Nadezhdin Andriy Myhailovych (19.06.1963 – 19.10.2022), Kirovograd – Honoured painter of Ukraine (2013), a member of the National Union of artists of Ukraine (1990), painter, art historian, a leading research officer in O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum, graduated from E.Vuchetich Dnepropetrovsk State School of Arts (1986), the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture of Ukraine, History and Theory of Fine Art Department (2004) – for the series of paintings created in 2004-2008.