Bobkov Alexander. The artist is a landscape painter. From early childhood he showed his love for his native nature. Born in Kazakhstan, in 1971 he entered the Almaty Art School, also studied at the art-graphic department of Biysk Pedagogical School at the talented teacher Vladimir Evstigneevich Nepomnyashchy. In 1979 he returned to his native Taldy-Kurgan city, where for three years he painted sketches, landscapes, portraits, still lifes. He participated in city and republican exhibitions. Since 1999 he lives and works in Russia.