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Olena Nylivna Yablonska was a Ukrainian artist, painter, graphic artist. Honored Artist of Ukraine (1977). Born on August 28, 1918 in Smolensk (now Russia). In 1934, she entered the Kyiv Art College and completed a three-year program in one year. From 1935 to 1941, she studied at the Kyiv Art Institute. His teachers were K. Yeleva, F. Krychevskyi, O. Shovkunenko, P. Kotov. From 1944 to 1947, she taught at the Kyiv Art Institute; from 1945 to 1975 - at the T.G. Shevchenko republic Art Secondary School, creating illustrations for children's books, collaborated with the publishing house "Veselka" for 20 years. She worked in the field of easel painting and posters. The artist combined the everyday genre with the industrial landscape, painted landscapes, still lifes, thematic canvases. She participated in art exhibitions. His personal exhibitions were held in Kyiv in 1990. She exhibited her works in Great Britain, France, Germany, and Russia. Among her works: "In the Native Grove" (1964), "August" (1967), "April" (1970), "Summer" (1971), "Khreshchatyk", "Apple harvest", "Poppy Blossoms", "Geese" , and many others. She died on March 25, 2009 in Kyiv. Her works are kept in the National Art Museum of Ukraine (Kyiv), other museums of Ukraine, and in private collections in Ukraine and abroad.