to as World War II in the United States). He rose to command a battalion receiving numerous combat awards and decorations and was discharged in 1946.
After the war, Yuri Semenyuk became a professional artist in Yaroslavl, returning to that which he loved. After 1951 was always an active participant in Municipal, Regional, National, and All-Union Exhibitions. In 1954, two of his works, Evening over the Volga River and Red Hill received high awards from the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. As a result of these accolades, Semenyuk became a member of the USSR Union of artists in that same year.
Since then, Semenyuk has combined his creative work with active participation in the congresses of artists. He has taken leading administrative positions in the Regional (1958-1961), Republic (1960-1993) and USSR (1977-1992) Union of Artists
After his death they opened his personal museum in the townYaroslavl.