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Stepan Havrylovych Mamchych was a Ukrainian artist and marine painter, one of the representatives of the Cimmerian school. Born on August 14, 1924 in the village of Novopokrovka, Crimea, from 1945, he worked in the cooperative “Crimean Artist”. In 1949, he entered the 4th year of the Samokysh Art School, which he graduated in 1951. In 1954, he moved to Simferopol. In 1964, he was admitted to the Union of Artists of the USSR. By the mid-1960s, Mamchych had developed his own authorial style of painting. His main works include "Fishermen" (1967), "Old Settlement" (1968), "Roofs of the Old City" (1969), "Tremontan - the North Wind" (1969), "Breath of History" (1973), and "Fate. Mistletoe on Poplars" (1973). The artist's works are kept in museums of Ukraine. He lived and worked in Simferopol. He died on April 3, 1974 in Simferopol.