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Nina Iosifovna Kogan (April 6 (O.S. March 25), 1889, Moscow – 1942, Leningrad; Russian: Нина Иосифовна (Осиповна) Коган) was a Russian and Soviet artist. She is known primarily for her abstract, geometric style and her association with the Suprematist movement in Russia, though she later branched out to realistic expressionism. She is also known for her production of the first Suprematist ballet.

Biography
Nina Kogan was born in Moscow in 1889. Her father, Iosif Mikhailovich Kogan (Russian: Иосиф Михаилович Коган), was a Jewish military doctor and State Councillor, who converted to Orthodox Christianity. Her father's position as a State Councillor allowed her to attend the Catherine Institute for Daughters of the Nobility, where she graduated at the top of her class in drawing in 1905. Between 1905 and 1917, she traveled back and forth between Moscow and Saint Petersburg to work various short-term positions and projects. Following the Revolution, Kogan returned to Saint Petersburg, helping to create a studio where displaced workers from the Winter Palace could apply their skills. During this time, she also took a teaching position at a labor school.

The following year brought her introduction to the most important figure in the emerging Suprematist movement, [[Kazimir Malevich|.