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Yurii Ivanovych Sahaidak was a Ukrainian painter and graphic artist. He was born on June 6, 1909 in the village of Polohy (now the city of Polohy, Zaporizhia region). Starting in 1927, he studied at the Kyiv Art Institute, but he did not graduate. He worked as an artist at a mine in Donbas and as a researcher in the museums of Berdyansk and Mariupol. After 1945, Sahaidak was an artist in Dniprobud: he painted paintings dedicated to the restoration of the Dnipro Hydroelectric Power Station and portraits of restoration participants. In the early 1950s, he moved to the construction of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Station in Nova Kakhovka. The artist's works are kept in the Zaporizhia Museum of Local Lore. He died in 1985.