Biography

Elena Yanchak was born in 1918 in Stakhanov, Donbass, Lugansk region. She studied at the Grekov Art College, Odessa and at Repin's Academy of Fine Arts in Leningrad in 1938. She studied with the famous Ioganson and considered her true teachers to be Vrubel and Kramskoi whom she admired greatly. Yanchak very much loved the representation of artists from the Russian School of Art of which she became one of. Her paintings can be found in Ukrainian museums and private collections worldwide. Representative of the Romantic School of the Russian School of Art.