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Oleksandr Sofonovych Pashchenko was a Ukrainian graphic artist, People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1960), and a Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Arts (1954). Born on September 1 (14), 1906 in the village of Luka (now Vinnytsia region, Ukraine), he studied from 1928 to 1932 at the Kyiv Art Institute and received the profession of an engraver. In 1940 to 1944, he was the Chairman of the Board of the Union of Artists of the Ukrainian SSR. From 1946, Pashchenko was a teacher, and from 1947 a professor at the Kyiv Art Institute, and from 1955 to 1963, he was its rector. The artist created industrial and lyrical landscapes executed in the techniques of linocut and etching. He also performed decorative and design works. He participated in exhibition activities starting in 1937. Pashchenko created the series "Kyiv Suite" (1936 to 1960), "Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra" (1944 to 1945), "Reconstruction of the Dnipro Hydroelectric Power Plant" (1945 to 1947), and "Kyiv Komsomolskaya Hydroelectric Power Plant" (1961). He also created the sketch of the Soviet Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky (1943). His works are kept in many museums of Ukraine. He died on June 13, 1963 in Kyiv.