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Nikolay Karakhan, (May 30, 1900,Nakhichevanik, Nagorno-Karabakh - June 18, 1970, Taskent) - Soviet painter and graphic artist. Member of Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia. People's Artist of the Uzbek SSR

Biography
Nikolay Karakhan was born on May 30, 1900, in the Transcaucasian village of Nakhichevanik in Nagorno-Karabakh. Has Armenian ancestry.

In 1907, the family moved to Tashkent, where the future painter graduated from high school. In 1917 Karakhan studied under Ivan Kazakov, and in 1918 he entered the Turkestan regional art school in Tashkent, where he received an academic education.

His teachers were Alexey Isupov and Sergey Yudin. From 1920 to 1924, Karakhan served in the red Army as an agitation and propaganda artist. In 1926 he became a member of the Tashkent branch Of the Association of artists of revolutionary Russia, and from 1934 to 1941 he taught a course of painting at the Tashkent art school.

In 1930 Karakhan joined the Union of artists of Uzbekistan. He was at the origins of the preparation and organization of the first art exhibitions in the Republic. In 1939, Nikolai Karakhan took part in the decoration of frescoes "the World of tomorrow" pavilion of the USSR at the world exhibition in New York, which was visited by about 44 million people.

In the early 1930s, Nikolai Karakhan joined the group of avant-garde artist Alexander Volkov, who dreamed of creating a great national style, tried to find a bright and imaginative pictorial language that organically combines the expressive possibilities of Western and Eastern art.

During world war II, Karakhan participated in Patriotic visual agitation on the streets of Tashkent. During these years he created a series of works on the theme "Uzbekistan during the Great Patriotic war". Since 1941, the artist finally left teaching to devote himself entirely to painting. He took part in all Republican and many exhibitions of Union importance. In the 1950s, Nikolai Karakhan was appointed to the post of Chairman of the Art Fund of Uzbekistan and joined the Council of the Art Fund of the USSR.

In June 1960, he was awarded the most honorary title of people's artist of the UzSSR. Throughout his life, Karahan wrote many works. Among them are large canvases, small sketches, graphic sketches. Already in his early works manifested the great gift of the landscape painter, which later developed, giving the world beautiful paintings.

Karakhan traveled a lot in Central Asia. His studies, written in the Fergana valley, in the spurs of Chimgan, in the fields of the Tashkent region, in the highlands of the Pamir and in the Yazyavan steppe, have been preserved. Since the 1940s, the artist's works are increasingly manifested a contemplative beginning. Karahan creates landscapes, diverse in subjects, choice of landscapes, composition and color solutions; in these paintings lives the artist's admiration for the beauty of the surrounding world.

Nikolai Karakhan's life coincided with great historical events: the birth of a new Soviet state, the Great Patriotic war. He was sensitive to what was happening, which undoubtedly reflected the manner of creativity. Having been educated by excellent masters of the old school and having the opportunity to adopt the avant-garde experience of Alexander Volkov, Karakhan was able to create his own inimitable style, which was embodied in the painting talented, emotionally rich and sincere.

Nikolai Karakhan died in Tashkent on June 18, 1970, while working on the painting "The Way Home".

Works of Nikolai Karakhan are placed in many museum collections, including the State Museum of the East, the state Tretyakov gallery, the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, the State Museum of arts of Uzbekistan in Tashkent. The State Museum of arts has a significant collection of Karakhan's works.