Viktor Vasilevich Vorobev was born in 1925 in Kazan, Tataria. He served in the Great Patriotic War (World War II) from 1941-1945. Upon his return home he entered the Kazan Art College, completing his courses in 1950. He studied at the Repin Institute of Art in St. Petersburg from 1950 to 1956. He began exhibiting his work in 1956. Since then he has lived and worked in Bryansk, where he taught in the railway workers’ art studio.

The theme of war runs through Vorobev’s works, vividly reflected in his genre pictures and portraits. He has also developed a tasted for landscape painting. In 1960 he became a member of the Artists’ Union of the USSR, and in 1982 he won the title ‘Honored Cultural Worker of the Russian Federation’. A born artist, Vorobev had begun to participate in zonal exhibitions long before he received an artistic education. Subsequently, he has regularly contributed to republican, All-Union and international exhibitions.

His works can be found in the Museum of the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, the Museum of Fine Arts in Bryansk, Kazan, Orel and Sevastopol as well as in private collections in Russia and abroad.