Puchkov Artem Yurievich
He was born in 1969 in Tomsk. He graduated from the Crimean Art College named after M.C.Samokish. He studied at the art studio of Hugo Schaufler. Chairman of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia (Crimea), Director General of the Taurida Academy of Arts, member of the World Geographical Society, member of the Professional Union of Artists of Russia. Creative trips to the USA, the Czech Republic, India, Pakistan, Tibet - Himalayas, Israel, the Caucasus. Since 1992, he has held 40 solo exhibitions in Crimea, Ukraine, Russia, as well as the USA, Germany and the Czech Republic. As Hugo Schaufler says, Artyom Puchkov is his best student, a master of landscape. Puchkov is called the "Crimean Roerich".