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Mykhailo Oleksandrovych Samkov was a Ukrainian painter. He was born in Omsk in 1919. He graduated from the Omsk Art School. From 1946 to 1951 he studied at the Kyiv Art Institute. His teachers in the specialty were V.M. Kostetskyi, K.M. Yeleva. Starting in 1945 he was a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. He worked in the field of easel painting, mainly in the genres of thematic painting, portrait, landscape. He participated in many republic and all-Union exhibitions starting in 1945, the last one was held in Kyiv in 1987. His famous works: "Quiet" (1975), "Artists Glushchenko M.P., Kogan-Shats" (1970s), "Girl in Red" (1974), "Rainy Day. House on the Shore" (1968), and others. His paintings are kept in Ukrainian museums and private collections in the USA, Canada, England, France, Poland, and Hungary. He died in 1994 in Kyiv.