Biography
Rinat Sharafutdinov was born in the city of Magnitogorsk in 1959. During 1975-1979 he studied at the Art College in the city of Sverdlovsk. In 1987 he graduated from Moscow Art-Industrial College (the former Stroganoff College) where he studied at the department of monumental and decorative art in the studio of professor A.Orlovsky. Rinat was also a student of professor F.Voloshko and professor S.Godyna. Rinat Sharafutdinov has been a member of the Union of Artists of the Russian Federation since 1993.