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Volodymyr Isakovych Erlikh was a Ukrainian artist, member of the Union of Soviet Artists of Ukraine from 1964. Born on September 23, 1924 in the village of Novopavlivka (now Mykolaiv region, Ukraine). In 1950 he graduated from the Dnipropetrovsk Art School. His teachers were M. Pogribnyak and M. Panin. From 1951 to 1984 he worked at the Dnipropetrovsk Art and Production Plant of the Art Fund of the Ukrainian SSR. He worked in the field of easel painting and easel graphics, a representative of socialist realism, creating portraits, still lifes, landscapes, genre and historical paintings, drawings in ink, pencil, sanguine. Participant of regional exhibitions starting in 1948, republic - starting in 1961, all-Union - starting in 1963. His personal exhibitions were held in Dnipropetrovsk (1962, 1984). Among his works are "My Teacher" (1961), "Taras Shevchenko" (1961, 1988), "Construction" (1962), "Morning on Dnipro" (1963), "Dreams of Space" (1964), "Self-portrait" (1965), "Girl from the Ninth Blast Furnace" (1975), "Dnipro Woman" (1985), "Autumn Still Life" (1986), and others. He died in Israel in 2001. Some paintings are kept in the Dnipro Art Museum and other museums of Ukraine.