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Fedir Maksymovych Klymenko was a Ukrainian painter, graphic artist, member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (1967), Honored Artist of Ukraine (1967), and People's Artist of Ukraine (2007). Born on May 22, 1937 in the village of Mykolaivka, Novomoskovsk district, Dnipropetrovsk region, he entered the Dnipropetrovsk State Art School in 1954 and graduated in 1961. His teachers by profession were Mykola Pohribniak, Oleksandr Kuko, Mykola Borovskyi, and Mykola Rodzin. He participated in exhibitions starting in 1959. From 1982 to 1986, he was a member of the board of the Dnipropetrovsk organization of the Union of Artists of Ukraine. From 1982 to 1986, he was the chairman of the Art Council (graphics) at the Dnipropetrovsk Art and Production Plant of the Art Fund of the Ukrainian SSR. Klymenko worked in various graphic techniques. His favorite genres were the landscape and still life. His main works include "Izhma River" (1963), "Peaceful Song" (1965), "Viburnum Flower Pinned in Braids" (1967), "Suite about a Tree" (1971-1972), the series "Bitter Memory", and Autolithography (1985). He died on December 3, 2017. His works are kept in museums in Ukraine and in private collections in Ukraine and abroad.