Vikulov Fedor

Born in 1919 in the village of Ust-Ishim Slobodchikov Region Omsk. In 1935 he graduated from the seven-year school in Mr.. Tyumen and Tobolsk entered the bone carving gang 'Koopeksportobyt'. In the same year, ran its first creative work in the bones - 'Shaman'. In 1936 he worked as an instructor bone carving workshop in Tobolsk and Achairskoy t. to. NKVD. In 1937 he entered the Moscow Art-Industrial College of. M. I. Kalinin. In 1939 Vikulov was drafted into the cavalry of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army (RKKA). In 1940 he was transferred to the air. Since 1941, fought in the Great Patriotic War as a radioman-arrow. Demobilized in 1946. In 1948 he returned to Siberia, where he worked on a diploma. He worked as artistic director of the Tobolsk bone carving Artel. In 1949, completed gift XI Congress of the Komsomol ( "Forward to Communism '). Since 1937 has participated in international exhibitions, . including the World Exhibition in Paris (France) where he won a silver medal (1937), . in the international exhibition in New York (USA) (1939), . World Exhibition in Brussels (Belgium), . as well as the all-union (the first time in 1950), . Republican and other art exhibitions,
. In 1984 he held a personal thematic exhibition 'Images of Russia' in Moscow Chemical-Technological Institute. D. M. Mendeleev. Since 1966 he started painting. The main theme of creativity Vikulova - Russia, its nature, history and culture, the heroic past of the people. About 70 works are in museums around the country (in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kursk, Yakutsk, Saransk, Novokuznetsk and other cities). Among the most famous works Vikulova include a series of 'Heroes of Borodin' (beginning of work on a series of 1969), the series 'Heroes of the Kulikov battle' (1980). Since 1951, Member of the USSR Union of Artists. More than a quarter century Vikulov actively involved in the promotion and preservation of monuments of history and culture of Russia