Ben’kov, A. Volkov, Usto Mumin (A. Nikolaev), V. Ufimtsev, Z. Kovalevskaya… He is one of the most respected and venerable artists – not because of age, but due to the years of service to the muse of painting – the master of compositionally complex genre paintings, the author of wonderful Crimean landscapes; the man of his time, whose art evolved in the mainstream of the national school.