Urmanche Baki Idrisovich

<p>Baki Idrisovich Urmanche was a People's Artist of the RSFSR and the TASSR, an Honored Artist of the Kazakh SSR, and a laureate of the Gabdulla Tukay Prize. He was a pioneer of professional Tatar fine arts. He was educated at the Kazan Free Art Studios and VKhUTEMAS (workshops of A. S. Golubkina and A. V. Shevchenko). In 1929, he was repressed and spent 5 years in the Solovki prison camp. From 1941 to 1958, he lived in Alma-Ata, where he created a series of significant portraits and landscapes. In 1976, he designed the Tukay complex in the village of Kyrlay. A museum dedicated to the artist and a monument to him have been established in Kazan.</p>