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Valentyn Ivanovych Yakubych was a Ukrainian graphic artist. Born on June 6, 1927 in Kherson. Graduated from the Odesa Art School (1947), the Kyiv Art Institute. Teachers by specialty - D. Krainev, A. Muchnyk, K. Eleva, V. Kasiian, I. Pleshchynskyi. He worked in the field of easel and book graphics. His works are easel series "Odesa in the Great Patriotic War" (1957); "At the Kherson Shipyard" (lino engraving, 1960); "Kyiv" (coal, 1953 and etching, 1963); triptych on the Shevchenko theme "Bury and Rise ..." (1961); etching "The House in Moscow, in which Taras Shevchenko Lived..." (1964); illustrations for books: Arkhip Teslenko's stories "A Lost Life" (Kyiv, 1960); M. Rudenko's novel "The Last Saber" (Kyiv, 1963); Taras Shevchenko's poem "Haydamaki" (1963); Andriy Golovko's novel "Artem Garmash" (1967); Ivan Franko's story "Boryslav Laughs" (1969); design of selected works of Ivan Franko (Kyiv, 1965) from the series "World Literature" (Moscow, 1971), etc. He participated in exhibitions: republic starting in 1952, all-Union starting in 1957, foreign starting in 1959. He lived in Kyiv.