November 13, 2012. Uralvagonzavod Scientific & Production Corporation’s museum now features a one-person exhibition where the works of a well-known Nizhniy Tagil-based artist and teacher as well as a master of landscape-painting Dmitri Kavalershin are presented. The exhibition opens in the year of the artist’s 110th birthday and is the first one organized after his death in 1952, the corporation’s press service reports.

A member of Russia’s Union of Artists since 1939, Dmitri A. Kavershin had to relocate from Stalingrad to Nizhiy Tagil in 1941. He worked at Uralvagonzavod as a painter for ten years and laid the foundation for artistic education in the Urals in the second half of the 20th century. He did landscapes, cherishing the unique beauty of the Ural nature and combining its beauty with the severe hardships of workers’ life; he was good at showing the industrial power of Nizhniy Tagil. This is particularly evident in his paintings The Industrial Tagil, The Old Shaft, The III International Mine, and in some others.

Kavalershin gave classes as the local art studio and at Ural Art & Industrial School in Nizhniy Tagil. In 1948, he set up and started running the first art studio at Uralvagonzavod’s club. He also organized a number of traveling exhibitions for the locals. Kavalershin tutored such well-known Ural artists as Russia’s Honored Artist Ivan Bolotskikh, Russia’s Honored Artist Timofey Kovalenko, and many others. His own paintings were repeatedly featured at both municipal and regional exhibitions as well as abroad.