Ilya Repin
Since 1901 Alexander Lyubimov worked as an extern at the Higher School of Arts at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in the studio of Ilya Repin, later of Pavel Chistyakov. After graduation in 1909, Alexander Lyubimov went to city of Kharkiv, Ukraine, where by recommendation of Ilya Repin he headed in the years 1912–1919 Kharkov Art College, where his student was Alexander Deyneka.