Kharloy Viktor Georgievich

Viktor Georgievich Kharlov (born 1949, Nikel, Pechenga District, Murmansk Oblast) is a Soviet and Russian painter, monumental artist, and educator. He is an Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts (2019, corresponding member since 1991), People's Artist of Russia (2001), laureate of the Lenin Komsomol Prize (1979), and winner of the RSFSR State Prize named after I. E. Repin (1988). He was awarded the title of Honorary Citizen of Kirov in 2014.

Biography
Viktor Kharlov was born on August 7, 1949, in the settlement of Nikel, Pechenga District, Murmansk Oblast. He graduated from the Kirov School of Arts, now the Vyatka Art College named after A. A. Rylov (1964—1968), and in 1976 from the Moscow State Art Institute named after V. I. Surikov (monumental workshop of K. A. Tutevol). Since 1969, he has been a regular participant in republican, all-Union, regional, provincial, foreign, and international exhibitions (more than 120 exhibitions in total). In the 1970s, his creative workshop was the village of Rusinovo in Nizhny Lale, later the village of Zhivotovo. In 1979, the artist became a laureate of the Lenin Komsomol Prize for the painting “The Last Inhabitants of the Village of Rusinovo”— a monument to the vanishing Russian village with its centuries-old way of life — as well as for the landscapes “Larch” and “Fog.” From 1985 to 1987, he was the Chairman of the Kirov branch of the Artists' Union. In 1988, for his pictorial cycle “The Land of Rusinovo,” he was awarded the State Prize named after I. E. Repin. His works are kept in the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Vyatka Art Museum named after V. M. and A. M. Vasnetsovs, the storage of the State Museum and Exhibition Center ROSIZO and the Directorate of Art Exhibitions of the Artists' Union of Russia (Moscow), the Institute of Russian Realist Art (Moscow), as well as in the Udmurt Republican Museum of Fine Arts, the Komi Republican Art Museum, the Lviv National Art Gallery (Ukraine), the Chuguyev Art and Memorial Museum named after I. E. Repin, the Kaliningrad Art Gallery, the Murmansk Art Museum, the Murmansk Regional Museum of Local Lore, the Kirov United Historical and Architectural Museum, the collection of the Ministry of Culture of Russia, the art storage of the Vuchetich Works, and others. He participated in the creation of paintings in the Assumption Cathedral and in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow. In 2002, he completed wall paintings in the Orthodox Church of John the Baptist in Kirov. He lives and works in Kirov.

Family
His wife is Vera Ushakova, graphic artist and painter. His son is Maksim Kharlov (born 1974), artist, monumental artist, sculptor, and member of the Union of Artists of Russia.