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Khmelko (Хмелько) Mikhail Ivanovich
(1919—1975)

Mikhail Khmelko was a Ukrainian painter, People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR, double Stalin prize winner.

Mikhail Khmelko was born in Kiev. In 1943-1946 he studied at the Kiev State Art Institute under Karp Trokhimenko. In 1948 - 1973 he was a faculty of the same institute.

Khmelko is known for his Socialist Realism paintings: Unification of the Ukrainian Lands (1939-1949), Drink A Toast to the Great Russian Nation (1947), Triumph of the Victorous Motherland (1949), Forever with Moscow. Forever with Russian people (1951). He is also the author of the diorama Medical Help in the Bohdan Khmelnytsky army of the Kiev Museum of Medicine.

USSR, 1954, Rada in Pereyaslavl