Yuri Sergeevich Komendant was born in 1926, in the Donetsk region (Ukraine). He graduated from the Dnepropetrovsk State Art School in 1949 and from the Kiev State Art Instiute in 1956. Komendent participated in many important exhibitions, among them "All Union of Artists" in Moscow as well in international and republic exhibitions. He was awarded by the Trade Unions of Art Workers in 1983.
Member of the Union of Artists of Ukraine.
This artork is a study for the painting "Visit of party leader Kruchev to the Mines of Donetsk".