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Oleksii Oleksiiovych Popov was an artist and painter. He was born on May 24, 1916 at Hailar station in Northern Manchuria (now Primorsky Krai, Russia). In 1934, the artist's family moved to Ukraine. He studied at the Odesa Institute of Civil Engineering at the Faculty of Architecture, where his teachers were Yu. Bershadsky, M. Zamechek, and I. Zeiliher. He participated in World War II. From 1948, Popov was a member of the Union of Artists of the Ukrainian SSR, and from 1975, an Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR. He worked in the field of easel painting and graphics. He participated in art exhibitions starting in 1934. His personal exhibitions were in Odesa (1966, 1990 - posthumously), Varna (Bulgaria, 1967), Chisinau (1968), Izmail (1974), Kyiv (1977), and Moscow (1984). His main works include "On the Pass. Carpathians", "Philharmonic", "Garden City", "In the Urals", "Old Town. Warsaw", "Vistula River. Warsaw", "Roofs. Varna", and others. He died on November 22, 1988 in Odesa. Some of his works are kept in art and local history museums of Ukraine.