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Nina Hryhorivna Bozhko was a Ukrainian artist, member of the Union of Soviet Artists of Ukraine since 1958, an academician of the International Academy of Fundamental Foundations of Being and People's Artist of Ukraine (2009). Born on August 6, 1928 in Kyiv, she graduated from the Kyiv School of Applied Arts in 1946 and the Kyiv Art School in 1949. From 1950-1956, she studied at the Kyiv State Art Institute under Vasyl Kasiian, Ilarion Pleshchynskyi, and Valentyn Zadorozhnyi. Bozhko worked in the field of easel painting, easel (in the techniques of printmaking, linocut, monotype) and book graphics, and posters. She participated in art exhibitions from 1956. Among her works are the portrait painting "Princess Olga" (1980-1982), "Self-portrait" (1987), "Tatiana" (1990), and a series of color linocuts, lithographs, and so on. She died in 2021 in Kyiv. Bozhko's works are kept in many museums in Ukraine and in private collections in Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, Norway, Germany, Japan and other countries.