MALIKOV Vassil

V. Malikov was born October 19, 1924 in the village of Old Kurmashevo Aktanysh region of the Republic of Tatarstan. In 1942 he graduated from vocational school in Kazan. In 1947, after demobilization, he returned to Kazan, he studied at the Art School under the leadership of SS. Ahun. In 1953-1959 he studied in the School of Industrial Art of. VI. Fly. Since 1959, he worked in Kazan.

With creativity VM. Malikov associated significant qualitative shift in the development of the Tatar easel and monumental sculpture, accomplished in the 60's.

However SM. Bubennovym and R.A. Kildibekova Malikov was already in the early 60-ies one of the first initiators and entuzistov development of monumental art in Kazan, the creation of monumental decoration on the walls of buildings, new buildings in the ensembles. Later, when the time has come to a more narrow specialization and differentiation of the creative work of monumental, VM. Malikov has concentrated its forces at work in the field of monumental sculpture and made significant progress both in the portrait genre (images M. Vakhitov, K. Jacob, Jalil and others), and in the creation of monuments symbolic-allegorical nature. A particularly interesting and original solution found them in a plastic image of the monument to the fallen in the struggle for Soviet power (in the "Park M. Gokogo "): this figure of a mortally wounded soldier, from the last energy rose from the earth as if accessing a living.

VM. Malikov - sculptor multifaceted, rich in talent. It may justly be called one of the leading monumental Tatarstan, and at the same time, he - by the chamber, lyrical compositions, easel sculptural portraits. Truthfully, richly rasskryvaet it in sculpture nature of their contemporaries, and as confidently, freely and successfully operates in retrospect, to create a historical portraits of people of the revolution, the era of the Great Patriotic War. In all the works of the sculptor is some neistvost heroes, their scorched, restraint of temperament in the expression of feelings.

For great achievements in the field of fine arts in. Malikov were awarded the high rank of People's Artist of Tatar ASSR, Honored Artist of the RSFSR.

Died. Malikov October 13, 1992.