Vladimir Yakovlevich Shcherban (1919 - 2005)

Vladimir Yakovlevich Shcherban

Vladimir Yakovlevich Shcherban (Russian: Владимир Яковлевич Щербань) was a Soviet and Russian artist of the second half of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. He is known as a painter.

Vladimir Shcherban fought on the Stalingrad front during the Great Patriotic War and received his art education at the Moscow City Art Studio for war invalids. His art was largely devoted to historical-revolutionary and military themes. The artist also made creative journeys to different regions, which inspired him to create a series of genre paintings, portraits and landscapes.