Yevgeny Umyskov. Painter. Member of the USSR Academy of Arts (since 1966). Born on 31 January 1934 at the station Shimanovskaya Svobodnensky district, Amur region, Far East. From 1952 to 1957 studied at the Almaty Art School named after N.V.Gogol (modern Almaty College of Decorative and Applied Arts named after Oral Tansykbaev). Lived and worked in Almaty.