Anatoly Shapovalov was born in 1949 in the Kirovograd region of Ukraine. In 1969 he graduated from the Grekov Odessa Art School in Odessa.
Sergei Cherkasov was born on the 10th of November, in 1948, in the city of Artyom that is located in the Far East of Russia – in Primorsky Krai. He studied at the Far Eastern State Academy of Arts and graduated in 1976 from the studio of a remarkable Soviet artist Vasily Nikanorovich Doronin. Cherkasov’s paintings have captured hearts beyond his native Russia and were exhibited in China, Japan and the USA.
