Ivan Mikhailovich Abalyaev (1901 - 1941)

Ivan Mikhailovich Abalyaev

Ivan Mikhailovich Abalyaev (Russian: Иван Михайлович Абаляев) was a Soviet sculptor of the first half of the twentieth century. He is known as a master of woodcarving, self-taught, who died at the front shortly after the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War.

Ivan Abalyaev specialized in sculpture of small forms. He depicted in his works genre scenes from the life of representatives of ordinary people.