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Volodymyr Ivanovych Petrov was a Ukrainian Soviet artist and a member of the Kharkiv organization of the Union of Soviet Artists of Ukraine starting in 1958. Born on March 22, 1919 in the city of Katerynoslav (now Dnipro, Ukraine), he studied from 1937 to 1940 at the Dnipropetrovsk Art School under M. Panin. He participated in World War II. In 1945 to 1950, Petrov continued his studies at the Kharkiv Art Institute. His teachers were Ye. Svitlychnyi, M. Derehus, S. Besiedin, H. Bondarenko, and P. Kotov. Petrov worked in the field of easel painting and graphics. He participated in republic and all-Union exhibitions starting in 1957, and foreign exhibitions starting in 1963. Among his works are "Moonlit Night" (1957), "Girls' Talks" (1960), "Brothers" (1964), "Earth and People" (1967, etching, aquatint), "Fields of Ukraine" (1968, lithography), "Native Meadows" (1969, lithography), and others. The artist's works are kept in some art and local history museums of Ukraine. He died on July 28, 1974 in Kharkiv.