Mednikov Aleksandr

Mednikov Alexander Y. was born on 15 Mar 1930 in Salescom the district of the Vologda region. I went to school, still not having six years behind. Began to draw early. First experience art – drawings charcoal on the stove. Seeing that the boy was constantly drawing, bought him expensive at the time, colored pencils and real paper.
In 1937, the father of the future artist by false accusation, was arrested. In October 1937, I. I. Mednikov was declared an enemy of the people and executed. Sasha's mother, Fausta p., refused to sign the renunciation of the husband was dismissed from work, the family lost their housing. The older sister of the artist went to Leningrad. Sasha with his mother and brother still live in the village work. Because life in the village the family was not Fausta Petrovna with children moved to the village to relatives. From there, Sasha ran away to Leningrad.
Started the Finnish war, the elder sister went to the front, Sasha left to live with an aunt. The Great Patriotic war. The future artist was held in Warsaw depot as an apprentice Turner. They lived with her aunt on the Moscow highway. When the house was bombed, they moved on Krasnoarmeyskaya street, close to the center. But this house stood for a short time, after which her aunt gave the house on the Vyborg side, and Sasha moved to the other on Petrograd. When very weak, went to live, like many workers in the depot in carriages.
When the established way of Life, the boys depot has decided to send to the mainland. Alexander Mednikov were in the last car. The column began to bomb. The first car has left under ice. The last by miracle managed to turn around and return to shore. Sasha remained in the besieged Leningrad.
In 1944, the year studied Turner in the railway school at Shvetsova, but dreamed of becoming an artist. To transfer to art he was not allowed. Director of schools train said
- We have been taught, the money the state spent on you, remained six months prior to the release, the country needs workers. - But the dream to become an artist was so strong that Sasha Mednikov escaped from railway schools and illegal began to attend classes in art. In order not to starve to death, after class unloading barges with firewood – earned food. The children from railway schools reported that Mednikova looking for, want to be judged for unauthorized escape. Alexander went into Labor reserves for Zelenko. In office hit, when the Secretary walked away. From Zelenko was at a party, A. A. Zhdanov. The story of the boy about how he is in the depot was tacaryl as from schools train ran off to art to do, listened, consulted and gave Sasha Mednikova direction in art school, saying:
- You now go to the railway school, odepis, viperish and go learn something on the artist, once it caught fire.
Came future artist in the train, got dry rations for two months and went to the art vocational school №9, where he studied from 20 October 1945 to 16 August 1948. Upon graduation received the diploma of the modeller-patternmaker first class and prior to April 1956, he worked as a modeller-a patternmaker in SMU-3 trust 21 map, then the modeller-a patternmaker in class I of the plaster molding Studio at the Academy of fine arts. Restored the capitals on the columns of the Alexandria theatre, as part of a team of restorers have completed the stucco work in the Hermitage.
Also Alexander Mednikov was in Orenburg agricultural exhibition, performed design works in the "Swallow's nest" in Yalta.
From September 1969 to July 1966. he worked at the Institute "Geologorazvedka" in the field. Was a technician-taxation field party No. 5, the master manual drilling expedition No. 4.
In 1967 he came to the Komsomol-youth construction in Kirishi. Worked as a graphic designer in different organizations of the city until retirement. Was a member of the Kirishi artists participated in the exhibitions held in the framework of this Association.
In 1995, the Kirishi art gallery held a personal exhibition Mednikova Alexander Yakovlevich.
Died bad