Background
Tamara Astapchenko was born on March 26, 1960, in Voronezh, Russian Federation.
Tamara Astapchenko was born on March 26, 1960, in Voronezh, Russian Federation.
She graduated from Voronezh Children's Art School in 1976 (her teachers were E. M. Romanovskaya, E. A. Dubyanskaya), Kharkov Art and Industry Institute in 1987 (her teachers were E. K. Kosyrev, V. N. Narazyan).
Astapchenko has been a participant of various exhibitions since 1982. Since 1990 she has been a teacher at Voronezh Art Сollege. She works mainly in the genres of landscape, still life. The Liski Museum of History and Local Lore features her works. The joint exhibition of Astapchenko was held at the premises of the Russian State Humanitarian University (Moscow, 1999).