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1) Facts reffed: Androsov was the director of the Mytishchi Art Gallery when it opened. Androsov put together the gallery's assets. ( Mytishchi is an outer suburb of Moscow, population ~250,000 and growing very fast, apparently.) Source: City of Mytishchi website.

2) Facts reffed: Androsov's media included textile painting, ceramics, photographs, 3D design (not sculpture, closer to architecture and interior design) and painting -- landscapes, still lifes, portraits. There was a big 2006 life-retrospective exhibit of Androsov's works at the Mytishchi Art Gallery, 250+ works. A lot of Androsov’s design works (rather than fine art per se), such as the architectural part of the Monument to the Airplane Po-2 (FWIW, the P0-2 was an all-purpose Russian biplane in WWII, and I believe the most-produced aircraft in history; apparently there was a big flying school in Mytishchi and the PO-2 was the training plane.) He studied at the Penza Art School. For 30 years was the chief artist of a factory (how big we don't know), and supervised the propaganda paintings and such (a big deal in many USSR factories) and the design of the plant's recreation areas and so forth. He also headed the "technical aesthetics" group, which was engaged in "industrial design". (This could mean many things, but f'rinstance say designing the outer case of a product to look attractive.) (It's strongly implied that he was involved in the creation of the city's Great Patriotic War monument. Not 100% sure so ofc we didn't say that.)Source: City of Mytishchi website.

So, here are the refs that are in the Russian article that I didn't bring over:

3) Facts reffed: Bunch of CV stuff. Vitals statistics, joined this, led that. Source: Brief bio in an exhibition pamphlet for Krasnoarmeysk art museum. Krasnoarmeysk is a far outer suburb of Moscow, 26,000 souls.

4) Androsov is indeed a member of the Union of Artists of the Russian Federation. Source: Mytishchi Art Gallery

5) More CV stuff, pretty much same data as earlier. Some going on and on about how cool he is, skilled and whatnot. In 1998 he was elected first chair of the Association of Artists of the City of Mytishchi. Source: Krasnoarmeysk Art Gallery

6) Same CV stuff. He did indeed do the "sculptural composition" (this would be overall design, rather than creating any actual parts) for the city's monument to the dead of WWII. Got this award and that award, Veteran of Labor, Certificate of Honor from the Moscow district, medal or something for the 850th anniversary of Moscow, local awards. Don't know how major they are, but to me they all sound like trivial logrolling, except the Medal "Veteran of Labour" which has an article. I believe they were given it fairy freely but I'm not sure. The thing is, it says that 1) they were given at retirement, 2) they stopped giving the when the USSR ended, and 3) Androsov was only about 50 then. So that needs to be looked into. More going on about great he is. ''Source: BezFdormata. It's a Federation-wide news organization. They have a website for lots of cities, for each city they give the national news, same for everyone, then local news for that city. They must be pretty big. How reliable they are I don't know. But this was from the local Mytishchi edition.

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