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Mykola Kupriianovych Filoniuk was a Ukrainian painter, graphic artist, member of the Association of Artists of Red Ukraine starting in 1930 and the Union of Soviet Artists of Ukraine starting in 1946. Born on April 28, 1913 in Kyiv. In 1946 he graduated from the Kyiv Art Institute. His teachers in the specialty were K. Yeleva, K. Trokhymenko, V. Kasiian, P. Kotov, P. Kutsenko. He worked in the field of easel painting in the genre of portrait. He participated in republic exhibitions starting in 1951. Among the works are portraits of: Amvrosy Buchma, Hnat Yura (1945), Honored Teachers of the Ukrainian SSR Kh.O. Pogonenko, N.P. Kropyvianskyi (1951), Vice-President of the Academy of Architecture of the Ukrainian SSR Mykola Severov (1952), a series of portraits of workers - defenders of the Arsenal plant in 1917 to 1918 (1968), and others. He died in 1998 in Kyiv. The artist's works are kept in some art and local history museums of Ukraine, in galleries and private collections in Ukraine and abroad.