On May 10, at 4.00 pm, an exhibition dedicated to the 74th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War will be opened at the Odessa Roerich House Museum. The exhibition presents the works of Odessa painter Svyatoslav Petrovich Skorobogatov, a member of the Union of Artists of Ukraine, and member of the Union of Marinists of Odessa. At the opening poets Kateryna Skorobogatova and Irina Yudaeva will perform their work. The exhibition will last until 31.07.2019.

Svyatoslav Skorobogatov was born on January 22, 1937, in Odessa in a family of employees. In the 50s, after serving in the Red Army Northern Fleet, he entered the Odessa Grekov Art College. His teachers were D. M. Frumina and T. I. Egorova, and he graduated in the 60s as a painter. For 46 years he was a leading artist at the Odessa port, combined work with teaching. Svyatoslav Skorobogatov is an author of the emblem of the Odessa Commercial Sea Port. In the late 70s, the leadership of the Odessa port announced a competition among artists of Odessa for the best sketch for the future logo-emblem. The sketch of Svyatoslav Skorobogatov was unanimously selected and widely used on all the attributes of the Odessa port. Svyatoslav Skorobogatov held 15 personal exhibitions: at the Odessa Art Museum, at the Odessa Museum of Western and Eastern Art and other museums in Odessa. He participated in numerous exhibitions held by the Union of Artists of Ukraine. Many of the artist’s works were acquired by the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine, as well as private collectors of Argentina, Australia, the USA, Japan (Madame Nakomuro salons), Israel, Italy, Yugoslavia, England, CIS, and non-CIS countries.