Kalchenko Halyna

Halyna Nikiforivna Kalchenko (1926-1975) is a Ukrainian sculptor. She was born in Borzna, Chernihiv Region. She graduated from the Kyiv Art Institute (1953), where her teachers were, in particular, M. Lysenko, K. Yeleva, L. Muravin; there she finished postgraduate studies (1958). Worked in the field of easel and monumental sculpture. Author of monuments, park statues, portraits, tombstones, memorial plaques, medals. Member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (since 1958). Chairman of the SHU (1968-1970). Took part in republican, all-Union and foreign exhibitions (since 1954). Personal posthumous exhibition was held in Kyiv (1976). It was the prototype of the sculpture "Motherland-Motherland" by V. Borodai. The works of the sculptor are preserved in numerous museums of Ukraine (NHMU, the National Museum of T. Shevchenko, the National Museum of Ukrainian Folk Decorative Art, the State Museum of Theater, Music and Film Art of Ukraine, the Lesya Ukrainka Museum in Kyiv, Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk, Odesa, Sumy, Kharkiv art museums, etc.). Lived and worked in Kyiv.