Vladimir Fedorovich Gurov was born in 1903 in the town of Kamyshino, not far from Volgograd in the Tsaritsyn province of Russia. He studied at the Saratov Art College from 1922 to 1929. He studied art at the Repin Institute of Art in St. Petersburg from 1932 to 1939. He taught at the LenFilm studios… (bio to be updated)