Anatoly Yagudaev

Anatoly Yagudaev
Anatoly Yagudaev
Анатолий Ягудаев
Born	March 11, 1935; Makhachkala, Dagestan USSR, Russia
Died	October 10, 2014 (aged 79); Makhachkala, Russia, Dagestan
Nationality	Soviet Union →; Russia
Known for	sculpture
Awards

Anatoly Yagudaev (

Mountain Jewish descent. He held an honorary title of People's Artist of the Russian Federation

in 2002.

Biography

The ancestors of the future sculptor were from Temir-Khan-Shura (now the city of

communist, named his son Anatoly in honor of the People's Commissariat for Education, Anatoly Lunacharsky

, who died in 1933.

As a child, Anatoly Yagudaev studied in the fine arts class at the Makhachkala House of Pioneers with the teacher Y. I. Lashkevich and in the art studio of the House of Folk Art under the direction of D. A. Kapanitsyn. In 1949 he began to work in the production and sculptural workshop of the famous Soviet sculptor Mikhail Anikushin - first as an apprentice, and then as a model designer.

While serving in the Soviet army, he was the champion of the Far Eastern Military District in weightlifting.

In 1963 he graduated from the sculpture department of the Saint Petersburg Art School, named after Vladimir Serov, in the same year he began to create sculptures on his own. He then returned to Makhachkala. From 1959 to 2005 he participated in 36 exhibitions of various levels held in many cities of Russia, as well as in Hungary and Bulgaria.

Anatoly Yagudaev was a member of the Artists' Union of the USSR, Honored Art Worker of Dagestan, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, laureate of the Republican Prize of Gamzat Tsadasa (Dagestan).

Yagudaev’s two works created from bronze were: "Portrait of Doctor of Philology Kamil Khanmurzaev" (1964) and "Jokesters" (1985). They were presented in the

State Tretyakov Gallery and also 27 works were in the collection of Dagestan Museum of Fine Arts named after Patimat Gamzatov. Other locations to find the master's works are streets and squares decorated in the cities of Makhachkala, Buynaksk, Izberbash and Aktau, and in the villages of Dylym and Agvali. It was also used in the design of Chirkey Dam, a hydroelectric power station. The park sculpture of a girl at the corner of Maxim Gorky and Buynaksk Streets in Makhachkala^[1] has become an urban symbol of love and goodness though it disappeared in the 1990s.^[2]

In the American city of

Shamil, 3rd Imam of Dagestan

by the sculptor has been installed.

Awards

Honored Art Worker of Dagestan

People's Artist of the Russian Federation
Laureate of the Republican Prize of Gamzat Tsadasa (Dagestan).

References

External links

[1] In memory of the artist Anatoly Yagudaev,

[2] The memory of Anatoly Yagudaev was honored in Makhachkala

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