Spring in Zhdaniv

Yurii Fedorovych Zlyden was a Ukrainian painter, a member of the Union of Soviet Artists of Ukraine from 1961. He was born on May 15, 1925 in the village of Zachepylivka (now Kharkiv region, Ukraine). He participated in World War II and was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree. From 1946 to 1951, Zlyden studied at the Dnipropetrovsk Art School under Tamara Drozdova, Mykola Pohribniak, and Nataliia Hlukhenka. From 1952-1966, he lived in Zhdaniv (now Mariupol), then in Kyiv. He worked in the field of easel painting, mainly in the landscape genre. From 1951, he participated in regional and republic exhibitions. His personal exhibitions were held in Zhdaniv (1958), Kyiv (1985), and Rzhyshchiv (1988). His main works include "Summer Day in Zhdaniv" (1958), "Shevchenko Village" (1961), "Yachts" (1963), "Over the Dnipro" (1968), and others. He died in Kyiv on April 26, 2001. His works are kept in many museums of Ukraine: the Ternopil Museum of Local Lore, the Ochakiv and Zaporizhia Art Museums, the Pereyaslav National Historical and Ethnographic Reserve, the Mariupol Museum of Local Lore (exhibited in the A.I. Kuindzhi Art Museum), and others.