Vasili Pavlovich Krivoruchko was born in 1919 in the village of Novo-Peschanoye (Burlinsky Region, Altai territory). He moved to Donetsk in 1926 and attended the art school at the Donetsk House of Culture for Miners. From 1935 to 1939 he joined the Soviet army and went to fight in World War II in Berlin. Upon [