Smirnova Natalia Vissarionovna
1915, Tsarskoe Selo — 2004, St Petersburg
Painter, graphic, applied artist
Studied at Leningrad Art and Pedagogical College (1933–1935); Leningrad Higher College of Art and Design (1944–1950) in the Faculty of Monumental and Decorative Art under I. P. Stepashkin and A. N. Samokhvalov. Exhibited from 1950. Member of the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists (1952). Worked at the Art and Design Workshops of the Leningrad Branch of the RSFSR Art Fund (1950–1980). Awarded medals For the Defence of Leningrad and For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945. Main collections: State Museum of the History of St Petersburg (St Petersburg).

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