Loy Nikolay

Biography

Loy Nikolai Pavlovich (1925-2004). People's Artist of Russia. His paintings have been exhibited in more than 150 exhibitions. Reproductions of his works and articles about his work were published in many popular newspapers and magazines: Izvestia, Trud, Ogonyok, Smena, Moscow, Friendship of Peoples, Artist, Soviet Union and etc. Now paintings and watercolors by N. Loy are in many private collections and national museums in France, Canada, USA, Holland, Japan, Austria, Finland, Cuba. As the best examples of Soviet painting, the works of N. P. Loy were donated to Fidel Castro, Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada, the newspaper of the French Communists, "Humanite". In 2002, several of the best paintings were presented to the President of Russia, V. V. Putin, by the governor of the Stavropol Territory, A. L. Chernogorov, as a gift. Born on February 16, 1925 in the city of Molochansk, Zaporozhye region, Ukraine. In 1943 he went to the front and fought until the Great Victory Day. In 1950 he finished his military service. And already in adulthood he entered the Kharkov State Art Institute, from which he graduated in the 55th year with honors. Loy arrives in Norilsk in 1960. He formed a children's art school and a fine arts studio of this polar city. For many years he was the chairman of the city arts council and the exhibition committee, was elected a deputy of the city council of Norilsk. For 20 years, from 1960 to 1980, he worked in the Far North, the Arctic became his creative homeland. He traveled extensively in dog sleds and ice reconnaissance aircraft, reindeer and the Lenin nuclear icebreaker. He visited Dikson with a sketchbook, many polar stations, Severnaya Zemlya and Franz Josef Land, polar stations. And in 1968 he made a trip by car to all the republics of the Soviet Union. For about ten years, Nikolai Pavlovich worked in Krasnoyarsk. There he was elected deputy chairman of the board of the Krasnoyarsk organization and the Union of Artists of the RSFSR, a member of the board, a member of the regional exhibition committee. Since 1987 he lived in the city of Slavyansk-on-Kuban. During this time, he opened permanent exhibitions of his works in schools, houses of culture, and a children's art school. Over 70 works were donated to the Slavic Museum of Local History. Nikolai Pavlovich was awarded eleven government awards, a medal from the Peace Fund, a gold medal "Laureate" and commemorative medals for participating in art exhibitions. In 1976, Loy was awarded the title of Honored Artist of Russia, and in 2003, for his outstanding contribution to the development of the country's culture, he was awarded the title of People's Artist of the Russian Federation. This is the only artist in the North Caucasus with such an honorary title.