Viktor Grigorevich Puzyrkov, born in 1918 in Ekaterinoslav, Ukraine, was a leading Kiev socialist realist of the 1940s. He was educated at the Dnepropetrovsk Art College from 1936 to 1938, at the Kiev Art Institute from 1938 to 1941, at the Moscow Art Institute (in Samarkand) from 1942 to 1943, and again at the… (bio to be updated)