Nikolai V. Ovchinnikov
1918
Kazan Art Collage in the 1930's
Alatyr Art College 1934-1932
Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture 1937-1939
Repin Institute under Brodski in 1939, graduating in 1951.
During the years 1939-1945 he served his military service.
Ovchinnikov was active mainly in Leningrad until 1959 and afterwards in Cheboksary, Chuvashia.
He began exhibiting in 1944, and important shows include:
Soviet Russia, Moscow 1960
Ovchinnikov taught at
Repin Institute between 1953 and 1954
Cheboksary Teacher Training Institute from 1960 to 1987
He was the Chairman of the Chuvashian Artists' Union in the years 1961-67, 1970-73 and 1976-79.
Nikolai V. Ochinnikov was one of the leading Chuvash socialist realists.
Recorded in Dictionary of Twentieth Century Russian and Soviet Painters, 1900-1980s. Matthew Cullerne Bown, London.
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