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Ivan Zakharovych Martianov was a Ukrainian graphic artist, painter. Born on July 27, 1925 in the village of Samoilovka, Krasnoyarsk Territory (Russia), he graduated from the Kyiv State Art Institute (1969), where his teacher by specialty was V. Kasiian. His main areas of creativity were book and easel graphics and the techniques of engraving and watercolor. A member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (1972), he worked at the publishing house "Soviet School" (Kyiv; 1950) as an art editor (1968-1971). Martianov participated in regional, republic, and all-Union (starting in 1967) exhibitions. His main works include illustrations for the books "Sagaydachny" by D. Mordovets (1966), "Mr. Khalyavsky" by G. Kvitka-Osnovyanenko (1971), and "There Is No Return" by A. Kalinin (1978; all - Kyiv), the series "Don Cossacks" (1971), "State 3600" (1973), "Transbaikalia" (1976), "Forerunners of the Khartsyzsk Pipe Rolling Plant" (1977), and "Komsomol in Five-Year Plans" (1978), and "Detachment" (1968), "Wife", "Daughter", and "The Artist E. Gorbach" (all - 1978). Martianov lived and worked in the city of Kyiv and died on August 17, 2010.