Georgy Vasilievich Dyshlenko

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Georgy Vasilievich Dyshlenko – a Soviet and Russian painter. He was born on December 28, 1915, in the village of Irmino, Donetsk Oblast; later he moved with his parents to the village of Novo-Derkul, Belovodsky District, Luhansk Oblast. From 1934 to 1939 he studied at the Kharkiv Art Institute in the battle-painting studio under the direction of P. I. Kotov. From 1939 to 1941 he served in the 275th Corps Artillery Regiment in a reconnaissance division.   

He took part in the Great Patriotic War (World War II), fighting at Smolensk, in the defeat of the Nazi German forces near Moscow, and he helped liberate the cities of Oryol and Bryansk, as well as Hungary, Austria, and Czechoslovakia. He was awarded the Order of the Red Star and five combat medals.   

In 1945 he moved to Oryol. In 1956 he was admitted to the VTOO "Union of Artists of Russia." He served as chairman of the board of the Oryol organization of the Union of Artists in 1957–1962 and 1979–1983. From 1959 to 1981 he worked as a senior lecturer, then as an associate professor in the Department of Fine Arts, and later as dean of the Art and Graphic Faculty of the Oryol State Pedagogical Institute. He is known as one of the authors of the diorama "The Battle of Oryol," located in the Oryol Regional Museum of Local Lore. Among his well-known paintings are the landscape "Outskirts. Pigeons," the still life "Oryol Bread," and a series of landscapes "In Turgenev's Places." Georgy Vasilievich Dyshlenko passed away in 1994.