Yavtushenko Mykola (born in 1959) p. Kazarnia, Kirovohrad region. He graduated from the Kirovohrad State Pedagogical Institute named after O.Pushkin, now Central Ukrainian State University named after Volodymyr Vinnichenko, Faculty of Physics and Mathematics (1981), Moscow Correspondence People's University of Arts of the Russian Federation, department of painting and graphics (1991).