Background
Yury Petrovich Diakov was born on December 31, 1929 in Krasny Boevik village, Russian Federation.
Yury Petrovich Diakov was born on December 31, 1929 in Krasny Boevik village, Russian Federation.
In Kotovsk (the former settlement of Krasny Boevik) attented the K. Petrova's art workshop at the House of Culture of the factory "Krasny Boevik" (1945-1946), and in Tambov - N.A. Otnyakina's artist's art studio at the Palace of Pioneers (1947-1949). He graduated from the Penza Art College (1954, teacher A. P. Krasnov).
Yury Petrovich worked as a drawing teacher in high school (Khrenovoe village, Rozhdesnsvensko-Havsky district, Voronezh region) in the Voronezh Suvorov school. He was a portrait artist of an artistic and industrial workshop of the Art Fund of the RSFSR (1958-1968). Since 1957 he is a member of regional, zonal, republican, foreign exhibitions.