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Valery Vladimirovich Kolesnichenko is a legendary personality, according to the Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, he is enrolled in the hundred outstanding illustrators of Russia of the twentieth century. A copy of the official document is attached to the work. Please see photos.
The genre in which the master creates, he calls the grotesque-animalistic portrait, but they remind me of cartoon characters. In the course of our conversation, it turned out that Valery Vladimirovich Kolesnichenko, not only the owner of an amazing talent, but also an extraordinary Fate.
The artist himself comes from the suburbs of Odessa. Their house was located near the railway station Razdelnaya, so his childhood was spent under the steam train horns. His grandfather Kachura Vladimir Kirillovich (railway driver) was awarded the "Order of Lenin" and the medal "For Courage" for his work and heroism during the Great Patriotic War.». He spent a lot of time with his grandson, as his parents were often absent from home on duty. Sometimes his grandfather rolled his grandson in the driver's cab, so Valery kept his passion for drawing trains and locomotives for the rest of his life.
Father-Kolesnichenko Vladimir Anatolyevich-captain of the Strategic Missile Forces. Mother Lyudmila Ivanovna Kachura-specialist in radiology and radio engineering.

In the mid-sixties, his father received a special assignment to Cuba, where he went with his wife and son. Six-year-old Valery endured a long journey to the other side of the world.. A week later, he went to a local Russian-Spanish school, where he began to comprehend his first diploma.
In early 1967. Kolesnichenko Sr. gets a new assignment. And now, a few days later, from the airport "Jose-Marti", on a four-engine plane "TU-114", the Kolesnichenko family is transported across the Atlantic, Greenland and the North Pole to Murmansk. For his services to the Cuban people, his father is promoted and sent to study at the Academy of Engineering named after him.. Kuibyshev. Soon the whole family moves to live in the Moscow region. Valery is sent to the music school named after him. Gnesina, where many famous musicians taught. The knowledge gained within the walls of this musical institution was not wasted, so in addition to his passion for artistic creativity, Valery can still play the piano, piano or grand piano.
At the age of eighteen Valery Kolesnichenko comes to Odessa and enters the Water Institute as a shipbuilder engineer. He took an internship in 1981 at the Nikolaev plant. After graduating from the institute, he was assigned to Baku, but asked to go to Kamchatka, where he worked until 1998. Thanks to his business qualities and selfless work, he eventually became the chief engineer of the Port Fleet, Ust-Kamchatsk. These days, Valery moves to live in Vladivostok. In 1991, an exhibition of his works was held...
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For sale is a well-known painting of his early creations
Baguette-wood, passport-the author's Artist.
Collectors condition.
Dimensions 38h33 cm