イリヤ・レーピン
Meanwhile, he began to attend the courses at the Ilya Repin Institute as an extern and in 1950 he entered to the Graphic Department of it. After 2 years he changed the Department into the Painting and in 1956 he graduated from Ilya Repin Institute in Mikhail Bobyshov workshop. His Diploma work were series of sketches to the scenery and costumes of an Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov`s opera "Snegurochka"