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Vladimir Ovchinnikov — painter, social activist, founder of the wall painting of the city of Borovsk.

Biography
Vladimir Ovchinnikov was born in 1938 in Dushanbe. Graduated Moscow State University of Civil Engineering. He worked on construction sites, engaged in scientific work. Candidate of Economic Sciences. Until 1998 he lived in Moscow, and then, c retirement, settled in the city of Borovsk Kaluga Oblast. Painting began to get involved in school days. Drew, when there is free time. But only in the last period, settling in Borovsk, he was able to fully devote himself to painting actively. In 2000 he had a solo exhibition at the Art Gallery of Borovsk. It has been presented about 100 works - landscapes, portraits, still lifes, made with pastels. In the reading room of the Central Library of Obninsk met with Elvira Chastikova (2003), who became his wife:"«Suddenly I saw him, and heard, and felt, - Elvira recalls - and it happened quite suddenly, as if I was with downcast eyes and just picked them up. Frankly, I frightened, thought that we should get out of here, because at home my husband, children, grandchildren. But it turned out that the run from a new sense it was too late, I missed that moment ...»"

- Cygankova Elena Search non-traditional areas has led to Vladimir Ovchinnikov wall painting:"«In old age, people make a lot of discoveries, which are not suspected life. this discovery for me was the fact that I know how to draw»"

For four summers 2002-2005, Ovchinnikov, self-taught artist, has made about a hundred paintings wall Borovsk houses reproduced at the blank walls of city buildings, boarded-up windows, fences, about 90 different subjects (the famous countrymen, once destroyed churches, historical events, genre scenes: a girl walking through the pipe of the pipeline, an old woman with a bucket near a downspout naked boy who knocking at the locked door, a man with a giant cucumber in the hands of the old man in the window, «Times» reading a newspaper). Topics are chosen with his wife. Many of the paintings accompanied by poems Elvira. "«It occurred to me that all the local artists should be transferred to the walls of buildings their work in an enlarged view. All the other artists refused: one referred to the fact that health does not allow others - their age, others said that it does not make money. Then I'll go to our mayor and offered to paint the walls of their own»." Vladimir Ovchinnikov is not only famous frescoes, which for many years adorned the walls of houses in Borovsk. His main desire - to install a monument in the city of the repressed :"«It began with just scenery ... Then I realized that there is no need a theme. Leading issue - this story was ...»" Ten years, the artist collected materials for the gallery of the repressed. In August, a monument finally appeared: 18 portraits of the repressed, which the artist painted on the fence of his neighbor ... . But it is another attempt to create a memorial gallery was smashed against the machinations of the Vandals. On the wall of one of the shops in the city center killed 20 portraits borovchan with the image of Alexander Solzhenitsyn did not last two days. Ovchinnikov was mutilated work methodically and carefully.

Творчество
Murals by Vladimir Ovchinnikov in the houses of the city Borovsk:

Literature

 * Ovchinnikov V.A., Chernikov V.A. Borovsk in painting and poetry: the exhibition catalog. - Moscow: Gallery-Museum Nikor, 2002. - 28 p.: ill.
 * Ovchinnikov V.A., Chernikov V.A. Borovsk in painting and poetry: Art and poetry album. - Kaluga: Golden Alley, 2003. - 192 p.: ill.- ISBN 5-7111-0330-Х
 * Parallel town Vladimir Ovchinnikov and Elvira Chastikova: Art and poetry album. - Obninsk: Printer, 2005. - 48 p .: ill.
 * Anohin Dmitrij Murals Ovchinnikov engineer. Moscow city construction decorate Borovsk // Vechernyaya Moskva. — № 166 (24944). — September 11, 2008.
 * Prilepina Oksana City one artist // Russkij Mir. — 2010. — № 2.
 * Fyodorova Anastasiya Why "Parallel city" can sink into oblivion? // MK Kaluga. — November 16, 2007.
 * Cygankova Elena Faces. Vladimir Ovchinnikov // Magazine «Faces» 2007, September.