Background
Fedor Vikulov was born on January 10, 1919.
Fedor Vikulov was born on January 10, 1919.
In 1935 Fedor Vikulov graduated from a seven-year school in Tyumen and entered the Tobolsk bonecarve craft cooperation "Koopexportobyt".
In 1935 Fedor Vikulov presented his first artwork in the bone - "Shaman". In 1936 he worked as an instructor in the bonecarving workshop in the Tobolsk and Achair NKVD labour camps.
In 1939, Vikulov was called up to the cavalry of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army . In 1940 he was transferred to aviation division. Since 1941, Fedor Vikulov fought at the fronts of the Great Patriotic War both as a rifleman and a radioman. He was demobilized in 1946.
In 1948 Fedor Vikulov returned to Siberia, where he worked on his diploma. He worked as an art director in the Tobolsk bonecarving workshop. In 1949, he presented a gift to the 11th Komsomol Congress. Since 1937, he participated in international exhibitions, including the World Exhibition in Paris (France), where he won a silver medal (1937), an international exhibition in New York (USA) (1939), World Exhibition in Brussels (Belgium), as well as all-Union (for the first time in 1950), Republican and other art exhibitions. In 1984 Fedor Vikulov held a personal thematic exhibition "Images of Russia" in the Moscow D. M. Mendeleyev Chemical and Technological Institute.
Since 1966, he began painting. Russia, its nature, history and culture, the heroic past of the people is the main theme of Vilulov’s creations. About 70 of his works t are in diffrent museums across the country (in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kursk, Yakutsk, Saransk, Novokuznetsk and other cities). One of the most famous works of Vikulov are the series "Borodino Heroes" (he began working on the series in 1969), the series "Heroes of Kulikovo Battle" (since 1980). Since 1951 he has been a Member of USSR Artists Union. For more than a quarter of a century, Vikulov has been actively involved in the advocation and preservation of Russian historical and cultural monuments.
