Theme exhibition of works by Kirovograd painters-veterans dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Victory over German fascist invaders (May 9). Exposition is made up of the works from the museum collection of professional painters, members of the National Union of artists of the USSR Volodymyr Fedorov (1929-1986), Mykola Bondarenko (1914-1999) and Mykola Dobrolezha (1925-2008), painter of Kirovograd art and industrial studios Yuriy Gorobchenko (1909-2001) and an amateur artist journalist Viktor Shulga (1923-2000) and police colonel Ivan Tkachenko (1924-2009), who went through hearth of the Great Patriotic War, after which they lived and created in Kirovograd region. Also the exhibition presents original photo and documental materials – V.Fedorov’s letter to his mother to just liberated Kirovograd, front notebook with poems by M.Bondarenko and a letter of his brother to the front, personal photographs of painters in military uniform during the war and at work in studio in postwar time.
   All the painters, whose works are shown at the exhibition, were decorated with orders and medals for participation in military operations. The theme of war troubled them for all their lives, that is why a lot of works are dedicated to immortal feat of the Soviet soldier. But the majority of the woks (among them are landscapes, still lifes and portraits) praise the beauty and grandeur of peaceful life with belief in bright future for the coming generations.
   The exhibition of Kirovograd painters-veterans is a respect for the memory of them. It is also hope of the contemporaries that such a tragedy never happens again.