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Oleksandr Ivanovych Hubariev was a Ukrainian painter and graphic artist. He was born on September 1, 1926 in the city of Dnipropetrovsk (now Dnipro). He graduated from the Dnipropetrovsk Art School of the Kyiv State Art Institute (1955), where his teachers by specialty were M. Pohrebniak, V. Kasian, I. Krasnyi, I. Pleshchynskyi, and O. Pashchenko. A master of watercolors and linocuts, he was a member of the Union of Artists of the Ukrainian SSR (1960) and a People's Artist of Ukraine (1993). He participated in republic, all-Union, and international art exhibitions. Hubariev's main works include the series of linocuts "Folk Ballads of Transcarpathia" (1966), "Ukrainian Love Songs" (1967), "Carpathians" (1971), "Man and Work" (1972), "Meeting with Yugoslavia" (1977), "Motives of Kyiv" (1982), "Unforgettable" (1985), "Golden Gates" (1990), "Legendary Riders" (1991), "Historical Kyiv" (1993), "Chornobyl Madonna" (1996), "Silhouettes of Lviv" (1997), and "Allegories" (1998), and the series of watercolors "In Buryatia" (1976), "Through Moldova" (1980), "Behind Bulgaria" (1981), "Khabarovsk Region" (1982), "Behind Kamchatka" (1988), "Sakhalin Island" (1991); series of paintings - "Nylon Girl" (1962), "Carpathian Ballad" (1967), "Pink Model" (1971), "Dixon Island" (1995), "Carpathian Fairy Tale" (1964), "Fern Blossom" (1967), "Blue Day" (1983), "Morning on the Old Kyiv Mountain" (1992), and "Autumn in Kyiv" (2005). Hubariev's works are kept in museums and private collections in Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Germany, Canada and other countries. He died in 2021.